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The FM radio app on my Hauwei P8 Lite is a POS, I looked for an alternative on Google Play Store but could only find streaming apps (which are no use to me on trains).
Is there a decent FM player or is the issue a hardware one and thus unsolveable?
Hardware, I’d have thought, the phone has to have an FM module built in, any app is going to be digital relying on a network connection, the FM app would just be a software control for the radio, AFAIAA. That’s probably why FM is crap, FM is crap most of the time anyway, but through a phone, when it’s relying on piddly antenna, most likely the headphone cable, it’s particularly crap. Pretty much all radio apps use the network to function.
Your only option might be a music player with FM radio, but I wouldn’t like to trust the FM to be any better than what you’ve got, even FM in many cars is shonky and fades in and out all the time, I’ve driven 200 miles in silence before now because of the dreadful radio reception.
I've had plenty of phones with great FM (it's always the earhphone lead thats the aerial)
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I’ve had plenty of phones with great FM (it’s always the earhphone lead thats the aerial)
Works fine on my Sony, but then they ought to be capable of making a decent FM radio - not that I use it very often as it would require using wired earphones. Probably not as good hardware on your Hauwei.
Sorry, can't help with an app, I use the standard Sony one when I use it, which presumably won't work with yours.
I think the last phone I had with FM might have been a Nokia N95, but that was shit on so many levels that if it had an FM Radio it would have been just another thing that didn’t work, and I never used radio on a phone anyway, I’m only interested in 6Music. Earphone/headphone leads never seem to be that effective, I have had a portable DAB radio that used the lead as it’s antenna, and it could be pretty flakey at times.
My old Samsung Galaxy S2 had FM, as did my Lumia and many of the old Nokia's I had before it. Rarely used it, though was interesting on flights at 30,000 feet as it could pick up signals briefly as it passed over them. Over US it was decent stations near civilisation then just one after another country & western station over Hicksville USA.
These days, decent data limit and streaming. Way more channels (via TuneIn radtio etc) or streaming services like Spotify, Amazon Music, etc, and far better quality. So long as you have a signal but then they can buffer and streaming services can download for offline use.
In the end I was able to stream fine - odd as I've had the worst signal ever on the train journey in question I was trying to get an FM app for.
at if it had an FM Radio it would have been just another thing that didn’t work, and I never used radio on a phone anyway
Countzero why do you insist on offering "advice" on a matter you confess to know nothing about?