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FM Radio for Elf

Hey
Is there a cab of FM Radio for Elf??
Thanks

The Elf does not have fm radio, never has, never will. It is not capable as it does not have the hardware; however, if you want to try it anyway - Try the FM Radio cab for the touch diamond.

I have already trying this but it doesn't works... Thanks for your fast answer

Sorry, It doesn't work because it can't work. As I said before, No hardware in the elf for FM Radio.
If you have a good data plan - Use can listen to internet radio. This is what I do and I get much better selection of music to listen to with no *(or hardly any) commercials.

Ok, good idea

i know that there is no hardware in the elf but is there a mod you can do to add the hardware inside the phone? or is there a mini usb attachment to give you fm?

caraudio014 said:
i know that there is no hardware in the elf but is there a mod you can do to add the hardware inside the phone? or is there a mini usb attachment to give you fm?
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Never heard of such a thing myself...
However, you can go to the dollar store and buy one of those cheap fm scanning pocket radio's - even comes with ear buds and you are good to go

Hi i think there is a bluetooth headphone with built in FM radio ( may be Motorola ! i cant remember ) you may search ebay or amazon

ok well thanks anyways for the help

Adding a Radio in Gene?

Does HTC P3400i has radio?
If not, then is it possible to 'add' a radio to it by using some headset or headphone. Like other phones users the headphones to connect to the radio, can some such headphones be used to make P3400i connect to the radio?
Thanks

lamborg said:
Does HTC P3400i has radio?
If not, then is it possible to 'add' a radio to it by using some headset or headphone. Like other phones users the headphones to connect to the radio, can some such headphones be used to make P3400i connect to the radio?
Thanks
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I guess for that you'll need two things, first a MiniUSB to 3.5 mm jack convertor and second a regular radio headfone. That will work i guess. Cost will vary according to the place you are from.
If you get success with this, please post about the model numbers and associated costs here too so that others can also benefit

krazy_about_technology said:
I guess for that you'll need two things, first a MiniUSB to 3.5 mm jack convertor and second a regular radio headfone. That will work i guess. Cost will vary according to the place you are from.
If you get success with this, please post about the model numbers and associated costs here too so that others can also benefit
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I think that for that, a software also needs to be installed on the Device which could control the radio, like setting frequencies, turning on and off and etc.

No i dont think so. Headfone radios are not controlled by software, they have hardware controls. The only thing they have to do with the phone is drawing power from the miniusb socket.

so, could it be possible to add a radio?

Yes indeed it is. Where are you from, country i mean?

how it's possible to connect between fm radio & music in phone ?

came to me an idea to connect the music player in the phone to the FM radio in the car to play it ! I'm very positive for it .. since getting TMC from the radio to the gps software (in this thread) , so there is a possbile connection between them ? the question, could someone came with a software or hacking can do this ? with no need to buy external FM CAR KIT device to make it works !
I hope yes ...
Thanks ....

im also looking for such an app..
i had also put down the same question here

Hi, i think you don't really understand whats meant by RDS/TMC through radio. It doesn't get information from your car-radio, it's a build-in radio device within your phone. And this is even a receiver, not a sender. As far as i conern there are onky three ways to connect your phone to your car-radio and all of them are the way 'music from phone to radio'
1.) bluetooth, but only a few radios have got it
2.) via fm-transmitter which is a way whichmostly shold work
3.) vie line in at car radio and line-out/speaker-out/headphone at phone
regards
Bernhard

Bernhard12345 said:
Hi, i think you don't really understand whats meant by RDS/TMC through radio. It doesn't get information from your car-radio, it's a build-in radio device within your phone. And this is even a receiver, not a sender. As far as i conern there are onky three ways to connect your phone to your car-radio and all of them are the way 'music from phone to radio'
1.) bluetooth, but only a few radios have got it
2.) via fm-transmitter which is a way whichmostly shold work
3.) vie line in at car radio and line-out/speaker-out/headphone at phone
regards
Bernhard
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right AFAIK there is no HTC device that can send FM out, just receive. :/

Thanks guys for disappointed me ... idon't really why i'm still positive for making this app maybe it could happend later ..thanks

Bernhard12345 said:
Hi, i think you don't really understand whats meant by RDS/TMC through radio. It doesn't get information from your car-radio, it's a build-in radio device within your phone. And this is even a receiver, not a sender. As far as i conern there are onky three ways to connect your phone to your car-radio and all of them are the way 'music from phone to radio'
1.) bluetooth, but only a few radios have got it
2.) via fm-transmitter which is a way whichmostly shold work
3.) vie line in at car radio and line-out/speaker-out/headphone at phone
regards
Bernhard
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2.) HOW CAN U CONNECT "via fm- transmitter "? ?

