According to Cell C coverage map I'm well into 3G coverage area. According to gr8signal and my phone best is Edge.
The gr8signal map is going to make for interesting viewing in weeks to come.
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According to Cell C coverage map I'm well into 3G coverage area. According to gr8signal and my phone best is Edge.
The gr8signal map is going to make for interesting viewing in weeks to come.
Installed the app and got a mate to do the same. we just took a walk around our local area one phone on mtn the other on vodacom. lets see what the logs say! will prolly jump in the car next weekend and take a drive around our town. try complete the map..
i think this is a brilliant idea. lets hope the cellular providers take a look at it!
one thing that needs to be improved: when there is no signal it doesn't report the cellular providers name. is it possible to allow selecting your provider each time the app starts?
If anyone on the forum would like me to unlock their account now after registering (till we unlock it for everyone). Please just drop us an email at [email protected] and we'll get your account unlocked during the testing period.
Last edited by gr8signal; 05-11-2012 at 03:08 AM.
9c/l fuel levy would pay off GFIP in 8 years
Telkom ADSL "legal" contention ratio is 20:1
"IPC bandwidth is 4x the cost of international bandwidth" - Afrihost
They won't upload until that phone goes on WiFi or upload over 3g is enabled. There will be a notification showing a whole lot of pending signals to upload.
We went to a secluded beach near Durban (Balito) last week, I had the app and my gprs on the whole way. Thought that would show a nice graph. In the end I noticed my signal logs did not show on the map! was very disappointed. Just checked again and they are showing now!
I'm so disappointed I didn't know of the Turbo Mode! That would have given better results. We went to Zimkwazi Beach. You can actually see the few log points now over there! Also only Vodacom and MTN 3G had coverage.
I like the sugestion to pick a provider, because then the app can also log 'no signal' zones.
EDIT: For anyone still reading this thread, I meant to say I had the app and my GPS on the whole way. (Not GPRS). BTW. I'm running the app on my Galaxy Tab2, don't have a Android phone (yet).
Last edited by Waste; 06-11-2012 at 08:14 AM.
Installed and uploaded some dataAwesome idea
@ waste, I think there's a certain time of day when the data gets processed, for some reason i must have hit it on the nail because just after installing the app my few logs around my house showed up... took a walk around and it seems the newer logs haven't been processed. I have my phone set to turbo all the time..
i was also wondering if it uses actual GPS or just the cellular stuff
We get the provider from the sim card that you put in and the towers that it talks to (The phone says if its roaming on a different network)
Picking up dead spots is difficult until we have sufficient logs. Ie someone goes into flight mode or they go into a tunnel (Gautrain).
In a future version of the app were are planning on adding dropped calls.
Also as we get more data we will keep on looking at accurate ways to give you information on dead spots.
Last edited by gr8signal; 08-11-2012 at 09:14 AM.
@gr8signal
What is the chance of getting access to the raw data?
The company I work for is in the process of launching something similar, but on a global scale ...
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