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What would happen if there were a power outage during hearing aid programming?

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What would happen if there were a power outage during hearing aid programming?

I wondered this. Would my hearing aids be bricked if there were a sudden electricty loss while progamming hearing aids? Is this reversible with a reconnection?

Thanks.

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I don’t know, but I don’t see why it would be any different from any other forced disconnection while programming. What happens if somebody wanders too far away from the Noahlink with the aids in their ears, or the USB connecting the Noahlink to the computer gets knocked loose? That must happen all the time. I’ve probably done it, and I bet every other DIYer has, too. If aids could be irreparably bricked that way, I think we’d have heard about it.

If you’re worried about it, just use a laptop for programming. The Noahlink draws power from the laptop, so it can continue programming as long as the laptop has enough battery power to keep running.

Thanks.You may be right. I just asked Gemini and it said that programming softwares have some built in features to reconnect and restore saved data. I’m not sure though since you cannot assume any ai directly correct.

I have a laptop but I prefer my desktop pc.

With latest models it doesn’t matter now, with older models yes there would be problems, bricking is mostly an issue with firmware updates.

I don’t know about every audiology office but my clinic has APVs that prevent the computers from being taken down by a power outage.

A really violent solar eruption will probably grill our . Such things have happened before, like the famous Carrington event in 1859. Be very afraid.

I learned a very long time ago to never ever worry about things I have no control over. Life is too short and valuable to worry.

Different by manufacturer. Some (Oticon Bernafon) program on the fly, so as long as it didn’t happen the instant a change was happening, you’d be ok based on the previous write to the EEPROM. Sonova product requires a session end re-write and re-boot which is a bit more fragile, especially if the failure occurs during the write window.

In either case the option to revert to previous session data, or potentially the current session data in the software that failed to upload during your outage is usually available. Even if it has to follow a ‘factory reset’ of the aids.

I’d guess that there was probably a bigger risk during firmware updates: when they shut down during a full reprogramming, there’s obviously reasonable potential to corrupt an aid. Especially as it takes a reasonably long window to complete a full rewrite of the hearing aids.

For Sonova: I imagine the software writes to the aids’ cache, disconnects, and then the aids perform the update, similar to how iPhones receive firmware updates.

I haven’t worked with this type of programming before, so I might be overlooking something.

Murphy’s Law states that if you are programming your hearing aids without a UPS, you are going to brick them!!:grin:

So, just get some insurance and breath easy:

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Get a UPS!

FYI: the screencap is an APC costs much less than a Noahlink, too.

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