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HD2 FM transmitter?

Is there anything to make this possible on this beautiful device? I am in fear from buying it because of battery so i wonder will you guys one day could make that better with your roms? My first choice was omnia 2 ,although it has nice battery life it cant really compare with this beast. Too bad they didnt put tv - out. That could be great with all emulators out there. Please help me guys in buying.
p.s. sry for bad english

mmm unsure whether it has the hardware to do it though...

the_bulk said:
Is there anything to make this possible on this beautiful device? I am in fear from buying it because of battery so i wonder will you guys one day could make that better with your roms? My first choice was omnia 2 ,although it has nice battery life it cant really compare with this beast. Too bad they didnt put tv - out. That could be great with all emulators out there. Please help me guys in buying.
p.s. sry for bad english
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Have a look here what i said about Fm Transmitter thats if you intend to buy one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611504

the_bulk said:
Is there anything to make this possible on this beautiful device?
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I bought this and it does the job well by BlueTooth. Also acts as a speaker phone.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/727/1/

too bad htc didnt put that feature in phone :S what about tv-out and battery? thank you for your answers

Batter transmiter and TV-Out FM?
If you have new questions, you should start a new thread! Especially when no tags are applied to your thread (thus making searching awful :-<)

What do you mean by better transmitter?

In this device is FM transmiter
It can be transferred on HD2 ?
navitel.su/devices/navitel-nx5300/

Nope, no FM transmitter, there was a debate about it b4 but no luck with it
In my opinion our HD2 is the best until now, it would've been the most perfect unbeatable device if it had....
- 2ry camera (front) with video calling
- TV-out
- FM transmitter
- TV-out option
- more mAh battery
i would never ever thought of changing the phone as long as it's alive and kicking!!

sevoflurane said:
Nope, no FM transmitter, there was a debate about it b4 but no luck with it
In my opinion our HD2 is the best until now, it would've been the most perfect unbeatable device if it had....
- 2ry camera (front) with video calling
- TV-out
- FM transmitter
- TV-out option
- more mAh battery
i would never ever thought of changing the phone as long as it's alive and kicking!!
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You forgot DVB-T tuner and second SIM option ...

sevoflurane said:
Nope, no FM transmitter, there was a debate about it b4 but no luck with it
In my opinion our HD2 is the best until now, it would've been the most perfect unbeatable device if it had....
- 2ry camera (front) with video calling
- TV-out
- FM transmitter
- TV-out option
- more mAh battery
i would never ever thought of changing the phone as long as it's alive and kicking!!
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All greetings I too so thought earlier but on our sites in Russia too walks информациция apropos fm the transmitter so I think soon it will appear.
Excuse for bad transfer I use the translator

actually the BCM4329 does have FM tx. It's more a matter of no software being available to take advantage of the hardware the device has. Than again, they got the rx working under android (and I think I heard somewhere that the n wireless band was working on some builds, so ya never know. It would be a sweat feature.

any news?It s really nice to unlock features that are there but was disabled by manufactures... 720p recording,fm tx,wifi n,and i ve readed something about the camera from 5mpx to something like 8mpx ( at least limited in quality to 5mpx)

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?

Hidden features in nexus one?

I got my nexus one exactly 1 week ago, and this device is amazing! I unlocked it and installed the cyanogen mod the day after i got it, and Iam really impressed of the results all you developers out there making theese custom roms happen.
I'have read on the internet that nexus one hardware has a fm recciver and transmitter + N wireless capable chip.
And its not even mentioned in the phone's spec list(i've hard it was at lauch, but was removed short time after), is this because there is currently no software support that they wont advertise the features?
Or is this just hardware which is on the phones chip because its just how they make them, and the features arent nesseseary availble to the phone.
Any ideas? or status on this?
Sorry my english is not very good + Iam a newbie =)

Al3k said:
I'have read on the internet that nexus one hardware has a fm recciver and transmitter + N wireless capable chip.
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802.11n works with the stock ROM, but it's only at 2.4 GHz (the phone doesn't appear to include the necessary antenna and RF components to work with the 5 GHz band). It's also only single-stream N, so you won't get link speeds higher than 65 Mbit. Maybe they didn't advertise it because it's only marginally faster than 802.11g, and generally the phone can't even saturate a G connection. In theory, you may get slightly better range with N and perhaps slightly worse battery life. I don't really know why they removed it from the specs shortly after launch.
Al3k said:
Or is this just hardware which is on the phones chip because its just how they make them, and the features arent nesseseary availble to the phone.
Any ideas? or status on this?
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Probably both. Some minimal extra hardware or connections may or may not be necessary to fully use the FM radio functions. But a Google employee (Swetland) stated that the main reason it wasn't included was because they didn't have time to do the software integration, and it wasn't a priority.

