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HD2 FM radio is super crappy!

I cannot pick up even ONE station in my location by scanning, or manual input. Just static. Is it really that bad?
My previous Symbian phone's FM radio pulled in at least 14 stations automatically.
Is it that bad, or am I doing something wrong?
Using stock headset, btw.

I just tryed the fm radio for the first time, i live in a area with bad reception and i get 4 stations with my hd2, the same as I get in my VW T5. So it works ok for me.

as standard it doesn't pick up many for me and if I stand too far away from the windows I lose half of them. verdict 3/10
with the de emphasis tweak in bsb tweaks I get a little better.maybe 5/10

Compared to my old HD, my HD2 FM receiver performance is also really bad. I can listen to only a few stations with HD2 where I was easily having more than 20 with the HD. Any improvement suggestion is more than welcome.

Agreed, its quite bad. Especially as it requires the earphones to act as an antenna.
Wifes Iphone radio is great quality sad to say lol.
Pity they couldnt have improved on this as with other HTC models

i get the same number (13) in the same place inside house. bsb tweak on. hd2 earphones. reception quality is actually better than my hd (less static noise - cleaner sound).
edit: changing stations over earphone's remote is much better than actual buttons in the radio app. there is no clicking noise that way! try it.

There must be something wrong that is more general than just living in an area with weak fm radio coverage. I used an FM transmitter together with my mp3 player to transmit some music to my HD2 and it wasn't able to pickup even a little bit of it, despite having a 1mW radio transmitter only 20 cm away. I tried both, the stock headset and another one.
Also, the static sounds exactly the same, no matter what frequency the tunes is set to. That's unusual, cause there tend to be different kinds of disturbance in different parts of the FM band, so you would expect the static to change as well as you change the frequency, wouldn't you? It's almost like the HD2 tuner is not changing it's frequency at all!
Those of you who can't receive anything at all: Could you please repeat my experiment with the FM transmitter an post your results here? Thanks!

donalgodon said:
I cannot pick up even ONE station in my location by scanning, or manual input. Just static. Is it really that bad?
My previous Symbian phone's FM radio pulled in at least 14 stations automatically.
Is it that bad, or am I doing something wrong?
Using stock headset, btw.
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have you tried power radio http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=531600 a lot better app. edit currently not supporting hd2.

yes i struggle to pick up any station at all with any headphones plugged in even large hd595's or sure se410

rexboy said:
Agreed, its quite bad. Especially as it requires the earphones to act as an antenna.
Wifes Iphone radio is great quality sad to say lol.
Pity they couldnt have improved on this as with other HTC models
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Iphone FM radio? Does that exist?
Isn't she just using a streaming radio via 3g connection or wifi?
In which case, there are a lot of streaming radio programs for windows mobile as well. Better music than what the radio stations play here, haha.
Going back, the HD2 radio seem to have weak reception for me as well.

1.) on my HD2 i have a brilliant FM-Radio quality
the position of the cable of the earphones is not
important. Currently I have the artemis rom 3.0.
The best radio quality i had with the 1.66 leo stock rom!
2.) a real FM-Radio need a 0,7m long antenna dependent on the wavelenght. It is not possible to include this in a mobile phone. Its just physics. An iphone has no FM radio. It's just using the internet connection for a radio stream.
So install the newest Leo Stock Rom 1.66 and you will have a lot of fun with your real FM radio

regi7 said:
1.) on my HD2 i have a brilliant FM-Radio quality
the position of the cable of the earphones is not
important. Currently I have the artemis rom 3.0.
The best radio quality i had with the 1.66 leo stock rom!
2.) a real FM-Radio need a 0,7m long antenna dependent on the wavelenght. It is not possible to include this in a mobile phone. Its just physics. An iphone has no FM radio. It's just using the internet connection for a radio stream.
So install the newest Leo Stock Rom 1.66 and you will have a lot of fun with your real FM radio
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I use 1.66 stock, and compare to my old touch pro. HD2 FM reception = very2 bad.

Don't bother the built-in FM radio. It's battery drainer. In order to get best reception, you need to be at higher ground level (5-story and above...?)

