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[Q] HTC Bluetooth controller fix?

Sorry if this has been addressed in another thread, but I haven't been able to find a good answer.
The Bluetooth stack for HTC Sense based android phones has some Bluetooth limitations that do not allow it to pair to Bluetooth game controllers, keyboards, and in some instances mobile (car) audio. I am not a developer so I only have a basic understanding how this works, but I've read that it is due to the SPP profile included being out of date.
A lot of Incredible owning Ford Sync and BMW drivers out there seem to be having issues syncing the Incredible, and I personally would like to be able to use a Wii controller or the Zeemote with my device. I bought a Zeemote for mobile gaming, but I gave it to my Droid X owning friend because it works great on stock Android, but refused to Sync with either my Incredible or another friend's Evo.
Does anyone (especially those people porting non Sense Android 2.2 to the Incredible) know if it would be possible to replace the HTC Bluetooth stack with a stock Android 2.2 Bluetooth stack? Ideally a user installable (with Root of course) APK.

I'd also like to know if this is possible/why it is not, even though I'm increasingly falling in love with CyanogenMod (especially as 6 seems to be nearing a stable release)

You have to download Bluetooth file transfer app from the market. Works perfectly.
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sharra1 said:
You have to download Bluetooth file transfer app from the market. Works perfectly.
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Are you saying this will get our incredibles working as a wiimote?
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Which one? Author?
tia,
jc

Officially, Android does not support BT HID, which is needed for wiimote.
Cynaogenmod has added it via one of the devs who made it possible.
Their code is on github, if you want to attempt trying to port it to Sense based roms.

It's interesting that the Non HTC phones i've tried it on have worked fine if it is a problem with Android in general. I guess Motorolla added their own stack.

Try it on a samsung phone. Its not HTC only.

adrynalyne said:
Officially, Android does not support BT HID, which is needed for wiimote.
Cynaogenmod has added it via one of the devs who made it possible.
Their code is on github, if you want to attempt trying to port it to Sense based roms.
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All we need to do is find an amazing chef like the guy over at Phandroid who makes the FrankenROM. I have 100% faith that guy could pull it off if he tried. He is freaking amazing!

Yes, can someone fix this. Full bluetooth functionality on 2.2 would be awesome!

Good to know about the Samsungs also having this issue. I've not had the opportunity to test a Samsung Android phone. Seems everyone I know has HTC or Motorolla.
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GrandMasterB said:
All we need to do is find an amazing chef like the guy over at Phandroid who makes the FrankenROM. I have 100% faith that guy could pull it off if he tried. He is freaking amazing!
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You have far too much faith in me

adrynalyne said:
You have far too much faith in me
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Last I looked your the one who fixed the sound issue on the dinc.
I am with the op on all this. Cyn6 is nice and all but it still is slower then 2.1 sense.
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jetteichert said:
Last I looked your the one who fixed the sound issue on the dinc.
I am with the op on all this. Cyn6 is nice and all but it still is slower then 2.1 sense.
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link please? what issue is that?

Is anyone willing to cook up full bluetooth functionality in 2.2???

I would kill for this on a stock 2.2 rom w/root. I have a lot of SNES and PS1 games that suck with touchscreen controls.
I will donate money.

Anyone interested in adding bluetooth?

Please anyone smart enough to figure this out?!?
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bump for finding interest...

Also would be hugely greatfull if someone fixed this problem
*has cash ready for donation*

Bluetooth Controllers for Games..

In need of help in finding a gaming controller for the ET4G. I know I can't use my wiimote(bummer), but i need some sort of Bluetooth that works nicely for games. What do you guys recommend?

Does the PS3 controller work or is that only with an ASOP kernel?

