Hello All I am a Cellular RF Engineer and have been trying to get some specific WCDMA/3G/UMTSsignal measurement values out of Android SDK environment. Using the public class SignalStrength I have been successful in getting meaningful GSM values (with the assistance of a Software Engineer) using getGsmSignalStrength(), but only yield "-1" values for getCdmaDbm() and getCdmaEcio() respectively which are supposed to return relevant CDMA signal stregth values. Certainly -1 is a pretty good clue that something I am doing isn't right.
My phone was definately on a UMTS at the time and I can read UMTS measurements in the field test software. I think it is quite likely that getCdmaDbm() and getCdmaEcio() methods are for CDMA networks, not 3G/WCDMA, technidally speaking CDMA and WCDMA are different technologies. This leaves me high and dry in terms of trying to get the 3G measurements of interest (EcIo and RSSI and/or RSCP are the most important in terms of coverage). Probably there are some other methods out there but I simply can't find them in the reference material on the web: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/SignalStrength.html Can someone please assist me? There must be a way (after all, field test s/w can get this information) but how? Someone wrote an app called Cellumap which gets UMTS, GSM and CDMA measurement information. Aussie 123 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
