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[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
In every FM thread of 10 posts or more, there's always at least one person who "educates" us about the existence of streaming apps.

And/or tells us we're stuck in the dark ages and that modern music sucks...

Now what shall I call this "FM Thread law"...

LOL. :)

I think people should try not to assume that the other 90+% of the world has omni-present or inexpensive wireless Internet access.

And even the best 10-% have huge holes in rural areas.

And there IS more to radio than "radio kaka" music. Some stations in some places even have news, weather, sports, you name it... To say nothing of gymnasium TVs and micro-transmitters.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MoreYummy:
Unbelievable replies. :D

I meant FM radio, so we just need to wait for software to have it working if they ever going to come in?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] PortableSolar:
Does anybody still use the radio with net radio these days!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
Do you really think the majority of the world population has reliable and affordable wireless Internet access ? Have you ever seen even a documentary on what life is like outside of "Western" urban areas ?

I think FM may be the most widespread form of communications on the planet, other than people talking, but it depends how you define it.

Over 500 comments and 1400 "stars" for Google Issue 7073 FM Radio / Tuner capability : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7073

Over 1800 posts on my FM app thread, perhaps half mine. And 100s of posts in many other FM Radio threads.

So, IMO, plenty of people want "old fashioned over the air" FM. Especially those in less connected and less wealthy parts of the world.

And yes, there are Android phones in those parts of the world. Some are very cheap and offer the usual smartphone capability of an "all in one device", in areas where there are more mobile phones than landlines.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lilshooter:
just because it says the soc supports it it doesnt mean it has all the necessary antennas if the official specs on verizons dont say it has it most likely it wont
[Motorola Droid RAZR] itchn2go:
has anyone tried to install motofmradio.apk on a CDMA Razr? This link has mixed messages - http://forums.techarena.in/portable-devices/1440475.htm

get apk here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...wwwrno8dcb1pr0z1Q&sig2=wfHy9KcAQb88HALIQDISLQ
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tomoooo:
Tried on xt910 european model (cee) and all I get is FC. So not working.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bahathir:
I found this in my stock RAZR. :)

Get Any Cut from Market.

Go to empty desktop

Any Cut -> New Shortcut -> Activity -> FMPlayer -> OK

Exit Any Cut... and click at the FMPlayer... but,no FM radio. :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] FrolToronto:
I did the same and its doesnt work unfortunately...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kholk:
Sometimes it's not about the chip.. I can remember the Motorola Milestone (yup, the original first Milestone) had an FM Radio capable chip, but all the rest of the FM hardware was missing.

Not saying that we surely haven't got the FM Radio on the RAZR, but IF Moto hasn't implemented it, maybe there's a reason that's more than a program.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bahathir:
My N1 has FM radio hw, but stock Android doesn't support it ,in kernel level. But some 3rd party ROMs have the FM support. It is up to Motorola developers to enable it or not in their products.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] syntrix:
Yeah, when tornadoes take down areas, and cell data service is not avail... a radio is invaluable.

I've been there and done that and had a phone with a radio, and it was great. I also had my battery charged in the strobe inverter kit, so I was able to charge, too.... was able to idle the tdi and charge many sources with an inverter, too.

Yay for radio option!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] EVEALEX62:
Hi all, on the frech RAZR manual (PDF) , you can see many times "FM Radio" .... So I open a "ticket" on the Motorola "after sales service" and confirme me it's a big mistake ....and say :

"THE RAZR DON'T HAVE A FM Radio"

On Frandroid forum, the user "berurier1" test the Bluetooth headset Sony MW600 and say it's good product (Link french Thread )

PS: Very sorry for my poor english ...:p
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Adauth:
Just go to getjar.com and download Tunein Radio Pro. It's usually a paid app but getjar is not charging for it. Only problem with getjar is they are very slow in releasing updates, if they release them at all.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
The Nexus One is one of the IMO, very, VERY few devices on which FM can be made to work despite no FM app being released for stock ROMs.

