I've heard that the other USA SG2's don't have an FM radio. Does the T-mobile version have one?
Not a true fm radio. Has internet radio (slacker).
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slacker sucks lol cant wait till i remove all that bloatware
I like Slacker, but I completely agree about the Bloatware. I'm on Prepaid and cant even use TMO Visual voicemail (or any for that matter), yet I cant uninstall it either.
Not a fan of slacker here either....the Bloatware HAS to go asap, it bothers me everytime I use my phone lol.
And back on topic a TRUE fm radio would be really cool for this phone
I never have used the FM radio app on my previous phones but I like having it just in case haha
Tunein Radio has some of my local FM stations so I guess that works for me.
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Internet Radio is not really a substitute for real FM. FM doesn't use data minutes, is available in bad cell areas, and gets local sports that is routinely blacked out over the net.
all FM radios on all smartphones requires you to have the wired headset plugged in for it to work, which kinda defeats the purpose of going wireless
i use an app called "tune in radio" which gives me more freedom as i can listen to any radio station in the world live streaming, and i can do it at the comfort of BT streaming to my BT stereo headset or to my car stereo
which ironically yes! it gets better reception, as many of my favourite local channels have very poor signal when you are further outskirt of town
so doing it via the live stream, i get perfect radio quality
i got unlimited data, so that's not an issue for me.
the only problem is i need to carry extra batteries with me
am radio is better. some of us don't listen to fm radio.
i'm fairly sure there is the capability to have an am antenna and fm receiver in a phone. besides i think streaming radio is the better way to go anyway. better and clearer reception and you can leave the city still listening to the same station. tunein radio is awesome. aonlineradio is also good to get those stations tunein can't pick up (like cbs radio stations).
tune in
AllGamer said:
all FM radios on all smartphones requires you to have the wired headset plugged in for it to work, which kinda defeats the purpose of going wireless
i use an app called "tune in radio" which gives me more freedom as i can listen to any radio station in the world live streaming, and i can do it at the comfort of BT streaming to my BT stereo headset or to my car stereo
which ironically yes! it gets better reception, as many of my favourite local channels have very poor signal when you are further outskirt of town
so doing it via the live stream, i get perfect radio quality
i got unlimited data, so that's not an issue for me.
the only problem is i need to carry extra batteries with me
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I have both tune in and stitcher, but stitcher, if you stop play, it does not restart from the begining like tune in, and you can slide the play back to any position.
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Folks....
I have read that Radio Shack has some WiMAX repeaters installed before the HTC EVO was rolled out. Anyone here know the make and model number of this repeater? Why is it that we can not buy WiMAX repeaters? You can buy repeaters for 3G. They are all over the place. Some in home units to units that have a big external antenna.
Where I live in Portland Oregon my WiMAX reception in my yard, outside is "fair". If I walk about a block, it quickly turns to good, then excellent. However when I am inside, my WiMAX reception is "poor". I would think by now smart phone WiMAX repeaters would be off the shelf. Is this a legal issue, or has no one developed a repeater for home/business owners?
htc evo owner.
Thanks
jack
+1 on this. But I think they were micro cells and not repeaters.
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The only way this would be necessary is if you think your home network would be to "slow" and you had to use Wimax as the speedier alternative...
as soon as I walk into my house I connect to wifi and have great speeds and save tons of battery life by having a strong consistent signal.
Tuffgong4 said:
The only way this would be necessary is if you think your home network would be to "slow" and you had to use Wimax as the speedier alternative...
as soon as I walk into my house I connect to wifi and have great speeds and save tons of battery life by having a strong consistent signal.
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I believe he meant to use his wimax connection for tethering and the like. If you dont have a home connection, thats why you need a repeater.
It doesnt make sense to use a microcell (i.e. your home internet) to generate a wimax signal (wimax uses so much more battery that its crazy) instead of just hooking up to wifi to begin with.
i'd LOVE to stick a wimax repeater in my car... then all that's left is VPN to my home network and cifs mount my music & video library so apps can natively access them... say hello to my new flawless 2TB-music-and-video-filled Evo machine
might as well mount a small tablet-size lcd in the dashboard and play movies through the HDMI and wiring audio to in-car sound
WiMax repeater?
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I believe he meant to use his wimax connection for tethering and the like. If you dont have a home connection, thats why you need a repeater.
