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I'm still annoyed that I can't get FM radio to route over Bluetooth without getting some bizarre up.

My old Moto G could play FM Radio, and you could select Bluetooth as the output. Fast forward to today, and the Samsung A50 (in my hands right now), has the ability to pick the app, and select the output to Bluetooth, but it doesn't work for FM Radio. Why? Because Bluetooth is just not consistent in my opinion.

EDIT: I am probably in the minority of people that insist on FM Radio on their phone. Just putting that out there as most people will not run into my problems.

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I have owned several mobile phones with FM Radio. With all of them the headphone cable provides the antenna.

Probably because FM is typically purely analog. You need to record signal, then compress it realtime and send through BT. That uses up battery. When using plain FM Radio, you just connect signal from fm chip to output amplifier.

That's a good point. The old Moto G did this out of the box. The newer ones, cannot. You need some "bluetooth router app". Beware of super spammy links if you google that. It's not an elegant solution and may or may not work depending on when Android gets updated.

Right now the A50 has a really nice sounding tuner with either my Samsung earbuds or Sony Headphones. NextRadio appears to be winding down it's features, so you have to use the basic tuner, and manually seek to each station, and add it to your favourites.

All this to say, there's not a lot of attention to FM Radio.

We could be using more advanced variants of DAB+/DVB/DMB protocols instead. It is still simple compared to WiFi but way more resilient than Bluetooth. But we get regulation in the way...

Don't phones typically use the headphone cable as the FM antenna though?

It isn't the case that your carrier might have deactivated FM, is it? If so, it might be possible to unlock this.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-unlock-fm-radio-hidden-...

Yes, it is a shame that DAB is such a failure (at least in the UK it is, bit rate is like 80kbps or something). That plus bluetooth and it might be incomprehensible...

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