Talk:API

LCID/CID

Warning when scanning 3G networks there's a clear distinction between CID and LCID. The LCID (long CID) is a concatenation of the RNC-ID (2 bytes, ID of the radio network controller) and CellID (4 bytes, unique ID of the Cell). CID is just the Cell ID. The concatenation of both will still be unique but can be confusing as some get the CID and not LCID. It would make sense to record them separately as the RNC ID is the same for many cells, the unique element is the CID.

If you install G-Mon for example, you will see that they provide both ID: the LCID and CID.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7240038/utran-cell-identity-returned-by-getcid

--Zorglub (talk) 17:24, 22 January 2014 (CET)