Hmmm when I goto the FM radio there is no sound coming through the earphones. Check the volume is up and nothing at all. I have to rescan each time, and that re jogs the sound output through the headphones..
Also the quailty doesnt sound amazing at all, even with technics headphones.
Music player works fine.
dan 6a said:
Hmmm when I goto the FM radio there is no sound coming through the earphones. Check the volume is up and nothing at all. I have to rescan each time, and that re jogs the sound output through the headphones..
Also the quailty doesnt sound amazing at all, even with technics headphones.
Music player works fine.
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When you scroll with your finger to a frequency you have to press stop and then when you set the frequency press play.
Am pretty pleased with the quality myself, all works well, tunes fast, all the RDS data with station name and program info works.
My experience of the radio is that its utter crap. I tested it on a number of strong signal radio stations and all of them come out mono, no stereo from the radio at all.
also the sound quality sounds like a crap speaker sitting in a bean can. hollow sounding rubbish, very surprised that they can make a radio that rubbish these days.
Mp3 player sounds great though, nice clean full sound.
you can listen radio online
I thought I read somewhere that you can listen to the FM radio through the phone loudspeaker instead of the headphones?
If so, how???
You can but you would still need the earphones as they act as an antenna
discophil said:
My experience of the radio is that its utter crap. I tested it on a number of strong signal radio stations and all of them come out mono, no stereo from the radio at all.
also the sound quality sounds like a crap speaker sitting in a bean can. hollow sounding rubbish, very surprised that they can make a radio that rubbish these days.
Mp3 player sounds great though, nice clean full sound.
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I thought I was coming crazy. all the stations sounds in MONO. incredible....
danielherrero said:
... incredible....
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No, SGS .
discophil said:
My experience of the radio is that its utter crap. I tested it on a number of strong signal radio stations and all of them come out mono, no stereo from the radio at all.
also the sound quality sounds like a crap speaker sitting in a bean can. hollow sounding rubbish, very surprised that they can make a radio that rubbish these days.
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Agree, although utter crap is just too positive a description.
fm radio .. what about transmitter
we have an fm radio at least one step up from nexus one..
does anyone know if the chip has the hardware for an fm transmitter.. maybe someone can implement an app for this..
thanks
Fm radio is mono or stereo
Pls help.
My FM Radio is still MONO.
FM Radio on SGS is MONO or STEREO ?
For what is still MONO ?
It's stereo
The headphone that comes in the package is not good, please use any other headphone[I used the iPhone 2G headphone] and the FM radio is "stereo"[I have Galaxy S in India], the FM just need any headphone not necessarily "samsung". Try this, I have tried it and it works as expected!
-Pramod
I'm sorry for the stupid question, but how do I check whether FM is running in MONO mode or STEREO mode on my phone?
I use other headphone - Coss Porta Pro. FM Radio is still MONO.
I use active loudspeaker, still MONO.
Anybody has STEREO FM radio ?
Pls help with this problem.
I have radio playing MONO too in my SGS. It's not much important for me, but I think it's serious bug in Samsung's flagman phone that costs more than 500 $ ...
did you people even read the previous message, the #2 reply?
the FM radio is STEREO you just need to plug in a STEREO head phone for it to work.
in areas of poor reception it might sound like mono, but that happens even if you have a $3000 car stereo, it's not the phone fault for weak FM sources radio station.
in my city there is a channel i really like to listen to 103.5 but the reception is very poor on most FM radio at home/work/car unless you are near the source, which is on the other side of the city.
luckly they have Online streaming, so i listen to them online when my FM radio reception is poor in whever i happen to be at the time.
mine always plays mono...
AllGamer said:
did you people even read the previous message, the #2 reply?
the FM radio is STEREO you just need to plug in a STEREO head phone for it to work.
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The standard head phones are stereo, you don't need other.
Checked with an STEREO TEST MP3.
But my Radio is also always MONO
AllGamer said:
did you people even read the previous message, the #2 reply?
the FM radio is STEREO you just need to plug in a STEREO head phone for it to work.
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Sennheiser CX300 are the mono headphones you think?
I'd plugged many different headphones, sound ALWAYS MONO instead of mp3-player that STEREO. All radiostations in good quality of reception always mono. It's a bug of Samsung...
I have cause to use the FM radio but listen with a bluetooth A2DP headset. The bluetooth headset says it is connected for media and phone audio. However, the FM radio audio does not get redirected. How do I enable this? Is there an alternate FM radio app that will direct the sound to the bluetooth headset?
