The Battery / Battery Care button on the Sony SRS XP500 speaker.
Explains how to read the Sony SRS XP500 battery indicator lamp. We also discuss how get battery charge percentage numbers from the speaker itself. Plus you can see this in the Music Center app.
First, this speaker has a battery indicator LED on the top button panel. This displays battery status, sort of. E.g. Whether it’s draining or charging, or whether it’s critically low or not when discharging. But it neither reads out charging progress, nor how full the battery is. However, it does flash when the battery reaches near-dead state.
But on this speaker, you can get a more precise reading of battery fullness. For that, press the battery level button on the back. Then the speaker speaks the battery percentage number. We cover both ways to find this out below.
The battery level / charging (CHARGE) lamp is dark in the following situations:
Each of these light states gives you some indication of battery charge status.
With the charger not present, the XP500 running, and the battery quite low, the CHARGE light starts flashing orange.
This means that the speaker will soon shut OFF. So you should put it on the charge soon to avoid this.
The CHARGE lamp lights up orange (no flashing) as the XP500 charges, as we see in the next picture. On this speaker, this glowing light is the only visual means of knowing that recharging is going on. But it does not display how far along the charging is. To get this, use the battery percentage button in the button and port compartment on the back of the speaker.
Also note that this light should never flash during charging. If it does, then one or more of the following conditions exist.
As speaker charging continues, the light keeps glowing. But eventually, recharging finishes. Then the battery indicator lamp goes dark to show this. Indeed it turns off when the speaker is not ON. Furthermore, it stays OFF when the XP500 is ON.
When unplugged from the charger, what was the charging indicator becomes the battery charge left indicator. Well again, sort of. If it is dark when the speaker is ON, then some play time remains. However you cannot tell how much just by looking at the battery indicator LED. But when the battery charge goes very low, this light slowly pulses orange. This lets you know that it’s time to recharge the speaker. These pulses speed up the closer to dying the speaker gets.
You can have the speaker “speak” to you the approximate percentage of battery power left in the 43.
Hear the female voice say this by pressing the BATTERY / BATTERY CARE button in the back of the speaker. Note that there are three buttons just above the ports compartment. Now the button to press is the second button from the left as you face back of the speaker.
When you press this BATTERY / BATTERY CARE button, the speaker will say back one of the following.
Connect the speaker to a source device with the Sony Music Center app. Then you can see battery percentage in the app too.
We find ours in in a custom folder that we set up on this test iPad.
When you start Music Center, it finds the paired XP500. Then brings up the Home page for that speaker.
And on that page, the app shows you the current charge percentage.
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