Where do you (HN) guys draw the line between good app & bad app?<p>There seems to be a lot of "tin foil hat" responses here regarding permissions and personal information. I'm an Android developer with a top selling app that uses a TON of permissions (it features a bunch of system utility switches & stats).<p>There's nothing I see about OpenSignal being a malicious app, but a lot of responses seem to presume otherwise despite OpenSignal team members being present and responsive here.<p>What justifies the hard, negative position?<p>I'm really very curious. What's the deal, please?
@RyanZAG That's the idea :)
but a few things to note:
1. All data is anonymized
2. You can turn data-sharing off in the settings (as pointed out when you start the app)
3. Providing data to the networks is not only a funding source for our efforts to build coverage maps online (which will always be free and independent at opensignal.com) but it allows the networks to improve their service - showing them where their service is weak, or where they should focus their marketing.
I would love to install and try this, but it wants access to my SMS messages and all my contacts. Why would a WiFi analyzer possibly need those two permissions? I've all but given up on rejecting apps that request my phone id since they all seem to do it now. But this seems excessive.
Two things:<p>1) I'm unclear what I'm supposed to enter on the plan details screen's "billing date".<p>My last bill covered 2012-12-10 through 2013-01-09. Do I enter 9 or 10 there? Experimenting, it looks like you want the first day in the next bill, so 10.<p>2) The time on network graph is showing a lot of time on 3g, but that's because the phone is on WiFi so it dropped the HSDPA+ connection, probably to save power. Would be nice if you could exclude when on WiFi from that chart.
I enjoyed OpenSignal 1 on Android, but I also found that it was running in the background (and using up the very limited RAM on my Nexus S) even when I had not opened the app. So I uninstalled it. Are you able to explain why it was doing this, or was I somehow mistaken? Thank you!
Working in a large downtown building, it would be great to have 3D view of what walls to be by to make a call. My brain sort of has a map like this, just from the punishment of a hanging browser session or dropped call.
OpenSignal 1.0 crashed evrytime I opened it on my Nexus 4. I hope you guys have fixed all those issues and I also hope the refresh is now automatic in-app and not manual.
I love the idea behind this. I seem to recall that the previous version wasn't terribly stable on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm eager to give the new version a try.