Product Reviews, Experiences, and Technical Insights from Thomas J. Hesley
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How to Make Sony XB 20 Discoverable
To pair your XB 20 Sony Extra Bass speaker with a Bluetooth device for the first time, or to refresh stale linkage data in that device, you need to understand how to start up discovery mode on this unit. Now in discovery mode, the speaker digitally announces its name and connection data over Bluetooth, so…
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How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XB 20
This speaker comes equipped with a set of party LED lights that, by default, blink and pulsate in a vivid blue color to the beat of whatever you play on the speaker. However sometimes, you may not like a party atmosphere, such as when you want to play the speaker while drifting off to sleep…
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Sony XB 20 Hard Reset Instructions
Gives Sony XB 20 hard reset instructions to return this portable speaker to its default settings. Hard resetting restores the 20 to right-out-of-the-box state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. This stops the speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Further, you might hard reset the unit to get…
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How to Check Sony XB 20 Battery Life
Covers how to check battery life and level on the Sony Extra Bass XB 20 Bluetooth speaker, and also, how to tell if the battery life is shortening over time. How to Check Sony XB 20 Battery Life, Current Charge 1. First, Turn ON the XB 20 You won’t be able to read battery charge…
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How to Hard Reset Sony XB 20
Show you how to hard reset your Sony XB 20 BT speaker to its factory default settings. hard resetting restores the 20 to default state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. This stops the speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Furthermore, you might hard reset the unit to…
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How to Connect to Sony XB 20
This post shows how to connect to the Sony XB 20 Extra Bass portable speaker from Bluetooth source devices. E.g. These include the Apple line of device like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. This routine also works for Android base devices as well, such as Samsung and LG phones, as well as Amazon Fire…
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How to Reset Sony XB 20
Show you how to reset your Sony XB 20 portable speaker to its default settings. Resetting restores the 20 to default state. Plus, resetting erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. This stops the speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Furthermore, you might reset to get it ready for sale or…
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How to Turn Off Sony XB 20
We explain how to turn off the Sony XB 20 portable wireless speaker here. Now most speakers have a Power button that Sony prominently places on the unit so it’s easy to pinpoint. Indeed, this speaker is no exception to this pattern, as we find its Power button at the rightmost position on the top…
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Sony XB 20 Reset Instructions
Gives Sony XB 20 reset instructions to return this wireless speaker to its default settings. Resetting restores the 20 to new-out-of-the-box state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired BT devices from its memory. This stops the speaker from pairing to any nearby devices. Further, you would reset the unit to get the unit ready for…
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Sony XB 20 Watts
The XB 20 Sony Bluetooth speaker is a small to medium power, desktop style unit with enough output watts to fill a common household size room with full sounding tunes. But what does the number of watts a wireless speaker has, tell us about how good it is? Firstly, the watt is a measure of…