Today's update to CyanogenMod said it introduced FM Radio support. I have downloaded Spirit FM Free and I can not get it to work. Nothing plays, and it says the signal is 0. Yes, I have headphones with a long wire plugged in for the antenna.
Is this impossible with the SCH-i605? Do I need to change settings? I have brushed the surface with a few of the more obvious settings, but none have worked thus far.
Thank you.
Keavon said:
Today's update to CyanogenMod said it introduced FM Radio support. I have downloaded Spirit FM Free and I can not get it to work. Nothing plays, and it says the signal is 0. Yes, I have headphones with a long wire plugged in for the antenna.
Is this impossible with the SCH-i605? Do I need to change settings? I have brushed the surface with a few of the more obvious settings, but none have worked thus far.
Thank you.
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Hey Keavon,
I bumped up mine from cyanogen 10.1 snapshot and was disappointed that it did not hav an FM radio app. So got the spiritFM, works like charm... but not so happy with it. Can anyone tell if Cyanogen will ever pack a FM player along?
rgds
kris...
The verizon note 2 does not have a fm receiver. So no fm radoi will ever happen. I use iheart radio.
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I remember seeing an FM radio app pre installed on a rom a few months ago, possibly freex10 or one of trips miui roms.
It was a good program but I can't find it now, does anyone have it?
It uses the ear phones for the antenna to pickup fm radio stations. Hopefully someone can help. Thanks
brent0r said:
I remember seeing an FM radio app pre installed on a rom a few months ago, possibly freex10 or one of trips miui roms.
It was a good program but I can't find it now, does anyone have it?
It uses the ear phones for the antenna to pickup fm radio stations. Hopefully someone can help. Thanks
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The x10 doesnt have a built in radio, the only radio that works is the streaming ones, so apps like tunein radio
ive used it before though?
too bad we need internet to run the radio,
Can it use bluetooth to run FM like the program in cm7 rom of htc and other phone???
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ive used it before though?
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Any radio app you used was streaming from online. Try TuneIn Radio, its got a ton of stations from all over but it is missing a few of my local favorites.
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The CM FM Radio app seems to just enable Bluetooth and I get nothing coming out. Yes I did plug in earbuds.
I seem to have the same issue with Spirit Free. Does FM radio just completely fail on CM7 or is there a way to get it to work?
bump anyone?
FM Radio doesn't work on CM 7 or 9 for SGS2. Not likely to for a while either
Known issue, and is very low on the CM team's list of priorities as per Codeworkx' post in the CM9 discussion thread in the past few days. Won't happen.
I used an ALSA control method for Galaxy S to enable FM audio before CM supported FM on the S.
But I guess I didn't get it quite right, as it's resulted in some busted speakers.
So I'm not in any particular hurry to repeat this on the S2, not until the S issues are better resolved. Especially given that I don't have an S2, can't afford one, Samsung won't send me one, and their Remote Testing Lab sucks.
I DID provide some commands to try and FM audio enable the S2 at one point, but nobody had any success with them, and I had no further ideas.
Doesn't the MIUI ROM for the S2 support FM now ? Their code remains pretty closed though, so little chance of seeing how they do it.
Yes. 10 ch
mikereidis said:
Doesn't the MIUI ROM for the S2 support FM now ? Their code remains pretty closed though, so little chance of seeing how they do it.
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is it possible to build an app that allows streaming audio over FM?
No need to build one. Just get a license from the FCC and a high powered fm transmitter and hook your mp3 player up to it. Done deal
Seriously though, I don't see how.
doesn't need THAT much power
just trying to transmit to a car stereo without the need for cable... like for stereos that don't have an aux input... i figured mt4g has the capability to receive fm frequency and has an radio app with tuner, that maybe it can also transmit... so, it doesn't really need to be high powered... were you thinkin i was tryin to broadcast for an entire city or something?! uh, no. thanks for your input anyway.
I remember a buddy having a phone that could do that a few years back. You'd set the radio to a certain station, then bam music would play through that station. I'm just not sure if that's hardware or software related. An app like that would be cool though.
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seriously? ever hear of a bluetooth fm transmitter? they sell them everywhere for under $20.00. Pair your device set a radio channel (there are usually several to choose from) done and done
I'm confused. Maybe the OP should be more specific in what he/she is trying to accomplish. What I thought you meant is obviously not how the other posters understood you.
estallings15 said:
I'm confused. Maybe the OP should be more specific in what he/she is trying to accomplish. What I thought you meant is obviously not how the other posters understood you.
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He is wondering if he would be able to broadcast a short range FM signal so he stream the audio from the phone which could be picked up by the car radio. I have no idea whether or not the myTouch is capable but that sure as hell would be a sick thing to have.
Ah. Short range. He didn't say that. That's why I said no. I assumed he meant long range. There is already a built in FM radio so where is the question?
Hence my original post.
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Ah. Short range. He didn't say that. That's why I said no. I assumed he meant long range. There is already a built in FM radio so where is the question?
