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Third party earphones dont work for calls!!!

I have a little problem with the way my SGX works with third party headphones.
When listening to music, everything is fine. Crystal clear sounds from the OS and from music.
However when I recieve a phone call, the sound wont come out of the headphones, forcing me to pick the phone up to my ear, which is of course exceptionally annoying.
Am I just missing a setting or could this be a problem with the firmware? I did reflash it.

Na it's a probleme with the jack allignement. Unless ur using Nokia or stock earphones u'll have this probleme (if i'm not mistaken, and i hope i am cuz it is annoying).
A workaround is using a nokia headset kit (ad-54/57 or whatever, remote won't work though), remove the crappy earphones and put ur good ones.
Might get a long cord though.
It would be perfect for me if the remote functions were to work, would make my day.
I think small adaptors exist also, but i'm not sure at all about that

But I dont understand how it works brililantly for everything else but calls? That makes no sense.
And it doesnt just give crappy audio quality, there is no sound coming out of the earphones at all.
I actually hook it up to my car stereo as a makeshift car kit and has worked fine for everything but calls.. it cant be the jack alignment because then nothing would come out when playing music etc.. right?

I discovered the same (stock firmware). It's strange.
Excellent sound for Music and events, but no sound at all only when being called.
But do you say you CAN use the Samsung supplied earphones in that situation?

[Q] Samsung Focus, Terrible Built-in Mic? Or is there a way to activate?

With my iPhone or Blackberry, I can plug in earphones (without a mic) and talk directly to the phone and the other party can hear loud and clear. This way I can talk hands free with any earphone. However, with the focus I am unable to do this. I plug in earphones and I can hear everything okay, but talking to the phone is completely useless. No one else can hear what I am saying. Do I need to activate the built-in mic? Or is the mic on the phone just really terrible? Do I need to have an earpiece with a mic for this to work? If so, I feel that this is a huge negative..

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With my iPhone or Blackberry, I can plug in earphones (without a mic) and talk directly to the phone and the other party can hear loud and clear. This way I can talk hands free with any earphone. However, with the focus I am unable to do this. I plug in earphones and I can hear everything okay, but talking to the phone is completely useless. No one else can hear what I am saying. Do I need to activate the built-in mic? Or is the mic on the phone just really terrible? Do I need to have an earpiece with a mic for this to work? If so, I feel that this is a huge negative..
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it depends on the minijack that you are using, some will contact the mic ring and then the phone will think your headset has a mic and thus will disable the phone's mic.
the aux cable i use for my car is short (or is missing the ring) and i can listen to calls through my car speakers and just talk out loud and the phone hears it. i have yet to have anyone complain that they can't hear me.
so, maybe try another headphone cable and see if that helps.

some phones have this function built-in, if not you cannot use it.

Headset - Earphone Problem

Hi all...
My daughter has a ZTE Blade that I flashed originally to a custom rom running Froyo... for Xmas she got some new headset in ear headphones (one's with a mic)... The sound through these when plugged into the Blade is similar to listening to music underwater (muffled and echoing).... if you press the mic button the volume increases but is still poor quality. However plug in a normal earphone 3.5 connector (two bands rather than three) and everything sounds fine... I tried the earphones on other phones/computers and there is definitely nothing wrong with them. We also bought a second pair for my other daughter and they were exactly the same, I then tried my supplied Samsung Galaxy SII headset... again same thing... muffled and echoing sound.
So the problem was with the phone.
I decided to re-flash the phone this time with a Gen 2 Cyanogen Gingerbread rom... I tried the audio again after flashing and it seemed to have been fixed (admittedly I only played a track for a few seconds). Over the course of the day my daughter has reinstalled her apps etc... went to listen to some more music and again the same problem... muffled and echoing sound - pop in some normal headphones and everything is fine.
I have searched around and the problem seems to have come up before a few times but no one has really been able to track down what the issue is. I was actuallt thinking it might be app related (Skype or Tango for example) but I have stopped (not uninstalled yet) these apps but it makes no change.
So it seems that the Blade will not work with any wired headset/mic - any idea's please?

I found it wouldn't work with a headset that has a mic on it, but I got it working fine with my £5 jvc gummi headphones although I'm not getting much in the way of sound quality and volume. Still miles better than the stock headphones in the box though
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I know this is an old topic but I found the solution and some others may have the same problem:
There are two kinds of connectors, they have ground and mic signal switched.
If you get the wrong one it will work but sound (mostly speech) will be very bad, this results in a very poor audio quality.
So just get the correct ones (Apple-Style) with mic or the ones withour mic will also work fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#Mobile_phones

[Q] Voice Mail and Google Now randomly opening with Headphones plugged

Hello guys,
Sometimes this happens with me, when I have my Headphone or Apple earphones (just temporary) suddenly the Google Now pops up and activate the mic, and sometime this happens when I'm listening to a song or podcast, and it's really annoying...
Looks like that this happens when I rotate the phone or when I shake it or do some fast movement, and when It's on the lockscreen, the Voice Dialer pops up instead of Google Now.
I don't know if it's the headphone problem (It's the old Apple Earphones, from my iPod, so it doens't have mic, and my Headphone don't have mic aswell) because I never noticed this when I was using my Sennheiser CX 300II (also don't have mic) that died recently.
Anyone know why this is happening and how can I solve this? I bought a new earbud but it didn't arrived yet, but I'm worried if that thing continues to happen.
Thanks!

VSTOLL said:
Hello guys,
Sometimes this happens with me, when I have my Headphone or Apple earphones (just temporary) suddenly the Google Now pops up and activate the mic, and sometime this happens when I'm listening to a song or podcast, and it's really annoying...
Looks like that this happens when I rotate the phone or when I shake it or do some fast movement, and when It's on the lockscreen, the Voice Dialer pops up instead of Google Now.
I don't know if it's the headphone problem (It's the old Apple Earphones, from my iPod, so it doens't have mic, and my Headphone don't have mic aswell) because I never noticed this when I was using my Sennheiser CX 300II (also don't have mic) that died recently.
Anyone know why this is happening and how can I solve this? I bought a new earbud but it didn't arrived yet, but I'm worried if that thing continues to happen.
Thanks!
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the headphone is not compatible with the n4 then(i had these issues when trying to use some nokia´s headphones)

opssemnik said:
the headphone is not compatible with the n4 then(i had these issues when trying to use some nokia´s headphones)
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Yeah, probably, I plugged my old Sennheiser and it didn't happend. But, when I put the apple back on, the problem was back, anyway, I think I figure it out... I went to Google Now settings and disabled the Voice Activation System, and the problem is gone for now.

Earphone's mic issue

So, I'm getting a very annoying issue with my phone. After plugging in earphone, I only get icon of earphone in my notification bar and not of earphone+mic even though my earphone has mic. I've tried several other earphones with mic but it doesn't work. But those earphones work on other phones and the mic as well. So basically, I'm not able to use earphone's mic on my phone. And I beleive this is happening to me after pie update. If any one knows about this then please suggest something.

Phone Brand
Which phone and which model are you talking about?
Also which brand earphone is this?