raptch | # 1 | 2009-12-12, 00:31 | Report

My nokia N900 (bought from NOKIA GREECE) has the FM transmitter disabled. I can not enable it from the settings menu.
My version is 1.2009.42-11.
Is there a way to enable the transmitter?
Please help me.
Thanking you in advance

EIPI | # 2 | 2009-12-12, 00:36 | Report

Is it possible that the FM transmitter is not allowed in Greece, and therefore is disabled? On my box, I recall some talk about the transmitter being allowed/denied in certain jurisdictions. I'm at the airport, so cannot check

etuoyo | # 3 | 2009-12-12, 00:37 | Report

I don't enable from settings menu. I just srart playing and then from the drop down arrow at the top of the screen there is an option for FM Transmitter to switch it on.

raptch | # 4 | 2009-12-12, 00:39 | Report

Thank you for your help. I think this is the case (disabled in Greece). Since I travel a lot abroad is there anyway to enable it?
Maybe using command line fmtx?

raptch | # 5 | 2009-12-12, 00:40 | Report

It does not switch on from the player also.

EIPI | # 6 | 2009-12-12, 00:48 | Report

I do not know if this will work, but you *may* be able to reflash the device with another countries firmware. No gaurantees, YMMV, etc

mmlado | # 7 | 2009-12-31, 08:35 | Report

I'm from Serbia and the FM Transmitter on my N900 is also disabled.

I flashed it with everything I found here http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N900.php, but none of it helped.

I thought maybe it's buried in some config file, but after flashing with emmc image, which should delete everything from the tablet it doesn't work either.
Maybe it's a hardware switch, which is turned on when they ship one to a country where it's not allowed to use it.

Did someone found a solution to this problem?

anapospastos | # 8 | 2009-12-31, 08:48 | Report

There are enough mobiles phones and devices(in Greece) with fm transmitter and only n900 has it disabled. Someone expert may give us a solution??

Ads | # 9 | 2009-12-31, 13:06 | Report

Hi guys. Sorry I can't help with the initial problem. But I can throw this into the mix. I'm in the UK and just received my replacement after attempting a repair from the MIC problem. Basically, this replacement has the FM transmitter disabled!
Any ideas on anything I can check? Does this mean I now have a device that was originally heading to Greece for instance (just using as an example as it seems the tr"smitter isn't allowed there).
I'm awaiting a call from Nokia. I doubt they'll give me a manual solution, but I'll let you know if they do. Call wont be until Monday at the earliest now.

ossipena | # 10 | 2009-12-31, 13:11 | Report

sounds like a bug or similar.

could you please reboot your device and after that go to terminal and capture dmesg :s output.

for example:
and after that the dmesg.txt can be found in documents -folder.

if you want to grab the file to your pc via usb, i suggest you alter the command a bit:
then the file should be found in the root of n900 drive that appears to computer when plugging the device.