Now, I know there has been a lot of discussion in the past, and I wanted to reply to a previous post, but my post count is not high enough (at least post count is more than a bragging right here).
At any rate, during my day job I work with software defined radios and am very interested in working with the radio on my Android phone. From my brief reading I understand that several phones (including my Atrix) include the Braudcom BCM4329 FM transceiver chip. Unfortunately these discussions have been fragmented across multiple device-specific threads.
My question is, has any serious development of an FM transmitter taken place? I see the main difficulty is obtaining hardware documentation, but it would be nice if we had a device-agnostic thread concerning a chip like the BCM4329. It would be nice to have up-to-date info from across XDA detailing the efforts toward utilizing one of these chips.
If documentation were obtainable, by whatever means, I would love to dive in and see what I can do. However, I am not prepared to fully reverse engineer the device.
So, is there anything new happening here?
So what you're saying is the FM reciever can be turned into a transmitter? If so, that is pretty cool! Expecially for in the car
garethsimpsonuk said:
So what you're saying is the FM reciever can be turned into a transmitter? If so, that is pretty cool! Expecially for in the car
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Yes, at least the chip in question, the Braudcom BCM4329 is. The questions are:
Does this include all the hardware? Which devices (Evo, Atrix, etc)?
Can we get documentation?
There are of course many other considerations, but these are the main ones preventing further investigation.
However, my fear is that Braudcom will never provide the documentation.
Yes please! Count me and my Atrix down for fm transmitting! I wonder if this post might get any more attention in the Atrix forums. Possibly a dev request?
I've done a lot of research on this myself, and as far as I have been able to tell, it is possible with most chips but it takes a ton of development and causes problems when it has been done before. It has to be cooked into a kernel to make things work right. Most chips do have the capability, but it's almost not worth the time.
Sent from my CM7 SCH-i500
if it does have to be baked into the kernel then that would def be a reason to choose one rom over the others. I do think there would be a market for this. Not just the novelty. Even if it has to be used with a market app where they charge $5 or so. In the end it would still be cheaper then buying a fm transmitter on amazon.
I'm officially defibrillating this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725870
Full instructions are there one how to make the app, the problem is you have to reverse-engineer it for yourself.
actually it does exist
I flashed slimkat rom on my sony xperia sp a few days ago and on of the inbuily apps was a fm transmitter whoch actually worked usig the headphone cable as the antennae (as the fm receiver does) and it transmitted to around 10-15 feet and sound quality was quite good. Since then i have reverted back to cm11 but forgot to extract the apk and save it and am unable to find it elsewhere. So in conclusopn, such an app exists and works. Generically
can u share me your fm transmit app from slim kitkat?
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I flashed slimkat rom on my sony xperia sp a few days ago and on of the inbuily apps was a fm transmitter whoch actually worked usig the headphone cable as the antennae (as the fm receiver does) and it transmitted to around 10-15 feet and sound quality was quite good. Since then i have reverted back to cm11 but forgot to extract the apk and save it and am unable to find it elsewhere. So in conclusopn, such an app exists and works. Generically
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Sorry if this has been covered, but I don't have the time for searches. I have an Atrix myself, but bought the wife an Inspire a couple of weeks back when she was due an upgrade.
Today for the first time I went to transfer files to her Inspire from my Atrix via bluetooth. When she made her phone discoverable, it showed as a Desire on my phone.
Leads me to believe both are one and the same, or at least share the exact same software/firmware, with a different outer shell.
Does this mean mods for the Desire are usable on the Inspire without requiring porting of any sort?
Anyway, just an observation.
Cheers!
Before anyone jumps you for asking its all over the forums. The inspire and desire hd are basically one in the same minus a bit of hardware. You'll find more info about that in the android dev section. Anyone one can jump in and correct me if i missed something.
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Before anyone jumps you for asking its all over the forums. The inspire and desire hd are basically one in the same minus a bit of hardware. You'll find more info about that in the android dev section. Anyone one can jump in and correct me if i missed something.
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From my experience they are the same, one is Americanized and I have dried some of the Desire HD ROMs and they work fine...
I'm trying to look into the bluetooth situation in the Infuse - the fact that it can't work in Cyanogenmod. I remember reading a post somewhere explaining that the Linux driver had never been submitted by the developer at Sony Ericson, and that post mentioned the model number of the chip. But I can't find the post! Can anyone help me out? I'm mainly trying to find the model number.
The reason I'm trying to find this is that I would like to find the original code in the Samsung-distributed kernel source. I'm poking around trying to find it, but it would help if I knew what particular chip or some keywords to grep for.
I don't know how far I'll be able to go this this (getting Bluetooth to work on my CM9-flashed Infuse), but I'm a software engineer and I'm bored, so let's see what happens ;-)
http://www.stericsson.com/products/cg2900-gps.jsp
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Hi All,
I've searched for answers on this quite a bit and am finding thread's that are a little old or not relevent. So are there any 4.2.2 Roms that bluetooth controllers work on (for the TF101 ofcourse)? I'm mainly trying to use the wiimote but i do have another controller that doesnt work either.
I am going on a lovely long coach journey to the Netherlands in a few weeks and would like to crack our some emulators on the coach. I am actually considering downgrading to an earlier android version just for the trip.
So whats the deal, do they work, what roms do they work on? Does it take some hacking (if so got any links i can look at to get it done)?
Thanks
Google changed the Bluetooth stack in 4.2. Check this out.
People suggest keeping a nadroid backup of 4.1 and just use that when you need that... until there's a fix.
hello everybody,
I hope someone on here is able to point me in the right direction ive got these 3 questions about android and what I can do with it.
loving it so far what it can do is simply amazing :good:
on to the questions.
1) is there an applicatino to listen to the UK police radio?
ive seen apps that listen to the US radio but not the UK who are using something called TETRA from what ive read and info here would be spot on
2) are there any jamming apps available
I know droid is hella cool in capabilities and am hoping to find a GSM/FM/TV signal jamming app for it I figured that with its awesome abilities and all there has gotta be one out there somewhere
especially if the droid outputs GSM but i could be wrong
3) how can I disguise my root from the lloyds banking app (tried rootcloak with no joy)
I dont know if it will help or not but here are my basic phone specs
HTC one running cyanogen mod 11 and rooted
anybody?