Headphone Jack problems? Anyone else?

[RRollergod]

Recently I have been using my Bose earbuds that have the mic in them for calls. It also has a button on it to play/pause music and answer calls. They work perfect on any other device or computer, but as soon as I put them in my droid the slightest movement will stop the sound (As if I pressed the play button), mute the sound temporarily, phase the sound (L/R (one stops or vice versa)), or distort the sound. I may be going into the Verizon store today to get the phone replaced under warranty. Anyone else experience problems such as these?

 

[equus]

Recently I have been using my Bose earbuds that have the mic in them for calls. It also has a button on it to play/pause music and answer calls. They work perfect on any other device or computer, but as soon as I put them in my droid the slightest movement will stop the sound (As if I pressed the play button), mute the sound temporarily, phase the sound (L/R (one stops or vice versa)), or distort the sound. I may be going into the Verizon store today to get the phone replaced under warranty. Anyone else experience problems such as these?

I would take a skinny cotton swab, dip it in rubbing alcohol, (dont make it drippy) take it down the headphone jack couple of times and see if there is any dirt or lint stuck then retry the headset. Sometimes its typical for headphone jacks to accumulate lint and dirt over time.

 

[Cory Streater]

They work perfect on any other device or computer, but as soon as I put them in my droid the slightest movement will stop the sound (As if I pressed the play button), mute the sound temporarily, phase the sound (L/R (one stops or vice versa)), or distort the sound.

You stated that they work fine with other devices. So, I'd say it's either a software issue - caused by a 3rd party app, or a hardware issue - caused by a faulty headphone jack. To answer your question though, I haven't seen anyone report this before.

 

[anaphora68]

I have a similar issue with mine. That said, if you move the phone around while it's in a pocket, and put pressure against the connector, it might come loose. When the headphones come loose, it stops playback.

Of course, I'm also using crappy, old, iPhone headphones, so that might be my problem...

 

[edwinc8811]

dont do the alcohol thing -_-...

the droid has a known physical issue where the headphone jack will skip or cut off if you move it around. not sure if all droids have this issue but its definitely a hardware issue on droid itself, not the headphones

 

[Charmed Juan]

If you are using the music/media player, it will go to pause when you unplug the headphones. If you have a dirty, or intermittent connection, it will pause the player when it "disconnects" just like when you pull the jack out.

 

[nox]

This was happening when I was using my sisters HTC headphones, using my skull candy ones though there was no issue.

So maybe its software related? I think the OS may be running too many things and exporting the music may be pushing it over.
The other day the same thing happened to me but while using the phone's speaker.
I ended a couple things that weren't needed (uninstalled also) and it was working fine.

 

[Flyguide83]

The droids headphone jack is not hard mounted to the board.. Its floating.. Search alldroid for the many threads... Its a stupid engineering flaw that is totally ridiculous...

 

[RRollergod]

This was a hardware issue, and I am getting a new Droid this week.

 

[bborst]

Both my wife and I have had our MotoDroid's replaced by Verizon because of this problem.

After my swap, the issue returned a few days later. I downloaded a headphone widget from Google and that fixed the problem for about 2 days. Now it's near impossible to listen to my songs when my phone is connected to external speakers without fighting the pause function.

When I use my headphones (new $60.00 SONY's) I have to keep my finger pressed against one side of the jack or my phone just pauses every time I take a step. It's really annoying.

My wife's phone went completely bonkers. Random pauses, random song shuffling and repeating. She took hers in this weekend, Verizon swapped it easily but she hasn't mentioned any issues as of yet.

I really hope Motorola's taken notice of this issue and fixes it in Droid 2. I absolutely love my Droid but I primarily use it for music listening.

 

[pstinger]

It's gotta be a hardware issue. The jack is really janky in mine. I plugged in my headset the other day for a hands-free call and the blasted thing wiggled and hung up!

Think Moto will give us all bluetooth stereo headsets to fix the problem?

 

[KrazyRogue]

Both my wife and I have had our MotoDroid's replaced by Verizon because of this problem.

After my swap, the issue returned a few days later. I downloaded a headphone widget from Google and that fixed the problem for about 2 days. Now it's near impossible to listen to my songs when my phone is connected to external speakers without fighting the pause function.

When I use my headphones (new $60.00 SONY's) I have to keep my finger pressed against one side of the jack or my phone just pauses every time I take a step. It's really annoying.

My wife's phone went completely bonkers. Random pauses, random song shuffling and repeating. She took hers in this weekend, Verizon swapped it easily but she hasn't mentioned any issues as of yet.

I really hope Motorola's taken notice of this issue and fixes it in Droid 2. I absolutely love my Droid but I primarily use it for music listening.

Same problem here. I hate it when it goes into party shuffle mode and takes you completely out of what you were listening to. I'm thinking of taking it back to Verizon in a couple days and also check out the new D2.

 

[cadcoke5]

I am having the same issue. However, in my case, I don't use headphones, but rather plug the DX into my car stereo using the headphone jack. At times, it gets into a constant pause-unpause cycle about 2 times a second. Obviously makes it useless to use the media player. I normally use a pod cast program, and not media player. Occasionally this problem will cause the media player to take over, and stop the pod cast player.

This phone is actually a refurbished replacement from a prior one. I will see about getting yet another replacement, but have doubts it will solve the problem in the long term.

 

[mnassour]

This headphone jack issue....is this just with the original Droid or all phones labeled Droid?

 

[scarryman04]

I'm going to guess all Motorola hardware

 

[MT9DgHPknEaVPXezZV2xp]

My Bose headphones pause and skip frequently and recently when listening to BeyondPod, they will also start and play the bloatware music player that my cell carrier preinstalls on the phone. Very irritating. My Klipsch headphones dont to this.