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REVIEW: Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headphone BH-503

I just received my Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headphone BH-503 and thought I would share my experience with you all.
Since this is my 4th bluetooth stereo headset I wanted to make sure this headset would sound better and had no connection breakdowns. I hate the clipping and stutter during what supposed to be a happy music moment. So I read allot of reviews of allot of headsets and this one caught my attention. I bought this headset online from www.one2remember.nl and it costs 90 euro's. (in Holland)
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It comes with a charger (off course), a manual in 20 languages or so and a handy transport bag. The overall first impression is good. Feels solid compared to the jabra bt620s or the moto ht820.
One of the top things about this headset is that it almost completely covers the ears. As I ride my bike alto in Holland and we have windy weather most of the time I found this headset to isolate you completely from you surrounding. Also the weight of the headset does not trouble me. At first you feel a bit of pressure on your ears but after 5 minutes the only thing reminds you of wearing a headset is the music you will be hearing.
During my test drive I got a call from a friend and to my surprise he actually understood me. As there was wind I didn’t need to stop for him to be able to hear me which is a big fat PLUS!
Another plus point is the charging time. It is full within one hour. And it should last for about 10 hours. (haven’t tested yet as I have it only 3 hours)
The buttons of the headset are completely flat and if you don’t know which button is which it is hard to press the right one. But I guess you just have to get used to it. But this also is a plus since you aren’t most likely to accidental press a button.
Sound quality is great. There is allot of bass to it and the distortion I experienced with other headsets is gone.
Also the bluetooth range is exceptional. The manual says it is able the transfer the music up to 10m but within a 5m range it’s best but when I go outside the 5m range music is good up to 9m. Further than 9m music is going to stutter.
Overall conclusion; It is not the cheapest headset but man I love it!!

Nice review! Though i think a button should not be flat, if you should not press it accidentally it should be hard to push that button .
You are talking about that this is your 4th headset, which are the other 3? It makes a nice comparison.

I hate it when I wear it around my neck (not listening to music) and the collar of my jacket keeps pressing the dial button. So that's why I don't mind having flat buttons.
I've had the motorola ht820, jabra bt620s and the plantronics pulsar 590E.
None of them sounded as clear and loud as the nokia.
I've been using it for the last 1,5 week and it is still the best I've had.
Just lovin it

cool was thinking about getting that one

Hi,
I am thinking of getting BH-503, but nowhere I can find its sensitivity ... is it loud enough?
Thnx

Problem with mic in using HTC Desire with BH 503
I have just purchased BH 503. The problem i faced it that it connects with Phone and Media profiles well. but It seems that Mic is not working. As when I pair the device it shows headset only and not Mic.
Does anybody faced this issue?
Appreciate your kind help in this regard.

Will this headset works with samsung galaxy note?

Celdur said:
Will this headset works with samsung galaxy note?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06frELke0E[YOUTUBE]

Wow a post!

Apple Earphones w/ Remote and Mic

Will Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic work with motorola defy?
I mean will i hear music normal? i had apple ipod shuffle earphones and they worked gread. not sure for this one with remote.. has anyone tryed?

Check around here, I've posted my findings. I'll let you find your answer.

I've tried them and yes the earphones and mic work flawlessly.
The buttons however are somewhat erratic. During a call, it sometimes work. But when I'm not on a call, it never worked.

I suggest you try the P series of Meelectronics headphones. I use Meelectronics M9 and the quality for the price is awesome. I ordered the M9P (P is at the end of every model that has microfone), can't wait to try it out.
On their website it says that many Android phones are supported (Defy is supported).
Phone Version Device Compatibility (designated as the P version)
M9P review. Other can be googled.

Well, i have some Apple In-Ear Headphones, but nor the Microphone to the Remote works correctly. The Microphone does not work at all, phone does not recieve any signalling from the headphone, the only thing is pressing middle-button produces a short circuit detected by the phone. Remote does not work correctly, middle-button does nothing at all and + and - buttons sort of double presses-hold the call button, so in some apps you can change tracks. In PowerAmp you can change to next track by pressing + or - button. In stock music player, pressing those just toggles play/pause and fire the music app.
I readed a lot about this and its something to do with the circuitery inside the remote, made to work on iPhones and iPods and not well understood by android phones. About the mic, my theory is that it does not work because of the resistance of the microphone inside, checked connections and should work, also tried with differents headphones w/mic and they worked....
definitly you should try them before, if you're planning getting those, maybe you're lucky and mic works like arvs0z and use "Headset Button Control" App to fix the issue about controls.
EDIT: Got them working almost flawlessly
Removing some resistors from the remote, i got the center button and microphone working, the only problem is that the microphone has very low imput gain, its almost unusable, got to get it VERY close to the mouth to get a very soft signal in phone. BTW the center button works almost prefectly, but + and - dont work at all.

