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I wake up and run early each day. Used to use wired headphones but decided in 2021 to try earbuds (not apple). Most mornings only one will pair so there I am un
by thelittleone 5y ago
I wake up and run early each day. Used to use wired headphones but decided in 2021 to try earbuds (not apple). Most mornings only one will pair so there I am unpairing and repairing several times before I run, I'm generally a calm person but have come quite close to rage destroying phone and airbuds in response. Bluetooth and I are not friends.
- randomsearch 5y agoHave exactly the same problem.
- gilrain 5y ago“My knockoff AirPods don’t work well.”
- steveBK123 5y agoGimme a break. Big Apple fan here, but AirPods work really great for the first 12-18 months and then.. Especially Gen1
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI expect devices which go through constant charging/discharging to start noticeably degrading after 500 cycles, and to be very degraded by 1,000 cycles. Have consumer goods progressed beyond this yet?
- champagnois 5y agoNo, they have not. Companies probably see no reason to innovate here either -- it is one of two major reasons for their customers to buy new devices. (1) Battery is nearly useless. (2) The vendor decided to artificially slow the device with forced updates, or worse, the vendor decided to publish a list of CVEs and then declare your device ineligible for the necessary security updates going forward.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI assume it is because of physical limitations in current knowledge of battery technology.
- mmsc 5y agoAre you implying that AirPods are the original wireless earbuds, and every other wireless earbud is a "knockoff"?
- djrogers 5y agoNot OP, but a huge percentage of the no-name wireless earbuds I see are airpod knockoffs. Also, there were no successful true wireless earbuds before AirPods, just a couple of ones that launched a few months earlier to poor reviews.
- champagnois 5y agoNonsense. The earpiece craze started long before. I remember my mono-audio Samsung earpiece that went into one ear and worked perfectly from a decade before Airpods. The samsung charged with a simple USB cable, too.
- my123 5y agoApple had one too at the time, launched together with the iPhone. (iPhone Bluetooth Headset) Technological limitations caused that to be shelved until much later.
- djrogers 5y agoThat’s not the same thing at all, you’re stretching here.
- champagnois 5y agoWhat is the unique feature of an Airpod that was not present in the successful products that launched a decade before? Status symbol for the apple nuts? Most people I know use only one airpod at a time. That applies to my two teens in highschool and a multitude of professionals I work with. The same people a decade earlier would just be using the Samsung mono ear pieces or the multitude of other ones that existed.
- MikeKusold 5y agoAre you using AirPods? I think that is the only Bluetooth accessory that I’ve never had connection problems with.
- djrogers 5y agoGP specifically said ‘non apple’, so not AirPods.
- moooo99 5y agoI got the AirPods a few weeks ago. I'm still amazed that Apple managed to make me hate bluetooth less than I did previously (coming from a Samsung phone + Galaxy Buds). They really managed to make the everyday bluetooth experience seamless. However, whenever I did encounter those rare issues, troubleshooting AirPods was infinitely more cumbersome than with 'regular' bt headphones.
- throwntoday 5y agoAirpods are great the only thing I hate is Apple syncs bluetooth settings to all devices using the same iCloud account with seemingly no way to disable it. I never use my airpods max with my iPhone. Likewise I never use my regular airpods with my macbook. But whenever I put them on, no matter what options I check like "pair with last device", it pairs with the wrong device. I have removed the airpods max from my iPhone but Apple will just add it back. Things like this are why I don't want to use apple's account services at all.
- finebalance 5y agoI swear. But it's not just an issue with the cheap, knockoff stuff: my Bose Soundsport Earbuds often fail, too, with the left one connecting maybe two thirds of the time. It's so infuriating. The only upside is that they were a gift rather than a purchase, so at least I don't have to suffer through the fact that I paid for this crap.
- twistedpair 5y agoMy no-name Amazon earpods knock offs work just fine, every time, for running. Not sure what fancy features they lack, but they "just work", better than my Bose QC35.
- dirtybird04 5y agoI bought an Apple Watch and Powerbeats Pro headphones just for my morning walks/runs. When it works, it works like a charm and gives me the perfect start to the day. Bluetooth and I are best friends on those days! But once every two weeks or so, the phones (or at least one of them) decide they aren't having any of it and just refuse to pair, and I have to spend the whole morning trying to figure out what went wrong. Bluetooth and I are blood enemies on those days!
- jmu1234567890 5y agoI also had problems with Powerbeats pro, but after upgrading to beats fit pro, no more problems!! I think Powerbeats had connectivity problems with the case where sometime the pins didn’t quite touch.
- drvdevd 5y agoHaving your headphones crap out before/during a run is certainly rage inducing. Really drives home any problems in the whole stack.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoI have a non Apple phone and a non Apple headset and I've never run into pairing problems.