Android Tips: How To Tell If Your Smartphone Has FM Radio

La FM radio of our smartphones Android is an application that is gradually disappearing or losing its importance; and is that years ago it was an almost mandatory option on any mobile and easily accessible. All you had to do was connect the headset as an antenna and open the corresponding native app. . Today, unfortunately, the reality is very different. And is that despite the fact that our terminals have probably the hardware that allows you to enjoy the radio natively , they are equipped for this purpose, i.e. they have the FM radio option deactivated. How do we know if our Android smartphone is equipped with a radio? Follow our advice to find out.

Find the Radio app

This is the first and most obvious step: search your mobile for the FM Radio application . Depending on the make and model, the corresponding Radio app may even appear on your most modern models. To do this, you have to go to the smartphone application menu or enter the word "radio" in the search engine .

If we find it in our terminal, the problem is solved. We can now connect the headphones to the mobile and enjoy the radio as if it were a radio device, no data connection or internet in between . Of course, if this way we can't find the application, we have to try the second step.

NextRadio application

If we search for "FM Radio" in Google Play, we will see that there are many applications which are nothing more than stations of streaming specific , that is, they need the connection data of our terminal to function. Even so, we can still search for an app called NextRadio which will allow us to use the mobile's own radio chip for this purpose, although the list of compatible devices is not very long . If our terminal is one of them, the problem is solved.

System diagnostics

Today, even the manufacturers themselves do not offer information about the FM radio or not of their devices ; although we can still perform a diagnostic système on our smartphone. To do this, we will have to follow well differentiated steps according to the manufacturer; Then we leave you with the most common methods among the main mobile brands:

• Samsung: write * # 0 * # in the phone application and press call.
• Sony: you must type * # * # 7378423 # * # * in the phone application.
• HTC: write * # * # 3424 # * # * in the phone application.
• Xiaomi: write * # * # 64844 # * # * in the phone application.
• Asus: you must write .12345 = in the Calculator application.

This will then be when we will have to review the diagnostic results to check whether our terminal has activated the FM Radio chip or if it has capped it and the possible solutions. In some cases, you may need the headset as an antenna, but the headphone jack is not connected to the chip. Other times it will already have its own internal antenna.