[APP][4.1+] Spirit2: Real FM Radio for AOSP & root

[crombull]

And probably you´re right, but I guess that is a question for @mikereidis and roms devs...

 

[LenAsh]

on Madhi 05/28 it dont work

i I spent 14€ for this apps and dont work
I hope @mikereidis can do something to make them work :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

It's Mahdi ROM's kernel missing audio drivers - post the problem there. It's nothing to do with Spirit2.

 

[tanoxxx]

It's Mahdi ROM's kernel missing audio drivers - post the problem there. It's nothing to do with Spirit2.

I just made it but the dev. don't still answer me, maybe is busy, but I hope him can do it soon..
Meanwhile I ask here because I hope maybe @mikereidis can help me to found a temporary fix or way to got this app work :fingers-crossed:

 

[mikereidis]

I just made it but the dev. don't still answer me, maybe is busy, but I hope him can do it soon..
Meanwhile I ask here because I hope maybe @mikereidis can help me to found a temporary fix or way to got this app work :fingers-crossed:

I return to hospital tomorrow. Hopefully I will get a better idea when (or if ever ?) I'll be able to read for more than a minute or 2 at a time.

Anyone can email me to ask for an app refund. Now you can even do it through Google, even months later.


I've had both good and bad experiences getting changes needed for FM from ROM devs. The good ones are usually initiated by the ROM devs, and not by me.

Some of the core CM folk will just say "We don't support FM"/ Some have expressed offence and even threatened to get me banned from XDA for asking for help for my "commercial, closed source" app. (Then CM went commercial, LOL.)

I think it may be better for the users of my apps to ask ROM and kernel devs for usuable FM support, especially when I don't have the phone myself, or that specific variant when they don't support my variant.

If you want, I'll get on it and ask myself when I can, given my current half-blindness.


But I'm not too sure many ROM or kernel devs will want to go back to the "old kernels", especially when the new ones seem to offer many nice features, AFAICT. I haven't yet looked too closely at exactly what mods those devs would need to make.



Will respond to other posts after I get my family fed dinner. Wife only cooks on weekends.

 

[mikereidis]

i have only one issue volume cant chenge
i have LG G2 with Carbon Rom, i know it is a know issue, but how i can workaround?
i tryed to control the volume from "Viper4Android Fx" app, but nothing, the volume dont change
Please can help me? how i can controll the volume?
thanks


Edit:
i noted if i not put the jack the volume change, but when i plug in the jack the volume dont change again
do you know how fix or workaround it?
Usually i use phone speaker for listen music.

My new app AudioTricks / VolumeTricks isn't a proper fix of course, but should be a usable workaround for volume control issues: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2756320

See post #2 in that thread for the free download link and instructions. The 1 version older release here will be easier to use for volume reduction (or see end of thread there for /data/data/fm.a2d.av/files/primary_gain_inv hack), which I presume is what you need: http://d-h.st/gL3

Lack of volume control with Spirit2 (or Spirit1 in digital audio mode) is so far very unusual; yours may be the first report. That's because with digital audio, Android itself handles volume control, and Spirit2 doesn;t have to do anything special.

If you are listening via speaker then I can see a problem on (I think rare) ROMs that use HALs that will only adjust headset volume when headset is plugged in. As you see a workaround is to leave the jack plugged enough for antenna effect, but not enough for switch to wired headset audio.

Were you using the speaker setting option ? It is still known not to work on some devices/ROMs.

 

[mikereidis]

Spirit2 just works until Madhi v2.5 2014.04.13 and it works without any sound issue in Slimkat weekly 5.2

LG G2 ?

Are you saying it works OK on SlimKat, audio and all ?

If so I'm happy to hear it.

 

[mikereidis]

I may as well try, even if they are not able to find other versions of the apps, but given the very high cost of these apps I expect maxim assistance from the developer to solve the problem.

My right eye is closed and leaking liquids, and I'm here struggling to read and respond. I think taht should help qulify me as one of the more dedicated devs on XDA. Several devs don't even respond to posts or emails. (BTW, not bother to correct every spelling or grammatical mistake this post.)

Haven't gotten to my email since Friday, but I'll try tonight.

I've also been doing my best to support my original customers of Spirit1 who bought over 3 years ago now. (The ancient times, when 2.3 GingerBread was shiny and new, and before litterally hundreds of changes (for each device!_ were made on ROMs that I had to accomodate/ That helps explain why Spirit1 code became such a mess; and it still supports Android 2.1 Eclair, LOL)

That and sticking with a very dffiucult, unglamours, mostly unwanted among devs, and not particularly lucrative niche for this long, and with a 2nd gen app even.

