whenever i am in a busy area, aka a train station or street, my fp6 has trouble maintaining a connection (audio fully cuts out and does not get through at all)with my sony xm6s if it is in my trouser pocket vertically/ or i am holding it vertically while walking, but if I hold it horizontally (screen facing up) it maintains the connection fine.
I did not have this issue with my previous phone (redmi note 13 pro5g) in the same locations and the same pair of headphones, so i am lead to believe it is the fairphone having issues
I have the same issue and already regret switching back to fairphone (switched to Xiaomi after i lost all my data on FP3).
No problem with the same headphones on my Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro.
With my new FP6 the audio is even chopped when i have it have it vertically in my pockets in not very busy areas most of the time. Also have the same problems if i take a run and have it in my side pocket on my running shorts. Never had this issue once with my old phone.
@philipwilk May I ask if you have found a solution for this?
I tried resetting my Bluetooth and WLAN settings to no avail. (After I tried removing the headphones and pairing them again, changing every single Bluetooth option in the developer settings individually, restarting the phone etc. etc.)
Wireless 2.4 and 5 GHz antennas are very “plane” directive, as they oftenly radiate in a big donut shape.
If the Bluetooth device is device is in the “shadow” zone of the antenna, it adds to all the other problems of crowdy areas : number of devices (Bluetooth uses channel hopping to switch to the less crowded channel), parasite from every connected objects, and ones that don’t respect legislation and transmit on high power…
I had some Bluetooth interrupts in crowded space before, but I never thought about looking at the orientation of my phone. I’ll check it next time !
But how the other brands are solving these kind of stuff? I’ve never heard about an iphone loosing Bluetooth when vertical?
Well, they place several antennas to ensure the device is always in the good zone of at least one antenna.
Now, I haven’t seen the teardown of the FP6, but I’m almost 90% sure that there is only one 2.5ghz antenna inside, for cost reasons I presume.