ReSound Smart for Android

Doesn’t connect. No support either.

The Google Watch complication disappeared with the most recent update. Please bring it back.

Try to pair this app w/ my Android and it recognized them and in settings my phone recognizes them but the app won’t work. Tried 10 times. Not worth the time.

For the last 14 years, I have worn a Cochlear BAHA processor on my left ear. I started with the very basic BAHA 3 which lacked any integration. I then upgraded to BAHA 5 which integrated to my Android and Mobile systems. I later learned the BAHA 5 had a number of available accessories and all of the accessories were made by Resound. While Resound certainly helped Cochlear crawl into the 21st century by finally offering: 1) Remote control device with features exceeding Android’s initial user options 2) TV sound pro which allowed several users if either Cochlear systems or Resound systems to hear TV while hearing person could rely on traditional sound equipment. There is even a video in the cochlear website showing a BAHA user connect to the TV sound system while another makes a lot of background noise while vacuuming. A few years later, our family began using ROKU devices to control every TV in our house. ROKU has a “private listening” option which would forward the audio from your TV to your main cell phone or tablet, any wired or wireless headphones she may have, AND any Made for Android hearing aids. I was able to choose either hearing aid or the Cochlear device for my private listening. This was amazing and cheaper than the TV accessory. The only downside I have found so far is that Roku doesn’t offer the option to play the external sounds while using personal hearing device. 3) Resound would not connect, recognize or control any of my Cochlear devices despite using the SAME devices and the fact they built the devices. Resound, for examples had Google Sarch support which allowed its users to quickly switch profiles from the watch. BAHA R lacked any similar feature. 4) fast forward a few years later and 8 learn I now need the more powerful amplifier system in the BAHA 6. Resound still makes the Cochlear accessories. This time, however, Cochlear integrated with IOS and Resound’s equipment . One of many neat features for the BAHA 6 is its option for all hearing aids and hearing devices like a cochlear implant, have the option to select LIVE LISTEN. I find myself trying to make LIVE LISTEN work for me when I am in a large restaurant with a number of guests. I also travel with my Android and Mobile and I am almost always wearing my Google Watch. While the BAHA 6 watch app does allow me to change profiles, which Resound provided to its customers years before Cochlear, there is no option to turn my Google Watch to Live Listen. The watch has a good speaker for this use and it would be much easier for my friends and family to play “hot potato” with my Watch while they are speaking. Resound appears to have a robust iOS development team and I wish they would allow Cochlear users to to also try your new features, even if it’s an unsupported BETA test for us. Since it appears that RESOUND and Cochlear had a minimal contract for these accessories, if Resound were to open their software to Cochlear customers, unofficially, they could develop significant statistics to Cochlear about the features their clients are using best when it comes to renegotiate the next production line. In the meantime, I am currently using a different hearing aid brand in my better, yet still needing assistance, ear. I would love to upgrade that to Resound so that my devices would community better but I am really unable to explore such integration until I have spent thousands of dollars on a single Resound hearing aid.

Please fix this app to work with iOS 16, it keeps making me pair my hearing aid. Deaf in my left ear I depend on this HA and Android connectivity to work.