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Old 07-22-2011, 08:36 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by archivator View Post
This is sort of a bizarre question. At one of my side projects we use a lot of 3G networking (various providers, various devices). Long story short, we'd like to know if there's a way to turn a Kindle into a sort of universal mapping device.

At the very least, we'd like to be able to run a daemon (this part is easily achieved) that logs the signal strength in dBm (not sure where to get it from but we could always reverse engineer the original software) and average latency to a known server over a certain time period (this is the part that we're pretty much convinced can't be done).

If we could make this, we could then force the provider from the diagnostic menu and map an area by going on a predefined route.

In our brief experiments with a jailbroken Kindle running usbnet, we couldn't send/receive anything from the shell over ppp0, only over usb0. Can this even be done? I realize what we're asking for is borderline a violation of ToC but the amount of data transmitted would be a couple of hundred bytes/minute and the information would be invaluable..
Hi, please read my blog post about the kindles 3g. Youll need to get connect through amazons proxy.

http://xkid.biz/wordpress/?p=25
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