i've red that htc desire has a fm transmitter chip...is there an app for this?
You have read wrong. Desire doesn't have it.
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but you can buy a fm transmitter
Never heard of) it would drain our battery energy too fast...
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I also google it a lot, It seems it is some kind of Android OS fault. So you cannot enjoy an fm transmitter with Desire
Well HTC Desire uses Broadcom BCM4329EKUBG for Wifi. This chip is also an FM Transmitter & Receiver. HTC has enabled FM receiver in HTC desire.
But it looks like there is no application for an fm transmitter via the desire.
It would be very handy for playing music in a car.
Is it technically possible for an app to use this chip as an FM Transmitter, and to make some use of it, have the music app to transmit sound through it?
mirzayasir4 said:
So you cannot enjoy an fm transmitter with Desire
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I don't think there is any joy with that. More like a torment to me. Few years ago they were the main reason I went and bought my Kenwood car radio, after I smashed transmitter against the pavement. Unless you are in a desolate space with no radio stations anywhere near, you can forget about listening to music in a car and other ideas.
Yes, you can buy FM transmetter
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Can you get an app for FM transmitter
so you can play your MP3's threw your radio in the car
my workmate has this ability to do this on his phone
( don't know what phone it is not an iPhone though)
stevie_a said:
Can you get an app for FM transmitter
so you can play your MP3's threw your radio in the car
my workmate has this ability to do this on his phone
( don't know what phone it is not an iPhone though)
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I dont think that you can do that with only the phone, as it has only fm receiver not transmitter. But you can do that by buying an fm transmitter accessory. Or get a car radio with bluetooth functionality.
sure he doesnt just use an fm transmitter that you plug into the headphone socket, you can get them for mp3`s,phones,etc and are usually rubbish quality.
Nokia N97 has a built in transmitter doesn't it? I know the Desire you would need to buy a seperate transmitter.
there are number of phones that have FM Transmitting, .. unfortunattly the Desire is not one of them.
You can buy an FM Modulator, this will go into the cigarette thingy in the car, and you can plug in it an iPod or phone or any other that has a decent wiring connection.
radio quality suck though
Nokia N900 has it built in as well.
htc hd2 and nexus one have fm transmitter hardware but not activated ,may be desire has it also
The Desire have the same chip as the Nexus One, but it has the FM receiver enabled out-of-the box.
It should be possible to enable the FM transmitter aswell, but it's all in the drivers.
how or who activates it?
Zappza said:
The Desire have the same chip as the Nexus One, but it has the FM receiver enabled out-of-the box.
It should be possible to enable the FM transmitter aswell, but it's all in the drivers.
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same processor does not mean same wireless chip
The HTC desire is believed to include the Broadcom BCM4329 wireless chip. The specification of this does include an FM Transmitter. Whether or not this can be activated in software is a different matter!
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same processor does not mean same wireless chip
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AFAIK both the Nexus and the Desire uses the same wireless chip aswell, the BCM4329. I haven't seen a teardown of the Desire yet, so there might be some differences, but I do not see why.
Zappza said:
AFAIK both the Nexus and the Desire uses the same wireless chip aswell, the BCM4329. I haven't seen a teardown of the Desire yet, so there might be some differences, but I do not see why.
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do you have any pictures of the components of desire that proves your point ,in hd2 forum we have disasempled the hd2 and proved it ,same in nexus one ,so where is your evidense
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do you have any pictures of the components of desire that proves your point ,in hd2 forum we have disasempled the hd2 and proved it ,same in nexus one ,so where is your evidense
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A teardown won't really prove anything unless you also identified and catalogued every component, proving that none of them are capable of being an FM transmitter? If you have this evidence, please post links. I am already 99.9% certain that no HTC phone has one built in but I like to be 100% sure
Either way, FM transmitters suck. They have to have an extremely weak signal and the sound quality is appalling. If you can afford it, go and grab a head unit that supports bluetooth stereo (A2DP). An FM transmitetr will sot you half as much anyway,
Bluetooth sound quality is much better and depending on the head unit, you should be able to play/pause/skip/vol up/vol down using the controls on the head unit and it will probably also be able to display album/track info.
bcmobile said:
A teardown won't really prove anything unless you also identified and catalogued every component, proving that none of them are capable of being an FM transmitter? If you have this evidence, please post links. I am already 99.9% certain that no HTC phone has one built in but I like to be 100% sure
Either way, FM transmitters suck. They have to have an extremely weak signal and the sound quality is appalling. If you can afford it, go and grab a head unit that supports bluetooth stereo (A2DP). An FM transmitetr will sot you half as much anyway,
Bluetooth sound quality is much better and depending on the head unit, you should be able to play/pause/skip/vol up/vol down using the controls on the head unit and it will probably also be able to display album/track info.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622377 look at the attatched image in the link you will se the chip and we already activated wirless n support the only thing remaning is the transmitter
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do you have any pictures of the components of desire that proves your point ,in hd2 forum we have disasempled the hd2 and proved it ,same in nexus one ,so where is your evidense
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Huh, seems that my edit previously did not make it.
