I plugged in a cheap pair, and it took a pretty good amount of force to get them in, and on removal, the center pin of the male connector actually detached from the headphone connector and stayed stuck in the phone...They were cheap headphones but still...
I wonder is that the reason why google is not providing earphones in the box lol
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I use my phone as an audio player quite a bit, but I've recently noticed and issue and I was wondering if anyone else had similar problems or perhaps even overcome them. When I have my Vibrant plugged in to a power source and I plug in my headphones everything sounds fine, but if I'm plugged in to power and connect a line out cable (e.g. a male to male cable for connecting to a car stereo) I get a really nasty hiss as well as other audio artifacts. I have tried numerous combinations of different power and audio cables, headphones, and audio sinks (car stereo, home stereo, computer audio in, etc.), but the result is always consistent.
Power + AUX cable = bad audio
Power + Headphones = Good audio
AUX Cable - Power = Good Audio
Has anyone else seen/solved this with their phones?
I assume you are talking about car charger and aux out and the noise that increases as your speed increases. If that's what you are talking about I get it to. Something needs to be grounded. Exactly what I don't know. I would ask a car audio person. If I'm not mistaken all radio components ie. radio amp are grounded that's why you don't hear it. Let me make this clear nothing is broken. More like this configuration was not planned for. I'm thinking the cig lighter is not grounded by car maker. Hope this helped.
In the car audio world I seem to recall some issues with Pioneer units when an owner somehow accidentally made a bad connection. It seems that a tiny fusible link in the unit would blow, and a ground loop noise would get introduced into the system. The fix was to ground the RCA cable inputs to the stereo chassis.
Not a viable solution in this case. I also recognize this may have little direct bearing on the problem, but wonder if somehow a poor power/audio connector in the unit is/has caused the same sort of problem to rear it's ugly head.
Step 1 I think - Do you have another Aux cable to test that as a poor ground on it may have developed from just bending and twisting in normal use.
Go to radio shack and pick up a ground loop isolator. That will get rid of the feedback noise.
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I also have the same sound in my car. I remember way back when I thought I was a cool kid and rocked the big subwoofers in my trunk I had the same noise. Then I learned that you couldn't have the power cable running up to the battery and rca cables going to the head unit next to each other. You had to have them separated meaning one would have to go along driver side n the other along passenger side. I tried that and presto no more noise. Its the interference of electricity generated from the alternator. Hence, Faster the engine/ alternator goes, higher the noise pitch equalling more interferance due to the higher voltage/current running thru the power cable. Sorry for all that useless info lol!! Quick fix is don't have the power cable plugged in at the same time. The sound goes away, for me at least. Hope it works for you. Other than that I wouldn't really know how to fix it with a cell phone unless that isolator thingy that the other guy said to buy would work.
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You should tweet @supercurio
if anyone would know, he would
This has nothing to do with software. This is basically electrical interference in audio channel because the audio is not grounded and power plug from cigarette lighter USB is grounded. Get the isolator, they are usually less than $20, just make sure all the inputs/outputs are what's compatible with your setup.
Mine plugs into AUX port on the car, then i have a 3.5mm Y splitter, one end for phone/mp3 player the other for Sat radio.
Thanks for the tips guys; I think I'll pick up an isolator and give that a try. Unfortunately, the local Radio Shack only stocks isolators for RCA jacks, not 3.5mm, so I'll have to wait at least a few more days until it gets here.
The isolator finally showed up, and it worked perfectly. Thanks again for the advice.
Sweet, now get a flux capacitor and find a straight stretch of road. At 88 mph you'll be going at 88mph with a flux capacitor!
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My Nexus 4 is stuck in headphones mode for a few months now. Sound on headphones is just fine. I tried cleaning 3.5mm jack, but no difference. I'm using SoundAbout app now to make phone usable, but it's anoying to manualy switch every time I plug in or out my headphones. I ordered new headphones jack from ebay for 8.95 pounds from UK (new user, can't post link)
I replaced it, but N4 is still stuck in headphones mode Before I replaced it I've done factory reset, but not yet after replacing.
Looking at the plug it seems like phone detects when headphones plug shorts two pins in connector that connects to the tip of headphones plug (pins are not shorted if connector isn't plugged in). It doesnt have a "switch" like some other connectors.
Phone was not even near water and I never dropped it on the ground.
What do you think it's wrong? Maybe damaged motherboard?
This is in my car. I have a pretty high quality headphone cable to connect the phone to my car to listen to music. Every time I plug in the cable the phone it launches google voice search, I can easily dismiss it and everything is fine but it also prevents me from using Google voice search after this.
I'm quite certain it has something to do with the phone thinking I'm plugging in a headset that also has a microphone. The thing is I've used the same setup for both the N4 and N5 with no problems.
Is there a fix for this? Or anyone else experience anything similar? I'll have to try out some new cables.
Me too. I think it is a a headset thing like you said. I would like a solution for this problem as well.
I had this issue myself. This is actually caused by a poor ground on the 3.5mm jack on the stereo system itself which is causing feedback to loop back to the phone. The phone picks up on this and thinks you just pressed a button on a headset, even if there isn't a button to press.
You have a few options:
Stream via Bluetooth if supported, and ditch the cable all together. Expect slightly less than optimal audio quality.
Break open the stereo and run a better ground to a part that isn't inside the stereo. This will void your warranty on the your car stereo.
Buy one of these, and re-wire the 3.5mm jack. This is what I ended up doing (more about this later).
If you end up doing #3, you can just plug it in and go, without any warranty voiding stuff, however it looks ugly having that box thing hang down. Here's what I did to make it look a whole lot better, but also voids warranty.
Separate the female 3.5mm jack from the stereo face plate and the radio hardware.
Disassemble the female 3.5mm headphone jack so that it's no longer flush with the plastic face plate.
