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1 Replace audio jack on iPhone headphones
My iPhone headphones keep breaking, always at the connection to the audio jack (yes, I know I'm hard on them, but this seems to be a common problem). I now have quite a collection of headphones and instead of getting new ones, I'd like to simply get new jacks and wire them up.
Any tips would be appreciated, especially which wire goes to which connector. Also, a good source for the audio jacks. Thanks.
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oldturkey03, thanks for the response. I should have specified that I want to repair iPhone headphones. That requires a TRRS connector. This is harder to find, and the only ones I have found so far won't fit on my iPhone with the bumper on.
But, the main problem I have is that when I opened up the cable, I found four individual sets of wires, plus one that is two sets of wires twisted together and I have no idea which wire goes to which terminal.
- de anonymous 2205
If you have so many broken ones I'd use one as your anatomy model.. Strip it down to work your wires out...
- de pollytintop
Do your broken headsets have a microphone on it?
- de oldturkey03
Yes, they do have a microphone. My biggest problem is trying to figure out which wire goes to which post. I tried taking apart the old plug, but could not do it neatly enough to see where the wires went. The cable has 6 wires, a red, a green, 2 copper colored, plus a red and a green twisted together.
- de anonymous 2205
the two copper will be ground. Try to trace it with a normal battery. Put the copper wire oon the negative pole of the battery and listen to the earbuds while you strike the positive with the individual wires. You should hear a click, hum, buzz (not sure how to describe noise on here ;-) when you get to the speaker part of the headphones. gut feeling here is that the twisted ones are mic...
- de oldturkey03