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Hi there,
the included headset has this nice small control element for the music player but sadly you cant unplug the headphones and use your own ones. I checked HTC's website for a small adapter, so i could use my own.
But sadly the adapter only offers a call accept/call end-button, no player controls.
Does anyone know a good headset/adapter with player controls like this, but for 3,5mm, working with the HD2?
Thanks!

wait a minute... you cant use your own 3.5mm headphones? that would blow. i hope you misunderstood you.

soulstice said:
wait a minute... you cant use your own 3.5mm headphones? that would blow. i hope you misunderstood you.
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Nono, you didnt get me right^^...you can use your own, but then you have no microphone and no music player control through this small control unit.
What i want is to disconnect the headphones near the control unit so that i can use the microphone/control unit from HTC with my own headphones! But there needs to be another 3,5mm jack on the control unit...but obviously there isnt...
The link ive included in my previous post shows what i mean, its a headset from HTC for the Hero.

Hi there,
Why don't you use Shure SE530? It may not have the controls you are looking for ... but the sound ... ... just makes you forget all the things you have "thought" you wanted =)

s161008 said:
Hi there,
Why don't you use Shure SE530? It may not have the controls you are looking for ... but the sound ... ... just makes you forget all the things you have "thought" you wanted =)
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Cause i dont want to spent half of the money the HD2 cost me for a pair of headphones God damnit, those things are expensive!
I wanna have the best of both worlds, thats why i would like to see this remote control with a separate 3,5mm jack for my own headphones...

I won Zagg headphones - good sound quality and it has a control button and hardware volume control. The button works with HD2 - you can stop/pause in the HTC Player. I did not check what it does during a call.

HTC <3's us..
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/cy/p_htc_item.aspx?i=188904
ah! no play / pause button :-(

rich_13 said:
HTC <3's us..
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/cy/p_htc_item.aspx?i=188904
ah! no play / pause button :-(
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Yeah, i found those ones too...but sadly no play/pause...

-Vulture- said:
Yeah, i found those ones too...but sadly no play/pause...
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On the headphones that are included the answer/hangup button also performs the play/pause function. So I think they should work for you. Just no Fast Frorward/Rewind/Skip function.

maybe you can try bluetooth headset. I have Samsung SBH-500, sound quality is brilliant, and it have controls exactly what you need... (plus volume controls )

Edje said:
On the headphones that are included the answer/hangup button also performs the play/pause function. So I think they should work for you. Just no Fast Frorward/Rewind/Skip function.
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Yeah, i know that...but doesnt matter if the headphones on this headset are crap (no in ears -> crap for me )

-Vulture- said:
Yeah, i know that...but doesnt matter if the headphones on this headset are crap (no in ears -> crap for me )
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I agree! That's why I took out the soldering iron (and looking glass) and mounted my Sennheiser CX400-II's on the control unit of the standard headphones.
What I meant to say was that the HS U350 set may work for you because the one button should probably have the same double function as the middle one on the standard headphones

Edje said:
I agree! That's why I took out the soldering iron (and looking glass) and mounted my Sennheiser CX400-II's on the control unit of the standard headphones.
What I meant to say was that the HS U350 set may work for you because the one button should probably have the same double function as the middle one on the standard headphones
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Great tip!
So you don't even lose microphone, because it's in this button housing right? First time, that you can do something with this equipment

Donald24 said:
Great tip!
So you don't even lose microphone, because it's in this button housing right? First time, that you can do something with this equipment
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Yeah, maybe thats the only choice we have left, if HTC is not able to get another type of headset out in the next weeks...

wont chopping and soldering headphones create massive oxidisation of the lead. Not to mention the increases resistance for the signal to go through poor quality copper cable then suddenly in to good quality OFC copper.
You'd probably lose 50% of the quality the Sennheiser are supposed to punch out.

If controlling music is the problem then you will either need to solder an existing control pad onto your headphones or use something like the rce100 that lets you use your own headphones.
If it's just the mic you need then you will probably be able to use your headphones as I've currently got the westone um3x (which has no inbuilt) mic attached to the hd2 and the phone automatically routes calls to the hd2's inbuilt mic when i'm listening to music with mortplayer. So provided your hd2 isn't out of reach you will be able to listen through your headphones and talk through the handset like on Nokias.

