RF Signal Tracker

RF Signal Tracker is an engineering utility for doing impromptu hand-held drive-tests with your Android phone. You can monitor the RF and WiFi sign energy as seen by the system as properly as WiFi hotspots, describe a cell web site's zone of coverage, determine adjustments in know-how and handover factors, and save and playback that data. Site locations may be loaded right into a database via a CSV file or by long-pressing the map on a location to manually insert the site to the database. While most of the phone stats in the app could be displayed on the phone already (go to Settings - About - Status to see them). The advantage of this app is you presumably can then map, report, analyze, and share that knowledge in a significant method.

App features:

- Monitor knowledge visitors bytes.

- XY Chart of RF and WiFi sign power over time.

- Voice notification of signal energy know-how adjustments, handovers, open hotspots, and more!

- Insert notes into the RF knowledge collected. Notes may be seen edited in Big Picture

- 'Drive Mode' display screen displaying just RSSI, Cell ID, and technology to view whereas driving

- Localized for French, Spanish (thank you Augusto!), Portuguese, and German.

- Map and record your color-coded RF sign strength as you journey.

- Wardriving. Collect WiFi entry factors and listing cell location at the strongest sign.

- Users can redefine site areas on the map.

- Playback, pause, jump to any a part of recorded information.

- Share collected data and Maps with Twitter, Facebook, whatever you can share with.

- Sector coverage zones describing sector orientation and beamwidth.

- Sound and Vibration notification on handover.

- User-defined sites can be exported or imported for later use.

- A restricted number of serving cells may be positioned by way of Google, OpenCellID.

- All sites situated through Google or OpenCellID saved to an area database.

- Export recorded data to XML, KML (Google Earth), or CSV information.

- Import older recorded information for playback.

- Roaming and information states, data activity, CGI.

- WiFi MAC handle, BSSID, supplicant state.

- WiFi community access points identified.

- EIRP/ERP and Free Space Loss calculators

- Big image of whole drive take a look at or site survey

- Auto-shutoff at minimal battery stage set by the user

- Adjust GPS energy settings

- App to SD card

*** Please keep those bug reports coming! If you crash and are given the choice, please ship in the report. I learn them all. Or you probably can e mail instantly at [email protected]

Known Issues:

- If a site appears off the coast of Africa it means that you are utilizing Google's location service or OpenCellID they usually can not decide that cell's location (so it returns the location 0 deg Lat, 0 deg Lon). A new characteristic for version 2.2.9 is the ability to define your own web site places (add, transfer or remove) by urgent a spot on the map or a web site icon. Users can do their very own site surveys as they journey. This is a workaround for those who wouldn't have entry to web site location information -- except you are an engineer for a provider, you won't have access to this information since website locations are usually considered proprietary.

- Background recording, the place you exit the app after you begin recording, won't register sign strength modifications if the telephone is in sleep mode (screen is blank). This is a bug in Android not the app. If the phone isn't allowed to sleep, background recording is possible.

- BER, EVDO, SNR Ec/Io could show -1. This is the number the Android OS is sending, sorry.

- The app is optimized for GSM service. CDMA gadgets are not completely supported. This is due to the lack of a CDMA phone (and contract) on my half, not anything particular to the technology. So in case you have a CDMA phone be aware it has not been examined by me.

- Please remember you're using a telephone, not a laptop. If you attempt to record hours worth of information, and/or play it back, surprising things might happen.