I am thinkink of taking apart this little piece with mic and two buttons on it and replace headphones with Sony fontopia. I really don't want to break anything. XDA DEVELOPERS! please, help!
why not just cut the wire right over the mic with buttons and put a female 3.5mm jack then you can plug in a normal headset there ?
Ok, I did. Now I can listen good quality music and not missing any calls. BTW, I love the way XDA2 handles calls, music stops when call comes in and continues right after done
does that on xda 1 too when you got ppc2003 on it
Can it be used in XDA I?
Rudegar said:
why not just cut the wire right over the mic with buttons and put a female 3.5mm jack then you can plug in a normal headset there ?
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Hey all. I'm trying to do this at the moment. I soldered a 3.5mm female extension lead to the headphone socket but i've got a problem. I only have sound coming out of the left headphone.
I know it's not the hima because i opened mine and resoldered the audio jack just to be sure. When using a 2.5mm>3.5mm converter, sound plays perfectly, but when i'm using my modded handsfree kit, i only have sound on the left.
Can someone post some pics on how to properly solder a 3.5mm female extension lead to the handsfree kit mic portion?
Take a look at this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=14505&highlight=
Hanmin, I love you.
On another note, i found this wiki page in the above mentioned thread that details this procedure. I rewrote it for readability (and NxJay-ness) but it's pretty darn useful.
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Hi all, i use my XDA to play MP3's stored on my SD card, but now, with over use the headphone jack does not want to work.
I have tried in many places to get a new headphone jack fitted but in each case nobody is prepared to attempt a replacement of surface mount componant.
I have bought a Sony USB to digital convertor but this does not emit a signal from the connection on the bottom of the unit, and continues to play through the speaker at the top.
Does anyone know how force the output through the connection at the bottom of the unit or any other suggestions on how i may get sound to an amp from the XDA other than using the headphone jack ?
i looked into this sometime back. i wanted to route the audio through the bottom connector so when in the car i could play the mp3s, have tomtom and calls through the car stereo, also wire a mic closer to my driving position. I got all the connectors to do it but everyone at the time said it wasnt possible to get all the audio routed through the bottom even though it does have left right and mic connections. I cant remember which audio couldnt be routed. it was something stupid software wise. rather than a nice simple linking of the connections from the 2.5mm socket on to the bottom conn.
However the guy posting here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=231234 has got it to work. im going to have another play for use on the bike. i have both the mini s and the xda2i
surface mount isnt such a hard thing to deal with if you have a good iron and very find tip. i used to work on surface mount stuff for years.
Ok here's the story.
My Prophet is, well, an elderly.
I think it's like 5 year old.
I already had to replace touchscreen, battery and the rear speaker.
Anyway my problem now is that I don't have any sound.
Only when I recieve a call or text message I get a ringtone or notification.
Windows media player does not give sound, screen taps etc neither.
Only ringtones give sounds, through rear speaker.
Also when I get a call the earphone speakers doesn't work, the microphone does.
My earphone jack works perfectly so it isn't the audio chip that's broke.
So what i was thinking is that my phone thinks it's using an headset and redirects al sounds to my earphone jack. Only using the rear speaker for ringtones. (so maybe someone could confirm that the ringtone still rings when using an headset)
So does anybody know what the problem is or just help me on the way?
Regard, Paul
I doubt it's 5 years old! Maybe 2?...
Anyway, this is a common issue, the headphone jack is not 'releasing' the sound back to the speaker due to short / stuck connector switch. Blow down it or wiggle the plug.
M.S
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I doubt it's 5 years old! Maybe 2?...
Anyway, this is a common issue, the headphone jack is not 'releasing' the sound back to the speaker due to short / stuck connector switch. Blow down it or wiggle the plug.
M.S
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ok, i was right about the headphone jack making the phone think that it was using headphones when it didn't.
I opened my phone and also opened the casing for the jackplug. I saw that a piecie op copper was bent to far and that it was causing to cancel a circuit wich made the phone think it was unsing no headphones.
When you plug in the headphones, the plug pushes away this copper piece and stops sound.
My solution was to bend the piece back so it makes contact again when the headphones are not plugged in.
Thank you for your advice, it's working great again.
Hey!
Anyone knows if it's possible to connect a external microphone in the 3.5mm jack. Would be nice to be able to plug in a better microphone when recording music shows etc. Shouldnt it be possible since you can speak through the htc-headset?
