u/lexiconart

Hello!

I've used Tasker for 9-10 years now, but still consider myself a new user (I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S25).

I have several old profiles set up with Cell Near as a trigger, and have never had an issue with them until Tuesday evening when my leaving Work and Arriving Home routines failed to trigger.

While troubleshooting, I realized that my carrier finally activated 5G Stand Alone (maybe part of the 2G/3G shutdown?). As a result, Tasker is unable to use Cell Near to scan these new cell IDs, the page remains blank even after scanning for 10+ minutes.

Does anyone know how to force Cell Near to read these new 5G SA towers?

Alternatively, is there an app that can feed this data to Tasker?

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EDIT1: Okay, looking at a map of cell towers in my country, I can see that for LTE towers, the format used for Cell Near is:

LTE:[PLMNcodeforcarrierLTE].[cellID]

I can see the cell IDs for the 5G SA towers (it's 4 digits longer than the LTE cell IDs), but I don't actually know which ones I'm connecting to, so I don't know if something like this would work:

5GNR:[PLMNcodeforcarrier5GNR].[cellID]

I don't even know if '5GNR' is the correct identifier for 5G SA cell IDs, does anyone have any insight?

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EDIT2: To troubleshoot, I made a profile triggered by Cell Near to write the current cell ID to a .txt file. When forcing LTE connection it works, and when returning to 5G SA, all it records is '%CELLID':

Profile: Test Logs

State: Cell Near [ Cell Tower / Last Signal:{INSERT
ALL
CELL
IDS Ignore Cells:* ]



Enter Task: Log Cell ID

A1: Wait [
     MS: 0
     Seconds: 1
     Minutes: 0
     Hours: 0
     Days: 0 ]

A2: Write File [
     File: Download/cell_logtest.txt
     Text: %DATE %TIME - %CELLID
     Append: On
     Add Newline: On ]

My test profile is triggering even though there is no arrow beside the cell ID it's picking up, and the only thing written in the cell_logtest.txt file is %CELLID