Touch Pro 2 FM Radio Questions/Answers

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Originally Posted by bigirb2002

there is no fm radio chip in the sprint touch pro/touch pro 2.all im saying is i have fixed both gsm and cdma touch pro`s diamonds` and touch pro 2`s the diamond and gsm touch pros have a fm chip. which i noticed is Motorola chip .the ones with working fm radio had broadcome chips. so to conclude we will never have fm radio. i was thinking about soldering a brodcome chip in place of motorola if somone would let me borro a sprint tp2 and have a broken gms tp i could test it

You may want to read up on the TP2 more then. This device has an FM receiver chip built into the bluetooth chip. If you look at the FCC docs, you get a clear picture of the Broadcom chip in the phone, and if you look up the product specs for the chip in the picture, it does bluetooth and FM radio. The question is how the radio was disable in the TP2's, whether it's done via software/firmware somehow, or if the hardware itself was disable by not soldering pins or something similar from the chip, but it most definitely is there, unless they managed to get a device approved and then switched out the bluetooth chip without further approval from the FCC.