An Echo Dot 4 clock speaker in front of a JBL Boombox speaker
This post shows how to pair typical JBL speakers with common streaming devices such as the mobile phone, tablet, and other speakers.
With the JBL speaker powered OFF (power button is dark), run through this routine to pair it to your mobile device.
Press the Home button to bring up the mobile device’s Home screen. Shown next.
We found ours on the second page of an iPad home screen.
Tap the Settings app icon.
The iOS device then displays the first page of its settings, as shown in the next step.
Our Bluetooth settings screen displays, similar to the following.
Note that our Bluetooth is enabled here. But since our test JBL speaker is currently powered OFF, it does not show up in the Bluetooth devices list. Also, we don’t see it since we’ve never paired this speaker with this device before. See this as shown in this list of previously paired Bluetooth devices, shown next.
Turn on this speaker by quickly pressing its Power button. See this circled in green, in the next picture.
The speaker then powers up.
But since the iPad does not know about this speaker, it will not pair with it automatically. The light that comes on in the Power switch denotes this not-paired state by glowing solid white, as shown next.
Now, to see JBL speakers on your mobile device, place them into pairing mode. To do that, press and release the Pairing button, as we see in the next picture.
When you press the Bluetooth button, the speaker makes a repeating single pluck guitar note sound several times. Also, the Bluetooth button begins flashing white. See this in the last picture, pointed at by the green arrow.
See the screen shot next. We found our speaker, as pointed at by the blue arrow.
Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices section of the Bluetooth devices list.
Your source device then pairs with JBL speakers that are advertising themselves (“Tom’s Flip 5” in this demo). The mobile device’s BT Settings screen then changes to look something like the following.
We have now successfully paired a common JBL speaker. Similar routines work with pairing media players, phones, and desktop computers as long as they support Bluetooth.
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