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What is that banging LOUD music that starts streaming to my aids out of the blue?

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OK. I admit I am no techie, not conversant with the nuances of Aurocast or things that may reach out and grab our aids without permission, but I would love to have an answer for this:

I’ve been wearing Phonak Lumity Life 312 aids for over a year now. A few months ago, I’d be walking along - maybe in a mall, maybe in an airport, maybe just outside somewhere or even walking in my neighborhood to my coffee shop when - OUT OF THE BLUE - a LOUD, monotonous rock-band music will start streaming the same tune to my aids over and over until I switch from my default program to any other one that’s set up.

The music has a LOUD beat like dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH! dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH! dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH! dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH! with drums and guitar just reapeating that 5-beat NOISE. Is this happening due to enabling, Connected Devices “Music Share” on my phone, entering some kind of space that has a default noise, or what?

I ask cuz I’ve never experienced this instant streaming intrusion with my Phonak Lumity Life rechargeables, the older Marvels or any other make/model of aid. Has anyone else had the same thing happening? The other day, I was in a doctor’s office talking to someone and that music just bombed into my ears. I literally missed a sentence as I had to manually change programs on my aids. I sure hope this isn’t some kind of new streaming technology that’s going to grab control of my aids at random times.

Your insights are most welcome. I don’t have myPhonak or myRoger apps on my phone at all, so I’m not sure where the source of this streaming is coming from.

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It isn’t direct to your aids, as lumity isn’t auracast enabled, and likely won’t be. Can your phone be receiving it and proxying it into your aids? That’s a maybe. Don’t know.

WH

AUGH! It is a total mystery to me! My husband can even hear it BANGING LOUD in my aids. He speculated that I’ve walked into a zone where someone else has a device that my aids somehow detect and connect to?!?!

I’ve had this happen when walking past gardeners working outside, at the doc’s office inside, on a random walk to the neighborhood coffee shop, in the airport terminal, just random places all over. I doubt my audi would have a clue as to what’s making this happen. It’s just becoming more common and ANNOYING as it intrudes into my aids out of the blue. And why is it the same tune of LOUD, repetitive dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH …? I don’t get it.

But thank you for your insights!

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You can see if it is Bluetooth by looking at the myphonak app to see the active program. Disconnect the phone’s connection to see if it is coming via the phone. (Disconnecting is temporary, you won’t need to repair them.) you shouldn’t be receiving BT from devices that you haven’t paired with, and your aids are only susceptible to pairing for the first two minutes after putting batteries in them. (And only the master which is prob the right hand one).

Is there some app on your phone which recognizes your location and does this? An alarm of some kind or geofenced thing going on in your phone? If both pairs of aids do it I’m looking at the phone first.

WH

A saved audio snippet for testing and tuning the aids and the volume for the mode is way louder than it should be?
Since it’s the same music.

In reply to @1Bluejay

It’s got to be coming from your phone.

  • It is the same music every time - so not coming from other devices
  • Bluetooth needs you to actually consciously pair with another device
  • @WhiteHat said is not enabled for your aids (and even then I would think you would have to select an Auracast broadcast if it was enabled).

Check what is running on your phone when you hear it?

Could it be a ringtone saved somewhere on your phone. As has been said same tune suggests it’s in your phone, notifications?

OK WOW! Great suggestions from ALL of you: check myPhonak app, check phone settings, ringtones, et al. REALLY appreciate the tips here. I just checked my phone’s Settings -->Sounds & Vibrations–>Sound Quality & Effects - and it says “Allow sound quality and effects to find, connect, etc…” ALLOW or DON’T ALLOW. So I just checked the DON’T ALLOW option.

None of my system sounds for any notifications has that loud “dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH”, so it does seem like my phone is somehow reaching out to some kind of device for which the default sound is that very one. Puzzled why none of the dozens listed on my phone are that same tone?

In reply to @Seeker4

No, it’s too random for that, cuz it happens at various times of day (altho never in the evening when I’m home!), and only when I’m outside the house (so far). That makes me wonder if the phone isn’t trying to connect to some device, but I’m not sure how I’d find that in my Systems folder. It’s definitely like a default SOUND, and that also seems to indicate it’s resident on my phone, and not from the outside devices it may be trying to connect to.

