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Why is the FM tuner disabled on my Galaxy S5 phone?
mluke
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‎12-11-2014 01:57 PM

Why is the FM tuner on my Galaxy S5 phone disabled? Can this be fixed? What's wrong with this phone?

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‎12-11-2014 04:30 PM

Verizon disable the FM tuners on all phones. That's is just what they choose to do. No there is nothing you can do about it.

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‎12-11-2014 04:30 PM

Verizon disable the FM tuners on all phones. That's is just what they choose to do. No there is nothing you can do about it.

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Re: Why is the FM tuner disabled on my Galaxy S5 phone?
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‎12-12-2014 04:18 AM

They haven't disabled it on ALL phones. Some phone models were released with the FM tuner available.

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‎12-12-2014 08:29 AM

Ann154 wrote:

They haven't disabled it on ALL phones. Some phone models were released with the FM tuner available.

Which ones?

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Re: Why is the FM tuner disabled on my Galaxy S5 phone?
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‎12-12-2014 09:55 AM

HTC Thunderbolt for one.

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‎12-12-2014 10:14 AM

The Droid Bionic was released with the FM tuner available (and I think at least one other Droid), but the capability was removed during a later update.

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‎12-12-2014 12:25 PM

Thunderbolts was released in March 2011, Bionic was released in Sept 2011. So let me rephrase. Any phones with XLTE capability that also have FM tuners enabled?

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Re: Why is the FM tuner disabled on my Galaxy S5 phone?
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‎12-12-2014 06:21 PM

The HTC One M8 once the user sideloads the application.

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Re: Why is the FM tuner disabled on my Galaxy S5 phone?
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‎12-13-2014 11:06 AM

Ann154 wrote:

The HTC One M8 once the user sideloads the application.

Ok let me be even more clear. Any Verizon phones that have a functioning FM tuner out of the box without any hacks or rooting? Seriously I swear some of you long timers are being deliberately obtuse because I know you're not actually obtuse.

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