Porting FM Radio to mytouch slide? Is this possible?

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I wanted to know if anyone was successful or tried porting the htc fm radio from the htc aria or evo and have it working for the mytouch silde?

I would love to have a radio.... but does the slide even have the hardware for it?

The Slide should be able to use it, but we need someone that knows about this to figure it out. Like they did to the Cliq.

Yea i hope someone can port this and mobi tv so i can use it on my slide

It's certainly possible, but it requires kernel support. You could readily download the apk and libraries and push them to the slide, but it still probably wouldn't work [edit: just did that and it didn't]. The ROM chefs for the CLIQ learned to compile their kernels with support for the fmradio in order to get everything working, but it took a lot of trial and error on their part.

This would be awesome

I was under the impression that this was hardware-based, meaning specific hardware would have to be present on the device in order to tune to those frequencies...?

You're correct. It is hardware-based. Thing is, many Android phones use the same radio chip, which is an all-in-one deal, capable of data, bluetooth, and fm radio, if I've read correctly. For those that have this particular chip, it's just a matter of kernel support, libraries, and the app to access it.

Eugene got it working for the Motorola CLIQ. I would imagine that, if it were possible for the Slide, we would have heard something by now.

Some of you who owns slide should try to figured it out which chip is it used for bluetooth. If ti is chip from texas instruments, called TI WL1271 or TI WL1273, then drivers and aplication could probalbi be ported from HTC Legend rom, which is using TI WL1273, cause this chip is capable of receiving and maybe even transmitting FM radio.

EDIT: So nobody knows the answer?? I've already asked this on two different forums in three different threads

Wow, I would love to have it transmitting. My friend used to have a Nokia phone that had that feature, its really cool.