UE Roll Pairing

iOS Bluetooth Settings page, showing the UE Roll speaker connected and circled.

This post offers general UE Roll pairing directions. Start with your Ultimate Ears speaker (UE) powered OFF (all dark back panel LEDs). Then, follow these directions to pair it with most any Bluetooth device. In this demo, we show how this pairing works on our iPad Air mobile computer. But a similar routine works for other iOS devices, and Android phones and tablets as well.

UE Roll Pairing: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your Mobile Device to Pair

Press the Home button to get to the Home iPad page. See our Home screen as shown next.

2. Find the Settings App

We found ours on the second page of the Home screen on our tablet.

iPad Home Screen with Settings App Highlighted.

3. Bring up the Settings App to Continue with UE Roll Pairing

Tap the Settings app icon.

The device then puts up the first page of its Settings screen, as shown in the next screenshot

iOS Settings screen on iPad Air, with Bluetooth turned ON screen showing, and the Bluetooth item highlighted.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page

Tap the Bluetooth item, as pointed at by the dark green arrow in the last screenshot above.

Our Bluetooth Settings screen then appears as follows. Note that our Bluetooth is switched ON here. But since the UE Roll speaker is currently OFF, it does not show in either the My Devices or Other Devices lists on the tablet yet, Why? Because we’ve never paired it with this device before. Plus, the speaker is not yet broadcasting its BT connection info. See this case, that looks something like as shown next.

iPad Air tablet showing previously paired Bluetooth devices list.

Note in this picture that there’s no UE Roll listed yet.

5. Turn On the UE Roll

Turn on this UE by quickly pressing its Power button. See this button, pointed at by the green arrow, in the next picture.

UE Roll speaker, back view, showing the -Power- button OFF, and highlighted.

The speaker then comes on.

Back view of the speaker, showing it turned ON, with the glowing -Power- button highlighted.

6. Put your UE Roll into Pairing Mode to Continue with UE Roll Pairing

Now, to see your UE Roll on your tablet / phone, place the Roll into BT pairing mode. For that, press and release the Bluetooth button, as highlighted in the next picture.

UE Roll speaker, back view, showing the -Bluetooth- button highlighted.

When you press this Pairing button, the speaker makes several tapping-on-bongos sounds. Plus, an LED in this button starts quickly flashing white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Find your UE Roll on your Source Device

See the picture next. We found ours, as circled in green.

A common Bluetooth Settings page, showing the discovered speaker listing.

8. Pair with your UE Roll

Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices section of the Bluetooth Devices list, shown above.

Your device then pairs with the Roll (appears as “UE Roll” in this demo).

The Bluetooth Settings screen then changes to display something akin to the following.

A typical Bluetooth Settings page, showing the speaker connected and circled.

Note that the UE speaker now shows as connected, as circled inside the green oval in the last picture.

9. UE Roll Pairing Done !

We have finally paired our UE Roll with a typical mobile device successfully. Audio output from that device now plays on this wireless speaker, which, we hope, is what you want.