Does anyone know of anyone who creates mic/music controls that take your own headphones that might work? Doesn't the iFone support this? If I have to settle for play/pause only I will, but I'd like to keep the track skip if at all possible.
I have a pair of Bose earphones which are really nice, but it's much easier to hit the pause on the HTC 'phones when someone wants to distract me in work than turn the screen on, go back to the music screen, then hit pause.

I have one of these from MobileFun:
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/apple-iphone-stereo-handsfree-adapter-p15226.htm
Less than £12. It has vol slider and call/answer, you plug in your own phones. The call button works as play/pause in WMP, Sense and PocketPlayer, but haven't been able to get it working in MortPlayer. If anyone has any tips for getting it working in MortPlayer I'd appreciate it!

i have this combo, that work very nice
http://www.amazon.de/Shure-iPhone-Music-Adapter-Mikrofon/dp/B000UD205K
http://www.ciao.de/Denon_AH_C_551__7747938
and this ^^
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502881&highlight=audio

MadBastard said:
and this ^^
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502881&highlight=audio
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with this cab you can use an iphone cable right??? that was what i was looking for!! thanks a lot!
but it also takes calls etc too right?

[APP]Audio Out for Docks

NOTE: Samsung's Car Home and Desk Home apps are now officially available from the Market. These versions work with the audio out and should likely be used instead of the apps I posted below.
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Many of us have been upset that the audio-out doesn't work on the docks as promised, but it seems that the answer is as easy as needing the right app! These are not my apps and not am I hosting them (I can if needed to, but I expect this to be a short term need once the real apps are available). I'm just passing on the information that a forum member, Vivified, pointed out to us in a different thread. The Samsung dock apps enable the functionality we desire, however they are currently not available in the Market to the Epic, likely due to our build.prop version not yet being updated for protected apps downloadable. The links below have been verified to enable the audio-out on both docks. There is a speaker icon on each app that needs to be tapped if the audio is coming from the phone still, that will mute the phone speaker and only give the audio-out from the dock.
I have only personally verified the output from the car dock app, though others have tried the desk dock. All other functionality, at the surface level, seems normal with these apps, but I present no guarantees.
Samsung Desk Home
Samsung Car Home

So does this make it so you can hook up your phone to the auxilary plug in a car and talk on it and hear someone through your car speakers?

davidrules7778 said:
So does this make it so you can hook up your phone to the auxilary plug in a car and talk on it and hear someone through your car speakers?
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you can already do that.

davidrules7778 said:
So does this make it so you can hook up your phone to the auxilary plug in a car and talk on it and hear someone through your car speakers?
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You can do that with a bluetooth and car kit, not sure about the audio on the call though, I will check that on my way home.

gremlyn1 said:
You can do that with a bluetooth and car kit, not sure about the audio on the call though, I will check that on my way home.
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Let me know, im going to try it using bonsai rom right now, 2.1 rom the mic wont work if its plugged in the auxilary, however you can hear the other person via auxilary..

what exactly is this? i use my phone in my car all the time through auxilary cable. and when a call comes in i can answer it and talk through my cars system. so what is this for??

works great. my old copy didnt have the extra toggles. only one for brightness.
happy!

maddoggin said:
what exactly is this? i use my phone in my car all the time through auxilary cable. and when a call comes in i can answer it and talk through my cars system. so what is this for??
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This is what I wanted to know, are u on 2.2 cause 2.1 wouldn't let me talk while it was pluflgged in.
Thanks hopefully thus will work for me.
Sent from My Eb13 Modem, With old bonsai epic 4g.

davidrules7778 said:
This is what I wanted to know, are u on 2.2 cause 2.1 wouldn't let me talk while it was pluflgged in.
Thanks hopefully thus will work for me.
Sent from My Eb13 Modem, With old bonsai epic 4g.
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2.2 worked perfect with he auxillary cord
I would have my epic plugged into my rooms stereo and it'd ring and id be able to talk through the speakers lolol
But I do remember while I was on di18, the mic wouldn't work. The speakers would, but the person wouldn't be able to hear me at all
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A_Flying_Fox said:
2.2 worked perfect with he auxillary cord
I would have my epic plugged into my rooms stereo and it'd ring and id be able to talk through the speakers lolol
But I do remember while I was on di18, the mic wouldn't work. The speakers would, but the person wouldn't be able to hear me at all
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Awesome, going to upgrade my dads phone he's been wanting that feuture! And me too, which I can use now.
Sent from My Eb13 Modem, With old bonsai epic 4g.

