Dell Streak WiFi chip

[Guest Borce Georgiev]

Can somebody post here picture of streaks WiFi chip ? Or chip model numbers etc ?

I can't find proper screwdriver to open mine streak :(

Edited July 30, 2010 by Borce Georgiev

[Guest vinokirk]

http://www.itechnews.net/2010/01/18/dell-m...red-3g-capable/

Might be of help...

Edited July 30, 2010 by vinokirk

[Guest Borce Georgiev]

http://www.itechnews.net/2010/01/18/dell-m...red-3g-capable/

Might be of help...

Nope, old useless stuff :(

[Guest vinokirk]

:(

[Guest fards]

I'm fairly certain its identical to the other snapdragon soc, bcm4329

Think there's reference to it in the file system

[Guest Dunhamzzz]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/dell-mi...d-3g-sim-video/

Is that helpful? There's a vid as well

[Guest MrPokeylope]

I'm fairly certain its identical to the other snapdragon soc, bcm4329

Think there's reference to it in the file system

bcm4329 is an N chipset. Just.. for us dummies out there :(

Kinda knew all along. It picked up signals from places my old iphone 3g wouldn't have dared pickup from.

(also... I googled it. derp.)

Edited July 30, 2010 by MrPokeylope

[Guest fards]

bcm4329 is an N chipset. Just.. for us dummies out there :(

Kinda knew all along. It picked up signals from places my old iphone 3g wouldn't have dared pickup from.

(also... I googled it. derp.)

Unfortunately its not Enabled, and its not quite as easy as just flicking a registry key like the one I found for the hd2...

However if it is that chip them maybe the same way it was unlocked for the desire and nexus could work, and also if it is then we could get fm radio working....

[Guest SEI87]

my dell cant see my n network

[Guest MrPokeylope]

my dell cant see my n network

No... it won't. As the chip doesn;'t have the instructions to be able to. And android 1.6 can't recognize N anyway. It will have G limitations until certain things are done. However, like having an N adapter on a G wifi network, it will be better at recieiving signals regardless of code. Not faster, but it'll catch things that a normal G chip couldn't.

Allow the tech geniuses their fun with the streak, and eventually you'll see N access, among other neat things.

[Guest knightpants]

I'm pretty sure the wifi chip in the streak is the Broadcom 4325.... Which means you won't be getting wireless N from it.

[Guest Borce Georgiev]

It must be the same crappy bcm chip, found in nexus one. If it's same, custom kernel will enable wireless N support and maybe FM radio.

But if it's not, than Dell Streak really sucks :(

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Tinhte.vn is down, I can't ask them for chip model numbers. Maybe iFixit is our next hope

Edited July 31, 2010 by Borce Georgiev

[Guest fards]

I'm pretty sure the wifi chip in the streak is the Broadcom 4325.... Which means you won't be getting wireless N from it.

why so sure, where you getting your info from?

[Guest knightpants]

Because you can look through the system and see the product id for the chip is 0x04AA which relates to the 4325.

If correct... then the 4325 is incapable of wireless N, so none of us will be getting wireless N from the streak.

[Guest kio07]

Any news about a Radio FM compatibility ?

Apparently, the Broadcom 4325 (=> http://www.broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth...utions/BCM4325) support the Radio FM receiver.

So if the Streak have really this chip, any chance that Dell or other develop a application/driver to manage Radio RM ?

Edited August 12, 2010 by kio07

[Guest fards]

Any news about a Radio FM compatibility ?

Apparently, the Broadcom 4325 (=> http://www.broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth...utions/BCM4325) support the Radio FM receiver.

So if the Streak have really this chip, any chance that Dell or other develop a application/driver to manage Radio RM ?

looking at the dmesg it does test the Fm chip on boot up then disables it

[Guest Eric.Druse]

Because you can look through the system and see the product id for the chip is 0x04AA which relates to the 4325.

If correct... then the 4325 is incapable of wireless N, so none of us will be getting wireless N from the streak.

Cool, man. You are right.

Checked with my contact, Wlan module is from http://www.azurewave.com/, model number is AzureWave AW-GH600B, and the chipset is BCM4325. The data rate is below, only b and g, no n.

WLAN

802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, 11Mbps

802.11g: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54Mbps

[Guest Eric.Druse]

Any news about a Radio FM compatibility ?

Apparently, the Broadcom 4325 (=> http://www.broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth...utions/BCM4325) support the Radio FM receiver.

So if the Streak have really this chip, any chance that Dell or other develop a application/driver to manage Radio RM ?

BCM4325 is with FM for sure. But I am not sure if streak's circuit supports FM or not.

FM

76-MHz to 108-MHz FM bands supported (US, Europe, and Japan)

Auto search and tuning modes

RDS and RBDS demodulator and decoder with filter and buffering functions

[Guest knightpants]

BCM4325 is with FM for sure. But I am not sure if streak's circuit supports FM or not.

FM

76-MHz to 108-MHz FM bands supported (US, Europe, and Japan)

Auto search and tuning modes

RDS and RBDS demodulator and decoder with filter and buffering functions

I think FM can be turned on in Streak, too many files and information inside Streak referring to it... also the fmradio.apk, although currently does not do much....