Product Reviews, Experiences, and Technical Insights from Thomas J. Hesley
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How to Connect Sony X 5 to iPhone
This post shows how to connect a Sony X 5 wireless Bluetooth speaker to an iPhone smart phone. Doing so gives you a bigger, and distinctly better sound when you stream music from the iPhone to speakers like this one. How to Connect Sony X 5 to iPhone, Step by Step Procedure With the X3…
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How to Turn Off Sony X 5
We explain how to turn off the Sony X 5 portable BT speaker here. Now most speakers have a Power button that Sony prominently places on the top of this unit so it’s easy to locate. Indeed, this unit is no exception to this pattern, as we see in the next picture. There’s also a…
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Sony X 5 Pairing Instructions
This post provides Sony X 5 pairing instructions, to link it with common wireless devices. E.g. These include the iPhone and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets. You can also pair this speaker with Android devices using a similar procedure. Sony X 5 Pairing Instructions, Step by Step With your X…
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Sony X 5 Bluetooth Pairing Instructions
This post provides Sony X 5 Bluetooth pairing instructions, to link it with common wireless devices. E.g. These include the iPhone and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets. You can also pair this speaker with Android devices using a similar procedure. Sony X 5 Bluetooth Pairing, Step by Step With your…
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How to Tell if Sony X 5 is Charging
How to tell if Sony X 5 mini Bluetooth speaker is charging? This small yet powerful speaker has an orange LED light on the top panel, near the back edge of the unit, as shown in the following pictures. This CHARGE light flashes orange when you’re playing the speaker and the battery is about dead.…
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Sony X 5 Blinking Orange Light
Many Sony speakers, including the Sony X 5, feature a blinking orange light that lets you know that the speaker battery needs charging. Sometimes though, this flashing happens even though you’ve just fully recharged the speaker, when it should not, assuming the battery has recharged correctly. So in this post thus, we offer reasons that…
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Sony X 5 Charging Instructions
This piece covers Sony X 5 Bluetooth speaker charging instructions. Do this easily through the DC power in port, shown in the pictures below. Note that you can still play your X 5 as it charges, without increasing the recharge time by much, as long as your charger is “hefty” enough. Sony X 5 Charging…
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Sony X 5 Reset Instructions
We describe here the Sony X 5 wireless speaker reset instructions to return the unit to its default settings. Furthermore, doing this erases any earlier synced Bluetooth devices from memory. We might want to clear these to prevent this speaker from pairing to any nearby BT devices. Also, you would best reset your speaker to…
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Sony X 5 Firmware Update Instructions
Covers the Sony X 5 firmware update instructions for this portable Bluetooth speaker. But we know of no way to upgrade the firmware on this speaker. Further, there are currently no firmware downloads listed for this speaker on the Sony web site. Nor do they provide any details for this in the included manuals. So…
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Sony X 5 Buttons Guide
The Sony X 5 Bluetooth mini speaker has six buttons across its top panel and one button on its back, and we cover each one in detail in this guide. Sony X 5 Buttons Guide: Summary Here we cover the entire compliment of buttons and touch pads on this portable Bluetooth speaker, and these include…