arvs0z said:
I've tried them and yes the earphones and mic work flawlessly.
The buttons however are somewhat erratic. During a call, it sometimes work. But when I'm not on a call, it never worked.
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really how its possible I tried but mic is not working, somebody here said that due to some resister inside the mic so its work only with certain model and iphone only
Urvish

jollyb said:
I suggest you try the P series of Meelectronics headphones. I use Meelectronics M9 and the quality for the price is awesome. I ordered the M9P (P is at the end of every model that has microfone), can't wait to try it out.
On their website it says that many Android phones are supported (Defy is supported).
Phone Version Device Compatibility (designated as the P version)
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hey, and what you think about these Melectronics M9P? It is a good choice i think and i might also get one of these for myself!

Maybe of topic, but I used a pals Blackberry headset for couple of days and earphones and mic worked flawlessly. no music controls only the answer call button though.

your_login said:
hey, and what you think about these Melectronics M9P? It is a good choice i think and i might also get one of these for myself!
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Using the m9p and i'm very satisfied. Defy & m9p, perfect match. Music quality is awesome, switching songs, answering calls without a problem...

using apple headset too! works perfectly

lmxf said:
using apple headset too! works perfectly
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How did you get this working?
I tried my Samsung Galaxy S headphones in the Defy but they do not fit. I have Apple Iphone headphones (the one with a volume control and mic) and these work fine for music but I do not have music controls or MIC.

Anybody know where I can get stock defy earphones?
I really like them . But the left earpiece is broken
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I read lot of posts about Apple headsets, buts i can't find answer.
I have iPhone compatibble Logitech Ultimae Ears earphones with mic and three buttons like this:
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Earphones works, but microphone and buttons don't work (yes, i read threads about it) - i look headset have 4-pole JACK, but when connector is pluged in phone i can see last pole of JACK:
My question: my Defy have only stereo (3-pole) jack, or why i can't insert conector completly?
Thanks 4 answers.
sorry for my english

Defy has a 4 pole jack and that's exactly how my headphones' jack looks like (it's because of the jack position).

Male_zvire said:
I read lot of posts about Apple headsets, buts i can't find answer.
I have iPhone compatibble Logitech Ultimae Ears earphones with mic and three buttons
Earphones works, but microphone and buttons don't work (yes, i read threads about it)
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What version of UE headphones do you have? Did you ever get the microphone to work?

[Q] DIY controller form headphone jack

Hey i would like to control the volume the song selection (next , previous, pause ) and accept calls from the headphone jack.
I was wondering if it was possible to do all these things from a headphone jack and still pass trough the audio.
If it was possible i would like to control these aspects using a micro controller (attiny 85).
I am aware of some headsets which are capable of doing this so i thought it should be possible, but haven't found much on the subject.
I found an article and a diagram (hack a day) on how to achieve the song selection.But i stil don't know how i would accept and decline calls and control the volume.

I think the accept and decline calls feature would be the same as play pause. Not 100% sure but isn't it play pause on apple headsets that answers calls?
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ourtut said:
I think the accept and decline calls feature would be the same as play pause. Not 100% sure but isn't it play pause on apple headsets that answers calls?
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That could be the case, but i cant test that as i don'et own any kind of headset.

schpongo said:
That could be the case, but i cant test that as i don'et own any kind of headset.
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Check out this thread http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii/189523-final-soultion-why-most-headsets-wont-work.html Good luck!

Thx that was really helpful. Now i know that the volume is controlled by the the mic now i just need to know what i have to do there.
For example if i want to pause a song i need to ground the sleeve part ( the gold part of a TRRS headphone connector that is closest to the sleeve ) of the headphone jack. Now i just need to know how i can adjust the volume. Iv been looking on google but as of yet i have been unsuccessful .

Let me just copy and edit that text over here, because their website CSS is quite borked, misisng text......
In all of the following explanations- imagine that the tip of the plug is facing right.
The standard 3.5 mm headphones (no in-line controls on the cable) use the configuration of (from left to right)
TRS (Tip, Ring, Sleeve). The pin-out for these connections is: Left Audio, Right Audio, Ground.
Connection types for headphones with a mic (and newer ones with volume control) are configured in
TRRS (Tip, Ring, Ring, Sleeve).
On TRRS there are 2 types:
1. The original TRRS configuration was created by Nokia and has a pinout of: Left Audio, Right Audio, Mic, Ground.
2. Apple came along and in typical elitist fashion changed their pinout to: Left Audio, Right Audio, Ground, Mic.
This is why many apple headsets will not work with android, because the last 2 connections, for Mic and Ground are switched. The issue is with the hardware.
The way that songs are skipped (forwards, backwards, and pause) occurs by sending signals down the ground channel (when you tap the button it shoots an electrical signal that the phone will pick up and interpret).
The way that volume is increased/decreased occurs by sending signals down the Mic channel.
This is why- if you try a set of newer iPhone earbuds on the SGS3- as I have- the center button does nothing, but yet the volume up and volume down both pause tracks, and allow you to skip them!!
Additionally, Apple has patents on their TRRS connection- in fact on the resistances (the actual ohm resistance in-line on the controls- not to get scientific or anything
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) so that the headphones are designed to work only with Apple products. In other words- you could have a device with the same TRRS Pinout as apple products- but the headset wont work because the resistances (ohms) of the headphones send signals that your phone is not allowed to interpret into the correct actions (since apple patented these)​[djdosage]

