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

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

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.

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?

It does not switch on from the player also.

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

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?

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??

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.

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.