How to listen FM radio as a standalone app

martinml · Jan 7, 2011

If you, like me, hate the stock Motorola music player but don't want to lose its integrated FM radio function, you'll like this.

Just download the attached APK and install it the usual way. It's been working great so far for me, even RDS, loudspeaker and all! And I like the interface more than the Motorola music player.

The APK is from a Droid 2, the radio hardware seems to be the same.

Please note that I tried this only in a European Defy, with the Central European SBF (JRDNEM_U3_2.34.1).

UPDATE 5th june 2011
Thanks to maniac103 there is now a fixed version of the app that fixes the crashes and problems saving stations. I tried on my 2.1 Defy and it's now rock solid! It also fixed the ugly icon in the notification bar.

Find the new version attached to this post, it's called FMRadio_fixed.apk.

tensan · Jan 7, 2011

I have already installed. its much better than the default application. you can save radios, listen from the speaker, and my default application didn't let me to put off the radio when I let it many time on.

thanks a lot!!

Rhyr · Jan 7, 2011

It work great on firmware U3 _2.21.0!
Thanks, this app it's more usefull and beautifull than the original one

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Bigop · Jan 7, 2011

thank you very much for that app...
i was looking for such a thing !

vshymanskyy · Jan 7, 2011

Thanks! Works like a charm on Tmob USA fw!

PS. Didn't find a "pause" button

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maprix · Jan 7, 2011

I've problems after altering the radio station list. If I save a station manually inside the list the radio app exits but the radio is still playing and the icon inside the status bar is still available. Also killing and restarting the radio app does't work.

martinml · Jan 7, 2011

maprix said:
I've problems after altering the radio station list. If I save a station manually inside the list the radio app exits but the radio is still playing and the icon inside the status bar is still available. Also killing and restarting the radio app does't work.

Same happens to me, but reopening and then closing the app with Quick Exit worked fine.

gobble_di_gook · Jan 7, 2011

Hey

great work... Not being able to listen with loudspeaker was the worst thing about my moto... So this is perfect

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wildwasserbahn · Jan 7, 2011

Thank you very much, it works fine.

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heglen · Jan 7, 2011

Thanks a bunch, this just turned my phone close to perfect. Now I just want an official, european, rootable no-Blur Gingerbread :-D

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sprk · Jan 8, 2011

Thanks, great

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tensan · Jan 8, 2011

heglen said:
Thanks a bunch, this just turned my phone close to perfect. Now I just want an official, european, rootable no-Blur Gingerbread :-D

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You want too much, I think

utalok · Jan 10, 2011

Thank you! I will travel to my girlfriend in the weekend this will help me a lot

alamardaman · Jan 11, 2011

Love the app. Works on my Motorola Bravo MB520.

gobble_di_gook · Jan 11, 2011

Hi! After a few days using this I have a couple of issues.... After getting it to work it's fine, but actually getting it to work is a pain!

Worked first time no problem

however after that all I get is the initialising screen and nothing else... Have to force close to get the application to exit and manually end the fm service to try and start it again... If I want to listen to fm radio again I have to reboot or use crap stock player

Anyone else have experiences like this?

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spamnco · Jan 11, 2011

gobble_di_gook said:
Hi! After a few days using this I have a couple of issues.... After getting it to work it's fine, but actually getting it to work is a pain!

Worked first time no problem however after that all I get is the initialising screen and nothing else... Have to force close to get the application to exit and manually end the fm service to try and start it again... If I want to listen to fm radio again I have to reboot or use crap stock player

Anyone else have experiences like this?

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Yep same here + using bookmarks makes the app quit to the Defy's home. This app really doesn't seem to work fine on this phone

gobble_di_gook · Jan 11, 2011

Well it isn't really for this phone... So not wholly disappointed! Ok I'm gonna struggle on and go back to my original idea which is a loudspeaker toggle, now I have my nice new android phone I just need to work out how to use it;-)

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buzybee · Jan 11, 2011

You're a star for putting this up for grabs.
Just what I wanted.
Played with it for a few a couple of days now and have had none of the issues others report.

If you use the stock earphones with switch that come with the Defy I discovered it found 6 six stations after scanning and reception certainly wasn't wow.
Did a rescan with a crappy set of £5 Phillips earphones, no mic no in line switches & it picked up 14 stations on scan. Reception is improved too.

And yes I did the scans in the same place and roughly the same time of day.

Remington78 · Jan 12, 2011

Thanks a thousand million tonnes. Loving it.

powertony84 · Jan 12, 2011

Crash when i tap over selected station and fc to launcher..

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