Why is it that my Liberty pro 2 gives me less than 3 hours of playback time? One thing I noticed is that one ear goes down faster than the other and thatās really annoying.
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Whatās your phone? It is normal for these wireless buds to be asymmetric battery usage as one side is master. The degree of asymmetry is bluetooth version. If you do get BT5 then thereās less asymmetry than BT4.2 or 4.1
The workaround, well I donāt have LP2 but I have the LA2 and I just put the buds in the case and take the left bud out first to make it the master, to even up the battery drain.
Itās also worth noting this in any purchase decision. I have only spent my own money on the Life P2, cost me Ā£33 back in March. I donāt attach much Ā£ value to the wireless advantage. In my case I use wireless buds one ear only and just swap between the buds. If Iām using both ears then I use wired because I can store wired buds around my neck and never lose. Iām baffled why anyone would spend more on Ā£ for asymmetric features. Wireless isnāt that good an idea. Personallyā¦
The L2P should have higher battery life than that for sure. What volume are you using the earbuds at? The advertised number is based on 60% volume
Are you able to do some testing to check some things out?
If you take out one earbud from the case, fully charged, and run down the battery, what do you get?
If you do the same with the other, is the time same / comparable / worse?
I have these, and get close to 8 hrs. When I take them out of the case I get greeted with high battery.
Possible that the earbuds are full charged or the case is need of charging?
Should the same results present, it would be good info to share with support. (And us )
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Oh and are you setup through the soundcore app? Did you update the firmware?
8 hours? Geez. I charged both full and use it at the loudest volume and after 2hrs, itās half. But just the right one. Then an hour later, itās gone. But the left lasts longer. If I donāt use it to listen to songs, then it last long.
Really upsets me I canāt use it for more than 4 hours @ least
Ahh, I have mine maybe at 25% volume. Perhaps yours are defective?
I know others here have the pros, not sure what kind of battery life they are gettingā¦
Hi,
Iāve posted up another reply, to different thread as another user is having similar issues.
See if that helps you out at all too
Good luck.
Volume increase and battery decrease are not linear in relation. The louder you go, the faster battery drop youāll experience. If you listen at 50% or lower, youāll reach 6-8 hrs much easier depending on music genre. If you have to listen at full volume, maybe check the eartips because fit does matter a lot. Better fit might help you reduce volume
This was what happened today. After charging both L & R at 100%. I used then without using the sound equalizer. Started at 3.30pm and at 6.15pm, eight ear had 1 bar left and was saying ābattery lowā.
Meanwhile, left ear still had 4 bars left with just 1 bar gone. So this means left ear lasts longer than right ear at the same volume.
This was the same problem with my first LP2, I had to return it to bestbuy and got a refund a land purchased another pair same day thinking it was a factory problem with that pair.
Now I guess theyāre all like that.
My conclusion is ālistening to high volume drains the right ear fasterā
The right would drain faster than left but not sure if what you are experiencing is normal drain. I donāt own L2P yet so canāt say for sure. On about 15-20% volume on my Spirit Dot 2, I got about 40 mins less battery life on right than on left. Idk if that difference would grow as volume increases though.
Maybe send service@soundcore.com an email and ask to make sure
Feeling good. I got a replacement and itās going good. Over 7 hours playtime and am smiling again. Thank soundcore.
Good to hear they looked after you, glad your enjoying now and thanks for posting an update
This thread bounced back to the top and I just saw your comment about wireless.
Exercise is really the main time I like TWS. The spirit X2s are a vast improvement over having a cord bouncing on your neck, and I like the wrap around the ear design.
For the rest of the time, the wire is not bad at all - and there is only one things to lose, rather than a case and two separate buds to keep track of. So Iām on board with your point in general.
I donāt wear anything in my ears when exercising - it is dangerous. My hearing is my radar, it allows me to see what is not in my vision.
My wireless buds donāt get used much, they tend to get used one bud at a time , and when sat down as they fall out easily and so easily lost.
Iād never advocate people outdoors moving with anything in their ears, I am cyclist so I am overtaking joggers, walkers, and the most lethal combination is someone wearing head cover / hair style which blocks peripheral vision with something in ears means they have just a tiny narrow forward facing sense of their surroundings. Any shouting from me, they are deliberately preventing me from protecting them by blocking their hearing.
Stationary exercise like on walking machine, running machine, static cycle, etc, I donāt see a downside.
So this means I donāt buy them and so donāt enter $300 unboxing competitions, so seemingly Iām punished by Soundcoreā¦ also no chance of winning anything involving Notes against winners who bought wireless buds, punished 3 times.
Iād be not so bothered, let people buy what they like - let the market decide - but you canāt even find wired buds any more on Soundcoreās site. Ultimately that would make me buy another brand.
I never feel secure with in ear only buds. The air 2 pros have a bunch of tips - I have found a size that mostly stays in, but there isnāt a ton of confidence there.
Thus the Spirit X2s, with the loops around my ear, work great. They donāt fall out or get lost while active. And they donāt have to go into my ear canal.
Exercise safety depends on context. I definitely wouldnāt wear anything in or over my ears while outdoor biking, but no harm on a stationary. For walking it depends on location as well.
With the X2s, I intentionally do not have them tightly fit into my ear canal or turned way up. So I can hear my surroundings just fine.
And if the L2APs are secure enough in your ear to walk with, they have transparency mode for exactly that situation. That feature actually works pretty well, voices come through over the music.
https://us.soundcore.com/products/spirit-pro - the only wired earbuds still on their site.
I have the Neo , LP2 and LA2. Neo either hurts my ear canal or the wing doesnāt go in,so pain or falls out. My LP2 fall out, as does the LA2 with the slightly of movement or simply gravity.
In addition the LP2 and LA2 donāt work with my old laptop but the Neo do. They all work with Android.
Wired simply works, works more reliabily and works in more diverse situations. I understand some donāt like the wire but Iād be loathed to have the wireless fans crowd out wired product development at Soundcore.
My Q30 have just developed a fault support wonāt send replacement until I post out and of course Iām under a self-isolation order so canāt post them back, so Iām wearing Bose QC35 now, they over 4 years old and working.
Over ear is generally better than in ear for me. And Bluetooth is generally worse than wired in many ways.
But I hope both of those things will change soon. And it is already closer than it used to be.
If I wear over-ear too long then it sweats ears, then get skin issues eventually. So I have to alternate. So I like a variety.
I see myself swapping between in-ear wired and over-ear for the forseeable. Soundcore is investing in over-ear (e.g. Q30) but their wired in-ear is getting marginalised.
Soundcore shipping me replacement Q30, until then Iām wearing Bose.
So this will be your second replacement for Q30?