hello brain!!!
i just got my new mda vario 2... i am sure i read it somewhere that it comes with integrated FM radio...but i cant seem to find anything on the pda... take the following link for example
http://www.e2save.com/mobile/phones/disphandset.php?network=tmobile&handset=MDAVARIO2
they say it has got fm radio BUT the T mobile site says the opposite...
so finally...is there a FM on this lil buddy or not??
Thanks!!
aSh
Afraid not mate
S.K.
They've got it wrong, as S.K says no FM radio. You can have radio on your phone though... if you're on T-Mobile you will probably have HSDPA, though it will work over normal GPRS speeds, at least UTMS speeds is recommended. Using RealPlayerOne for PPC (there are other apps as well) you can then stream most radio stations. I regularly listen to Radio 4 and FiveLive and my girlfriend listens to Radio Skonto in Latvia.
thanks guys
Some guys with a wizard thought the same - makes funny reading
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=266234
Good idea, do you have a list of radio station addresses?
Wam7 said:
They've got it wrong, as S.K says no FM radio. You can have radio on your phone though... if you're on T-Mobile you will probably have HSDPA, though it will work over normal GPRS speeds, at least UTMS speeds is recommended. Using RealPlayerOne for PPC (there are other apps as well) you can then stream most radio stations. I regularly listen to Radio 4 and FiveLive and my girlfriend listens to Radio Skonto in Latvia.
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Hi all
Perhaps we can share info re the above. Currently I am running the AKU3.3 test rom and radio 1.27.
It is by far the best combination I have used so far for Tmobile Uk. The battery life is far better than the original HTC rom and the signal aquisition seems much stronger. My only concern is that there seems to be a reluctance to switch from GPRS to either UMTS or HSDPA when on the move, my previous 1.18 rom although apparently less good at pulling in the signal would certainly be showing U or H more quickly when in an area of coverage. Has anyone tried the later 1.33 or 1.34 roms and found them any better?
Otherwise, this for me has my Tytn working superbly and doing everything I want. Heck, even TT6 works without freezing!
Rob
Ps This forum seems to be getting very slow, could it be all the downloading thats going on before the big switch off?
I need the best VERIZON radio to go along with dvd 3.2.3. Any offical verizon radio's?
I have 3.42.02 and i drop calls and have low signal, where i would have full coverage with my old Lg Voyager. I have tired 3.42.30 too.
The GPS isnt a big deal to me, JUST SERVICE TO PLACE CALLS
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dcd 3.2.3 rom---sorry dcd
I am in a different boat than you. 3.39.10 dropped many calls for me and now rock solid with 3.42.30. Try 3.39.10 found in the Wiki section.
I am currently using the 3.42.02 radio with DCD 3.2.3 ROM. If I upgrade to the 3.42.30 radio, will I have to call Verizon to get a new A-Key? I did have to call Verizon when I upgraded from the default radio to the 3.42.02 one.
jeffgman said:
I am currently using the 3.42.02 radio with DCD 3.2.3 ROM. If I upgrade to the 3.42.30 radio, will I have to call Verizon to get a new A-Key? I did have to call Verizon when I upgraded from the default radio to the 3.42.02 one.
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I had dcd 3.2.0 and upgraded my radio to 3.42.30 and didnt have to call verizon. I tried all different radio's going up and down and never had to call verizon.
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I had dcd 3.2.0 and upgraded my radio to 3.42.30 and didnt have to call verizon. I tried all different radio's going up and down and never had to call verizon.
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You didn't even have to call Verizon when you upgrade the radio from the stock one? Wow, I had to call them to re-authenticate my phone.
Did you notice a difference between 3.42.02 and 3.42.30?
jeffgman said:
You didn't even have to call Verizon when you upgrade the radio from the stock one? Wow, I had to call them to re-authenticate my phone.
Did you notice a difference between 3.42.02 and 3.42.30?
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I bought my phone off ebay and the stock rom and radio was already removed... I tired 3.42.30 and i hated it. Dropped calls constantly...Other people have had nothing but outstanding performance from it. So its a trial by error thing I guess
Coming from DCD 3.0.4 and older radio, went to DCD 3.2.2 and radio 3.42.30. Reception doesn't seem to be much different than before but my battery life has increased dramatically. I don't have any factual comparisons but by estimation it's 50% better. I live and work in areas where EVDO is marginal so my phone is constantly switching between 1X and EVDO, maybe the new radio does in fact work better and my phone isn't constantly switching between them eating up the battery.
jeffgman said:
You didn't even have to call Verizon when you upgrade the radio from the stock one? Wow, I had to call them to re-authenticate my phone.
