i googled this and im not wery clear does the hd2 posess the fm transmitter hardwer or it doesnt and can you use it (if does have an fm transmitter) if not in wm,android or ubuntu i realy realy love this feature
on paper the hardware can do fm transmitter, but it doesn't appear to be turned on.
have a read here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622377
but be prepared for dissapointment.
ok i undderstand now and nexus one has the same hardware but same as hd2 right?
dunno, never compared.
so nothing,anywayz thanx for the help
Hi Folks, this is a little embarassing but I cant get the fm radio to work.
I'm generally not that bad at figuring stuff out and the radio app appears to opens perfectly ok, I can turn the dial and tune to any specific frequency but there is simply no sound, or indication of a received signal
When I click on the arrows it even says "turn on the radio", which suggests its switched off, but where is the on button?
No doubt there is a really simple explaination that someone can ping back to me, many thanks
all mobile phones that have FM radio need the wired headset plugged in which acts as the antenna for the FM radio. so plug in your headset, then it will work.
Assuming that you have your headphones connected then the power button is at the top left corner of the screen.
Thanks for tolerating the noob folks I knew it would be something really simple, and guess what - its works as soon as I plug in the headset as mentioned, fabulous phone / Thanks again
So the Galaxy S 2 really DOES have the FM radio hardware ? And an app to use that hardware ?
I'm looking to get my FM radio app working on the Galaxy S 2, and I'm hoping it has a Silicon Labs FM chip, like the older Galaxy S.
I would be interested to know if there is a /dev/radio device or similar. The command "lsmod" might show a module loaded named Si4709_driver or there might be a file on the phone like Si4709_driver.ko .
If so, the market app "Fm TwoO" might work.
Or perhaps this phone uses a TI or Broadcom combination FM/BT/WiFi chip ?
mikereidis said:
So the Galaxy S 2 really DOES have the FM radio hardware ? And an app to use that hardware ?
I'm looking to get my FM radio app working on the Galaxy S 2, and I'm hoping it has a Silicon Labs FM chip, like the older Galaxy S.
I would be interested to know if there is a /dev/radio device or similar. The command "lsmod" might show a module loaded named Si4709_driver or there might be a file on the phone like Si4709_driver.ko .
If so, the market app "Fm TwoO" might work.
Or perhaps this phone uses a TI or Broadcom combination FM/BT/WiFi chip ?
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Just an FYI for mikereidis, my TMobile UK S2 does have the Si4709_driver module
davehunt83 said:
Just an FYI for mikereidis, my TMobile UK S2 does have the Si4709_driver module
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Great ! Thank you.... Has anyone tried Fm TwoO on this device ?
Now if there were just a CyanogenMod port... and I could buy one locally...
For development I'd probably be better off getting the original S, and considering an S 2 when it's better supported with aftermarket ROMs etc.
Hello,
did somebody find driver sources for the FM transmitter in the BCM4330?
"Other things of note about the BCM4330 is that support for Android and Windows Phone is built right in, so this chip is just plug and play"
Hmm, maybe looking for other phones that use the fm transmitter part?
what do you need the source for?
Maybe we could use it for a sound transmission (music) to the car radio.
Yeah if any dev would find a way to activate it that would be great awesome
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http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM4330
Wow. I didn't even know this chip had FM transmission capability. This would be a really cool thing for me for work, broadcasting to my radio in the workshop.
Major_Sarcasm said:
http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM4330
Wow. I didn't even know this chip had FM transmission capability. This would be a really cool thing for me for work, broadcasting to my radio in the workshop.
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Yup, most Samsung devices have this feature, even if not enabled, IIRC...
Kindly guide me how to use fm transmitter of xperia sola in my car radio
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It doesn't have an FM transmitter. That's why you're not getting any replies. It only has an FM receiver, to receive FM radio and listen to it on your phone.
Ambroos said:
It doesn't have an FM transmitter. That's why you're not getting any replies. It only has an FM receiver, to receive FM radio and listen to it on your phone.
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I've seen quite a few sites saying that the Sony Xpreria Sola actually does have a FM Transmitter (google sola fm transmitter). I've also come across some info saying that often the HW is there but transmitter functionality is not included in the SW shipped with the device.
A quote from theandroidsite blog comment:
"Actually most chipsets already include FM transmit capabilities, it's just that phone manufacturers don't attach proper antennas to the transmitter. It's even possible to access the transmitter with root access and a custom kernel, but the lack of an antenna makes it useles."
1) Are there any official specs saying that Xperia Sola does not have a FM transmitter?
2) If the device doesn't have an antenna for the FM transmitter, is it unusable alltogether (what if it's near the car radio)?
3) Is anyone using custom ROMs to gain FM transmitter functionality on any phone (I see some apps for this in the play store)?
I have a Sola myself, haven't tested custom ROMs before, but probably going to try as there seems to be no other way to get root in Sola (I also want play with the dpi settings). Would highly appreciate if someone could shed some light in this FM transmitter business. Thanks beforehand.
I just got an S3 and I'd like to ask if it is possible to listen to FM radio over Bluetooth.
i connect the standard headphones to enable the FM radio and the only option is to switch output between the headphones and the loud speaker.
