Back In Service
Ian MacIsaac Tools
Alarms the moment your phone gets signal back. Stop watching the bars.
- Downloads
- 6+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Aug 15
- 2026 · v1.0.0
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About Back In Service
Back In Service watches your connection and wakes you the moment it returns.
Waiting out a dead zone, a tunnel, a basement, or an outage? Stop pulling your phone out every thirty seconds to check the bars. Arm the watch, set it down, and go do something else. The moment your device is genuinely back online, Back In Service sounds off.
REAL SERVICE, NOT JUST BARS
A tower with no usable data isn't service. Back In Service confirms the connection actually carries data before it alerts you, so a signal that can't load anything won't wake you.
CHOOSE WHAT COUNTS
Alert on any connection, or only on cellular, or only on Wi-Fi. Waiting specifically to get off hotel Wi-Fi and back onto your carrier? Set it to cellular and ignore everything else.
PICK YOUR ALERT
A gentle ping or a full alarm. Six built-in tones, or use one of your device's own ringtones. Alerts can be set to break through Do Not Disturb, so an overnight outage doesn't go unnoticed.
BUILT FOR ANDROID
The watch runs as a proper foreground service driven by Android's own connectivity events — not a polling loop. It notices the moment service returns, and it doesn't sit there burning battery waiting for it.
KEEP WATCHING
Leave the watch armed after it fires to track a flaky connection that keeps dropping, or let it disarm itself after a single alert.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No sign-up. No analytics. No data leaves your device, and there is nothing to collect. Your settings are stored on your phone and nowhere else.
Waiting out a dead zone, a tunnel, a basement, or an outage? Stop pulling your phone out every thirty seconds to check the bars. Arm the watch, set it down, and go do something else. The moment your device is genuinely back online, Back In Service sounds off.
REAL SERVICE, NOT JUST BARS
A tower with no usable data isn't service. Back In Service confirms the connection actually carries data before it alerts you, so a signal that can't load anything won't wake you.
CHOOSE WHAT COUNTS
Alert on any connection, or only on cellular, or only on Wi-Fi. Waiting specifically to get off hotel Wi-Fi and back onto your carrier? Set it to cellular and ignore everything else.
PICK YOUR ALERT
A gentle ping or a full alarm. Six built-in tones, or use one of your device's own ringtones. Alerts can be set to break through Do Not Disturb, so an overnight outage doesn't go unnoticed.
BUILT FOR ANDROID
The watch runs as a proper foreground service driven by Android's own connectivity events — not a polling loop. It notices the moment service returns, and it doesn't sit there burning battery waiting for it.
KEEP WATCHING
Leave the watch armed after it fires to track a flaky connection that keeps dropping, or let it disarm itself after a single alert.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No sign-up. No analytics. No data leaves your device, and there is nothing to collect. Your settings are stored on your phone and nowhere else.
What’s new
Version 1.0.0 · Updated August 15, 2026
Release of v1.0.0
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