Guest skitbra8934 Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 is there any possibility to activate radio on the liquid? whats the chip in it and could it be possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down to earth Swede Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) is there any possibility to activate radio on the liquid? whats the chip in it and could it be possible? No, no FM-radio in the Liquid hardware. When you write only "radio" , it could also mean the receiver for GSM/3G...And of course it has that! Edited April 8, 2010 by Down to earth Swede Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Borkata Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 Chip is BCM4325 same like the Cliq. It is not inpossible for sure :P since Eugene has enabled it on Moto Cliq :( but there is no clue on how he did it. Have you seen anywhere already enabled radio - Nexus One or Motorola Droid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down to earth Swede Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) Chip is BCM4325 same like the Cliq. It is not inpossible for sure :P since Eugene has enabled it on Moto Cliq :( but there is no clue on how he did it. Have you seen anywhere already enabled radio - Nexus One or Motorola Droid? That was surprising, thought the specs for it was the actuall hardware specs and it says "no fm radio"! You live and learn! Edit : Checking the hardware spec for the cliq, under technology, and it also shows no fm-radio. http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Co...CLIQ-US-EN.alt# Are you sure that the "Eugene fellow" you talked about had it actually working? Any links? Edited April 8, 2010 by Down to earth Swede Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Borkata Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 The Broadcom chip has FM radio receiver in it along with wifi and bluetooth. Problem is that neither Motorola nor Acer has taken advantage of it and has implemented drivers. On the other hand LG has same chip in their Eve and has drivers and application for it. Eugene has tried to port LG Eve rom to Cliq and this way hi managed to achieve some progress on enabling radio (in fact hi found it this way). Nexus One has BCM4329 chip, which also has FM radio receiver and also FM transmitter :( but Google not made it work too :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest willyaranda Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 It would be awesome if Acer write the drivers, i miss FM radio on a smartphone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down to earth Swede Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 It would be awesome if Acer write the drivers, i miss FM radio on a smartphone! It would be more of a cool thing, but I don't miss FM-radio.. I have it on my Creative Zen (mp3-player) and it is awful when you move around. To listen to streamed radio works much better with no interference or lost signal when you move. I just love the winamp app, Droidlive and the stations I usually listen to otherwise (which is not often) have their own apps already for android. And we will have flash soon too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mmkim Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 amm....... Acer liquid cpu can use FM radio. but.......... no driver to support !! because no one write it. ;) it seem.....Acer ;) ..........The liquid E maybe have FM radio or not ! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenelm Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 There's a rumor about FM radio support for Nexus One in the next update, as Liquid and Nexus One use the same chip (QSD8250), there's possibility that we could extract the driver for the FM module and app from Nexus One! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Borkata Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 There's a rumor about FM radio support for Nexus One in the next update, as Liquid and Nexus One use the same chip (QSD8250), there's possibility that we could extract the driver for the FM module and app from Nexus One! Radio is not in CPU chip, but in Broadcom chip containing Wifi and Bluetooth ;) And our chip is different than the one in Nexus One ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenelm Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 Radio is not in CPU chip, but in Broadcom chip containing Wifi and Bluetooth ;) And our chip is different than the one in Nexus One ;) Oh! I just found out that Liquid uses Broadcom BCM4325 while Nexus One uses BCM4329. Our chip still comes with the FM transmitter, but we don't have the driver...;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Borkata Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 Oh! I just found out that Liquid uses Broadcom BCM4325 while Nexus One uses BCM4329. Our chip still comes with the FM transmitter, but we don't have the driver...;) No transmitter in ours ;) only FM receiver. Nexus one has both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenelm Posted April 16, 2010 Report Share Posted April 16, 2010 yea, you're right! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest linuxluver Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 (edited) It would be awesome if Acer write the drivers, i miss FM radio on a smartphone! I haven't listened to ANY FM radio for years. Where I live it is all commercial garbage with too many advertisements and just bad music I don't like (rap, hiphop, whiney singers squeaking like someone stepped on them) .....or old music I'm sick of hearing over and over. Edited April 17, 2010 by linuxluver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 7G HK Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 (edited) It would be more of a cool thing, but I don't miss FM-radio.. I have it on my Creative Zen (mp3-player) and it is awful when you move around. To listen to streamed radio works much better with no interference or lost signal when you move. I just love the winamp app, Droidlive and the stations I usually listen to otherwise (which is not often) have their own apps already for android. And we will have flash soon too... I also have Zen, the FM receive is bad because the wrong design of circuits. The problem is similar to Acer NeoTouch's GPS. the control pin of 3.5mm socket should not be shorted to GND , but it can't be avoid if you use standard earphones, so if you don't have remote control, just cut the control pin, FM receive will be fine! the control pin is the extra pin for 4-points 3.5mm jack comparing to standard 3-points jack. Edited April 17, 2010 by 7G HK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jayziac Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 FM radio would be a lot more convenient, low-power, and no need for data connection. I hope Acer or someone writes drivers for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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