kylecorry31 / Trail-Sense

An Android app that uses your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks or survival situations.
https://kylecorry.com/Trail-Sense/
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Show waypoint circles for cell signal even when no signal #1960

Open shortpupper opened 12 months ago

shortpupper commented 12 months ago

There should be a grey dot if the signal can't be found, or red if poor aka 1 bar out of 5. Pictures showing what I mean by the elevation dots are there but then some of the cell signal dots aren't. Android 13, version 5.2. Screenshot_20230910_121641_Trail Sense.jpg

Screenshot_20230910_121637_Trail Sense.jpg

kylecorry31 commented 12 months ago

Thank you for the suggestion - I'll experiment around with displaying a gray circle when there is no signal.

My reasoning for not displaying anything when there is no signal was to make it really clear where there was a signal and where there is nothing. But I see how this could also be interpreted as a bug (ex. was there no signal, or did it just not display properly)

The red dots in the screenshot above represent a poor signal, so if I do implement this, I am leaning toward using a shade of gray.

shortpupper commented 12 months ago

Sorry for the confusion on the 1 to 5 bars red, When I would do this I would go through a no-bar area but it would still show on my phone as 1 bar.

kylecorry31 commented 12 months ago

Hi, just to confirm are you saying that Trail Sense shows your phone as 1 bar when you actually don't have signal, or that your phone is saying 1 bar when you don't have signal?

Can you use the following format:

Actual

Expected

If it is that your phone is showing 1 bar, I wonder if that's because your carrier has no service, but it still has service with another carrier (for emergency services).

Trail Sense uses the following classification on a 3 bar system.

shortpupper commented 2 months ago

Apologies for the very long wait asfor a response. My device has a set of 5 bars for signal/mobile data. Thank you very much for your time as well.