All that's great, but pretty embarrassing that a $150 Symbian smartphone performed multiple times better with literally any kind of headphones.
As much as I hated the OS, it had a good radio.

sg10 said:
I use 1.66 stock, and compare to my old touch pro. HD2 FM reception = very2 bad.
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hmm i dont know the quality of TP but compared to my old HD its a bit better radio signal. some additional infos i forgot:
i am using the german 1.66 and turned on the tweak in bsb tweaks.
in austria the ukw band is between 88Mhz and 108mhz.
i think the problem is the fm radio driver. on the old stockrom (1.48 as i remember) i had a very bad reception.

rexboy said:
Agreed, its quite bad. Especially as it requires the earphones to act as an antenna.
Wifes Iphone radio is great quality sad to say lol.
Pity they couldnt have improved on this as with other HTC models
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Hæ?
iPhone do not have a FM radio.
So of course, web radio is better if you have internet.

I am quite lucky. Mine only detects 6 radios and my favourite one is one of them ;-)
FMRadio with G-Alarm. Best thing ever ;-)
edit. Ah actually I tried to find some more manually and did!
No FM radio on the Iphone really?? ahah take that Apple! ;-)

I've had maybe ten phones with FM radio since I went smartphone about five years ago, and none of them were even close to my 20 year old Sony pocket radio. For some reason phone makers can't create a radio that works well outside of the large cities. Waste of time for me. The HD and the HD2 weren't any better...

donalgodon said:
pretty embarrassing that a $150 Symbian smartphone performed multiple times better with literally any kind of headphones.
As much as I hated the OS, it had a good radio.
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so true. my n95 had the best fm radio i ever had on a phone.
it was THE ONLY thing better than on my hd2, , but still....

so, are there any alternatives to the stock FMRadio for the HD2?

Improving Wifi and FM radio reception

I just bought the HD2 two days ago(previously iphone 3g) and I'm just getting into it. However I have noticed that the FM radio is static on most stations and can't pick up a wifi signal even when the iphone can pick them up just fine. Is there any way to improve this? I did a search and I can't find anything that helps me.
Thanks

Just to Check - You are using the supplied headset? Because that's the FM antenna.

Meromorph said:
Just to Check - You are using the supplied headset? Because that's the FM antenna.
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Yes I am. But the radio reception still sucks.

Tmobile radio
I have sea european version, radio is excellent, I live in Idaho, so rural areas work.

both functions are working perfectly on my TMoUS Stock Rom... which means that either the custom rom that you are running is causing this.. considering how a stock one works perfectly fine.. OR... your reception in that general area is poor..

I'm on a stock Rom. I only got the phone two days ago. And i'm in minneapolis, I get reception on other devices all the time, so it can't be location. Just to confirm, my ROM version is 2.10.531.1 (82076) WWE. This is stock, right?

FM radio is horrendous on my HD2 too. Stock and CleanEX, no difference. Absolutely terrible sensitivity compared to cheap Nokia phones. I'm a radio geek so know when a receiver is bad, and the one in the HD2 is TERRIBLE!
(a minor complaint though on the greater scale of things!)

SMS92 said:
FM radio is horrendous on my HD2 too. Stock and CleanEX, no difference. Absolutely terrible sensitivity compared to cheap Nokia phones. I'm a radio geek so know when a receiver is bad, and the one in the HD2 is TERRIBLE!
(a minor complaint though on the greater scale of things!)
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Yeah that's right, the quality is very poor, its a shame though, but sony ericsson x10 is out and it has a bt headset with radio. And it is based on snapdragon too, maybe it solves the compatibility issues too. I don't know just hoping and it also an android phone.

FM radio - can't get it to work

what is up with the FM radio app? i can't get any stations to come in at all its all static. what am i doing wrong? doesn't make any sense that its not working

knives of ice said:
what is up with the FM radio app? i can't get any stations to come in at all its all static. what am i doing wrong? doesn't make any sense that its not working
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Check to see that your headphones are securely plugged in (they're your antenna). Are you indoors or outdoors?

redct said:
Check to see that your headphones are securely plugged in (they're your antenna). Are you indoors or outdoors?
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indoors but i live within 20 miles of where the stations are broadcasing. i have them securely plugged in and all i get is static

I tried for a while also to get FM. Finally with a 4th set of headphones i was able to tune in a few stations manually. The scan still doesn't find anything. I stretch the cord out to get best reception and try not holding the EVO - yeah I got better reception on some stations if I had EVO and the headphones stretched out on a table. Color me disappointed in the FM as any cheap walkman seems to work better, though I didn't really expect to use it much anyway.