Note 20 Ultra + two JBL Charge 4 sound distortions, cracking sound

Anyone else have the same setup and have sound problems?
I can connect to 1 speaker without getting cracking sound, but as soon as I connect the second speaker, distortions and cracking sound begins. Tried factory reset speakers, also tried switching main speaker, party mode and stereo mode, same results =/
Its Note 20 Ultra related, cause our Galaxy S20 or Tab S6 do not create this sound error when they connect to the same JBL Speakers.

They're bt?
Connections>Bluetooth>Advanced
Play with the settings there.

I don't know if it can solve the issue, but if it's Bluetooth connected, you can first try to disable absolute volume in the developer settings.
For it to work a reboot of the phone may be needed.
It basically makes the volume control of the Bluetooth devices independent of the phone's one, but oddly enough it changes the sound quality for the better on my side, and I've read it can solve some issues.

Sounds like bandwidth problems.
Might be the n20u is struggling to keep the data rate up.

corb06 said:
Anyone else have the same setup and have sound problems?
I can connect to 1 speaker without getting cracking sound, but as soon as I connect the second speaker, distortions and cracking sound begins. Tried factory reset speakers, also tried switching main speaker, party mode and stereo mode, same results =/
Its Note 20 Ultra related, cause our Galaxy S20 or Tab S6 do not create this sound error when they connect to the same JBL Speakers.
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Check in developer options, there are a load of BT settings you can change in there, including AVRCP, my JBL earphones use AVRCP 1.5 (1.4 set as default) also the codec used can be change, bits per sample etc
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blackhawk said:
They're bt?
Connections>Bluetooth>Advanced
Play with the settings there.
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Not much settings there to change around.
Nastrahl said:
I don't know if it can solve the issue, but if it's Bluetooth connected, you can first try to disable absolute volume in the developer settings.
For it to work a reboot of the phone may be needed.
It basically makes the volume control of the Bluetooth devices independent of the phone's one, but oddly enough it changes the sound quality for the better on my side, and I've read it can solve some issues.
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OK, Ill look into that. However this doesnt seem to be volume affected, cause its making interferance sound on low and high volumes. I think it makes less interferance when music isnt as intesive though...
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Sounds like bandwidth problems.
Might be the n20u is struggling to keep the data rate up.
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Yeah. Today I tried connecting both speakers at same time with its own bluetooth connection to the phone, and it worked flawlessly. But when I use dual Bluetooth from phone, I dont get the speakers in Stereo mode, so it looses the entire point of having two of these JBL speakers. When I connect to one speaker and have the audio link to the next speaker with JBL connect, the interfernence, cracking noise starts at once. Almost like its loosing connection. And it doesnt matter if its close or 10 meters from speakers. Also tried disconnecting my SmartWatch from phone, disabled Wifi, mobile data and lots of stuff.
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Check in developer options, there are a load of BT settings you can change in there, including AVRCP, my JBL earphones use AVRCP 1.5 (1.4 set as default) also the codec used can be change, bits per sample etc
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Interesting find, never saw this before. I will definately look into this, might be a solution here somewhere...

corb06 said:
Not much settings there to change around.
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Just 2 toggles on my version. Try toggling them.
Easy voodoo fix if it works...
Samsung has had a lot of issues with these screwing up bt sound on Buds. One of the latest Wearables updates finally fixed it I think after over 2 years.

