Hi Mike,
i hope your eye gets well again, soon. I would fully understand if you take a time out to recover instead of answering my question.
Also, i wish i could help out but i guess it would be a long ride from here to Canada.
So, my question:
I am still happy with Spirit2 on my i9000 and now thinking about some improvement for my habits.
FM reception in my area sometimes is tricky. I need a good antenna. Some of my headphones work better than others in
that case. So i think about some external antenna to connect to the headphone out.
Standard FM receivers had 240 Ohm symmetrical or 75 Ohm unsymmetrical inputs.
For a simple solution you just connected either the two ends of a 1 meter wire to the poles of the 240 Ohm inlet or one end of a 1 meter
wire to the "hot" / "inner" pole of the unsymmetrical input.
Now, on the cellphone we have that 3.5mm outlet containing 2 "hot" poles for the left and right audio and one "cold" for common/ground.
I would like to know how the FM receiver antenna input is connected to those audio outlets.
From that i could decide how to improve reception.
Next problem: With an antenna connected i would like to use the speaker audio output.
That works on my i9000 but i cannot control the volume.
I understand that this is a matter of digital audio control inside the software of the phone.
From my Linux experience i know that ALSA might have something to do with this.
I am familiar to the alsamixer app on my desktop pc and i also know that this is a low-level-command-line tool which in some
cases helps to enable/disable audio and determine gain and volume levels of different audio subdevices.
So, is there something inside my phone similar to this ? Or is possibly your new "Audio Trick" app a way to control speaker output volume?
Or does this lead to other problems?
Now, hopefully you have some information on this for me. But take your time, get well and be assured that many people out there wish you
all the best