When you pair your Bluetooth earbuds and one hasn't charged

Sounds like a vote in favor of the headphone jack.

I've got a set of Pixel Buds A Series that seem to have painfully weak magnets, causing the buds to constantly lose contact with the charging pins. And since they're always turned on when disconnected from the charger, this means my buds will randomly pair to my phone even though they're both in the case, muting my sounds and preventing me from hearing notifications when I'm not wearing the buds. It's super frustrating. I feel your pain.

This happens with my hearing aids. They cost a small fortune, but the audiologist won't do anything about it because it's intermittent - I can never show it happening. "The charging case must be dirty" etc. The manufacturer, Phonak, says any fault reporting must be done through the retailer. It seems to happen mainly when I've got something on where I really really need to be able to hear properly, or when I want to use Bluetooth to listen to music.

AAAARRRRRRGHHHHHHH is putting it mildly. My fury knows no bounds.

Urgh, that's a very annoying issue. Also the charging case battery will degrade and run out of power quickly after a year or two.

I don't have to worry about that, because I always lose just one of them.

thanks for the charging reminder

I bought some Sony WF-1000XM3 a couple of years ago. They were new, although heavily discounted, but the battery life was awful; the box says the buds themselves would last for 6 hours on a single charge, right? I got maybe 1.5 hours out of them.

Sony wouldn't RMA them because I supposedly bought them at their outlet store (I didn't). Eventually, I just replaced the batteries in both buds and now they last ~3 hours; I guess that's due to the battery in the charging case also being weak.

Next time I'll just buy one of those Fiio bluetooth DACs to use with my Grados....

This is the wooooorst

I have had the same problem with Powerbeats Pro and Beats Fit Pro. The case uses two small pogo pins in each earbud slot to provide power. These provide the tolerance required to make a good contact with the earbud which is held in place by magnets. These pogo pins are the problem. I periodically use a microfiber cloth moistened with a bit of isopropyl alcohol to clean the earbud slots with focus on these pogo pins. Make sure to move the pins up and down with your cleaning motion. My thinking is that the alcohol will clear out any earwax or other gunk that has built up around the pogo pin and is preventing it from coming back up to full height. I haven’t had this issue recur since adjusting my cleaning habit to include the alcohol on the pins. Pogo pins do use a spring to function so like all springs it will eventually lose some of its resistance and will need to be replaced. Since these small electronics are not made to be repaired, that means buying a new pair, most likely. However, I recently replaced one Beats Fit Pro with a new pair after almost four years of near daily use. I’m pretty impressed with how far these wireless earbuds have come since the first generation.

I have multiple in use and believe there is something broken with yours.

Some of my observations:

With Hauwei Freebuds this happens regularly. It's a built in flaw. Idk if software or hardware.

With Philips RZ-B100 this starts to happen when a battery goes bad, usually after more than 1.5 years of heavy use, but sometimes they come broken from the start. They are very cheap and can therefore easily be replaced.

Apple Airpods are like Philips, but take more than 2.5 years usually. They are more expensive, so it's usually worth trying to get them fixed in an Apple store, but they can't fix everything.

This happens with my PS5 controller sometimes. I plug it in after gaming and then go to bed. When i wake it’s still dead. Then i have to play with a corded controller like some 90s kid.

what kind of earbuds do you use, the overpriced apple shite? never had an issue like that with my Jabras