How to Hard Reset JBL Charge 2 Plus Speaker

Front of the JBL Charge 2 Plus speaker.

Shows how to hard reset the JBL Charge 2 Plus speaker, to return it to default out-of-box settings. We outline this routine below. Hard resetting also wipes out any prior connected BT devices from its memory. Clearing these stops the speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices afterwards.

Also, you might hard reset to prepare the Plus for sale or re gifting, or simply, to stop it from pairing with devices you no longer wish it to pair with.

How to Hard Reset JBL Charge 2 Plus Speaker: Step by Step

1. Turn On the Speaker

Press and hold the Power button until that button lights up and the electronic blip sound plays.

The Power button appears in the next picture, as we point out there with the blue arrow.

The dark -Power- button on the JBL Charge 2 Plus speaker.

Once you press and release, the Power button then lights up, as we see next.

The glowing -Power- button.

2. Wait for the Power Up Blip Sound

The Charge makes a quick low-to-high tone blip sound when it powers on. It is then ready for hard reset after this little sound finishes.

Now it may or may not pair with a device automatically because this depends on whether there are any in-range Bluetooth devices that know about speaker. But whether paired or not though, hard reset works the same way, as follows.

3. Press the Volume UP (+) and Phone Buttons Together

Find the Phone and UP Volume (+) buttons. The Phone button is the one that looks like, … what else, a telephone receiver. The Volume UP (+) button is on the right in the following picture,

The -Volume UP- and -Phone- buttons.

The speaker then enters hard reset. All lamps on it including the Pairing, and battery indicator gauge light momentarily. Then all goes dark as the reset finishes.

The dark -Power- button once again.

Then after a short pause, the speaker turns OFF. Specifically, the Power lamp goes dark, and the unit makes the power-down high-low tone blip sound.

4. Check that the Hard Reset Did Indeed Happen

Next, power on the unit again, as we detail in step 1 above.

Note that after hard reset, the unit comes up in Bluetooth discovery mode, making the decreasing volume beep-beep-beep-beep sound.

When the Bluetooth button blinks white, the Charge 2 Plus speaker is not currently paired. Indeed, we expect it would not pair to anything after hard reset, even in-range devices.

5. Done with How to Hard Reset JBL Charge 2 Plus Speaker !

The hard reset routine is now complete. So you may safely sell or gift the speaker, or pair it again with your favorite Bluetooth devices.

After reset, the unit no longer automatically connects with any earlier paired Bluetooth device that is in range and in pairing mode. Thus, to restore automatic Bluetooth pairing, you would first manually pair the 2 with a source device. Then, any time that both speaker and that device have Bluetooth turned on, pairing would automatically happen once again.