Help No FM Radio?

[sisu]

Been playing around with my new HTC Wildfire S.
In order to use the radio, the manual says to plug in earphones, and click Applications -> FM Radio. But there is no such app.
I downloaded and installed the FM Radio Widget, but that did not help.
And there is no radio icon showing up in the status bar. The earphone icon does show up when I plug in the earphones.

Maybe this phone actually doesn't have the radio hardware?

 

[sisu]

Nobody knows? hard to find anything on the Internet. it does look like the radio tuner is either absent or disabled on the cdma chips on the wildfire phones here in the States, but functioning on the European gsm phones. oh well, not that i need the radio...

 

[primetech]

I doubt there is an FM radio onboard Virgin Mobile's rendition of the Wildfire S... Keep in mind it also doesn't have a GSM radio either, since it is a CDMA phone.

Which user manual did you read this in? If it's Virgin Mobile's the least you can do is shame/harass them online...who knows, maybe they can send you one that actually has a radio. Otherwise I don't know policies regarding honest corporate mistakes.

 

[mikereidis]

My app, Spirit FM works fine, even on stock, un-rooted devices for the last several months.

April 13 free version is here: 413fr.apk

Other versions on Google Play.

 

[sisu]

I can't tell if these would work on my stock since I am on a custom ROM now. But finally, with Simonsimons34 blue ridge sense 2.1 ROM, I finally have a working FM Radio!

 

[sisu]

I doubt there is an FM radio onboard Virgin Mobile's rendition of the Wildfire S... Keep in mind it also doesn't have a GSM radio either, since it is a CDMA phone.

Which user manual did you read this in? If it's Virgin Mobile's the least you can do is shame/harass them online...who knows, maybe they can send you one that actually has a radio. Otherwise I don't know policies regarding honest corporate mistakes.

Sorry didn't see your reply, I have been off the forum a few months...
But yeah, the radio finally works, on the custom rom I am using atm.
I don't remember now, might not been the user manual, but maybe it was on HTC's product page on Internet. But for some reason they must have disabled it on VM CDMA

 

[savoiu]

I can confirm that on a stock Virgin Mobile WFS the HTC app did not seem to work but Spirit FM Free did.