Signal 2 Cydia App By Planetbeing Maps Out Nearby Cell Towers
March 1, 2013 2:21 AM
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Signal 2, an update to the Signal Cydia app has gone live. It is developed by super famous iOS hacker David Wang aka Planetbeing, also a core member of the evad3rs dev team who developed the evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak untethered. This application gathers info about cell towers your iPhone is currently connected to and shows their locations on a map. Planetbeing said via Twitter that this updated version works with both iPhone CDMA and GSM running iOS 5 and above.
This app can be of great use if you want to know the extent of your network's coverage and where you will get the best reception. Also, apart from the usual maps feature, it also displays other useful data including...
- RSCP (signal strength) in dBm
- Ec/N0 (signal quality) to all neighbours
- Frequency at which each cell is broadcasting