Turn the N900 into a FM radio
The headphones cable is the antenna. With this application you can tune into FM radio stations, just like in the old days before there was internet radio.
| Author | Martin Grimme |
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Starting to look really good! Still has some bugs, so I can't give it a high rating, can't really use it reliably yet.
1) Screen saver causes problems.
2) When I am driving around, it is near impossible to find new stations. My keypad isn't visible, so I have to try to manually go through every single 10th of a frequency, which will drive you crazy
3) Very hard to use your finger and set an exact frequency, requires patience.
This new version works great, it has fixed lots of bugs!
This new version works great, it has fixed lots of bugs!
@Kevin Liao: the arrows are for switching between presets. They only have effect if you have stations saved.
on my system, the left and the right arrow seems doesn't work ( I mean the one one the screen.) is that the same on your system??
Thank yoU!
@Sergey Vlasov - because the FM receiver and bluetooth transmitter/receiver are on the same chip inside the N900, and there's only one 'power cord' to it.
I just installed version 2009.12.19 and I experienced the same here, The lastest version is an improvement but the problem still exist especially when I lock the screen. I cant easily recreate the problem, but it seem to be unable to recover sound once it is lost due to interruption. Is there a way I can start the app from the commandline so I can via more infor on the issue
The application is great when it works but unfortunately I too can confirm that it goes silent, with no recovery and does so I think 10/10 times when I press the lock button.
Restarting the app worked sometime but another time not which prompted me to turn off/on the phone. I downloaded it today so I'm guessing it must be 12.19 version. I'll try to take some time soon to amend the bug report with more details instead of here in the forum.
In summary I would not have voted for it to be presented as stable status.
Don't see this as negative. It really is a wonderful application and that's why I care about it and want to point out the need to understand whatever those problems are to bring it up to 5 stars.
Re: Reception quality - I have tried with standard Ipod headphones and then all the strong stations sounded great. Try a few different headphones and hopefully that will help out.
I love the fmradio its such a great app and the UI is very intuitive. only problem I have with it is the fact that I cant use it for long. It just stop playing sound after a while. anyone else experience this? am using version V2009.12.13.
Thanks Martin. Great work - finaly fixed microphone problem :) Regards from Poland.
Everybody please be advised that version 2009.12.13 can mute phones speakers temporarily when headphones output is selected, see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7086
The initial volume when you switch to the speakers does not match the actual volume of the device. Sometimes it does not activate the bluetooth and the radio does not work, in these cases I have to restart the device. I use the version 2009.12.19
Works well for me, but at this time still a work in progress.
Promising, but at the moment is flaky with starting again after being closed (no sound).
works very well... yes there should be a possibility that you can set the station manually.
I found navigation difficult especially when searching around for a station. perhaps use the left/right navigation keys to scroll?
Works well when I take the N900 out of Silent mode. Just needs a way to input a station's frequency manually.
The reception quality highly depends on the headphones. The Nokia headphones that come with the N900 are said to give poor quality or no radio at all. Please try with cheap headphones without built-in microphones, or simply with a headphones extension cable without headphones. Those usually give the best results.
i don't understand how this application is supposed to work. i can add channels, but not get them to play.
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Very much appreciated and works for the most part. A little flaky yet. It was not obvious how to delete a preset until I tried moving away from the preset and back to it. The 'Remove' button was sometimes absent. Sound disappeared once after muting & restoring. Restarting the app got it back.
A scan function that automatically set presets would be useful.