(NEW) JBL Tune 225TWS True Wireless Earbuds

I have a JBL pill speaker, I got my wife some T225 ear buds that worked great, and I bought a car with a JBL sound system that sounds amazing, so I was happy to choose JBL's again for upgrading my own earbuds. I don't know if I just got a defective set or something, but I have had trouble with them almost from the start.1) Sound issuesI use my earbuds daily: when I walk my dogs at night and also if my workout that day requires them over the pill speaker. Any time I would have my phone in my right pocket I would have issues with the sound. Whether it was the sound cutting out completely, slowing down, or speeding up, I would get maybe about 5-7 seconds of good playback followed by 7-10s of issues. If I take my phone out of my right pocket and hold it in my right hand it works better but I still have some issues, and the same is true if I put it in my left pocket.The only way the headphones work correctly is if I am holding my phone in my left hand and have it raised part of the way up to my ear. So when I workout I have to suffer through the sound issues for any exercise where I don't have my left hand free to hold my phone up. I can walk my two medium sized dogs just fine as long as I hold both leashes in my right hand and carry my phone in my left. It's obviously far from ideal, and far from how all my other JBL devices seem to work just fine.2) Charging issuesCharging seemed to work fine for about a month after I purchased these. But now they just do not charge at all. I've tried various plug and cable combinations, all of which work for my other JBL devices, but nothing will charge these things now. So they are essentially dead now, naturally after my window for a refund has passed.3) Unwanted connection issuesAfter using these I would put them in their pod, which is supposed to shut them off. But instead they remain on and connected to my phone. If I disconnect them they just eventually reconnect. If I manually turn them off and place them in the pod, usually around 30 minutes later they are somehow back on and connected to my phone. It got to the point that I had to have bluetooth turned off when I wasn't using these to prevent them from messing up use of my phone.