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Rootmetrics or opensignal?
Looking to use an app to map coverage ideally one that you can set to not use lots of mobile data as not really interested in doing speed tests just how strong the signal is/what type i.e 3/4g.
Does anyone have suggestions as to which is better or another app that uploads data to be viewed on a website to view? |
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Cellmapper. It also plots where the masts are, often quite accurately. You can upload data only when you are on WiFi, but it uses so little that I've never noticed.
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Cellmapper. It also plots where the masts are, often quite accurately. You can upload data only when you are on WiFi, but it uses so little that I've never noticed.
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Cellmapper looks great - shame it's Android only.
I'm on iOS so I use RootMetrics. Slightly obsessed with mapping currently un-mapped areas 😳 |
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Cellmapper is full of false information on Tower location. In fact all these apps are. they are OK for signal strength mapping that's all really. too many incorrectly located sites added by people who dont know what they are doing,
i use Rootmetrics .... when it works! sometimes days before any mapping shows up and nperf although its 4g+ info seems a bit unrealistic as it shows it where there is none (voda) probably info provided by a dodgy phone more than there own programming. |
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Cellmapper is full of false information on Tower location. In fact all these apps are. they are OK for signal strength mapping that's all really. too many incorrectly located sites added by people who dont know what they are doing,
i use Rootmetrics .... when it works! sometimes days before any mapping shows up and nperf although its 4g+ info seems a bit unrealistic as it shows it where there is none (voda) probably info provided by a dodgy phone more than there own programming. |
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With more users, would Cellmapper end up with enough data to improve the accuracy of the cell location calculation? Or is it fundamentally flawed?
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Cellmapper is full of false information on Tower location.
Get more local people whom live near the towers to start logging and the computation moves the tower - and then those whom are really bothered can move the tower on the map to where it actually is. Mine was computed on the bypass as its tall and covers a very large area. Since I've been running cellmapper the computation moved it very close to the real location. Using the satellite view on the map I was able to move it to the real location. |
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How do you move the cell locations in the map?
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How do you move the cell locations in the map?
I think you need a PC/Mac rather than tablet/phone to do this! |
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i use Rootmetrics .... when it works! sometimes days before any mapping shows up
The app however does not seem to update hexes for call performance and best technology found, only fastest speed found. It used to do all three. |
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Tried cellmapper but seems to fry my LG G4 for some reason when on, becomes extremely hot and battery falls by almost 2% a minute, even plugged into my car charger it saps the battery so have had to stop using it which is a shame..
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Cellmapper is excellent. Yes it has inaccurate tower locations, but the more you map, the more accurate they are - it can only predict the tower locations from the data you provide it! So you need to keep mapping more, walk around the tower, make sure you get on every sector of it, and it'll be pretty accurate. It's not like OpenSignal tower locations - it uses the eNB/NB/BTS ID to map, which are effectively the ID's of each tower. So basically any tower it places DOES EXIST, unlike OpenSignal.
However if you use the old API it does use A LOT of battery, and you need the screen to be on all the time. Even the new API uses a fair amount of battery. But it is a truly brilliant app if, especially if your device supports the new API. |
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Tried cellmapper but seems to fry my LG G4 for some reason when on, becomes extremely hot and battery falls by almost 2% a minute, even plugged into my car charger it saps the battery so have had to stop using it which is a shame..
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