Stereo Bluetooth Headset SBH54 for Android
Come on Sony we all payed good money for the sbh 54 for it not to work most of the time! I'm trying right now to get it to play music from my Xperia and it won't! Then you ask me to rate this app! This has been going on for years now so please get the firmware right it can't be that hard....
My SBH54 was working at its best until the recent updates are issued. It annoys me much since I need a reliable bluetooth headset to support my job. Sony Mobile Comms, pay attention to the flooding complaints and make some progress, please.
Using it with Xperia Z5 Premium., with two user accounts on the same phone. Nice idea, but terribly unreliable connection. I can't blame the hardware nor the software, but the maker of them all. Starting to look with envy to that frutty company that seem to make all their things work well together.
Latest update did not improve the connection. When phone calls come in, it lags and sometimes no sound from both phone and SBH54. Tested today. Disconnected by itself a few times. Phone showed connected but SBH54 was disconnected. Closing this app also disconnect SBH54 from phone. Updated. Still randomly disconnects. What stabilization of BT?
For God's sake heed all the Negative feedback on the net and make this right. I am feeling ripped off by you. Update 16 june 17. No improvement the worst electronic device I've ever bought! Shame Sony. Refund my money and take this waste back. You can afford it I can't. Hope to hear from you soon
Still the same infuriating connection problems initially; having to reset reinstall and try again. I'd given up on trying to have two connected devices until the latest Feb .417 update to my Xperia XZ which appears to have solved some Bluetooth connection gremlins with that device. And now for the first time my SBH54 is working as it should with two connected devices. With this device at least. On switching off and on again it now reconnects automatically with the status bar in notifications and my other device is unaffected; it's still listed as the secondary device. I have to reconnect that manually though on restarting. Let's see how it goes with regular use.
2017/5/11 The latest update does not improve the unstable connectivity much. Tried 2 days with it and switched back to SBH-52 eventually. 2016/6/13 This update makes multi-connection less stable. My 2nd phone suffers connection lost comparing to the previous FW. Now, I have no choice but giving up using the headset. Need a update to fix it as soon as possible! 2016/12/15 It seems better in the beginning, but failed to be stable after while. Switch back to SBH-52. And still need a fix to make it REALLY work!!
Funny that I still have a Sony mobile and a Sony hands-free which do not cooperate most of the time. The combination of the black screen of the mobile (another bug still not corrected after two years in the market) and the hands-free disconnection during a formal phone call is magnificently unacceptable for such medium priced devices.
Using the software only to enable the other functions on the device. Afraid one day I will accidentaly press the update firmware and start experiencing all the issues being experienced by the other users.
I have been using this since few months now. It gets disconnected frequently from my Sony Xperia C5 Ultra Dual mobile phone. Every time a pop-up appears on my mobile saying 'Throw connecting'. If you can rectify this that would be much appreciated.
There are two mikes. But noise cancellation is not working not only it makes echo of my own voice. When I make call there is not any sounds my money goes waste I can't talk.
Horrible connectivity, every 5th minute you are on call it just disconnects and required a reboot. The 1st Sony product I have had a bad experience and its horrible.
The UI for one is slow to respond to our command (e.g no number display when someone calls, have to wait m even repeat command to get to call log list). Also difficult if we would like to review the time, battery status.... Was a SBH52 user and not happy with the current condition of the SBH54 Same review and not much improvement
Good app, but if I use two devices, one app show connected and one more show disconnected. So confusing.. One more, the connection of bluetooh is always lost an unstable. This is very very terrible. I don't know which one is bad, the app or the Bluetooth device. I hope Sony will fix it very soon..
Like Everytime.... Every single time why do you guys release half baked app to the play Store.... I'm not able to connect my headphone with my phone and it's disconnected every now and then.. Please fix it asap
I want a solution ASAP. I've installed the update, after that my power button stopped working, cannot switch off my device now, cannot multipoint connect. This Update is a massive fail.
22/05/17: So it seems the faults I have experienced may be hardware based. Still having issues with the app but at least it works now, sort of, with latest updates.
Seems like the headset randomly drops connection fairly frequently, even under ideal use conditions, or just loses touch with a particular app even though it acts like it's still connected. I'm not sure whether this is a problem with my phone, with the headset hardware, or with the Sony software, but it is kind of frustrating to have it stop in the middle of a podcast that I'm listening to while doing chores and have to disentangle myself from the chore and reset everything on my phone in order to keep listening.
The latest update makes it so that I can only listen to the headset for a few minutes before it starts to break up really bad and I have to restart the unit. I don't know what they did, but it is horrible now. Sony, please fix this and I will update my score. Also it is randomly shutting down.
Still having notification problems and audio periodically drops. Needs better firmware. Sony needs to test out the app's firmware before they release it.
I have a Sony phone and a Sony Bluetooth headset, how can you release products with so crappy interwork?? Constant loss of connection, even mid call for no apparent reason.
Latest update is supposed to fix Bluetooth stability yet it no longer allows "phone audio" connection which makes the device pointless when I can't use it to make or answer calls.
After update didn't get any notifications like message,calendar. And I'm facing the connectivity issues.
All time lose conection. Work beter with standard bluetoth conection. Sony you are so lazy, fix this soft and make to work. I pay 80 euro for this device and i expect to work.
Connectivity issue not yet solved. App disconnecting automatically. Need to connect manually again. I am using Mi note 3.
Instability with Bluetooth and NFC connection, connects and disconnects to frequently. Text to speech notification prompting frequently is voice out through the My SG7 edege
Same after this update.. Shows little improvement, disconnects abruptly and hangs after two minutes talk.. Then have to reboot..
Working well with mi. The problem is with phone settings not with app. I changed the settings and it works flawlessly
Excellent when used correctly. Wonder if there is room in the firmware for noise cancelling (it has a mike!) or graphic equaliser??
Only making name is not enough.. the product should be good.. automatically disconnects.. notification not working with my phone..
Nice app plus nice headset. At times it doesn't get connected wid my moto xplay...plz help me
Efter senaste uppdateringen kan jag använda headsetet igen. Men det fungerar fortfarande inte bra. Med tanke på att jag bara har det till olika Sony produkter borde det fungera bättre.
Few times I connect my device and you force me to update while I'm trying to used it! Why not just update later! I have to wait to update on the area the have bad wifi connection. So I cannot use my device.
The app has issues sometimes when connecting an Xperia phone & iPhone to the SBH54. It takes luck to connect both devices to the SBH54. Because I still can't figure out how it works when it does. Also, the communication between the app and the SBH54 won't work if you closed the app. Unlike the Sony's Lifelog app that works in the background. Everything related to the SBH54 app won't work when you swipe and close the app.
Don't get me wrong. Sbh54 is a great tool. If you just want to listen to music, it'll do. But if you click through youtube video or switch tracks often, it will keep disconnecting all the time.
The new update cause my computer to request pin be4 connecting and I end up not able to connect .
I am trying to get a petition against Sony for fraud. Sony continue to sell this defective product knowing that it is defective. I think there should be a lawsuit against Sony for fraud .
I don't know y it disconnects and reconnects automatically. And during a waiting call it becomes mute for 2 sec .. y is it happening ?
Upgrade firmware made my device sometime lag during playback. Come on Sony, please fix it..
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Very good application, User friendly, gives access to control SBH54 via this application, get notified, can have access caller's information. However, I like to highlight that some time this app gets disconnected with SBH54 and I have to reconnect it manually. If this issue can be sorted out then it will be great. Thank you so much to provide this application to make SBH54 easy to use.