It doesn't make sense to use a microcell (i.e. your home internet) to generate a wimax signal (wimax uses so much more battery that its crazy) instead of just hooking up to wifi to begin with.
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No Wifi where I am. It is just the htc evo and a laptop. The sprint map says I am in the best area I can be in. But my phone calls it "fair" outside and "poor" inside.
I called it a repeater, but you can use words like booster, microcell, amplifer, etc.
What I am looking for is something that is common and off the shelf in the 3G world. Some of the 3G repeaters (use you own word here) are small self contained units with a built in antenna. And some can take a external antenna mounted on the roof and RG6 running to the repeater. They come in all sizes and ranges and cost.
I can find correct antennas for 802.16e (2100 -2700Mhz - same as 2.5 -2.7Ghz), but I can not find any WiMax repeaters/amps/boosters, etc. Is it a legal thing? I would think that this stuff would be available.
Anyway, if any one can point me to a unit I would appreciate it. If you know why none seem to being available, maybe you can fill me in.
Thanks everyone for the good info and feedback.
jack
http://www.now-tel.com/eng/product/sub_01.asp
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/wimax-repeater.html
I go into work on Friday and will take a picture of our WiMAX repeater. They aren't really designed for residential use.
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aimbdd said:
http://www.now-tel.com/eng/product/sub_01.asp
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/wimax-repeater.html
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What a huge list. All in China or Korea. I have shot off some emails. I'll report back what I find. I hope they do not make me buy 20 of them. I only need one.
jack
mraroid said:
What a huge list. All in China or Korea. I have shot off some emails. I'll report back what I find. I hope they do not make me buy 20 of them. I only need one.
jack
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Hopefully they can help out.
Do these devices really have FM radio or is that another feature that was left out? Sites say that it does but I can't find an app for it and AT&T doesn't mention it.
many sites mention phone has "Radio with Stereo RDS".
But glide does not has Radio.
I also believed these sites ... and get disappointed that there is no FM Radio.
Hi, after a few attempts at searching for info about the external antenna on the nexus, I think I finally found something... has anyone tried this part:
http://www.telcoantennas.com.au/site/patch-lead-samsung-nexus-s
This is by the same company that makes a Galaxy SII patch lead. I've read all the threads about breaking the internal antenna by using an incorrect connector, but a couple of people mentioned towards the end that they tried this brand and it worked perfectly.
I'd like to try this because when I drive through WI I have very poor / no reception, even though I'm driving down the one corridor (I94/I90/I35) that T-Mobile is supposed to completely cover. Most of the time I can't even get enough signal to send a text. Since google maps can't do routing offline I really would like to boost my signal at least up to 2G all the way through the state, and if I got a good enough signal to stream music that would be even better. Also, it seems like I always hit a snow storm when I go through. I'd rather not be stranded w/o signal if something happened.
Hopefully this + a good (5db or greater) car antenna + a second phone back that I can drill a hole in would make the phone usable on road trips...
I think it's a risk of breaking that port. And besides, what kind of antenna are you going to connect? Isn't roaming offered if you were to NEED cell service? Have you tried flashing other radios from josteink's radio dumps collection? Which radio are you on now?
Don't take the risk, just get the Wilson cradle signal booster. And for maps, you can go into settings and download areas to offline cache.
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I think it's a risk of breaking that port. And besides, what kind of antenna are you going to connect? Isn't roaming offered if you were to NEED cell service? Have you tried flashing other radios from josteink's radio dumps collection? Which radio are you on now?
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I'm on T-Mobile pre-paid. They claim they have service but it doesn't come through. I've tried a couple of radios but this has been the case with other phones for the past 5 years. They just don't have much / any service. (T-mobile prepaid shows IA as having 2G service but they don't actually let you connect, even though they own the company that owns the towers).
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Don't take the risk, just get the Wilson cradle signal booster. And for maps, you can go into settings and download areas to offline cache.
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I already have the official car dock so I'd rather not dispose of that. I can't download maps to cover the whole route - 400 - 500 miles - but even if I'm in an area I have downloaded I thought it needed networking to actually do the routing...
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I already have the official car dock so I'd rather not dispose of that. I can't download maps to cover the whole route - 400 - 500 miles - but even if I'm in an area I have downloaded I thought it needed networking to actually do the routing...
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I can understand not wanting another dock. I don't have one so its hard to know what kind of solutions would work. Wilson makes many different adapters, antennas and amplifiers, check them out.