Let's see now, Nexus One, Dell Streak, Motorola Droid Bionic, maybe another Motorola device or two..... Can't think of any others out of the many hundreds (perhaps a thousand+ ?) of Android phones that have been released.

IMO, if no Motorola app can be made to work on a Motorola product, then it likely can't work.

And no, no drivers are needed for TI and Broadcom devices that can control the FM through the Bluetooth HCI APIs.

All it takes is grounding the antenna pin on the chip to make the FM inoperable, unless you have micro soldering skills. Then there are possible FM power pins and digital or analog audio output pins.

N1 was a fluke. The HTC Desire FM circuitry was not disabled.

I think there is a trend for carriers to release models with FM purposely disabled, especially in the US. Data plans are more profitable than free FM.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] hugothebas:
It's sad to know that such a good phone doesn't have FM.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MoreYummy:
Exactly, they should put it in as default.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
Wow I wouldn't have bought this phone if I had known this. I made sure it had FM radio listed in the specs. I'm very sad and upset.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] yellowdragon:
Razr and FM radio

Sometimes before leaving work, I like to listen to the local radio stations in order to know traffic conditions and plan my escape route accordingly...

Claro PR lists the Razr as having "Stereo FM radio with RDS"

http://contenidos.clarotodo.com/wps...k66zSV-t_gA6UCVj/dl3/d3/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rushless:
Though I would have liked a radio option as well, there are apps that provide you local radio stations.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Eddy T:
I just received this:

"Dear Mr Turner,

Thank you for contacting Motorola.

We would like to advise that the RAZR does not have FM Radio.

FM Radio is not included in its specifications on our websites, either.

For any further assistance or information please do not hesitate to contact us again, quoting your Customer Reference number."

They didn't mention why it is mentioned in the manual!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] vanedor:
It's really sad. I use the radio mostly when I walk so wifi is not an option. Getting radio over 3G is great but it end using lot of data on my shared 3g data plan. Using my razr since a month so far and its pretty much my only issue with it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brianbrain:
It appears so, yes. You might want to try Tune In Radio (the pro version is awesome). You can get a large amount of FM radio stations streamed live to your phone - I use it all the time to listen to my favorite stations from places I moved from.

Some stations are blocked, however, so if you have some stations you'd like me to make sure are available, I'd be happy to check for you.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
I am not a lawyer, but in my opinion, if it's in an official Motorola manual, for your specific model and received from an official Motorola source, then that would be equivalent to a specification.

If it's in an official spec, or is in their literature or on their web-site (or WAS at one time), then you should have recourse to return it for a full refund with no penalty.

The same should pretty much be true for a carrier or other vendor you purchased from, although some finger pointing might arise.

I guess the magic words would be "False Advertising" in the US or Canada at least. Those words should frighten sales or support reps.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
An older post but I saw it quoted.

Software will not fix this, IMO, unless you are talking about streaming apps.

The hardware appears disabled. IMO, on purpose.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] KineticEntropy:
Is that really the case? I've seen at least one phone (an LG) with a TI 1273 that has both HCI and FM drivers (separate .ko's). Also, the FM core has its own firmware, doesn't that need a driver to inject it?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
I don't recall seeing any .ko's for HCI. That's generally done through /dev/ttyHS0 or some other "UART" with user space daemons.

Yes, .ko drivers are possible for FM. The Dell Streak uses one, but my app ignores it and works fine through HCI. I think both Broadcom and TI support a separate I2C control path for FM, but very few devices use it; they just piggyback on HCI.

I, personally, would prefer they all used the Linux standard V4L API. HCI has problems as an FM API. TI supports it and Broadcom has a driver, but they just don't have much support from manufacturers.

I don't think TI chips get firmware updates. The BTS files, such as fm_rx_init_1273.2.bts are "Bluetooth Init Scripts". Broadcom has their "RAM patches" which are sort of like firmware updates. Both support sending the needed data through their HCI UARTS. No kernel device drivers needed to interact with hardware, other than the UART drivers and the kernel parts of Bluez or proprietary BT stacks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] KineticEntropy:
OK, thanks for the enlightenment. Never having messed with BT, I didn't realize that .bts files in /system/etc/firmware weren't real firmware.

