Signal Collector 0.9.1

WHERE THE SIGNAL CAME FROM

- The pulsing background circle gave way to a globe of the sky. Satellites sit on it at their real azimuth and elevation, coloured by constellation; size and brightness carry C/N0, a filled dot counts towards the fix, an outlined one is merely visible.
- Android reports the direction of arrival for GNSS only. Wi-Fi gives strength, not azimuth; Bluetooth gives none either, and cells report only their identity. Samples without direction therefore light the entire ring rather than a sector — a sector would claim the Wi-Fi came from there, and that we do not know.
- The ring ripples and the ripples rotate, so not even the tallest of them points at any compass direction.
- Verified on a Pixel 10a: 20 satellites from four constellations, 14 of them in the fix.

THE GLOBE TILTS WITH THE PHONE

- Not just turns. Face up it looks into the zenith, held upright it looks at the horizon — and what was near the horizon moves behind the phone.
- The straight crosshair gave way to meridians through the zenith. The crosshair held its direction only with the phone lying flat; the moment it tilted, the cross lay across the globe as if glued on.
- The horizon and the elevation circles became ellipses. The far side stays faintly visible — it is the only thing that shows which way to turn the phone.

THE COLLAPSED INSTRUMENT HAS A COMPASS

- The sky fills the whole screen, so the card starts collapsed and leaves of the globe only a flat compass with a needle to north and a line in words: "The top of the phone points south-west · 231°".
- The collapsed compass is calm. Flashes and ripples do not belong there — it is a view shown in passing among the other cards. The pulsing starts with the sky, which somebody opened on purpose.
- The compass points are markedly larger and north carries a colour. Four equally grey letters have to be read before orientation comes out of them; a single glowing one is found by the eye.

WHAT WAS LOST

- The background wave is gone. It was the one thing visible from the far side of a room on a phone left on a desk; the ring does the same, but it is a card, not the whole screen. A deliberate trade, not an oversight.

SMALL THINGS

- The spinner of a running internet test was invisible in dark mode. The test disables the button and the background greys out — and the spinner colour was hard-coded dark green. It now comes from the button.

EXPORT FORMAT

- Unchanged. The format stays SIGNAL_COLLECTOR_TXT_V4 and the database schema 5. Satellite azimuth and elevation have gone into the export since the first version; this one merely shows them on screen for the first time.