Oticon Users: How Do You Like The ON App?

Hearing Aids
#32

I’m interested in tracking my usage because I was using my (ill-fitted) Unitrons less and less, and I noticed the corresponding decline in my word recognition.

Since March 3, I’ve been assiduous in wearing my aids for 14-15 hours a day, and I have already noticed an improvement in my word recognition - even when I’m not wearing the More3s.

That further reinforces in my mind the correctness of Oticon’s notion that our brains learn to focus on and decode the sounds of speech, even when the neural signal sent to the brain by the ears is less than perfect.

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#33

Another reason to have a journal.

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#34

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There’s the proof, Chuck! Proof!:white_check_mark::+1:t2:

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#35

I have gone digital with my journal with “Day One”
It is available on IOS and macros not sure about any other systems

#36

I still prefer my fountain pens and good vellum, thanks!

[Not real vellum! Paper vellum!!]

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#37

My hand writting has always been very bad, I am left handed and my first grade teacher tried to force me to write right handed, until my dad put the fear of God into her.

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#38

:rofl:Left handers who try to write with fountain pens end up a MESS!

[Good for your father!]

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#39

Your hearing loss looks a bit more severe than cvkemp’s so if you both had the same listening environment, your aids (if they consumed power at the same rate for the same amount of input and amplification) would require more power. But if you listen to more sound than cvkemp, that would require more power, too. Usually on the standardization datasheet for a HA that gives amplification under standard reference input conditions and battery usage hours, there is a disclaimer that usage hours a user can achieve depends on hearing loss, environmental sound levels over time, etc. OTH, cvkemp does more streaming - so it is a pretty qualitative comparison between users. I don’t know whether you can tell the difference but your left ear requires a little bit more power than the right (less hearing loss there) so it would be interesting, since they both have ~the same listening environment and they are both the same model HA, I presume, whether the right always does a little bit better on battery drainage than the left? (I have a slighter loss difference between ears and my audi claimed my left would drain faster - but in my experience it’s more a function of the individual HA body I’ve been given - some left Quattro’s have done better than others).

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#40

@jim_lewis: You’re exactly right, jim, and I’m very grateful for your reply. I’ve read many of your posts, and I understand why you’re considered a respected community member.

I haven’t fully digested your input, because I am in town and busy with appointments.

But I wanted to make a quick reply because I was so pleased to see that you responded to my query.

Thank you, @jim_lewis!

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#41

@SpudGunner. Thanks for the compliment, not sure I deserved it but hearing loss is debilitating and it’s great that this forum exists to help us learn from each other how to cope better - although at my age I think I am forgetting faster than I am learning!

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#42

My right hearing aid always uses up the battery faster, I know my right ear needs more of a power push for one, and everything I have read seems to point to the fact that the right hearing aid is always the master hearing aid when it comes to communications, with bluetooth and even the communications between the hearing aids. Also if you monitor the connection of the ON app to the hearing aids I have noticed that it is always the right aid that connects first then the left. That is also true when watching the connection to the TV connect the right one will always connect before the left aid.

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#43

“@SpudGunner. Thanks for the compliment, not sure I deserved it.”

… umm - I think you did, @jim_lewis: I envy your understanding of the technical details of these little “ear roaches”! :joy:

#44

My answer about Oticon On App - I use it ONLY for OpenSound Booster switching on/off :rofl:

#45

I think for the OPN S or the More, you no longer have a Mute option to program on your hard buttons on your hearing aids. That would be another reason (beside the OpenSound Booster) to resort to the ON app.

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#46

There isn’t a mute on any of the rechargeable aids from Oticon, to my knowledge. And with the native app on the iPhone you also can’t mute the aids. Only with the ON app or the connect clip can you mute the aids

#48

I started school I believe in 1954, so about the same time as your mother

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#49

Zebras mother was “born” in the 1950’s.

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#50

:confused:I’ve caught my More3s reconnecting with the ON app several times a day, over each of the past few days.

This puzzles me, since I keep my iPhone on my person at all rimes, so ot should never be out of range.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

#51

It happens to me also, and when I connect my aids to the TV adapter my app loses connection and sometimes can’t reconnect without me disabling and reenabling the Bluetooth on my iPhone

#52

I hear you, Chuck, except that I don’t have any devices like that. I used my ConnectClip today when I went into town. As soon as I got home, I disconnected the Clip and made sure the More3s were properly connected directly to my iPhone. :white_check_mark:

However, the sneaky app, or devices, or both, have shown “Disconnected” and have had to reconnect 3x since then … and not knowing why is bugging me!