I would grab these anker earbuds for $15 ASAP if I were you! I'm not just saying this cause they are on sale but they are the best non airpods I've ever used. No connection issues with the sense player or Iphone SE 2 running IOS 18. 6-7 hours on the buds and 40 something hours for the case in terms of battery, the specs on the case battery say 700MAH which is pretty amazing. Go go go!
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If that gaming mode setting could work on the sense player, it would be perfect. Even for $20 which they are usually on sale for, its still a great price!
With that being said, the airpods style fit my little ears perfectly. If you don't like those, you won't like these.
Gaming mode update. Here is how I finally got it working on the sense player. Connect the buds to IOS first and turn on gaming mode from the app. If you tap on sound effect soundcore signature, you will get a message like "Gaming mode is turned on, to use EQ turn it off." You will also notice the incredibly decreased latency. Turn off bluetooth on IOS so that the buds play their musical disconnect tone. Connect to the sense player, open the app and gaming mode will be on as you can check through the message above. Again, decreased latency, not as much as IOS but that nice EQ profile is there. If you lock the player, bluetooth turns off and the buds disconnect. When you unlock, gaming mode will still be on. Put the buds in their case however and gaming mode turns off. So you have to start from step 1 again. I will call anker tomorrow to see if they can add gaming mode as a toggle using touch controls like other models have. No reason why not, its just a simple firmware update.
When gaming mode is successfully toggled on/off, you will hear confirmation tones. On the sense player, it does toggle on/off but no tone is played and the EQ can still be adjusted. So it appears to be remembered between devices, guess it is a hardware setting but unfortunately unlike all the other settings such as EQ and touch controls, it goes away when put in the case. IMO its quite weird if you ask me. Perhaps if it is added as a touch toggle, it will stay permanently on?
Another gaming mode sense player update. I reset the earbuds just to have a clean start. Go to the gaming mode switch and use the command to start and stop a hold, press 0 twice in about 2 seconds. Toggle the switch to on, you will hear the confirm tone and gaming mode will be activated. From what I am seeing so far, when you insert/remove them from the case, gaming mode will stay activated. More updates as I experiment.
@jpellis2008 So if they're actually able to pull off this level of low-latency with Bluetooth: then couldn't Shokz theoretically address this with a firmware update?
@jackf723 I honestly don't know, I suppose so.
I was thinking of trying to record a demo but I guess the only way is to hold a bud up to a microphone and pump up the volume?