jahciple wrote:This thing doesn't even work correctly, I can only answer my phone if I am connected to the phone while listening to my music. I can't answer my phone when I am connected somewhere else like my computer. Still a good buy though, let me know if someone can figure this out.

um... duh? when you are connected to your computer you are DISconnected from your phone.

I got mine lat night and when I tried them I could not get the base to charge or turn on, the headset appeared to function correctly. I don't have anything with Buetooth to play with so I am dependent on the base.

Anyway, about five minutes after I sent an e-mail to Philips customer service today, I couldn't help but tinker with it. Long story short, I was able to make it work by holding down the play button (remeber this is on the base) and plug in the charger while I was holding the button. The LED did a weird flash between colors. I did it a few times and fiddled with the two buttons and trying different combinations while plugging in the power - eventually I got it to turn on. After it turned on that first time it seems to charge and operate as expected.

I was a bit disappointed at first, but they seem to be working properly now that I 'fooled' it to turn on. I am quite happy with them.

I live barely 20 minutes away from Carrolton, Tx where the shipment originated from and I still havent received mine

It seems mine did not charge correctly overnight.

I did not get the 3.5mm female plug soldered on because, lacking a way to test the device, we couldn't figure out which wires were which.

also, for those of you who have already soldered on a 3.5mm plug, can you give me a push in the right direction as to which color wires go to which? i cut off one of the earpieces to find that there are 4 wires inside (blue, ground, red, and green). judging from the donor female 3.5mm (using the one that came with the device), the red and green are left/right channels. what is the blue used for?

jamilio123 wrote:It seems mine did not charge correctly overnight.

I did not get the 3.5mm female plug soldered on because, lacking a way to test the device, we couldn't figure out which wires were which.

also, for those of you who have already soldered on a 3.5mm plug, can you give me a push in the right direction as to which color wires go to which? i cut off one of the earpieces to find that there are 4 wires inside (blue, ground, red, and green). judging from the donor female 3.5mm (using the one that came with the device), the red and green are left/right channels. what is the blue used for?

You right with red/green and blue is for MIC in.

I got one and it works fine. BUT...the sending unit battery dies after one hour of listening to music.

I got mine yesterday, Nov 11.

Charged it up, paired the headset with my T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve smartphone [that has stereo bluetooth].

Listened to MP3 music, made two calls.

The music sounded great, the music playing controls on the Philips worked to control the MP3 files on my Curve. [Volume, next song, previous song].

The callers said the headset sounded very clear.

After using the headset for about four hours [listening to music, talking on the phone for about 1 hour and on standby] I turned the unit off.

I did not try the little transmitter as I wanted this mostly for my Curve when on my road bike. But I do plan on hooking the transmitter to the TV to see if I can use this as cordless earphones for the TV.

Bonus tip: read the directions carefully, especially on how to pair [or connect] this device with whatever else you have. Main thing is that you have to get the receiver into "pairing mode" as signified by the flashing red and green light.

I paired the transmitter with my Sony flat panel TV that has an earphone port. Works perfect. Nice that the Philips came with a 3.5 mm cable extension because the transmitter would not have fit into the Sony TV's 3.5 mm audio port.

This is GREAT for using the Philips earphones without a cable running to the TV.

Got mine. . .must say this is my favorite woot to date. I hav enot stopped using it yet. Everything is wireless now. I recommend these to anyone. Hope they offer them again.

Has anyone with a unit that is not charging gotten satisfaction from Philips or Woot?

I called Philips today and they said return it to woot.

geo8rge wrote:Has anyone with a unit that is not charging gotten satisfaction from Philips or Woot?

I called Philips today and they said return it to woot.

E-mail Woot. I thought they have some sort of return policy.

Also, make sure to charge both units [transmitter and receiver] for at least six hours.

Do you get the red charging light on both devices? Seems odd if both will not charge since they are independent batteries. If you do not get a charging light on either device, that tells me it's the charger, not the devices.

Have you tried a different electrical outlet? If still no lights, make sure the prongs on the plug are making contact with the electrical socket.

Also try "resetting" the devices. Press the stop and play buttons at the same time and hold for about 10 seconds. Then connect to the charger.

Also, try each device [transmitter and receiver in each adapter plug. There are two, to charge the earphones/receiver and the transmitter]. Swap them to see if it is a plug on the adapter that is the problem.

Hope that helps.

mfalse wrote:I'm having some problems with mine as well, I can't get it to pair with both the transmitter and my cellphone at the same like the insructions say I should be able to. Is anyone else having issues with that? I'm using a LG enV and it will not let both connect. Also I seem to have an issue with the headphones remembering that they are paired with something after a power down. I don't know if this is just anohter symptom of the same issue or not.

Have a similar problem. Paired with a T-610 and works ok for a bit. After about 30 minutes it stops blinking green and calls don't pair up. This is even though it has a full charge.

The solution is to replug it into the charger for a couple seconds, it reactivates it and its fine until it happens again.

While listening to music it will go continuously for hours and hours unless a call interrupts it in which case it does what happened above.

