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mroczis / netmonster-core

Android Telephony SDK bridge with some additional features
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Automatic locations of LTE cell sites stopped working after Pixel 7 June 2023 update #83

Closed eladts closed 8 months ago

eladts commented 1 year ago

Version 2.22.2 of NetMonster used to figure out by itself the location of many LTE sites, probably using some sort of triangulation. This is a very nice feature, but it stopped working on my Pixel 7 after the June 2023 update (QPR3). After I cleared the app data no LTE cell sites was automatically located.

verimash commented 1 year ago

Same problem (Poco M3 Pro phone and Poco M4). According to my research, the problem lies in the 404 error on the lbs-slb.mobile.yandex.net (a service by which you can find out the location without GPS). Base stations can be accessed between 00:05 and 00:20 (UTC+3). I have not tried the old versions, how I will try, I will write down what and how.

mroczis commented 8 months ago

Such feature is no longer available due to missing free and reliable geolocation 3rd party sources.

jeffreykog commented 8 months ago

Such feature is no longer available due to missing free and reliable geolocation 3rd party sources.

Understandable. But when no geolocation name is known NetMonster also doesn't report any GPS location to data servers when submitting a newly detected cell. Would it be possible to always fill this GPS location if the user has granted location permission to NetMonster? Not a core issue, but maybe something that is fixable. Thanks!