I've seen cheap chinese android phones doing that, there should be a way.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, help me avoid selling my new toy
Sorry to say but it won't work. The reason (as the app itself already accurately describes in the error message) is that your headphone's cables are used as an antenna for the phone's FM receiver.
FM antenna's are actually quite big (at least compared to other antennas) even when using the so-called fractal design because they use a very slow (roughly 80 - 110 MHz, compared to e.g. WIFI's 2400MHz) frequency. To save space, Samsung moves them to the hedphones on all mobile phones I know of.
I don't know if it still works on S3 (never tried) but on the S1, if the station is broadcasting with enough signal strength, you could cut off the plug of old broken headphones and plug it into the phone to use the radio.
Afaik Spirit FM (now paid in all versions) can override the requirement but you'll need to press your finger to the jack so you can receive anything... pointless.
Alternatively you could use an app for internet radio such as TuneIn; most radio stations (at least all around here) provide web-streams for on-the-go radio listening. However you should make sure you got a decent internet flatrate, I managed to chew through nearly 4GB just with music streaming this month.
Most countries seem to have abolished mobile data flatrates.
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Sorry to say but it won't work. The reason (as the app itself already accurately describes in the error message) is that your headphone's cables are used as an antenna for the phone's FM receiver.
FM antenna's are actually quite big (at least compared to other antennas) even when using the so-called fractal design because they use a very slow (roughly 80 - 110 MHz, compared to e.g. WIFI's 2400MHz) frequency. To save space, Samsung moves them to the hedphones on all mobile phones I know of.
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The OP understands that the phone needs the cord to act as an antenna. I think what they simply want to know is if the phone can then route the sound to the bluetooth device instead of through the speakerphone or the headphones.
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d4fseeker I understand that the headphones should be connected since they serve as fm antenna. What i want is to listen to fm stations through bluetooth while the headphones are connected as bigb25 says.
TuneIn is not a solution for me since some stations I want are not available and cause I am a hiker internet is not always available where I go.
Maybe there is a fix or a different radio fm app?
OK quick test... plugged in 3.5mm - 3.5mm jack lead into headphone socket to act as the FM antenna and started the radio, selected sound to speaker and all worked fine. switched on Bluetooth headset no sound in headset, switched off sound to speakers still couldn't hear anything. Unplugged patch lead (this ends radio anyway) played an mp3from music player and sound returned to BT headset.
So unfortunately the answer is no you can't, as soon as you plug the anything into the headphone jack it cuts out the sound to any other device.
This may well be a mechanical switch within the headphone socket and so unlikely that there's a get around in a custom rom....but then I know nothing about roms
Nobody?
Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk
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Nobody?
Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk
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Thomasba said:
OK quick test... plugged in 3.5mm - 3.5mm jack lead into headphone socket to act as the FM antenna and started the radio, selected sound to speaker and all worked fine. switched on Bluetooth headset no sound in headset, switched off sound to speakers still couldn't hear anything. Unplugged patch lead (this ends radio anyway) played an mp3from music player and sound returned to BT headset.
So unfortunately the answer is no you can't, as soon as you plug the anything into the headphone jack it cuts out the sound to any other device.
This may well be a mechanical switch within the headphone socket and so unlikely that there's a get around in a custom rom....but then I know nothing about roms
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I think this covers it
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Afaik Spirit FM (now paid in all versions) can override the requirement but you'll need to press your finger to the jack so you can receive anything... pointless.
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The latest Free version of Spirit can always be found at the top of post 1 of my Q&A thread. See my sig.
My cheapest ($80) test phone gets good audio AND RDS with no antenna. Ironically it's the best of 12 operational test phones I have. It's a Samsung GT-i5500 with the great, sensitive new Broadcom 4330/20780 family of chips.
But yeah, my Galaxy S and S2 don't do very well with no antenna. My Galaxy Note does better. Haven't heard from anyone with an S3 yet. They all have the Si4709 FM chip, which has positives and negatives. Internal circuitry etc. makes a difference too.
And I can thank the very positive sales response I've had from S2 and Note owners for being able to buy these expensive devices for testing. I'll do everything I can to make Spirit run well on S3 and hope to buy one soon.
I have yet to find a phone that does FM over BT, except for a strange very low quality mode I have working on some BCM 4325 based devices.
If the FM can be done in the digital domain, instead of the more common analog, then in theory it should be possible to do FM over BT.
But then again, in theory the Galaxy S and S2 hardware are capable of FM record (digital). Yet the audio libraries don't seem to support it, and I think it'd be a major/infeasible job to hack the libraries for it.
The Note and I think the S3 can do FM record with stock audio libraries. So I think FM over BT on these devices is feasible, at least with stock ROMs and/or using stock libraries.
But on non-stock ROMs like CM9, the Note seems incapable of FM record.
Basically, if the stock ROM and stock FM app don't support FM over BT, then I think it's not EASILY possible.
If it could be made to work, there's no reason why a phone couldn't have a wired earphone plugged in at the same time that FM goes over BT. This might "confuse" the audio system though, which usually sends audio over a wired headset if one is plugged.
