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Waza Air and getting old

ColonelZulu

ColonelZulu

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I mean I’m getting old. However, my Waza air headphones are probably going on 4 years old now. I do like them. But the battery life sucks now. Also, I often get signal interruption. Like the backing song cuts in and out quickly.

Does anyone have one acting like this? I guess it’s expected. I use my Darkglass Element more for practicing alone. Although, that’s not as portable. It also doesn’t let me adjust the EQ on the fly. I have to be hooked up to the Darkglass suite on my computer for that.
 
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My Waza Air Bass headphones are about a year old now. Have you updated the firmware on yours? That helped with some of the audio issues, although there are still parts of my house that seem to have more interference than others.

I definitely wish the battery was a little better, and I’m sure after a couple more years the battery will be toast. :(
 
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Have you looked into the possibility of replacing the battery? I have done that with by sony bluetooth headphones, also after approximately 4 years. Those are very popular, so it was easy to find info on how to do that. For the waza air, there’s not much info, but I found this. Seems doable if you’re comfortable with this kind of work.

Of course, you have to be willing to take the risk of opening up the headphones and possibly break them entirely. If not, I’d wait until they are completely unusable, at that point you have nothing to lose.
 
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BismarckHerring said:
Have you looked into the possibility of replacing the battery? I have done that with by sony bluetooth headphones, also after approximately 4 years. Those are very popular, so it was easy to find info on how to do that. For the waza air, there’s not much info, but I found this. Seems doable if you’re comfortable with this kind of work.

Of course, you have to be willing to take the risk of opening up the headphones and possibly break them entirely. If not, I’d wait until they are completely unusable, at that point you have nothing to lose.
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I thought about it, but the past couple days, I’ve been trying to update the firmware. I keep getting an error message that won’t let me open the file. Also, I can’t see the WAZA on my Mac when I try to plug it in with the service USB port (under the pad). It’s supposed to pop up automatically and then I drop the firmware update file into it.

I tried reverting to the factoring settings, but now my iPhone doesn’t recognize it. So I removed and reloaded the app.

Nope.

It’s frustrating.
 
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ColonelZulu said:
I mean I’m getting old. However, my Waza air headphones are probably going on 4 years old now. I do like them. But the battery life sucks now. Also, I often get signal interruption. Like the backing song cuts in and out quickly.

Does anyone have one acting like this? I guess it’s expected. I use my Darkglass Element more for practicing alone. Although, that’s not as portable. It also doesn’t let me adjust the EQ on the fly. I have to be hooked up to the Darkglass suite on my computer for that.
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A phone repair shop might be able to replace the battery, and I'd bet a computer repair shop could.
 

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