Hello Chip. I've had Bluetooth drop outs between my phone and a
Bluetooth headset when the phone is clipped to my belt on my side. I
suspect this is Bluetooth interference with my body. Sometimes things
get better if I move my phone to my other side, but then it's not on my
right hip where I like it. Other times if I put my phone inside a jacket
pocket on my right, things are fine with no drop outs. So this could be
the nature of Bluetooth with certain people. Who can say?
On 12/19/2009 12:25 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
Hi Keith,
Well, get what you pay for? sometimes, but GW is charging $80 for the
Sonys, so only sometimes!
yes, I understand your point though: when I can get them to work, the Dell
headset does have much better range and much better quality; however, my bs
locks up just as often during the pairing, and if I wear it on the
belt-clip, the Dells have just as many drop outs.
this is an issue I should have made an effort to be clearer about:
when I wear the bs on my belt-clip is when I have a lot of drop outs. if I
place it on a table and stand a few feet away, it does much better with the
bluetooth. it seems as if being near a human body (and not plugged in to an
a/c source) are the conditions when the dropouts really happen.
when you use the plantronics and get good quality, are you wearing the bs
near your body, or is it sitting on a table?
thanks.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Gillard [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:42 AM
To: Vaughan Dodd; 'Chip Orange'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Bluetooth Hearing Aid Devices and the BookSense
Now I would be amazed if your BT enabled hearing aides were bluetooth 2.0
and supported A2DP?
Way back when I posted that my plantronics wouldn't pair with the XT.
Last week I tried them again and I got them to pair.
I think I was likely doing something wrong initially.
Me? Wrong?
Well there is a first time for enerything (grin)
So, I can confirm that the Plantronics Pulsar 590A work a treat with the XT.
Range is awesome and clerity is amazing.
One should expect that with a $100 BT headset.
Plantronics has discontinued this model but they arfe still readily
available on the net.
I grabbed mine from EBay.
You get what you pay for right?
KG.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vaughan Dodd"<[email protected]>
To: "'Chip Orange'"<[email protected]>;<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 12:11 AM
Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] Bluetooth Hearing Aid Devices and the BookSense
Hello Chip.
Thank you for this summary.
I suspect that your experiences may show themselbes for me using Bluetooth
hearing aid devices.
I think there might be some confusion, which I did not intend but which I
hope I understand. My hearing aids have a bluetooth aware accessory that
allows me to connect them to cel phones and according to the documentation,
other bluetooth devices. They would in effect become bt headphones.
I won't be purchasing bt headphones if I can get the hearing aids to work,
and based on your advice and comments from others, certainly not Sony
headphones
Hopefully the problems you have encounterd will be fixed with the next
scheduled software release for the Book Sense.
All the best.
Vaughan.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 1:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] Bluetooth Hearing Aid Devices and the BookSense
Hi Vaughn,
I'm surprised at Don's good report. I've used 2 different brands of
bluetooth headphones, and have had numerous problems when using the
booksense with bluetooth:
* trying to pair with anything often results in a lockup of the booksense
* listening to anything, but especially music, causes frequent "drop outs"
of signal.
* turning off the booksense, or having it shut off because of the sleep
timer, will cause it to play the shutdown sound loudly through the speaker
(waking me back up and my wife if I've tried to fall asleep to the
booksense
with bluetooth).
* it does not respond to any of the headset controls for volume or track
changing, pausing, etc.
* I often find the booksense itself very sluggish to respond to any key
commands once it has begun playing something via bluetooth. it has the
feel
that handling the bluetooth is taking 100% of the processor, and so often I
can't pause it, or go back, etc.
Given Don's experience I'd have been willing to say it's the Sony headsets
sold by GW, but I had the same experiences when using a Dell headset.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Vaughan Dodd [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GW-Booksense] Bluetooth Hearing Aid Devices and the BookSense
Hi all.
I think that it is great that the BookSense supports Bluetooth headphones,
and I wonder if hearing aid wearers have used bluetooth devices to connect
their Booksense to their hearing aids.
Specifically: I have relatively new Phonak hearing aids which are supplied
with a device called Icom - which allows for the hearing aids to connect
via
Bluetooth to cellphones and many other devices.
The icom's paring arrangements are not accessible, so before I try myself I
wonder if others have had luck setting things up with or without sighted
assistance.
Many thanks.
Vaughan.
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