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    From Qihe@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 13 17:23:25 2024
    Hi, testing "FM Radio" app embedded on my Honor 200 lite (Android
    14) it requires to plug in audio jack or adapter to go. This
    Honor doesn't come with a jack port. So when I plug in a "usb-c
    to jack" adapter I get a "wrong port" warning from FMRadio app (
    ...although the adapter works fine playing any other
    multimedia).

    According to Termux there is a FM chip and it's running, isn't it?
    getprop | grep -i fm
    [init.svc.fm_hidl_service]: [running]
    [persist.vendor.connsys.fm_chipid]: [mt6631_6635]

    It doesn't seem an hardware issue but I can't uninstall this
    (bugged?) FMradio app rootless.

    How to fix it?

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  • From Arno Welzel@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 13 19:17:50 2024
    Qihe, 2024-10-13 17:23:

    Hi, testing "FM Radio" app embedded on my Honor 200 lite (Android
    14) it requires to plug in audio jack or adapter to go. This
    Honor doesn't come with a jack port. So when I plug in a "usb-c
    to jack" adapter I get a "wrong port" warning from FMRadio app (
    ...although the adapter works fine playing any other
    multimedia).

    When the FM chip uses an *analog* jack as antenna input, USB-C wouldn't
    help you at all. Maybe Honor just forgot to remove the app since the FM
    chip is useless without analog jack.

    [...]
    It doesn't seem an hardware issue but I can't uninstall this
    (bugged?) FMradio app rootless.

    Maybe you can just disable it, so you won't see it any longer.


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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Qihe on Sun Oct 13 22:06:15 2024
    On 2024-10-13 17:23, Qihe wrote:
    Hi, testing "FM Radio" app embedded on my Honor 200 lite (Android
    14) it requires to plug in audio jack or adapter to go. This
    Honor doesn't come with a jack port.

    Wow :-(

    Tough luck.

    So when I plug in a "usb-c

    Will not work.

    to jack" adapter I get a "wrong port" warning from FMRadio app (
    ...although the adapter works fine playing any other
    multimedia).

    It actually needs an earphone on the audio jack port, it is a hard
    hardware requirement. It works as antena.


    According to Termux there is a FM chip and it's running, isn't it?
    getprop | grep -i fm
    [init.svc.fm_hidl_service]: [running]
    [persist.vendor.connsys.fm_chipid]: [mt6631_6635]

    It doesn't seem an hardware issue but I can't uninstall this
    (bugged?) FMradio app rootless.

    How to fix it?

    You can not. You should be able to disable the application, though.

    You should be able to complain to the vendor, faulty radio feature.

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  • From Eric Pozharski@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Thu Oct 17 07:22:46 2024
    with <[email protected]r> Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-10-13 17:23, Qihe wrote:

    Hi, testing "FM Radio" app embedded on my Honor 200 lite (Android 14)
    *SKIP* [ 22 lines 2 levels deep]
    It doesn't seem an hardware issue but I can't uninstall this
    (bugged?) FMradio app rootless.
    How to fix it?

    You can not. You should be able to disable the application, though.

    You can't disable it either. What com.android.fmradio is doing exactly
    is puzzling for about a decade now.

    When I will be about to replace my phone for good, I hope to remember to
    freeze it and see how it will go.

    p.s. I know, but searching through xda-developers is a bitch.

    *CUT* [ 4 lines 1 level deep]

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  • From Andrews@21:1/5 to Eric Pozharski on Thu Oct 17 14:08:00 2024
    Eric Pozharski wrote on Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:22:46 +0000 :

    You can not. You should be able to disable the application, though.

    You can't disable it either. What com.android.fmradio is doing exactly
    is puzzling for about a decade now.

    My Android phone is unrootable (as far as anyone on XDA knows), and yet, I
    can disable/stop/remove from the user partition almost any app I want to.

    https://droix.net/knowledge-base/en-gb/article/uninstall-android-system-apps/ https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
    https://xdaforums.com/t/uninstall-any-apps-via-adb-no-root.3738105/

    All you do, essentially, is run this command on the device or on a PC.
    adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.fmradio

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Andrews on Fri Oct 18 12:26:16 2024
    On 2024-10-17 16:08, Andrews wrote:
    Eric Pozharski wrote on Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:22:46 +0000 :

    You can not. You should be able to disable the application, though.

    You can't disable it either.  What com.android.fmradio is doing exactly
    is puzzling for about a decade now.

    My Android phone is unrootable (as far as anyone on XDA knows), and yet, I can disable/stop/remove from the user partition almost any app I want to.

    I have been able to disable/stop/remove any app I wanted, with the
    standard application menu. I just checked with the radio app. However,
    not with the "messages" app, so maybe there are privileged apps.
    Obviously I'm not going to try remove that app to check on it.



    https://droix.net/knowledge-base/en-gb/article/uninstall-android-system-apps/ https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
    https://xdaforums.com/t/uninstall-any-apps-via-adb-no-root.3738105/

    All you do, essentially, is run this command on the device or on a PC.
    adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.fmradio

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  • From Andrews@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sun Oct 20 00:11:54 2024
    Carlos E.R. wrote on Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:26:16 +0200 :

    I have been able to disable/stop/remove any app I wanted, with the
    standard application menu. I just checked with the radio app. However,
    not with the "messages" app, so maybe there are privileged apps.
    Obviously I'm not going to try remove that app to check on it.

    There is no risk if you know what you're doing when using adb.

    You do you, but just so the others lurking know, if you're non rooted, you
    have only two possibilities with adb on removing unwanted packages.

    1. Most apps will be removed from the user partition without complaint
    2. Some apps (one out of a few hundred in my experience) won't remove

    I don't know what makes the one out of a few hundred not remove, but it has happened (rarely) to me so I know that it is a possibility (albeit rare).

    Anyway, there's really no risk because you can always reinstall any app you remove using adb because it's not actually removed from the root partition.

    So there is no risk - but you do you. For sure, a few times I've removed a package and then regretted removing it - but it's easy to get it back.

    C:\> adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.package.name
    C:\> adb shell cmd package install-existing com.package.name

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