Nokia 5800 - very poor FM radio

Father Ted · 10 Sep 2009 at 13:01

I have this model of phone. It has a built-in FM radio, however I have only ever been able to receive one station on it, my local independent radio station, it does not pick up any others at all. Is this just my phone, any other 5800 owners have the same problem?

PhillyDee · 10 Sep 2009 at 13:47

Do you have the headphones plugged in? Not sure if you have to or not. I have one but have never used the radio.

AMG · 10 Sep 2009 at 14:40

i think you have to use the headset, same with sony, although I don't know

I don't think the nokia 5800 is digital radio is it?

Father Ted · 10 Sep 2009 at 14:55

It's ordinary FM not digital. You do have to have the headphones plugged in.

anti5580 · 11 Sep 2009 at 03:21

He should already have the headphones plugged in otherwise it wouldn't work at all. TBH I never really had any luck with the built in FM radio.

Andrew_McP · 11 Sep 2009 at 07:55

FWIW one of the few things I really like about my 5800 is the fact that the FM radio reception is much better than any other portable radio I've had before. It even works inside the steel shed I work in, which has always caused problems before.

[I do find the GPS aerial *much* more of a problem. I've only had it lock on to a decent signal once in four months of attempts. Fortunately I use the radio far more than I use the mapping.]

Andrew McP

AMG · 11 Sep 2009 at 10:16

not sure whats worst, shopping center or steel shed, but ethoir way my old K800 could pick stations up

Father Ted · 11 Sep 2009 at 11:15

Update - I've had a mess around with the settings. I turned a setting on called Use Alternative Frequencies (or something like that). Seems to have helped, I'm now getting all the main BBC radio stations and Classic FM as well (which is the one I really wanted). So I'm a happy bunny now.