Left front view of the Sony SRS XG500 wireless speaker.
To pair your SRS XG500 Sony Boombox speaker with a source device for the first time, or to refresh old connection info in that device, you have to know how to start up pairing mode on this speaker. Why? Because in this mode, the speaker broadcasts its name and currently valid connection info over Bluetooth. Then this lets source Bluetooth devices pair with it. So in this post, we show you how to put the Sony XG500 BT speaker into pairing mode, so you can easily link it with phones, tablets, computers, and smart speakers, and stream music from those devices onto this speaker.
Firstly, Turn on the speaker by rapidly pressing its Power button.
E.g. See this button, that we point out with the green arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then comes on.
Secondly, pairing mode allows you to see your XG500 on your source Bluetooth device. So, activate pairing mode by pressing and releasing the Pairing button, as we point out in the next picture.
When you press this Pairing button, the speaker says in a female voice, “Bluetooth pairing.” Plus, the status lamp begins blinking blue, in a pulse-pulse-pause-pulse-pulse-pause pattern. We point to this light in the next picture.
Lastly, while the BT Status lamp is flashing, you should see the XG500 on any in-range phone, computer, tablet, or smart speaker, that is within several feet of it, as we see in the last picture above. Thus if you see that, then this means that the speaker is indeed running in pairing mode.
Here, we show how to update JBL Charge 3 speaker firmware for this popular Bluetooth…
We received the Waterpik NSP-853 Power Spray Plus massaging shower head for Christmas some years…
All smart speakers in the Google Home family now support Bluetooth. They can act as…
Firstly, the original Google Home speaker has a sleep timer that you can set and…
Follow these JBL Flip 4 speaker charging instructions for longest play using the hidden USB…
Here, we list JBL Flip 4 speaker specs specifications. To summarize, these cover the speaker's…