One thing that all echo buds’ users can say with absolute certainty is that they bring about great convenience. When you want to multi-task but are eager to keep glued to your device, echo buds allow you to do just that. While tucked in your ears, you can perform any other task you want knowing that any notification you get on your device will instantly reach you. You can even make phone calls while your phone is at a distance. If you are taking your morning run or just out and about, you can listen to your favourite music with ease. 

However, like most other tech devices, echo buds can run into challenges. This may be a result of different factors from them accumulating earwax build-up dirt as they are tucked in your ear to them jamming owing to firmware problems. Regardless of the problem that your echo buds may be having, there is one sure way that you can correct the problem once and for all. This entails performing a factory reset of the echo buds. 

How to Factory Reset your Amazon Echo Buds

Well, before we start highlighting the step-by-step guide to performing the factory reset of your echo buds, we just want to state that it’s recommended to troubleshoot and employ the quick fixes first. you can learn more about troubleshooting all echo buds’ problems in our comprehensive Music or Media Isn’t Playing with Echo Buds article. Only when the quick fixes outlined in that article fail to work can you proceed to do a factory reset. 

Step-by-Step Guide to Performing the Factory Reset 

1. Start by grabbing your smartphone and launch the Alexa App (If Alexa is not responding check here)
2. Once the app launches, click on the ‘Devices’ option 
3. Proceed to click the ‘All Devices’ option to search for the echo buds
4. When you locate the echo buds, tap on the echo buds tab and proceed to click the ‘Select Device’ option 
5. The next step is to unpair the echo buds from the device’s Bluetooth settings 
6. Properly place your echo buds in their charging case ensuring that their sensors are in line with the charging pointers 
7. Close the case and long click the button on the case for 15 seconds 
8. Only stop the long click once the LED light on the case turns solid orange. At this point, the factory reset will be complete 
9. Open the Alexa App once more and proceed to open the charging case 
10. After opening the charging case, when the LED light turns blue, you can now reconnect the echo buds to your device. (solve Echo Bud pairing problems here)

Round Up 

Once you do a factory reset, it’s almost a guarantee that any problems you may have been having before will be gone. You can thus reconnect the echo buds to your device and expect the very best of Amazon’s great innovation. It’s important however to unpair the echo device from any other paired devices be it a laptop or tablet before you attempt to reconnect the echo buds and your device.