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Cell Coverage Alert App?

#1
Secular Sanity Offline
Does anyone know if there is there an app that alerts you when cell service kicks in? I don’t want to have to keep looking at my phone. It would be great if there was one that would send you an alert when you have cell coverage and show the locations on a map. All I could find was this old one for iOS 4 users.

http://www.caffeinatedconsulting.com/no_signal
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#2
C C Offline
This one may only provide an alert for service loss (though you'd think it would thereby complementarily provide the opposite, too.) But it's also just a more recent version of the same problem: An iOS app which (according to one commentator in 2017) hasn't been updated since probably 2015. However, it sounds as if it may work for iOS 10 and iOS 11, but unreliably or with assorted contingent difficulties.

Signal Alert
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-a...d377264979


Since the immediate generation of users is fixated on recreational apps rather than basic, practical ones... I have no idea whether the application below would really enable you to better track down such an app or not.

Appscovery Lets You Find Rare App Store Apps For Free In One Place
http://www.redmondpie.com/appscovery-let...-required/

Would you like to be able to access a central repository which gives you immediate access to a slew of rare and extremely useful apps and games across different genres? Of course, you would. It should really go without saying. This web app is going to let you immediately filter your choice by different genres in order to find useful apps that offer movies and TV functionality, as well as music or gaming.



Note that "igeeksradar" below doesn't even have a rating on either WOT or Avast Online Security check. However, that would be expected IF it's a new website: "....iGeeksradar is going to be the prime source of top notch updates, reviews and tutorials on iOS....."

App updates
https://igeeksradar.com/category/app-updates/

Appscovery again
https://igeeksradar.com/find-rare-app-st...ppscovery/

. . . since the App Store is so vast, it becomes extremely difficult to find the exact application which we are looking for. [...] You can call it our good luck that iOS developers have come forward with [...] an application that allows you to, immediately, filter and navigate through various genres to find the rare and useful applications; each of which providing different functionality. The application is named as Appscovery and is, undoubtedly, a unique application developed so far. Let us dig into the steps through which you can enable Appscovery on your iPhone/iPad. Good thing is that you don’t require jailbreak to download this application.


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#3
Secular Sanity Offline
In areas where there is bad coverage it would come in handy.  I'm surprised that there's not one. I'll check out the link that you provided, though. 

Thanks a bunch, C C.  

Hope all is well.
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confused2 Offline
I don't have a portable phone so this may be ridiculous but..
Every morning Mrs C2 has a wake-up call (dling-dling) on her portable at (possibly) 7am. If she was out of range at 7am might it deliver the wake-up call as soon as she came back into range?
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#5
C C Offline
(Jun 19, 2018 06:16 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: In areas where there is bad coverage it would come in handy.  I'm surprised that there's not one.


Given the even more erratic availability of service worldwide in sparsely populated, disadvantaged, and rugged landscape areas... It's a feature that should be built-in or native to the operating system. Rather than users hoping for and being at the mercy of a developer deciding to make and maintain an app.

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Zinjanthropos Offline
SS...I use the drive around until you find coverage app.lol. Hope you're not doing the driving and using phone at same time. I have a slightly different problem.

Living as close to USA border as I do, I wish there was some way for my service provider to know that I'm actually in Canada, just to avoid nuisance roaming messages and actual charges on my invoices. You would think there should be something at border crossings for your phone to give the signal it is either in or out of the country. A.drive along the.Niagara River always accompanied with roaming message. I don't use phone during these rides or else I have to call later.to remind them I'm in Canada..
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#7
stryder Offline
I'm Not sure of the current state of app's although the logic behind trying to work out the best way to program a test for the signal means that some apps will constantly "idle" while waiting for a signal change, that basically means they will chew up power shortening your battery life.

I did consider perhaps there was a way to use SMS to send a message to yourself *if* the phone queues the message to send when there is a signal, you should get a "received SMS" response when it arrives.

While further considering points I stumbled upon www.goTenna.com which is basically a Mesh network dongle you can pair your phone with, if people in the area have dongles like this too then you can send/receive through those dongles rather than the cell towers. You should be able to see if there is coverage in your area through https://imeshyou.com/ (A mesh map)
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#8
Secular Sanity Offline
(Jun 20, 2018 12:16 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: SS...I use the drive around until you find coverage app.lol. Hope you're not doing the driving and using phone at same time. I have a slightly different problem.

That's what I've been doing but I have to continually look at my phone for coverage.

(Jun 20, 2018 04:13 PM)stryder Wrote: I'm Not sure of the current state of app's although the logic behind trying to work out the best way to program a test for the signal means that some apps will constantly "idle" while waiting for a signal change, that basically means they will chew up power shortening your battery life.

An app with an on or off button would solve that. You could use it only when you needed to.


stryder Wrote:I did consider perhaps there was a way to use SMS to send a message to yourself *if* the phone queues the message to send when there is a signal, you should get a "received SMS" response when it arrives.

Yeah, that’s not a bad idea.

Thanks, Stryder.

What’s up with all the guests? It’s showing more than normal. Weird.
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