Spirit1, Spirit2 Real FM Radio General Thread

dz-015 · Jul 2, 2014

Sony Xperia Z1 Compact - Some Minor Issues

Hi Mike!

Loving the new Spirit2 and glad to help with testing however I can.

I've noticed I get quite a lot of audio drop-outs and static bursts with Spirit2 compared with the stock Sony FM radio. I'm using the same headphones. If I can send you any logs or anything, please let me know.

Apart from that, I'm loving the new UI.

Kind regards,

DZ

mervluk · Jul 2, 2014

dz-015 said:
Hi Mike!

Loving the new Spirit2 and glad to help with testing however I can.

I've noticed I get quite a lot of audio drop-outs and static bursts with Spirit2 compared with the stock Sony FM radio. I'm using the same headphones. If I can send you any logs or anything, please let me know.

Apart from that, I'm loving the new UI.

Kind regards,

DZ

Might be worth trying to increase the minimum cpu speed to 594 or even 702. This virtually eliminated it for me without too adverse effect on battery use.

Might I suppose be cured if you can get on the invitation-only beta channel where I gather there's a newer version of Spirit2 that uses the correct Sony internal pin (see above). Sadly for the rest of us more recent Sony owners it's mend-and-make-do, as Mike doesn't make enough money from us (as he constantly tells us lol). Unfortunately I persist with what I shouldn't as Spirit gets much better sound quality it seems working with Viper/ProSonicJ (and even without them) than the stock fm (which doesn't, and seems weaker to me). It's all personal opinion. And just isn't in the right Spirit!!

balam111 · Jul 2, 2014

Please help wih note 3

Hello Mikereidis, I'm afraid I did something wrong which seems to have broken my Bluetooth. I have a rooted Note3 (SM-9005, standard ROM) and thought I'd test your Spirit 2 app on it, cause it is a real shame the Note 3 doesn't have FM.
BAD MISTAKE! The app didn't work and my Bluetooth is now broken!
I am unsure what to do now. Could you please suggest a solution?

Thanks

ddhernandez · Jul 3, 2014

Someone knows if Spirit FM works on LG Optimus G E987? Thx!

ffxx68 · Jul 3, 2014

mikereidis said:
This is Android 2.3 ?

Email me mikereidis@gmail.com and I can send a newer version. The free version is about 9 months old now.

Spirit needs HCI Access to the BCM chip. On Android 2.3 the ways that work are:

- With Bluetooth off, via the HCI Uart directly. Usually at /dev/ttyHS0 but I think others can be detected. Should work in any Android version.

- With BT on, via the kernel BT socket. I think this stopped working in Android 4.0.

- With BT on, via the command line utility hcitool. If you get a good response from "hcitool cmd 4 1" then it should work. I think this stopped working in Android 4.1.

It might help to force a method. Set Menu-> Settings-> Debug-> HCI Access to one of these:

- UART
- BT Socket
- Ext hcitool

Sometimes "Int hcitool" works, with the internal copy, when there is no native hcitool.

Bluedroid shim only works on later Android 4.1 or 4.2+ I think.

Thanks a lot for sending out latest version.. I'm testing that... but after fixing the missing SU root acces, I'm now having a dfferent problem:

Fm:BC2 Su:1 Bt:0 Ht:1

In logcat, 'm getting a number of exceptions like these:

Code:

D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_start open uart: /dev/ttyS1
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_init baud:
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_baudrate_get termios_osp: 13  termios_isp: 13
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_baudrate_get: 9600
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): baudrate_set: 115200
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): reset_start
E/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_start reset_start error @ 115200
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_init baud:
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_baudrate_get termios_osp: 4098  termios_isp: 4098
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_baudrate_get: 115200
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): baudrate_set: 3000000
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): reset_start
E/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_start reset_start error @ 3000000
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_init baud:
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_baudrate_get termios_osp: 4109  termios_isp: 4109
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_baudrate_get: 3000000
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): baudrate_set: 9600
D/fm_hrdw ( 3867): reset_start
E/fm_hrdw ( 3867): uart_start reset_start error @ 9600

(complete logcat fragment at: http://pastebin.com/v3ch4VHu )

UART mode is the one I was using here. I tried with other HCI access modes, but final result is similar (haven't compared logcat yet...)