Hence my original post.
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The question is whether that chip is able to broadcast signal.. And if so whether or not someone would be able to program something that would allow us to do that
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Kingissa said:
The question is whether that chip is able to broadcast signal.. And if so whether or not someone would be able to program something that would allow us to do that
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I'll back this one!
I want to know if its possible to via FM for other reasons other than that mentioned already. What media can be streamed is my question and what volume (not meaning sound) of data transfer can this handle? e.g. would it be possible to stream video to a device say 200m away? I know it would have to be very low wave so the base band would have to be in the lowest frequency range possible.
AND if not, then is it possible with say a paired device. Say a FM transmitter blue toothed to the device to stream content recorded from say the camera to a small TV within range (200m or so)? It would not need to be high def or anything just to be able to recorded-> stream-> view
I bought a FM transmitter from Walgreens for like $20 and it let's me play my music on my phone through my radio and acts like a hands free device when someone calls.
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Back before android was even around I used the N Series from nokia. The n73 I believe could do broadcast it just like you are describing.
Would be cool to have an app do it.
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FM Transmit:
I get asked this question regularly, and my response is generally: "Forget about it, almost no Android phones connect the FM Transmit pins anywhere useful".
But a few months ago a helpful person sent me an HTC FM transmit app. Apparently it was meant for the T-Mobile/HTC Mytouch 4G, and apparently that device is supposed to have the transmit pins connected.
I have no idea (yet) if that is true. Didn't work on my Desire HD or Desire Z though.
I'm sure this will only work on ROMs that use the Broadcom proprietary Bluetooth stack and that have sufficient parts of Sense present. IE, a stock or stock derived ROM. It probably requires Froyo or GingerBread. (That said, if the hardware is there, it's possible to make it work on any ROM, more or less.)
If anyone has or can load such a ROM and wants to try, and will commit to reporting their results, email me at mikereidis AT gmail.com and I'll send the APK.
Thanks...
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FM Transmit:
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But a few months ago a helpful person sent me an HTC FM transmit app. Apparently it was meant for the T-Mobile/HTC Mytouch 4G, and apparently that device is supposed to have the transmit pins connected.
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I had one tester who reported success.
Details and a link to the app are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31328070&postcount=4391
mikereidis said:
I had one tester who reported success.
Details and a link to the app are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31328070&postcount=4391
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FC on Jelly bean....
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FC on Jelly bean....
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No way in heck that app will EVER work on anything but ROMs with the Broadcom proprietary Bluetooth stack. Probably needs Sense too, and other HTC specifics.
I welcome all reports, but reports are almost useless unless you can specify the ROM at least, and if you know about Sense or Broadcom BT on that ROM.
I FINALLY got my myTouch 4g today. Transmit app doesn't work with GB 2.3.4 Software 2.19.531.1 it was shipped with.
EDIT: Confirmed working with stock Froyo 2.2.1.
Not very powerful, and you can hear hiss with antennas right next to each other. RSSI on another phone is 27, while the strongest broadcast station is 57. EDIT: Can get RSSI over 40 by wrapping antennas over their length.
Low performance might be one reason it was canned. I see this in logcat:
09-28 03:24:53.753 D/FMRadio_TxTuner( 1678): [setBCMTxPowerLevel]+0
I don't know if "+0" is the highest power, or just a "nominal" power level. I'll find out eventually.
Need to crank music all the way up on the transmitting phone.
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MyTouch 4G is a pretty rare phone with FM transmit. The only other confirmed Android devices with transmit are a few Japan market Sharp units.
On sense there was an FM radio but now that I'm on cm10 I have no radio. Anybody know a good radio app that works with headphones? Thanks
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kevin130 said:
On sense there was an FM radio but now that I'm on cm10 I have no radio. Anybody know a good radio app that works with headphones? Thanks
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There's a bunch of Internet "radio" apps but TuneIn and Pandora seem to be the most popular and both work with headphones. I'm not sure why any radio/music app wouldn't work with headphones though.
ramjet73
Because your headphones have like an antenna so you can use an analog FM radio. My dads blackberry requires headphones to be plugged in because it uses them as an antenna.
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kevin130 said:
Because your headphones have like an antenna so you can use an analog FM radio. My dads blackberry requires headphones to be plugged in because it uses them as an antenna.
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Yes, that's normally true for the built-in FM radio on the Evo 3D, although some ROM's have a mod to let it be used without headphones. If you are looking for an app that's AOSP compatible to use the FM radio in the phone, I've never heard of one. Any substitute that streams over the Internet should work with the internal speaker or headphones.
Edit2: I forgot about Spirit FM Radio. If you read the reviews some people seem to have it working on AOSP ROM's, but I couldn't find any reviews for the Evo 3D and there's no free or trial version. According to this post the Evo 3D should work, but turning on FM on the Evo 3D requires activating bluetooth since both radios are on the same chipset, so it won't work in airplane mode and might not work if the ROM has any bluetooth issues.
