starkey halo

Can you provide a link to where you're reading these bulletins from Starkey?

800-328-8602 for tech support,

http://www.starkey.com/hearing-aids/technologies/halo-wireless-hearing-aids. For alist of compatible devices and operating system.

If you send Starkey a feedback note (you can do this from the Trulink application), they will send you the info. They are sending me the stuff I've mentioned, and will (I'm guessing) update those who've written them.

Starkey has just posted an update here: http://trulinkhearing.com/faq

Tech Support believes it will require an Apple iOS update to fix. That could take weeks.

I was aware of the microphone option. I'd never record a private conversation for any purpose, I don't want anyone to be confronted with an offhand remark later in life especially me. :-) I live in Florida, a trip to Minnesota is not going to happen. My Audi is at the Starkey convention so I hope he comes home with some better info.

Thanks for the note. I'm not upgrading to iPhone 6. I only upgrade every other time. ATT has this plan that you pay a monthly fee and get to upgrade every year. However, the price seems pretty steep. What I wish fro in some update is making the hearing aid features more readily available. To have to work down through the prefs several times a day is crazy. Of Course, if the HAs would auto connect every time that would help. I have to take my aids out several times a day because I ride motorcycle with helmet and I can't figure out how to get the helmet off without dragging the aids off. I also have an in helmet system that I can hear much better, can answer and make calls if need be, even send siri texts and listen to texts with push of the button. If I used the aids, I'd not be able to do that. Anyway when I take the aids out, I turn them off to avoid confusion. Maybe I should try leaving them on to see if there is ever confusion but I think if I got a call the phone may not know which system to send the call to.

Problems, problems. Such is life in the world of technology, but then it beats not having such options.

If you leave them on and they stay connected, but you want to use the system in your helmet you should see connection options when you place a call. My car has sync, which is a blue tooth system, my phone connects automatically when I get in the car. I also have a LG Tones blue tooth head set, If I have all 3 connected at the same time, I get a pop up on the phone that shows those 3 options as well as iPhone and speaker. The one that is being used as a check next to it. If you want to use an alternative connection you simply click it. If you need to change during a call on the screen that shows the number your calling there are 6 circles, on the top row upper right it says speaker if nothing is BT connected. When you have devices connected it has a BT symbol. Click it and you get the same pop up with a list of all your BT connected options. Sometimes I answer a call and my aids have dropped their connection and the call does not stream. I click the sound options click hearing aids and usually connect.

I desparately need to upgrade, my 5 has no battery life. I already have the 6 but have not yet activated it. Waiting for someone to say it is working for them in the wild...anyone??

I understand what you say, but I'm on a motorcycle. I can't glance at my phone. I guess I could get a handlebar holder for it, but it'd be too distracting. While riding a motorcycle anything that distracts is a danger, or better put, more dangerous than in a car.

check out this link Parrish, it might work for you, if you connect the aids first, then connect helmet system, the call should go to the helmet system while it is on, and then revert back to your aids once the helmet system is no longer connected.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19819096/iphone-bluetooth-pairing-order-of-pr ecedence

Thanks LanB2. I'll try that.

World Peace! Hah. Just watch the hundreds of thousands football fans roar with glee over a hard hit. Boxing fans on a knockout or wrestling fans when the heavyweight gets thrown from overhead to the floor.

However, I love my Halos but have a question. Streaming music from my iPhone sounds very "thin", with hardly any bass. What is everyones experience and, it there a way to improve the frequency range?

This is a very good "community".

There ya go! You've proved my point that PEACE and TESTOSTERONE are incompatible. ;D

YES! I went to my audi yesterday and had him change my "Music" settings to fill in the mids and lows, AND to CRANK UP that one setting way high. What a difference in streaming! Before making the change, SPEECH was "acceptable" though "thin." Now it sounds "good" and has plenty of reserve. ALSO if you have the kind of cones that have holes, you probably want to try a "closed" cone. The closed cone really doesn't cut out much outside sound, but it gives you a "fuller" sound.

My "speech" setting didn't need to be adjusted, so I use that for conversation, but when streaming I go to "Music" and get the fuller sound on ALL STREAMING -including phone calls. I usually turn the mics off whilst streaming, because I work alone, and don't need to hear speech until I go somewhere where I'm talking with people (like at home.) Things really sound good now.

Jack,

Have you tried creating a soundspace memory where you can adjust the the bass and treble settings yourself. I think you can save thm without geo tagging, I am not 100% sure about that...anyone know?? Even if you can't create without a geo tag, you could save it, name it music and then manually switch to those settings when you are streaming music.

I love my halos, I was reading some information about them and found out that the technology used to for programming actually takes higher pitched sounds and reproduces at a lower pitch for high frequency losses. I only hear the first two Hertz on the audiogram graph and way below normal, like around 20 after the first two I drop to absolute zero. I wonder if that technology is affecting the quality of music. For me it is amazing, it explains why I can now hear my oven beep when I set it for example, even with Wii aids I didn't hear that, I am guessing the Halos are sending a lower pitch of the sound to my brain than the actual sound makes, it still sounds really high to me because of how extreme my loss is.

Being able to discuss with other aid users is really helpful. People that have normal hearing really don't understand the issues those of us that can't hear are faced with. I used to dread having to make a phone call, I have been on the phone successfully more in the last week then I have in the past year.

Now if they can just get the iphone 6 to work with them I will be ecstatic!!

The inability to use the Halos features because of iPhone 6 demonstrated to me how much I had come to rely on them. I miss telephone calls, streaming musi, directions from Siri and more.

I hear you! Pun intended...Someone on this thread, maybe dogsitter, said that he(she) was successfully using both an iPhone 5 and an iPad with iOS8.

I have read that you can answer phone calls on your iPad with iOS 8, I am wondering if a temporary fix for you would be to use an iPad for the phone calls.

My iPad is wifi only, does anyone know

A. will phones go the the iPad if I update my 5 to iOS 8, I have already updated the iPad, my aids do connect and stream perfectly. After I installed the update it did say it wouldn't sync with my phone until I installed 8 on it.

B. Does the iPad need cell service to recieve the calls or will it work while connected to wifi?

It might be a help for those that have already activated iPhone 6

I posted a how to link for using the non cellular iPad as a phone yesterday on another forum. Very easy if the iPad and iPhone both have iOS 8 and are on the same Wi-Fi network. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/09/make-receive-phone-calls-ipad-using-iphone-io s-8.html

THe the trick is turning on FaceTime on both devices.

i read iOS 8.1 is in developers hands with numerous fixes. Hope Starkey Is one of them but they claim to have recieved the 6 at the same time everyone else did. So it may be awhile.