I fixed my phone’s Bluetooth dropouts by accident, and the solution is embarrassingly simple

https://www.androidpolice.com/my-bluetooth-kept-dropping-until-i-changed-this-one-thing-on-android/

Publish Date: 2026-06-07 08:00:00

There are few things as annoying on Android phones as a spotty Bluetooth connection.

If you’re trying to listen to music, but your tunes keep cutting out, you keep dropping calls due to confused Android Auto, or your fitness tracker keeps disconnecting, it can be incredibly infuriating.

Sometimes, this can be the result of your chosen Bluetooth gadget not being up to snuff. However, now and then, certain phones seem plagued by this issue.

We’ve reported on Google Pixel 9 Pro models with Bluetooth problems (which affected the Pixel 8 Pro, for that matter), and I recently spent a month with a Motorola phone that was frustratingly prone to piques of Bluetooth trouble. It was a budget mobile, what did I expect?

Over the course of the month, I was hit by intermittent dropouts and other Bluetooth annoyances. I thought this was just a symptom of using a more affordable handset compared to a premium one — until I decided to get to the bottom of what was going on.

And after some testing, what I discovered helped me reduce the amount of dropping out I suffered.

Quiz8 Questions · Test Your Knowledge

Bluetooth technology
Trivia challenge

From Viking kings to wireless earbuds — how much do you really know about Bluetooth?

HistoryStandardsHardwareSecurityFeatures

Begin

Bluetooth technology is named after which historical figure?

ALeif Erikson, a Norse explorerBHarald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Danish kingCCanute the Great, a Viking ruler of EnglandDEric Bloodaxe, a Norwegian king

Correct! Harald Bluetooth was a 10th-century Danish king who united dissonant Danish tribes — fitting for a technology designed to unite different communication protocols. The name was proposed by Intel engineer Jim Kardach, who was reading a historical novel about Harald at the time.

Not quite. Bluetooth is named after Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Danish king renowned for uniting warring factions. The parallel to uniting different wireless protocols made it an inspired…

Source