About Tower Collector
Tower Collector gives you opportunity to contribute in OpenCellID.org and Mozilla Location Services projects by uploading GPS locations of GSM/UMTS/LTE/CDMA/TD-SCDMA/5G (NR) cell towers from your area. The measurements...
Tower Collector gives you opportunity to contribute in OpenCellID.org and Mozilla Location Services projects by uploading GPS locations of GSM/UMTS/LTE/CDMA/TD-SCDMA/5G (NR) cell towers from your area. The measurements help map the extent of mobile phone network coverage. You can use the app to collect data for personal purposes and export them to various files.
Some features:
• specially optimized GPS parameters to reduce battery drain
• upload to OpenCellID.org and Mozilla Location Services (MLS) projects
• export to SD card as CSV, JSON, GPX, KML and KMZ.
• ad-free, forever!
The OpenCellID.org project goal is to create a worldwide open source database of mobile cell locations. Tower Collector gives you opportunity to contribute in OpenCellID project by uploading cell towers locations from your area. Collected data can be used to quickly locate devices without enabling GPS.
Mozilla Location Services (MLS) is an open source project, aiming to create a worldwide database of wireless network infrastructure identifiers (cell towers, WiFi access points, Bluetooth beacons) correlated with GPS locations. Aggregated cell location set is available under the public domain "Creative Commons (CC-0)" license.
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This application does not collect, store or send any information which can be used to directly identify user, device which is being used or any other personal information.
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Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Tower Collector since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-22 13:17:36.
The latest version is and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:39:50. See below the changes in each version.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2024-03-28
Changes: IMPORTANT!
Mozilla have made the decision to retire the service and new measurements are no longer accepted. Read more: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/retiring-the-mozilla-location-service/128693
The option to upload to Mozilla Location Services temporarily remains available, but I will only try to upload the measurements if custom MLS-compatible address is provided in Preferences.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2024-02-29
Changes: 2.14.5 (2024-02-29)
- Fix upload result presentation.
- Add check for Internet connection before starting upload.
- Add option to use custom MLS-compatible server for uploads.
- Display a warning when attempting to export database when there is no data to upload.
- Improve error handling.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2023-10-07
Changes: - Fix missing notifications on Android 13.
- Fix issue with requesting background location permission if no location permission was granted before.
- Improve readability of message when there are no measurements on the device.
- Improve opening Network type settings.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2023-06-28
Changes: - Fix 5G (NR) cell Tracking Area Code accepted values range.
- Use dialog instead of notification for error reporting in F-Droid builds.
- Add Finish translation.
- Update Hungarian translation.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2023-04-04
Changes: 2.14.2
• Improve compatibility with Android 12 and 13.
• Add cell discovery date to CSV export and JSON broadcast.
• Update website address.
• Update translations.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2022-07-03
Changes: - Try to fix exception when button cancelling export or upload.
- Improve error handling.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2022-04-20
Changes: . Distinguish newly discovered from old cells on the map.
. Add Korean translation.
. Update translation.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2022-03-05
Changes: . Improve support for 5G networks by utilizing NetMonster logic.
. Improve error handling.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2021-09-27
Changes: - Fix number of discovered local cells higher than number of local cells.
- Fix upload configuration not saved when don't show again is checked.
- Fix export progress window sometimes stays open after export is finished.
- Fix export result window appears one more time after restoring minimized application.
- Fix crash when exporting data when storage folder is undefined.
- Add option to contribute anonymously on upload configurator.
- Improved descriptions and translations.
- Small bug fixes.
Tower Collector version
Updated At: 2021-09-02
Changes: - Add notification showing progress of Export operation.
- Add option to start and stop Export using Quick Settings toggles.
- Add option to start and stop Export using shortcuts.
- Add option to start and stop Export with Intents.
- Fix crash when starting other action while Export is in progress.
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