Did you notice a difference between 3.42.02 and 3.42.30?
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Hi jeffgman,
You should only have to call Verizon for a new A-key when going from a non-GPS radio (Ex 1.x and 2.x) to a GPS radio (3.x). Once on a GPS radio you are able to flash any other GPS radio without needing to call Verizon.
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Hi jeffgman,
You should only have to call Verizon for a new A-key when going from a non-GPS radio (Ex 1.x and 2.x) to a GPS radio (3.x). Once on a GPS radio you are able to flash any other GPS radio without needing to call Verizon.
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Great. Thanks for the information. I might try the 3.24.30 radio today and see how the quality and battery life is.
Jeff
I use verizon with the 3.42.30 radio and I like it....except the screeching sound when call waiting is used... but everything else is great
I am on rom 3.22 and had radio 3.42.30. This is a nice radio and found the signal to be great. I did downgrade since I do business travel for tech support and need gps and found that radio 3.39 worked better for my testing results. I would switch them on the fly to location testing...
I am using BAFs tools for gps connection so I have not tested this with 3.42.30 radio but I am not willing to lose my good standing right now to test...again I do think 3.42.30 is good and GC recommends this radio as well...
i was thinking..
why did michy went back to radio 1.57?
and what radio version are you using? and why?
i'm using radio 1.57 too. (michy r4.1 spl1.2)
hope to hear your reasons.
ciao!
My experience:
1.57 had the best bluetooth sound quality (I'm using a Jabra BT8010 which many have had issues with, this fixed the crackling issues I had with 1.47 and 1.50 both on my side and what others heard from me).
1.58 boosts data speeds over the cell network greatly by enabling one of the "H" protocols on top of 3G. It also boosts sensitivity levels - I get H connections at my desk where I only got Edge before. However, I found a little bit of crackling came back on my 8010. Only on my end though, not what others can hear from me). Due to the huge speed increase I stayed with this one.
How dangerous is a radio flash on Athena? Worth the risk?
I am a graduate from the school of Hermes.
With Hermes, OS flashes were almost completely stress-free as long as you had Hard-SPL on your machine. It seemed that with Hard-SPL one could recover from almost any bad OS flash.
Radio flashes one the other hand, were not as stress-free. Even with Hard-SPL, a bad radio flash could possibly brick a Hermes.
Up to now, I have assumed the same was true of Athena, but I thought this might be a good place to get confirmation / denial.
Also, if anyone knows, I am using radio 1.50. Are the bluetooth and/or reception benefits worth the risk (in your opinion of course) of a radio flash to 1.57?
jetherson said:
i was thinking..
why did michy went back to radio 1.57?
and what radio version are you using? and why?
i'm using radio 1.57 too. (michy r4.1 spl1.2)
hope to hear your reasons.
ciao!
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I packed the Radio 1.58 RUU posted here and was happy to use it, feeling the speed and reception was improved ,which was important given that my provider had only recently enabled 3g in my area .
But I lost the ability to do video calls( not that important to me) and there is better reception now the network is bedded in .
So I have now gone back to 1.57 and find it totally acceptable.
One thing that may be a plus is I thought battery drain was less with 1.58 using the data network
lakeman: maybe that's michy's reason too?
also lakeman, here in the philippines, most users don't really use video calling (too expensive). and i would like a more battery-friendly radio. and since 1.57 is still very much acceptable, i don't think i will upgrade to 1.58 soon. also, especially larsuck's post scared me on upgrading my radio lol.
i do hope michy can tell us some more concerning this. even just the reason why he chose 1.57.
michy?
I've been using Radio 1.58 since a few weeks ago when I went to AP4, but have noticed major issues with my GPS acquiring signal and am wondering if that is a problem with the radio I upgraded to.
Can someone help me determine if that's the problem?
dennistaylor said:
I've been using Radio 1.58 since a few weeks ago when I went to AP4, but have noticed major issues with my GPS acquiring signal and am wondering if that is a problem with the radio I upgraded to.
Can someone help me determine if that's the problem?
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I am on Micy's 5.1 with Radio 1.58. TT6 locks in about 30 seconds no problems. I get better battery life with 1.58 vs 1.57. I may be my location (US - AL) and I am on ATT. In most 3G areas I get the constant H and more bars in "out-lying" areas than I had on 1.57.
dennistaylor said:
I've been using Radio 1.58 since a few weeks ago when I went to AP4, but have noticed major issues with my GPS acquiring signal and am wondering if that is a problem with the radio I upgraded to.
Can someone help me determine if that's the problem?