Thanx I would love to have a inbuild fm transmitter, that is just sick, I dont think any other cell phone have this working. We just need be patient and hope for best I guess

Al3k said:
Thanx I would love to have a inbuild fm transmitter, that is just sick, I dont think any other cell phone have this working. We just need be patient and hope for best I guess
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there are many many cell phones that have FM receiver and transmitter. the nokia n97 has both an FM radio, and also you can turn on the FM transmitter to play your music thru your car's stereo by tuning into a frequency, and your phone will broadcast to that frequency. actually the nexus one is missing this function when a lot of other phones have it! mainly high end nokia phones.

Don't count on the Nexus ever getting FM transmission capability. It does not have the FTC's stamp of approval for such a feature. FM receiving may be possible some day, but that's up to Google to write the necessary drivers and programs for it.

Or if it is possible maybe Macodo can port it from the desire rom like he did the camera. I'm just saying maybe..
-Charlie

The FTC denying the FM Trans was a joke..... The feds are so paranoid with cell phones and cars I find it hard to believe they will be approving many more FM Trans in cell phones..... Receiver....well, I search this forum everyday waiting to see the post with the "Flashable .zip to enable FM Radio!"
/me is willing to say we'll have FM Radio *SOON*

FM radio is great, i guess it use less battery power than internet radio over 3g.
I do have a FM transmitter in my car but the quality is kind of ****ty, the car i use at work dosent have any input or aux plug to the stereo.
Since we're on it, what do you guys think the future will bring the nexus one? or wish list?

Al3k said:
FM radio is great, i guess it use less battery power than internet radio over 3g.
I do have a FM transmitter in my car but the quality is kind of ****ty, the car i use at work dosent have any input or aux plug to the stereo.
Since we're on it, what do you guys think the future will bring the nexus one? or wish list?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668003

GldRush98 said:
Don't count on the Nexus ever getting FM transmission capability. It does not have the FTC's stamp of approval for such a feature. FM receiving may be possible some day, but that's up to Google to write the necessary drivers and programs for it.
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It may never come "officialy" for the nexus, but if they're working the aosp code future phones, then it's just a matter of devs flipping a switch instead of having to write code from the bottom up.

Nah, you don't, they say that to get the best reception, but you can do with out. Look up N900's fm capabilities to transmit/receive, you can do it without a plugged in antenna/headphones.

Just as aside for people wanting FM transmission with the Nexus One - a FM transmitter with a 3.5mm jack only costs around $5 (Australian Dollars) from ebay, and you can pick them up in stores for about the same price. Obviously not as convenient as having it built in and not having to take an extra accessory around - but I would assume you wouldn't want to use it in too many places anyway. Say the car, maybe a stereo at home and thats mainly it?

i don't need a transmitter as much as a receiver.

RM Radio Chip in Nexus S...

Appears from the ifix it teardown that the WiFi chip has FM capability.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/2
Now just a long winding road to see if it can work...

AFAIK, the Nexus One had it too, took a while for the devs here to get it to work
Makes you kinda wonder why they didn't just write a driver for it in the first place... could be a nice feature to advertise

Broadcom BCM4329GKUBG, Low-Power 802.11n with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and FM (Tx and Rx),
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I've actually read a few times that the chip actually can transmit FM which is something that would be a huge feature to me.

Does the FM radio "chip" exist on the 7.7?

Hello,
The only thing I really miss from from my SGS2 is the FM radio. I use TuneIn now but it chews the battery. So, I was wondering.. If the internals of the 7.7 and Note are apparently very similar, does the FM chip and requisite hardware exist in the 7.7?? Would it ever be possible "activate" this?
I remember reading somewhere then the GN does have the FM chip but lacks other essential internals.

BatfinkUK1 said:
Hello,
The only thing I really miss from from my SGS2 is the FM radio. I use TuneIn now but it chews the battery. So, I was wondering.. If the internals of the 7.7 and Note are apparently very similar, does the FM chip and requisite hardware exist in the 7.7?? Would it ever be possible "activate" this?
I remember reading somewhere then the GN does have the FM chip but lacks other essential internals.
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Now we have a more active dev community has anyone any ideas?