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FM-radio on wizard?!?

Found this on MsMobilenews:
http://www.msmobilenews.com/page/1247/
Maybe a solution for Wisard with a PPS-device!

Whatz a PPS device ?Does this work on a 02 Mini S ?

Thats on an Eten G500... which looks like this......

Hi, i put in my SPV M3000 (QTEK 9100), when i lauch the .exe it open the soft and ask a "port to communicate" (sorry for my bad english)... so something may have to be done but it s to hard for me.
Who tried it also ?

Yeah asks says port is not available I guess it wont work on Wiz after all

The wizard has not the hardware to pick up fm radio - it would have to be via mini sd card, there is a sd version but i don't think mini-sd version yet.
Nice try guys you could always attach a long bit of string and a plastic cup on the end to your wizard! You might hear something but most prob nothing

LOL

meschle said:
Nice try guys you could always attach a long bit of string and a plastic cup on the end to your wizard! You might hear something but most prob nothing
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LOL

meschle said:
The wizard has not the hardware to pick up fm radio - it would have to be via mini sd card, there is a sd version but i don't think mini-sd version yet.
Nice try guys you could always attach a long bit of string and a plastic cup on the end to your wizard! You might hear something but most prob nothing
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:arrow: lol :arrow: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The closest I found was http://www.thestreamcenter.com/pda

resco radio, picked it up the other, ITS AWESOME...just find a stream from ur fav radio station and add it...it already comes preset with a bunch of them...uses gprs, so unless u got unlimited, dont try it...

I'm using one of these chinese handsfree+builtin-FM. Works very well. But no digital controlling

Or try the Nokia HS-12W. It is a stereo bluetooth headset (still plug in headphones to the unit). It also has FM radio capabilities. To use for phone calls, you will need to have headphones with an in-line microphone as this unit does not have a built in microphone.

IdeaDirect said:
Or try the Nokia HS-12W. It is a stereo bluetooth headset (still plug in headphones to the unit). It also has FM radio capabilities. To use for phone calls, you will need to have headphones with an in-line microphone as this unit does not have a built in microphone.
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Umm... Yes it does.

nolodude said:
IdeaDirect said:
Or try the Nokia HS-12W. It is a stereo bluetooth headset (still plug in headphones to the unit). It also has FM radio capabilities. To use for phone calls, you will need to have headphones with an in-line microphone as this unit does not have a built in microphone.
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Umm... Yes it does.
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I should have clarified. The unit itself does not have a microphone. When you buy the HS12, it includes some earbuds that DO have an inline microphone in the cord. My response was a bit unclear... I was searching for a bluetooth headset solution that would allow me to use my preferred earbuds and ruled this unit out because my earbuds do not have an inline microphone. So yes, if you get the HS12 and use the supplied earbuds, their is indeed an inline microphone (or use any other earbuds with an inline microphone).

HD FM Radio - Antenna?

hey lucky folks with HDs ;-)
how does the FM Radio work on the HD? Do you need to use the headset as antenna, like on the polaris? Or does the HD have built in antennas?
boba

antenna
you have to use your earpiece as antenna. No build in fm antenna

And it has to be the one that comes in the box. You can't use a Touch or Diamond headset. Which I thought was odd...
But yah, the 3.whatever mm jack in the top of the handset is used for the antenna.

Hi,
I don't use the ones that come in the box. Just use my own headphones. Radio works fine
Ofiaich

ofiaich said:
Hi,
I don't use the ones that come in the box. Just use my own headphones. Radio works fine
Ofiaich
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Tested the radio on the Touch HD at a local store with my own earphones and it worked great...

Insaneboy said:
Tested the radio on the Touch HD at a local store with my own earphones and it worked great...
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Phew, thanks for the correction. I want to use my own better set of headphones and still use the radio.

And it works fine with a 3.5 <> 3.5 lead (for use to plug into a car radio or audio input) using the loudspeaker.
So in a strong signal area, it will work fine with 3.5 plug + short wire
Kev

According to the Touch HD manual:-
Output
Select whether to use the device Speaker or Wired Headset to listen to the radio.

Beards said:
According to the Touch HD manual:-
Output
Select whether to use the device Speaker or Wired Headset to listen to the radio.
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Yes, but first plug in an antenna
The radio program is really nice you can change between speaker/phones with one easy finger friendly button.

What can you say about the quality from the fm Radio. I can´t get a RDS Signal, or it is still available only for 2 - 3 seconds.

Insaneboy said:
Beards said:
According to the Touch HD manual:-
1. Output
Select whether to use the device Speaker or Wired Headset to listen to the radio.
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Yes, but first plug in an antenna
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D'ya reckon that would work for BT headphones too (after plugging in a 3.5mm jacked antenna that is)?... I have a feeling the answer is no... hmmm.

do you have a cab of FMradio? I want it for my xperia, panel sucks

Even using a stereo plug radio works fine. Then the only choice is explicitly set device speakers for radio. Even in case of active AD2P connection, the sound is only played through device speakers or wired headphones.
Normally when using bluetooth headphones I insert a 3.5 Jack(just the jack no headphones on it) to make sure that device speakers will not start banging if the bluetooth headphones run out of battery or get disconnected for some reason. And in city center this seems to be enough to make radio work for certain channels though since bt is not used, not much benefit in having it.

How to listen to FM radio using loadspeaker?

