Earbuds are only 1 month old, they did not have this issue before

Now when the buds reach 60% battery it drains and goes from 60 to 0 in 10 or 20 minutes (not joking), thus only giving me 2 hours of battery life.

Earbuds and phone (Galaxy A55 5G) are up to date. ANC is on as well but still it shouldn’t cause them to drain the battery so fast

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  • N00b22@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    and the reason ended up being either too old a phone (meaning it lacks the newer codecs and versions for Bluetooth)

    I have a Galaxy A55 5G that is new enough to handle the Buds FE

    or some bug in pairing leading to using the wrong codecs and/or protocol

    Not sure since I’m not a codec expert but I checked and it’s set to this: 1000018652

    • antimidas@sopuli.xyz
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      1 day ago

      Yep, I don’t think the A55 is the culprit either – just outlined the reasoning behind that. Sometimes pairing also gets things wrong which leads to the headphones using an older protocol version.

      But that doesn’t seem to be the case as it’s using SSC, at this point I’d also just guess it’s a bad battery. You can try pairing them again but I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t help. Still, couldn’t really hurt to try.