I don't know if this is the right form, but I noticed that I need to plug in headphones in my HTC EVO LTE for the FM Radio app to work. Are there any workarounds, especially since I have a pair of bluetooth headphones? Or is there another app that I should look into?
yutaka731 said:
I don't know if this is the right form, but I noticed that I need to plug in headphones in my HTC EVO LTE for the FM Radio app to work. Are there any workarounds, especially since I have a pair of bluetooth headphones? Or is there another app that I should look into?
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The reason you need headphones to use the FM radio is because the headphones also act as the antenna for the radio to operate. You are not going to hear much without the antenna (unless you happen to be standing under the antenna).
kf2m said:
The reason you need headphones to use the FM radio is because the headphones also act as the antenna for the radio to operate. You are not going to hear much without the antenna (unless you happen to be standing under the antenna).
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Wow - I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. I still like having the FM radio (for use at the gym). I will just have to use some "old-fashioned" headphones. LOL
No problem. You could try Spirit FM Radio app. I believe it allows the radio to operate without the headphones. But again without metal in the air YMMV.
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Use iheart radio or tunein, etc. Tons of radio apps out there, they're just not FM radio apps.
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iandmacdonald said:
Use iheart radio or tunein, etc. Tons of radio apps out there, they're just not FM radio apps.
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That's if the station you want to listen to is in a major market, or owned by one of the major broadcast conglomerates. If you want to listen to a small station they will probably not be on iHeart/TuneIn.
You can maybe cut the headphones or just use. Then in settings or something u can switch to speaker maybe that way some how.maybe not dont know
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jaysonpeyton said:
You can maybe cut the headphones or just use. Then in settings or something u can switch to speaker maybe that way some how.maybe not dont know
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Cutting off the headphones will not work. Once you plug it in the what was once headphones it will get the audio, and BT is disabled.
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So, not that it's SUPER important. But I just got done dialing my system in my truck in. Put all the speakers in, sub, amps, head unit, etc etc. And I got a model with bluetooth. And I must say, it's legit. I can stream music via it from my phone, take calls and it'll mute the music so I can take the call. I recommend to anyone that drives and talks a lot to do this. It's not too much and it's very helpful and sounds decent too.
been doing that in my car for a couple years now... Love it. But for some reason my MoFo will drop the BT connection after playing music for about 20 mins. Well maybe drop the connection is the wrong thing to say, it is still connected, still get message notifications through the Headunit, but it stops streaming the music....
Are you using the stock music player?
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I have run into issues with the stock music player and google music/listen.
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I have CarDock and BT DVD Player. Never had a single issue.
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Are you using the stock music player?
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Happens with Stock, Mixing, nemo, and Player Pro... Normally when it happens i have to reboot either my phone or the car to get it to play again...
Hm that's weird. I haven't hit any issues either.
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My issues seem to only be in wife's car with a newer jvc unit. I have an older eclipse unit and it works decent but no audio interupts
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Just put a jvc unit in my work car. Damn its sweet. Love being able to stream music without the aux cable.
Also mine has a bt remote so i cab skip tracks through Pandora or any of the other music apps without using the phone.
This and the unlimited Pandora apk is the best combo ever.
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I have a Kenwood myself. But that's sweet.
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schollianmj said:
been doing that in my car for a couple years now... Love it. But for some reason my MoFo will drop the BT connection after playing music for about 20 mins. Well maybe drop the connection is the wrong thing to say, it is still connected, still get message notifications through the Headunit, but it stops streaming the music....
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I'm having the same problem. Your not alone my friend. There are others.....
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Do you guys leave your bt enabled on your phones? Never really used anything Bluetooth except for my ps3 so i don't know how much it would affect battery life leaving it on.
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Do you guys leave your bt enabled on your phones? Never really used anything Bluetooth except for my ps3 so i don't know how much it would affect battery life leaving it on.
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I always have BT enabled. just to lazy to kill it I guess... I still get b=pretty decent battery life too.
Mine usually does okay. But I turn it off when not in use.
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Yea I left mine on all day and didn't see any ill affects.
