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Jabra Enhance Pro 30 vs. Resound Vivia 9

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In reply to @tenkan

Hi David.

I’m knew to these posts. Just purchased the Vivia9s for my mild to moderate hearing loss and I’m also curious as to your assessment. I have been wearing them for about 6 mos now and experiencing battery life of 12 - 14 hours per day with normal usage. As advertised, they are supposed too last 30 hours.

Hank

Hi there Hank, yeah so that’s a best case scenario to get 30, so a few things take that down to your real world experience, streaming and how often your in noisy environments,as these features take up quite a bit of battery, still one would expect a bit more then 12- 14.

In reply to @Hearing4Hank

It is much less possible, but if you hear distortion or waeble in the high frequencies perhaps the active is engaged too often and drains battery a bit. The solution is more closed acoustic coupling. What dome you have? If earmold - what diameter of vent in mm?

In reply to @Hearing4Hank

You will likely be using the Hear in Noise program setting. If you are, then by default this switches in the chip and that knocks the battery life down to 12 hours or so. I highly recommend that you use All Around, which is the default startup program and you will find you get 30 hours no trouble.

Personally I mostly use the Outdoor setting because it sounds better to me. That gives me far more than 12 hours. I always charge overnight, but even with any amount of streaming I never see less than 60% battery remaining at bedtime.

The device has the Tinnitus function, but Costco has decided not to enable it.
The tinnitus function of the Jabra can be enabled with Resound Programming software outside of Costco.

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In reply to @david.hendon

@david.hendon said:

I always charge overnight, but even with any amount of streaming I never see less than 60% battery remaining at bedtime.

With all rechargeable lithium-ion battery devices, for the sake of battery longevity, it’s considered a good practice to at least sometimes let the battery strength get much lower, as in <20%. This is a bit easier to do, recharging these Jabra and ReSound models in the middle of the day, because they’ll go from 15% to 80% much faster than older aids that might have needed most of the night to recharge. These aids will recharge during a midday nap!

For the same reason, I’ve stopped recharging my iPhone 17 overnight regardless of strength, which is usually 40-60% at bedtime. I try to let it go lower and recharge as needed the next day. (New phones also recharge faster.) And on this phone, I’ve set Settings > Battery > Charging > Optimized Battery Charging to 80%. Supposedly this also helps iPhone battery longevity, to not charge it up to 100% every day. (That’s harder to do with the aids, because there’s no setting to limit it automatically.) Of course, with all lithium ion batteries, it’s just a matter of time before they wear out, no matter how you recharge; you’re just trying to buy a little more time.

Or go and turn it on yourself. It is in there under the hood. I don’t use it on my aids, it would be an option if I stopped using activevent receivers. I had the program in the aids as an option before the activevents. When I went activevent, target changed it to just comfort in calm, but left the program name the same. After I’d played with the program enough to really experience it, I stopped using it. I use Widex Zen tinnitus (free) app when I’m really under attack.

WH

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