It does with six axis in the market I believe
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Kurupt1 said:
It does with six axis in the market I believe
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Have you tried this? Where did you read or see this actually working? I have done extensive research on this and it still needs an AOSP kernel from my findings. If you know of a way that this will work otherwise can you please post some details.

enfurno said:
Have you tried this? Where did you read or see this actually working? I have done extensive research on this and it still needs an AOSP kernel from my findings. If you know of a way that this will work otherwise can you please post some details.
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Here you go, and in the general section. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1309815
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Have you tried this? Where did you read or see this actually working? I have done extensive research on this and it still needs an AOSP kernel from my findings. If you know of a way that this will work otherwise can you please post some details.[
The Sixaxis app works great with my PS3 controller. No more games stopping on me and my controller is lightning quick with its responsiveness.. Ive tried this on nesoid sega and n64 emulator
Btw, I've used this on starburst, midnight, and my current Rom: Calkins 1.0
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ebuechler3 said:
Ive tried this on nesoid sega and n64 emulator
Btw, I've used this on starburst, midnight, and my current Rom: Calkins 1.0
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did n64oid work while you were running Calkulin's? ive heard (myself included) that it FC's when you try to run a rom. share you wisdom! (pls)

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did n64oid work while you were running Calkulin's? ive heard (myself included) that it FC's when you try to run a rom. share you wisdom! (pls)
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yes it crashes

Not any more. It appears to be fixed with his update released today!

My PhoneJoy Controller works awesome on the epic 4g Touch it needs BluezIME to run.

Here's my review of the PhoneJoy Bluetooth controller if you're interested:

Have a quick question....

I have an app that I bought from the market for a buck called btmono. If your not familliar with it, what it does is convert my stero output from my phone and streams it to my mono bt headset. I use it for podcast and such since its not the greatest quality for listening to music. My delima is that it was runnning fine on the stock release froyo and I am currently running phoenix II with no problems. Before I got into custom roms I updated to gingerbread via sprint update and the streaming no longer worked. After probing the net that is how I stumbled onto this site.....thanks guys!!! Anyways, since most of the developers here are way more int the programming side than I am I was justv looking for input. I really want to update to a gingerbread build rom....but thus far they all do the same thing to my bt headset....and for me this is a deal breaker....what sux is that my wife's evo 4g is gb 2.3.3 and it works fine, and 2 days ago I tried it on my brothers stock galaxy 2 touch running gb 2.3.6 and it also worked fine. Humph. So, as a blanket statment....any input would be greatly appriceated!
Thanks in advanced.
Steve

I used to use an older version of that app on froyo. I was never able to get it to work on my epic after moving to leaked builds of gb. It used to be listed in the description in the market as froyo only. I have not tried it in several months and will give it a go again later today when I get home.
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Edit..NVM
Have you tried deleting your bluetooth pairings and rediscovering it?

kennyglass123 said:
Well first off I think you are in the wrong forum. This is the Original Epic not the Epic Touch.
Have you tried deleting your bluetooth pairings and rediscovering it?
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It sounds to me like he is on an og epic, but tried it on other phones for testing purposes.
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jeffro18 said:
It sounds to me like he is on an og epic, but tried it on other phones for testing purposes.
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Ah You are correct...read it too fast. LOL. I see he had Randomking's Pheonix II.

Thanks guys....what puzzles me is that I actually talked to the developer and he says its even running on ics on certain phones. Its also working on my wifes htc evo and my brothers galaxy II touch and they are running gb 2.3.3 and 2.3.6 respectivly. No matter what build of gb I use its always a clean install and I am forced to repair my device. Does the modem that I am using have anything to do with the bt connection?

I am wanting to upgrade to thunderhawk. This is obviously a legal hack....it would be nice if the developers would figure out how it works and include it with their builds like the wifi hack. It actually is quite useful....all system sounds go through the mono bt headset even stereo musuc and podcasts. All without getting a headset that dosent have the adp2 protocol. Honestly I'm supprised google hasent explored this feature more and offered it. From what I hear it was included on older windows phones ans palms, so the idea has been around for awhile.

I have the same problem with mine and my brothers epic... it worked with froyo but not quite right with gingerbread... one day it will work fine, the next day it will work and then cut out, the next day not at all... think the app needs to be updated to fully support epic. It does work sometimes though
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Just spent some time trying to get this to work on thunderhawk 3.3 and still have the same results as on every other gb rom I have tried it with. It will connect, but audio just clips in quickly here and there. This is one thing I really miss from froyo as I used it quite a bit. Not worth going back just for that though. Hopefully this will get some support soon.
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has anyone contacted the dev on the app to ask if it is GB supported? and if it is ask him why it isn't working on the epic. i think this would be a good starting point.