FYI, from 2 phones that passed thru my hands recently, an LG and an HTC (still have file listings but not the phones): the LG has both (fm_drv.ko, /dev/tifm) and (ti_hci_drv.ko, /dev/tihci), the HTC has only (ti_hci_drv.ko, /dev/tihci).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xmguy:
I WAS planning to see about switching to the Razr Maxx. I wish someone could find out if it supports FM even though it's slimmer brother seems not to. I don't get WHY the carriers BLOCK the FM as a option since they REQUIRE a data package of some sort. So they are still getting their moneys worth. Besides streaming audio takes FAR less data than say Netflix or YouTube.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
I was surprised too. They are under /etc and not /etc/firmware. I have an 1,112 byte fm_rx_init_1273.2.bts file and most of it is comment text and lines like this:

#Send_HCI_VS_I2C_Write_to_FM 0xFD35, 0x1D, 0x0002

#Wait_HCI_Command_Complete_VS_I2C_Write_to_FM_Event 5000, 0x00, 0xfd35, 0x00

Broadcom HCD files are a weird hybrid though. "RAM Patches" to modify data or code on the RAM version of otherwise hard-coded firmware.

I've been noticing many new phones with these kinds of /dev entries, including Qualcomm's /dev/msm_fm for FM audio.

Texas Instruments has been making more of their code open recently, and I've been seeing in that code their solution for separating HCI and FM and supporting a /dev device.

It would be nice if the OEMs etc. leave permissions open for normal apps to access FM. Provide a normal Android permission perhaps, just so long as it's possible. The idea that only OEM signed apps can do FM because it represents a security concern is ludicrous to me.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
Official Motorola response is same as for the Droid 4 it seems. No FM.

Good point about audio streaming being small compared to video, although audio might be listened to much longer than videos are watched on a small device.

I think there's more at play than simply data revenue. Carriers and content providers have disagreements. The latter would like the former to be cheap dumb pipes. And the carriers want to control and charge content providers and consumers alike.

Then there's the idea of free music reducing Music Store incomes for Google, Apple, Amazon or soon to be Microsoft, etc.

Who knows, perhaps the "Music Cloud" will be sold by the minute, or single play of a song, instead of a single perpetual sale of a song licence. Albums are dead, for pop at least, aren't they ?

Reports of an impending Google hardware entertainment product to stream audio "wirelesslly" through our homes say nothing about OTA FM/AM etc capabilities. (The original wireless modulation, besides CW Morse code of course, LOL.)

I've never heard a Google delivered ad, only seen them. But perhaps this home entertainment will be interspersed with audio commercials... Something like that continues to pit Google against the broadcasters, as Youtube does for TV.

Powerful forces at work when many billions of dollars per year are at stake.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] KineticEntropy:
Surely it's mostly that the what's-in-it-for-me mindset has kept them from devoting any attention to it, but theoretically, wouldn't the FM transmitter qualify as a security concern?

Speaking of which, are there any phones that allow its use? (I'm just curious, and I'm violating a cardinal rule by not searching first, so please don't answer if it's any trouble. Only asking because you seem like you'd know off the top of your head.)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
It depends on your specific security concerns. FM transmit won't let anyone hack your phone or accounts.

I guess hypothetically it could send your voice, or even low rate data to a nearby FM receiver, should a rogue app turn your phone into an FM bug. But that could be done easier with WiFi, BT or cell anyway.

In any case there doesn't seem to be a single consumer Android device (except 2 Japan specific Sharp units) that officially supports FM transmit. And nobody has even unofficially been able to get FM transmit.

But I just recently noticed HTC Desire/HD has an rfkill specifically for this, so who knows ?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] LaLongeCarabine:
I used feel this was a minim requirement for a smart phone but I never used it on my X2, except to see if it worked.

Now I'm a podcast junky and never listen to the radio even in my car.

