Get Cell Tower Locations – Android

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This is how you get the cell tower id (CID) and the lac (Location Area Code) from your current network state: 

mPhoneStateReceiver = new PhoneStateIntentReceiver(this, new ServiceStateHandler());
mPhoneStateReceiver.notifyServiceState(MY_NOTIFICATION_ID);
mPhoneStateReceiver.notifyPhoneCallState(MY_NOTIFICATION_ID);
mPhoneStateReceiver.notifySignalStrength(MY_NOTIFICATION_ID);
mPhoneStateReceiver.registerIntent();

private class ServiceStateHandler extends Handler {
    public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
        switch (msg.what) {
            case MY_NOTIFICATION_ID:
                ServiceState state = mPhoneStateReceiver.getServiceState();
                System.out.println(state.getCid());
                System.out.println(state.getLac());
                System.out.println(mPhoneStateReceiver.getSignalStrength());
                break;
        }
    }
}

Getting Lat,Lng location information after that is a little trickier. Here’s a link to a post that’s about Symbian but talks about Cell Tower -> Lat,Lng conversion: http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19693

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