The Sony SRS XB20 speaker party lights, shown as OFF.
This post gives pairing instructions for a run-of-the-mill Sony speaker to common mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets.
With your speaker switched OFF (power button is not glowing), run through this routine to pair it to your source BT mobile device. We’re using an iPad Air tablet for this demo.
Firstly, press the Home button to display the smart device’s Home screen.
We found ours on the second page of the Home screen, as shown next.
Thirdly, tap the Settings app icon.
The smart device then shows the first page of its settings, as shown in the next step.
Our Bluetooth Settings screen displays as follows. Note that our Bluetooth is enabled here. But since our test Sony speaker is right now powered OFF (is not in Bluetooth discovery mode), it does not appear in the BT devices list. Furthermore, we don’t see it since we’ve never paired this speaker with our mobile device before.
Turn on the speaker by quickly pressing its Power button. See this, pointed at by the green arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then powers up, and its status lamp slowly blinks. This means that it’s ready to answer a Bluetooth connection request.
But since our iPad does not know about this speaker, the speaker will not pair with it automatically.
Now, to see your speaker on your device, place it into BT discovery / pairing mode. So to do that, press the Power button, and release when the unit beeps.
E.g. Find this control as we see in the next picture, pointed at by the green arrow.
When you press the Power button, the speaker makes a couple beeps. Also, the status lamp changes from a slow flashing white to fast flashing white.
See the screen shot next. In fact, we found our test speaker, as pointed at by the green arrow.
Tap the listed speaker in the discovered devices list.
Your mobile device then pairs with the speaker.
E.g. The the mobile device’s Bluetooth Settings screen might then change to look something like the following. Note the now-connected Sony speaker entry, as pointed at by the green arrows in the next screenshot.
At last, we have now successfully paired our speaker with a common mobile tablet device.
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