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From: JITESH on 15 May 2008 13:23
hi,

go to Phone, by pressing Green Call button

then choose Menu -> OPTION ->Broadcast Channels -> make it Enable, press
SETTINGS ->
activate the "Receive channel List"
press "NEW" button then
put District into NAME field and
30 into CHANNEL Number, Re-start you phone.. you will start receiving
location information based on signal tower got selected by phone..

all the best

JITESH



"chai&cigs" wrote:

> Hi - Recently purchased the HTC Touch, i used to have a Nokia N series
> prior (which i gave to my father), I live in India and travel a lot by
> trains for my job/ personal. ( not the local, but from city to city..
> combination of cost and fear of flying ...)
>
> anyways, one of the features on the Nokia used to be the cell tower
> information that can be displayed on the phone and each time as i
> cross to a different area, i get the location on my cellphone and doze
> of to sleep saying to myself, ok another 4 hrs to go. But for the life
> of me, although HTC Touch is such a cool looking smartphone, this one
> feature is not there.
>
> I have tried various apps like Mobiletracker, Tinygps, googlemaps (my
> location), but gives no inclination on the same and does not provide
> the information atleast something that can be displayed on the "Today"
> screen .
>
> no major issue, but would be pretty cool if it could be done on the
> HTC Touch, lemme know, if any of you folks have any similar apps for
> Windows Mobile 5 or 6 applications that can be integrated to this.
> Your suggestions, recommendations woould be most welcome.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> cc
>
From: argusy on 15 May 2008 21:25
JITESH wrote:
> hi,
>
> go to Phone, by pressing Green Call button
>
> then choose Menu -> OPTION ->Broadcast Channels -> make it Enable, press
> SETTINGS ->
> activate the "Receive channel List"
> press "NEW" button then
> put District into NAME field and
> 30 into CHANNEL Number, Re-start you phone.. you will start receiving
> location information based on signal tower got selected by phone..
>
> all the best
>
> JITESH
>
>
<snip>

Got a HTC P3600, so....
Yup, did all that. (plus check the 'district' check box)
but where does the info get displayed?

Argusy
From: Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] on 15 May 2008 23:30
Wondering out loud if there is possibly a three digit cellular number
which would report the current tower?

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
From: argusy on 16 May 2008 01:28
chai&cigs wrote:
> Hi - Recently purchased the HTC Touch, i used to have a Nokia N series
> prior (which i gave to my father), I live in India and travel a lot by
> trains for my job/ personal. ( not the local, but from city to city..
> combination of cost and fear of flying ...)
>
> anyways, one of the features on the Nokia used to be the cell tower
> information that can be displayed on the phone and each time as i
> cross to a different area, i get the location on my cellphone and doze
> of to sleep saying to myself, ok another 4 hrs to go. But for the life
> of me, although HTC Touch is such a cool looking smartphone, this one
> feature is not there.
>
> I have tried various apps like Mobiletracker, Tinygps, googlemaps (my
> location), but gives no inclination on the same and does not provide
> the information atleast something that can be displayed on the "Today"
> screen .
>
> no major issue, but would be pretty cool if it could be done on the
> HTC Touch, lemme know, if any of you folks have any similar apps for
> Windows Mobile 5 or 6 applications that can be integrated to this.
> Your suggestions, recommendations woould be most welcome.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> cc

try googling "cell broadcast on HTC Touch" - there's a description of
what is required.
Jitesh has already replied showing you, but India may have a different
code. It's 050 (or 50) in Australia
google has a lot of info on "cell broadcast"
From: argusy on 16 May 2008 01:31
chai&cigs wrote:
> Hi - Recently purchased the HTC Touch, i used to have a Nokia N series
> prior (which i gave to my father), I live in India and travel a lot by
> trains for my job/ personal. ( not the local, but from city to city..
> combination of cost and fear of flying ...)
>
> anyways, one of the features on the Nokia used to be the cell tower
> information that can be displayed on the phone and each time as i
> cross to a different area, i get the location on my cellphone and doze
> of to sleep saying to myself, ok another 4 hrs to go. But for the life
> of me, although HTC Touch is such a cool looking smartphone, this one
> feature is not there.
>
> I have tried various apps like Mobiletracker, Tinygps, googlemaps (my
> location), but gives no inclination on the same and does not provide
> the information atleast something that can be displayed on the "Today"
> screen .
>
> no major issue, but would be pretty cool if it could be done on the
> HTC Touch, lemme know, if any of you folks have any similar apps for
> Windows Mobile 5 or 6 applications that can be integrated to this.
> Your suggestions, recommendations woould be most welcome.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> cc

Following on from the last post, it may depend on your provider if you
actually get any SMS cell broadcasts. They mightn't have that facility
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