How to Reset Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker

The Wonderboom 1, front top view. Showing the -Power- and -Volume DOWN- buttons.

Here, we demo how to reset Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker. This restores the factory default settings to the unit, and it works as follows.

Resetting wipes any memorized Bluetooth devices from the unit’s memory. Thus, this prevents the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices after the reset. Further, you might reset the speaker to re gift it. Or, you just wish to stop its auto pairing with devices you no longer play through lt.

How to Reset Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker: Step by Step

1. Turn on the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker

Press and release the Power button. The status lamp in that button lights and you hear a power-up sound. We circle the Power button in the next picture.

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

Then, the status light comes on solid or it blinks, as shown next.

The white glowing -Power- button, just prior to reset.

2. Wait for the Power Up Sound

The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker makes a unique sounding turn-on noise. The speaker is then ready for reset when this sound ends.

Now it may or may not pair with a device. That depends on whether you have any in-range Bluetooth devices that know about the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker and that it have previously paired with as well. Yet whether paired or not, this reset procedure works the same way, as follows.

3. Be Sure the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker is Not Connected with Anything

The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker does not appear to respond to reset requests while linked with a source Bluetooth device. So, unpair it before resetting.

4. Press the Power and the Volume DOWN Button Together for Up to Eight Seconds

Find the Power and Volume DOWN buttons. E.g. The Power button is on the top of the speaker, near the front. Volume DOWN is the long vertical line on the front, near the bottom. See these both that we point out with the green arrows in the next picture.

The -Power- and -Volume DOWN- buttons.

The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker then enters reset.

Next, in a few seconds, the unit powers off as the reset completes. The falling electronic ka-plunk sound plays. Finally, the status lamp in the Power button goes dark.

5. Check that Your Speaker Did Indeed Reset

Next, power on the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker again, as detailed in step 1 above.

After reset, the unit comes up in ready-to-pair mode again, with the pairing lamp rapidly flashing white.

6. Done with How to Reset Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker !

Reset is complete now. So go ahead and let a friend or stranger use this speaker. Or pair it again with your favorite Bluetooth devices.

Then, the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker no longer auto connects with any previously paired Bluetooth devices. Thus, to restore automatic BT pairing, you pair this speaker by hand with your desired device(s). After that, any time that both the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker and device have Bluetooth turned on, pairing again occurs without you having to do anything.

Don’t forget to delete any now-stale connections to Wonderboom 1 from your source Bluetooth devices that you set up prior to resetting. These will no longer work. So you’ll want to “forget” them in your source device’s settings pages.