I haven't found a teardown yet, but it should pop up in the next few days as easter is over now.
Just to make myself clear, I do not know that the Desire and Nexus have the same wireless chip. It just would not make any sense at all if HTC were to change it when everything else is the same.
It would be amazing if the FM transmitter was enabled in the desire.
I hope it gets in with 2.2 or something...
any idea about FM transmitter on desire...
i think that as the hd2 and nexus they all have wifi n, fm transmitter and receiver...it's just the software that needs tweaking....i am no guru at linux and android so if anyone manage to enable them it would be awsome....although it would be battery drain to transmit yourmusic all the time
Is there ever a possibility of hacking the evo's fm radio to become an fm transmitter?
Sorry if this is duplicate, searched around and didn't see anything else on it.
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I wish
I highly doubt it. Taking a screen and making it into a camera is pretty much what your asking. Maybe you can buy a portable FM transmitter and somehow cram it into a external case that sticks out similar to the 3500mah battery.
mrusheen said:
I highly doubt it. Taking a screen and making it into a camera is pretty much what your asking. Maybe you can buy a portable FM transmitter and somehow cram it into a external case that sticks out similar to the 3500mah battery.
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no the hardware actually says its possible to transmit as well as recieve fm radio. now if someone could actually make it work....
mrusheen said:
I highly doubt it. Taking a screen and making it into a camera is pretty much what your asking. Maybe you can buy a portable FM transmitter and somehow cram it into a external case that sticks out similar to the 3500mah battery.
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radio transmitters and receivers aren't fundamentally that different. It's likely possible, but you would need to write it into the kernel.
I would love to see this happen and show it off to a friend that works with the Civil Defense.
No can do. A radio receiver, and transmitter do contain some of the same circuitry but are arranged differently. No software can change that. Plus the phone is not FCC type accepted for transmitting on the FM broadcast band.
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kf2mq said:
No can do. A radio receiver, and transmitter do contain some of the same circuitry but are arranged differently. No software can change that. Plus the phone is not FCC type accepted for transmitting on the FM broadcast band.
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The phone has an FM Radio Transceiver capable of both broadcasting and receiving. I believe the major reason why we haven't seen a transmitter mode, even HTC, is due to FCC licensing. I'm not too savy on the FCC's world, but I would imagine that the EVO's transmitter would fall under the same low-power group as those little iPod and other PMP FM transmitters that just plug in to the headphone jack.
Might be something to bring up with Cyanogen and some of the kernel devs, after they get the FM receiver working.
I'd like to see this... Bring it up to cyanogen...
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Ah, what exactly do you guys want to transmit? Signal wouldn't get very far...
We've been through this before.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=693253
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748007
khov07 said:
Ah, what exactly do you guys want to transmit? Signal wouldn't get very far...
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Some of us have cars which are too old to have an Auxilary input, but too new to have a tape deck.
Ha! I read some other posts, and realized that it would definitely be a handy feature. I resigned myself to burning CD's from my music collection, as it got annoying to connect my iPod to an FM transmitter. Extra wires, chargers, and so on.
Well, hopefully someone figures it out. Probably kill the battery though.
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Some of us have cars which are too old to have an Auxilary input, but too new to have a tape deck.
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I would suggest a hardwired FM modulator to add an aux port. My wife's 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor didn't have one and the FM transmitters sounded crappy to me. Took me about an hour to hardwire a FM modulator in and now she essentially has an AUX port. It sounds much better than the transmitters since it's injecting it's FM frequency directly through your radio's antenna port.
Here's one pretty similar to what I installed - LINK
The drawback compared to a FM transmitter is that this is not portable.
Another possibility is to just purchase a new radio. Some car stereo's with aux inputs are cheaper than a new EVO.
I stopped using my FM transmitter with my iPod a long time ago because I hated the extra cables, and the transmission wasn't very good, though I tried several.
khov07 said:
Another possibility is to just purchase a new radio. Some car stereo's with aux inputs are cheaper than a new EVO.
I stopped using my FM transmitter with my iPod a long time ago because I hated the extra cables, and the transmission wasn't very good, though I tried several.
