[APP][25MAR10][v2.4.0.2]Power Radio - FM player with RDS decoding

6Fg8 · Jun 29, 2009

Why PowerRadio?
The built-im FM player - at least on HTC HD - misses many features i'd like to have in a FM radio. PowerRadio delivers many data available via RDS which would otherwise be invisible to the listener. Here are just a few examples:
- Radiotext: contains information broadcast by the respective station. What you get here totally depens on the broadcaster. You might see title and interpret, call-in numbers, SMS trafficservice numbers, URL's etc.
- traffic announcements, program type, coverage area, date, time, timezone, various status flags
More info on RDS can be found in this post.

Note: symbolic picture. HD2 is not currently supported.

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uvz · Jun 29, 2009

fantastic! works great on my raphael (6.5)
thanks

Now I just change the color brown ..

flywhc · Jun 29, 2009

I am using Raphael 6.5 ROM too.
I couldn't hear anything after installation but I couldsee RDS data on the screen.
I closed and replaced GFMAPI then it works.

Suggestion: add indicator of loading/unloading progress such as a spinning hourglass.

NetRipper · Jun 29, 2009

Heya. Nice to see you released your radio

Looking quite good! I like the classic yellow/brown look.

Just two remarks I found so far..
1) When on speaker mode, shutdown and restart, it's on full volume. Woke half my family with it ;-) Could you enforce the previous volume on startup?
2) Could you change the sensitivity setting to allow higher sensitivity? When at 9 I still get way too many 'static noise' stations. I need it to go to at least 15 or so. Besides, sensitivity is more like 'minimal signal level'. Else a value of '0' implies less sensitive, while it seems to be even more sensitive.

uvz · Jun 29, 2009

flywhc said:
I couldn't hear anything after installation but I couldsee RDS data on the screen.

right.
I was listening with headphones

L_o_k_i · Jun 30, 2009

Hi,

That's great for a start! I'm impressed!

I have found some bugs:

- The volume level is louder than the volume indicator after a close/restart.

- After a close/restart, the names of the preset buttons change from for example "87,5" to "87" with the "5" under the "87" (see pics)... After that the preset button for my example tunes to "87" and not to "87,5". If I try to edit the name, only "5" is editable.

- There's a problem with the police you use: after I use Power Radio, the font of the task manager on my Touch HD is replaced by yours (see pic)... I have to soft reset to get it back.

Will it be possible to:

- store more presets

- store the name of the station instead of the frequency during the scan

- add the possibility to record the radio

One more question, but it may be for flywhc: when the reception is not good, the name of the station can be misspelled (the other information also can be wrong)... I thought the checkwords in RDS groups could help in detecting these errors and not transmit a wrong block.

powersquad · Jun 30, 2009

Did not open on Touch Pro 2. Installed fine. When opened it, error came "can't open GFMAPI"

Boss428man · Jun 30, 2009

Hi, Looks good however it isn't working on my verizon diamond. It opens and say wait loading forever. If you close and restart the ap I get can't open GFMAPI. I also noticed that it changes my HTC task bar font to the digital font. Well i'm looking forward to your next rev. Thanks for the hard work.

6Fg8 · Jun 30, 2009

Thanks everyone for your comments. I added a todo list to the first post reflecting your suggestions.

L_o_k_i said:
- After a close/restart, the names of the preset buttons change from for example "87,5" to "87" with the "5" under the "87" (see pics)... After that the preset button for my example tunes to "87" and not to "87,5". If I try to edit the name, only "5" is editable.

I forgot to mention that country settings are ignored in this version. I'm using a WWE rom where comma is a ".", on your screenshot i see a french version where obviously comma is ",". I will add country support later - it's on the todo.

L_o_k_i said:
- store the name of the station instead of the frequency during the scan

Thats possible, but would extend scan times dramatically as i've to wait for RDS data to arrive. And then there are still broadcasters without RDS at all. I'll consider adding a scan option for that.

L_o_k_i said:
- add the possibility to record the radio

I have no plans for writing another audio recording app, but it should be possible to integrate with an existing one. Will check that out.