So here is the response I got from thbe developer via email back on nov 22, right after the sprint rollout of gb. As I said before...my wife and my brother both have gb. They just happen to not be epic.
"It is more related to the firmware / drivers / kernel modules than the Android version. The program does work on 2.2, 2.3, and even 3.0+ (haven't tested yet on Ice Cream Sandwich). It works on every HTC device that I'm aware of including my EVO 4G and it works on my Asus Transformer. Unfortunately certain manufacturers seem to alter something in their firmware that prevents it from working. Almost no Motorola devices work, some Samsung devices have certain limitations, etc. Sorry, I can't guarantee that it will work at all. It's not something that Google supports so it's basically just a hack that works in certain circumstances.
Let me know if I can help with anything else. Thanks, Brian Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad."
So let's see if we can get these guys on here....to at least look into it. As I said, it is a very useful feature.

Jeffro, I have the same issues. It connects but the audio drops and it doesn't stream like it is supposed to.
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Just giving a bump to see if anyone is still interested.
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After giving up trying to get bt mono to work on gb builds, I finally tried it on cm9 and it works!
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jeffro18 said:
After giving up trying to get bt mono to work on gb builds, I finally tried it on cm9 and it works!
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Just tried mine on cm9 and it worked flawlessly also! Nice!
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Ahhhh yes it does.....finially seems promissing......gonna wait for the bugs to be worked out.
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F-ing gingerbread.....whoda thunk it had to be slathered in vanilla white innard goodness. ICS.
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[Q] Fm Transmitter?

Hello, I was wondering if the S3 comes with a Fm Transmitter built-in. I have read on one site that it does. And if so is there any way to make use of that functionality?

We believe it comes with an FM radio and it could be able recieve and transmit, there is another thread somewhere about that, but last u checked, the were no libraries for it, no drivers, and some o other issues. Search for FM radio app the developer Mike, is the one whose hunting down the possibility of getting a fix
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Alright thank you. I tried searching for an app on the market but none of them work. I do recall seeing a thread about it somewhere but it seemed to be purely for development purposes. Oh well, I'll stick to my crappy FM transmitter from Walmart for now.
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Hostage XII said:
Alright thank you. I tried searching for an app on the market but none of them work. I do recall seeing a thread about it somewhere but it seemed to be purely for development purposes. Oh well, I'll stick to my crappy FM transmitter from Walmart for now.
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I know that once installed the app from mike is called "Spirit Radio", but I have not found a way to get the stock version of the Galaxy S3 to run it. Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents. According to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059296 though some recent CM9 builds were working with his app after settings changes. I just have yet to take the plunge on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 after the latest OTA (LG8) solved some of the issues I was having with Smart Stay not being too "Smart" and with S-Voice not recognizing commands. I am thinking about doing it just so I can have FM radio on my phone again (I got spoiled by an HTC EVO 4G before picking up this new phone).

Thoragh said:
I know that once installed the app from mike is called "Spirit Radio", but I have not found a way to get the stock version of the Galaxy S3 to run it. Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents. According to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059296 though some recent CM9 builds were working with his app after settings changes. I just have yet to take the plunge on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 after the latest OTA (LG8) solved some of the issues I was having with Smart Stay not being too "Smart" and with S-Voice not recognizing commands. I am thinking about doing it just so I can have FM radio on my phone again (I got spoiled by an HTC EVO 4G before picking up this new phone).
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Thank you! I was able to get the app running although the signal is -17 but there is some hope. I didn't get a chance to try the LG8 went straight to the AOKP ROM.
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Edited:
I thought the FM radio was not a part of the chipset.
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sekigah84 said:
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I thought the FM radio was not a part of the chipset.
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There was a misconception going around for a tiny bit that it was not included. Mike found that it was installed with some sort of Qualcomm based chip, but for whatever reason the US versions took it out of their stock ROMs. The work around is to get apparently either an AOKP ROM or CM9 based ROM and make a few tweaks to his App. The chipset is there, Samsung just is not supporting the US version's FM radio (possibly due to a request from US based carriers as is also rumored but that is unlikely since the new HTC phone came out with the FM radio chipset AND software to run it on the stock ROM).