Hi imrock,
ask google for it or even ebay. ;-)
1. buy fm-transmitter
2. plug in fm-transmitter to device instead of headphones
3. search for the frequency on which your transmitter transmits at your car radio
4. enjoy
I don't have experiences on my own, but a few weeks ago i've seen a test in a magazin. They summorized as follows: The quality of music is not really good.

Bernhard12345 said:
Hi imrock,
ask google for it or even ebay. ;-)
1. buy fm-transmitter
2. plug in fm-transmitter to device instead of headphones
3. search for the frequency on which your transmitter transmits at your car radio
4. enjoy
I don't have experiences on my own, but a few weeks ago i've seen a test in a magazin. They summorized as follows: The quality of music is not really good.
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hey Bernhard
thanks for the info..i was looking for this only but it isn't of any use if you have to use an attachment, not to mention the quality..!!
But will definitely check tht out

FM Radio on Leo without headphone!

hi all
I've heard that Leo can play FM Radio without headphone work as an antenna? I wonder at it?
Is there anyone can confirm that....
Thanks!

Negative m8, Leo's FM Radio needs enclosed earphones handset to operate as an antenna.

I would love the day the manufacturers could put in a antenna to allow use of the FM radio without putting in a headset.
I hate using a wired headset.

Try one of these, no need for headphones and a bit cheaper!
http://www.morgan111morgan.com/port...adios-64/jwin-am-fm-mini-radio-jxm6-3718.html
Its a phone ffs, lol
Mind you they are getting bigger, so one day you could have a £500 fm radio with built in antenna.

fresh-popcorn said:
I would love the day the manufacturers could put in a antenna to allow use of the FM radio without putting in a headset.
I hate using a wired headset.
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i dont think its as easy as just putting radio antennas inside a body of a phone.
one might have to think about interference to/from the phone antenna, wifi antenna, bluetooth antenna, gps antenna and any other antennas already present in the phone.

I don't think it's even physically possible to make an antenna small enough to fit in a phone which is sensitive enough to receive low-frequency signals like radio.

B3ler3fonte said:
Negative m8, Leo's FM Radio needs enclosed earphones handset to operate as an antenna.
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Thanks B3ler3fonte for the info.

B3ler3fonte said:
Negative m8, Leo's FM Radio needs enclosed earphones handset to operate as an antenna.
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fresh-popcorn said:
I would love the day the manufacturers could put in a antenna to allow use of the FM radio without putting in a headset.
I hate using a wired headset.
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thank you, guys!
anyway I totally dont like every time taking the headphone follow me..
still hope one day Leo could..

B3ler3fonte said:
Negative m8, Leo's FM Radio needs enclosed earphones handset to operate as an antenna.
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Mmm..I dont know how to say but I just heard that from someone. They said Leo could play FM Radio without headphone in new coming Rom update. Any Mods here knows it?

It is not a bad ROM, it is because of radio-frequencies all need antennas that fit their special wavelength to work.
If you use radiowaves you can use antennas that are only half or a quarter of the wavelength, so 10cm waves need 2,5 cm or 5 cm antennas.
Radiowaves in FM are about 4 m wavelength, so you need 1 m antenna!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum

gatling said:
It is not a bad ROM, it is because of radio-frequencies all need antennas that fit their special wavelength to work.
If you use radiowaves you can use antennas that are only half or a quarter of the wavelength, so 10cm waves need 2,5 cm or 5 cm antennas.
Radiowaves in FM are about 4 m wavelength, so you need 1 m antenna!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
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Thanks for your answer. it's clearly..
Have a nice day! man..

