Evening all,
I've searched pretty hard but can't find anything on this. Is there any way of tuning the FM radio below 88mhz? I want to pick up a signal around the 70mhz mark. It sounds like it's possible on some of the Galaxy phones by editing a registry entry. Any idea if it's possible on the Defy?
thanks heaps
matt
So I've found the Spirit FM Radio app on here that supports the Japanese frequencies and goes as low as 76mhz FM. It doesn't allow any lower than that, though, unfortunately....
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Hi,
When I use the HD2's builtin FM player I only get noise.
It can't find any radio stations, also doesn't play them if I manually select a correct frequency (101.0FM or 98.7FM or 87.6FM, Netherlands)
What should I do?
Do nothing. The radio on an HD2 is about as useful as a kick in the goolies.
There is a registry tweak to alter the sensitivity, but this will just waste 2 minutes of your life as it makes no difference at all to the reception quality.
The HD2 is great but its radio sucks balls.
nobnut said:
Do nothing. The radio on an HD2 is about as useful as a kick in the goolies.
There is a registry tweak to alter the sensitivity, but this will just waste 2 minutes of your life as it makes no difference at all to the reception quality.
The HD2 is great but its radio sucks balls.
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Couldnt have put it better......
Some have said that a different radio will make a difference.......
In fact, if your HD2 does have a functioning radio, it is a faulty unit and should be returned for repair back to its normal state (static across all frequencies).
nobnut said:
Do nothing. The radio on an HD2 is about as useful as a kick in the goolies.
There is a registry tweak to alter the sensitivity, but this will just waste 2 minutes of your life as it makes no difference at all to the reception quality.
The HD2 is great but its radio sucks balls.
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Can you point me to this tweak? I've got 2 minutes to waste!
Greg in Mississippi
Hi Greg,
I can't lay my hands on it right now but I am 99.9% certain it is contained within BSB Tweaks - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589305&highlight=bsb+tweaks
Good luck.
Has worked for me on all roms and radios ive used...
Bought my hd2 ~6 months or so ago, that 'UK' version (trough the internets), using it in the netherlands, had several official and several custom roms, several radios, and the radio has always worked a-ok?..
Just to be certain of my reply i tested just now, it works, im located near amsterdam (~15km) if that matters.
Maybe 'you all' actually got faulty radio antennas or something??
Excellent, I will move to Amsterdam straight away!
I want to listen to my HD2 radio.
I highly recommend Mr Banana that you take your HD2 straight to an authorised stockist who will be happy to 'repair' your radio back to its natural state - broken.
lol nah thx.
Besides, seeing how i was to jumpy to wait on a dutch release, ive got no warranty whatsoever
Warranties are vastly over-rated. I believe them to be a trick employed by secret Government departments to control citizens' movements. Some people even believe that warranties were used during the Gulf War by Saddam Hussein as a chemical weapon against the Kurds.
I have no evidence of this but I too have no warranty cover for my HD2 due to my propensity to flash ROMs in an inappropriate manner.
I tried flashing some different radio's but still couldnt get it to work.
I made a video for you guys so you can see exactly whats going on.
At the end of the video is full specs of the device including what software versions + radio. Volume is very low, if you turn up the volume you can hear the "gggggg" noise when the radio is supposed to play.
youtube.com/watch?v=5WAgRCg3KF4
The reason I want my FM radio to work is to be prepared when TMC/RDS becomes avaiable so it can communicate with iGO
Hope it helps!
Thundahawk said:
youtube.com/watch?v=5WAgRCg3KF4
Hope it helps!
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Video is set to private.
reijkelhof said:
Video is set to private.
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Fixed sorry.
Thundahawk said:
Fixed sorry.
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solution should be simple.
My HD2 warns me that FM radio only works with headphones plugged in, since it functions as the antenna.
I can see you do not have the headphones plugged in, hence, the static.
Trust me, even with head phones plugged in...................
hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
You may be able to pick up a signal by ramming a wire coat hanger in the 3.5mm jack and standing on the roof of your house though.........
I would try it but I dont have a ladder
I never realized I had to plugin the earphones for antenna function. I tried it and I have radio working now! Thanks!
conantroutman said:
Trust me, even with head phones plugged in...................
hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
You may be able to pick up a signal by ramming a wire coat hanger in the 3.5mm jack and standing on the roof of your house though.........
I would try it but I dont have a ladder
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hehehe
My FM radio works well, when I am outside.
Inside stores and such there are too many interferences, a lot of the time.
"I tried it and I have radio working now! Thanks!"
you are welcome, And the first person I was able to help on XDA
Glad to hear it............ Mines a complete turkey.. indoors / outdoors......
Im gonna try my own advice and see if that helps.... glad the problems sorted though.......
twitter cyanogen
Listening to FM radio on my Nexus One #miui #cyanogenmod6
13 minutes ago
nice. I'm listening to FM on miui.
what does the interface look like? (like miui?) (edit: its the same miui app as per the commits)
rds? (edit: no)
digital scanner? seek? (edit: no, no)
Hope apps2sdext is coming along too
I think the last time I listened to FM radio was 4 or 5 years ago. I find the demand for this hard to believe.
Same here. Now if they got the FM transmitter working that'd be a different story.
It does look like Miui (still a few Chinese characters on the app). It is pretty basic.. no scanner, etc.. but it has crystal clear sound. I am also not sure when exactly I will use it, but I love it anyway
It's now in the latest nightly.
