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Are you sure your phone doesn't have an FM radio?

A lot of phones have it built-in (just need to have headphones plugged in for the antenna), but don't advertise it much.



But without a custom rom it isn't exposed. This is part of the conspiracy by my mobile carrier to make me buy their hella expensive data plan.


The radio in mine is (in an HTC One A9). I almost never have headphones with me though, so it's not usually of any practical use to me.


That's the one thing I miss on my old Xiaomi - it came with a ROM that enabled FM and even had a nice app for it.


People don't even reverse engineer baseband/FM radio chips in phones under the mentality that "it cannot be done." and other stigmas such as NDA's. Sickens me to no end.




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