My phone doesn't recognize earphones when I plug them in. Absolutely no response. What should I do?
Is it an Android phone ? or Apple ?If it is Android, when you adjust the phone volume, there will be a symbol at the right that looks like either a gear wheel or an arrow pointing down. If you tap this, it will display 4 separate volume controls.The Media volume has to be higher than zero, for any sound to come out for music, or game audio. This volume is separate to the volume level used for ringtones and speaking/hearing on a call.If the volume level is correct:Try the headphones on another device, to check that they work properly, or try another pair of cheap earphones in the connector. Sometimes the earphones connector seems like it is pushed all the way in, but is not completely in. They often make a click noise when they are pushed in completely.Also, check the rating of the earphones, are they standard earphones ? or fancy ones ?Sometimes the Ohm rating is too high, so the device can’t drive the earphones unless the volume is higher than normal, or an amp is used.If the headphones work on another device, and a second pair of headphones doesn’t work with the phone either, then it sounds like the connector has a wiring fault.
How to fix my laptop headphones jack?
Laptop headphone jack repair is a common repair job and can be the result of general wear and tear or a mishap with the jack, what happens a lot is that the headphones are inserted and the plug gets removed roughly or pulled to one side, accidently dislodging or damaging the headphone jack solder points. This will result in the loss of sound through the laptops internal speakers or through the headphone jack itself. Depending on how bad the damage is it may be able to be repaired. A technician that is handy with a soldering iron can often resolder the jack in order to repair functionality without too much trouble. Once again if the jack housing or surrounding components have been damaged too much the repair even for the best technician will be fruitless and would result in the board (PCB) that the headphone jack is connected to being replaced. Here’s where you need to pray that the laptop you have has the headphone jack mounted on a separate daughter or minor board (PCB). Unfortunately if the headphone jack is mounted on the main board you could be looking at big $$ (main boards here in Australia can cost anything from $400.00 - $2500.00). I had/have a similar problem. Go to the control panel, then to hardware and sound, then sound. You should see something called manage audio devices. Plug in your headphones and see if they show up. If they don't, then either your divers(these things will tell your computer what kind of hardware it has and how to use it) are missing or the the headphone jack itself has failed. Lets say it is in fact your drivers that are missing, then all you need to do is either use windows update(it will detect many of your missing drivers) or go to the manufacturers website and look for them there(usually they will have a tab somewhere on the home page that will say something about support or downloads). And also try different headphones, those could have messed up as well. Now lets say that you do see the headphones show up as an audio device. Then all you need to do is set them as the default and that should fix your problem. Though I will say that I currently have a problem with switching between the two. Once I start a program such as media player, it will stick with the current default audio device. I hope that helps you.
If you connect a headphone to your phone, does it drain the battery? How does a headphone work?
A pair of headphones is basically a set of small speakers held onto your head with a headband. Now, the battery drainage depends on the headphones you get. A generic, cheap pair of headphones will usually have a low impedance (<20 ohms). This means that they can be driven very easily by mobile devices and can get loud without draining battery. These are more available in the average consumer market because they are cheap to manufacture and people won’t complain about them being too quiet. Headphones at this tier are basically earbuds that go over your head, and will not drain your battery any faster than a pair of earbuds would.A higher quality “studio” or “audiophile” set will usually have a larger impedance (>36 ohms). These headphones require more power to drive, but will give a clearer sound and less distortion. Since it requires more power to drive, it will be pretty quiet unless you turn up the volume, and this is what drains the battery. If the impedance goes over 60 ohms, you will need to use a headphone amplifier to be able to listen to anything at a reasonable volume. An extreme example would be a PA system. You wouldn’t be powering these with your phone; they have to be connected to an external power source.The battery drainage all depends on the headphones you have. My pair of AKG 553 have an impedance of 36 ohms, and they drain my battery at a moderate level, meaning I will be from a full charge to around 40% in 5 hours. My earbuds, which have around 16 ohms impedance, can pump sound pretty loudly for a whole day and only drain my phone to around 60%. Now, if I were you, I would be more concerned about the app that you are using to listen to music or do whatever else you do with headphones. Youtube is incredibly battery-hungry. A couple videos in half an hour and I’m already at 80%. If I’m just listening to music from Spotify, I would only drop 5% in that time. Hope this helps.
What happens if you connect an aux cable to phone and a laptop?
Interesting proposition, but you are connecting a cable onto the audio outs of two devices, which leads to nothing at all. So what you would be hearing is silence.
Plugging my Blue Yeti microphone into something other then my laptop.?
It doesn't need a sound card, but it does need a computer that can act as a USB host (has a female USB "A" connector) and that can accept devices that implement the USB audio device profile. Edit-added: Yes, it requires a processor. Every USB device implements one or more functions described by a "profile". There are profiles for USB mice, keyboards, cameras, network interfaces, and many others. And audio devices. For a given function to work, a USB "host" (typically a computer) has to "speak" to it as dictated by the appropriate profile. A USB power adapter can't do it because it only supplies power. A hub can't do it because it knows nothing about any profiles, it just passes stuff through from one side to the other.
My laptop speaker is getting cracking sounds! What can I do to solve it?
You’ve likely been playing sound at a volume that was too loud for the speakers, for far too long.Crackling during audio playback, especially if it gets progressively worse AND it is always present to some degree, is typically a sign of blown speakers. It is possible that some audio files were encoded improperly, or that they included distortion that would sound like crackling… but that would be intermittent, or only present when you played those audio files.Laptop speakers weren’t meant to be used at near full volume for the majority of their use. That’s what would blow them though. If you regularly used your laptop to fill a room with sound, the speakers wouldn’t last much longer than a couple of years.At any rate, you can hope that it is the speakers, because they would be relatively inexpensive to replace or work around. A search on eBay for your model laptop and the word “speakers’ might turn up a few people who are selling the parts of their laptop. You might do a Google search for your model laptop and the word “speakers” to find a retailer selling a set.If the problem is caused by the audio chipset… well… for one thing, you’d hear the crackling in headphones and from the speakers. I don’t know if that is what is happening, but I can say that it would be one way to see if it was the speakers.So… crackling in the speakers, but it goes away with heaphones or earbuds? Get new speakers. Crackling in the speakers and the heaphones? That’s either something in the OS, or the chipset. Boot to a Linux LiveCD. Still crackles? Then it is hardware. Crackling go away with Linux at the same volumes? Problem is somewhere in your installation of Windows.What can you do to solve it? Diagnose the problem down to the cause.