Tag: Sony XBS 12
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Sony XB 12 Buttons Explained
The Sony XB 12 Bluetooth extra bass speaker has several buttons across its lower rear panel, including the Add, Volume, Play-Pause, and Power-Pairing buttons. There are five lights underneath the buttons as well. The lamps tell you what the speaker is up to, and you operate the speaker with the buttons. The Power / Pairing…
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How to Reset Sony XB 12
Show you how to factory hard reset your Sony XB 12 to its default settings. Hard factory resetting restores the XB 12 Extra Bass speaker to factory default state. Plus, resetting erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. Clearing these stops this speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Also, you might…
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How to Hard Reset Sony XB 12
We explain how to hard reset the Sony XB 12 portable wireless speaker to set it back to its default settings. Hard resetting restores the XB 12 to factory default state. Plus, it wipes away any earlier connected Bluetooth devices from its memory. Clearing these stops this unit from pairing to any nearby BT devices.…
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How to Connect to Sony XB 12
This post shows how to connect to the Sony XB 12 Extra Bass Bluetooth speaker with common portable devices, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets. How to Connect to Sony XB 12: Step by Step With your XB 12 powered OFF (power button is dark),…
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How to Check Sony XB 12 Battery Life
Covers how to check battery life and level on the Sony Extra Bass XB 12 Bluetooth speaker, and also, how to know if the battery life is shortening over time. How to Check Sony XB 12 Battery Life: Current Charge 1. First, Turn ON the XB 12 You won’t be able to read battery charge…
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How to Pair Sony XB 12 with Alexa
This post shows how to pair the Sony XB 12 Bluetooth extra bass speaker to a typical Alexa device. We demonstrate this using the Alexa Echo Input smart device. But the same you could also do with an Echo Dot, Spot, or any other Alexa device that supports Bluetooth pairing, which includes just about all…
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Sony XB 12 Charging Instructions
This piece gives charging instructions for the Sony XB 12 wireless extra bass Bluetooth speaker. Charging this unit is easy through the USB power-in port, behind the water resistant door, shown in the pictures below. Note that you can still play your XB 12 BT speaker while charging it, without significantly increasing the recharge time.…
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Sony XB 12 Battery Indicator
The Sony XB 12 Extra Bass BT speaker has a battery level indicator LED near the bottom of the button panel, 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 charging progress, or how…
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Sony XB 12 Buttons Guide
The Sony XB 12 Bluetooth extra bass speaker has several buttons across its lower rear panel, including the Add, Volume, Play-Pause, and Power-Pairing buttons. There are five lights underneath the buttons as well. The lamps tell you what the speaker is up to, and you operate the speaker with the buttons. The Power / Pairing…
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Sony XB 12 Firmware Update Instructions
Covers the Sony XB 12 Extra Bass BT speaker firmware update instructions. Sony XB 12 Firmware Update Instructions: Details Unfortunately though, we know of no way to upgrade the software on this mini speaker. Further, there are currently no firmware downloads given for it on the Sony web site. Nor are any details for this…