Most Sony Bluetooth speakers, including the XP 500, offer truly portable operation via their lithium ion batteries inside. And when said battery dies, you can recharge the speaker with an appropriate AC or car converter. Sometimes though, you may notice that the Sony XP 500 is not charging fully, or at all, even when you … Continue reading Sony XP 500 Not Charging
Sony XP 500 Factory Reset
Gives Sony XP 500 factory reset directions to return this party speaker back to its default settings. E.g. Factory resetting returns sound mode and light settings to their fresh-out-of-the-box values. Plus, it erases any earlier synced Bluetooth devices from memory. This stops this speaker from auto pairing to any nearby devices. Moreover, you might do … Continue reading Sony XP 500 Factory Reset
Sony XP 500 Battery Indicator
In this post, we describe how to read the battery indicator lamp and get battery charge percentage numbers from the Sony XP 500. First, this speaker has a battery level indicator LED on the top button panel, as we’ll see in the following pictures. This displays battery status, sort of. E.g. Whether it’s draining or … Continue reading Sony XP 500 Battery Indicator
Sony XP 500 Software Update
Here, we detail the software update routine for the Sony XP 500 wireless speaker. This procedure can take ten (10) to fifteen (15) minutes depending on the speed of your internet connection, source device used to update the speaker, distance between speaker and that device, Etc. Plus, you cannot roll back the update once you … Continue reading Sony XP 500 Software Update
How to Tell if Sony XP 500 is Charging
How to tell if Sony XP 500 karaoke party speaker is charging? This water resistant speaker has an orange LED light just below and to the left of the Power button, as we see in the next pic. This light, labeled as the CHARGE lamp, flashes orange when the battery is almost dead. So it … Continue reading How to Tell if Sony XP 500 is Charging
How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XP 500
This speaker comes equipped with a set of party LED lights that, by default, blink, scan, and pulsate in all sorts of colors to the beat of whatever you play on the speaker. But now and then, you may not wish to have a party atmosphere in your room, like when you want to play … Continue reading How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XP 500
How to Factory Reset Sony XP 500
Demonstrates how to factory reset the Sony XP 500 karaoke party speaker, to return it back to its default settings. E.g. Factory resetting returns sound mode and light settings to their fresh-out-of-the-box values. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from memory. Thus, a factory reset stops this speaker from auto pairing to any … Continue reading How to Factory Reset Sony XP 500
How to Reset Sony XP 500
Demos how to reset the Sony XP 500 return this Bluetooth speaker back to its default factory settings. E.g. Resetting restores sound mode and light settings to their fresh-out-of-the-box values. Plus, it erases any earlier linked Bluetooth devices from memory. This stops this speaker from auto pairing to any nearby devices. Furthermore, you might do … Continue reading How to Reset Sony XP 500
Sony XP 500 Power Button Not Working
When the Power button on your Sony XP 500 karaoke speaker is not working, this likely means one or more things as follows. Sony XP 500 Power Button Not Working: Reasons Why Dead Battery. The internal battery is empty needs a recharge for continued speaker operation. Use a widely available AC power cable to do … Continue reading Sony XP 500 Power Button Not Working
Sony XP 500 Specs Watts
The XP 500 Sony Bluetooth party speaker is a medium power, karaoke stereo with abundant audio output watts in the specs to fill a common size room or yard with plenty loud, far reaching tunes, that feature rich bass and treble. But what do the watts of a BT speaker tell us about it? Firstly, … Continue reading Sony XP 500 Specs Watts