App to see 4G signal strength & tower id

[Sensorly]

Hi EPIC-lovers,

I've reversed-engineered some private APIs on the EPIC 4G to get access to the 4G technical information.

So if you want to know what your signal strength is and what tower your are connected to, check out our app "Sensorly", it's in the market. You can allow the app to upload coverage information and help build real coverage maps of all the carriers in the US... and yes, we have a wimax map.

I would have loved to add a screenshot here, but I haven't posted enough in this forum (you can get one at : wwwDOTsensorlyDOTcom/static/wimax.png)
We display

• Network Access Provider Id
• Network Service Provider Id
• BSSID
• CINR
• RSSI

We're always looking for more users

PS: I've tried hard to get to the same information on the EVO and haven't come up with a solution yet ! Will post in that forum if I do.

 

[k0nane]

Very cool - any plans on publishing source for the app?

Here's that screenshot:

EDIT: This could be very useful to users of the Indulge on MetroPCS, with LTE... feel free to PM me if you'd like some inroads there.
EDIT2: You can allow the app to upload information. Folks, this dev gets it right - and if Sprint had the same intentions with Carrier IQ, they'd have done the same thing.

 

[digiblur]

And other good news...the new version now works with the Epic to report EVDO areas. YAY! Kudos to the developer for letting me bug him for while on this

Only thing the Epic sometimes goes to zero signal for a bit even though you are in a good signal area. But that's the radios fault for reporting that.

 

[styckx]

Pretty cool. It is like Waze for cell coverage. What is the turn around time from sending data to seeing the coverage map updated?

Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

 

[digiblur]

I think when I checked it was a couple of hours. Just make sure you have it set to send up while on cell.

 

[styckx]

Not a bad turn around time at all.

Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

 

[ecooce]

Nice work!

Sent from my MyFrankenstein EC05OCE using XDAPA...

 

[styckx]

Just gave it a thorough try driving home from work on 4G with GPS running.. Thing collected and sent over 1400 messages in 12 miles. That's some good data collection and also good way to warm up the phone.. 40 degree battery when I got home.

Only bug I've found so far is I choose to send over wifi only and it still sent messages anyway while I was on 4G.. Other than that.. Ran smoothly

 

[Superbovine]

Cool, thanks!

They just installed a 4G tower less than a mile from my house so I've been sensorly-driving and updating, it appears I'm the only one though (my reports showed up about an hour later, no one else has added any). I'm hoping they up the power on the site; I can only connect in a few wide open areas, though sensorly is picking up the wimax data for several miles.

 

[sneerpeer]

Good stuff, works great

 

[styckx]

Not sure if this thing actually works right. I sent a lot of messages from work yesterday while connected to 4G. 24hrs later, at work again, and it is still showing the same exact coverage and that my location is a no 4G forecast.

Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

 

[Sensorly]

Some answers

Hi everyone, thanks for giving it a try...

The turn around time is at most within a couple hours. At maximum zoom level, it's probably within the hour and off-peak hours, within a couple minutes...

I don't see any backlog on the server handling that map so if data hasn't appeared, please email me the phone id (it's anonymous : created at install time) through the settings screen and explain the issue.


Thanks

 

[bjl95mustang]

Works good Thanks

 

[DCRocks]

awesome, thanks!!!

 

[Schuby]

Amazing application.

No 4G in my area, but I'm glad I can find where it starts to show a signal!

 

[digiblur]

So the big question is...when do we start see signal strength on 4g on the map instead of the just unavailable or available.

Very cool I saw the signal of the 4g and other data with it when I just passed through a 4g area. Excellent work!!!!