Whenever I try to connect my Beats Solo 4 to my device, the Device asks for a pin. This is an older device and I have done this multiple times before with no issue, usually the pin is 0000, on rare occasion though, it has been 1234 or 1111. However, I tried all of those with the Beats Solo 4 and they still will not pair! What is going on?
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Beats headphones (like the Solo 4) use Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing (SSP), which means they should not be asking for a PIN at all. The PIN prompts you’re seeing are actually coming from your older device, not the Beats. Since the Solo 4 doesn’t have a "default PIN," the connection process fails because the device is trying to use the older Bluetooth standard (legacy pairing).
In short, your Beats Solo 4 are too new for the old pairing method. The headset is expecting a more modern secure pairing handshake, while your device insists on falling back to PIN-based authentication. That’s why the usual "0000 / 1234 / 1111" doesn’t work — the Solo 4 simply isn’t designed to accept it. If you want them to work together, you’ll either need to:
Beats headphones (like the Solo 4) use Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing (SSP), which means they should not be asking for a PIN at all. The PIN prompts you’re seeing are actually coming from your older device, not the Beats. Since the Solo 4 doesn’t have a "default PIN," the connection process fails because the device is trying to use the older Bluetooth standard (legacy pairing).
In short, your Beats Solo 4 are too new for the old pairing method. The headset is expecting a more modern secure pairing handshake, while your device insists on falling back to PIN-based authentication. That’s why the usual "0000 / 1234 / 1111" doesn’t work — the Solo 4 simply isn’t designed to accept it. If you want them to work together, you’ll either need to:
Thank you. I just used a Bluetooth receiver via the aux cable. It doesn't sound amazing, but it's good enough. Thank you for the help!
You're welcome!
Beats Solo 4 won't connect to device because it needs a Bluetooth PIN
