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Post by vachina »

Negitivefrags wrote: post #146
kapsel wrote: post #12

I love my AirPod Pros, but I hate how unreliable charging in the case is. The AirPods will often think they are out of the case, when they are, and discharge themselves, while connected to my phone/laptop. Then they will re-charge, emptying the battery in the case, so I will end up with a dead pair of AirPods after a couple of days in the pocket, not using them. I guess their tolerances are too tight, hopefully somet…

This issue is very bad, and I've had it on all 3 of the sets of AirPods pros I have owned. Another issue I have had on all three is that the noise cancelling degrades over time. When you get a new set, it's kind of night and day how good they are at first. After about 6 months I would say that they noticably suck compared to how they are when you first get them, and they just continue to degrade over time. My guess i…

> noise cancelling degrades over time

Glad to know that I’m not the only one with this issue. I’m already on my third replacement pair, but the problem keeps coming back. In my case when it fails the noise cancelling amplifies low frequency noise.

> My guess is just wax and gunk getting to the external microphone mesh

I’ve came to the same hypothesis and wiped my second replacement pair down with alcohol every other day, the problem STILL eventually manifests.

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Post by initplus »

pwpw wrote: post #253

I want to get them but reliability is a big concern. Everyone in my family has had problems with our first gen pros. Mine started developing crackling issues. During the pandemic I remember hearing that it was a known problem and could be fixed at the Apple store, but all of the stores were closed. I put off bringing them in until later. I finally got around to it this past week as the issue has grown a lot worse rec…

If you bought them before October 2020, they qualify for the recall program and should be replaced for free. If you complain loudly enough maybe they will replace them for free anyway even if not covered (did so for mine).

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Post by keepquestioning »

kimburgess wrote: post #390
keepquestioning wrote: post #101

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There was a company that did this. Whatever happened to them? Nura I think. Maybe they got bought out by Apple. Surprised they are not suing.

Nura measures otoacoustic emissions. Others in this space (Audeara et al) use audiometry. In all cases this is designed just to model the frequency response of your ears. This is then used to create a static filter that compensates for this. Apple may still do something similar for base calibration but that's not the exciting bit. From the marketing material the depth camera is used to scan your face. This gives both…

Using the depth camera to model the face is pretty smart.

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Post by crummy »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #394
cafed00d wrote: post #152

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All of this has a super simple explanation: the shitty products always have org structures that treat software dev as shitty cost centers. It took a long time to realize that the most compelling devices have good, well maintained software. I don’t mean to say that software devs are geniuses or that these orgs have to hire the best of the best. No, they just need to create an org that prioritizes software dev. Low att…

The unsung part of this is that Bluetooth is a ridiculously complicated protocol. Basically everyone has a broken implementation of it. If someone asked me to choose whether to write either a C++ compiler or a bluetooth stack, I would probably choose the C++ compiler. There are very few people who are both passionate about the problem of wireless devices and who understand all of the stack enough to make a driver tha…

> which is why their airpods only work with their devices.

I thought I heard Airpods were the best Bluetooth headset on Android, too

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Post by BuckRogers »

Reason077 wrote: post #382
BuckRogers wrote: post #145

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I disable the multiconnect on my XM4s as well. They switch based on what's currently sending signal, but one has to stop broadcasting first. It disables LDAC support anyway if you use that. I was torn between the XM4s and Airpods Max but ultimately am tired of picking up more Lightning connector devices. I will no longer purchase things that don't charge via USB-C. I use my XM4s daily as well for over 1.5 years now (…

> "I'll be buying the XM5s on launch day." Err, the XM5s have been out for a few months now. https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/all-headphones...

Heading straight there! I wonder why no one mentions these. I’m looking forward to more of what Sony serves up with these.

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Post by bironran »

And still no mute button on the airpod itself.

Seriously, I would love to have a chat with the product manager in charge. With over 6.2M call-minutes per minute and over 300M daily active users [1], how can "mute", the most important functionality in a video call (I would argue even more than disconnecting the call) still be missing?

Just a tiny dot that sets a mute/unmute flag on the mic, preferably with an audible cue. Don't even involve the phone, just mute it on the device itself. I know HSP/HFP don't support mute command but a device level option should be easy. Moreover Apple could, as it's done before, implement an Apple-to-Apple extension of either of these protocols.

[1] just for zoom, see https://backlinko.com/zoom-users

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Post by saagarjha »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #153
xsmasher wrote: post #126

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My "sleep headphones" start chanting "battery low" every 20 seconds when the battery drops too low, which inevitably happens after I'm asleep. Who thought that was a good idea?

So does airpods. Either way it should just be a setting.

No, they make a noise once and then shut up.

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Post by visarga »

I bet they fail to connect to MacBook 20% of the time like the last set of AirPods Pro I owned. I switched back to wired, too many Bluetooth issues.

I like my headphones to ... make sound when I use them ... am I asking too much? It's a shame that such a nice product otherwise is useless.

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Post by r0m4n0 »

hardwaregeek wrote: post #26

It's wild how much money Apple has made from Bluetooth headphones that don't suck. That's literally it. They're portable, pair easily and (somewhat) work with multiple devices. I have top of the line Bose Bluetooth headphones that still, in 2022, have issues with multiple devices. I can't count how many times I've started playing music on my iPhone only to realize that the headphones think my laptop is playing, so th…

Honestly I've always felt they do suck, I've owned 6 pairs and they all have had connectivity or charging issues of some sort. Personally my bose set suck less but I hate the form factor. The simple airpod that doesn't have a rubber gasket jammed in your ear has me coming back buying them again and again
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