I’m sure you’re right Franz.
Other manufacturers seem to manage it Slim sure Anker can too!
UPDATE Soundcore Wakey Wakey Review
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we had thought last year or the year before that they might but chatter on that as of late had been pretty dead. The wakey still is a cool device Im just a little bummed because they could have run with it and made it even better
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DAB would be fine, but I don’t know if there are so many HD-radio stations in the USA.
The DAB station network is sufficient here in Germany, though there are
regions lacking of it.
München is perfect.
I use only a piece of wire for the antenna.
More than 30 stations.
But meanwhile I prefer that
Swiss internet radio.
No comments, no news, only classical music.
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Yes Franz. I wouldn’t need DAB if it had Internet Radio.
That, I assume, would make it universal.
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Meanwhile I play that Swiss station the whole day.
The speaker is located in front of me in the height of my ears.
Perfect.
There are many internet radio stations around.
But I want listen to music, detect unknown composers.
Dont need any comments, news etc.
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It still shows up on the soundcore website for me ( https://us.soundcore.com/products/a3300121?_pos=1&_sid=e0fd4a8aa&_ss=r ) and it let me add it to my cart and get to the checkout screen.
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Maybe they are out of stock right now
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Hello there, I bought the Wakey for myself and for my mother about 2 years ago (Summer 2019), I am in love with it. Just a couple of days ago (October 2021), I bought a couple more; a Black for my office (work) and White for my sister.
I was really shocked to see the brightness to be extremely dim to the point you barely see text on highest setting. I took it home to compare it with the one I got in 2019, and you can see the the difference in Brightness. The White one was matching my old black one but the issue is with the new black.
note: Top is Old and Bottom is new. Both are set on MAX brightness (manually). I also noticed that the symbols/icons printed on the Wakey unit are more brighter in the new one vs old one.
I see your unit had extremely bright LED like a flash light (you cannot see the LED dots), in my case its extremely dim that if you look at it in a slight angle you cannot see any text at all and if you set lowest brightness you barely see any light.
I took it to the Authorized dealer, they did open two additional units (a white one and a black one), checked the brightness which matched the too dim one. I left the Wakey for their workshop to figure why its very dim, if they cannot figure it out I will sadly return and refund it.
I am not sure if a feedback here would be useful to: 1- Point out if there was any changes in the LED/Brightness setting or design or simply a flaw in LED choice. and; 2- to suggest to make it with a wider range of brightness with ability to set range or category as (bedroom/office) to auto adjust the brightness. Maybe in the future design.
Anyways, I’m waiting on workshop reply. I really hope they manage to fix this brightness issue.
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This is a true question for the support.
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Very nice and honest review. Well done!
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Hey @Ivoryian
Glad to hear your a fan of the Wakey.
Isn’t it odd that the original was far to bright even on lowest setting and now it appears the brightness is too low.
Please feedback what you hear from the dealer, it will be interesting to know if the units are faulty or whether Anker has addressed the brightness issue but gone too far!
As you say, what’s needed is a wider range of brightness.
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I’d check:
- is this supported in the Soundcore app? This may have moved into a configurable setting.
- if you find the Soundcore app supports the Wakey, then play with the options.
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Agreed a wider range would be better not them forcing it to be dim. People complained it was to bright at night but if they make it really dim like this you won’t be able to see it during the day either
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Hey @professor
@Ivoryian The Soundcore app gives manual control over the brightness when Auto is turned off.
Yes @ktkundy
They just need a variable scale from its lowest to highest.
You can do that with a £5 LED torch so it’s achievable on a £100 alarm clock!
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I tried everything in the app before visiting the authorized dealer. That includes installing the app on 2 different phones (hoping it might be a glitch). Also changing power adapter -since we have 3 other Wakeys in the house- (in case the new didnt’ deliver enough voltage/current) but Nope, the lights are dim in all scenarios. Also Soundcore App’s Wakey settings are very basic.
- LED off/on.
- Auto-brightness (or Manual Brightness of 5 levels).
- Nightmode (set period time when the LED should be off).
So, nope. it seems that there is an issue with not enough power delivered to the LEDs. This would make sense; more power delivered = the more brighter. in Mr. Paul’s case, the LED are receiving too much power hence the super bright LEDs.
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If the the brightness doesn’t change the item seems really defective
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I don’t think it’s defective, I remember early on people complained the led lights were too bright even when dimmed all the way down. So they revised it and made the lights dimmer as to satisfy those who requires a not so bright led panel
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But if there is no change when adjusting the brightness per app? 
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