Touch Pro 2 FM Radio Questions/Answers

[lawmangrant]

Originally Posted by marcus_cruz

Had to chime in here.. It's really think SPL locked. Essentially the bootloader never signals that area of the controller to fire up the FM capabilities of the BCM chip. Like the imagio does, or the GSM based phones. So then the OS boots and never sees a FM tuner. Kinda like if you had a new machine/pc built and the bios didnt detect the hard drive, then the OS wont see it either. Now it's different with phones as most of the code is writen by the phone manufacturer, so they tell the microcontroller what devices to turn on.
Maybe I shouldnt say locked, maybe a better term would be "Not enabled". Now that we have an unlocked phone, thanks to cmonex, oli and elite team, I can test some items I was working on back then. Now if HTC would just give me the full source. <--LOL

+1 on the full source code....But I do know that's a pipe dream!

Great work Marcus..I do hope you get somewhere with the FM radio. That's the only thing I miss from my unlocked Diamond.

[Gatecrasher R/T]

It'd be nice if there was some documentation out there that explained how these SPLs actually WORK. I mean, I don't expect Olinex to just give out the full disassembly since that's how they make their money, but it'd be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel if the rest of us want to take up a project that they don't have time/interest to do.

Cooking ROMs is cool and all, but it looks like the hardware level functionality is just one big black box which is sealed to all but a few.

[jae.farah]

could anyone please upload or em me the cab so that i may try it on my unlocked sprint tp2 . i have the gsm radio unlocked so i would like to see if it works . thank you

[imnuts]

Originally Posted by jae.farah

could anyone please upload or em me the cab so that i may try it on my unlocked sprint tp2 . i have the gsm radio unlocked so i would like to see if it works . thank you

It won't. There are links to it (and possibly cabs as well) if you read through the thread.

[trouthunter]

OKay, so in my search last night for something completly different, I found FM Radio Reg entries and FM Radio .dll files on my Sprint Touch Pro 2. I don't know if the helps anyone out in figuring out how to activate the radion, but it appears that it is threre.

Also, I found images for how the application should look. I found these in the Windows folder.

[Masterface7]

Hi, Trouthunter maybe you have already but i recommend you start reading this thread from about post 91, alot of the posters did some serious digging. And the end result seems that sprint (and i assume verizon) will have to tell htc to unlock the fm radio functionality.

[trouthunter]

Originally Posted by Masterface7

Hi, Trouthunter maybe you have already but i recommend you start reading this thread from about post 91, alot of the posters did some serious digging. And the end result seems that sprint (and i assume verizon) will have to tell htc to unlock the fm radio functionality.

Thank you for the update. We need a firmware update from HTC then? Start the patition.

[supdawg]

Originally Posted by trouthunter

Thank you for the update. We need a firmware update from HTC then? Start the patition.

They are not going to do with without their carrier's blessing.

[constitutionalist]

Originally Posted by supdawg

They are not going to do with without their carrier's blessing.

Given the rash of manufacturer ads like the one from HTC, I wonder if we may see the beginning of a trend where manufacturers secure more autonomy through more direct interaction with consumers (i.e. going around carriers). If I were HTC I'd get sick of seeing telcos turn my stable and aesthetically-pleasing product into a brick, which in turn scares people away from my perfectly good product.

[kidFromBigD]

Originally Posted by constitutionalist

Given the rash of manufacturer ads like the one from HTC, I wonder if we may see the beginning of a trend where manufacturers secure more autonomy through more direct interaction with consumers (i.e. going around carriers). If I were HTC I'd get sick of seeing telcos turn my stable and aesthetically-pleasing product into a brick, which in turn scares people away from my perfectly good product.

If I were HTC, it would make me sick to poison relationships with the 4 major US carriers(not to mention the Canadian carriers) by circumventing them and opening up features, for whatever reason, they have chosen to disable.

We here at ppcgeeks.com are the rebels, but we account for perhaps 1% of the user base of HTC phones in North America(Canada/USA). We are thriving and pushing the limits daily, and honestly that is good. We usually get what we want, or re-flash in search of it. But the vast majority of HTC smartphones are in the hands of a solid customer base that the major carriers rightly treat like gold. These users will never unlock and flash their devices, and may have no time or interest in what's going on here. That's reality.

So, let's understand ourselves in this perspective and go about our work digging into and unlocking the features that lurk deep inside the devices, sharing discoveries, but not thinking our views on the matter are correct for everyone else.

Ok, off my soapbox. Flame away or add your $.02 guys...