Hi,
A few questions about the Z5 FM radio receiver.
1) I'm wondering... where is the antenna? Is the antenna part of the headphones' cable (wire)?
2) Is it possible to use any headphones with the Z5C generally speaking?
3) what do you think about the FM radio receiver performance/quality? Is it okay?
Thank you!
I have a standard Z5. But it should be the same hardware and software. It's not too bad signal wise. I find generally you need to select it as mono sound to stop and hissing/crackling when moving around unless the area in has real good signal
The antenna is the headphones and yes most should work fine
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Is possible hear radio without cordless for example with a Bluethooth headset?
Like other HTC phones with an FM radio, reception is dependent on having the wired headset plugged in as it is the antenna for the radio. Without it plugged in, you won't get any reception.
I suppose, however I have never tried it, that you could stream the radio over A2DP to a bluetooth headset as long as you have the wired headset plugged in as well to act as the antenna. Maybe you could wrap up the headset and keep it in your pocket plugged into the phone - seems like a pretty bulky solution though.
Hope that helped - good luck!
Thank You PSARGENT but I tried already and don´t work. Anyone knows any trick for it?
Also, if psargent's suggestion works, be careful that the headset you plug in must be one with a microphone built in (e.g. the headset that comes with the Touch Cruise) because it is the cable to the mic that is used as the FM aerial so a simple adaptor that just connects the audio outputs to a 3.5mm jack (e.g. the Boxwave adaptor) will not provide an input to the FM aerial.
Edit: I just saw that our posts crossed and that psargent's suggestion doesn't work.
- Julian
This is the only part of the phone that I don't like. Why can't you use a BT to listen to the radio. Sure, I can see that it needs the wire for antenna purposes, but why can't you have that plugged in and listen via BT?
I install BTAudio, and hoped that that would solve it, but it didn't...
I know that 98MHz FM Radio needs a somewhat long antenna but I can not see why that antenna should hang from my ears and tangle around my neck!
It makes me mad I can not route FM radio output sound to my bluetooth A2DP headset as I can do with audio players.
If HTC is so dumb someone should find a solution!
oruam57 said:
I know that 98MHz FM Radio needs a somewhat long antenna but I can not see why that antenna should hang from my ears and tangle around my neck!
It makes me mad I can not route FM radio output sound to my bluetooth A2DP headset as I can do with audio players.
If HTC is so dumb someone should find a solution!
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Sony Ericsson's radio requires wired headset as antenna too. I gueess this is the norm, but, agree with you that it should be improved.
I agree. There should be a way to connect a pure antenna to the phone and route the sound to the phones speaker or to wireless speakers.
That pure antenna could be a simple fairly long piece of wire or it might be a solid short but high performing radio-antenna.
It really doesn't matter... if the radio waves of the antenna won't kill you, then the Bluetooth will do the job... either way you're f*cked whith cancer...
Also using the headset as an antenna is common practice (Nokia, Motorola, SE, Siemens,...)... you're not gonna see anything new until the backgound technology of commercial Radios will change...
gnick666 said:
Also using the headset as an antenna is common practice (Nokia, Motorola, SE, Siemens,...)...
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Ok, dumbness is a common practice. So what?
gnick666 said:
you're not gonna see anything new until the backgound technology of commercial Radios will change...
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No new technology is required.
No (sensible) people expect a micro antenna for 98 MHz, a 50 cm piece of wire is completely acceptable.
What is required a little less dumbly written piece of software that can route the audio output (obtained using the 50 cm piece of wire pending from, let's say, my back) to the A2DP headset.
Hi I have a Samsung SBH-650 Bluetooth stereo Handsfree. I am not able to turn on the FM RADIO, it says "Earphone not connected.
Is there any way i can fix it or GALAXY S wouldn't support radio through bluetooth handsfree.
please provide some suggestions and helps.
I have FROYO 2.2.1
HellBoyX2 said:
Hi I have a Samsung SBH-650 Bluetooth stereo Handsfree. I am not able to turn on the FM RADIO, it says "Earphone not connected.
Is there any way i can fix it or GALAXY S wouldn't support radio through bluetooth handsfree.
please provide some suggestions and helps.
I have FROYO 2.2.1
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I think there is no way to have fm radio without the earphones.Actually earphones are the antenna for the fm radio.
I recall seeing a hack for this. Search the forums, this isn't the first time this has come up.
I think there is no way to have fm radio without the earphones.Actually earphones are the antenna for the fm radio.
Thats what the manual/radio instructions say .
http://www.appbrain.com/app/super-bt-mono-froyo-pro/com.steven.supermonofroyopro
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I wish i could listen to the FM radio over my Bluetooth stereo as well.
unfortunately it is not possible
the FM radio will not even work without a 3.5mm plugged in antennae (corded old fashioned stereo headphones, that either breaks apart, or are too cumbersome to carry around..... wires are just so retro)
HellBoyX2 said:
Hi I have a Samsung SBH-650 Bluetooth stereo Handsfree. I am not able to turn on the FM RADIO, it says "Earphone not connected.
