Hi All,
I just bought an e5 Play (XT1921-2) from Target. Am surprised and pleased to see there's an actual FM radio to play with. However, I see no apps to run it other than the stock Motorola app. It would be fun to expand the frequency range outside of the wide channel FM broadcast band into narrow channel communications bands. If it could get to approximately 162 MHz you could pick up the NOAA weather stations, which might even be useful.
Does anyone know anything of this? Might the hardware support that? Has anyone seen anything like that?
Thanks,
Dan
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As the title said, anyone have any idea? Thanks
Since it doesn't have an AM tuner ( very few DAP do), you won't be able to get AM. It's a shame really that AM really doesn't get put into anything. Generally the excuse is the antennae needs to be very large to receive that band of frequencies and the interference it will cause.
Hi,
Is it possible to set the frequency to different range ?
Say in Japan it is 76-90 but in Singapore it is 88 to 108.
Can show me how ? I don't mind to change the config. files. (My X8 is rooted)
Thanks in advance.
Interesting question but I think that's not possible even for hardware reason.
You know, in each country some frequencies are reserved for specific purposes (military use, police, ecc ecc) so it would be a very big problem if a normal radio could capt those frequencies!
DougTheModder said:
Interesting question but I think that's not possible even for hardware reason.
You know, in each country some frequencies are reserved for specific purposes (military use, police, ecc ecc) so it would be a very big problem if a normal radio could capt those frequencies!
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I agree with you on the specific purpose military frequency.
I have a wireless headphone which use 86 as the transmission freq. which normal FM radio and X8 can't be tune to that.
I can only use the receiver headphone that come with it.
I want to receive the same channel from another radio/handphone so that my wife can hear it also. (sharing)
I saw some international radio sets can tune to a wider range.
Hi there,
I know there is already some posts relating issues like that, but most of them are dead and without a clear answer.
I actually own a Joying JY-UQ130 (RK3188 headunit). This HU is installed on a Honda Civic 9G (European model). This car have an amplified antenna which worked very well with OEM radio.
Since I installed my HU, radio signal / reception is not really good.
It was really good before, using my OEM radio, so it's clearly related to my HU tuner.
I tried ANT-208 amplifier but this product is pure **** (signal is worst than before using this) :
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/ANT-208-Car-I.../111840168048?
I hearded that there is another product named HD-RX8 but price is 20$ :
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/HD-RX8-RADIO...813526?hash=item1c6901dad6:g:SuQAAOSwEetV-nNC
This product seems to be more efficient than ANT-208, but I don't want to spend 30-35$ (cause I live in France and shipping is about 15$) if it doesn't work.
Does someone have installed HD-RX8 ? What's your feedback ? Better choice than this "garbage part" called ANT-208 ?
Is there another real solution to improve radio signal ? Like changing tuner, adding an hidden antenna ?
Thanks for your help !
Anyone tried this HD-RX8 part ? I will probably give a try if no feedback comes !
Hey guys. So I have the Australian LGV40 lmv405ebw model. Doesn't come with the FM radio pre installed so I installed the stock FM radio and next radio but it's not working whatsoever. Gsm arena said it's FM compatible but it's not working. Is there any way to enable the hardware so I can utilise it cause this was one of the reasons I purchased it?
Disappointing cause I do travel occasionally to remote areas with no coverage and it's so handy.
Stevo001457 said:
Hey guys. So I have the Australian LGV40 lmv405ebw model. Doesn't come with the FM radio pre installed so I installed the stock FM radio and next radio but it's not working whatsoever. Gsm arena said it's FM compatible but it's not working. Is there any way to enable the hardware so I can utilise it cause this was one of the reasons I purchased it?
Disappointing cause I do travel occasionally to remote areas with no coverage and it's so handy.
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Typically, headphones must be plugged in so that the natural antenna action of the headphone wire can be used for reception
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Tried that, to no avail. I'm aware of that. Used next radio and stock FM radio which I downloaded manually.
Stevo001457 said:
Hey guys. So I have the Australian LGV40 lmv405ebw model. Doesn't come with the FM radio pre installed so I installed the stock FM radio and next radio but it's not working whatsoever. Gsm arena said it's FM compatible but it's not working. Is there any way to enable the hardware so I can utilise it cause this was one of the reasons I purchased it?
Disappointing cause I do travel occasionally to remote areas with no coverage and it's so handy.
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Atleast the European V405EBW has the FM module disabled (for whatever reason), so i guess its the same for the australian :/
Some US models have it enabled though. You can typically check from your bootloader kernel commandline ( /proc/cmdline , needs root to read) if its supported in HW or not.
SGCMarkus said:
Atleast the European V405EBW has the FM module disabled (for whatever reason), so i guess its the same for the australian :/
Some US models have it enabled though. You can typically check from your bootloader kernel commandline ( /proc/cmdline , needs root to read) if its supported in HW or not.
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Yeah I think it's exactly the same as the European models. I've heard the US models have it enabled. Is there a possibility to enable it myself?
Stevo001457 said:
Yeah I think it's exactly the same as the European models. I've heard the US models have it enabled. Is there a possibility to enable it myself?
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Its disabled in hardware... except you find out where to solder what exactly, i dont think theres a possibility (bootloader reports that fm isnt supported on the v405ebw, theres a kernel commandline appended for that)
I tried to use it in Lineage, didnt work (had FM stuff added in LOS16, then fm stuff broke in 17, didnt readd it yet), but worked on the US models
So i guess you would need todo some serious soldering or change the motherboard ?
Which FM Radio APK can you guys recommend? It must show RDS, must be a real FM Tuner app and run without root.
Here in Europe, listening to FM radio without RDS is a pain, because the won't select available better frequencies automatically.
Check on reddit.com if someone knows about this
So, I have discovered that the stock FM Radio APK actually can switch automatically between frequencies. (RDS-AF).
It would still be a nice feature to show RDS data (RDS-PS and Radiotext) and to have the ability to turn off the signal muting.
AbRaCH said:
So, I have discovered that the stock FM Radio APK actually can switch automatically between frequencies. (RDS-AF).
It would still be a nice feature to show RDS data (RDS-PS and Radiotext) and to have the ability to turn off the signal muting.
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Thank you for the info.
Still.. RDS is a nice feature and very popular in Europe.