Front view of the JBL Xtreme 3 Bluetooth speaker.
Gives the JBL Xtreme 3 firmware update routine. This update can take up to fifteen minutes. This depends on the speed of your internet connection and source device. Plus, you cannot easily back it out. That is, you won’t be able to downgrade to the earlier firmware version once you complete this upgrade. So, be sure that you truly wish the upgrade.
We were unable to update our JBL Xtreme 3 firmware when we received this speaker. Why? Because the speaker already had the current version. So, we borrowed some pictures below from the firmware updates we did on our JBL Charge 3. We used JBL Xtreme 3 pictures where we could though. Indeed the firmware update processes are similar for both speakers. Finally, at some point we may receive a firmware update notification for our JBL Xtreme 3. If that happens, we’ll update these photos to show the actual update in progress.
You’ll need the following to complete this update…
So, log your mobile device into the internet and install the Connect app if you haven’t already.
Connect your speaker to AC power. Why? Because we don’t want its battery going dead during the firmware update. This accident could leave corrupted firmware in the speaker’s memory with no way to refresh it. Thus this would render the speaker useless and not repairable.
Then, pair your phone or tablet with the speaker.
You are now ready to begin the firmware updating process on that JBL Bluetooth speaker.
Firstly, we find ours on the fourth home page in our Apple iPad Air.
The app takes a few seconds to show you some nifty animations when you first start it. But then it finds your paired JBL Xtreme 3 speaker and shows you its status screen.
Note the explanation point inside the orange circle in the top right corner of the speaker’s picture. This means that there are important messages about this speaker pending for your act on.
Note that there may be no current messages or firmware updates available for this speaker. If not, then you will see no explanation point. Also note that the above picture is for the Charge 3. But this is about the same as what you’d see with the JBL Xtreme 3. The processes are indeed the same.
Tapping the Important Messages (!) circle brings up the first IMPORTANT NOTICE screen about the available firmware upgrade.
This screen gives details about the available firmware update.
This page warns us we cannot undo the update. So once complete, this software update is permanent.
Another left flick brings up the JBL Xtreme 3 firmware upgrade confirmation prompt screen.
This prompt again warns that we won’t be able to fall back to the old firmware version. It then asks us to decide whether to install the new firmware or to cancel. But we’re going ahead, in the next step.
Touching the INSTALL button brings up the Upgrade Speaker screen.
This page tells us to connect our speaker to AC power if we’ve not done so already.
We connected our JBL to an AC outlet in the preliminary firmware update steps above.
Next, go back to the JBL Connect app running on your mobile device, and tap the OK button. See this button in the last screenshot picture above.
The JBL Xtreme 3 firmware update then begins. That involves downloading the firmware file from the internet to the app. Then from the app it passes through to the speaker.
Copying the file from the internet to the speaker is the slowest part of the firmware upgrade process. And the app shows a progress pie-chart that gradually becomes more orange as the transfer proceeds.
The next screenshot shows the upgrade file transfer at 65.7 percent complete.
The next screen shows that the firmware file transfer to the speaker has finished (100 percent done). The pie chart is completely orange now.
Once the app copies the upgrade file to the JBL Xtreme 3 speaker, you get the Upgrade Successful screen.
Then watch the power light on the speaker.
Eventually it will go dark.
The JBL Xtreme 3 may or may not turn itself back on again after the upgrade. Ours did not. So if, like ours, yours did not come back up, then go ahead with the next step (Step 10). But if yours did come back online though, then skip Step 10 and pick up with Step 11.
Press the dark Power button to turn the speaker on again. Then it should again pair with your mobile device where you’re running the JBL Connect app. The Bluetooth button turns solid white when your speaker has successfully paired again with your tablet or phone.
Then with your JBL Xtreme 3 successfully connecting to the JBL Connect app again, press the green Done button.
The app then displays the JBL Xtreme 3 speaker status screen once again. However, this time, note that there’s not any upgrade button. So this means that the firmware update succeeded. Thus the speaker now runs the current firmware version.
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