
- DOWNGRADE BOSE QC35 FIRMWARE UPDATE
- DOWNGRADE BOSE QC35 FIRMWARE PATCH
- DOWNGRADE BOSE QC35 FIRMWARE SOFTWARE
So who really owns your Bose QC35 headphones?
Leave your views/complaints on the Bose Community website to hopefully make them acknowledge this and fix it for good. The customers who did say the returned units were just as bad. Send it back to Bose for replacement/repairs but good luck. Yes it’s a tad complex but unfortunately Bose doesn’t support this, nor do they even explain what each version contains, so do this at your own risk. Downgrade downgrade your Bose QuietComfort 35 II from 4.5.2 to 3.1.8. Coincidence or not I’ll leave this to the conspiracy experts to debate. However the timing of these degrading version updates coincides with the more expensive Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 release. Whether intentional or not, one has to question whether Bose took the $9 an hour engineer outsource route (Boeing is famous for doing so with their 737 MAX MCAS) because something like this surely could not happen if they owned the whole release process and had QA. DOWNGRADE BOSE QC35 FIRMWARE UPDATE
Source: Bose Update RUINS Noise Cancelling? (TESTED). And Bose is listening by stating that nothing has changed in the ACN and that their tests reveal all is good and square.
Even the Bose Community is flooded with customer complaints. Videos are popping up confirming everyones worst fears while Bose social/marketing reps deny any sound degradation. A quick google for “Bose qc35 noise issues” revealed a bucket load of sites where Bose QC35 II owners complain of degraded noise after this dirty version upgrade. There was something wrong with the v4.5.2 firmware update. WTF! I tried the 2 ACN noise levels (high and low) and both were indistinguishable. I sat there in the library hearing the photocopier and background chatter. Sound Quality DegradationĪfter the update, the noise cancelling quality of my QC35 II was degraded. Just like when I update my iPhone or MBP I get better performance and maybe few new bells and whistles (features). I’m sure it was from habit an expectation of better things to come from an update. I have no idea why I installed the firmware update since the headphones were working flawlessly. DOWNGRADE BOSE QC35 FIRMWARE PATCH
And manufacturers will send updates over the internet to patch things up. Thus is the nature (complexity) of the beast.
DOWNGRADE BOSE QC35 FIRMWARE SOFTWARE
This is orchestrated by a small onboard computer (think Arduino) running custom Bose software to run and manage the hardware. You see, the Bose QC35 II has a computer inside which uses the multiple microphones places strategically to listen to incoming noise and cancel out the sound waves. That is until I upgraded to firmware 4.5.2. Noise inside planes reaches 80db, the sound of a vacuum cleaner near your ears on a trip from San Francisco to Sydney has shown over time to damage ear drums. I also sold my wife on these as a solution for plane travel. The ANC (Active Noise Cancelling) was superb! I was so excited I started showcasing (marketing for Bose) to all my software engineers and entrepreneurs, who like me seek silence to do their focused work, how their lives will change. Until that it, a $300 Bose QC35 II became my friends, even if it was for a short period of time.ĭuring this short period of time they were amazing. The beautiful world we live in today is very noisy, from cars to traffic lights to photocopiers to background chatter, and it’s something some of us have learnt to live with while others suffer from the disruption. I was excited to finally get my hands on the new Bose QC35 II because noise simply annoys me more than the average bear.