There are times when you go somewhere and suddenly you loose mobile network connection. This may happen for few reasons, mostly because of weak reception inside building, below ground level or somewhere in the wild, far from civilization. To check what is your signal level, and not only this, you can use NetMon Cellular Network Monitor from extras-devel catalogue.

NetMon network monitor

Main purpose of NetMon is (as name suggests) monitoring mobile network, on main screen you can find most of important data like country (for me it’s Poland – 260) and network code (2 for me, one of 17 operator codes in Poland). You can also see other data like Cell ID and Local Area Code, a bit less important for everyday user, network status/type to see if it’s your home network or are you roaming on some other, supported services for the network, like GPRS capability and finally signal strength in decibel scale.

NetMon battery monitor

What is also interesting in NetMon is battery monitor, giving the most important information on current and maximum capacity, voltages, everything that may be useful not only for advanced users. This way you can track battery life depending on how you use N900 judging from something more than small icon in top-left corner.

I think that NetMon will become one of my everyday apps, I was missing such functionality earlier. Sometimes it makes me think that I’m some kind of control freak in case of mobile devices .

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