mrkyo said:
thank you, guys!
anyway I totally dont like every time taking the headphone follow me..
still hope one day Leo could..
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...you can always use a std. jack with few inches of wire...

mrkyo said:
hi all
I've heard that Leo can play FM Radio without headphone work as an antenna? I wonder at it?
Is there anyone can confirm that....
Thanks!
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Hey maybe this is interesing for you, im planning to buy this when it comes out
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/overview/mw600?lc=nl&cc=nl

B3ler3fonte said:
Negative m8, Leo's FM Radio needs enclosed earphones handset to operate as an antenna.
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The FM Radio tool from the HTC Debug Tools (On the prototype phones) does work without earphones.
Also tried the tool in my release phone, als also there the fm radio worked without earphones....

just a few more months and the Sony Ericsson MW600 headset will be availlable with build in FM radio.. I have a SE HBH-DS220 at the moment and it works great sound is awesome..
I wish we could enable audioboost with A2DP

xmoo said:
The FM Radio tool from the HTC Debug Tools (On the prototype phones) does work without earphones.
Also tried the tool in my release phone, als also there the fm radio worked without earphones....
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does it recived channels and you could hear it without head phones

i don't bother the built-in FM radio. Try use WunderRadio. Internet-based radio. Of course you need unlimited data plan for this to work.

Some walkman phones have built in fm antennas like w960, and some cheap chinese phones too, i don't remembor which one though, i read their test on mobilearena long time ago, so if it is possible.

dgtel2 said:
i don't bother the built-in FM radio. Try use WunderRadio. Internet-based radio. Of course you need unlimited data plan for this to work.
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That's great, except when you are on the move and lose data coverage which is exactly what makes the FM radio useful.

I just had the july 8 nrg rom in and the fm tuner would open & receive a few channels with NO wired headset plugged in & played it though the speaker..
I want to know if the fm tuner capabilities are based on the rom in general or a specific "fm tuner driver"
Currently on kumars 2.4.1 and of course the fm wont open without a wired headset plugged in : (

Weak FM Radio on HD2

Hi I want to ask you about your FM radio - do you have so poor signal as mine - on my old SE P1i I could find plenty of radio stations - on HD2 with with the same headphones - I can find only ONE in mono mode only!!
Is something wrong with my HD2 or it is typical problem of this model??

hanoszi said:
Hi I want to ask you about your FM radio - do you have so poor signal as mine - on my old SE P1i I could find plenty of radio stations - on HD2 with with the same headphones - I can find only ONE in mono mode only!!
Is something wrong with my HD2 or it is typical problem of this model??
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it seems to be an actual problem, lots of people saying the same thing.

I gave up on the radio, mp3's all the way!!!
but it would have been nice.

Mine works great....

i have the same problem with FM reception, i finally gave up and now have switched to internet radio thanks to skyfire.

Pretty crappy here as well.

SreePillai said:
i have the same problem with FM reception, i finally gave up and now have switched to internet radio thanks to skyfire.
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but how about costs of internet streaming i.e. monthly????

hanoszi said:
but how about costs of internet streaming i.e. monthly????
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that really depends on the kind of data plan you have with the network provider. if u r not on an unlimited plan it might not be the most economical choice.

hanoszi said:
Hi I want to ask you about your FM radio - do you have so poor signal as mine - on my old SE P1i I could find plenty of radio stations - on HD2 with with the same headphones - I can find only ONE in mono mode only!!
Is something wrong with my HD2 or it is typical problem of this model??
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i have this problems but it recives channels via manual tuning

hoss_n2 said:
i have this problems but it recives channels via manual tuning
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Yeep but this stations wich I find manually are still with poor quality of signal so this is not a solution ;(

Same problem -- I used a Touch HD for 18 months and the radio was great. I use it every morning while walking the dogs. But, on the HD2 the radio is noticeably less sensitive and there's intermittent interference on stations that the HD pulled in clearly. I'm using the same wired headset on both.
Since I still have the HD, does anybody think it's a software issue? Or is it in the hardware? Could I copy the radio software from the HD to the HD2?
Thanks

yes I found the same thing between the hd and hd2 radios.
I don't bother using the radio on the hd2 because it's so weak.
Would love a solution to have it working well ie not just streaming instead.