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Is everyone having pretty good call quality on both ends? And what kinda set do you run? Stock? Just a head unit?
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Mine is a jvc kdr520 I got off Crutchfield. Call quality is great. I had my wife call me from the car and its all clear as it gets.
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Jvc av794 i think. Works awesome. Names of songs pop up via bt through music app. Calls also work great. Car has a factory 9 speaker h/k otherwise
I also have an eclipse cd5030 and call quality sucks. But its been that way with all phones. I think the car is too loud and there is no echo cancellation sw.
Factory speakers otherwise. And a 10 inch sub.
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Right on. I'm running four mids two tweets two amps and a sub. The amp is actually kinda handy for call volume.
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Hey guys I am new to the rezound, just got it today!! Anyways, I know on some previous android phones there was an fm radio app available to use with your headphones acting as an antenna. Is there an fm radio apk out there that will work for this phone ?
Thanks
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firsttimer44 said:
Hey guys I am new to the rezound, just got it today!! Anyways, I know on some previous android phones there was an fm radio app available to use with your headphones acting as an antenna. Is there an fm radio apk out there that will work for this phone ?
Thanks
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I want to say that FM Radio was for Moto phones only, but I might be completely off on that. I doubt that we'll be able to add any apk's like that to this phone until we get s-off since everything essentially resets right now after reboot. There is an app on the market called Spirit FM radio that quite a few people use. It's supposed to be pretty good. I haven't tried it yet since I just left my X2 for the Rezound and haven't thought about replacing my FM radio.
Oh, and welcome to the Rezound This phone rocks.
I use Tunein Radio works off of the data though. But it has almost any radio station I can look up except one. hope it helps.
I got TuneIn as well and it works well. You can listen to police stuff too which can be interesting... Oh! I should've thought about that when I was driving through Hollywood today since there had been a big shooting incident.
Anyway... free version is good and I think they only thing you get from the paid version is the ability to record stuff but from what I've read it's not worth it. Read that you can't listen to those recordings on anything but phone and it's near impossible to skip around in them.
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I use Tunein Radio works off of the data though. But it has almost any radio station I can look up except one. hope it helps.
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ditto
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After reading this,I pulled the radio app from my droid 3, it did not work. Sooooo either we have no FM radio chip or the software is coded just for the motto droid. I'll have to find the incredible radio app and test that. But in all honesty I do prefer Tune In. I have the pro version (was free on amazon awhile back) I don't use any of the pro features though.
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I use Tunein Radio works off of the data though. But it has almost any radio station I can look up except one. hope it helps.
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Me, too. Works perfectly for me.
I'm getting a lot of background noise no matter which station I listen to.
I tried both the HOX & the S3 & the HOX is as clear as a bell.
Is anyone else getting background with the FM Radio? Its a like a buzzing, whurring sound
Hi
I swapped my one X for the gs3.
I use to face a really annoying issue with the .fm radio on the HTC.
Often when I wanted to deactivate the radio, I didn't have anymore sound in the phone.
I had to go back to the radio app wait for the sound to come back and then deactivate it again. This way the sound was back. Did you notice such a bug ?
Therefore I have also noticed the background noise on the Samsung. I also didn't have that on the HTC.
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I'm guessing not many people use the fm radioby the lack of responses.
Even if you don't use it can you have a go & let me know if you have the issues I have mentioned.
Its really poor if this is a fault with the s3
Anyone have a go or having theses issues?
Background noise is noticeable on my device. It might be caused by me not using the intended Samsungs earphones.
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Background noise is noticeable on my device. It might be caused by me not using the intended Samsungs earphones.
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I am using far better quality earphones than the ones in the box & I have background hiss.
Me too: Sennheiser IE-80. The FM radio is the only app that produces that hissing noise. Just to be sure, I'll try another radio app later.
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Has anyone tried a different radio app?
Is there anyway of letting samsung know about this problem?
Can the Devs do anything about it with their Roms?
I haven't seen a thread like this but its really annoying. When I plug my phone into certain speakers and the data arrows come on, a loud squealing noise come from the speakers. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem?
