Signal information

[Guest Leaskovski]

Hi all,

This may be a strange question but here goes...

Is there software out there that can pull information about the current signal being received? Does the signal that is picked up from the phone give any information such as location etc?

Probably not.

Edited June 21, 2011 by Leaskovski

[Guest cold_fire]

Hi all,

This may be a strange question but here goes...

Is there software out there that can pull information about the current signal being received?  Does the signal that is picked up from the phone give any information such as location etc?

Probably not.

Cheer

Tristan

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A precise location u cannot obtain ,u can use Celltrack to c to wich cell is your phone connected ,however there is no program i know of that does that and free ...anyway there will b an error of 50-100 metres depending on network.

[Guest Leaskovski]

A precise location u cannot obtain ,u can use Celltrack to c to wich cell is your phone connected ,however there is no program i know of that does that and free ...anyway there will b an error of 50-100 metres depending on network.

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So is the information acutally stored in the signal itself?

Anway cheers for what you have pointed out to me,

Thanks.

[Guest homestaruk]

Basically, the information is stored in the phone knowing the "ID" of the cell (or radio transmitter location) you are currently connected to.

By using your GPRS Internet connection, the smartphone is able to use the celltrack online database to query the name of the cell ID you are connected to.

This then returns an approximate location, for example, if you were in the vicinity of the Bullring in Birmingham, you may be using a transmitter located on the roof of the buliding, and the application would return that you were at the Bullring.

I hope this makes sense.

Dean