[drofnas]

Does anyone know how OR if it's even possible to get the Cell Tower ID using the BlackBerry SDK?

My BlackBerry won't be in until next week so I haven't actually had the time to play around with this. What I'm trying to do is create a simple application that will keep track of the Cell Towers that are in a specific area. That way you can specify the Cell Towers that are near Work, and change the settings on your phone to be work related (like turning the ringer off and vibrate on). I guess you can say it's a GPS application that just deals with changing the settings on your phone and not actually giving you location information.

I don't really care about the specific of the Cell Tower, just a Unique ID that will distinguish it from others.

I'm not sure if it matters or not, but the BlackBerry phone I want to do this on is the 7130c

[Texas_Traveler]

I think it is possible. Check out this posting.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...o-utility.html

I haven't tried the app yet.

Also see this thread: http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...strengths.html

Hope that helps. I'd be curious what you figure out.

[drofnas]

When I get my BlackBerry in next week I will definatly give that app a try. It is too bad the source code isn't provided, but at least I know it's possible now.

If I am able to make a working version of this application I'll definatly be posting the source code and a downloadable executable on SourceForge so that anyone can take the code and do what they please with it.

[fsa3]

Is there any way to translate the cell tower ID to a zip code or location?

[ujbandara]

Here are few info, check weather this is helpful

Integer.toString(GPRSInfo.getCellInfo().getCellId( ));
//Retrieves the current cell ID.

Integer.toString(GPRSInfo.getCellInfo().getLAC());
//Retrieves the Location Area Code.

Integer.toString(GPRSInfo.getCellInfo().getBSIC()) ;
//Base Station Identity Code.

[drofnas]

That's exactly what I was looking for... Now I just need to find out how I can programmatically change the Profile on my Blackberry

[ujbandara]

What u mean by "change the Profile on my Blackberry"

[drofnas]

The profiles, such as Loud, Vibrate, Normal, Quite, etc... That allow you to save different settings you want on your phone for the different sounds, ring tones, and how loud the different sounds are.

Well, I would like to be able to change this thru code. For example if I created a program that looked at what time it was, say 9AM in the morning on a Monday, well there is a good chance I will be at work at that time, so I would like to change to either the Vibrate or Quite Profile.

Make sense?

[ujbandara]

Yes,
Concept and theory is good, & it might be use in advanced situations.

[Katrina Niolet]

Originally Posted by fsa3

Is there any way to translate the cell tower ID to a zip code or location?

Hehe, yes and no. If you have a database of the cell tower ID's and the zip code they are or lat-long of the towers, yes. Otherwise no.

[logan]

I don't think it is possible to programmitcally change your profile. This idea has been around for a while and not done before. Good luck

[drofnas]

Which is what stopping me right now, I can get the Cell IDs but I can't change the profiles yet, since it seems that BlackBerry decided to not include this with in their SDK.