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Help Headphone issue (no recognition)

Johanson16

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:(It seems my Desire is not recognizing headphones sometimes. Yesterday it didn't recognize both the original HTC headphones and aftermarket philips headphones. Now the device is again regognizing my headphones. More Desire owners having this problem or a solution to the problem?
 
I tried my headphones for the first time last night after a week of ownership. It's not detecting them at all...

Did you find a solution? Or follow up on.warranty?

I remember the first time i plugged mine in they wouldnt detect. unplugged them and tried again and was fine. My girlfriend has the same device and she had to restart her phone. Had the same problem on my Hero. All i can same is to unplug and plug back in.
 
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I had a different issue which required me to hard reboot my phone today. And because of the hard reboot, the headphones are now detected - fancy that. I suggest you try it.

How to hard reset your HTC Desire:
Turn off your phone; hold down vol down and press the trackball button; select clear data

Also note that your data actually *is* cleared by all this. Back up what info you want to to your SD, and make sure your contacts are synced with Google. Only took me 10 minutes to get my phone back to how I wanted it. :)
 
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I had a similar issue where the phone would recognise the headphones so I thought. The stock player wouldn't see them. I found though that MixZing player (app that I installed) did. Once I unticked the box "use headphone controls" inside Mixzing then they worked fine on the stock player.

Could it be another app, ie music player, podcast catcher/player is stealing their thunder?
 
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I'm gonna keep an eye on this thread. One my desire the headphones work but the bass can be heavily distorted at times. I have to have the headphones plugged in about 3/4 of the way into the bit where you plug them in for them to work ok. It's my only gripe with the phone. But i love my tunes!
 
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I'm gonna keep an eye on this thread. One my desire the headphones work but the bass can be heavily distorted at times. I have to have the headphones plugged in about 3/4 of the way into the bit where you plug them in for them to work ok. It's my only gripe with the phone. But i love my tunes!


Are they the mic headphones that came with the phone? If not, you are experiencing the incompatability issue i talked about above.
 
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Are they the mic headphones that came with the phone? If not, you are experiencing the incompatability issue i talked about above.


Both the mic headphones that came with the phone and a pair that I have owned for a while. In order for me to fix it I have to not plug them in the full length but instead plug them in about 3/4 of the way. This sorts the issue but can be a bit awkward if you wanted to get the phone out of your pocket and you knock the connection.

Inigo - do you mean a reboot by simply turning the phone off and then back on?
 
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Im having a similar problem. It detects that i have headphones on my htc desire, but im getting no sound out of them most of the time. I first noticed with my aux plug in my truck. Then it started to happen with headphones. Mostly with pandora. Ive reset the phone. Tried multiple kinds of headphones and aux cables. No luck 90% of the time. Any advice?
 
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What, like this ? :D

ps. I know nothing about the supplier. I simply Googled 'headphone mic adaptor desire'

I looked at these - be aware, they don't control the music player, and only allow you to answer calls.

I made my own - chopped off the earpieces from the stock headset that comes with the Desire, and attached a 3.5 mm inline socket. You'll need to be handy with with a soldering iron mind...its fiddly :)
 
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There is an App on Market called Headset blocker that has just been released. One you get the Headset icon for you headphones, turn it on and it blocks all the static which causes the skipping. . .

Worked a treat for me when i was walking the dog this evening.

I registered just to say that I love you for this! My headphones started being picked up as a headset with a mic!

But that widget worked a charm!
 
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