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Sounds like you have a bad battery in them.
My wife uses earbuds and they last far more then 2 hours.
My JBL wireless earbuds last me a whole 8 hour shift and then some. They pretty new but still, I haven't had a pair that's that bad since like 2015.
I have two sets of bone conduction headphones. They wrap around like old school ones.
They last nearly all day with me wearing it for work, chores and even white noise while I sleep. Last 10+ hours each easily with a 2~ hour charge time.
Mind if I ask which you're using? Looking to retire my second had samsung buds, struggling to get 1 hour out of the left ear lately. Wouldn't mind looking into these bone conducting types.
Shokz is pretty much the only brand worth your time in bone conduction.
Their flagship model OpenRun Pro 2 is very good kit.
They're very different to true wireless buds though, check out a demo unit if you can, especially to get the right size and see if the temple pressure works for you.
Good info. Thanks!
I dont mind. Addressing the other guy here.
Shokz is pretty much the only brand worth your time in bone conduction.
Their flagship model OpenRun Pro 2 is very good kit.
They're very different to true wireless buds though, check out a demo unit if you can, especially to get the right size and see if the temple pressure works for you.
I tried shokz
$180 for the top end one that includes the USB WiFi transceiver. I prefer USB dongle ones because Bluetooth does a stupid audio compression with calls.
No issue with audio or build quality but the USB dongle required a headset power cycle or replugging the dongle if I went out of range and returned. (Like leaving the house or just going too far.) Returned it due to that. I can't tolerate that glitch for that price point. It was a daily annoyance.
I turned around and purchased four sets of no name bone conducting headsets for less than the Shokz. All of them worked as intended. I wasn't kind to them at all. Doing chores, exercise, sleep with them on and even shower with them on.
I broke one of them wiping them off and anothers battery died. Two survived.
Picun T1 are fantastic. Durable, water resistant and fantastic bass for the price. Best bass of the 5 sets I tried.
No longer on amazon. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Picun/page/B8F94348-9888-4CD7-BB86-3F4866C99718
Were talking $20 vs $180~ for Shokz.
These are totally worth the price point.
Even my AirPods which I realize now are like almost 5 years old hold 4-5 hours of charge before they start whining.
ETA: actually I bought these AirPods pre pandemic so more like 6 years. Wow
I use the Google pixel buds pro 2 that I've had for a couple of years now, they still last about 6-8h before I need to pop them back in the case for a bit. I don't think the case has ever ran out on me.
The thing to remember with these is the battery is tiny, so if you want good battery life (and sound quality), you kinda need to spend a bit more than whatever the cheaper end is selling for or it will just contain the cheapest battery the manufacturer could fit in for the price.
Companies like Apple, Google, Sony etc don't want a reputation for worse battery life than the competition, so their prices will tend to reflect what you should expect to pay
Same... in fact, I just noticed that I've had my Pixel Buds Pros for 3 years today and they still have pretty decent battery. I rarely wear them for more than 3 hours at a time, but I do have a pair of Pixel Bud 2s that I keep around just in case I need to be on an extra long call.
I spent like less than $100 for the Anker Soundcore Liberty 4 so yea its considered budget.
Which earbuds did you get?
Early true wireless earbuds (circa 2017) had rubbish battery life + connection issues, they've improved massively in recent years with new chipsets.
Unless yours are old or really cheap, they should last for 6-10hrs of music playback per charge assuming they don't have active noise cancellation.
True wireless buds are a pretty mature product now, its nine years since the first gen AirPods came out. You can even get ultra-cheap ones that don't suck if you know what to look out for.
I miss headphone jacks too. Thankfully USB dongle DACs also got really good.
Anker Soundcore Liberty 4
Sounds like something's wrong.
Liberty 4 should be capable of 7hrs playback per charge with ANC on, or 5hrs talk time.
If you're only getting 2hrs music playback and firmware is up to date, factory reset first and if no joy after that, RMA.
Is updating really an issue? Like I kinda just didn't feel like giving the app internet permissions.
Maybe I should test the usage time again, then do an update, see if theres any difference.
It's worth updating headphone firmware, short of a couple issues with Bose a few years back I've very rarely seen an OTA make an audio product worse.
Anker/Soundcore is a particularly interesting one in that regard because the high-bandwidth LDAC codec is gated behind a small OTA update for all Soundcore products with LDAC support. So you need to install an update to use a feature advertised on the box.
My theory is, Anker negotiated with Sony to only pay full LDAC licensing fees for products LDAC is actually enabled on, and in doing so avoided paying the full whack for their iOS userbase who can't use LDAC at all.
Even if you install the app, configure the controls, OTA update, enable LDAC or multipoint or etc. you can then uninstall the app once you have the configuration you like. Or disable network access again.
You're right to be cautious of gadget apps, they're data sponges. Samsung holds the title for worst - if you dare to use Galaxy Buds on another brand of Android smartphone, you need to give the companion app access to read your notifications before you can update the firmware.
Funny, my Soundcore ones last ages, even with active noise cancelling switched on.
This problem was solved already in the 1800s, their headphones/earbuds didn't run out of batteries :)
Wireless earbuds should last longer than 1-2 hours though. Either you got a defective pair or a super low quality pair. Check online to see what battery life you're supposed to be getting.
15 minute charging is supposed to have 4 hours of battery life. I think I left it in the case for like 30 minutes (unless I counted time wrong), and got about an hour out of it. I just assumed its normal since corporations always overclaim and under deliver. Its Anker Liberty 4.
I have nearly 6 year old sony WF-1000XM3, and i get a good 4-5 hours out of them without needing the case. I think whatever you got may have defective batteries or power drain issues
I've had a few pairs of different Anker earbuds and the battery is usually six to 8 hours of listening but less than that when using them for phone calls. The tech is out there for greater than 2 hrs earbud performance
My kids use galaxy buds, which have a battery life of about 8 hours. If they charge the case, they can use them for three days without a recharge.
Yeah, I have the Galaxy Buds Pro 2 and they last 5 or 6 hours, but I almost never listen to music long enough to fully drain the batteries. I've had them for ~3 years now, still working just as good as the day I got them.
I've been listening to my Soundcore P3 earbuds for the past 4 hours and they both have 4 out of 5 battery stripes left.
Wires are annoying, but never having to worry about one of the buds falling off and you losing it (nearly happened to me once, while on a bus, it almost fell out of the door), bluetooth signal or battery life of the earbuds more than make up for that
Get a neckband style Bluetooth headset, I really like bone conduction one. Can be found with battery life at 15-20 hours.
And they're not in the way and don't cover your ears (unlike with Apple earbuds people will know you can hear them even if they see you have it on, so nobody will see it as rude)
I use sports headphones with wire in-between, they last 6-8 hours with the added benefit that I can have one tucked under my shirt so they won't get lost.
I mainly use them for audiobooks and podcasts.
My Tronsmart earbuds are some 3-4 years old and battery still last a few hours of music. Using noise cancellation or ambient mode affects battery life.
Oh yea I always have noise cancellation on, can't stand background noises.
When I do runs, my tromsmarts last more than 2h and they still work for undisclosed amount of time after that (I mean, never tested but they show as half charged in android).
And they are bit less than 4 years old.
When running i usually turn off noise cancellation because that's not safe, and also ambient off, because that's too much noisy with wind and steps and whatnot
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