And I try to keep smiling...

 

[Trinition]

HTC One CM11 Bluetooth Disconnects then Reconnects

Reporting problems:
If you're a customer and you post, let me know if I don't know you. I may be more likely to help and flash your ROM to test or whatever. These things take time and time is short.

New customer, here!

I'm running relatively recent CM11 nightlies on my HTC One. My goal is to get the FM tuner in the device to tune my radio stations during my commute, but to be played over Bluetooth to my 2012 Honda Civic's iMid so that other Bluetooth audio can play as well (e.g. Waze notifications, TTS SMS notifications, etc.).

I've bought and installed .Spirit2. I followed the HTC One AOSP instructions in the first page of posts. After I rebooted, I turned on Bluetooth and connected to the car, and then launched .Spirit2. I heard static from the default frequency for a few seconds, then I saw Bluetooth drop from the car and my Bluetooth status bar notification disappear. A few seconds later, it was back on -- but the .Spirit2 audio was no longer coming through.

I think I repeated this one more time before I had to call it a night. I'll try more tomorrow. In the mean time, I've searched this thread and didn't find anything, so I wanted to put this information out there to see if this is a known issue.

 

[crombull]

LG G2 ?

Are you saying it works OK on SlimKat, audio and all ?

If so I'm happy to hear it.

Yep, Lg G2 D802, audio OK, etc :laugh:
I wish you a soon recovery to you.

 

[aqaqy]

thanks

 

[mahaveersoni]

Not work o Xperia. C

Sent from my C2305 using Tapatalk

 

[sergts]

Smartphone Jiayu G4S program runs but no sound. Button in the middle is not active, you can only scroll bar on the right.

 

[crombull]

Someboy asked me for the version I use in my LG G2 D802 with Spirit2. I am using the Slimkat Build 5.2 Weekly 4238

 

[tanoxxx]

My right eye is closed and leaking liquids, and I'm here struggling to read and respond. I think taht should help qulify me as one of the more dedicated devs on XDA. Several devs don't even respond to posts or emails. (BTW, not bother to correct every spelling or grammatical mistake this post.)

Haven't gotten to my email since Friday, but I'll try tonight.

I've also been doing my best to support my original customers of Spirit1 who bought over 3 years ago now. (The ancient times, when 2.3 GingerBread was shiny and new, and before litterally hundreds of changes (for each device!_ were made on ROMs that I had to accomodate/ That helps explain why Spirit1 code became such a mess; and it still supports Android 2.1 Eclair, LOL)

That and sticking with a very dffiucult, unglamours, mostly unwanted among devs, and not particularly lucrative niche for this long, and with a 2nd gen app even.

And I try to keep smiling...

LG G2 ?

Are you saying it works OK on SlimKat, audio and all ?

If so I'm happy to hear it.

My new app AudioTricks / VolumeTricks isn't a proper fix of course, but should be a usable workaround for volume control issues: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2756320

See post #2 in that thread for the free download link and instructions. The 1 version older release here will be easier to use for volume reduction (or see end of thread there for /data/data/fm.a2d.av/files/primary_gain_inv hack), which I presume is what you need: http://d-h.st/gL3

Lack of volume control with Spirit2 (or Spirit1 in digital audio mode) is so far very unusual; yours may be the first report. That's because with digital audio, Android itself handles volume control, and Spirit2 doesn;t have to do anything special.

If you are listening via speaker then I can see a problem on (I think rare) ROMs that use HALs that will only adjust headset volume when headset is plugged in. As you see a workaround is to leave the jack plugged enough for antenna effect, but not enough for switch to wired headset audio.

Were you using the speaker setting option ? It is still known not to work on some devices/ROMs.

First of all again best wishes for a speedy recovery, im really very sad for your problem
I apologize if I may be misunderstood, i dont wanna refund, because your app is very great and usefull, ok maybe a little expensive, but you and all others dev. deserve it, because is thanks to you if we have always our mobile better :good::good::highfive::highfive:

I ask again at dev of Mahdi-Rom if him can do something for fix the problem with your app, i hope him can do it, i reall miss Radio Fm on my G2

Spirit2 work, but no sound
I think I understand that in the rom missing audio driver or something like that
but really there isnt nothing to do for fix or workaround this issue by myself? with some app or i dont know others? obviously i believe i need your help, if you can, im not dev. and i dont know how i can to do

I hope you can understand me, and you can help me, when you can and if you can :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

Still sorry for the misunderstanding and for my bad english.

