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Cell Near cannot scan for 5G SA towers

I have several old profiles set up with Cell Near as a trigger, and have never had an issue with them until recently, when my evening profiles failed to trigger (the morning ones involving Cell Near triggered perfectly, and that was the last day any Cell Near profiles worked).

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?

Here's what I tried so far:

  1. Looking at a map of cell towers in my country, I can see that for LTE towers the formar used for Cell near is: 
    LTE:[MCC].[MNC].[cellID]

    The map actually shows cell IDs for the 5G SA towers (it's 4 digits longer than the LTE cell IDs), but I'm not sure what the format for these towers are. I tried the following format:

    5GNR:[MCC].[MNC].[cellID]​
  2. To further troubleshoot, I made a profile triggered by Cell Near to write the current cell ID to a .txt file: 
    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 ]
    1. When forcing LTE connection, it works to record new cell IDs
    2. When going back to 5G, Cell Near goes green (but no arrow points to any of the LTE or 5GNR towers, and all values are 0). Also, the action doesn't record any cell IDs. When I force the Action to play, all it records is '%CELLID' instead of an actual value
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