Automagic Forum

Many phone cell stations are now broadcast their information. And many app can see those information. Can you add phone cell information into phone cell GSM variables, e.g. latitude+longitude of cell location, plus others? This will help to locate the cell site location, and also can know the phone location by cell site lookup into map.

There are also messages the cell site broadcasted, called Cell Broadcast (CB) messages. If phone enabled, how can we get them in variables. This will help us to know the broadcasting messages, especially for emergency CB messages. We can notify any CB message, e.g. emergency message from cell site.

CID, LAC and PSC can be filled into variables using a condition Phone Cell GSM. The location (latitude and longitude) can be filled into a variable with an action Init Variable Location and location provider Network. This will determine the location using the Google location services. Signal strength and more cell information is available with condition Phone Signal Strength. See the help page of the corresponding condition to get a list of the available variables.

There is not official API in Android to access CB messages as far as I know. Do you know of a third party app available in Google Play that allows to access CB messages?