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I doubt its your radio, I'm on AP4 w/radio 1.58. There's a thread on one of these sub-forums with proper GPS settings, find that for several settings you can try.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a radio rom update that would allow the HTC Touch Pro from 3 Mobile Aus to roam on to the Telstra Next G network. They advertise that some newer phones can. Any info in the area would be helpful. Also if you are with 3 Mobile in Aus what rom radio do you use?
Hi there,
This topic has been covered in great detail in other threads in this forum - most of them late last year when the device hit the shelves and the short answer is no it cant be done as the hardware has been found to lack the 850mhz radio.
In a few months it probably wont matter as Vodafone will switch on their new3G 900mhz network extension and i can bet you that 3 users will get access to it. It wont make sense for VHA to operate a national 3G network and only give half of its subscibers access to it whilst the other half roam on its competitors network. Just my opinion and what I would think would make good commercial sense and im sure these guys will be looking to get a return on their investment so I would wait and see what happens. Our touch pro works fine on 3G 900 as I have used it in Optus' 3G 900 zone.
I forgot to mention that the best radio for use on the 3 network is 1.11.25.01. Since flashing this radio I can talk through what used to be dead spots in their network.
Mrjasjam said:
I forgot to mention that the best radio for use on the 3 network is 1.11.25.01. Since flashing this radio I can talk through what used to be dead spots in their network.
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hey thanks you arent wrong about that radio version, i was using an earlier version but upgraded after seeing this post.
Reception is great and it seems to be good on the battery too!
it seems the nexus 10 has a broadcom BCM43241 chip which supports FM radio, i read on other forums that there might be issues as the chip might not be grounded with the headphones ground so some antenna connectivity issue, i tried spirit fm but doesn't seem to work, is there any development going on to enable the FM some how? can any1 confirm if it will ever be possible to make use of the FM in that chip using some custom kernel or software?
khal_nayak said:
it seems the nexus 10 has a broadcom BCM43241 chip which supports FM radio, i read on other forums that there might be issues as the chip might not be grounded with the headphones ground so some antenna connectivity issue, i tried spirit fm but doesn't seem to work, is there any development going on to enable the FM some how? can any1 confirm if it will ever be possible to make use of the FM in that chip using some custom kernel or software?
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This is * definitely * not the answer you're looking for - but have you checked out the TuneIn Radio app? I KNOW it will only work when on wifi, not giving you the actual FM experience. But I've found that pretty much any terrestrial radio station I listen that has a simultaneous web broadcast, TuneIn Radio also carries it.
I'm sure I'm not telling you anything new, but you know..."just in case". :laugh:
DTB
DonToolBag said:
This is * definitely * not the answer you're looking for - but have you checked out the TuneIn Radio app? I KNOW it will only work when on wifi, not giving you the actual FM experience. But I've found that pretty much any terrestrial radio station I listen that has a simultaneous web broadcast, TuneIn Radio also carries it.
I'm sure I'm not telling you anything new, but you know..."just in case". :laugh:
DTB
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yes im aware of online radio stations but just trying to dig in whats the situation with nexus 10 as it has the supporting chip, no idea if its antenna is connected and also no idea if the drivers r available in the OS, i also emailed spirit fm developer today so lets hope he can help out coz it would be great to use FM directly rather than wifi which might not be available everywhere and also the device doesnt have 3g.
google if ur reading this, atleast make some external 3g dongle or put in support for same and also if there is a FM chip, then make use of it
i got the reply from mike reid
" No, no FM antenna pin connection. "
so i guess make this a sticky or so that officially nexus 10 will never support FM, in spite of it having the chip
khal_nayak said:
i got the reply from mike reid
" No, no FM antenna pin connection. "
so i guess make this a sticky or so that officially nexus 10 will never support FM, in spite of it having the chip
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Who is Mike Reid?
Also, people said before that the Nexus 4, although having a 4G chip (or LTE?), was not able to use it due to lack of connection to the chip (or lack of connection to an antenna). And now the Nexus 4 has 4G (or LTE) by some software mod.
espionage724 said:
Who is Mike Reid?
Also, people said before that the Nexus 4, although having a 4G chip (or LTE?), was not able to use it due to lack of connection to the chip (or lack of connection to an antenna). And now the Nexus 4 has 4G (or LTE) by some software mod.
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he is the developer for spirit FM app, LTE is different coz the antenna for 3g is connected to same chip that has 3g as well as LTE so a mod could simply do that but FM is different, they might have simply never bothered with it but if some1 thinks he can solve this, well and good.
i wonder what they use the barometer chip for also and if it even works
some1 needs to be up the hardware and verify the antenna connectivity, all it would take is a connection from the chip to the headphone jack.
"chip has a specific FM 88-108 MHz antenna pin"