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How to Program a Starkey S Series Hearing Aid by Phone

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The Starkey S series hearing aid is a brand new hearing aid, with patented technology that eliminates feedback and has special new programming availability. I was recently fitted with the first of these in my region, and can tell you precisely how to adjust their programming with a phone. The S series has what it calls T2 (for touch tone) technology. A new feature for hearing aids, it will now allow hearing aid wearers the ability to turn their hearing aid up and down as needed with a touch tone phone system nearby.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Starkey S Series hearing aid
  • Touch Tone Phone
  1. Step 1

    First off you must have a touch tone phone, and it will need to be in front of you so if you use your cell phone you must have it on speaker phone and directly in front of the hearing aid. The items that you can alter on the phone menu are the volume, the memory, and you may mute the hearing aids.

  2. Step 2

    Make sure you are in a quiet room and are using a touch tone phone or a cell phone that does tones on button presses and not alternatives.
    Hold the phone about three inches from the ear and hearing aid.

  3. Step 3

    Press the star key twice (**) this will wake up the T2 technology and alert the hearing aid to accept the command.

  4. Step 4

    The two key will raise the volume and the 8 key will lower the volume.
    The four key will take the memory number down and the 6 key will take the memory number up.
    The zero key will toggle a mute/unmute on the hearing aid.

  5. Step 5

    The T2 technology phone programming for the Starkey S Series will “sleep” and become unable to program after 20 seconds.
    All Starkey S series hearing aids will come with this T2 technology and be able to be raised or lowered with a phone.

Tips & Warnings
  • This is a great feature if you are needing a little extra volume in some situation and lower in some other situation and do not want to have to go to the audiologist several times to have your hearing aids reprogrammed. This morning I bumped my hearing aids up in volume to hear faint sounds better, and have now bumped them back down to what they were originally programmed to be. This feature makes the S series one of the finest hearing aids I’ve ever seen.
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