Is there any way i can fix it or GALAXY S wouldn't support radio through bluetooth handsfree.
please provide some suggestions and helps.
I have FROYO 2.2.1
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Dont have a bluetooth set to test this but.
get a pair of normal cheap headphones, cut just the end off plug that into the phone then see if it works with bluetooth.
the reason it asks for headphones is it uses that as the aerial
It can work without them in theory but quality would be lacking.
it gets all staticky
i tried just plugging in an empty 3.5mm spare i had for random projects, and the FM apps does find it, and will start to play FM radio, but quality is worse than 1940s radio
LOL
Then the aerial is needed.
Cut the headphones off and so the wire into your jacket so when in your pocket you can play radio
Sent from my NCC-74656!
You need the headphone connected to act as the aerial...
[edit] My bad - didn't read thread[/edit]
This is what you need : http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/overview/mw600?cc=gb&lc=en#view=overview
They are cheap and the sound quality is great (Hi-Fi), they have a build in FM-Radio. Using them with my SGS, 8 hours of music playback is not bad..
There is no any bluetooth/wireless headphone in the word by which you can hear the FM radio because the cord of wired headphone is act like a antenna/aerial.
But yes there is one solution for this which I tries on my several Nokia and SE P99i phone.Might this will work for you.
Get the 3.5mm headphone jack from the market
Plug this jack to your mobile phone
Now pair your Bluetooth headset
Now start your FM
Please let me know whether it worked or not.
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This is what you need : http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/overview/mw600?cc=gb&lc=en#view=overview
They are cheap and the sound quality is great (Hi-Fi), they have a build in FM-Radio. Using them with my SGS, 8 hours of music playback is not bad..
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have a look at this
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_...sony+ericsson+mw600&_sacat=See-All-Categories
+1 for the MW600!
But if you have 3G just use TuneIn Radio! It's free and got almost all radio stations worldwide!
HellBoyX2 said:
Hi I have a Samsung SBH-650 Bluetooth stereo Handsfree. I am not able to turn on the FM RADIO, it says "Earphone not connected.
Is there any way i can fix it or GALAXY S wouldn't support radio through bluetooth handsfree.
please provide some suggestions and helps.
I have FROYO 2.2.1
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You have to use earphone, there is no way to use FM Radio using bluetooth
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... if you have 3G just use TuneIn Radio! It's free and got almost all radio stations worldwide!
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I've followed this idea and it's working fantastic but my battery is NOT happy about it .
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I've followed this idea and it's working fantastic but my battery is NOT happy about it .
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Haha! Well at least your happy! How about buying an extra battery, battery pack or extended batteries?
I Swyped this on my Galaxy S
You're right, I'm happy having my favourite radio station over the bluetooth ... and I'm already using a momax 2700mAh battery.
The part with my battery being not happy is related more to the huge power drain that a constant streaming over 3G is implying in general ... nothing else. Watching a video streaming over 3G is even more power hungry .
Yeah.. us users are to blame , imagine streaming via 3G + bluetooth headset + internet browsing
I will try with this antenna...
I cant put the link, but you can browse:
"FM Radio GPRS Antenna For Mobile Cell Phone 12dbi 3.5mm"
in ebay.
Hey everyone. I have tried a few FM transmitters with my SGS so I can listen to music/podcasts in the car and they all suck. Seems like the only ones available to me are on frequencies that are in use. Either that or they are full of static or just sound horrible.
Can anyone point me to a good FM transmitter that can pair to my phone using bluetooth? If not bluetooth a simple headphone plug would be fine.
Sorry if this has been asked before.
The one from this thread seems to look ok, connected via headphone jack. Has adjustable frequency, and charging port for your device.
I'm not sure about the quality of it though. Best to ask the op.
I tried three different brands. None worked well. My car radio antenna is in the rear window glass. I checked alternative installed devices that hook directly into the car antenna. I went to Best Buy to see what installation would cost. They said it wouldn't work well. Installation was too much. So I'm still using a tape casette adaptor. I have to turn the Android volume high to keep thr AMS from skipping and reversing. I gave away one of the FM adaptors to someone working in a third world country with only a few FM stations. She lovrs it.
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I bought the Motorola T505 a while back and love it! Battery life, sound quality, specs, all great!
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Question,
Our Galaxy 3/Apollo has a built in FM reciever. Does it also have transmit functionality?
I am curious if it possible to code an app that both recieves FM signal by using a wired head set in the standard way, but also transmit using a modified antenna using a 3.5mm headset jack and a loop or non-loop antenna.
I only ask because I am unsure what FM chipset is in our phone (documentation?).
Bump? 205 views and no answer?
Not sure about the FM chipset, but there is no FM transmitter in this device, only receiver..this was discussed in some thread some time ago..
Thanks. That's a pity as most chipsets have both send/receive...