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GPRS Information - Mobile

I have almost the worst spec in the world. An application that exists and used to work. My aim is to recreate this app and make it work.

It's a very simple util that just displays the following information to screen:

  • ARFCN - Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
  • LAC - Location Area Code of the cell (unique in PLMN)
  • RAC - Routing Area Identifier Code of the cell (unique in PLMN)
  • MNC / MCC - Mobile Network Code / Mobile Country Code
  • NCellInfo1-6 - ?
  • Rx Quality -
  • Frequency Hopping -
  • Last registered network
  • TMSI - ?
  • Periodic Location Update value
  • Band
  • Channel in use
  • RSSI 1 - received signal strength indication
  • Last call release cause

I'm hoping I can gain some of this information via OpenNETCF's network information, maybe some P/Invokes somewhere or (worst case scenario) some kind of custom SDK that i'll need to find for the device (and its a niche device so I hope this isn't the case).

However wishing to utilise the powers of Stackoverflow I wondered if someone would be able to point me in the right direction to get this data off a device. Anyone know of any libs that specifically provide this kind of information?

Solution

  • I can't speak for all of that information, but most of it you can get from RIL (Radio Interface Layer).

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa920475.aspx

    I'm not sure that you will be able to use C# to access the RIL layer as you have to provide C function callbacks.

    The cell tower information you get from RIL_GetCellTowerInfo function and the signal quality information you get from RIL_GetSignalQuality function. Browse the MSDN documentation for the inforation you want to get.