Touch Pro 2 FM Radio Questions/Answers - Page 14

starkasm · #**131** (**permalink**) 10-17-2009, 03:16 PM

Thanks to all for pushing data to limits to figure this out.

It has to be possible to get it to this to work, my thoughts at this point could lead to physical grounding to an antenna source on the board may not be hard-wired to activate the actual hardware (FM BT) which would require one to disassemble the phone to conclude that the board makes that physical relationship possible.

The post I read that said HTC has an unlocking ROM for this makes me believe it is possible still.

Thanks again EVERYONE who has given their time!

nico4k · #**132** (**permalink**) 10-17-2009, 09:40 PM

the carriers (sprint, vzw, etc) are just waiting for apple to make FM radio on the iPhone. and then a year later they will make it available to our devices. As much as i would never use an iPhone, im very thankful that it came out. why u ask? it challenged all PDA makers to up their game in making high quality and finger friendliness devices, which was way overdue. I can thank apple for that at least. Still i'm a WM fan all the way. My last hope sits on WM 7. If MS dont get this right, they will have lost me as fan. I will move to android.

Something even a $20 MP3 player can do, my $600 phone cant even understand what FM is. that's just plain old ridiculous! I really dislike carrier bullying!

fastcompjason · #**133** (**permalink**) 10-18-2009, 08:20 PM

I can't believe with the far reaching grasp that these devices have and all of the amazingly creative people that this site attracts, that the very people that work in the respected companies that build these devices won't shed a little anonymous help our way for the better good and give the general public a little boost to get issues like this solved. I can't think of any other PPC issues that I have seen so much internet speculation over in recent times. I see so many people just blurt things out that they have no idea about. I really urge anyone that has any (actual) knowledge about how we can get this working to come forward if for nothing more than just give a little push so that the really driven people of this site (at a minimum) can make this work. I think that if we gt someone from Broadcom to shed some light on the subject that we would really get some where on this.=D> Lets go PPC Geeks!

#**134** (**permalink**) 10-18-2009, 08:47 PM

What happened those whom were going to contact the FCC. Any headway yet.

marcus_cruz · #**135** (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by fastcompjason

I can't believe with the far reaching grasp that these devices have and all of the amazingly creative people that this site attracts, that the very people that work in the respected companies that build these devices won't shed a little anonymous help our way for the better good and give the general public a little boost to get issues like this solved. I can't think of any other PPC issues that I have seen so much internet speculation over in recent times. I see so many people just blurt things out that they have no idea about. I really urge anyone that has any (actual) knowledge about how we can get this working to come forward if for nothing more than just give a little push so that the really driven people of this site (at a minimum) can make this work. I think that if we gt someone from Broadcom to shed some light on the subject that we would really get some where on this.=D> Lets go PPC Geeks!

I'm not really sure how to take this post, however I will asssume it was meant in a positive manner.

I have been working on this issue for a while, and have tried numerous front end approaches that have been successful in other attempts to hack various items. However I can say this, as an embedded developer I have discovered that the initialization calls to the BCM4325 are not made in our TP2 cdma devices at the time of bootup. If I had a board support package for this phone I would be able to make the correct calls to the microcontroller, and compile a new bootloader as long as I could get it signed by a cert. Thats in Olinex's department though, and I'm not sure they're working on it though. So as a previous poster said, it's probably going to remain locked until Sprint or Verizon decide to compete with the GSM versions of this phone or the iDevice. It's there, but just not turned on at the bootup of the device. It's not off my plate though.
I have board support packages for the microcontrollers on the TP2 and SDK's for the BCM4325 , and am working on getting other development resources together, however Qaulcomm is not very forthcoming with their stuff. So if anywone can offer any assistance in getting additional items together, I'm sure we can do this. I know how to do it, I just dont have all the tools.

**santod** · #**136** (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 02:26 AM

Thanks for your efforts Marcus. Nice to see effort still being made. From near my old home town too! Used to live in Inverness.

pirish · #**137** (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by fastcompjason

I can't believe with the far reaching grasp that these devices have and all of the amazingly creative people that this site attracts, that the very people that work in the respected companies that build these devices won't shed a little anonymous help our way for the better good and give the general public a little boost to get issues like this solved. I can't think of any other PPC issues that I have seen so much internet speculation over in recent times. I see so many people just blurt things out that they have no idea about. I really urge anyone that has any (actual) knowledge about how we can get this working to come forward if for nothing more than just give a little push so that the really driven people of this site (at a minimum) can make this work. I think that if we gt someone from Broadcom to shed some light on the subject that we would really get some where on this.=D> Lets go PPC Geeks!

The problem with what you are asking people to do is this: Most people that work in the industry have to sign a contract stating that they will not talk about what they are doing with the public. This forum is "the public". I am sure that many people would love to come forth and let us all know what is going on, but by doing so it would constitute ethical, and moral values being challenged, not to mention the possibile loss of employment. Therefore, even asking someone to make that breach of trust for the sake of a forum is not acceptable, and also one that should not be tolerated.

marcus_cruz · #**138** (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by pirish

The problem with what you are asking people to do is this: Most people that work in the industry have to sign a contract stating that they will not talk about what they are doing with the public. This forum is "the public". I am sure that many people would love to come forth and let us all know what is going on, but by doing so it would constitute ethical, and moral values being challenged, not to mention the possibile loss of employment. Therefore, even asking someone to make that breach of trust for the sake of a forum is not acceptable, and also one that should not be tolerated.

I completely respect that.. Honestly though , how do you think we get all the latest WM Builds ? Or the Shipped ROMS before the phone is even released. Someone has to leak information. I know when MS gives me a new "BETA" or "RC" I have to agree to not disclose it. Heck they even give full source code to their entire "core" OS for winmobile 6.1 and CE 5.0-->6.0 However I am not asking anyone to disclose anything that would be a breach of security, or an NDA, or any other confidentiality agreement. But if anyone knows of any links that I may have missed or some company ABC that has already got "things" then by all means please pass them by and I'll take a look at and apply them if possible. I mean we eventually figure anything out, it's just a bunch of 01's in the right order.