Best Android for WigleWifi

[husnain11221]

I have a Motorola Droid 2 that I was using just for Wigle (no cell service), but lately it won't get a GPS lock. Are there any recommendations for low cost Android phones that could be picked up on eBay that work great with Wigle. I'm looking for something that doesn't take a year to get GPS lock and has serious battery life. Also if you had one of the CDMA/GSM world phones would that detect both towers?

For a low-cost Android phone with good GPS performance, I'd recommend looking at older models like the Moto G series or Samsung Galaxy S5. They usually have reliable GPS and decent battery life, and you can find them for a good price on eBay. As for the CDMA/GSM world phones, yes, they should be able to detect both types of towers, which could enhance your Wigle experience. Just make sure GPS performance is solid on the model you choose!

[cacheado]

According to this user the Samsung Galaxy S7 is the best bang for the buck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ibg0tg ... x=9&t=163s

That was talready wo years ago and next year this model will celebrate it's 10th anniversary. But the specs are pretty awesome for a phone launched in 2016. It will do trick and you'll only lack Wi-Fi 6 support. Ebay has still a lot to offer, mainly from sellers in the USA or China.
I can vouch also for the oneplus 6/6T from 2018 running Android 11. The only downside to it is that you won't have an external SD card slot.

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[d2k2]

the S7 is nice (i run 2 on lineageos) but against a S10 its lame. and the S10 you can get for cheap with a broken but working screen.

But naming a "best bang for buck" is hard, it all depends on how cheap you are willing to go with the defects

[z96Cobra]

Go to Walmart and buy a prepaid device (Straight talk/at&t/etc.) for under $50. I bought a Moto G 5g for $40. No need to buy a plan or pay for activation. Battery life is crazy long when you only have 1 or 2 apps installed (besides the oem bloat that I uninstall or disable).

[username34234]

To revisit this for 2025 - are there any further recommendations?

I too was intending on using my LineageOS device, but I would be interested in what others would have as a consensus

I was planning to go with a Pixel, but after reading how Google is making ASOP private/more difficult for devs, that is a real turn off for me.

[Wolfess]

To revisit this for 2025 - are there any further recommendations?

I too was intending on using my LineageOS device, but I would be interested in what others would have as a consensus

I was planning to go with a Pixel, but after reading how Google is making ASOP private/more difficult for devs, that is a real turn off for me.

KOOLMAAX GEMINI.

These tent people outside walmart were giving them away, they used a fake foodstamp card to sign me up. I wasn't expecting much out of it being such a cheap phone but it's surprisingly a hidden gem for wardriving. It picks up all three main wifi bands 2.4/5/5.8 and insanely sensitively too and fast refresh rate, also it has multi GNSS, GPS and Galileo and GLONASS and has like a 5 to 6 feet accuracy so my trilaterating is good and it leaves a really dense trail or discovered networks everywhere I go, more so than any other mobile device I tried. Last time I picked up that well was when using the laptop with the ALFA dongle and high gain antenna.

Of course another thing is to turn off the bluetooth scanning option, I notice on all the phones I use it tends to get less wifi networks logged that way.