How to Charge Sony Bluetooth Speaker

This piece covers how to charge Sony Bluetooth speaker – typical models. Do this easily through the USB or barrel power in port. Any Sony speaker has one somewhere.  The water resistant models have it behind a flexible sealing door, shown in the pictures below. Note that you can still play your speaker speaker as … Continue reading How to Charge Sony Bluetooth Speaker



How to Reset Sony Bluetooth Speaker

Show you how to factory hard reset a Sony Bluetooth speaker, to return it to its default settings. Resetting restores the speaker to its factory default state. Plus, resetting erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. Clearing these stops the unit from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Also, you might reset your … Continue reading How to Reset Sony Bluetooth Speaker



How to Turn Off Lights on Sony Bluetooth Speaker

Some Sony Bluetooth speakers come equipped with a set of party LED lights that, by default, blink, pulsate and scan in various colors to the beat of whatever you stream to the speaker.  But sometimes, you may not want a party atmosphere, like when you want to play the speaker while drifting off to sleep … Continue reading How to Turn Off Lights on Sony Bluetooth Speaker



How to Connect to Sony Bluetooth Speaker

This post shows how to connect to a Sony Bluetooth speaker from most any common Bluetooth mobile device.  Doing so gives you a much bigger, and arguably better sound when you stream music from said device to these speakers. So in this demo, we show how to do this on the Sony SRS-XB43 model, but … Continue reading How to Connect to Sony Bluetooth Speaker



How to Turn Off Sony Bluetooth Speaker

We explain how to turn off a typical Sony Bluetooth speaker here.  Now most of these speakers have a Power button that Sony positions on the unit to make it easy to find. Now in this demo, we’ll show this on the model SRS XB12 speaker.  So on that unit, we find its Power button … Continue reading How to Turn Off Sony Bluetooth Speaker



How to Connect Sony Bluetooth Speaker to iPhone

This post shows how to connect a Sony Bluetooth speaker to an iPhone smart phone.  Doing so gives you a much bigger, and arguably better sound when you stream music from the iPhone to speakers like these. How to Connect Sony Bluetooth Speaker to iPhone, Step by Step With your Sony speaker switched OFF (power … Continue reading How to Connect Sony Bluetooth Speaker to iPhone



How to Put Sony Bluetooth Speaker In Pairing Mode

To pair your Sony Bluetooth speaker with a BT source device for the first time, or to update old connection info in that device, you have to know how to begin pairing mode on the speaker.  Also, in this mode, the speaker broadcasts its name and currently valid connection information over the Bluetooth airwaves.  This … Continue reading How to Put Sony Bluetooth Speaker In Pairing Mode