How to tell if Sony XB 20 wireless Bluetooth speaker is charging? This desktop speaker has an orange LED light just above the Power-Pairing button, as shown in the next photo. This light, labeled as the CHARGE lamp, flashes orange when the battery is about dead. So it does tell battery level (to a degree). … Continue reading How to Tell if Sony XB 20 is Charging
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Sony XB 20 Battery Indicator
The Sony XB 20 Bluetooth compact speaker has a simple battery level indicator LED on the top of the speaker, just above the Power button, as shown in the following pictures. This displays battery status. E.g. Whether it’s draining or charging, or whether it’s critically low or not when discharging. But it neither reads out … Continue reading Sony XB 20 Battery Indicator
Sony XB 20 Watts RMS
The XB 20 Sony Bluetooth speaker is a small to medium power, desktop style unit with enough RMS watts to fill a common household size room with full sounding tunes. But what does the number of watts a wireless speaker has, tell us about how good it is? Firstly, the watt is a measure of … Continue reading Sony XB 20 Watts RMS
Sony XB 20 Power Output
The Sony XB 20 Bluetooth speaker is a small to medium power, desktop style unit with enough music output to fill a common household size room with full sounding tunes. But what does the amount of power output a wireless speaker has, tell us about how good it is? Firstly, the watt is a measure … Continue reading Sony XB 20 Power Output
Sony XB 20 Pairing Instructions
This post gives pairing instructions for the Sony XB 20 portable speaker by way of Bluetooth to common typical devices. E.g. These include the Apple line of devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. This routine also works for Android base devices, such as Samsung and LG phones, and Amazon Fire tablets. Sony XB … Continue reading Sony XB 20 Pairing Instructions
Sony XB 20 Charging Instructions
This piece gives Sony XB 20 charging instructions. Recharge this speaker easily through the micro USB DC power input port, behind the water resistant door in the rear of the unit. See this access hatch in the pictures below. Note that you can still play your XB 20 while recharging it, without increasing the replenish … Continue reading Sony XB 20 Charging Instructions
How to Factory Reset Sony XB 20
Show you how to factory reset your Sony XB 20 portable speaker to its default settings. Factory resetting restores the 20 to default state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. This stops the speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Furthermore, you might factory reset the unit to get … Continue reading How to Factory Reset Sony XB 20
How to Make Sony XB 20 Discoverable
To pair your XB 20 Sony Extra Bass speaker with a Bluetooth device for the first time, or to refresh stale linkage data in that device, you need to understand how to start up discovery mode on this unit. Now in discovery mode, the speaker digitally announces its name and connection data over Bluetooth, so … Continue reading How to Make Sony XB 20 Discoverable
How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XB 20
This speaker comes equipped with a set of party LED lights that, by default, blink and pulsate in a vivid blue color to the beat of whatever you play on the speaker. However sometimes, you may not like a party atmosphere, such as when you want to play the speaker while drifting off to sleep … Continue reading How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XB 20
Sony XB 20 Hard Reset Instructions
Gives Sony XB 20 hard reset instructions to return this portable speaker to its default settings. Hard resetting restores the 20 to right-out-of-the-box state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. This stops the speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Further, you might hard reset the unit to get … Continue reading Sony XB 20 Hard Reset Instructions