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Default FM Tuner??

I could have sworn that I saw an FM tuner in the specs for this phone... Was I dreaming?

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Nope, you weren't dreaming, AT&T did in fact post that there was an FM Tuner in the specs and still shows it here.
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I was just looking at their spec sheet and yep, it's right there in black and white ...



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Does anyone know of any apps that take advantage of an fm tuner?

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Specs does show it .. Hope i really does

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Not looking good so far.

jivy26 tried to run the FM radio app pulled from an I9100 and it FCed.

I tried enabling kernel support, and tried the apps myself, and:
1) App was FCing due to missing functions in the framework, not the kernel
2) When I enabled the Si4709 driver and enabled debugging, it indicated that it was failing to load. Even with debug enabled it isn't very verbose about what went wrong, but my first impression is that it isn't finding an FM radio chip.

I'll try again later, but this issue has gone from "low-hanging-fruit" to "needs some time/work to investigate" and I've got higher-priority/easier things to work on.

Good news is that NFC appears to be enabled in our kernel.
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Thanks for letting us in on what you found Entropy, even if the news wasn't what we wanted to here... hopefully we can find a solution when things settle down a bit. Much higher priorities right now!

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That's a crock of crap! I was looking forward to taking advantage of that as the girlfriend's Inspire4g has it and thought it was a great features.


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