 

[mikereidis]

I return to hospital tomorrow. Hopefully I will get a better idea when (or if ever ?) I'll be able to read for more than a minute or 2 at a time.

OT.

Thanks for best wishes. Sad to report Doctor said: "Bad infection. This is serious. Fix or lose your eye". And: "Stronger antibiotic drops every hour, cream overnight, MUST return tomorrow to check."

And to top it off, 10 yo son gets emergency transferred from one hospital he's in a program at to another and we find he has juvenile diabetes; He was in emergency just a few weeks ago for food allergy anaphylactic shock (Took 3 Epipens.)

When I was young, you went to a hospital and the staff took care of you. These days it seems they want a parent or other close person there 24 hours... I'm guessing that came about after some round of budget cuts.

Gotta LOL at life or ya end up cryin...

 

[mikereidis]

New customer, here!

I'm running relatively recent CM11 nightlies on my HTC One. My goal is to get the FM tuner in the device to tune my radio stations during my commute, but to be played over Bluetooth to my 2012 Honda Civic's iMid so that other Bluetooth audio can play as well (e.g. Waze notifications, TTS SMS notifications, etc.).

I've bought and installed .Spirit2. I followed the HTC One AOSP instructions in the first page of posts. After I rebooted, I turned on Bluetooth and connected to the car, and then launched .Spirit2. I heard static from the default frequency for a few seconds, then I saw Bluetooth drop from the car and my Bluetooth status bar notification disappear. A few seconds later, it was back on -- but the .Spirit2 audio was no longer coming through.

I think I repeated this one more time before I had to call it a night. I'll try more tomorrow. In the mean time, I've searched this thread and didn't find anything, so I wanted to put this information out there to see if this is a known issue.

My HTC One runs latest (within 3-4 days usually) CM11 nightlies most of the time and FM over BT always works fine for me. No particular special instructions needed, it just works.

After a ROM update though, you must run Spirit once and then reboot, for FM with BT on (paired and connected or not). To avoid this reboot dance after ROM update, I've been testing a "99-spirit.sh" backup/restore script that can go into /system/addon.d/ after remounting /system/ as read-write. I've put it at the end of this post.


Step #1 should be trying to get Spirit working OK with BT on, with no BT headset etc. connected. IE does it work OK with BT on, with audio going to speaker or wired headset ?

Specific devices, like car BT interfaces, could have their own quirks. I've only tested with 1 Sony MW-1 BT/A2DP headset.

Sometimes when I've had trouble I start Spirit, make sure non-BT audio works OK. THEN I connect and or power on the BT device, while it's playing. Generally it would transfer reasonably cleanly from non-BT to BT.

Email me if you don't also have Spirit1. It's good to try Spirit1 in digital audio mode (Menu-> Settings-> Audio-> Method = Digital Auto) if problems w/ Spirit2.



Experimental /system/addon.d/99-spirit.sh backup/restore script:

#!/sbin/sh
#
# /system/addon.d/99-spirit.sh (root:root 755)
# During an upgrade, this script backs up Spirit-related files,
# /system is formatted and reinstalled, then the files are restored.
#

. /tmp/backuptool.functions

NORM_SO=lib/libbt-hci.so
ORIG_SO=lib/libbt-hcio.so


case "$1" in
  backup)
    backup_file $S/"$NORM_SO"
  ;;
  restore)
    [ -f "$C/$S/$NORM_SO" ] && mv $S/"$NORM_SO" $S/"$ORIG_SO"
    [ -f "$C/$S/$NORM_SO" ] && restore_file $S/"$NORM_SO" ""
  ;;
  pre-backup)
    # Stub
  ;;
  post-backup)
    # Stub
  ;;
  pre-restore)
    # Stub
  ;;
  post-restore)
    # Stub
  ;;
esac

 

[mikereidis]

I ask again at dev of Mahdi-Rom if him can do something for fix the problem with your app, i hope him can do it, i reall miss Radio Fm on my G2

Spirit2 work, but no sound
I think I understand that in the rom missing audio driver or something like that
but really there isnt nothing to do for fix or workaround this issue by myself? with some app or i dont know others? obviously i believe i need your help, if you can, im not dev. and i dont know how i can to do

I hope you can understand me, and you can help me, when you can and if you can :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

I think that Mahdi ROM recently changed from using CM kernel to a Qualcomm optimized "CAF" (Code Aurora Forum) kernel.