The idea to use the headphone's wires makes me wonder if old cheap headphones would work better (I'm curious if the newer headphone wires are shielded better and if that would make it harder to pick up signal)

thecodemonk said:
The idea to use the headphone's wires makes me wonder if old cheap headphones would work better (I'm curious if the newer headphone wires are shielded better and if that would make it harder to pick up signal)
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Works perfect for me.....using ghetto 2 dollar headphones.

worked with my iPhone headphones in best buy
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also, make sure you push the headphones ALL the way in, like post 2 says. mine seem like they stick about 3mm before they're actually all the way installed. if you can see jack still, they're not all the way in.

Is there a way to hack into the application to make the fm radio work without headphones? :d

Mine worked very well with average headphones. Radio stations came in very clear.

timothydonohue said:
also, make sure you push the headphones ALL the way in, like post 2 says.
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*snicker* thats what she said. sorry i couldn't resist. my FM radio works great. i wasn't even aware this was a feature. what a pleasant surprise!

thecodemonk said:
The idea to use the headphone's wires makes me wonder if old cheap headphones would work better (I'm curious if the newer headphone wires are shielded better and if that would make it harder to pick up signal)
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The shield is what is being used as the antenna.

mine works perfectly good reception with some cheap headphones but after like 30 mins of use it randomly starts scaning again for stations without being able to stop it, just keeps jumping from station to station every 2 seconds until i power off the app, if i turn it back on again it continues on scaning mode until i reboot the phone
anyone else with this problem or know how to fix it

does anybody have the stock fm app for evo my custom rom didnt come with it

fparkin said:
does anybody have the stock fm app for evo my custom rom didnt come with it
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See attached.

SilverStone641 said:
*snicker* thats what she said. sorry i couldn't resist. my FM radio works great. i wasn't even aware this was a feature. what a pleasant surprise!
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Lul +1. 10 char
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Jedis said:
See attached.
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did not work on evo with vin rom ginger bread

Poor FM radio

I have big problems with FM radio in my HD2. Reception is very poor. I can barely found any station and even this one is very silent with lot of noise.
I have tried changing it from stereo to mono in settings, which is supposed to improve signal. But that does absolutely nothing on HD2, everything stays the same.
Is that common issue? What can i do to improve signal?
My specifications are in signature.

Unfortunately the receiver in the HD2 is not the greatest.
I think the dc-dc convertor for the screen is also causing alot of HF noise.
Try to turn off the screen if you can set it to a freq where you normally receive a station and you should have less noise.

I use the radio all day and yes, its common. The hd2 has just about the worst radio I've ever used and that includes cheap (really really cheap) pound shop radios. It's abysmal, and someone at HTC is either laughing at us or was quietly sacked. No way could it accidentally be so rubbish.
Its made worse in android because for some arcane reason Bluetooth must be on AND mono doesn't work.
One tiny thing that sometimes helps is switching to a different preset and back again. Seems to lessen the Bluetooth interference, and using 2g only seems to help a hint too.
For all thati love my hd2, and I really really do, I hate the pathetic excuse for a radio.

I would also agree that the FM Radio app isn't great at all. If you have WiFi access or a data plan, I would use the Tune In Radio app found on the Market to get your local radio station crystal clear and in stereo!

The FM radio is really poor as known yeah but has anybody ever thought that it may be their headphones (as that is the satelite AFAIK). The current earphones I'm using are great on my HD2 and I'm getting no noise at all using Typhoon's latest CM7 ROM. I've had lots of problems with other headphones, but none with these new ones. Just my share.

I was using HTC headphones, cheap noname headphones and now philips headphones. Noise is the same on all headphones.

matejdro said:
I was using HTC headphones, cheap noname headphones and now philips headphones. Noise is the same on all headphones.
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Did you try with the screen off?

I agree having the screen on produces a lot of noise. Does anyone else find sense roms are better (less noisy signals) than non-sense android roms.
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Yup I find that too. It depends on the dev though, I've found AndrewF's Desire HD ROM works the best. I don't know if it's still being continued or not though as that was a month+ ago.

