Help Is there Fm radio and is there a favorites widget?

[DroidDave]

Coming from the DInc to the GS3 is definitely an upgrade, though the DInc was and still is a great phone.

I was looking through the phone and I didn't see an FM radio like the DInc and was wondering is there not one on the phone?

As for favorites, I loved the widget that HTC had, I was wondering is there a widget I can put on a home screen instead of going through the contacts. I see that there is individual ones but I'm looking for one that supports a group of people.

Thanks in advance.

 

[wjcorner]

I heard on xda we have radios on the us version but it's been disabled? Someone else needs to confirm this one. As far as your 2nd question, touchwiz isn't stock with that widget but you can find an app in the play store for that, can't think of the name right now, sorry.

 

[davidmanvell]

Download an app called tunein. It allows you to listen to any radio station on the planet.

 

[AndroidxGuy]

Download an app called tunein. It allows you to listen to any radio station on the planet.

Ummmm no it doesnt. I tried to listen to WILD 94.9 and it said i couldnt and redirected me to another station. Same with some other stations if you read the reviews.

 

[Covart]

Ummmm no it doesnt. I tried to listen to WILD 94.9 and it said i couldnt and redirected me to another station. Same with some other stations if you read the reviews.

Try Jango. You create your own station by inputting the artists you like. Then like Pandora thumb up or down what you like or don't like. If you thumb down it will skip the song and never play it again. Plus, no ads and unlimited skips.

 

[hal1]

Did you mean 94.1 or 94.9?

 

[davidmanvell]

I've not found a station it did not know anywhere. It has them all lined up by genre, location or whatever. Thousands of listings of radio stations.

 

[wjcorner]

Download an app called tunein. It allows you to listen to any radio station on the planet.

One of the benefits of having the fm radio in the phone is the ability to listen without streaming though.

 

[AndroidxGuy]

Did you mean 94.1 or 94.9?

94.9. Different station depending where you live in since clear channel owns hundreds across the nation.

 

[Chandria]

As for favorites, I loved the widget that HTC had, I was wondering is there a widget I can put on a home screen instead of going through the contacts. I see that there is individual ones but I'm looking for one that supports a group of people.

Thanks in advance.

I would also like to know this...haven't been able to find a similar widget.

 

[ardyer]

I would also like to know this...haven't been able to find a similar widget.

Elixir 2 can be set up for this quite nicely. That's what I do with it.

 

[arkangeluk]

im in scotland and when i got my sg3 a month ago i told the girl in tmobile shop that i use the radio at my work sometimes through tunein app and she told me if i use the built in fm radio then it wont come out of my data allowance. i can even put up with having to use the headphones as an aeriel but i can get the stations i listen to through the fm no problem.

ric

 

[bvbull200]

Download an app called tunein. It allows you to listen to any radio station on the planet.

I love TuneIn (bought the Pro version a year ago), but it isn't the end-all, be-all for an FM radio replacement.

It requires a data connection and doesn't have every station.

 

[ren857]

For the stations that tunedin doesn't have, download the iheartradio app. That app is for clear channel radio stations (the ones that tunedin generally does not offer.)

Between those two apps, I can listen to 99% of my local radio.

 

[hal1]

2 more to round things out. Radio.com and 'A Online Radio' . These along with those mentioned seems to cover everything I have looked for it.

 

[trackball]

These internet radio apps aren't allowed to broadcast MLB games because of "MLB At Bat" (not sure about other sports). A real radio would come in handy for going to games.

 

[smoothoper]

So back to the OP question: is there an FM radio on the US versions?

 

[hal1]

These internet radio apps aren't allowed to broadcast MLB games because of "MLB At Bat" (not sure about other sports). A real radio would come in handy for going to games.

Yes, this is not a *real* radio. But then again, a real radio won't help me get Chicago stations when I'm in Phoenix

 

[Sword Fish]

So back to the OP question: is there an FM radio on the US versions?

I have searched for this and read many articles in regards to no radio on the LTE versions of the phone. The carriers disabled it because it does not work with the LTE chips. There is another app called Spirit Radio (not the religous one!) and it won't work on the phones either. The developer of Spirit Radio thinks the LTE chip is the problem as he can't get his app to work. You can read his thread on all the work he has been doing to try and get it work here...

FM Radio in Galaxy S3? - xda-developers