Jabra 30s Hear in Noise vs Battery

Yeah, sure. Features like Intelligent Focus and streaming will draw the battery down more than not using those features. If you keep these aids for 2+ years, since these have built-in lithium ion batteries that, just like any smartphone, laptop, lawn equipment, or other lithium ion battery device, the time you will be able to go without recharging will slowly decrease. (This is true whether you are using the device daily or not.) You may be able to use any special hearing aid features you want much of the day now, but that will get harder over time.

It’s a good idea before hitting the edge of your warranty (probably 3 years, but check) to take it back in to get new lithium ion batteries. Generally these are not user-replaceable. If you say it’s not holding a charge, and it’s getting near 3 years old, often they will replace, under warranty at no charge, the battery (or the whole inside of the aid, for aids like most rechargeable ReSound/Jabras) where there’s not even a discrete factory-replaceable battery, because the “battery” is part of the aid circuitry. It may well be very expensive to have this service done out-of-warranty, and at some point in the future when parts are no longer available, may not even be possible.

Thanks for the information. Of course the battery capacity reduces over time. There’s a limit as to how many charge/discharge cycles. I will make a calendar note about the warranty regardless of the battery status.

You wear open domes, right? If so, then you are going to bypass a lot of what the hearing can do in that environment.

Go to Costco and have them give you a pair of closed domes and install them before going to the Texas Roadhouse. That would be a better test.

Good Idea. I will give that a try. BTW, for those not familiar with my favorite testing place for hearing aid noise suppression, here’s a description of Texas Roadhouse:

“For starters, this isn’t the kind of place where you can expect a quiet conversation or a formal dining experience. There’s a controlled rowdy vibe, birthdays get announced with saddle rides, and the atmosphere is loud and vibrant. But the chaos is part of the charm.”

Read More: Rules You Need To Know For Eating At Texas Roadhouse4

I love their food. I do wish it were more quiet. You have to yell to be heard at your own table. The people with normal hearing can’t hear a damn thing either.

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However!! Prior to my Costco Hearing aid professional going into their software and selecting, “Intelligent Focus”, the battery life wasn’t reduced when I accidentally left the hearing aids in the, “Hear in Noise”, function of the app. I don’t know if the app is capable of recognizing a quiet environment and automatically switching the app back to the, “All Around”, function. I have accidentally forgotten in the past to switch back to the “All Around” from the “Hear in Noise” , function and the batteries never ran out of charge by 11 o’clock that night. Therefore, my assumption is that the DNN and AI functions are not active until the hearing aid fitter selects the, “Intelligent Focus”, in their fitting software. This doesn’t appear to be something that Costco’s hearing aid specialist normally would set up.

Unfortunately, GN’s documentation for both Jabra and ReSound sucks! They tell you little about nothing. If you call Jabra’s help line, they are equally helpless. Thanks David Hendon. If it were not for this forum, no one is telling the hearing aid fitters at Costco how to properly set up the DNN intelligent selection when switching from Jabra EP 20 to EP 30, nor probably when setting up new customers with Jabra EP 30 hearing aids. This is probably also correct for ReSound hearing aid fitters and audiologists.

Companies have become so averse to being sued for negligence, that they don’t want to inform anyone about how their products actually work.

I did discuss this with my audiologist as it happens. She had fitted my Vivias using the settings from my Resound Omnias (Jabra EP10 equivalent). I noticed when I connected at home that Intelligent Focus hadn’t been selected, so I changed it and told her next time I saw her what had happened.

She told me that a customer of a friend of hers had got her friend to make Hear in Noise his startup program as he intended to use it all the time. But he quickly came back complaining of poor battery life, which was solved by making All Around the startup program. So that pretty well confirmed what I had been saying here when we were discussing this a few weeks ago.

And no, if you are in Hear in Noise in a quiet environment for hours, the hearing aids don’t switch program to All Around and the DNN chip keeps taking power, ready and waiting to help you. So the battery life is terrible.

That begs another question. If you go into the, “All Around”, function and then press the “noise filter button, then select sound enhancer at the bottom it automatically moves the noise reduction slider about 3/4 of the way to the left. Does this automatically engage the DNN AI noise reduction? Or if I press the speech clarity button it also moves the noise reduction slider 3/4 of the way to the left and increases the midrange and the treble settings to almost maximum. In the hear in noise function, pressing either noise filter or speech clarity buttons moves the noise slider about 1/2 to the right. The documentation for the app is worse than anything I have ever seen since I started playing with computers in 1985. Do any of those buttons activate the DNN AI function?

Yes I have edited my post. What you call cards, I call programs. But it’s right now. The DNN is nothing to do with filtering by the way, as I said before.

Has anybody set up 2 Hear in Noise programs? One using the original Speech Focusing slider and one set up using Intelligent Focus. If so what were your thoughts?

GN’s app documentation is terrible. And, their phone help is even worse.