And i just bought a fm transmitter =(
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I am guessing it has more to do with fcc then the carriers in the u.s.
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stevesprivateaccount said:
I am guessing it has more to do with fcc then the carriers in the u.s.
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I guess there is an outside chance of that, but wouldn't that have affected the HTC device as well then? They both released at basically the same time one with and one without FM capability built into the software only.

Thoragh said:
There was a misconception going around for a tiny bit that it was not included. Mike found that it was installed with some sort of Qualcomm based chip, but for whatever reason the US versions took it out of their stock ROMs. The work around is to get apparently either an AOKP ROM or CM9 based ROM and make a few tweaks to his App. The chipset is there, Samsung just is not supporting the US version's FM radio (possibly due to a request from US based carriers as is also rumored but that is unlikely since the new HTC phone came out with the FM radio chipset AND software to run it on the stock ROM).
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I don't think the US hardware is capable of FM. There is nothing in the hardware in US that can do it. They took it out to save $2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31576462#post31576462

Hostage XII said:
Alright thank you. I tried searching for an app on the market but none of them work. I do recall seeing a thread about it somewhere but it seemed to be purely for development purposes. Oh well, I'll stick to my crappy FM transmitter from Walmart for now.
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Are you talking about like police scanner or like ACS kind of radios?

FM Radio .apk

I haven't heard anything about the FM radio for the Sprint version. I know it is disabled for US versions, but is included with the international version. Is there a difference in LTE chipset?
I would like to get this feature working if possible.
Here is the .apk for the FM radio for international variants. (fails to install though)

bump...could this work?

Would love this as well.
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Bump. This would be a nice feature
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I'm also interested in this. Can anyone confirm that the FM radio is there in hardware on the Sprint/other US versions? If so, it is just a matter of software, right?

bump.

Just tried to install that file and it wouldnt finish. It'd stop and give an error "Application not installed".
Dont think the radio is there.

I pushed it to system/app and set the permissions to rw-r-r. After reboot I get the icon but it just fc. I'll look a little more into it later but probably still won't work anyway even if I can get it to not fc.
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US versions rarely have FM radios. in this case. there is no FM radio.

na7q said:
US versions rarely have FM radios. in this case. there is no FM radio.
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That's the one nice thing about the HTC phones for me atleast. I use FM radio for sporting events. And the Evo 3D and the Evo 4G had the FM radio available to use.

na7q said:
US versions rarely have FM radios. in this case. there is no FM radio.
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Do you mean the hardware is not physically there or just the software?

na7q said:
US versions rarely have FM radios. in this case. there is no FM radio.
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Wow, you sound soo sure. Where is your source?? Samsung hasnt even made this documentation/ pinouts public yet, besides the user manual which I have attached:

Jed Dignazio said:
Wow, you sound soo sure. Where is your source?? Samsung hasnt even made this documentation/ pinouts public yet, besides the user manual which I have attached:
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Does this mean the hardware for the radio is there or it isn't ?
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Wow, you sound soo sure. Where is your source?? Samsung hasnt even made this documentation/ pinouts public yet, besides the user manual which I have attached:
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na7q is correct when he says "US versions rarely have FM radios." See the old compatibility list for my FM app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059296&page=480
As to "there is no FM radio.", I imagine that remains to be proven one way or another.
I can give more information if someone, preferably with SU/root, ran my app here and sent me a debug log: http://d-h.st/rky
Use Menu-> Test-> Email-> Logs and after 20 seconds or so, press Send. Or if no email get /sdcard/sprt_debug.txt .
At a minimum, my guess is that a stock ROM can't support FM; rooted or with custom kernel, who knows yet...

Nice sharing idea.., i very like this application...

Sent a debug log.
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Sent a debug log.
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Thanks.
No sign of the needed FM driver.
In theory it's possible the FM si4705 chip is there, but would need a custom kernel to activate. But I doubt it's even there; it's not there on any other high end Samsungs sold in the US.
I'd recommend writing your politicians, but that's likely a waste of time and they ignore the NABs pleas to compel FM capability.

Uhhhhh... TuneIn?
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Didnt someone do a tear down on androidforums and find the hardware was not there?
If I run across it I will post the link.
I very well could be thinking of one of the other many many phones released in the last year that does not have it
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If you're referring to Tune In Radio, that does no good for local FM (think audio for televisions at the gym) broadcasts.
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