Hi - I have an annoying problem which I suspect others have too because it occurs on two different Windows 11 PC’s I own. If my iPad and my iPhone have bluetooth enabled and I try to connect my KS10’s to my PC with bluetooth, it will not connect. That’s OK because I know the KS10’s are limited to to two active connections. However if I turn bluetooth off on one or both of them and retry to connect my KS10’s to my PC, it still doesn’t work. I have to put the KS10’s back in the charger to turn them off and on before it will work.
I sometimes have to open Bluetooth and press the appropriate Bluetooth name.
For me R-Phonak Hearing Aid.
You shouldn’t have to remove the Bluetooth connection to your phone to connect to a PC, at least with Android. I don’t know if you can remove the phone connection and connect to 2 PC’s. The phone connection is special. You do have to be sure to connect to the right Bluetooth name, as @Zebras points out.
I don’t put my KS10s back in the charger to turn them off. Every night when I go to the computer at my treadmill to keep from getting bored while walking, I push the bottom button on the right aid for 4-5 seconds to turn them off. Then I do the same thing to turn them on and turn the computer on. Most of the time the computer connects to my hearing aids. If not, I repeat the process.
I have Windows 11 on all of my computers. Occasionally I have to go to the Bluetooth & Devices Settings and connect manually.
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I have the same problem with my MAC and I have been turning off both the left and right aid to re-pair. However doing just the right like you recommended is easier - thanks for the good idea.
I’m not ‘removing the connection’ - or the pairing - just switching off bluetooth activity on the phone and/or iPad
I find the turning off with the buttons more tedious than just putting them briefly in the charging case.
While we have a bunch of bluetooth users together…I have to add that if I get up at 7 or before and use bluetooth moderately for streaming, my KS10’s die while I’m still up watching television at 11.
But sometimes you still need to manually press on the Bluetooth connection you want…….
I got my KS10s April 28, 2021 and I am also on a 7 to 11 schedule. They are always connected to my older Android phone and Windows 11 computer audio. At 11 pm they are consistently a little over 30% charge.
How much bluetooth orTV connector streaming do you do?
Less than half an hour a day.
It seems to me that using bluetooth streaming depletes the battery at about two to three times the normal rate.
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I figure the loss is hour for hour on bt streaming, about half that for tv or Roger.
WH
‘hour for hour’ ? does that mean double the power drain?
Yes. For every hour of BT streaming I seem to lose about an hour off the whole day. ~1/2 hour for Roger or the tv connector. Until recently I hadn’t had many days where they quit. Recently I had an 8 hours of streaming day. Mostly tv connector on my work MacBook. But some phone calls too. Good thing I was exhausted and headed for bed early!
WH
It can be a very frustrating issue. People who have not owned rechargeables won’t know the sense of helplessness that comes from your hearing aids dying with no way of powering them back up immediately.
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