Any way to replace signal bars with signal strength in dbm?

[ben7337]

Like the title says, I'm looking for a solution on the Nexus 6 to get rid of the useless signal bars and have signal strength in dbm. Sadly I can't seem to find any solutions for this.

AOKP stopped developing and they are the only mainstream rom that ever had signal strength in dbm and displayed the signal type as well.

Cyanogenmod had dbm in the past but it never displayed 2g, 3g, or LTE/4g so you never knew what you were on, and they dropped that in Lollipop anyway.

Xblast Tools had this feature, but it never seemed to work on any KitKat roms right, I know I had it on some roms working at some point, but whenever dbm went weaker than -115 dbm it would display 0 or some weird number depending on the rom, so it didn't really work so well.

If anyone has any ideas, I'm open to suggestions, at this point I think editing the systemui.apk might be my only option since no one seems to have anything developed, but I wouldn't even know where to begin there.

I don't suppose anyone is working on this as a feature for an xposed module? It's the one thing I've felt gravity box was really missing.

 

[Kroniq]

I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure cataclysm rom has it

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[boomerbubba]

You can install the SignalCheck Pro app. It shows dBm as well as cellular band in a small icon in the notifications bar.

 

[ben7337]

I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure cataclysm rom has it

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Unfortunately Cataclysm on 6.0 on the Nexus 6 doesn't seem to. I checked a video that goes through settings and their thread and I think when I had a nexus 6 a bit over a month ago, I tried that one and it didn't have that feature. Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[ben7337]

You can install the SignalCheck Pro app. It shows dBm as well as cellular band in a small icon in the notifications bar.

I know but then I always have a notification, it displays this squished text, and I still have signal bars, plus I have no way of knowing if the app is draining battery running all the time checking the current signal strength. I really just want to replace the signal bars the way I was able to do in every version of android until kitkat/lollipop when the feature started to disappear.

 

[tonio14545]

Maybe I'm wrong but I thought pure nexus had something like that. It's listed as network traffic meter options on the OP thread

 

[cupfulloflol]

Have you tried this? Quick glance at the thread looks like mixed results, but some Nexus devices and someone said it works on MM. But perhaps it works?

 

[Gabbyii]

Ditto

Started looking for the same today as the cell and wifi icons are terrible. I'd even be happy without the signal strength text and to just have some bars and get rid of that triangle. I came from a note 3 and it at least had bars in the triangle instead of a solid block with like 3 levels of fill for the strength.