Was unable to get my Jabra Elite 65t to connect to my Surface Book at work. Glad to know it wasn't any fault of my own. Will avoid Jabra in the future.
Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I'm an Air Traffic Controller who uses a truck to move and tow stuff to help out friends, family, and Scouts. Why?
It's socially acceptable here to low-key look down on certain luxuries or lifestyles over others.
It wasn't so low-key, if you ask me.
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#153Along those same lines, I've gotten extremely reluctant to buy any paid subscription to any internet service, because virtually all of them have a bad cancellation system. Almost all require either calling or emailing support to cancel your account, which hopefully won't keep you waiting long or spend a while trying to convince you not to cancel after all.
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#154I've never known Bluetooth to not produce a miserable experience at some time or another. It's inconsistently bad in some cases too. I hate setting up bluetooth on my car the most, I need to "Talk" to my car, and I can't just do it while stopped at a red light, I have to shut off my car and do it before I go. I still havent redone it since I upgraded phones last year... I just plug into the aux port while driving .
The vast majority of devices are indeed bad. I am convinced that most manufacturers do not know how to handle very basic issues of connectivity and pairing. The BT standards and all of the BT chips available are capable of making very seamless pairing and re-connection flows, it's just the device manufacturers who don't use them correctly to do it. There is a company called TeckNet that makes a BT mouse that is full-…
Ironically enough, I also have an aftermarket JVC. A very simple 1U tall discless, bluetooth-enabled player that supports Android phones and iPhones via MFi. It works perfectly. In fact, it also works with devices they claim not to support, like an iPad and an old iPod Classic via USB. The best thing about it is that when I go for a drive and need some navigation, I can just plug the iPad in directly via USB, keep it charged, use a map app and listen to music. It also supports keeping two phones connected via bluetooth for calls. So far I've had no issues with it and I've had it for a year now.
I knowingly went for something extremely simple, with MFi support and optional wired access and I haven't regretted it.
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#155"Wait, are you saying the headset can’t connect to a computer via native Bluetooth? And you knew it the whole time? While you asked me to try a different device, to update drivers, to install Jabra software, to meet with your technician… You were just trying to wear me down?!?" This encapsulates what is most wrong and abhorrent about US customer service. This methodology is employed by thousands of companies, it is i…
Jabras customer support is in Germany
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#156I once made the mistake of buying Jabra wireless sports headphones. You know there will be a problem if you open the box and the first thing you see is a piece of paper and a phone holster, obviously thrown in at the last moment. The piece of paper says you have to use the phone holster to attach the phone to your right arm. Yes, your right arm, the closer to your right ear the better. The instructions were very spec…
A somewhat silly problem with bluetooth is that the signal will reach pretty far, but can be blocked by your body. So you can have a good connection while the phone is on the other side of the room and a bad connection if the phone is in the wrong pocket. That is probably the reason they include instructions like that.
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#158Seems to be a clear-cut case of false advertising if not wire fraud. Have you contacted the FTC?
Maybe it's not all headsets and all laptops? I have the Jabra Elite Active 65t that I've successfully paired and continue to successfully use with a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 running Windows 10 -- no complaints.
I have the same model the OP posted about, exactly the same issues as him. This whole time I've been thinking it my systems fault. Despite the fact I had it on a Surface Book and a Toshiba Portege and a Surface Pro 4.
I've resigned myself to using the dangle and not using it when away from desk (dongle is plugged into the Screen on my desk).
I'm going to stop buying Jabra and will probably stop the company buying them as well. Bluetooth is meant to be a universal standard. This is bullshit and shouldn't happen.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have I won the lottery? I've never had a single Bluetooth issue with any device I've ever had, except my current vehicle: "All New" 2019 Ram 1500 (If anyone works for Uconnect, please email me.) iPhone, iPhone 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 5X, Nexus 7, Razer Phone, Thinkpad Yoga, Thinkpad Book, self-assembled desktop, Toyota Corolla - all have worked perfectly with various, cheap, Bluetooth devices - keyboards, mice, speakers, e…
> Have I won the lottery? Yes. My experience with Bluetooth and kids while driving: 1. Dad, my headphones aren't working. 2. Ok, did you try turning them off an on again? 3. Yes 4. Did you turn BT on your iPhone on/off? 5. Yes 6. Did you "forget" the BT connection and re-establish. 7. Yes child rages 8. Are they ... charged? 9. Child now fully enraged: YEEEESS DAD! I'm not an idiot! 9. Ok ummmm, did you try steps 2,…
There’s a step you forgot — turn your phone on and off. It’s annoying but it can fix problems with headphones when it’s not actually the headphones’ fault.
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#160I've never known Bluetooth to not produce a miserable experience at some time or another. It's inconsistently bad in some cases too. I hate setting up bluetooth on my car the most, I need to "Talk" to my car, and I can't just do it while stopped at a red light, I have to shut off my car and do it before I go. I still havent redone it since I upgraded phones last year... I just plug into the aux port while driving .
AirPods completely changed my view of BT devices. Before, I avoided BT completely because I could never get them working well with an Android phone I was using at that time. Headphones I was using would always disconnect after some time and the quality would drop intermittently and there was no way to fix it. The "fix" was to wait for the battery to drain and then the headphones would restart. I tried few different h…
As a fellow AirPods user on Android, you might like the app AirBattery which allows you to see AirPods and from my friend's experience even some of the Beats's battery status.
I'm not affiliated with the app in any way, it's genuinely helped me become untethered from wife's iPhone. (The app is free and there's $1 in-app to remove ads and enable advanced features.)