Dell Streak has an FM Radio

[Guest Shauneh]

Qualcomm MXU6219 is the chipset used for the RF inside the Dell Streak

Source is ifixit.com.

The Qualcomm MXU6219 is the same chipset used in the Xperia X1 which from what I can gather from the Sony Ericsson website supports FM Radio.

If the chips are identical it could open the door to FM Radio on the Dell Streak.

Thanks,

Shauneh

[Guest stuliv12]

see for a little more info: http://android.modaco.com/content/dell-str...ing-amoled-apk/

Edited August 18, 2010 by stuliv12

[Guest popsi]

I believe the X10 comes with the MW600 Hi-fi Wireless Headset here in Norway, and the radio in actually within this headset... may be wrong :D

Edited August 18, 2010 by popsi

[Guest Shauneh]

Thats the x10, I am on about the x1 the original used the same RF receiver.

The only problem is drivers for Android as the port (to my knowledge) didnt contain FM Radio drivers.

Thanks,

Shauneh

[Guest burstatron]

FWIW can confirm the X1 has FM radio, listen to it often on my handset

[Guest popsi]

Thats the x10, I am on about the x1 the original used the same RF receiver.

Ahh...crap.. my bad :D

[Guest The Fixer]

I just played with the Radio, just do a *#*#307#*#*, go to your Apps listing, you should have something called EMList, 2nd option from the top is FMRADIO. I've noticed that the reception sucks... but I CAN tune stations in... (With the corded headset plugged in)

[Guest mrmrmrmr]

I just played with the Radio, just do a *#*#307#*#*, go to your Apps listing, you should have something called EMList, 2nd option from the top is FMRADIO. I've noticed that the reception sucks... but I CAN tune stations in... (With the corded headset plugged in)

on my 1.6 Dell Streak I get only hissing sound.

How do you start it ?

Do you hit the start button ?

[Guest Shauneh]

Yeah same here, can activate the radio but cannot tune (getting white noise though so a good start).

I tried installing a few HTC apk's that they use for Radio but to no avail.

Hope someone gets further than me haha.

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Shauneh

[Guest marra2]

I get radio 2 but can't tune (radio 2 being a station )

[Guest mrmrmrmr]

isthis radio 2 at 104.6 ?

in my country that frequency is empty so I get no sound.

if that's the issue then we need a tuningapplication :huh:

not so bad...

[Guest vinokirk]

i type the code and i get a black screen saying emlist at the top for a second then it does

[Guest Paul Brown]

How are you getting the FM Radio to work? When i do the code, go to EMList and tap FMRadio, it opens up and says Get BT MAC Address. Do i need my earphones in first?

[Guest Shauneh]

Yeah I think theres a problem with feedback with every phone when using FM Radio and speakers.

I was using with headphones, then I plugged USB in and it started to feedback because it had switched to speakers, and then just died.

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Shauneh

[Guest The Fixer]

For those who just get the black screen, you have to go to the Applications list to see the EMList. For all the others, All I got was static until I plugged in the headphones, and even then it wasn't that great. I'm in the states and in an area with VERY few radio stations, so I'm not sure how discriminating the tuner is either... There is a button at the bottom left that says Voice Routing that seems to route the sound through the speakers and not the head phone jack. I've also noticed that the volume control doesn't work. But hey... It's not for prime time... just for fun.

[Guest untrueparadox]

For those who just get the black screen, you have to go to the Applications list to see the EMList. For all the others, All I got was static until I plugged in the headphones, and even then it wasn't that great. I'm in the states and in an area with VERY few radio stations, so I'm not sure how discriminating the tuner is either... There is a button at the bottom left that says Voice Routing that seems to route the sound through the speakers and not the head phone jack. I've also noticed that the volume control doesn't work. But hey... It's not for prime time... just for fun.

I'm in Los Angeles, tons of stations, still sucks. I have a feeling the Dell guys tried to implement it but ended up neglecting it for time reasons. The streak is a beautiful piece of hardware but the software implementation makes the phone so dumb. I wish this was an HTC handset.

[Guest courtlandre]

I'm in Los Angeles, tons of stations, still sucks. I have a feeling the Dell guys tried to implement it but ended up neglecting it for time reasons. The streak is a beautiful piece of hardware but the software implementation makes the phone so dumb. I wish this was an HTC handset.

HTC devices are nice, but they tend to have fat phones. I like how thin the streak is.

[Guest popetodd]

I'm in Los Angeles, tons of stations, still sucks. I have a feeling the Dell guys tried to implement it but ended up neglecting it for time reasons. The streak is a beautiful piece of hardware but the software implementation makes the phone so dumb. I wish this was an HTC handset.

It's more than likely that there is no antenna tuned for the FM broadcast frequencies in the device.

I am sure one could be added, all that would be needed is a commercial printed circuit fractal antenna and a band pass filter spliced in with the other antennas (same thing they do for the existing ones) and you'd have better reception. A small high gain RF pre-amp designed for the band as well would be a great help I am sure. What I am not so sure about is if there is room in there for the preamp, the antenna would not be an issue fitting.

Perhaps the existing pre-amp would work without modification? Hard to say, it is probably tuned with a band pass of 700-2500 MHz to reduce intermod on the GSM/3G and WiFi signals. If it is using external LC networks to tune then it would be trivial to add another network in parallel for the BC band to it. This might help if the pre-amp is not designed specifically for the microwave bands, again it depends on the roll off of the amplifier itself.

I think I'll take a look at the filter network on the radio when I replace the internal SD card.

Edited August 30, 2010 by popetodd

[Guest popetodd]

BTW - How ARE you guys tuning this?

I don't have that option available when I start the radio.

[Guest kupo]

Have you all been trying this with the headphones plugged in? Most phones used headphones as the FM antenna.

[Guest caurba]

Have you all been trying this with the headphones plugged in? Most phones used headphones as the FM antenna.

:rolleyes:

:huh:

Sorry but the mistery is as follow, if you are near of the FM station antenna your bluetooth receiver catch the FM signal and sound like a normal FM station, of course even the FM transmition frecuency is coincident with the bluetooth phone address, it is just an accident.

Whenyou are listening a FM signal and turn off the bluetooth can't ear any more.

Long time ago, some times the turntables magnetic capsules works like FM receiver by the same reason, only when it was near an FM Station antenna.

Sorry but our streak hasn't FM radio!!

:huh:

[Guest mrmrmrmr]

:rolleyes:

:huh:

Sorry but the mistery is as follow, if you are near of the FM station antenna your bluetooth receiver catch the FM signal and sound like a normal FM station, of course even the FM transmition frecuency is coincident with the bluetooth phone address, it is just an accident.

Whenyou are listening a FM signal and turn off the bluetooth can't ear any more.

Long time ago, some times the turntables magnetic capsules works like FM receiver by the same reason, only when it was near an FM Station antenna.

Sorry but our streak hasn't FM radio!!

:huh:

oh yeah ?

go read this:

http://android.modaco.com/content-page/318...-radio-station/

we even have an app to tune fm radio and it plays just fine...

[Guest JaysFreaky]

Funny. I'm listening to mine right now and Bluetooth is off.

[Guest fredrikwe]

I just downloaded and installed the apk and it works fine with the headphones (and no bluetooth), as correctly said above this is the antenna. Only regret is that I have yet to fine a scanning mechanism, so have to manually tune.

[Guest XsCode]

The FM reception has nothing to do with the RF chipset, it's all handled by the Bluetooth/Wifi chip.. the Broadcom 4325 and it DOES have FM capability.. I wrote the Streak FM app