With maps, I believe you can download more area depending on level of zoom and I also think navigation would work as long as you start in a coverage area, been a long time since I used it and lost coverage. Not sure about rerouting abilities without coverage or cached maps. I would try to at least cache the areas you know have little to no service. You may be better with an offline solution such as Tom Tom, Navigon, or one of the many other ones. Keep us posted, interested to see what you come up with.
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Does having T-Mobile One Plus or One International Data Plan improve the ISP WiFi of the home/work network even when not turned on?
So I have begun to work the night shift (2pm to 11pm) at my job at a different location and I noticed that the WiFi for their ISP is not as good as my home WiFi or any other business' WiFi. This was the main reason I wanted to get a USB Internet Stick for my laptop as I tend to watch a lot of streaming live sporting events at night and I could not with the current WiFI connectivity; it would pause so often and have bad viewing quality that one couldn't enjoy watching a game.
However, when I went to a T-Mobile store, they told me that I would be paying "an arm and a leg" for a portable hot spot in order to accomplish what I was looking for. So, they told me that a better option would be to upgrade my monthly data plan from T-Mobile One to T-Mobile One International so I can use my phone an unlimited 4G LTE hot spot so that my laptop could connect to it and be able to stream live sporting event at a high quality level.
So, when I got to work this afternoon, I noticed something drastically different. Even though both my cell phone and laptop were connect to my job's WiFi, the streaming got incredibly better as there is little to no pause and the viewing quality is acceptable; not HD quality but acceptable. So my question is this: Is this just a coincidence and will my job's WiFi return to be constantly below average at best. Or by somehow having the One International Data Plan, did it actually improved my job's WiFi as well? I mean, it's all connected in some way, although minimal, right?
Bottom line is that, if it was just all a coincidence (and having One International has not affect my job's WiFi performance) but, however, my job's WiFi continues to be working much better than before, then there's no need for me to continue to pay $25 plus extra and I should return to T-Mobile One. Appreciate any assistance that you can offer.
Hello,
I installed yesterday a new radio, everything is working great except fm radio no signal...
On my old radio it worked perfectly and its same install,
this the radio i installed
aliexpress.com/item/32842264259.html?spm=a2g0z.12010612.8148356.14.7f592c2d7XyHFJ
checked every settings RDS AF nothing works, maybe something need to be changed in factory settings or ? needed to upgrade to android 8 or 9 ?
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Hello,
I installed yesterday a new radio, everything is working great except fm radio no signal...
On my old radio it worked perfectly and its same install,
this the radio i installed
aliexpress.com/item/32842264259.html?spm=a2g0z.12010612.8148356.14.7f592c2d7XyHFJ
checked every settings RDS AF nothing works, maybe something need to be changed in factory settings or ? needed to upgrade to android 8 or 9 ?
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I just installed a PX6 Unit tonight and noticed that the radio was set to Europe vs USA where I live. Was able to change this in factory settings/Radio in settings. Possibly yours is set to something other then where you live.
Already checked it, im from the netherlands so its europe
Not mtcb
Had a few days to think about this now. I'm guessing the newer shark fin style antennas have amplifiers connected to them. Not sure what you have nickym0162? but it very well could have an amplifier connected. Just an idea to look into.
So no matter what type of aftermarket radio anyone has. If power isn't supplied to the antenna amplifier it just won't pickup very well. If at all depending on current conditions.
I'm 99% sure in my case that I just need to connect the blue power ant wire to my antenna amplifier and radio signal will be restored. Previously I assumed it had no amplifier.
No i got a window antenna , mercedes got no antenna on roof
It'd still be worth verifying that you don't have an antenna amplifier. But with a window mounted antenna you'd think chances are low.
I know, now i buyed a dab+ so in few weeks i got it,
Its better then fm, and with a easy reciever and universal antenna
I wish they had that here in the US We currently have HD radio as an upgrade to traditional FM but very few channels and usually you have to buy a head unit setup for it already.
Today, for this there are quite different options for antennas, repeaters, which amplify the signal from the operator. Thus, you act not on your smartphone or tablet, but on electromagnetic waves, which should reach them.
Poor radio signal fixed
I myself had the same problem, I re opened the unit and re checked the antenna connection and discovered the I hocked the OLD Gps antenna cable instead of the factory Radio antenna, and that was the cause of the poor reception.