Tag: Sony XG 500
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Sony XG500 Not Charging
Most Sony Bluetooth speakers, including the XG500, offer truly portable operation via their lithium ion batteries inside. And when said battery dies, you can recharge the speaker with an appropriate AC or car converter. Sometimes though, you may notice that the Sony XG500 is not charging fully, or at all, even when you connect the…
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Sony XG500 Hard Reset
Gives Sony XG500 hard reset directions to return this boombox back to its default settings. E.g. Hard resetting returns sound mode and light settings to their out-of-the-box values. Plus, resetting erases any earlier synced Bluetooth devices from memory. This stops the speaker from auto pairing to any nearby devices. Moreover, you might do this to…
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How to Connect Sony XG500 to iPhone
This post shows how to connect a Sony XG500 boombox speaker to an iPhone smart phone. Doing so gives you a much bigger, and clearly better sound when you stream music from the iPhone to speakers like this one. How to Connect Sony XG500 to iPhone, Step by Step With your 500 switched OFF (power…
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Sony XG500 Factory Reset
Gives Sony XG500 factory reset directions to return this boombox speaker back to its default settings. E.g. Factory resetting returns sound mode and light settings to their fresh-out-of-the-box values. Plus, resetting erases any earlier synced Bluetooth devices from memory. This stops this boombox from auto pairing to any nearby devices. Moreover, you might do this…
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How to Make Sony XG500 Discoverable
To pair your SRS XG500 Sony boombox speaker with a Bluetooth device for the first time, or to refresh old connection info in that device, you have to know how to place this speaker into discovery mode. Now in this mode, this boombox broadcasts its name and currently valid connection handles over the Bluetooth airwaves,…
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Sony XG500 Pairing
This post gives Sony XG500 pairing help for this party boombox speaker, to sync it with common wireless devices. E.g. Including the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets along with Android devices as well. Sony XG500 Pairing, Step by Step With your SRS XG500 speaker switched OFF…
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Sony XG500 Orange Light Stays On
Many Sony speakers, including the SRS XG500, feature a charging status light that illuminates orange while they charge. But sometimes, this light stays on longer than expected. E.g. It does not switch off after way more than the specified charging time once you connect the charger. So in this post, we offer reasons that this…
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How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XG500
This speaker comes equipped with a set of party LED lights that, by default, blink, change color, and pulsate to the beat of whatever you play on the speaker. But now and then, you may not wish to have a party atmosphere in your room, like when you want to play the speaker while drifting…
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Sony XG500 Software Update
Here, we detail the software update procedure for the Sony XG500 Bluetooth boombox speaker. This routine can take ten (10) to fifteen (15) minutes depending on the speed of your internet connection, source device used to update the speaker, distance between speaker and that device, Etc. Plus, you cannot roll back the update once you…
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Sony XG500 Specs Watts
The SRS XG500 Sony Bluetooth boombox speaker is a medium power, party stereo with abundant audio output watts in its specs to fill a common size room or yard with plenty loud, far reaching tunes. But what do the watts of a BT speaker tell us about it? Firstly, the watt is a measure of…