And before you guys jump on it, yes in fact there is a cable attached to the headphone jack for antenna. I just don't want to have to use a wired headphone to listen.
little background:
I like to listen to a particular radio station while I ride my bike. I also like to use my phone's GPS feature with a bicycle computer app while it is mounted to the stem on the bike. So it is terribly inconvenient to have a cable running from my ears to the phone while it is mounted on the bike. I built an antenna cable for the phone that connects to the stem cap bolt on the bike, using the bike's steel fork as an antenna. It works brilliantly with the phone's FM radio set to "Speaker", but when you set it to "headset", it doesn't redirect the sound to the bluetooth headset.
It seems too me that the phone is thinking (yes, thinking lol) that it has a headset plugged in and is trying too out put the audio via the headphone port... I kind of know how you feel because wires while riding a bike is quite cumbersome. It clearly seems like an overlooked problem, but most definitely can be fixed via software. I've been looking at bluetooth headsets for a while now, and this seems relavant to my interests... Good luck...
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Can the fm radio become a fm transmitter? Dumb question I know.
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Hardware wise there is no reason why not but the software doesn't exist.
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Another question here, Why can not we use the Fm Radio without headset? Does not this phone have an antenna for Radio?
It's so annoying because I am using a bluetooth headset and Desire HD insistently asks for wired headset for signal.
FM antena
Hi, I think that this is a usual think that mobile phones doesn't have a FM antennas built in. It uses your headphone wire as the antenna.
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Hi, I think that this is a usual think that mobile phones doesn't have a FM antennas built in. It uses your headphone wire as the antenna.
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Exactly. FM transmission is using wavelength of about 3 meters, so the antenna should be much bigger than the phone itself to give you a good reception. You can try to fabricate something out of a 3.5 mm jack and a wire, but the results will be more than doubtful. And in top of that the phone will most probably recognize it as a headphones set, so you'll have to route the sound to your BT headset, not the antenna.
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Even though we manage to establish a antenna as you said the phone directly gives the sound to it and unfortunately eliminates the bluetooth sound transfer. It's really really annoying.
Briefly you can not listen to Fm Radio with your bluetooth headset, you have to use a wired headset.
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Hardware wise there is no reason why not but the software doesn't exist.
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Hello dr.m0x, merry christmas,
not only the antenna is quite different for fm radio, the complete transmitting hardware needs a different part of hf amplifier for fm frequencies. Software doesn't help here.
The original headset seems to be optimized as fm antenna, tried another headset but fm radio had poor radio reception.
WBR peschi
Additional info.
DHD's FM radio receptin quality is really poor compared to Sony Ericsson WM600 bluetooth headset (including radio).
I know this is going to sound stupid, but I wanted to listen to FM Radio on the Moto G using my bluetooth stereo headset.
I took an old earphon and just cut it, leaving about 8 inches hanging from the audio jack. It worked fine as an antenna.
For some odd reason, my Bluetooth headset wasn't getting any audio from the FM Radio app. I started another audio app and played a MP3. Then the audio from the FM Radio started getting mixed with the MP3. I closed the MP3 and then the radio played fine.
badkitties said:
I know this is going to sound stupid, but I wanted to listen to FM Radio on the Moto G using my bluetooth stereo headset.
I took an old earphon and just cut it, leaving about 8 inches hanging from the audio jack. It worked fine as an antenna.
For some odd reason, my Bluetooth headset wasn't getting any audio from the FM Radio app. I started another audio app and played a MP3. Then the audio from the FM Radio started getting mixed with the MP3. I closed the MP3 and then the radio played fine.
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Can you elaborate on the exact steps and software you are using to get this to work? I've connected external headphones/speakers to my audio jack to act as an antenna, starter the FM app, then started another MP3 playing app (Apollo, poweramp, Google Music) and cannot get the 'mixing' affect you are describing. Am using 4.4.2.
The only revolutionary thing I've discovered is I can use the Google Play "HF Button" to route the FM radio out the moto g speaker rather than external headphones.
Would love to get FM radio routed out my bluetooth headphones.
I want the moderator to ban me.
Has anyone had succes with listening to the radio fm over bluetooth speakers?
I use a cut down headphone jack as an antena and I can hear it from the speaker, but as soon as I try to use the bluetooth headphones it cuts the sound.
The case is that after some trying i have been able to listen to it over the bluetooth headphones but a restart of the phone (update to miui11) has made it to not work again. It doesn't matter in what order I connect the headphone jack or the bluetooth headphones, it doesn't work.
It even can record the radio while connected to the BT but there is no sound while the redio is ON. Even if I listen to MP3 music as soon as I start the radio it goes muted and as soon as I stop the radio app it starts playing the music again.
I know It can work as it has worked for me in the same phone (9T) and previous phones (redmi 4, and pocophone F1). Usually I had to first connect the jack and then the BT headphones to be able to hear the radio.
Edit: Tried with real headphones and it seems that the radio app will output to the jack headphones every time, even if there is a BT headphone connected.