Edit2: There does appear to be a free (mono only) version of Spirit FM in this XDA post. I tried it on lens_flare's MIUI ROM (based on Agrabren's CM10 Devil Toast ROM) and it just closes when I try to turn it on.
ramjet73
i have actually tries the spirit app, and its more of a hit and miss depending on rom, sometimes it works but a majority it sadly does not, used it on kanged ports of CM9 before the ics update rolled out
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i have actually tries the spirit app, and its more of a hit and miss depending on rom, sometimes it works but a majority it sadly does not, used it on kanged ports of CM9 before the ics update rolled out
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Yea, that's what I thought. It may be partly due to the bluetooth dependency on our phone.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
Yea, that's what I thought. It may be partly due to the bluetooth dependency on our phone.
ramjet73
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im actually surprised no one has taken the radio apk and dex files and modified them to suit different roms.... or atleast that i know of
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im actually surprised no one has taken the radio apk and dex files and modified them to suit different roms.... or atleast that i know of
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Probably for the same reason that hasn't been done for the 3D camera. I believe those programs are heavily dependent on Sense API's that are not published by HTC.
ramjet73
Hi, just saw the review at gsmarena, it mentions a radio with RDS. So, does our phone have fm radio too? I would be surprised if it doesn't have one!
ps. Have seen similar threads mentioning that it doesn't have one. But, are you sure now?Is it maybe a matter of programming?
There is an "internet radio" app on the phone, but you can't open it.... Probably not the same anyway. Internet is not FM. How about the teardown, did it show the guts for FM? Hardwear should be in place first.
If the DNA had FM radio, it would have come with an FM Radio app...Probably doesn't have it and would be very surprised it the app was released for it in the future. Usually doesn't work like that.
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If the DNA had FM radio, it would have come with an FM Radio app...Probably doesn't have it and would be very surprised it the app was released for it in the future. Usually doesn't work like that.
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This is not true i had previously a at&t one x and it did have fm radio but no app for this! So i am wondering if the same happens here and we just need a custom rom+app to use fm radio, as butterfly has(at least this is what i read).
If someoene takes the app from butterfly, we might test it in DNA too!
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This is not true i had previously a at&t one x and it did have fm radio but no app for this! So i am wondering if the same happens here and we just need a custom rom+app to use fm radio, as butterfly has(at least this is what i read).
If someoene takes the app from butterfly, we might test it in DNA too!
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The butterfly has fm radio.
I tried virtuosdna Rom which is based on butterfly firmware on my DNA and it had fm radio app but I couldnot tune into any radio station with it. There was only a hiss sound all the time.Since butterfly n DNA r having same hardware I believe there must be some config missing rather than fmradio chip.
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amit_sen said:
The butterfly has fm radio.
I tried virtuosdna Rom which is based on butterfly firmware on my DNA and it had fm radio app but I couldnot tune into any radio station with it. There was only a hiss sound all the time.Since butterfly n DNA r having same hardware I believe there must be some config missing rather than fmradio chip.
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The thing is they don't have the same hardware though.
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Just get tune in radio from the play store you can get any radio station in the country...
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Are you sure they don't have the same hardware? I thought the only difference is the sd card. Also, tune in uses internet, I would prefer non internet radio!
ergotelis said:
Are you sure they don't have the same hardware? I thought the only difference is the sd card. Also, tune in uses internet, I would prefer non internet radio!
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+1
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Are you sure they don't have the same hardware? I thought the only difference is the sd card. Also, tune in uses internet, I would prefer non internet radio!
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Wireless charging and NFC vary among the models, the DNA doesn't have ipx5 rating, I think the j butterfly has ir, heck they are different sizes.
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I'm using viper rom but on my x920e so I had to make several changes to get everything working including using the x920e stock kernel. Radio works fine for me. If I remember correctly, radio functionality is tied to the kernel but I need a dev to confirm that. In either case, on my x920e using Viper Rom with my own custom mods FM radio works perfectly.
thanks for that, can you send me plz that radio app?thanks!
This is from an email I sent someone in December, after they sent a debug log from my FM app:
Your log is the 2nd I've seen, and they both show RSSI signal strength jumping between 0 & 111. In the past I've seen a similar, but different RSSI jumping pattern and it seemed to indicate the FM was more forcefully disabled.
It's interesting though that your log shows power on, frequency set etc. succeeding, where there were errors in the 1st log.
The "Broadcom OEM Proprietary FM API" is there and working, more or less, it just seems to be dealing with an FM chip that is somehow disabled. The chip FM antenna receive pin may be grounded or just not connected.
For now at least, I've given up on being able to enable FM on the DNA. I had hoped it was similar to an AT&T HTC OneX LTE that used a Qualcom WCN3660 chip for Bluetooth, WiFi & FM, but it uses a Broadcom chip instead.
It's possible there might be some hope, such as by loading a better FM chip firmware file, but even that slim chance won't do any good on a stock, un-rooted phone.
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