AFAICT, this CM/former Mahdi kernel is the only non-stock kernel that supports the LG G2 specific "FM Radio" ALSA control.

ALSA is the modern Linux/Android kernel driver API. The stock ALSA driver for G2 has over 550 controls (!)

These controls always include several for "INTERNAL_FM". But these are only for Qualcomm FM/BT/WiFi combo chips. LG G2 and HTC One M7 are similar in that they both use Qualcomm SOC and Qualcomm audio, but they went with Broadcom BM43xx FM/combo chips instead of Qualcomm.

HTC was "smart" and didn't add any custom controls. Spirit only has to set this one ALSA control that all Qualcomm chips of this generation support: "MultiMedia1 Mixer PRI_TX".

LG decided to add their own "FM Radio" custom ALSA control. So Spirit has to set that, as well as "MultiMedia1 Mixer TERT_MI2S_TX".

What I think has happened is that none of the G2 ROM or kernel devs care about or are aware of the FM customization to the ALSA driver. They are using the standard generic or optimized drivers without the FM control, and few or no people are complaining or requesting FM.

I also noted that ROMs with these kernels do not have a "snd_soc_msm_xxxxxx" file in /system/etc/, so the change needed may not be small and that's why I think devs may not be happy to accommodate FM.

There should be a kernel config file in the kernel source here: https://github.com/Mahdi-Rom/androi...1c0474dd55bad304d365439e95da/arch/arm/configs Some changes to the relevant xxx_defconfig file might be all that's needed, or at least a starting point. Qualcomm code also often supports FM_ENABLED or similar #define's that might need to be set somewhere.

If you or someone can find a G2 dev that's interested in helping resolve this, then we are halfway there.

 

[mahaveersoni]

I n Xperia. C msz come. Fm Not acseble

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[Trinition]

Spirit2 Turns Bluetooth Off

After a ROM update though, you must run Spirit once and then reboot, for FM with BT on (paired and connected or not). To avoid this reboot dance after ROM update, I've been testing a "99-spirit.sh" backup/restore script that can go into /system/addon.d/ after remounting /system/ as read-write. I've put it at the end of this post.

I'm not familiar with how do add such scripts, but I can look into it.

Step #1 should be trying to get Spirit working OK with BT on, with no BT headset etc. connected. IE does it work OK with BT on, with audio going to speaker or wired headset ?

Well, yes and no. When I have Bluetooth on but not connected, the audio comes out through the speaker just fine. But... Bluetooth gets turned off. I don't know why, but it does. And when I attempt to turn it back on, it doesn't work. I can go into Bluetooth Settings and toggle the swtich from OFF to ON and it just snaps back to OFF. It won't turn on anymore... until I reboot.

Email me if you don't also have Spirit1. It's good to try Spirit1 in digital audio mode (Menu-> Settings-> Audio-> Method = Digital Auto) if problems w/ Spirit2.

I don't have it. I'll e-mail you shortly.

 

[mikereidis]

I'm not familiar with how do add such scripts, but I can look into it.


Well, yes and no. When I have Bluetooth on but not connected, the audio comes out through the speaker just fine. But... Bluetooth gets turned off. I don't know why, but it does. And when I attempt to turn it back on, it doesn't work. I can go into Bluetooth Settings and toggle the swtich from OFF to ON and it just snaps back to OFF. It won't turn on anymore... until I reboot.

I don't have it. I'll e-mail you shortly.

I have test releases of Spirit1 and 2 that automatically install the ROM update backup/restore script.

I don't want to recommend you lose all your config and data, but a Wipe sometimes cleans things like this up. BT is often fragile; I've seen that on several ROMs.

But the way Spirit accesses the FM/BT chip when BT is off can lead to problems. It's always bad to switch BT on or off when Spirit is running on a Broadcom chip device. BT 4.0 Low Energy stuff might mess things up; sometimes BT looks like it's off, but under the covers it's actually on to some extent.

Beyond that, I rarely use my phones as phones that I carry around, and use apps, calls, etc. throughout the day. So I don't see all the problems that real phone users may see. Sometimes I DO find a common problem, and wonder why nobody ever reported it (instead of just swearing at it and restarting, LOL.)

And sometimes a fresh flash might show me a problem I wouldn't see otherwise.

If you can back up your ROM, all settings and data, you could try a fresh install and wipe to see. Or checkout a new ROM, like the 4.4.3 GPE I just loaded on my M7. See next post.