Then again, it's also possible to have a plug that's partly inserted (or maybe even wired creatively). Enough for antenna but not enough to push audio through the wired headset.
Thanks mikereidis.
I tried the free version, it plays only when the headphones are connected.
Do you think you could look at the possibility to send output to bluetooth?
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The latest Free version of Spirit can always be found at the top of post 1 of my Q&A thread. See my sig.
My cheapest ($80) test phone gets good audio AND RDS with no antenna. Ironically it's the best of 12 operational test phones I have. It's a Samsung GT-i5500 with the great, sensitive new Broadcom 4330/20780 family of chips.
But yeah, my Galaxy S and S2 don't do very well with no antenna. My Galaxy Note does better. Haven't heard from anyone with an S3 yet. They all have the Si4709 FM chip, which has positives and negatives. Internal circuitry etc. makes a difference too.
And I can thank the very positive sales response I've had from S2 and Note owners for being able to buy these expensive devices for testing. I'll do everything I can to make Spirit run well on S3 and hope to buy one soon.
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I have yet to find a phone that does FM over BT, except for a strange very low quality mode I have working on some BCM 4325 based devices.
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This dual active android phone does it: Star B79 Android 2.3.6 MTK6575 Smart 3G Phone 4.3"HD. I can not insert link cause of the ten posts limit but you can find it at aliexpress website
A colleague has it and I tried it just now and the quality is superb. And it is much cheaper comparing to the 730 Euro I gave to buy the SIII (greek retail price 32 GB version)
Actually this was the reason I switched from IOS to Android I mistakenly thought it was a default option in Android.
Also my ancient HTC diamond could do it with the help of a bluetooth utility but it woud often crash and quality was not good.
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The Note and I think the S3 can do FM record with stock audio libraries. So I think FM over BT on these devices is feasible, at least with stock ROMs and/or using stock libraries.
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Yeap SIII can do FM record
susersuser said:
Thanks mikereidis.
I tried the free version, it plays only when the headphones are connected.
Do you think you could look at the possibility to send output to bluetooth?
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Yes.
I have one person reporting success with my app on GS3 on CM9 June 19 now.
It only works one time though, then requires a reboot for the 2nd time.
This was with an experimental release I haven't made public yet.
I hope GS3's will be coming down at least $100 over the next month. $700 is pretty darn steep, even if it's got a leg up on the One X and One XL I bought recently for 570 and 500.
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I have one person reporting success with my app on GS3 on CM9 June 19 now.
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Great
susersuser said:
This dual active android phone does it: Star B79 Android 2.3.6 MTK6575 Smart 3G Phone 4.3"HD. I can not insert link cause of the ten posts limit but you can find it at aliexpress website
A colleague has it and I tried it just now and the quality is superb. And it is much cheaper comparing to the 730 Euro I gave to buy the SIII (greek retail price 32 GB version)
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That's very interesting; thanks for the info.
There are a variety of relatively inexpensive Chinese devices that have unique qualities, such as FM on an Android tablet, or digital TV tuner, or FM transmit I think.
But these devices are not widely available, or popular I think, in most Western countries. Information, source code and custom ROMs can be difficult to impossible to find.
As for Android: the audio systems can be kind of a big complicated mess. I don't think I've ever seen a single phone with an audio balance setting, among other things. But at least some Androids have "over the air" FM, whereas iPhone's have never had FM, despite years of rumors.
i am thinking of using one of these dongles though I doubt about the quality
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bluetooth...K_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item4cffd98878
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i am thinking of using one of these dongles though I doubt about the quality
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bluetooth...K_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item4cffd98878
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Kind of a drag to have a dongle hanging off though, in addition to the wired earphone for antenna.
There's been a lot of praise for the Sony MW600 Bluetooth stereo headset with built-in FM the last few years. Under $40 on EBay now.
I just ordered the apparent successor, the MW1 for $120 plus shipping the other day. It even has a music player built in, besides the FM and BT 3.0 support.
I need the A2DP headset because I think I'll be able to support FM over Bluetooth on some devices in the next few months, and I need something to test with.
MW1 seems interesting with many features but the price is ....
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I need the A2DP headset because I think I'll be able to support FM over Bluetooth on some devices in the next few months, and I need something to test with.
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I will be waiting for the new version
Not an exact solution, but you can get bluetooth headsets with built in FM radio.
eg: Sony-Ericsson-MW-600-Bluetooth-Headphones
mikereidis said:
I have one person reporting success with my app on GS3 on CM9 June 19 now.
It only works one time though, then requires a reboot for the 2nd time.
This was with an experimental release I haven't made public yet.
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The headphone jack has a part that senses when a headphone is inserted (the metal
in the headphone plug shorts it. It seems like you could make a plug that connects
to the metal of the ground pin (for the radio antenna) but isn't "inserted" so the phone
won't disable using BT.
Anyways, only i9300 will support FM, there is no way to get FM working with the Broadcom
chip in the US S3's. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31576462#post31576462
I use a sony ericson bluetooth headset that has built in fm radio works well.
Model MW600havent priced them in a while,should be under $50 by now.
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