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FM transmitter

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!

hoss_n2 said:
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

hoss_n2 said:
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

hoss_n2 said:
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

Fm transmitter?

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.
sent from my Evo 4G using Taptalk

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.
sent from my Evo 4G using Taptalk
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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.

drmacinyasha said:
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?

SG2 FM transmitter /w car Charger ?

I had a iphone 3 and 4 which had Car charger and FM transmitter.
I use it reguarly with my old crappy N97 and thats what i need.
Well if no car charger with it, Does any1 know where to get a FM transmitter Suitable for SG2 or an app?
Tried eBay with not luck =(
thanks evrey1 in xda

I'm in the same boat mate, I've bought the official samsung car mount and bought a belkin clear sound FM transmitter that I plug into the head phone jack.
I've just got loads of cables knocking about the car now, really could do with an all in one jobby if there is one?
Anyone?

The FM chip in the SGS2 supposedly has transmission capabilities (according to the spec sheet). However, no-one has been able to convince a dev to look into enabling it with a kernel patch yet. Hacre was looking at it I believe for the Ninphetamine kernel.

Major_Sarcasm said:
The FM chip in the SGS2 supposedly has transmission capabilities (according to the spec sheet). However, no-one has been able to convince a dev to look into enabling it with a kernel patch yet. Hacre was looking at it I believe for the Ninphetamine kernel.
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really ? omg ...sum-one please turn it on lol

Nexxus Bluetooth Handsfree FM Transmitter
I use this which I got from play.com for £17. For the price this thing is brilliant. Plugs into cigarette lighter providing Bluetooth connection to my SGS2 and transmits out an FM signal to my radio. Mic is very good and it also has a usb port for charging the phone.
http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/...hsource=0&searchstring=nexxus&urlrefer=search

fm transmitter for i9100

hello,
i see that there are plenty of fm transmitter for the iPhone! and not even one that connects to micro-usb port...
have i missed something?
btw, is there an fm transmitter with bt so i cant connect trough bt, with good quality?
thanks

If you googled it and you don't see any then probably not. Maybe the manufactures don't think android is worth investing in, the same reason there are way more variety of cases for iPhone than android. Or maybe because there are so many different android phone manufacturers with their own android framework like TW for example. Just guessing though...
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Search on Ebay
Search on ebay, there are a lot of fm transmiters. But none works with the Micro USB because very few phones have audio out in the micro usb (its only 5 pins).
i have tried 2 bluetooth and fm transmiter for iphone and 3 for android and dont have good sound while transmit for blueetooh, have lost of quality. Its better for wire.
Sorry for my English. I speak spanish.

I don't know you situation, but cassette adapter is not an option to you? Personally I'm using one to connect my phone and my car stereo. It works pretty well, although the 4th adapter worked with my head unit.

S0und_ said:
I don't know you situation, but cassette adapter is not an option to you? Personally I'm using one to connect my phone and my car stereo. It works pretty well, although the 4th adapter worked with my head unit.
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it is an option,
but i want to use pandora like app... so i don't need to make a playlist. just connect the phone and listening from the web.

Take a look here
http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/k100/
It´s a BT handsfree wich also have an FM transmitter. I´ve buyed one on amazon a few months ago, for less than half the price served on the official website.
You can pair the phone through BT and then (optionally) send the audio to your FM radio car. Also you can choose in your phone wich audio route (calls, media or both).
Good design and audio quality is good in my opinion. Just one complaint: depending on the city/zone you live, FM frequencies may be oversaturated and this can make noise or static interferences.

FM Radio MISSING??

I had been reading that Samsung was going to put the FM radio chips in future flagship phones.
I've downloaded NextRadio app and it appears that either the chip was not installed or the chip is disabled.
Anyone like to confirm/deny the existence of FM radio chip on Note 10+?
Looks like NextRadio doesn't support Note10 anything.......

Typically devices with the FM chip require wired headphones that act as the antenna. Since there is no headphone jack, it may not work even if there is a FM chip.

Specter75 said:
Typically devices with the FM chip require wired headphones that act as the antenna. Since there is no headphone jack, it may not work even if there is a FM chip.
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You're correct. I tried last night and it didn't work.

Very disappointing. Had it on my note 7, 8 and 9.