I think we got the lemon units. Still workable as a music listening unit. Not reliable for my phone though. I can't carry the charger ALL the time.

I ran across these at a Sharper Image in Rogers Arkansas for 99.95 same exact unit. I wish I had done three, hope they show up in a woot-off.

After two days of trying to make mine work, and two calls to Philips, I'm about to call it quits.

There's no problem with the transmitter.
The receiver, however, from the start was alternating green and red on the initial charging. After getting charged, it seemed to be "On", and no amount of holding the "o" button would turn it off.

After putting the transmitter into pairing mode while connected to iPod, it paired with the receiver automatically and played, and the receiver even turned off ... and turned itself back on without me pressing any buttons less than two minutes after.
I turned it off again (had to have the transmitter on, and playing music for the receiver to turn off ???!!!), put it into pairing mode and paired with my cell phone (Blackberry). After making one call with it, all hell broke loose:

• The unit is on continuously
  
• Every button press (actually button release, it doesn't react on the press), no matter which of the six buttons, results in the attempt to re-dial the last number
  
• Even after I disabled bluetooth on the phone, headset still stops the music, beeps like it's dialing, either every couple of minutes, or after every button release
  
• After I enabled bluetooth on the phone, but deleted VOX340 from list of devices, every couple of minutes or every button release results in headset attempting to pair with the phone, and password prompt popping up on the phone screen
  

Mixed feelings about this woot.

Seems to pair just fine with my Samsung BlackJack. Music sounds passable (for the price) using the transmitter and an iPod, but the range on the thing is atrocious.

If there's more than a couple feet between the sender and receiver, or if there's anything occupying the space between them (such as my body ... and, no, I'm not obese or filled with titanium skeletal bracing) it looses connection almost immediately. So much for the 30' range on a BlueTooth device. FYI, the Logitech version I bought a year ago (sending unit and wrap-around headset) works really well. I get the full 30' of range out of that system.

Since I bought two of them I think I'll go ahead and give the second one a try.

Open to any suggestions anyone may have on ways to improve reception. Though the units were fully charged (8+ hours) I may try to run down the charge, re-pair them, and give it another go.

geo8rge wrote:Has anyone with a unit that is not charging gotten satisfaction from Philips or Woot?

I called Philips today and they said return it to woot.

Same here. I called Phillips and the guy told me to return to the origin of purchase. They are not helpful. I use Nokia 5300, and Phillips blames the phone. My logitec & Nokia mono headsets work fine, but this Phillips unit lose connectivity and becomes unresponsive whenever a music track is done. I can only listen to one music track at a time. Then I have to stick it to the charger to reset or fiddle with the unit for 3-5 miuntes to reset.

I hated this set. It pairs with my macbook, phone, and ipod via transmitter. But then within 1-30 minutes the signal goes to crud even if there is zero distance between transmitter and receiver.

bluetooth headphones = awesome.

bluetooth headphones with dropped signal 35% of the time = suck.

I got mine (x2) last week and I tested one of them. It charged up fine and it paired to each other without any problem. It also worked with my BT Sony cellpphone without any issue at all. The ear plugs do not feel too comfortable but they work okay. I used it primarily with the radio/music player at work so I don't bother other people.

OK, my curiousity got the better of me and I decided to do a headphone transplant on one of these.

Oh my god. it sounds SO much better. Once you graft some decent headphones on, this thing rocks! I used the 'phones from some Razer m250s... I've got a few pairs of them around. The nice thing about the m250s is that they're easy to open up and solder inside, instead of soldering wires, so the end result looks much, much cleaner- all the work is inside the earphones.

Just clip the stock earbuds from the BT headset right below the earbuds (leaving the whole cord), unsolder the wire from the m250s, and slide in and solder the wire from the BT headset. For some odd reason, the earphone cords have all four conductors in them (left, right, mic, and ground). you'll only need two per earphone, though.

I didn't take pictures when I did it, so there won't be a guide for this mod... but if you want to see the inside of the Razer headphones and get a good idea of how the wiring goes, you can look here.

Nothing better than a cheap, crappy product that becomes a cheap, awesome product with a little modding ;)

EDIT: Oh, and I don't have a bluetooth phone, so I haven't tested the mic... it may or may not still work :P proceed at your own risk.

I got my two copies of the Phillips Vox340 and have what seems to be a common problem with one headphone charging but the other one doesn't. Has anyone gotten a reply from the woot staff as to what they can do?

geo8rge wrote:Has anyone with a unit that is not charging gotten satisfaction from Philips or Woot?

I called Philips today and they said return it to woot.

Not sure what your problem is but, my transmitter would not charge the first time but there seems to be a problem with the transmitter power socket. Perhaps extra plastic flashing blocked the socket but after I re-inserted and 'screwed' with it; it charged and is wonderful! Range is good 30+ feet only real problem is a delay of audio from HDTV audio - might be the tv.

Sheldo wrote:Received mine last night! 2 days early according to SmartPost. Got them running with my iPhone and my Motorola S9's. So glad I can use the S9's again.

Thanks Woot!