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Is there some car audio manufacturer that actually makes nice stock-looking radios with features like BT, equalizer, and aux-in, without having to have 20 blinking LEDs or looking like it was part of a boombox from the 90s?
Anyone got a recommendation for transmitter your phones music to the radio if you don't have a 3.5 mm jack to connect to the audio auxillary port?
Also, does the car have to support bluetooth or just the phone?
FM transmitters like the iPhone versions? I would say there are none unless you have a cassette player and you can use the cassette auxilery.
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Check out the jamba. Its a bluetooth speaker for your car with a fm transmitter it works great lets you answrr calls and play music through your speaker.
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I have spent 20 minutes searching this forum and cannot find my answer so....
Why is the fm radio so poor, all I get is static and music in the background. If the fm radio cannot be improved and this is the best it is why have it?
I went for a run last night and didn't realise I deleted my files as a reboot and tried the radio but its hopeless.
Is this the same for everyone?
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Yup it's probably because fm's an old technology, and it require quite a bit of an atenna in order to gain proper signal, and the headset on the desire is apparently not enough of an antenna.
If you have a proper data-plan, i will suggest you tune-in radio from the market. It's got most local radio stations
I have 1gb of internet, thank you for the info.
If not ill strap an aerial to my head and hope the thunder does not start.
Surely they know the radio is awfull also can anyone fit those headphones in your ears? I know I can't.
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It works quite well if you dont want to wear the headphones ^^ hold it in a direction and search for signal ... it works quite fine than ...
To the questions of the headphones ...
They aren't the best but fit quite good for me without the softskin over it.
Well I had issues with the factory earphones/headset, but it works fine with my Ultimate Ears earphones and AKG headphones.
i also found the FM radio a bit rubbish
I was sure it was 'better' (not perfect) on the HTC Touch HD (Blackstone)
will probably use internet radio and/or Music Beta from now on...
No offence but if you can get the HTC headphones in your ears then you must have massive ears!
Thanks for all the comments, I hope the sensation is better.
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Use a cable extension to the headphones to increase antenna size. Radio is quite acceptable with my pillow speaker which has approx 2m of cable.
Even the sound is soo low... while in a bus or something its hard to hear it . hhh
Hello folks!
I am wondering wether it is possible that we could enjoy some sort of FM transmitter app on the galaxy nexus, so that we can stream audio to a specified FM setup and listen to our phone's music on our car radio or bathroom radio? I know it doesn't come with stock ICS but maybe a little hack can do some good?
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This is a Q&A topic ...
And the answer is NO, it is not possible. There is no emitter hardware in these phones.
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This is a Q&A topic ...
And the answer is NO, it is not possible. There is no emitter hardware in these phones.
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no FM hardware, as far as I know.
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The theory:
The Broadcom BCM4330 single chip device provides the highest level of integration for a mobile or handheld wireless system, with integrated IEEE 802.11 a/b/g and single-stream 802.11 n (MAC/baseband/radio), Bluetooth 4.0+HS, and FM radio receiver and transmitter. It includes on-chip 2.4GHz and 5 GHz WLAN power amplifies that meet the output power requirements for most handheld systems while permitting and optional external power amplifier for higher output power applications. It leverages an integrated ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor and on-chip memory. This device was extracted from the Murata KM1602121 module.
The radio transmitter hardware is made from 2 pieces. The first piece is represented by the control chip while the second one is represented by the rf discreet components like coils , capacitors and everything else in between. This second part is missing.
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FM transmitters are things of the 90s. Get a new stereo, and you can stream bluetooth. Better quality, less noise/interference, shows track info, skip tracks from stereo...
Win/win
bekyndnunwind said:
FM transmitters are things of the 90s. Get a new stereo, and you can stream bluetooth. Better quality, less noise/interference, shows track info, skip tracks from stereo...
Win/win
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You know that there is people talking in a radio and not everyone enjoy listening only to music ? I do have a bluetooth car stereo and i still use the FM radio sometime.
chadouming said:
You know that there is people talking in a radio and not everyone enjoy listening only to music ? I do have a bluetooth car stereo and i still use the FM radio sometime.
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that's not what he was saying. He was saying that using FM from your phone to your car radio is pointless when Bluetooth is better quality. He was not saying anything bad about over the air FM radio I believe.
Not that I am trying to put words in his mouth, nor do I particularly agree with him.
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thank you all for your answers! i'll stick with my crappy radio until I can afford a bluetooth one
PS: sorry for the wrong choice of thread, haven't noticed the Q&A topic.
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