The Bluetooth pairing status light glowing blue on the Sony SRS XP500 speaker.
This post gives Sony XP 500 Bluetooth pairing instructions, that work with common wireless devices. E.g. These include the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets. A similar procedure also works with Android tablets and phones too.
With your XP 500 powered OFF (power button is dark), run through these directions to pair it to your source Bluetooth device. We’re using an iPad Air tablet computer for this demo.
Firstly, press the Home button to reveal the smart device’s Home screen.
We found ours on the second page of the Home screen, as we show next.
Thirdly, touch 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 on the source tablet is ON here. But since our XP 500 speaker is currently shut OFF (is not in Bluetooth pairing mode), it does not appear in the BT devices list. Also, we don’t see it since we’ve never linked this speaker with our mobile device before.
Additionally, turn on the XP 500 by quickly pressing and releasing its Power button. See this, pointed at by the blue arrow, in the next shot.
The speaker then powers up, and its status lamp glows green, as we see in the next picture.
But since our iPad does not know about this speaker, the XP 500 will not pair with it automatically.
Now, to see your speaker on your device, place it into Bluetooth discovery / pairing mode. To do that, press the Bluetooth Pairing button, and release after a quarter second.
Find the Pairing button as we see in the next picture, pointed at by the blue arrow. It’s the second button in from the left on the top button panel, just to the right of the Power button.
Then the speaker emits a rise-fall beep. Also, the Pairing lamp begins flashing in a pulse-pulse-pause-pulse-pulse-pause pattern.
See the screen shot next. We found our 500, as pointed at by the arrow.
Tap the listed speaker in the discovered devices list.
Your mobile device then pairs with the XP 500.
E.g. The the mobile device’s Bluetooth Settings screen might then change to look something like the following. Note the now-connected SRS-XP500 entry, as pointed at by the blue arrows in the next screenshot.
At last, we have now successfully paired this Sony karaoke speaker with a common mobile tablet device.
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