Open Signal Maps Open Signal Maps for Android

 

The best toolkit for improving your cellular and wifi signal.

- Signal direction
- Signal graph
- Map and radar views of cell towers & WiFi routers
- Detailed signal strength data
- Save data to SD card
- Widget (in beta!)
- Save wifi access points and maps of their locations by running the speed test
- History of signal readings

The simplest tactic to improve your reception is to walk in the direction of your signal. Not foolproof, but worth a shot!

Option to contribute to the OpenSignalMaps.com project: were TRUE coverage maps of cell phone networks & wifi data points freely available to all.

Problems? Email us!

Tips:
- Click the wifi-cells toggle button on the bottom left to see wifi routers
- Use wifi and GPS for best speed and accuracy
- Verizon & Sprint users will see only one connected tower at a time
- Not all towers and wireless routers are in our database. Sorry!
- Moving in the direction of your cell tower will not always improve reception due to interference effects and local geography.
- Data is mainly crowd sourced - wireless and antenna locations are calculated by triangulation. This means they are not exact, and sometimes they may be way off. As more people use this app the data will improve.
- Click on the "i" on the overview screen to see more signal stats - including signal RSSI in ASU and dBm

Advanced notes:
- For GSM, cell tower are identified via cell id and location area code (CID and LAC)
- For CDMA, cell towers are identified via Network ID, Base sub-station ID and system ID (NID, BSSID and SID)
- See our website opensignalmaps.com for more detail on using the app and please add your requests for developments.


Were building trustworthy and comprehensive coverage maps for GSM, CDMA; for 2G, 3G & 4G. We think this is the best signal tool you can find, let us know if you think anything is missing.

Networks were mapping: Orange, Vodafone, O2, 3, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Movistar, Claro. And over a hundred others.

(key words: opensignalmaps, opensignalmap, opensignal)

Recent changes Open Signal Maps for Android:
We restyled the menus!

We got rid of Turbo mode because people were confused about what it did, and to be honest so were we. We replaced it with "maximum background data collection" this will turn your GPS on suck your battery, but it will collect a lot of data! To stop you leaving it on by mistake it turns on a notification in the top bar.

We added a button to report femtocells as well, thanks to everyone who has been in touch about this.

Open Signal Maps for Android

 

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A new kind of summer job open source coding with Google Summer of Code

Its only Spring Break for most college students, but summer vacation will be here before you know it. Instead of getting stuck babysitting your little sister or mowing your neighbors lawn, apply for Google Summer of Code and spend the summer of 2012 earning money writing code for open source projects.

Google Summer of Code is a global program that gives university students a stipend to write code for open source projects over a three month period. Accepted students are paired with a mentor from the participating projects, gaining exposure to real-world software development and the opportunity for future employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

For the past ten days, interested students have had the opportunity to review the ideas pages for this year’s 180 accepted projects and research which projects they would like to contribute to this year. We hope all interested students will apply! Submit your proposal to the mentoring organizations via the Google Summer of Code program website from today through Friday, April 6 at 19:00 UTC.

Google Summer of Code is a highly competitive program with a limited number of spots. Students should consult the Google Summer of Code student manual for suggestions on how to write a quality proposal that will grab the attention of the mentoring organizations. Multiple proposals are allowed but we highly recommend focusing on quality over quantity. The mentoring organizations have many proposals to review, so it is important to follow each organization’s specific guidelines or templates and we advise you to submit your proposal early so you can receive timely feedback.

For more tips, see a list of some helpful dos and don’ts for successful student participation written by a group of experienced Google Summer of Code administrators, our user’s guide for the program site, Frequently Asked Questions and timeline. You can also stay up-to-date on all things Google Summer of Code on our Google Open Source blog, mailing lists or on Internet relay chat at #gsoc on Freenode.

To learn more about Google Summer of Code, tune in to the Google Students page on Google+ next Monday, April 2 at 3:30pm PT for a Hangout on Air with open source programs manager Chris DiBona. Hell be talking about Google Summer of Code with other members of the open source team at Google. Submit your questions about the program between now and next Monday using the hashtag #gsochangout, and Chris and the open source team will answer them live during the Hangout On Air.

Good luck to all the open source coders out there, and remember to submit your proposals early—you only have until April 6!

Posted by Carol Smith, Open Source Team

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