Moto X: Headphones don't work ONLY on phone

[yeowzuhx3]

The aux jack in the car works fine. The jack is NOT dirty. The headphone works on my cheap Sansa mp3 player yet when I try to use them on my new $500 Moto X the music player (whether on Pandora or internal storage) will not play. The app opens fine but for some weird reason will not play. I don't use the voice command because I've read that it has issues. But when I press the arrow, I get a millisecond of sound then it pauses again. It worked fine 2 days ago and I have not installed any updates this week that I know of. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. The piece of c**p Samsung I just got rid of was riddled with issues but it at least worked with the headphones. If I had not paid so much for the device I would have thrown it in the garbage.

 

[mojofusion]

Re: Headphones don't work ONLY on phone

Sorry man. I had a pair of headphones with a mic built in. The jack on the moto x is not built for that and I had to use something without a mic built in. Works better now.

 

[NickLippert]

Re: Headphones don't work ONLY on phone

Sorry man. I had a pair of headphones with a mic built in. The jack on the moto x is not built for that and I had to use something without a mic built in. Works better now.

I use headphones with a built-in mic and don't have any issues at all.

 

[someguy01234]

Re: Headphones don't work ONLY on phone

Is this using regular headphones or headset with mic built in? There could be a mismatch between headset standards.

A note on headset standards: OMTP, AHJ and Apple - Windows Phone Central Forums

If this isn't the case and you tried different headsets, then it could be issue with the phone itself.

 

[Seadna]

Re: Headphones don't work ONLY on phone

Hi
I have the exact same problem as you (same description of the play, pause, play, pause crap) but my Moto only does this when plugged into the AUX jack for the car. I wonder if I'm using the wrong type of jack? Very annoying indeed.