Any idea what I could still be missing here?

thanks in advance
Fabio

Bruce1988 · Jul 3, 2014

Worked very fine with this CM11 based ROM for S3. Very thanks for dev!

amtomio2004 · Jul 3, 2014

G2/Mahdi

Any news with G2/Mahdi?
Or G2/Slimkat?

mikereidis · Jul 4, 2014

amtomio2004 said:
Any news with G2/Mahdi?
Or G2/Slimkat?

I tried SlimKat recently and it was working on my LS980, and others reported success: Slim-ls980-4.4.3.build.5.9-WEEKLY-5009.zip

I posted on Mahdi thread and another kernel thread June 30, but I've been away from XDA since July 1 and didn't see a reply at that point.

Kernel mods have to be done to the kernel ALSA driver, and hopefully that will make it work. Might be harder than that though. Merely poking the GPIO wasn't enough. dr87 seemed amenable to mods that still allowed the much better (except no FM) Nexus drivers to be used.

I'll put some time into that ASAP. But as usual, various personal issues keep popping up, like dying refrigerators, LOL.

mikereidis · Jul 4, 2014

balam111 said:
Hello Mikereidis, I'm afraid I did something wrong which seems to have broken my Bluetooth. I have a rooted Note3 (SM-9005, standard ROM) and thought I'd test your Spirit 2 app on it, cause it is a real shame the Note 3 doesn't have FM.
BAD MISTAKE! The app didn't work and my Bluetooth is now broken!
I am unsure what to do now. Could you please suggest a solution?

Thanks

Sorry about that.

Spirit2 used to be picky about ROM device names, but too many ROM devs used non-standard names, and a result was that the last ditch assumption was a Broadcom FM/combo chip, which requires a "Bluetooth Shim HAL" for BT on operation.

The latest Spirit2 test releases have a special code "46" to remove this shim, that can be entered just like a manual entry for frequency. IE tap the frequency button, enter 46 and press OK.

You can email for a copy, or do something like the following from "adb shell":

Code:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /system
mv /system/lib/libbt-hcio.so  /system/lib/libbt-hci.so
rm /system/addon.d/99-spirit.sh
mount -o remount,ro -t ext4 /system

If you were running a flashable ROM, you should also be able to re-flash the ROM. No wipe would be needed or wanted. Might reset a few things though.

mikereidis · Jul 4, 2014

~Silver said:
How should I configure my Xperia SP? I tried in CM11 and it seemed that it worked, but I couldn't hear anything even with my headphones. Also it appeared this message: Sr oem.

I need help please. Thank you! Sorry for my bad English.

Send me a debug log, Tap the frequency button, enter the number 7 and tap "OK". After 20 seconds or so, press Send from your email client.

There are different values of Debug->FM Chip to try, (QC V4L...) and Audio-> Method, such as "Digital QCOM...".

mikereidis · Jul 4, 2014

dz-015 said:
Hi Mike!

Loving the new Spirit2 and glad to help with testing however I can.

I've noticed I get quite a lot of audio drop-outs and static bursts with Spirit2 compared with the stock Sony FM radio. I'm using the same headphones. If I can send you any logs or anything, please let me know.

Apart from that, I'm loving the new UI.

Kind regards,

DZ

We need to tune the sample rate and buffer size, for a start. Not possible on Spirit2 yet, for Sony it's fixed at 44100 (and should probably be 48000 ?) and 320 byte buffers which is too small.

If you don't have Spirit1, email me for a copy. In Spirit1, set AF-> Period to 3840 and restart Spirit. Hopefully dropouts will be gone and audio won't go crazy. Can also try 1024, 2048, 1920 etc. Sample rate can also be changed to 48000 at Digital-> Sample Rate.

mikereidis · Jul 4, 2014

mervluk said:
Might be worth trying to increase the minimum cpu speed to 594 or even 702. This virtually eliminated it for me without too adverse effect on battery use.

Might I suppose be cured if you can get on the invitation-only beta channel where I gather there's a newer version of Spirit2 that uses the correct Sony internal pin (see above). Sadly for the rest of us more recent Sony owners it's mend-and-make-do, as Mike doesn't make enough money from us (as he constantly tells us lol). Unfortunately I persist with what I shouldn't as Spirit gets much better sound quality it seems working with Viper/ProSonicJ (and even without them) than the stock fm (which doesn't, and seems weaker to me). It's all personal opinion. And just isn't in the right Spirit!!

