Recently we have tried to get the cellID from mobile phones. and found some userful links about how to get CellID in Windows Mobile
get CellID in Windows Mobile and
Poor man's GPS
the cell ID has following format
CellID ¨C Location Area Code ¨C Mobile Country Code
for example , 54464-39502-505
and actually google latitude use such information to get the latitude/longitude based on the cell ID.
here's code sample to get such information from a scecret google Map API written by "Neil Young" (
neil.young@freenet.de)
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Code:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
//---Based on code written by "Neil Young" (neil.young@freenet.de)
//---Source: http://maps.alphadex.de/datafiles/fct0e1b11782832f02.cs
namespace GoogleMaps
{
class GMM
{
static byte[] PostData(int MCC, int MNC, int LAC, int CID,
bool shortCID)
{
/* The shortCID parameter follows heuristic experiences:
* Sometimes UMTS CIDs are build up from the original GSM CID (lower 4 hex digits)
* and the RNC-ID left shifted into the upper 4 digits.
*/
byte[] pd = new byte[] {
0x00, 0x0e,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00,
0x1b,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Offset 0x11
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Offset 0x15
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Offset 0x19
0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Offset 0x1f
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Offset 0x23
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Offset 0x27
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Offset 0x2b
0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
};
bool isUMTSCell = ((Int64)CID > 65535);
if (isUMTSCell)
Console.WriteLine("UMTS CID. {0}", shortCID ?
"Using short CID to resolve." : "");
else
Console.WriteLine("GSM CID given.");
if (shortCID)
CID &= 0xFFFF; /* Attempt to resolve the cell using the
GSM CID part */
if ((Int64)CID > 65536) /* GSM: 4 hex digits, UTMS: 6 hex
digits */
pd[0x1c] = 5;
else
pd[0x1c] = 3;
pd[0x11] = (byte)((MNC >> 24) & 0xFF);
pd[0x12] = (byte)((MNC >> 16) & 0xFF);
pd[0x13] = (byte)((MNC >> 8) & 0xFF);
pd[0x14] = (byte)((MNC >> 0) & 0xFF);
pd[0x15] = (byte)((MCC >> 24) & 0xFF);
pd[0x16] = (byte)((MCC >> 16) & 0xFF);
pd[0x17] = (byte)((MCC >> 8) & 0xFF);
pd[0x18] = (byte)((MCC >> 0) & 0xFF);
pd[0x27] = (byte)((MNC >> 24) & 0xFF);
pd[0x28] = (byte)((MNC >> 16) & 0xFF);
pd[0x29] = (byte)((MNC >> 8) & 0xFF);
pd[0x2a] = (byte)((MNC >> 0) & 0xFF);
pd[0x2b] = (byte)((MCC >> 24) & 0xFF);
pd[0x2c] = (byte)((MCC >> 16) & 0xFF);
pd[0x2d] = (byte)((MCC >> 8) & 0xFF);
pd[0x2e] = (byte)((MCC >> 0) & 0xFF);
pd[0x1f] = (byte)((CID >> 24) & 0xFF);
pd[0x20] = (byte)((CID >> 16) & 0xFF);
pd[0x21] = (byte)((CID >> 8) & 0xFF);
pd[0x22] = (byte)((CID >> 0) & 0xFF);
pd[0x23] = (byte)((LAC >> 24) & 0xFF);
pd[0x24] = (byte)((LAC >> 16) & 0xFF);
pd[0x25] = (byte)((LAC >> 8) & 0xFF);
pd[0x26] = (byte)((LAC >> 0) & 0xFF);
return pd;
}
static public string GetLatLng(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length < 4)
{
return string.Empty;
}
string shortCID = ""; /* Default, no change at all */
if (args.Length == 5)
shortCID = args[4].ToLower();
try
{
String url = "http://www.google.com/glm/mmap";
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(
new Uri(url));
req.Method = "POST";
int MCC = Convert.ToInt32(args[0]);
int MNC = Convert.ToInt32(args[1]);
int LAC = Convert.ToInt32(args[2]);
int CID = Convert.ToInt32(args[3]);
byte[] pd = PostData(MCC, MNC, LAC, CID,
shortCID == "shortcid");
req.ContentLength = pd.Length;
req.ContentType = "application/binary";
Stream outputStream = req.GetRequestStream();
outputStream.Write(pd, 0, pd.Length);
outputStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
byte[] ps = new byte[res.ContentLength];
int totalBytesRead = 0;
while (totalBytesRead < ps.Length)
{
totalBytesRead += res.GetResponseStream().Read(
ps, totalBytesRead, ps.Length - totalBytesRead);
}
if (res.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
short opcode1 = (short)(ps[0] << 8 | ps[1]);
byte opcode2 = ps[2];
int ret_code = (int)((ps[3] << 24) | (ps[4] << 16) |
(ps[5] << 8) | (ps[6]));
if (ret_code == 0)
{
double lat = ((double)((ps[7] << 24) | (ps[8] << 16)
| (ps[9] << 8) | (ps[10]))) / 1000000;
double lon = ((double)((ps[11] << 24) | (ps[12] <<
16) | (ps[13] << 8) | (ps[14]))) /
1000000;
return lat + "|" + lon;
}
else
return string.Empty;
}
else
return string.Empty;
}
catch (Exception)
{
return string.Empty;
}
}
}
}