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fm transmitter for defy?

I travel a lot & use my tomtom for directions, to answer calls via BT and to transmit my mp3s to the car radio. I know that the defy has a built in fm radio but was wondering if anyone had seen an fm transmitter to suit the defy?
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Kind of funny posting a reply to my own question but thought other ppl might be checking up on this.
I've found 2 possible ways to transmit audio from your defy to your car's fm radio.
1) using tunelink for android, this would work well, but costs US$100, this has just been released as far as i'm aware.
2) As per another forum post on xda, the defy has a built in fm transmitter, cool, so save ur US$100 and spend it on ur girlfriend!

I use the old Motorola T505 bluetooth speakerphone with FM transmitter for a long time now, and it has always worked flawlessly (currently paired with my WM phone). There are many of them for sale on eBay, much cheaper than Tunnelink's. However, if some cook out there figures out how to activate the Defy's FM transmitter, it will mean less gadgets (and chargers) to carry.
Regards,
Carlos
UPDATE: my old T505 is now paired with my new Defy, and it keeps working flawlessly, for both phone calls and music streaming to my car's radio.

I use the old Motorola T505
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same here, works fine, allow me to transmitt music and calls to the car fm
bought for 55$ on ebay

Unless I'm missing something here, the FM transmitter can be found in the Music App open it and click the radio icon at the botton of the home screen, you will need the headphones plugged in for the Fm radio to work.

this is the radio reciever

Sorry I miss read the post. Wasn't aware that the Defy had a FM transmitter. Had one for my iPod of awhile but didn't have much luck with it. There are to many FM stations in the area so finding a free freq is really had. The radios in my vehicles have the aux. jack so it's pretty easy with the patch cable. Don't know if it broadcast the phone that way though haven't tried it.

don't waste ur cash on an fm transmitter, my twin brother who has a defy has explained to me how to use bluetooth audio and I can now transmit the audio on my defy to my car radio via blue tooth, thanks PJ!
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How did you set this up?

gday erra, pair ur phone with ur car radio making sure you select calls plus audio on the car radio side, then when ur phone is connected to ur car radio via this blue tooth link, when you play music on your mobile the car radio will play the music. your car will need to have blue tooth and also support blue tooth audio which I'm told is quite standard now, best to consult ur car's manual, good luck, it's awesome & clear as when u get it going, most important thing is to pair for calls & audio
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it's nice to have our defy fm transmitter but i just don't like the fact that it only has 10 station presets ... we have around 20 here in the philippines ... but i really dont care that much barely tapping that radio button ...

I heard, that it works on Ipods from the new Generation...so perhaps you can look how they get it to work...

just to clear something up, the radio ur talking about is a fm receiver, the defy apparently has an fm transmitter on the phones board but no one can work out how to use it yet
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i doubt it has also an antenna for the fm transmitter.

I just got a t505, have only tested calls and music so far. Took one minute to set up and works flawlessly, no static, very clear on my end, pretty clear to others on calls. It is an old car with only a radio/cassette and the sound is surprisingly good for music, cuts the treble out a bit but sounds much clearer than expected. I like the way it automatically finds the best station and tells you to tune to it. No regrets at all

Cheaper alternatives
I was also looking for same device. So I searched "fm transmitter" at dealextreme. It's cheaper than Motorola (the quality, though, may be lower).

Hold on dirtbaghh - you're saying that Defy can transmit on FM? That would be cool. Any more info??

the t505 is very usefull and freespech is included. top!

Calls now route through normal headphones on Gingerbread!

Has anyone else tried this? I'm not sure if this is the consequence of Voodoo7 with Fugu mod, or if it is contained in the stock kernel. My Sennheiser headphones route calls through the headphone now with no issues.
EDIT: Oh yeah, headphone to speaker switching works just fine as well

what a good news ! A very good reason to switch to gingerbread !

If they could also add support for different controls on the headphones (play, pause, next song, volume up, down). I would like to use my remote controls adapter I got with nokia 5800xm because with it I can connect my sennheiser headphones that don't have play/pause buton built in.
Also since ginger likes having led lights on. They could program them to light the right one when we have a missed call (looks like a missed call arrow) and the left one when we have a missed message (looks like some txt). That would make ginger perfect
Both things are simple and can be solved through software! I hope Google/Samsung or some coder is listening

Well, I know voodoo 7 on froyo lets you receive calls on headphones with no issues..

It's been included in the stock firmware since gingerbread
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My Siemens Bluetooth headset does all the above wirelessly. Media controls, play, volume. skip etc. and call controls. Also can be paired to multiple devices. Cost me £7.50 on eBay I bought two so I could use one with the line in on the car using a double male lead rather than have a connecting lead.

Any chance for a link to that Siemens bluetooth headset?
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AFAIK speedmod includes the HPCall patch that does this in froyo. Voodoo 7 in darky or voodoo kernels didn't get this working for me, contrary to the above post.

Froyo 2.2.1 (XWJS3) does this as well.
With headphones, calls go thorugh headphones.
With speakers (high impedance), music goes through the speakers, but calls come on the phone.
Don't remember what the 'speaker' button does in the last case; I think it sends to the connected speakers and not the internal speaker, but I am not so sure.

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My Siemens Bluetooth headset does all the above wirelessly. Media controls, play, volume. skip etc. and call controls. Also can be paired to multiple devices. Cost me £7.50 on eBay I bought two so I could use one with the line in on the car using a double male lead rather than have a connecting lead.
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A link for the headset would be nice...

Using EVO as MP3 player

This weekend, I lost my 1st gen iPod nano
I've been using my EVO in the car, and I really like it.
Who else does this? What are some tips?
For example, when I'm listening to music, and a text comes in, the music stops and the chime is incredibly loud through the car speakers. I would like for this to not happen anymore.
What are some good accessories for this?
Thanks!