I like to think I'll "get there" with Sony, eventually...

But, yeah, Spirit1 Sony sales the last 12 months were about 3.5% (same as LG), compared with Samsung at 85% and HTC at 17%. And AFAIK, Spirit1 works on all recent Sony's that Spirit2 CAN work on. Spirit2 a bit better at 4.5%, which is good considering that most Sony's haven't worked so far, latest test fix notwithstanding.

mikereidis · Jul 4, 2014

ddhernandez said:
Someone knows if Spirit FM works on LG Optimus G E987? Thx!

Only on the very tiny number of OG's that came with a stock FM app. So, no, I think.

mikereidis · Jul 4, 2014

ffxx68 said:
Any idea what I could still be missing here?

thanks in advance
Fabio

No, I give up. I don't know how to make it work.

ffxx68 · Jul 4, 2014

mikereidis said:
No, I give up. I don't know how to make it work.

EDIT - Using "Bluedroid shim" as HCI access mode I managed to get some non-zero RRSI!

Unfortunately, audio setup seems to be my problem now.

I read that I should try every single audio option, to find the correct one (if any), but since I have source code of the AOSP I could match to the proper one, if I knew how to determine that (except device model, of course).

Could you provide some technical reference, with respect to the different available options? What do they refer to? HW differences, kernel options, drivers, or what?

BTW - My device has a RealTek ALC 5621 audio mixer, and FM audio output from BCM 4329 is routed to IN_L and IN_R input pins... JB default audio mixer doesn't control that mixer input... How do the other devices configured in your app work (one, as an example, might be enough to understand)?

I'm just too curious about what's "behind the curtains..." and I'd love to make this app work! Donation to come...

thanks again
Fabio

LenAsh · Jul 5, 2014

For info - Got hold of a Stock International (UK) One M8 for a real song. The M7 had an appalling FM Radio (Broadcom) so with the M8 having the Qualcomm hardware, I expected the FM performance to be superior.

However, unlike Sony's REALLY good FM sensitivity on Qualcomm's SoC (Z/ZL), the M8 is garbage. Static, static and more static. No idea why. I haven't rooted the M8, so Spirit isn't an option... currently. Not that I expect any improvement, sensitivity-wise.

Perhaps the LG G2's Broadcom hardware isn't too bad after all..!

mervluk · Jul 5, 2014

mikereidis said:
I like to think I'll "get there" with Sony, eventually... .

I hope so because I've concluded the Sony fm hardware is really good. Spirit 2 also seems to work well with android audio mods, and at best I can get near hi-fi quality on decent headphones. A joy to listen and knocks spots off many compressed digital streams. I just wish android audio could be consistent but that's half the challenge!

~Silver · Jul 6, 2014

mikereidis said:
Send me a debug log, Tap the frequency button, enter the number 7 and tap "OK". After 20 seconds or so, press Send from your email client.

There are different values of Debug->FM Chip to try, (QC V4L...) and Audio-> Method, such as "Digital QCOM...".

I've sent you an email with the debug log. In case you have not received the email yet, I uploaded the debug log to my Drive's account:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35PXS08Ab9COFpYbkR3d3ZBNzN1cW11WEc1RzBSbUdsZFJV/edit?usp=sharing

Sorry for my bad english

daoskar · Jul 6, 2014

How to use this app on Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus GT-I9105P ??

siofont · Jul 6, 2014

issue on htc one s with cyanogenmod 11

Hi.+
first of all, I apologize if this has been asked before. I've done some searches, but I couldn't find info about this kind of problem.
I have read in this forum about issues with CM11 roms.

I downloaded and installed Spirit 2 from Google Play. The app starts, ask for SU permissions, but it looks as if it's in a permanent "starting state" (I don't know if this the best way to explain it). The only buttons responding are 'stop' (message appears between 2 upper arrow buttons: 'files init' and a system message "admin access allowed to .Spirit 2), 'EQ' (popup: 'spirit 2 2014_04_14', 'select EQ...') and 'volume' (system volume popup appears).
Every other thing is frozen and non responding, especially the central big button.
No change on this behaviour when I try to change options on the 2nd screen (UI, band..)
Is there anything I can do have this app working?

As a test, I installed Spirit 1, but things were very similar.

My device is an HTC One S, unlocked and rooted, using a CyanogenMod 11 rom (android 4.4.2).

Thank you in advance for your attention.

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