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Recently I have been getting an extraneous crackling noise from a loose 1/8" connection in my phone. At times sound will completely cut out and the music app will become paused as if I had removed the headphone’s all together. As it happens with every cable and set of headphones I use it is definitely an issue with the headphone jack. How can I go about dismantling the phone in order to repair the loose connection?
Your headphone jack is sort of built into the rear case, and doesn’t have a plug, but instead has contacts that are pressed against 5 gold square shaped contacts on a cable attached to the logic board. It sounds like there might be a dirty or intermittent connection there. This image might help you: http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/UIUAk… You can see the jack built into the panel on the top left of the picture, and the cable it contacts with built into the top right corner of the logic board at the very bottom of the picture. Following this guide should get you deep enough into the phone to clean the contacts/inspect the jack. Motorola Droid Rear Case Replacement
It’s a manufacturing defect that affects almost all the droids. There is too much wiggle room between the phone casing and the jack. I cut a tiny piece off a plastic drinking straw, and wedged it in between the case and the jack to take up the extra space. No more crackling, and pauses whenever I look at the phone wrong.
I just attempted a fix on this, and for now it’s solved. I’m a little worried that it’s going to creep up again later, but here’s what I did: Followed the teardown guide to get the back off Cleaned off the contacts, for good measure Bent the 5 metal arms that press against the ribbon on the logic board so that they are more flush with the logic board contacts I doubt that they will stay like that, but I’ll see how it goes. I can’t make it crackle or disconnect for now, as much as I’ve tried for the last few minutes.
LOOK HERE NOW IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOURSELF A TON OF HASSLE This will save you LOADS OF TIME. YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO TAKE YOUR PHONE APART!!! MishyTOO’s solution is definitely the best. It takes not tools other than scissors and a normal drinking straw. This is my slightly modified version of his solution. Materials: Drinking straw, Scissors, broken/cheap headphones(optional) Step 1: Cut about two 2 inch pieces of your straw Step 2: Cut about 1 inch of one end of the straws at an angle so it pointy. Step 3: Get a a pair of headphones and use the jack of the headphones to push the phone jack a little bit to one side. Step 4: Put the pointy end of the straw you cut into the small space created and gently push it down as far as it goes. Step 5: Cut the excess straw length. Step 6: repeat steps 3-5 for the opposite side. Step 7: Test! Put your headphones in and out a few times, and giggle the plug a little bit to see if it cuts out at all or if the sound quality changes at all. Play a song and unplug your headphones to make sure the music pauses when the headphones are no longer plugged in. Step 8: Adjust as necessary and enjoy!
OMG a piece of plastic actually worked! I cut a tiny piece of straw put my headphones in the jack partially and created a space in between the jack and the casing and voila!!! no more static didnt even take my phone apart! I didnt even turn off my phone… Saved me some unecessarily wasted time thanks people!!!
Just install the “Headest Blocker” app and quit messing around with the flawed mechanics of this poorly designed jack and plastic straws…problem solved!
Had no straw, so I tried this on the headphone jack and plug for my portable tv: Found a twistie, twisted the pieces that flag out from the metal center so that the twistie was now very thin. Wrapped it around the plug so that it would prevent it from plugging completely into the jack. It worked.
Sgreend: Headset (not Headest) Blocker doesn’t work on Android ICS or higher versions, including Jelly Bean. See https://github.com/dlew/android-headset-…. Google Play won’t even install it. This solutions regarding sticking in a piece of plastic must not apply to Droid Bionic after March 2012, when I bought mine. There is no gap between the headset jack and case. I have cleaned out the jack with a Q-tip stick & alcohol. It helped, but isn’t 100%.
All you need is q-tips and nail polish remover. Pull enough cotton off the tip of the q-tip so the swab can fit into your audio jack, should fit snug and you just twist it around a bit then dip the other side of the q-tip into the nail polish remover and repeat, I did this twice and the audio jack on my Moto X is working perfectly. I was about to go mental. So you are welcome. :)
Clean your headphones jack with a needle or plastic bristle toothpick
guys i was just playing with the setting of my android device when i had my earphones on and what i found out is that the system automatically blocks all the sound when you insert your earphone or headphones! have a go at this and see what will come up for you.
