Heaphone Jack no longer works

[jayj4343]

Do you accept pay pal.. lol seriously though thanks

 

[Sylvester Womack]

Thanks, Straightening out a paperclip and digging around in the jack with the phone upside down worked for me.

 

[Radu Constantinescu]

this happened to me 2....
the thing with the headphones....it sucks.

 

[Sean K1]

My razor Maxx broke around October and i eventually got a replacement, now about two weeks ago it broke again. The store said that this wasn't a known problem... ill be taking me second one in shortly. I use my phone as my primary mp3 player, as i lost or sold my past ipods. Every day in school I usually listen to around an hour to two hours of music, and not being able to kinda blows. Just for a final kick in the balls i just got really nice headphones...

 

[pinguino50]

My 2 cents for this thread !!
My Vivid has the same problem; I was very worry about, so I checked inside and see nothing, all shinny and clean.
I grab some 96 grade alcohol and a toothpick, I cleaned inside and try to wiggle all around; after that done wet the tip of my well cleaned earphones, connect and disconnect; blow well and VOILA !!
all is working fine again ! Thanks you guys rock !!

 

[Derek Anderson]

Plugging in headphones, making a call, switching to speakerphone, disconnecting the headphones and reconnecting the headphones worked for me.

 

[Ben Feldman]

I found that I didn't have much lint in the headphone jack, but the inside of mine was dirty and not making good contact.

Here's what worked for me:

1. Turn off your phone
2. find a q-tip and remove+discard some of the cotton so the q-tip is small enough to fit snugly down into the headphone jack
3. dip the end of the q-tip in rubbing alcohol
4. Stick the wet q-tip into the headphone jack and spin it around a few times. Work it in and out a few times
5. Pull the q-tip out and let the phone sit for a half hour or so
6. power it up, and you should be back in business.

 

[isaacdibb1095]

You could also try a damp toothpick and stick it in there and just pull out in all directions and hopefully you will get some lint out.
Hope this helps-
Isaac

 

[Gregory Cole]

Hello. I too experienced this problem and like another reply I cleaned the port with a paper clip then sucked out a very small partical came out. Fixed!

 

[juantenorio12]

This happened to me on my DX. Turns out, lint from my pocket got down in there. Dumb sounding, I know. Bend a staple so it's pretty straight, hold the phone upside down and dig around in there a little. Then mail me a $0.25 tip if that was it

Holy crap! I've already sent my first phone back because of this problem. Now it's doing it again and I thought I'd have to send it in again. Then I saw your post, straightened a stapler, and viola! A big ol' piece of lint! Where do I send the $0.25?!

 

[Unforgiven88]

Ok. It looks like this is a somewhat old thread and the "digging around with a paperclip, toothpick, etc." method works pretty well for everyone. It, however did not work for me. So, with an electron microscope, I peered into the headphone jack on the phone... I noticed at the very top of the 3.5mm hole there is a shiny copper connector at the front side of the hole, that, if you push on it with a toothpick, it moves. Sort of like a tiny switch. Whenever I push the headphone cord toward the little switch, the music cuts out.

So I took a tiny plastic sticker that happened to be laying around and cut a thin strip off of it (about 1/8 inch x 1 inch), then wrapped it around the "top" of the connector on the headphone cord. ABRACADABRA!! It works with no problem! Music doesn't cut out anymore even when I giggle the cord. I assume that little switch (as I so like to call it) must be for a headset with a mic?? Either way, this is my fix and I thought I would share in case anyone still had problems!

I tried to upload pics from my other phone but I'm not sure how on this forum :'(

 

[Michael Grandmaison]

Re: Heaphone Jack no longer works (I FIXED IT LIKE THIS AFTER TRYING EVERY OTHER OPTION)

( I would like to point out that the paperclip was Metal not coated in plastice, hence not making an electrical current flow through)

Hope this helps at least 1 person

I have a motorola rzr V and I fixed it by getting a small paper clip and bending it straight enough to reach the bottom. I sttuck it doqn to the botom and wiggled it with my music player playing through the speaker. Once i held it in a certain position touchin the bottom metal connection and side connection near the top the speaker finally turned off. I then plugged the headphones in and instantly they worked

 

[sixshot21]

Re: Heaphone Jack no longer works (I FIXED IT LIKE THIS AFTER TRYING EVERY OTHER OPTION)

I just resolved my headphone jack issue 20 Minutes before posting this comment. My headphones were working fine until one day they stopped working. Whenever I plugged them in the sound still played from the phone speaker instead of the earphones. After a lot of frustration and trying different things, finally I took a qtip and dipped one end of it in alcohol. Then I put it in the headphone jack hoping this would clean out any deposits that may be affecting the jack. I plugged in my headphones and they instantly started to play again,but I noticed then that the phone speaker no longer played, crazy right? To remedy this there's a app called sound about in the app store. It allows u to switch from phone speaker to headset jack when needed. I hope this helps someone.

 

[mremoji]

I'm on I think my 5th Razr Maxx. I think there's a problem with the headphone jack because after a few months of normal use this always happens, without fail. The headphone jack is quite weak on it, I must say.

 

[clownin72]

Does anyone know if the maxx hd has the same headphone jack issues, I'm tired of it already and thinking of going to it

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[Ivanne Rivera]

i have a droid razr HD and it doesnt matter what i plug into the jack (aux cable or headphones) i have the constant static and glitchy sound. I did a search to see if anyone had input on how to fix. glad to see i am not alone. really annoying tho.

 

[clownin72]

Well that's no good. Maybe I'll try to jump to the droid maxx now instead

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[Shawna yang]

will rebooting help anot?

 

[Andras Joo]

This happened to me on my DX. Turns out, lint from my pocket got down in there. Dumb sounding, I know. Bend a staple so it's pretty straight, hold the phone upside down and dig around in there a little. Then mail me a $0.25 tip if that was it

THANKS Bro, you saved my ***! The silliest thing I ever heard but it really happens! I had a fraction of chewing gum packaging fallen into my phones' jack while it was in my pocket! wow

(Actually i could feel the plug not fitting perfectly, but it was such a minor difference - few tenth of a millimeter? - that i just didn't take notice...)

So guys before the panic begins, first take a torchlight and a needle...

 

[InfinitiFX35]

My headphone jack stopped working. I dug out a piece of lint/debris with a paperclip, and now it works. LOL