Phonak Paradise 90s Inadvertently Beeping

I’ve had these Phonak 90s for 2 years. My microwave caused them to beep (sound like battery getting low) and it’s annoying but I ignore. Well lately many things seem to set off thing sound. When I’m talking on the phone it does it, it bleeps out the conversation, it happens when I end a phone call. We have our TV on a power strip to shut off TV electronics, as we are off grid. If he does not shut off TV power strip, I continually get the beep every so often. It is more often now snd I’m Very tired of it. Especially since my phone calls are being affected. It does not happen when I’m streaming music. Any ideas? All will be appreciated.

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Do you have a Phonak TV Connector by any chance @Sequoia_Woman, if so, and if it’s left switched on, this will be the culprit… I know, If I leave any of mines switched on, I have 3 of these, for different TV’s or computers, once I am in range or move out of range, I get the dreaded beeps, I immediately switch the offending one off… And the problem is solved. Cheers Kev :grin:

Edit; It occasionally also happens when I switch off my iPhone…

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Thank you @kevels55 I’ll give that a try.

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You are most welcome @Sequoia_Woman… Hopefully that is what the problem is? Drives me to distraction, that intermittent beeping, when I forget to switch off a TV Connector… Cheers Kev :wink:

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Might there be an option in Target to switch off automatic connection to the Phonak TV adapter? I know that would add a step if one then had the option of manually connecting in the MyPhonak app. With ReSound HA’s, you have to manually connect to the TV Streamer but once you’ve stopped streaming, ReSound HA’s will automatically disconnect, even if the streamer is still on. It’s active streaming that keeps the connection alive, not whether the streaming device is on or not.

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@kevels55 Update: well I’ve shut my TV connector off except when using. That has helped I think. I still get beeping during phone calls, which cuts the conversation off. Then I just walked into our office w/ computer & copier in there. Computer off. Copier on. And HAs did the jingle/beep. Do you think it is BT? I just walked on office again. No beep. :woman_shrugging:.

Strange one @Sequoia_Woman, I occasionally get the jingle/beep at random times from my iPhone, it’s fairly rare though. And it usually happens when I close my iPhone…I am not actually shutting the iPhone down, just switching off the backlight. Not sure if it’s Bluetooth, or the other wireless connection used via the TV Connector, which uses a different wireless protocol, that isn’t actually Bluetooth… Cheers Kev :wink:

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@kevels55: In the Highlands, is it a “beep”, or a “bleep”?

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I get that when (I think) a phone call switches from wifi to cellular, or back. It always scares the bijeebers out of me that I’ve lost the call. If I step out of my house, on the side porch I expect the jingle. When I go back in, it doesn’t jingle again until I’m part way up the stairs to my office.

WH

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If you enjoy reading Jim… Try a writer called Lillian Beckwith, she wrote an 8 book Hebridean Series, in the late 50’s & 60’s, when she moved to Skye for health reasons, from London I believe? All these books are absolutely hilarious, and tell of an innocent time, when the Gaels where still trying to eek out a living, on crofted land, on the peat bogs of Skye, they where in essence, Gaelic speakers, it was their mother tongue, they also spoke a rather rudimentary English, the translation from Gaelic language to English, brings out some extremely funny sentences… When you mentioned the word bleep, I immediately thought of Sheep, and my memory drifted back to Lillian Beckwiths first book, “The Hills is Lonely”, an absolute gem of a book, it has been many years since I last read it, I was in tears of laughter all the way through that book…So much so, I thought read them all Kevin, so I bought all 8 tonight on eBay, I have maybe read 4 of them, I shall enjoy them all again… Thank you Jim. Cheers Kev :grin:

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Yeah WH, I sometimes get that delayed jingle, most disconcerting :rofl: :upside_down_face:

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Perhaps more like the cartoon roadrunner.

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@prodigyplace: Mmeep-meep!, sorta?

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Phonak hearing aids beep every time there is a change of programme - eg switching from normal to streaming and back again, which happens automatically when proximate to a connected device. This drove me nuts. Fortunately the beeps can be switched off. Ask your audiologist to do so.

Thank you, I understand that , but this was inadvertently beeping like when microwave was on and TV connector I’m thinking. I have shut the TV connector off unless using and shut off all notifications on my iphone. Seems to help - microwave not causing beeping. I’m still getting some (sometimes) beeping and interruption in phone calls. It is inconsistent, so still trying to figure that out. @jim_lewis do you think it could be my Apple watch 5?

Usually, if my Apple Watch has some reason to beep, if I look at the watch, I’ll see a notification (might need to swipe down from the top of the watch face to see notifications).

I’m having a problem with feedback from my ReSound M&RIE receiver in my left ear. The feedback will occur when I move my head, come near a wall or door or any other highly sound-reflective surface, or if I scuff my feet walking across a hard ceramic tile floor. The sound is not a “beep,” but rather a very brief shrill trill as the feedback is usually very brief. I still wonder if you’re not experiencing something similar. In my case, I may have caused the feedback by pushing my mold too far into my ear canal and thereby enlarging the canal, so the mold doesn’t fit as well. If molds or domes don’t hold their place in the ear canal, that can be a source of feedback, too. So, my intermittent, momentary feedback trilling problem reminds me of your beeping, but perhaps your problem is really entirely different. Sorry, I don’t have any other possibility to suggest.

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If you are streaming something and go near the microwave, it may drop the stream and go back to autosense. (beep beep beep.) Then pick up the stream again and then lose it again. Wash rinse repeat. Nowhere near as strong a connection as with my airpods and iphone, for comparison.

WH

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The microwave uses radio waves close to the same frequencies as Bluetooth. It would make sense there could be dropouts.

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Thanks @jim_lewis this isn’t feedback. It is the jingle like when you turn them off. I’m thinking it’s the TV connector being on. I don’t get it anymore w: microwave, since I turn TV connector off. I’ve turned all notifications off. It did occur today when on the phone, it’s almost like the call drops out, then comes back. The caller is affected too. I ‘think’ the TV connector was on as I forgot to turn it off after lunch. Thanks all / I’m working through the different scenarios. :grinning: :ear: :grinning:

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Apple iPhone and iWatch notifications come with a beeping sound. Most of these beeps can be turned off in System Preferences > Notifications. But not at all. With Teams I believe you have to turn off these beeps in the preferences of the application itself.

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