My top shelf Bluetooth headphones play a three second warning sound *wuuuUUUU-wuuuUUUU-wuuuUUUU* when battery level drops below 10% and then it plays the sounds every 10 minutes regardless the battery level or usage. It's set to be always louder than the audio listened to. The headphones do this independently, the left piece might hit 10% earlier than the right piece and they blurp the warning sound individually every 10 minutes. The batteries are still good for another hour minimum.

The warning is so loud I set my watch to 9:50 minutes timer to take out the earpiece, wait for the alarm, and put the back in 😔🔫 what were they thinking... This isn't nuclear annihilation approaching, it's just flat headphone batteries. Chill the fuck out with those video game soundeffects.

This whole setup is so wrong and over engineered. One beep when 10%, another when 5%, a tuut tuut at 3% would be plenty.

Can't change it in the settings, can't access the firmware, it is what it is.

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Name and shame, please.

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I have a similar but slightly less annoying gripe with the tiny JBL Go. They have start-up and shutdown chimes. It's not even very loud, if you turn the device on during the day. But what's normal during the day can be extremely loud if the whole house is asleep. I just want to listen to a little bit of music on the lowest volume, but before I can do that, it has to wake up the whole house first.

Just a tiny - beep - is fine, which they had on the first JBL Go. But in the name of progress, all subsequent models have have a loud DUM DUMMM.

JBL are assholes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JBL/comments/ekmgg3/how_do_i_disable_the_startupshutdown_sound_on_the/

I have a small JBL Bluetooth speaker and it never plays a system sound, not even battery warnings, it just shuts down. Did I switch those of when I set them up?!

Such ironic naming

My headphones say "battery low" in some fake voice.

No idea if they repeat that warning, because I take them off and charge them 😅

Scientists were so busy building these features, they never stopped asking whether they are necessary

They are rogue scientists