Hunnn 'DumbPost'?? Wonder why no FedEx anymore? W00t sellout to Yahoo & they won't allow it?

geo8rge wrote:Has anyone with a unit that is not charging gotten satisfaction from Philips or Woot?

I called Philips today and they said return it to woot.

I find this interesting, becuase when I was on the phone with Philips, they had me ship it to them for replacement. It's currently on its way there, and I hope to get my replacement unit notlong after they recieve it.

There have been a couple of posts about people having trouble pairing with both a cellphone and the BT transmitter. Has anyone come up with a good solution to this? I'm having the same issue. Can't get the receiver to pair with both the BT transmitter and my LG cellphone simultaneously.

Thanks for any help.

i still have not revceived my headphones yet they are just sitting in a postoffice in my home town i think and it just says forwared, im at a loss. everybody else has there's and im still waiting.

haven't got mine yet too

suppawong wrote:haven't got mine yet too

I, as well, have not yet received mine.

Smartpost is teh sux.

this is good product, but Woot charges 12% tax even it does exits in Texas!
it sucks

gobunch wrote:i still have not revceived my headphones yet they are just sitting in a postoffice in my home town i think and it just says forwared, im at a loss. everybody else has there's and im still waiting.

That's strange. My R.E. tax bill arrived right on time.

kiltme wrote:Mixed feelings about this woot.

Seems to pair just fine with my Samsung BlackJack. Music sounds passable (for the price) using the transmitter and an iPod, but the range on the thing is atrocious.

If there's more than a couple feet between the sender and receiver, or if there's anything occupying the space between them (such as my body ... and, no, I'm not obese or filled with titanium skeletal bracing) it looses connection almost immediately. So much for the 30' range on a BlueTooth device. FYI, the Logitech version I bought a year ago (sending unit and wrap-around headset) works really well. I get the full 30' of range out of that system.

Since I bought two of them I think I'll go ahead and give the second one a try.

Open to any suggestions anyone may have on ways to improve reception. Though the units were fully charged (8+ hours) I may try to run down the charge, re-pair them, and give it another go.

actually i tested mine at work and i get over 100 feet of crystal clear sound when using with my ipod before it cuts out, also the battery typically lasts more than 12 hours, best woot to date, love it.

I haven't recieved mime yet and am getting frustrated with no response from Support. Can't track a SMARTPOST through FedEx and USPS. The package dispite Woots claims, to the best of my research, hasn't reached USPS even though Woots records say it did.

I hope they responed to my email soon or I'll never order here again.
ordered October 29, today's date Nov 21st.

Has anyone tried pairing these with a PC? I have a Bluetooth 2.0 dongle that supports A2DP, but somehow I only get (mono) Headset and Bluetooth Headphones as profile options during the pairing process.
Great medium to long-range functionality as headphones, but no go as a headset. I'd troubleshoot this myself at length but I hardly have the time; suggestions would be truly appreciated.
Overall, great Woot. Headphone quality is decent- definitely not what you'd expect just looking at the ear buds.

harkerad wrote:I haven't recieved mime yet and am getting frustrated with no response from Support. Can't track a SMARTPOST through FedEx and USPS. The package dispite Woots claims, to the best of my research, hasn't reached USPS even though Woots records say it did.

I hope they responed to my email soon or I'll never order here again.
ordered October 29, today's date Nov 21st.

I dont even have a tracking number yet ! Two emails to WOOT, zip response.
Guess wait and grin it.

vmalhotra wrote:I dont even have a tracking number yet ! Two emails to WOOT, zip response.
Guess wait and grin it.

HA!

Got an email from WOOT.

Your shipment got lost, how can shipment get lost when it was NEVER SHIPPED.
I was hoping WOOT will be honest with their excuses, NOPE.

vmalhotra wrote:HA!

Got an email from WOOT.

Your shipment got lost, how can shipment get lost when it was NEVER SHIPPED.
I was hoping WOOT will be honest with their excuses, NOPE.

Dont' feel bad, they lost my first shipment. Reshipped by UPS ground (instead of Smart Poop) but only shipped me one of the three I ordered. And they haven't answered my last two E-Mails. You're not alone.

I need the users manual for this product. Anyone can help me? I have one without users manual but I need to know how to use it. pls scan the documentation and upload it any server. thanks for help.

kocakus wrote:I need the users manual for this product. Anyone can help me? I have one without users manual but I need to know how to use it. pls scan the documentation and upload it any server. thanks for help.

kocakus: Did you ever get a copy of the info sheet( 'manual' )?

I have the device (product) without users manual. but I need to know how to get sound from pc via bluetooth dongle (USB not 3,5mm jack) I have all equipments with the device but it's range is not enough for me also I have a USB bluetooth dongle. My phone can connect in the kitchen with this dongle also headphones can connect but pc can't give the sound via dongle. I think it has some tunings on XP but can't find it. apreciate for help.

It seems the base works for mine but the headset doesn't ever do anything. It turns on but I can never turn it off or place it into pairing mode. it's almost like the off "O button" doesn't work at all. Anyone else have any problems with this that can share?

Thanks.