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Minnesotawhich hearing aid has best bluetooth streaming? Currently im using phonak Audeo Sphere and am unable to stream using only one hearing aid. I like to use only one while I’m in bed. if i am driving the streaming will automatically move to my car speaker, or back and forth. Any thoughts?
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Honestly the Phonak aids use classic Bluetooth and is the most universal. The others use either MFI, or le audio they all connect to both aids. But I can take one aid off and still hear the streaming but I haven’t tried doing so with one aid powered off. I am thinking that you are trying to remove the primary aid is why you are not able to stream with one aid. I don’t have any experience with Phonak aids yet, but will once I receive my Phonak Spheres in early December.
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Thanks for your reply. I am unable to listen from only one hearing aid if i turn the other off or place back in charging case.
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Have you try doing it with either one in the charger. With Phonak aids one is the master and the other the slave .I would think that the master would still stream if the slave is on charge.
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Now you’re getting over my head but I truly value your assistance. I’m gonna try figuring out which hearing aid is master.
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I’m gonna try figuring out which hearing aid is master.
You could do this by trial and error - there are only two possibilities! But you can also look at the Bluetooth device list on your phone. Assuming that you’re using the new post-upgrade setup, you’ll see two devices: L-Phonak and R-Phonak - but only one of them will show up with a device type like “hearing aid” or “car system”. That’s your master device.
If you have three Phonak devices, the one with two of the three is the master.
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Right is default. Can be moved to left in target.
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This master business requiring programming software to change is a bit disappointing in my opinion - at least when used with Bluetooth Classic. Most TWS earbuds (no wires or headband) do this by establishing a bluetooth connection from one (which ever one gets put in an ear first normally) to the phone/device, and then the other connects to the first one. Which order or if only one earbud is used doesn’t matter. (Some types have vendor specific protocol extensions to avoid the relay via one earbud to reduce battery drain and latency), but first one in the ear is typically how it would work on a device which doesn’t support this, e.g. your pair your AirPods to a Windows PC.)
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Well hearing aids aren’t ear buds or airpods. Yes sometimes it’s irritating but it is what it is. I am a retired IT professional and I learned to not sweat what I couldn’t control along time ago. I have been wearing aids for 20 years. I started with no control over my aids at all not even volume. You what we have today I just feel thankful to be able to understand what people say. Without my aids I hear them talking but don’t understand a thing.
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Not suggesting anyone change what they use etc, but just wanted to point out that this is a limitation which doesn’t need to exist. Both hearing aids in the pair have all the hardware for classic Bluetooth, just they can’t dynamically select a master. This means this is a software limitation they could enhance with a firmware upgrade. So feel free to send your hearing aid manufacturers feedback if this restriction interferes with your desired way to use them.
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I wear Phonak Lumity Life 312 aids, and they stream into ONE ear even if the other aid has been taken out. Perhaps that other aid of yours is too far away, turned off, and is the “master” aid as discussed above?
Ask your audi to get to the bottom of the Sphere’s issue, cuz that is the top-line aid, and I’m thinking it sure would stream to ONE ear if a person wanted that.
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@jennifer1st you must ask your audiologist to change side. It is a configuration which side is connected to the phone. Then you can also use only one.
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You’ve been given great info. Phonak uses classic so it can connect to more phones. This is the reason you have one master. Your phone sends the signal to it and then it transfers the signal very quickly to the other side. Most companies don’t do this and when we start to see LE BT in more phones and other systems this will not need to be the case. NOTE: Other manufacturers have listings of what pones work with their system and any limitations that come with it.
So all good advise but you will need to find the master and have it be the only one you use when only wanting one ear in.
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Am I right? The Target software can set the master hearing aid. I am getting Phonak Spheres the first Friday if December and hopefully my audiologist can set my left aids as the master. My left ear is my best, and I am lefthanded.
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Yes you are correct. It has to be set in the manufacturer software. One reason I don’t do Phonak, unless patient insists is this very thing.
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