Good afternoon
I have been pulling my hair out over this for a bit.... basically i cannot get my Defy to play the FM radio out of the loadspeaker! When i access the media app in homescreen 2 on the right, it plays radio flawlessly, however i like to listen to it via loadspeaker until i sleep. There is a button for the headphones, i have tried pressing this and it turns off the headphones, if i increase the volume after this it just tells me the ringer volume is going up!
Any ideas?
Am i missing the blatently obvious?
Am i a useless freak?
Am i mildly insane?
any help advice suggestions greatly appreciated
Thanx!

gobble_di_gook said:
Good afternoon
I have been pulling my hair out over this for a bit.... basically i cannot get my Defy to play the FM radio out of the loadspeaker! When i access the media app in homescreen 2 on the right, it plays radio flawlessly, however i like to listen to it via loadspeaker until i sleep. There is a button for the headphones, i have tried pressing this and it turns off the headphones, if i increase the volume after this it just tells me the ringer volume is going up!
Any ideas?
Am i missing the blatently obvious?
Am i a useless freak?
Am i mildly insane?
any help advice suggestions greatly appreciated
Thanx!
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Calm, calm... it's not your fault. The radio won't work without the headphones being jacked-in because they act as the antenna. I believe this is the reason.

scrannel said:
Calm, calm... it's not your fault. The radio won't work without the headphones being jacked-in because they act as the antenna. I believe this is the reason.
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Yep. Smartphones don't have a built in FM antenna (none I'm aware of anyway) so yeah...unless you are under the broadcast tower you don't have much of a chance of getting any stations.
I have the touch pro which has the same issue. I think someone could likely make a hack to use the speaker, but you would still have to have the antenna present.

Hi guys... thanx but I don't think you are quite understanding my issue . I have the heaDphones plugged in to get reception, however I would like to play the radio through the loudspeaker...whilst leaving the headphones plugged in I could do this with my nokia 5800

gobble_di_gook said:
Hi guys... thanx but I don't think you are quite understanding my issue . I have the heaDphones plugged in to get reception, however I would like to play the radio through the loudspeaker...whilst leaving the headphones plugged in I could do this with my nokia 5800
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When you plug in the headphones it MUTES the main speaker. I think it's a physical thing. I don't think there's an app that can over come it. Unless you've listened to some other source that plays through the main speaker with the headphones also plugged in -- then there should be a way to over-come it. According to a Motorola tech the radio's designed to turn off when the headphones are removed.

ahh!
so it is simply not possible with stock firmware... i shall investigate how to overcome this

gobble_di_gook said:
ahh!
so it is simply not possible with stock firmware... i shall investigate how to overcome this
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Actually I'm just saying I don't know how to do it. But if it's a mechanical connection then I'm not sure any firmware would make it work.

You could try toggleheadset widget from here:
http://code.google.com/p/toggleheadset2/ or the original version http://code.google.com/p/toggleheadset/
It is on the Android market but you have to pay for it.
It was originally developed for the G1 because sometimes it was not recognising that the headset was plugged in. It enables you to toggle between headset and earphones. I had the same problem on my Hero. Although it says it is for Android 1.6, I had it working on a 2.1 rom, but don't blame me if it blows your device up!

crazy
thats retarded of motorola, the stock radio app should have a button to switch the audio from earphone to speaker-phone.

An alternate solution, if you have a good data plan or reliable wi-fi by your bedside, is to just stream the same station over the Internet. Get XiiaLite from the Market and queue up your favourite streaming station. You can set a timer from within the app to turn off after a specified number of minutes or even to fade out slowly.

Very clumsy but incredibly complete is "Radio Time", which Sonos uses as their radio source. It's streaming though.
There's an app on the market called "Sound route switcher." Anyone try that?

gobble_di_gook said:
Hi guys... thanx but I don't think you are quite understanding my issue . I have the heaDphones plugged in to get reception, however I would like to play the radio through the loudspeaker...whilst leaving the headphones plugged in I could do this with my nokia 5800
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Instead of using the headphones as an antenna, you could try using an FM antenna wire like the ones that came with car navi's. It has four seperate sections at the mini jack; it uses the headphone slot on my navi and does not switch off the main speaker of it (probably bridges the contacts that are unbridged by a headphone three piece jack).
Cannot try it here; I have the antenna but no Defy here.

scrannel said:
When you plug in the headphones it MUTES the main speaker. I think it's a physical thing. I don't think there's an app that can over come it. Unless you've listened to some other source that plays through the main speaker with the headphones also plugged in -- then there should be a way to over-come it. According to a Motorola tech the radio's designed to turn off when the headphones are removed.
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Actually it`s not a physical thing, it can be routed via software to the headphone or the speaker, you can test it by connecting the headphones and them calling to your phone, it will ring through the speakers not the headphone. The Milestone have a standalone radio app and let you hear fm radio through the speaker.

FM Radio loudspeaker fix
I installed a FMRadio.apk on my T-Mo US Defy and it works fine. Just copy to root of SD card and use Astro File Manager to install. Loudspeaker works fine with headphones plugged in. Hope it helps.

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I installed a FMRadio.apk on my T-Mo US Defy and it works fine. Just copy to root of SD card and use Astro File Manager to install. Loudspeaker works fine with headphones plugged in. Hope it helps.
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Confirm with 2.2 Pays-ROM
Also since it's possible send audio on loudspeaker may it be possible route it on BT headsed?
More than that - there a lot of phones with radio (samsung, for example) which have built-in radio works with earphones plugged in, and i've used pathces on their firmwares to make radio works WITHOUT headset. Ant it worked. @City with good signal, at least.

I too am interested in this, routing audio through my bluetooth headset could be achieved on a Nokia E51, is it possible to do the same thing on Android?

As I known - FM Radio Speaker is an easy-to-use tool that can turn on the speaker to play when the headphones are inserted.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wikimediacom.fm.radio.speaker

Fm radio

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.

snooffy said:
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).

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!