Really weird how it BANGED ON right in the middle of my conversation inside the chiropractor’s office the other day.

I think that’s when I need to open the phone and see what’s going on - the sound plays endlessly until I switch programs in my aids.

@1Bluejay said:

I think that’s when I need to open the phone and see what’s going on - the sound plays endlessly until I switch programs in my aids.

Yup. Rather than switch programs, figure out what might be doing it. See what devices are connected in bluetooth. (Probably not some third device unless it connects just long enough to trigger and then disconnects.) Verify bluetooth streaming to . Can you check what apps are active that might be causing this? I’m an iOS guy, so I don’t know how to plumb the depths of android. But here are some steps to take that might help you figure it out.

WH

YES to all! It’s easy to see what apps are open on my Android, cuz that open app would be its own “window” on my phone (like on a laptop that runs more than one app at a time).

Until now, I’d quickly “kill” the loud noise just by pressing the program button on my aids, which takes it out of streaming mode asap. Next time it happens, I’ll take the time to look into the suggestions given here. Whomever composed that noisesome mix of DRUMS! GUITAR! slammin’ together in a monotonous “dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH!” over and over should be forced to listen to it with headphones till they run screaming through a brick wall.

Back in olden times, the cause would be something like your /phone acting like a simple radio and picking up the local radio station - however if the music is always the same, then I would vote for some sound file on your phone coming to life intermittantly.

@paul.cleary.nz said:

I would vote for some sound file on your phone coming to life intermittantly.

That’s what I’m thinking, too. Some kind of “notification” noise that I need to get to the bottom of.

@GrayGhost said:

Next time it happenes … just tap your HA and say to hello to the caller :slight_smile:

And that would clearly be My Fave Martian up there on Mars! :alien: :flushed:

I’m betting your hearing aids may be in demo mode. Please take them to your audiologist and see if they are in demo mode somehow. Demo mode can have a repeating sound to make sure patients don’t keep the hearing aids long-term. I’m surprised you haven’t checked with your audiologist about this yet - they would have likely told you to come in and fix the digital ‘switch’!

@kiki said:

I’m betting your hearing aids may be in demo mode.

Ok, there is yet another very intriguing possibility! The annoying dah-dah-dah-dah-DAH music started a few months after I bought my Precious Pink pair of Phonaks. A couple months ago, I bought an identical backup pair (Caribbean Pirate), so I can clearly tell the aids apart. And now, I’m wearing the Pirates to see if that same sound comes on when wearing THESE.

If so, it could be some sound notification on my Android phone, but I’ve scrolled through pages and pages and probably listened to a few hundred tones, dings, sounds and stuff. Have not heard anything even close to that grinding music. Most of the notification sounds are maybe 2-3 seconds long, and that’s it.

But this other sound will NOT stop playing unless I put my aids in ANY other program. What I also need to do as others suggest is whip open the phone and see what-all may be playing or active right there.

It will be yet another clue if the sound appears on BOTH pairs of aids. But then my audi copy/pasted ALL the settings from the Pinks to the Pirates. So if the Pinks were set up as a “demo” pair, would that also transfer over to the other pair of aids?

Clueless as a pipe-smoking nun here.

Joining this late.
I would have said it is an alert or alarm - been so very longs since I used Android… unfamiliar with the menus.
The fact that it is a strong recognizable pattern that keeps repeating, seems like it is an alarm, of sorts, not a streamed program, or song etc. No?

Guess don’t have settable passwords - right ?
So could be a BT but why always the same program, and that loop like pattern.

Not sure if all functions causing such an alarm, would display as an app ?
That is the first thing to research… Otherwise the app checking, is moot.

Most importantly - the idea of “Clueless as a pipe-smoking nun here.” has me very confused. Is the nun clueless about smoking… does she not know it is a pipe, what might she think it be, might she need help and not know what to ask. What clues would be of help in such a situation. I am real serious here… religion is one of my interests,… specifically how folks choose and decide what to believe… so I would have figured that the smoke was a way to get closer to the almighty, and the pipe was needed for that - NO?

@IGZO said:

Guess HAs don’t have settable BT passwords - right ?

But they do only have susceptibility of pairing for the few couple minutes after turning them on. If your aids have been on for a while, nobody should be able to force pair your aids to a new source.

WH

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