Guys I also want to know how to make FM radio work as the one given in the below ROM works but the reception is not good at all also for no reson it enable bluetooth when I turn on radio and if i try to disable the bluetooth it turn off the FM radio. So can anyone tell me how to get FM radio work on the ROM im using.
This is the best ROM i had found with good battery life and stability but the FM radio thing sucks and more over when asked about it in the thread it is neglected so can any1 please help me on this

Did you read the earlier posts?
Yes the reception sucks,, on any OS, and yes android requires Bluetooth to be running.

samsamuel said:
Did you read the earlier posts?
Yes the reception sucks,, on any OS, and yes android requires Bluetooth to be running.
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Not really reception on WinMo 6.5 was good that on windows phone 7 was pretty decent but on android its suckxxxx I tried a different radio that did not require bluetooth but then again reception was bad
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In that case you're lucky, even when I'm in direct line of sight about 3 miles from our regional transmitter its rubbish,,winmo,wp7,android,,makes no difference,,I have a dirt cheap kids radio that I use for work,cost me £1 and is ten times better.

D802 Poor Fm Radio Reception

Guys,
I just found a problem with my G2's FM radio. I don't usually listen to FM radio, but last night I got bored so I plugged in a headset and fired up FM radio app. All I can hear is a static! I tune around different frequencies but nothing comes up. At this point I started to panic, and FYI I never listen to FM radio from my G2 before so I didn't know the radio didn't work. As my last resort I went to balcony and play around with the radio a little bit more. Finally I can hear some music playing, but it was faint and covered in static (I tuned in to exact frequency). Went back into my room and the music's gone. I'd say this is not a normal behavior considering with my girlfriend's S3 I can listen to radio with crystal clear quality from my room.
Does anyone ever have this problem before? If you have any fix let us hear it.

Does anyone know what causes this?

No problem with FM Radio here. Suggest you try different earphones as they have a great influence on FM reception. Personally I use HTC One X earphones as they have a specific antenna in the in-lead microphone.
Assume that you are on Stock and that you are using the phone in the region it was intended for? The FM tuner uses your region settings to determine the correct frequency spacing and range. This is very important...
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LenAsh said:
No problem with FM Radio here. Suggest you try different earphones as they have a great influence on FM reception. Personally I use HTC One X earphones as they have a specific antenna in the in-lead microphone.
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Thanks,
I tried multiple earphones, same poor performance. Only heard static.
LenAsh said:
Assume that you are on Stock and that you are using the phone in the region it was intended for? The FM tuner uses your region settings to determine the correct frequency spacing and range. This is very important...
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How do I change the region setting on FM radio?

You probably can't The FM apk takes the region from the ROM. If you are in the UK, for instance, the 10b ROM has the FM settings for the UK...
If you are using a phone and/or ROM from another region, you may have issues.

I restored my stock rom but I'm still getting static. I think I ran out of idea now. Any other suggestion?

Same problem here. I was using Samsung Galaxy S3 before G2 and there was no problem at all at radio signal quality.
But with G2, I am listenning same radio stations and at same location but signal quality is really lower than S3. Even though you have a perfect signal there might be a sudden static problem and makes you crazy.
My opinion, it's because of hardware not related with headset or software. We have to bear with that.

Indeed, the quality is not high on the radio in G2.

G2 might have a lower quality radio than other devices, but what I am experiencing is not normal at all. All I am hearing is static when using radio on my phone. Even when I manually tuned in through every single frequency from 87.0 through 108.0, I am not hearing a single station playing. Only when outdoor I can hear 1 maybe 2 stations, covered with static of course.
There is definitely something really wrong with my phone.

benzoll said:
Indeed, the quality is not high on the radio in G2.
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Mine is spectacularly good, thanks. Superb sensitivity, selectivity and the audio quality, SNR and stereo separation are amazing.
Really happy.

blast1412 said:
G2 might have a lower quality radio than other devices, but what I am experiencing is not normal at all. All I am hearing is static when using radio on my phone. Even when I manually tuned in through every single frequency from 87.0 through 108.0, I am not hearing a single station playing. Only when outdoor I can hear 1 maybe 2 stations, covered with static of course.
There is definitely something really wrong with my phone.
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If that's the case, then I would definitely ask for it on warranty

the solution
Spirit_FM_2014_02_14-apk,settings,audio,stereo,mode:lgg2 or automatic,and enjoy!!,root phone(and my is funtioned not routed device mi company is vodafone)