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It's feedback from the 4G radios interfering with the amp I believe. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong though.
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Argumentation said:
It's feedback from the 4G radios interfering with the amp I believe. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong though.
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Is there any way to fix it?
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DbZ Gokuu said:
Is there any way to fix it?
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Airplane mode.
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Airplane mode.
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Aside from that? Due to this phones limited onboard storage I frequently stream music from my Google Play account. And its kinda hard to do that in airplane mode lol
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DbZ Gokuu said:
Aside from that? Due to this phones limited onboard storage I frequently stream music from my Google Play account. And its kinda hard to do that in airplane mode lol
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try connecting to wifi if you can. It is interfering with the speaker.
I know my gaming headset crackels whenever I get a text message without it being connected to the headset, it is just interfering with the speakers
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try connecting to wifi if you can. It is interfering with the speaker.
I know my gaming headset crackels whenever I get a text message without it being connected to the headset, it is just interfering with the speakers
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Hmmm makes sense. Is there any way to disable the amp if that's what's getting interference?
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not aware of any way but i dont seem have the same problem either though and i strewam from slacker and stock tune in all through my headphones and car you could have to cheap of head phones try skull candy or koss there pretty reliable for the 20 dollar price tag
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not aware of any way but i dont seem have the same problem either though and i strewam from slacker and stock tune in all through my headphones and car you could have to cheap of head phones try skull candy or koss there pretty reliable for the 20 dollar price tag
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Its actually not headphones. I use the beats that came with my Rezound. Its only with speakers it seems like
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Sounds like it only seems to happen on low impedance speakers/inputs. You might just need to stick with headphones or use some kind of external pre-amp. This is somewhat disappointing news, although I don't listen to music from my phone much.
Noticed crackling and static when on 4G streams of Pandora. Happens with headphones or hooked up to a mixer and speakers (higher impedance). Doesn't happen with the WiFi enabled for streaming, so I'm going to say Argumentation's explanation seems spot on... Just thinking out loud here, but would there be a way to slow down to 3G speeds for streaming? Sounds counter-intuitive as far as speed is concerned, but if it's the 4G that's causing interference, then maybe that will take care of it?
Has anyone been able to bypass the headphone requirement to use the fm.radio? I know its to be used for the antenna but I.wanna see how good some stations might be without it.
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cherylbaker said:
You could find an old headset and cut the end off and stick it in the headset slot and try that
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Agreed. This is what I would have suggested.
Seeing as I have a half dozen old sets of ear buds lying around I will attempt this method.
Supposably you can switch back to the phone speaker after the headphone jack is in... Will post results later.
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I just plug in my headphones so I have an antenna and then change the output to speaker. Not sure why you would want to bypass. Reception will be worse without some kind of antenna.
Oh wow
Woah.. You say this thing has a radio too?? Oh wow.. It sure does! Thanks
So.. how does one go about accessing the FM radio? I'm looking and don't see anything listed.
EDIT: Nevermind - found it. "NextRadio" if anyone else ends up looking for it.
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So.. how does one go about accessing the FM radio? I'm looking and don't see anything listed.
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It's in your apps sprint featured Folder. . Next Radio
It wouldnt necessarily have a bad reception depending on location. I just wouldnt want to have something sticking out of my phone if I dont have to.
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Has anyone been able to bypass the headphone requirement to use the fm.radio? I know its to be used for the antenna but I.wanna see how good some stations might be without it.
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Sprint GN3 has real FM ?? !
Gee, nobody told me, and I haven't noticed the last month; been too busy with taxes and my Spirit2 app...
On rooted phones, my Spirit FM app can work without headset, but some phones/FM chips are better than others with no FM antenna. Metal phones like HTC One are impossible, but GT-I9300 and International Note2 are decent, with the Silicon Labs FM chip.
Anybody know if the FM chip if the Broadcom FM/BT/WiFi combo chip ? Or Silicon Labs like the older International S/Note class devices ? I'd bet on Broadcom, after they magically re-enabled the FM antenna pin connections to headset jack.