Sent my new Droid Razr Maxx
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xmguy:
I'd love if someone could investigate this further. See if there is ANY hope any not-yet-tried methods to get FM working on the Razr or Razr Maxx. I know that most including Mike (the Dev for Spirit FM Radio) seem to think that that Razr is a lost cause. I know Mike has gotten feedback from several users with the Razr saying it will never work due to the antenna or audio out not being wired on the circuit board of the phone. I hope this isn't true. I just hope some how something might come through some day.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] schizo:
my old touchpro2 did not 'originally' come with FM radio capabilities advertised at all. but it has the chip, someone cracked it and port the Tuner app from other HTC WM app into it, and bang... hello, radio gaga!

the funny thing was, in the next iterative official update, HTC baked-in the FM Radio app. so the general conclusion at that time was, HTC was not too ready to use the FM radio capability within the chip on early release of the handset.

it may happen again this time... *crossing fingers*
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pty.ltd:
yeah very disappointing :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
I think less than 50% of Android devices have OTA FM now, especially if you limit the selection to US market devices, and even more so, high end devices.

And the percentages seem to be going down.

And try to find a tablet with FM. Besides obscure chinese models. only old Dell Streak 5" and new 5" Galaxy Note.

Partly due to the seemingly now dead push to legislate FM into phones (by US broadcasters), some studies were done. I think over 80% of people buying a phone don't care about FM when they make their purchase at least.

But then some people find streaming costs money and reduces battery life. And the youth who's parent bought their phone at Best Buy from a salesperson with their own agenda, finds no FM. And people who never though about FM when buying or assumed it was there...

I see LOTS of people ticked off that their new Galaxy Nexus or Atrix etc. doesn't have FM. But then they say they love their new device and wouldn't consider returning it and would have bought it anyway.

So most people aren't demanding FM at purchase and thus the OEMs and carriers aren't providing it. Some people will later be angry or sorry, but it's too late after purchase...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
Well, good luck to all of us, but such cases are the exception rather than the rule.

If more people demanded FM at time of purchase, instead of not thinking about it beforehand or hoping it will be hacked in, more phones would have this standard.

And US carriers would be more likely to carry the International versions that are more likely to have FM, instead of these special versions with FM ripped out.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MoreYummy:
The point is most people found out about some phone with fm too late, or because other features made them stay with it.

And there are data with all these kind of phone, so they can tell them to use data, since it is mandatory, so less complain after all, and higher revenue for phone.

And this is going in cycle, making this seems to be normal.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] syntrix:
This! I was there for that breakthough!

And when we had tornadoes take everything out, and no cell coverage, that was... well not a lifesaver, but damn close!

Need AM RADIO FTW!!!!!!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MattyOnXperiaX10:
I just use tunein radio _but if you don't have a internet plan then I dunno

Xperia x10(Feralabs Rom) After trying all roms it was my Fav.

Now on the RAZR.

I see you Drinking that ¥Hateraid¥
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
there is one old cell phone that had an am radio when I was looking for one of few years ago. i doubt there are any today - there's not a whole lot of space inside for even a tiny ferrite antenna
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
The headset cable could be used, same as for FM. So it's not efficient due to wavelengths ? Who cares, if it works, it works.

But, I haven't heard of AM on any Android device and have serious doubts I will ever, except possibly for some specialized car devices or home entertainment devices soon to be released.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] LaLongeCarabine:
Yeah several, 3g, 4g, GPS, BT, WiFi. ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mikereidis:
Sorry, but the lameness factor has to be below zero for alleged jokes on almost 2 year old threads.

But Merry Christmas anyway... ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] LaLongeCarabine:
Naw humor is always in stile.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
Tapped from my RazR
[Motorola Droid RAZR] 1droidmod:
My old Motorola X has the working FM radio, of course the Phone is still on Gingerbread..

XT912 RaZR SpYdEr CDMA

hit ThAnKs if I was helpful!!!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xperiax10.awesome:
Hi Guys,

Sorry for posting my question here....

I want to know how to change the orientation of the apps?

In portrait mode lot of games orientation does not suits Sony Tablet, because of its wedge shape, we are expecting the orientation in such a way that we can hold the thicker side with our left hand..

