Describes how to read the JBL Clip 4 battery indicator lamp.
JBL Clip 4 Battery Indicator: How to Read It
This Clip 4 has a single LED on its top panel, under the carabiner clip. This displays battery status, whether it’s draining or recharging, or whether it’s critically low or not. However, it does not tell you the battery percentage. So does it say how full the battery is or how much “juice” the battery has left. But it does change color when the battery nears deadness.
1. The Battery Indicator Is OFF
When you power down the Clip 4 without external power, this lamp goes dark. The lamp is also OFF when the outside power IS present but the battery is full.
2. JBL Clip 4 Battery Indicator: Shows Recharging Progress
The indicator lamp lights up red (no flashing) as the Clip 4 charges. On the Clip 4, the glowing battery indicator is the only visual indication of this. But as noted earlier, it does not display how far along the recharging is.
Note also that this lamp blinks red when the battery is low. So, you should recharge it next time you can. It only flashes red when the battery is nearly dead, with no charger present. But when you connect outside power, this red flashing turns to a steady red glow. Thus, this light never flashes red while the Clip 4 charges.
3. When the JBL Clip 4 Battery Indicator Goes Out, Recharging is Complete
As recharging continues, the light keeps glowing red. This completes when the lamp goes out, or turns white. It turn off when the Clip 4 is not ON, and turns white when it is ON.
The juicing up cycle finishes when the battery indicator turns off. Even with external power present, the lamp does not glow when battery is full, unless the speaker itself is running. And in that case, it would glow or flash white.
4. The Battery Indicator Is Not Much of a Power Remaining Meter
When unplugged, this lamp becomes the battery indicator of fullness. Well sort of. If it glows white, then the battery has some amount of play time left, although you cannot tell how much.
The next picture shows a JBL Clip 4, powered ON, with the battery status lamp glowing solid white. Note though that this light blinks white when the speaker has no pairing.
This light gives very few battery status patterns when not recharging. In fact, then only one is when the battery is nearly dead. Then, it starts flashing red.
JBL Clip 4 Battery Indicator: About the Portable App
Unfortunately, the Portable app does not communicate with this speaker. So you won’t be able to read its battery indicator there.