4ginnc

I found an interactive map that I could put in my location and see 4g lte coverage...purple dots.

I have been trying to find that map again but no luck. 

Sensorly...there's a thread about it here:

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4145-sprint-lte-coverage-maps-via-sensorly/

A usable 800 SMR signal has shown to work over much greater distances than most of us are used to seeing with PCS.

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-Mike

I knew 800 SMR was good but this is UNBELIEVABLE! !!!! I picked up 800 just north of Raleigh Sunday from a Site in Peabody, MA.

Seriously though, glad to finally pick up something even it's the testing SID.  At least it means they're starting to deploy in the Raleigh area.  Good news for me soon at my house since we don't get a great signal here.

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Corn maze

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Whiskey chaser

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Wild thornberries

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jimmy johns

Removed my signalcheck_cache.db file and like magic, I'm back at home again.  

Mike, just PM'd you my signalcheck_cache.db file.  Definitely see some off entries with several GPS coordinates showing the same address when they are actually different towers.

Let me know if there's anything else you need.

Aha, interesting.. so there may be a bug buried in there somewhere!  Perhaps at some point the wrong address got attached to coordinates, but I don't know how that could happen, it saves the coordinates and the associated street address at the same time.. strange.

 

The cache is an SQLite database, stored on most devices in /data/data/com.blueline.signalcheck/databases/signalcheck_cache.db (yes, that's two data's.. don't ask me, that's how Android works).

 

I wasn't aware of any issues with the cache, but perhaps I need to look into it further.  I pull my cache .db file every few days and look through it to make sure nothing looks out of place, and it's been great so far.  If someone wants to send me their cache.db file and let me know what address is coming up wrong, it might help me figure out where the issue is.

 

-Mike

 

P.S. Logging is in the works.. 

Thanks for the input Mike.  I have a thought, not sure how your code works but just thinking out loud here, knowing where I usually connect to the site that's showing me the bogus address.  It's a remote location that I go through sometimes to pick the kids up from school.  I usually hand off between a few sites on the way, and the location that I'm seeing is on a site that briefly pops up before/after I'm roaming in that area.

Is it possible that, at the time I went through that area, the connection to the geocoding server didn't work and that later when the device was finally connected to the internet again that request went through and returned that address for a later request?

I'll try to pull the SQLite db from my S3 later today and send it to you.

Thanks for the help.

Or in the Raleigh market that I can find so far.  

On a related note, Signal Check on my S3 keeps showing as connected to a Site that's 12 miles away when there are 5 closer to me and usually only one that I always connect to at the house. Signal check and the debug screens are showing that I am on 1900 (Band Class 1) and not on 1x800 so I don't see how I can really be connected to that Site.

Reboot of my phone didn't help, as I was thinking it might be related to the bug Mike mentioned once before about the location being stuck on some phones.  When I roam (which usually happens for a few feet as I move away from the window) it shows I am connected to Alltel and the BSL changes to the usual address that it shows for that site.

Any ideas?  Really seems unlikely to me that I'm connected to the Site 12 miles away when I usually barely get a signal from a Site 3.5 miles away because of all the trees.

Good eye!

Thanks.  Took the kids there last summer when we went to visit family.  I hadn't been in many years, but it's still a great zoo.  And the gators are always fun to watch.  

Hmmm....  what about this one?

 

That looks like it's from the gator pond at the Audubon Zoo.  

green eggs

Chocolate milk

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blown call

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Galarraga's_near-perfect_game

Head gasket

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hairy beast

fantasy football

IMO the thing that really sets it apart is the fiber backhaul. If a tower doesn't have fiber run to it latency and speeds suffer immensely in a city. Might not be a big problem in smaller towns, but will probably become one as more people think it is necessary to stream pandora  and youtube 24/7

It's a problem in small towns and even in rural areas too.  Trust me.  

Salt water

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http://www.broadbandmap.gov/about-provider/sprint-nextel-corporation/nationwide/

Slightly "off-topic" but the broadband maps on that site can be misleading in many places depending on how the provider supplies the government with their data.  My home, in particular, is a good example.  It shows I have DSL provided by CenturyLink (which I don't) and cable provided by Time Warner (which is not available either).   Some providers only give information on zip codes rather than down to specific street levels where they actually provide service.

Now, you can file a report on the website for your specific address and they will probably update the maps eventually but I think they only update the map like every 6 months or so.  And it's only for the address you report so if there's a large area around you that also doesn't have service I don't really know how accurately they would update it.

The wireless carriers would probably provide more accurate maps since they have their own coverage maps already but I haven't really checked.

orange peel

orange slice

Hmm, that is weird.  The reset function should not do anything weird on devices not running Android 4.2+.  Could have just been a random device hiccup.

 

Google removed developer access to airplane mode in Android 4.2, so I am working on a solution for rooted devices; that's what these guys are helping to troubleshoot.

 

Unless you are running Android 4.2+ and hit the reset function, the app does not do anything that uses root privileges.

 

-Mike

Most likely just a hiccup since I haven't seen this again.  It was actually the first time I tried it after the latest upgrade.  I've used it several times since then with no issues  so I'm not all that worried about it.  Just giving some feedback since some others had mentioned it too.  Great app and thanks for all your hard work Mike.

Do you guys have an option to automatically accept root requests from a specific app?  I understand the security concerns, but I'm wondering if the delay (however slight) in prompting for root permission is causing the next step in the process to fail.  If you could try auto-granting for SignalCheck just for testing purposes, let me know.  Hopefully by now you trust that the only root access SignalCheck attempts is to toggle airplane mode.

 

Thanks,

-Mike

I am rooted on my stock GS3 and ran into an issue once with getting stuck in airplane mode.  Couldn't get out of it even turning it on/off several times in the notifications bar as well.  I restarted my phone and luckily it hasn't happened since.  Never had the issue with it asking for root permissions, but I'm not on CM.