Did At&t RemoveThe FM Radio?

[BLJones]

In All The Unboxings I Saw I Did Not See A FM Radio App! Did At&t Get Rid Of Thats Too?

 

[tyte]

yes i believe so...

 

[t-readyroc]

Hrmm... it's there according to the pdadb & gmsarena specs listings...

 

[BLJones]

Ive seen it on every spec sheet except the box and no app on the phone. The Vibrant doesn't have it either.

 

[ghostfox1]

So it's there, just has to be enabled. Much like the N1.

 

[Jack45]

So it's there, just has to be enabled. Much like the N1.

But is it free or subscription?

 

[KMA]

But is it free or subscription?

If there is a FM radio (either by default or enabled via mod/hack), it will be free of course.

 

[thindery]

I don't understand why at&t would remove it from the phone? All it does for me now is force me to listen to Pandora more often and consume more of their bandwidth. Atleast with an FM radio, if I wanted to listen to a local station I could and it didn't cost At&t a dime. Just another way att says to bend over and take it in th..

 

[ardyer]

I don't understand why at&t would remove it from the phone? All it does for me now is force me to listen to Pandora more often and consume more of their bandwidth. Atleast with an FM radio, if I wanted to listen to a local station I could and it didn't cost At&t a dime. Just another way att says to bend over and take it in th..

I noticed on the Android Central review that the AT&T Radio app is loaded, so my guess would be that they don't want it to compete with that. Plus, under the new data plans, they want you to use tons of bandwidth so you go over your amount and they can charge you

Question for those more knowledgeable on phone hacking than I: If there is an FM radio installed, would it just take an app to use it, or would the phone have to be hacked to access it?

 

[emuneee]

No one knows for sure, before the tears start falling lol

 

[lordmaxx]

unfortunately it could be a driver issue. In order for Wireless N to be turned on with the nexus one they had to wait for a core update. I could be if the radio is actually present we'll need a good ROM chef to take the driver form the original galaxy s and implement it ina custom ROM for our phone....we'll just have to say. One of these places might do a tear down, and that will tell for sure if its there or not because the chips are usually quite easy to pick out.

 

[BLJones]

Maybe its in the music player? Idk
Because i don't see it on any of the US variants!

 

[jasonsmith]

First post excuse my ignorance. Has anyone actually found the FM Radio app in this phone?

For those in the know, do you think a future ROM may be able to add it?

FM Radio is fairly important to me.

 

[no driver]

First post excuse my ignorance. Has anyone actually found the FM Radio app in this phone?

For those in the know, do you think a future ROM may be able to add it?

FM Radio is fairly important to me.

It's still unclear whether the phone has the FM hardware. You might want to track these threads over at XDA: Captivate Teardown! (Step by Step, LOTS OF PICTURES) - xda-developers and FM Radio - Another approach - xda-developers

It seems like they'll be able to enable the FM if it is physically in the phone. For now I'm hanging onto my old Walkman phone with an inactive sim so that I can listen to the radio while I work in the yard etc.

 

[keredini]

It is in the i9000 ROM that i just loaded, looks like AT&T removed it (along with some other fun things). However it doesn't work on my Captivate. Haven't seen a thread where anyone has it working yet.

 

[radi0chik]

The GPS chip (that lots of folks have problems with) I believe is GPS/Bluetooth/FM radio combined on one chip. That means the hardware IS there. Just need to get drivers for the radio and then some sort of UI/App for it.