Chop off the female end, and chop off the male end on the GLI (the thing I linked above in #3), and solder the two together.
Re-mount the female end of the GLI to the face plate, and tuck away the additional hardware behind the stereo
Alternatively, you can solder the male 3.5mm jack to the GLI and run that as your 3.5mm cable.
The alternative way will give less interference as there's one less connection point, but it's not optimal as the 3.5mm cable may not be long enough.
Use shielded shrink tube on all connection points, and make sure that you wrap it in some EMI Shielding Tape for the best audio throughput. The EMI stuff is optional too.
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I had this issue myself. This is actually caused by a poor ground on the 3.5mm jack on the stereo system itself which is causing feedback to loop back to the phone. The phone picks up on this and thinks you just pressed a button on a headset, even if there isn't a button to press.
You have a few options:
Stream via Bluetooth if supported, and ditch the cable all together. Expect slightly less than optimal audio quality.
Break open the stereo and run a better ground to a part that isn't inside the stereo. This will void your warranty on the your car stereo.
Buy one of these, and re-wire the 3.5mm jack. This is what I ended up doing (more about this later).
If you end up doing #3, you can just plug it in and go, without any warranty voiding stuff, however it looks ugly having that box thing hang down. Here's what I did to make it look a whole lot better, but also voids warranty.
Separate the female 3.5mm jack from the stereo face plate and the radio hardware.
Disassemble the female 3.5mm headphone jack so that it's no longer flush with the plastic face plate.
Chop off the female end, and chop off the male end on the GLI (the thing I linked above in #3), and solder the two together.
Re-mount the female end of the GLI to the face plate, and tuck away the additional hardware behind the stereo
Alternatively, you can solder the male 3.5mm jack to the GLI and run that as your 3.5mm cable.
The alternative way will give less interference as there's one less connection point, but it's not optimal as the 3.5mm cable may not be long enough.
Use shielded shrink tube on all connection points, and make sure that you wrap it in some EMI Shielding Tape for the best audio throughput. The EMI stuff is optional too.
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Wow! Well it looks like I'm In trouble. As my car is a Toyota Prius classic which has a cassette deck. I use a cassette adapter to a female plug adapter to a thin male plug which fits through my case. Two adapter is one too many I would guess. Thanks for your time and input on what to do to fix this issue.
Every time I connect the headphones to the Nexus 6P start Google Voice, thus interrupting several times (every minute or so) what I'm listening: music from Play music, streaming radio from Chrome, etc ...
How can I solve this problem?
Thank you.
Hey everyone, I'm an LG V20 owner who loves my device, but I keep noticing that my AUX cables keep getting damaged when listening to music in my car. I thought I'd ask if anyone else was having similar issues. When I say "damaged" I mean that I either have to play with the AUX cable to get it to work or sometimes I only hear sounds from the left or right speakers. I have the Hi Fi Quad DAC enabled and I usually have the phone volume all the way to 75 (max) when I'm in the car. I've gone through at least 3 AUX cables and I'm assuming its either because of the Hi FI Quad DAC or because I have the volume too loud. Are there any good high quality AUX cables that anyone can recommend (preferably from Amazon lol)?
Not possible.
Damage to the cable would have to be physical, either you're using them in a way that stressed them and caused shorts, or you're just buying really cheap cables. You're sure it's the cables and not a problem with the headphone jack or the aux input in your car? Are the cables fully inserted? They're not coming loose?
I've used UGREEN cable in the past and they seem fairly robust
@thisisjason thanks for the response, the cables are fully inserted and not loose. I don't have any issues when I listen to music in my headphones so I'm blaming the AUX cables lol. I'll give UGREEN a try!
I've been using the same aux cable with my V20 since day one. This same aux cable has also been in use with my Nexus 6 it's entire lifetime. I doubt it is the DAC. 99.9% of the time, it's usually due to repeated bending in the same spot of the cord breaking wires. In fact, when used in a car we tend to always place our devices in the same spot which means any cords attached will bend... at the same spot, each and every time. This will lead to the wires inside breaking. Since they're in a sheath, they still stand a small chance of continuing to make contact. Which can make a signal come and go depending on how close the ends are.
If your headphones work fine then you should get a new aux cable, otherwise, it's the headphones jack
Strange, I recently posted about how an aux cable failed on me, I only got full volume / stereo from it when the phone was grounded through USB. Not plugged in, just ground to ground.
It's probably all just a coincidence coincidence since these cables often spend their lives in hot cars, It it's so.ething.
I thought i was the only one experiencing this but i figured its just cheap cables no more than $10. how can i raise volume to 100
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I thought i was the only one experiencing this but i figured its just cheap cables no more than $10. how can i raise volume to 100
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can't, when dac is enable, the volume should be louder so the max vol will be 75
Im looking for some Schematics for the Audio circuit of the Nexus 6P.
I bought a used Nexus 6P with some Problems. The only one im not able to fix is that the phone thinks that headphones are plugged in. First I thought that the headphone jack had some dirt in it... but even after i removed the headphone jack the problem still occurred.
Next I took a look at the Connector itself. When I plug in some headphones, Pin 1 and 5 get connected. Pin 5 is Ground. So on Pin 1 should be some kind of voltage present right?
But there where non on Pin 1.
Next I looked up where the Audio IC is located. The ifixit Teardown shows where the Qualcomm WCD9330 Audio Codec is located.
After I removed the Cover i found some corrosion near the IC. I gave the hole Board a ultrasonic bath and reflowed the IC and the Components around it but the Phone still thinks that headphones are plugged in.
I don´t want the headphone jack to work again. I just need the Phone to think that there are no headphones plugged in. I tried several Software Solutions but non worked to my satisfactory.
Does anyone have an idea or some Schematics for me?