You need to run the Jawbone Updater software from a native Windows operating system (no VMs involved).Īnd that’s it, your Jawbone Mini Jambox is good to go for a little longer. I did try initially doing this via VMWare Fusion, running a Windows 8.1 VM inside my Mac OS X. Just download the Jawbone MINI JAMBOX Speaker Firmware Updater 2.2.5 driver and start the installation (keeping in mind that the Others device must be at the. In order to properly upgrade the language pack of your Jawbone Mini Jambox you should be running on Windows and use the Windows “Jawbone Updater.exe”. Voilá, your Jambox should now be in recovery mode and you can flash it/upgrade it with a new language package.While still holding the button, plug the Mini Jambox to a power source.Press and hold the Play/Pause button (circular button on top).The good news is that this is recoverable. I use a macbook and I can confirm that if you try to use the Mac Jawbone Updater 2.2.5 to update/change the language pack of your Jawbone Mini Jambox, the upgrade will fail and you will end up with a bricked speaker. Luckily, before Jawbone’s website was completely taken down, Robert decided to capture all the latest software and posted it elsewhere with instructions on how to update. To make it a little gloomier, their website was completely taken down and they never really open sourced the code for their hardware nor did they post to some third-party website the last state of all the software for their products. So Jawbone went under in 2017 ( (company)) so not an awful lot of hopes they will provide any new software or update the old one.

This is a post for the unlikely event that you find yourself owning an old ‘ Jawbone Jambox Mini‘ **and** you want to change the voice pack back to original/default, after you spent a couple of years using the Japanese one – a voice pack you don’t really understand but thought it would be entertaining to listen to a new voice when you turn on the speaker.

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