I don't think that you can plug a mic in it, this jack is "way-out" only, not "in"...
At least i never tried, but i guess it's how it works (if anyone can confirm this or prove me wrong ).
It's a 4 pin 3.5mm TRRS connector. It has a mic connector built in as well as the audio and ground.
I don't know if you can get a microphone with that specific connector, look it up and see... but it would be pretty easy to make your own connector if you cannibalise a headset or something like that and then connect whatever mic you wanted to that.
Not sure about the quality, but dealextreme sku.20714 seems like to fit your description.
I bought one of these some time ago to connect my Klipsch headphones.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-5mm-Headpho...GS-/280544944694?pt=UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL
It is still recognised as a headset even when there are no headphones plugged into it.
So the quality for what you want is probably poor BUT it does prove that it can be done.
Perhaps one of these PLUS a good quality mic PLUS a soldering iron is the answer
The headphone jack on my Gtab completely broke off from the motherboard. I'm not going to solder it back since I rarely use the headphone.
But the problem is the speakers now have no sound.
My question is, without soldering the headphone jack back, is there anyway on the circuit board that I can short to make the Gtab think the headphone is not connected so that it would output sounds to the speakers?
Or is there any apps that I can disable the headset jack completely and only uses the speakers?
Thanks.
I could make you a small app to force speaker route. Not sure if that would work.
That would be great!
If the app doesn't work, I either need to get a replacement jack or figure out
what solder points to jump in order to get the speakers to work.
Does anyone know what solder points to connect in order to get the
speakers to work. Or does anyone know where to get a
replacement jack?
Thought I sent you a message. Might have been an email as their is nothing showing in my outgoing messages.
Is the headphone jack breaking something we need to be careful about or did you do something out of the ordinary that broke it?
slysecretspy:
Thanks a lot. I got your PM, but the app won't install on either stock or TNT Lite.
sanvara:
This is definitely a build quality issue. There are only two little plastics and tiny solders holding the headphone jack in place. If you use certain types of headphones, such as the JLab ones with long connectors, it is particularly easy to break it off the motherboard. My suggestion is unplug the headphone every time you put the Gtab is a bag and don't use headphone when you're moving.
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Is the headphone jack breaking something we need to be careful about or did you do something out of the ordinary that broke it?
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I believe it is too. Mine now requires me to hold pressure on it in order to get sound from both left and right.
I have been researching online about using car aux-in cable for making phone calls.
I heard that some phones work and some do not. In those cases, when it doesn't work, it means that the person in the phone cannot hear what you say, because by default the mic is muted when something is plugged in to the jack.
With HTC Sensation, does this happen? Is the phone mic muted when a headset/aux cable is plugged in to the phone? If yes, is there any workaround? What is the general solution to make phone calls via aux cable?
I heard that some people might use the griffin cable with mic, but since my aux port is located where the shifter is, I am not sure how the quality would be. Any idea?
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I have been researching online about using car aux-in cable for making phone calls.
I heard that some phones work and some do not. In those cases, when it doesn't work, it means that the person in the phone cannot hear what you say, because by default the mic is muted when something is plugged in to the jack.
With HTC Sensation, does this happen? Is the phone mic muted when a headset/aux cable is plugged in to the phone? If yes, is there any workaround? What is the general solution to make phone calls via aux cable?
I heard that some people might use the griffin cable with mic, but since my aux port is located where the shifter is, I am not sure how the quality would be. Any idea?
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well, i hope this answers ur question
i have made calls/received calls via aux (when im listening to music in da car n get a phone call i dont uplug it, just answer)
i talk thru the mic normally and i hear the other person from tha car speakers.
so i guess the mic is not muted
From previous experience - though not with Sensation, as I'm all blue-tooth now, the following was true
If you plug in a normal 3.5mm TRS jack (stereo headphone / line-in / etc) the phone detects it as headphones and not headset, so the device realised there was no "in-line" mic, and used the phone's microphone itself.
A better option (which I did) was to fashion my own lead - using another HTC headset, but removing the two earphones, and soldering the cables to an in-line socket. This worked well, because I had a microphone clipped to me, with remote control for music (don't want to touch the phone when driving now, do we!!) and the stereo audio feed back to the car speakers. Cost me about £3 in total, including the second headset.
I would imagine this to be the same for the Sensation too, as all these sockets have various detection mechanisms, to make the right things happen, depending on what you connect.
Good luck, and safe driving!