Touch Pro 2 FM Radio Questions/Answers - Page 15

Herbal954 · #**141** (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 06:48 PM

i dont understand why they would remove or lock down the FM radio either, this would lead people to streaming radio which would consume more of the carriers bandwidth...doesent make much sense to me

dimitri · #**142** (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Herbal954

i dont understand why they would remove or lock down the FM radio either, this would lead people to streaming radio which would consume more of the carriers bandwidth...doesent make much sense to me

It is because they have their own applications to listen to music and they want to take all of our money.

amlavor · #**143** (**permalink**) 10-24-2009, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by dimitri

It is because they have their own applications to listen to music and they want to take all of our money.

that was a good one!!!

football0552 · #**144** (**permalink**) 10-24-2009, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by dimitri

It is because they have their own applications to listen to music and they want to take all of our money.

Not for Vzw's TP2...

DaddyLongLegs · #**145** (**permalink**) 10-26-2009, 09:37 AM

I am so freaking confused. I have a Verizon HTC Touch Pro2. Can I or can I not get the FM working on it? Or is there a hack we're all waiting on or something? I'm guessing a hacked ROM? Or would something like unlocking FM not even take something that drastic?

dimitri · #**146** (**permalink**) 10-26-2009, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by DaddyLongLegs

I am so freaking confused. I have a Verizon HTC Touch Pro2. Can I or can I not get the FM working on it? Or is there a hack we're all waiting on or something? I'm guessing a hacked ROM? Or would something like unlocking FM not even take something that drastic?

At the moment, the FM Radio is disabled on all CDMA Touch Pro 2 devices. And there is no hack to enable it yet.

astraz7 · #**147** (**permalink**) 10-27-2009, 08:53 PM

I have installed it on sprint tp2... it installs fine, loads and appears that it could work but does not find any fm stations... looks like either it can't interface with an fm receiver or there just plain isn't one.

marcus_cruz · #**148** (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by DaddyLongLegs

I am so freaking confused. I have a Verizon HTC Touch Pro2. Can I or can I not get the FM working on it? Or is there a hack we're all waiting on or something? I'm guessing a hacked ROM? Or would something like unlocking FM not even take something that drastic?

Im putting my money on the theory that the FM Receiver is in fact in our devices, I have not directly "seen" it using various observation methods, however I do know that when a bootloader/spl is written, there are options of what gets started and what does'nt through code. I am waiting on my development board/ tools to come in and I will start trying to get something working, hopefully the HSPL will be release by then and I'll be able to delve a bit deeper. Now the imagio does in fact have FM radio and it's CDMA, I looked through the signed_spl and there are calls made to the FM receiver to initialize it. So I think our device just needs the "chip"=BCM4325's FM reciever/router turned on at boot time in order for the OS to see it.
It's like this, many computer techies and non techies know, that if a bios cannot see a hard drive then the OS cant see it as well, there are exceptions to that however most of the time those are "special" bios's that allow it to happen. For the most part though if the most basic part of the devices cant see something, then the rest of the OS cannot as well or has problems communicating with it.