Signal-Location Utilities for BlackBerry Readme
Introduction:
SignalLocBB is a FREE utility that captures and displays details about your network connection and location.
This is the first Beta release so feedback is appreciated.
Links:
Signal-Location Utilities for BlackBerry:
SourceForge.net: Signal-Location Utility for BlackBerry
OTA Download:
http://f5bbutil.sourceforge.net/sign.../signalloc.jad
Exported data in Google Earth...
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Features:
* Displays network information such as signal level, services supported,
cell site identification, channel and, if supported by your device and
network, the latitude and longitude of the current cell site, if available.
Service Indicators:
V Voice
D Data
R Roaming
MDS MDS Connectivity through BES
WAP WAP Connectivity through carrier WAP
1XEV
EVDO
GPRS
EDGE
UMTS
SOS
DOP Data Service Opetational
DSUSP Data Service Suspended
Cell Site Id:
CDMA: SystemID-NetworkID-BaseStationID
GSM: RoutingAreaCode-LocationAreaCode-CellID-BaseStationId
Network Details screen provides all available information for the network
and cell site.
* Displays GPS information such as latitude, longitude, altitude, course and
speed. If cell site location is also available, the course and distance
from your current location to the cell site is also displayed.
* Both internal and BlueTooth GPS units are supported. Basically, if Google
Maps and BlackBerry Maps can use a device, so can SignalLoc.
* Can display locations in BlackBerry Maps or Google Maps.
* Can save cell site and location info as they change. Each change of cell
site can be automatically saved and the user can configure how often to
take a current location snapshot nased on distance travelled.
* Exports cell site and location info in KML or CSV format that can be easily
imported to Google Earth and other mapping programs, spreadsheets, etc.
The data can be exported to the clipboard or a media card.
* Displays device information such as battery strength, voltage, temperature,
flash and ram statistics.
* User selectable Imperial or Metric units.
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Installation:
Your device MUST be running BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 or greater.
For OTA installation, visit the OTA download link above.
For desktop installation, download the .zip file and extract it. Open the
Desktop Manager and use the Application Loader wizard to load the program to
the handheld.
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