Hi
I have the same problem with n10 plus and Xtreme 2
I change to boombox 2 and solved the problem
Problem was compatible from Samsung bt5 to jbl bt4. 2
After change jbl to bt5.1 the problem was solved

How To Guide Increase Soundquality of the Nothing Phone 1 Speakers tenfold. [Non-Root]

This tuning has been tweaked by my ear with year long experience as a listener to Hi-Fi gear.
My goal was to create a smooth natural sound-response, that minimizes fatigue.
It took me about 5 hours to measure the best result that should compensate most if not all volume levels.
It is supposed to only work with the Nothing Phone 1 to sound as intended.
Resonancy from the ear-piece is more likelier to appear but not concerning, as it is just air causing interference with the grill.
Resultpreview: https://voca.ro/1iKHHjX18Lak
1. Download the App Wavelet from Playstore. Wavelet is free, without battery or privacy concerns and pretty smart.
It knows what device you currently use and switches profiles accordingly.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=wavelet&c=apps
2. Enable legacy mode in Wavelet on the Symbol bottom left and apply all values that you can see in the Screenshot. (Channel balance can be turned off, if you prefer higher volume instead of better Stereo-seperation in Landscape.)
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3. Enjoy actual music and have fun.

Will check the app out! Cheers

Thanks for sharing that it sounds wayyy better! Been using Wavelet for the last few weeks for headphones but didn't think to play around so much with custom stuff

Wow thank you! It really is like night and day.

Spectacular. Thank you!

What a difference that made. Massive music improvement. Thanks for sharing

This sounds so much better, thanks!

Yes, thanks a lot.

Difference is impressive yes, but it's weird with this settings i have some tracks (music) crackeling, hope it's just saturated frequencies, not push so much the loudspeakers.

Does this only affect sound through the speaker or will the settings affect my bluetooth audio as well?

sirleeksalot said:
Does this only affect sound through the speaker or will the settings affect my bluetooth audio as well?
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No
It these settings only available for speakers .
While when you connect Bluetooth device , you gets different Bluetooth devices settings yiu can tune ot as per requirement

Pho3nX said:
Difference is impressive yes, but it's weird with this settings i have some tracks (music) crackeling, hope it's just saturated frequencies, not push so much the loudspeakers.
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the crackling you hear is air created by interferences with the grill that stops dust and dirt particles and only appears on the earpiece for me. i'm pretty sure that a damage is highly unlikely to appear by these distortions. the phone even on stock is borderline distorting at max volume.
from my experience this varies heavily on the genre you pick. i tend to have most crackling when listening to male singing or podcast voices but nothing when listening to drum n bass or dubstep tracks for example. i rarely listen at max volume though. it works with all stock ringtones too.
i designed this EQ curve to work with all volume levels but most importantly to be focused around 40% to 70%, because this is the volumerange i mainly listen to when watching youtube or gaming.

Cuerex said:
the crackling you hear is air created by interferences with the grill that stops dust and dirt particles and only appears on the earpiece for me. i'm pretty sure that a damage is highly unlikely to appear by these distortions. the phone even on stock is borderline distorting at max volume.
from my experience this varies heavily on the genre you pick. i tend to have most crackling when listening to male singing or podcast voices but nothing when listening to drum n bass or dubstep tracks for example. i rarely listen at max volume though. it works with all stock ringtones too.
i designed this EQ curve to work with all volume levels but most importantly to be focused around 40% to 70%, because this is the volumerange i mainly listen to when watching youtube or gaming.
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It's really on rare tracks like : L'Impératrice — SONATE PACIFIQUE
I listen this track on Deezer
Thanks for your thread and reply

Pho3nX said:
It's really on rare tracks like : L'Impératrice — SONATE PACIFIQUE
I listen this track on Deezer
Thanks for your thread and reply
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the song is pretty good. here is something that you might like in return
https://soundcloud.com/lafelix%2Fleila-miami-horrorla-felix-remix

Simply brilliant, makes the phone's audio quality up to a great level either to speaker or headphone. Nicely done mates!

Will this work if set once and forgotten, even if the app isn't running in the background?

impressive. This sounds so much better. Nothing has to read this thread and make this equalizer changes part of the firmware, this is such a big improvement

Definitely an improvement!

Brilliant. Thank you!

Cuerex said:
This tuning has been tweaked by my ear with year long experience as a listener to Hi-Fi gear.
My goal was to create a smooth natural sound-response, that minimizes fatigue.
It took me about 5 hours to measure the best result that should compensate most if not all volume levels.
It is supposed to only work with the Nothing Phone 1 to sound as intended.
Resonancy from the ear-piece is more likelier to appear but not concerning, as it is just air causing interference with the grill.
Resultpreview: https://voca.ro/1iKHHjX18Lak
1. Download the App Wavelet from Playstore. Wavelet is free, without battery or privacy concerns and pretty smart.
It knows what device you currently use and switches profiles accordingly.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=wavelet&c=apps
2. Enable legacy mode in Wavelet on the Symbol bottom left and apply all values that you can see in the Screenshot. (Channel balance can be turned off, if you prefer higher volume instead of better Stereo-seperation in Landscape.)
3. Enjoy actual music and have fun.
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That really makes a difference!
Thanks a lot for that tweak!