neighbouringCellInfo empty in debug logs

[Ueland]

So this morning i decided to take a walk around my office as i am smack middle in Oslo,Norway where a spy scandal is starting to grow now, after signals from multiple IMSI-catchers have been detected. All these are all around my office. The app did not trigger any alarms, but not too surprising giving that:

a: Alpha version for the App
b: The IMSI-Catcher may have been taken down as they have been revealed

Specs:
AIMSICD version "WIP-Internal v0.1.25-alpha-build-3"
Stock Google Nexus 5 (not rooted, working on it now), on Android 5
Getprop: http://pastebin.com/RrUtuxeq

🍒 Logcat dump on way to known catcher area: https://defuse.ca/b/L2geviNNaWSKZuVbakI4Og
🍒 Logcat dump from known catcher area: https://defuse.ca/b/jwnXkIl4xuy2CSfGzLo3FQ

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[SecUpwN]

@Ueland, I very much enjoy that you're such an enthusiastic user of our App and seem to enjoy testing it. Also, thank you very much for the logfiles (@E3V3A, @tobykurien, @He3556 and @andr3jx, please have a close look at those)! As you can see, I had to edit your Issue a little to shorten the headline. Generally speaking, we currently lack contributions on our App, that is why we are still in ALPHA stage.

@Ueland, is your Issue here possibly a duplicate of #137, or is this really a separate one?

If you really want to help us pushing forward, please make some pull requests to squash as many bugs as possible and maybe even continue work on implementing more detection measures. Thank you!

[tobykurien]

I see some logs there that I need to remove (power/sensor logs), to make the log output smaller. As for the neighbouring cells info, if we get back nothing from the API, there's nothing we can do in the app.

[E3V3A]

@Ueland Please try this APK to test if you can use a different method to get neighboring cells. Can you reach the RF hidden Service Menu on that phone?

[Ueland]

Not much output from the app:

Nexus 5 does not have the #2263# code, but it does have the *##4636## code, the only interesting info i find there is this:

[E3V3A]

Just FYI: I just added a flow-chart to #100 to help resolve NC issues.

@Ueland I'm really curious to know what's preventing your phone from showing NC, also in the SM (as you showed above.) Who makes the N5 ? (Was it LG? I forgot.) Since your device is Qualcomm, you should have a _/dev/smd0_, do you? Please send me an email...

[Ueland]

Yup, the N5 is from LG. Gonna check if i have the mentioned device

[Ueland]

@E3V3A:
adb shell ls -la /dev/smd0
/dev/smd0: No such file or directory

[E3V3A]

@Ueland That's funny. It's a MSM8974 so it should have an smd device somewhere. Can you dump the output of # ls -alR /dev? Anyway, that would be the AT interface, but we may not need it if we can use the /dev/diag instead. Also if you have time, please send me an email with a link to some defused paste of dmesg and logcat -d -b radio *:v after bootup. (You may want to edit out any personal info if any. Also make sure you're root, when doing all this.)

[Ueland]

i tried a ls on /dev yesterday but got a permission denied error, guess that's caused by not having root.
I have planned to get it rooted but it causes all data to be lost so i have not done it yet, will check it up after rooting it.

[E3V3A]

Yes, you need root. But you shouldn't lose any data. No need to flash anything. Try manual installation of Kingroot. Put the Android Terminal Emulator (ATE), Busybox, SuperSU and Kingroot APKs on your SD card. After Kingroot has done its job, run SuperSU and allow it to uninstall other su version. Hopefully it will detect and fix everything. There should be no data loss in this process.

[Ueland]

The Nexus 5 does not have an external SD Card, that might make it worse? ;)

[E3V3A]

Yes, we usually don't make that distinction anymore. So we usually just refer to the separate /media/sdcardX partition as "SD card". So just find whichever way to transfer files to your phone and find it (and run/install) with ES File Explorer, for example.

[Ueland]

Can you send me your e-mail again and i will send you the output you wanted.
My phone was locked so i had to unlock it first (aka reinstall), but now it`s done at least.