The orientation must be defined somewhere in the .apk file !!!

can we change its value to meet our requirement???

I can see following, but not sure what to change???

<application android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@drawable/app_icon" android:debuggable="false">

<activity android:label="@string/app_name" android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivi ty" android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation">

<intent-filter>

<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

</intent-filter>

</activity>

EDIT:

I took the AirAttackHD.apk

Decompile it (using APKManager)

Changed the following line:

android:screenOrientation="portrait" to android:screenOrientation="sensor"

Compiled it.

Copied the assets folder into build folder, zipped it, renamed to XYZ.apk

Signed it using Sign+

When trying to install, its giving parsing error, what else to do??

EDIT:

I have installed ORIENTATION CONTROL, it solved my problem, now I can play games on my Sony Tablet in desired Reverse Portrait Mode.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.coinsoft.android.orientcontrol&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jb2luc29mdC5hbmRyb2lkLm9yaWVudGNvbnRyb2wiXQ..
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wizzlewizzle:
As for those who don't know. There is an app out there called tasker. It allows you to program all kinds of tasks and conditions.

I used it in froyo to turn on my gps automatically when I opened the navigation app. However in gingerbread tasker no longer works. I'm reading that in cyanogen gingerbread roms tasker can still enable and disable gps.

Does anyone know anything about modding EI22 so that tasker will work with gingerbread on our epics the way it does in the cyanogen gingerbread roms?

Is there a patch or a piece of code that can be taken from the cyanogen rom to allow this on different roms/kernels?

Possibly is there an alternative to using tasker to get the gps to turn on automatically when navigation/maps is opened?

-Wizzle
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Isira:
Just leave GPS enabled at all times. GPS won't activate until a program needs it, and won't consume battery life while it's sleeping.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wizzlewizzle:
Cool. I kinda thought that, but I wasn't sure. I guess ill need to turn off location settings for all the apps I don't won't to access gps. I appreciate the info. Thank you.

-Wizzle
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmericanJedi001:
To go with this, if the GPS icon is on the toolbar (generally a bullseye/crosshair looking icon), you're using GPS and therefore extra battery--on the flipside, if the GPS icon is gone from the toolbar, then GPS is in standby and not consuming battery.*

* I'm not entirely certain that it consumes

no

battery when in standby, but it's certainly much less than when it's active. As long as you keep an eye on which apps you allow to use it and when, the battery drain is negligible--At least until you use Navigation and forget to plug it in! Then you'll damn near be able to watch the battery icon visibly tick down, and might could cook an egg on the back of your phone, it gets pretty hot!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Looneyrat:
If you running ei22 stock, I can leave gps on all the time and don't need to worry about battery. But if you put in the gps fix, careful.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaytay:
I hadn't noticed extra battery drain after flashing the GPS fix. I'll have to monitor that more carefully going forward...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Looneyrat:
The gps fix makes the phone constantly lock to all possible sats. Draining batts.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] armaan5:
I installed ICS on my T-mobile Vibrant and everything works except for the "phone" part. I can't connect to T-mobile for whatever reason and I really like Android 4.0, but I might just go back to CM7 if I can't fix this. Any suggestions?

Here's the link to the thread from where I downloaded the ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1362961
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Exel:
Did you flash the KB5 Modem?

Is your SIM Pin locked?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lvazn93:
I'm having the same problem, and i flashed to KB5 Modem and still doesn't work.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d[-_-]b:
Settings -> More -> Mobile Network -> Network Operators (Should automatically try to search for it otherwise search all and register manually?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lvazn93:
still does not work...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oOo0Blue0oOo:
Are you having issues hearing, or flat out not connecting to the network at all?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommyck:
Cannot connect to TMobile after updating to ICS

I have the same problem.

After updating my Samsung Vibrant T959 to ICS, I cannot connect to T-mobile. The network kept searching for the available network but did not find anything.

My Wifi worked OK, I could search the web, but I could not connect to T-mobile to make a call.

Please help.

Thanks,

Tommy