Sony SRS XB12 portable speaker powered OFF, showing the -Power- button.
This post shows how to connect to the Sony XB 12 Extra Bass Bluetooth speaker with common portable devices, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets.
With your XB 12 powered OFF (power button is dark), run through these directions to connect your source BT mobile device to this speaker. We’re using an iPad Air computer for this demo.
Firstly, press the Home button to reveal the smart device’s Home screen.
We found ours on the second page of the Home screen, as shown next.
Thirdly, touch the Settings app icon.
The smart device then shows the first page of its settings, as shown in the next step.
Our Bluetooth Settings screen displays as follows. Note that our Bluetooth is enabled here. But since our Sony XB 12 is currently shut OFF (is not in Bluetooth discovery mode), it does not show up in the Bluetooth devices list. Also, we don’t see it since we’ve never connected this speaker with our mobile device before.
Turn on the XB 12 by quickly pressing its Power button. See this, pointed at by the green arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then powers up, and its status lamp blinks blue, as seen in the next picture. This means that it’s ready to receive a Bluetooth connection request. If it slow blinks, then it’s passively waiting for a Bluetooth connection request to arrive. But if it’s fast-flashing blue, then it’s broadcast its connection info over Bluetooth so other devices can find this speaker.
But since our iPad does not know about this speaker, it will not connect with the XB 12 automatically.
Now, to see your Sony XB 12 on your device, place the speaker into Bluetooth discovery mode. To do that, press the Power-Pairing button, and release when the speaker beeps twice and the Status lamp begins blinking rapidly. Find this button as shown above, pointed at by the green arrow.
See the screen shot next. We found our XB 12, as pointed at by the green arrow.
Tap the listed speaker in the discovered devices list.
Your mobile device then connects with the XB 12.
E.g. The the mobile device’s Bluetooth Settings screen might then change to look something like the following. Note the now-connected XB 12 entry, as pointed at by the green arrows in the next screenshot.
At last, we have now successfully connected a common mobile tablet device to the XB 12 speaker.
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