Sony XP500 Bluetooth Pairing

The Bluetooth pairing status light glowing blue on the Sony SRS XP500 speaker.

This post gives Sony XP500 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.

Sony XP500 Bluetooth Pairing, Step by Step Directions

With your SRS 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.

1. Go to the Home Screen on your Source Bluetooth Device

Firstly, press the Home button to reveal the smart device’s Home screen.

2. Find the Settings App

We found ours on the second page of the Home screen, as we show next.

iPadOS Home Screen with Settings App Highlighted

3. Bring up the Settings App

Thirdly, touch the Settings app icon.

The smart device then shows the first page of its settings, as shown in the next step.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with Sony XP500 Bluetooth Pairing

Our Bluetooth Settings screen displays as follows. Note that our Bluetooth on the source tablet is ON here. But since our XP500 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.

The -Bluetooth Settings- page showing nothing discovered

5. Power Up your Sony SRX XP500 Speaker

Additionally, turn on the XP500 by quickly pressing and releasing its Power button. See this, pointed at by the blue arrow, in the next shot.

The -Power- button on the Sony XP500.

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 XP500 will not pair with it automatically.

The -Power- lamp flashing green.

6. Turn On Pairing Mode

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.

The Bluetooth pairing / discovery button on the Sony XP500.

Then the speaker emits a rise-fall beep. Also, the Pairing lamp begins flashing in a pulse-pulse-pause-pulse-pulse-pause pattern.

The Bluetooth pairing status light glowing blue.

7. Find the Speaker on your Mobile Device to Continue with Sony XP500 Bluetooth Pairing

See the screen shot next. We found our 500, as pointed at by the arrow.

The Sony XP500, showing as discovered on the Bluetooth Settings page on iPadOS.

8. Pair with your XP500

Tap the listed speaker in the discovered devices list.

Your mobile device then pairs with the SRS XP500.

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.

The speaker showing as connected.