Yes.
It work great for me.
But if it could Digital Scan (Auto scan), It will be better.
GldRush98 said:
I think the last time I listened to FM radio was 4 or 5 years ago. I find the demand for this hard to believe.
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its pretty useful in some situations.. ie when i goto the gym, you need an FM radio to tune into the TV screens audio stream while on the treadmill
Of course, if you don't want it, you won't care... ;-p
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I hope they Stockify the UI a bit...but other than that...I'm all for it...I mean sh!t...why not? lol
Cool Beans!
Hope to see it make its way to other roms as well as Cyanogenmod
My JVC worked fine with all my other phones.
But with the S3, I get lots of crackling sound whenever I use bluetooth from the SIII. I still get the music, there is just crackling that goes along with it.
I've tried stock ROM and several other ROM's & kernels, including AOKP and CM9. No change in the problem at all.
Gonna take the SIII to AT&T tomorrow to have them replace it, unless someone else has a better suggestion.
CZ Eddie said:
My JVC worked fine with all my other phones.
But with the S3, I get lots of crackling sound whenever I use bluetooth from the SIII. I still get the music, there is just crackling that goes along with it.
I've tried stock ROM and several other ROM's & kernels, including AOKP and CM9. No change in the problem at all.
Gonna take the SIII to AT&T tomorrow to have them replace it, unless someone else has a better suggestion.
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I have the Tunelink bluetooth adapter for iphone/android, and it works fine with my verizon GSIII. No crackling, perfect audio.
I am not having any bt problems with my pioneer deck
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CZ Eddie said:
My JVC worked fine with all my other phones.
But with the S3, I get lots of crackling sound whenever I use bluetooth from the SIII. I still get the music, there is just crackling that goes along with it.
I've tried stock ROM and several other ROM's & kernels, including AOKP and CM9. No change in the problem at all.
Gonna take the SIII to AT&T tomorrow to have them replace it, unless someone else has a better suggestion.
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I've owned 3 different android phones and have experienced crackling in high frequencies with every single bluetooth device I've tested. Headphones, car audio docks, portable a2dp receivers... all complete sh1t. This is due to A2DP audio compression codec which producers these artifacts when audio stream becomes too complex for it to handle. No worries tho, as SGS3 now supports aptX A2DP codec so I'd suggest you start looking into bluetooth receivers that support aptX... or, just stick with good old analog audio over the 3.5mm audio cable. Many years of fighting A2DP and always come back to this rock solid solution.
Thanks, guys.
All my other phones were also Android.
If the replacement phone has the same problem then I'll try a newer car stereo and look for one with aptX support.
Also having issues
I have the same issue with my S3 and both my JVC car receiver and my Rocketfish headphones. Any other options besides upgrading receiving devices (my car receiver is very new)? Any possibility of changing the codec that is being used?
CZ Eddie said:
My JVC worked fine with all my other phones.
But with the S3, I get lots of crackling sound whenever I use bluetooth from the SIII. I still get the music, there is just crackling that goes along with it.
I've tried stock ROM and several other ROM's & kernels, including AOKP and CM9. No change in the problem at all.
Gonna take the SIII to AT&T tomorrow to have them replace it, unless someone else has a better suggestion.
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I have jvc kd-x50bt and sound is perfect try to upgrade firmware and even if you bought radio recently that dont mean you have new firmware
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Thanks for the idea... Unfortunately updating the firmware did not resolve my problem.
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I have jvc kd-x50bt and sound is perfect try to upgrade firmware and even if you bought radio recently that dont mean you have new firmware
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A replacement phone resolved the issue.
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Can anyone point me to where I can figure out what all the sound control means in the Trickster MOD app? The speaker amp control confuses me...I am not sure what attack time, release time, hold time, output limit, max ACG Gain and Noise Gate Threshold do.....if anyone has optimal settings to make the speakers loud and clear I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
No one modifies their sound or something?
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No one modifies their sound or something?
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not everyone uses the trickster app, nor does every kernel/rom use fauxs implimentation off sound control.
Thank you for replying. I understand not EVERYONE uses it. But one person who could share information or point me towards somewhere I could get the information I'm looking for would be nice. I mean this is a developer phone so we can all share our tweaks and get the most from it right?
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Thank you for replying. I understand not EVERYONE uses it. But one person who could share information or point me towards somewhere I could get the information I'm looking for would be nice. I mean this is a developer phone so we can all share our tweaks and get the most from it right?
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absolutely.
but its also fun experimenting. since not everyone is going to think the same configuration is the best, we all have differing opinions to what sounds good. maybe you can find whats perfect for you and your ears
I'm running the 12-10 CM11 nightly and the headset volume is really low. I use an FM transmitter in my car because I'm old skool like that and I have to crank the head unit all the way up just to get music to play at an acceptable level. My question to you: what apps are you all running (if any at all) to help boost output?
I did not find a good way to boost the volume while I was on CM. One of the things I missed from stock. So I'm all stock now for that reason and a few other reasons.
I tried several apps and none of boost the sound but have no problems reducing output. Is there something in the build.prop that can be changed or is that only earpiece volume?
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There is the sound mod for increase in the development section... Try that if not... Then Viper4Android....the app can blast music like no tmr
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Like a Baws!
Would changing the values in system/etc/mixer_paths.xml work as well?