[Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

Netmon like program to provide cellular info. Reason for creation was to learn a bit more about cellular networks and dbus, and I like apps to support portrait mode :)

What does it offer:

• SIM related info
• Current cellular info
• Scan of available mobile networks
• Find country- and operator codes
• Landscape/portrait support
• Help pages for explaining the related terms (mainly based on wikipedia info)
• Display your approx. postal location using celltower info (internet connection required) using Google API/openCellId

The package can be found in the extras-devel repository.

P.s.:
- The country and operator codes are retrieved from an internal list and will not be up-to-date nor complete.

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

In an installation time dependence python-pyside.qtmaemo5 demands. ;)

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

Very nice. IMO we needed a replacement for netmon as it was crashing for me intermittantly.

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

Nice application, is there any way to get RF parameters like RSCP, EcNo etc etc?

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

Instant subscribe, download and testing :) No bugs so far, despite pestering it with modem turned off, or during mode change - got "ade's quality" stamp on it, good work and thanks.

Would it be possible to measure signal strength of mobile networks in area, when querying them via "Mobile Networks" tab? It would become very handy tool to probe area for best GPRS/3G data plan/prepaid, instead of buying one prepaid per every operator, and testing signal one-by-one.

Also - but you probably thought about it yourself, already - maybe some switch to trigger auto-update of data, at user configurable interval? (1 sec, or 2 sec, or 3 sec, or...).

/Estel

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

Netmon always crashes for me when I'm in roaming (not only international, but also inside my own country, when N900's operator widget reports different network name - my operator apparently has a deal with second one for areas with low or no signal at all, as even the old 3310 behaves like that). I'll try this app in this scenario, soon:)

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

IIRC there is an error if run in Terminal, when Netmon crashes.
I have never remembered to report it.

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

First of all I am not a cellular network expert, so I don't know the exact differences with the current signal indication.
Secondly there is very little official N900 documentation on these matters. Most is found out by the Maemo community itself.
I doubt it if this info can be retrieved, but if you can point me to some commands....

Would be nice indeed, but in this case the question is also: how to retrieve this info?

That's why I explicitly mentioned the info is static. If I would make it dynamic, I would update it by changing values. I have been playing with that, but abandoned it when I couldn't get it working properly. Maybe I'll try a second time in the future.

I did not have the opportunity to test it with any other operator than my default one, so please do test :)

P.s. QtMobility should be able to give a little more info (like if a dual sim card is used), but with this module loaded, PySide crashes everytime in my environment.

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

Nice one. Good one!
It does not offer more information on network than netmon, right?
But SIM info is pretty cool.

Estel's wish to have info on scanned networks would be very handy. But I also do not know it is possible at all.

One remark regarding the scan:
Could you please add a 'Cancel' button? It is annoying to have no chance to abort the scan in any way.

Re: [Announce] Cellnet-Info for N900
 

No, apart from the country name displayed if known and the option to lookup MCC/MNC codes, the network part has no extra info.

I removed the cancel button (which is default), but I will see if I can make it work gracefully once I put it back.