Neighbouring cell information is inaccurate

Question

I\'m trying to make use of a mobile information about neighbouring cells, available on Android via TelephonyManager class and its getNeighboringCellInfo

Answer 1

The mobile device should be aware of the neighbouring cells, so that it can hand over to a better cell if necessary. In any case, you've told it to get information about neighbouring cells, so that's what it should do. Your results don't seem to match up to what is described in the Android documentation either. I would report this problem to the device vendor as a firmware bug.

I can imagine a situation where you would see a neighbouring cell with a stronger signal if for example the cell was GSM, and the device preferred a UMTS cell with a weaker signal, but this should be obvious from the network type field.