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Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by rowyourboat »

Fnoord wrote: post #64
iforgotpassword wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a VDSL modem/router/wifi/Powerline combo device by the Deutsche Telekom called "Speedport neo". It's actually totally functional andwl pretty cheap, at least a few years ago it was almost a steal on some websites. The super awesome feature it had was that it contained a speaker that would play the Telekom jingle every time the connection was established. This cannot be disabled and would happen at night too.…

> or used it on some other provider that still had the forced disconnect every 24 hours German providers disconnecting customers every night is a ridiculous feature in itself. It is condescending towards customers who require to use their internet connection at night, for example because they work at night. It could lead to always-on features being broken, backups not working, and I've had countless of times where I…

The only explanation I heard was that they wanted to prevent people using consumer DSL for such nefarious purposes as running publicly available servers (nevermind the rather restricted uplink speed machine this hard at any scale anyway), so this was their way of forcing you to get a new IP address every 24h. Of course, services such as dyndns quickly jumped in to fix that problem.

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by npteljes »

Vicinity9635 wrote: post #4

Man I wish someone would do this for my bluetooth sleep mask. It's pretty great except for one thing: When the battery is low or it's going to power off it announces it to you at full volume. On a sleep mask.

Reminds me of Futurama's NNY city clock. In a cutscene it announces at full volume: "THE TIME IS FOUR AM".

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by HocusLocus »

baz00 wrote: post #26
Vicinity9635 wrote: post #4

Man I wish someone would do this for my bluetooth sleep mask. It's pretty great except for one thing: When the battery is low or it's going to power off it announces it to you at full volume. On a sleep mask.

That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with the MSF time signal it'd make the same sound as the alarm for 2-3 seconds. You couldn't turn it off. This was invariably at 3AM or some horrible time. I eventually opened it up and cut the MSF…

My Dad had a Samsung phone with a "fully charged, unplug me" message and tone that couldn't be turned off. To make matters worse, if he ignored it and went back to sleep it would reach the threshold and pathologically start charging again ~2-3 hours later. He said "it whimpers all through the night" and could only charge it when he was awake to save his sanity.

I had a different situation, I sleep with roaring fans near my head and had to turn the phone alarm way up to hear it reliably. Then it would wake the neighbor at 430am whether it woke me or not. I purchased a separate 24hr timer and set the fans to go off at 4:25am, leaving a quiet room. And a quieter alarm always wakes me. Though I am now conditioned to hear when the fans shut off and get out of bed, and hardly ever fail to turn the alarm off in time.

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by K2L8M11N2 »

ravenstine wrote: post #2

This is the one thing I dislike about Apple Airpods. I also don't like the connection sound effect because it adds a needless 2 second delay. Would love to get rid of both sound effects.

You can change the volume of those sounds under Settings > AirPods > Accessibility.

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by aendruk »

HocusLocus wrote: post #84
baz00 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with the MSF time signal it'd make the same sound as the alarm for 2-3 seconds. You couldn't turn it off. This was invariably at 3AM or some horrible time. I eventually opened it up and cut the MSF…

My Dad had a Samsung phone with a "fully charged, unplug me" message and tone that couldn't be turned off. To make matters worse, if he ignored it and went back to sleep it would reach the threshold and pathologically start charging again ~2-3 hours later. He said "it whimpers all through the night" and could only charge it when he was awake to save his sanity. I had a different situation, I sleep with roaring fans n…

> whimpers all through the night

I just bought two new Sonicare toothbrushes and maddeningly they do this. Toothbrushes.

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by numpad0 »

Quick note: I got a used Tozo T6 after reading this, visually looking to be manufactured rather recently. I was unable to recreate this. In fact, I could not even have headset recognized by the official Tozo app, nor verify that the headset uses Airoha chipset, identified by AAC support. Mine only supports SBC. Either I got a fake, or internal changes were made since author purchased one.

Some of audio files sound same as what are included in partial Airoha SDKs on the Internet, but it also plays other novel voice files. If anyone is looking to independently verify/play with this result, fake AirPods might be a better path towards it.

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by stavros »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #68
Fnoord wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> or used it on some other provider that still had the forced disconnect every 24 hours German providers disconnecting customers every night is a ridiculous feature in itself. It is condescending towards customers who require to use their internet connection at night, for example because they work at night. It could lead to always-on features being broken, backups not working, and I've had countless of times where I…

> German providers disconnecting customers every night is a ridiculous feature in itself. It wasn't actually strictly at night, but just exactly 24h after the connection was established. But the problem was that even if you reconnected manually at a convenient time, every now and then you'd have a connection issue at a random time, and then it would keep happening at that exact time until you manually changed it agai…

Sounds like a DHCP lease expiring.
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