L_o_k_i said:
One more question, but it may be for flywhc: when the reception is not good, the name of the station can be misspelled (the other information also can be wrong)... I thought the checkwords in RDS groups could help in detecting these errors and not transmit a wrong block.

It's not flywhc's fault, GFMAPI delivers the checkwords but at the moment they are simply ignored

. Added to todo.

powersquad said:
Did not open on Touch Pro 2. Installed fine. When opened it, error came "can't open GFMAPI"

Touch pro 2 doesnt have native FM radio support, though some guys managed to add that. See this thread for details:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=521356&page=1

6Fg8 · Jun 30, 2009

Boss428man said:
Hi, Looks good however it isn't working on my verizon diamond. It opens and say wait loading forever. If you close and restart the ap I get can't open GFMAPI. I also noticed that it changes my HTC task bar font to the digital font. Well i'm looking forward to your next rev. Thanks for the hard work.

I dont know your device, does it have a built-in FM radio app? Could you try to run flywhc's APITest (see first post) and see if it opens/plays?

After closing PowerRadio, you have to wait for approx. 10 secs. before restarting it. This is due to hidden threads running in background after exit. I'll add waitcursors in future releases to indicate that.

You could try to run a manual scan while it still displays "wait loading", or manually step through frequencies to a known station. Please let me know the outcome.

onesolo · Jun 30, 2009

Can you add landscape support??

sonydesouza · Jun 30, 2009

Hello,

What a great app !!! Thanks a lot...

Just one question... Will you provide some skins for this app ???

Thanks again man !

6Fg8 · Jun 30, 2009

onesolo said:
Can you add landscape support??

Yes, although it would need a fair amount of redesigning the GUI.
I'll put it on the todo.

6Fg8 · Jun 30, 2009

sonydesouza said:
Just one question... Will you provide some skins for this app ???

I'm not very talented when it comes to grafics and skins, so i better dont - trust me

Currently it wouldnt be possible too, as many elements are hardcoded. As a best effort i could modify the GUI to make skins possible, i'm sure there are some grafics genius'es out there to fill the gap.

sonydesouza said:
Thanks again man !

I'm female

sonydesouza · Jun 30, 2009

6Fg8 said:
I'm not very talented when it comes to grafics and skins, so i better dont - trust me Currently it wouldnt be possible too, as many elements are hardcoded. As a best effort i could modify the GUI to make skins possible, i'm sure there are some grafics genius'es out there to fill the gap.

I'm female

Ok...Thanks for your quick response "chick" !

...I'm just kidding...

It would be great if you could change the GUI...in order to make skins possible...

Because, to be honest with you, i don't really like colors yellow/brown...

Anyway, thanks for your hard work...You rock !

tiger · Jun 30, 2009

Hi, this is great! What about adding in the recording FM radio function?
That would really add value to our HTC devices!

powersquad · Jun 30, 2009

6Fg8 said:
Touch pro 2 doesnt have native FM radio support, though some guys managed to add that. See this thread for details:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=521356&page=1

My TP2 came with FM radio installed. I listen to it everyday. Everytime I run this application, keeps coming with the mapi error as mentioned above.

TinTin · Jun 30, 2009

Looks great already!

On Topaz (HTC Touch Diamond2) the volume is really really low. Increasing system volume to max. didn't help. Are the up(green) and down(red) arrows for volume? They don't do anything on my device either.

Thanks!

.

6Fg8 · Jun 30, 2009

tiger said:
Hi, this is great! What about adding in the recording FM radio function?
That would really add value to our HTC devices!

I'll see if i can interface with an existing app, no plans to write a new one.

jmckeejr · Jun 30, 2009

Excellent idea here. I installed, started it, it finds stations, but there is no audio at all. It also seemed to disable sounds throughout the whole system while it was on. Any ideas here? I am using a custom ROM with windows 6.5. Be glad to help you troubleshoot. Also, seems to have changed the font in Taskmanager

Thanks for the work you have done so far

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