Well the only way to stop the ringing is by turning notification sounds off.
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some music apps have a setting as to whether or not you have disruptions. i think winamp is one, it can lower the volume and have a notification or no notifications. i just use the stock player and just set it to vibrate.

I use it as my MP3 Player...
I use this application called Audiogalaxy....it allows me to hear all the music that's in my PC through my phone...I love it!

I just have my notifications set to be really quiet all the time, but that's just a personal preference that transfers well to using the phone as an mp3 player.
I use PowerAmp; I'm a fan of the way it looks, the lockscreen widget, and I also like how I can have it start playing automagically when I plug the aux. cable in, and it stops when I pull it out. Eventually I'll get a bluetooth setup, but that costs money.
Someday after I get my google music collection properly tagged and organized I'll give the google music player a shot to see how it is, but right now with a 16gb microsd card, it seems to be enough for me to maintain a good enough collection.

I've just started using my evo 4g as a mp3 player for my car and love it. I used to use my ipod touch, but got tired of syncing music. Now I use my evo and the new google music beta with my evo connected to my system using an aux. wire. I never really had any problems with my notifications going off with the music playing.

It works good playing podcasts to, I use Doggcatcher (worth the 6.99) I drive all day and music gets old, there are tons out there depending on your interests, I like when calls come through the car speakers... hands free all the way!
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In one of my cars I've got a Pioneer AVIC D3 GPS system with bluetooth. What's awesome about this system and my EVO is that the Pioneer unit supports A2DP stereo. So I can actually play my music through bluetooth, no cable connection required! Pretty badass.
The only bad thing about it is that Android bluetooth is ass because the bitpool settings are too low and there's no way to up them. As a result bluetooth sound quality sucks. On my old Windows Mobile 6.1 phone you could change the bitpool settings by editing the registry, and with my Senheiser MM100 bluetooth headphones I swear the sound is a good as a decent pair of wired headphones. Hooked up to my Evo the same headphones are unlistenable. That's why I still use my old Windows mobile phone as an MP3 player for the gym.

I listen to Pandora all day at the office using my EVO connected to an Altec Lansing Bluetooth speaker.
I had the "GPS Reboot" issue on my old EVO, so I just use it like an iPod to listen to my mp3's loaded on the SD card, and occasionally Pandora when I have WiFi access. Like having a free iPod.
As an aside, I keep my current work EVO stock (except for the launcher), and use my old EVO for loading different ROM's etc. Best of both worlds.

My EVO repalced my iPod months ago. I have a 16GB card, and I use PlayerPro.
Loaded with features and it looks nice! Well worth the $$$
I also use DI.FM Radio, which is linked in my signature.
If you like electronic music, you will *love* DI.FM!

Bluetooth Speakers

Hi,
I am trying to be clever and play music in two rooms at once. I assumed that if I bought a bluetooth receiver (Belkin Music Receiver) then that would be a good cheap way of doing it but it seems that I can only have one room going at a time.
Setup is
Room 1 - Xoom in the speaker doc in my kitchen
Room 2 - bluetooth receiver into my surround sound
They both work well but don't play at the same time together - help!!
Dom

Bump - still no joy on this, any ideas?
Dom

That's just the way ot works
That's just the way bluetooth works. Picture having a bluerooth headset on and your conversation blasting away for all to hear.

I do not think that you can do that. It will only choose one way to play music at a time. You need to output the music and split it outside the device.
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Bluetooth headset with A2DP recommendations?

Hi all, can you guys recommend an inexpensive bluetooth headset with A2DP? My Razr M should be here any minute according to my FedEx tracking. 3 times a week I'm on the road from 4:30 AM to 11:AM and I listen to a lot of podcast. Any suggestions with be gladly appreciated.

My recommendation is for you to get a cheap BT headset you can get one from tmiphones.com access code 55464 under accessories for pretty cheap and go to the play store download an app called BT mono and connect the headset to your phone then turn this app on and it creates the same type of link to the Bluetooth without the need to search for a2dp specific BT. I use BT mono all the time and it works perfect.
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What does a2dp do?

For a RAZR M I would get a Motorola S11 HD Flex if you can order from Motorola directly. There was a problem with the original run where the back plastic would break, but they are shipping a remedied version now.
The reason I recommend them is that they use the new apt-x codec. It's a lot better sounding than A2DP because it is a lossless codec. The RAZR line is one of the phew device lines to use apt-x, so I'd recommend using it if you can

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What does a2dp do?
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a2dp headphones allows media (music/movies) to play in the bluetooth headphones/headset, where as ones without a2dp just do voice.

i'm using Sony Ericsson MW600

I am using the Motorola M305 "Rocker"
It is a wrap around style that covers both ears. The battery lasts forever and I personally do not like having a bud in my ear for long periods of time - so I find these extremely comfortable to wear for a while to listen to music or podcasts. I don't know, if you are driving, if you would feel uncomfortable with a full over-ear headset, but I love these.
They also pair perfectly with the phone, my laptop, my ipod, and my work ipad. So multi-device pairing - yes!
I work in Audio production, and for a wireless headset, the response on these is very good - probably because they have normal sized drivers instead of tiny bud style drivers. They also have skip/pause/end/answer and volume buttons on the right earpad. You can control the music without looking at your phone.
They might feel a little cheap - plastic - but I have found that they are more durable than they look.
right now on Amazon I think they are $39 - so for me, it's the best sounding Bluetooth headset at that price point. (I'm sure you could try the one AKG is making now for SUPER sound audiophiles ... but you'll pay >$130)