Oh, best believe I tried. I would open up the buds case and as soon as I saw the banners, I would mash on one, hoping it would open up another app or window where I could find this magical setting. Neither one of the notifications banners is clickable, and I think they act more as announcements that I have access to snapdragon sound...except I don't. At least not with these particular earbuds.
Like I said, I have Denon PerL Pros, which have no problem accessing Snapdragon Sound and AptX Lossless, but it's the principle of the situation. I just can't stop my brain from wanting to fix this problem. Maybe it's these particular buds not playing nice with this particular model, as it looks like you have no problem with your +/ultra model.
Once again, thanks for the suggestions and help. I'm about ready to just call it a loss and convince myself it's okay to have earbuds that connect strictly to mono sound LC3 codec on this device.