How to Connect Wonderboom 1 to Phone

An iPhone in front of the Wonderboom 1.

This post shows How to Connect Wonderboom 1 to Phone and other iOS and Android Bluetooth devices. First, start with your Wonderboom 1 shut OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow along to pair it with a typical phone.

How to Connect Wonderboom 1 to Phone: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your Phone

First off, press the Home button to get to the Home iPad page. See our Home screen as shown next.

2. Find the Settings App

Secondly, we found ours on the second page of the Home screen.

A typical phone -Home- screen showing the -Settings- app.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Then, tap the Settings app icon.

Most phones then display the first page of its Settings screen, as shown in the next screenshot

The phone -Settings- page, showing the -Bluetooth- option. Come to this option to pair the Wonderboom 1.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with How to Connect Wonderboom 1 to Phone

Next, tap the Bluetooth item, as pointed at by the dark green arrow in the last screenshot above.

Our Bluetooth Settings screen then appears as follows. Note that our Bluetooth is switched ON here. But since the Wonderboom 1 speaker is currently OFF, it does not show in either the My Devices or Other Devices lists on the tablet yet, Why? Because we’ve not yet paired it with this device before. Plus, the speaker is not yet transmitting its BT connection info. See this scenario, that appears as shown next.

The phone’s -Bluetooth Settings- page. No Wonderboom 1 here. Not yet.

Note in this picture that there’s no Wonderboom 1 speaker appears yet.

5. Turn On your Wonderboom 1

Turn on the speaker by quickly pressing its Power button. See this button, circled in green, in the next picture.

The Wonderboom 1 top view. Showing the dark -Power- button.

The speaker then comes on.

The white glowing -Power- button.

6. Put your Wonderboom 1 in Pairing Mode

Now, to see your Wonderboom 1 speaker on your phone, place the WB into BT pairing mode. For that, press and release the Bluetooth button, as circled in the next picture.

The -Bluetooth Pairing- button.

When you press this Pairing button, the speaker makes a distinctive sound several times. Plus, a lamp in this button starts rapidly flashing white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Find Your Wonderboom 1 on the Phone

See the picture next. We found ours, as pointed out with the dark blue arrow next.

The phone Bluetooth page, showing the Wonderboom 1 as discovered But not pair connection yet.

8. Connect with the Wonderboom 1

Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices section of the Bluetooth Devices list, shown above.

The phone then pairs with the Wonderboom 1 (appears as “WONDERBOOM” in this demo).

The Bluetooth Settings screen then changes to display something like the following.

Showing the Wonderboom 1 as paired on the phone.

Note that the Wonderboom 1 speaker now appears as connected, as circled inside the green oval in the last picture.

9. Done with How to Connect Wonderboom 1 to Phone !

We have now successfully paired our Wonderboom 1 Bluetooth speaker with our test phone. Audio output from that source device now plays on this wireless speaker, which is what you want. The same happens with most other Bluetooth devices.