gremlyn1 said:
I have only personally verified the output from the car dock app, though others have tried the desk dock.
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Just tried both apps with the desktop dock and navigation mount, they both work as advertised.
Only caveat I've noticed is that if you switch from one dock to the other, you have to kill the music player otherwise it won't output to the lineout.
Any chance of ever getting Pandora to work with this?

intx said:
you can already do that.
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If you plug into the aux out of the dock, this doesn't work for me. Only for music.
-Roger

mykie242 said:
Just tried both apps with the desktop dock and navigation mount, they both work as advertised.
Only caveat I've noticed is that if you switch from one dock to the other, you have to kill the music player otherwise it won't output to the lineout.
Any chance of ever getting Pandora to work with this?
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I was listening to pandora with it already. Just hit the little speaker button when docked. Seems to work with everything that is controlled with the media volume.
-Roger

roghaj said:
I was listening to pandora with it already. Just hit the little speaker button when docked. Seems to work with everything that is controlled with the media volume.
-Roger
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Awesome, thanks!
I had to hold down the "Home" button to switch over to Pandora, since while docked the car/dock application takes over the device (even takes Pandora out of the Notifications).
Now I'm happy! I can finally use my car and desktop docks the way I wanted to from the beginning!

It would be nice to have a customisable set of programs for the screen... I'm sure we can pull the app apart and put whatever we want in there, but truly customisable through a menu would be ideal.
I didn't get a chance to try the car speakers yesterday, I realised my aux cable isn't long enough so I need to get an extension.

I think now that the initial buzz of a feature being fixed has worn off, I realize something very disturbing...
The audio out sounds terrible. It's all scratchy, like you're watching an old RealPlayer movie on an old-school Sound Blaster.
There's definitely some kind of downsampling going on and it sucks.

mykie242 said:
I think now that the initial buzz of a feature being fixed has worn off, I realize something very disturbing...
The audio out sounds terrible. It's all scratchy, like you're watching an old RealPlayer movie on an old-school Sound Blaster.
There's definitely some kind of downsampling going on and it sucks.
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Mine didn't sound perfect, but was pretty good. I could only notice a little static during the silence between songs when I had it cranked. I will compare the amount of static between the dock and the aux cable plugged straight into the phone. I will let you know what I find.
-Roger

thanks alot i can finally use my dock works flawlessly i don't get why this wasn't mentioned in the docks manual.

I noticed that too. Part of the problem is the charging causing some kind of distortion. Take out the usb cable if you don't need to charge your phone. It will make sound better.
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haas599 said:
I noticed that too. Part of the problem is the charging causing some kind of distortion. Take out the usb cable if you don't need to charge your phone. It will make sound better.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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Get a ground loop isolator.

No sound via speakers

Hi all,
Today I found out my speakersound is not working properly.
The external speaker on the back works fine but when I start Walkman and want to play a song there is no sound.
I believe that my phone thinks that the headset is plugged in.
I have tried the following:
- Reflash stock
- Factory reset
- On/off device
It just doesnt work.
Anyone got a solution before I get my bud to a repair centre?

please use service test

Done, there is absolutly no sound. Only when i really plug my earphones in.
Also a funny thing. Normaly when you open FM radio without earphones it ask yo plug them in. But with me there was no popup this tells me that there is a problem with my 3.5mm jack

Hey a friend had the same problem with his HTC phone. he downloaded the app Headphone blocker (or similar) from the play store and that worked. maybe you'll use it temporarily?

mrjraider said:
Done, there is absolutly no sound. Only when i really plug my earphones in.
Also a funny thing. Normaly when you open FM radio without earphones it ask yo plug them in. But with me there was no popup this tells me that there is a problem with my 3.5mm jack
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i found this problem in xperia play and SP has problem too
i restart mobile phone or plug earphone and unplug again

Schokonuss said:
Hey a friend had the same problem with his HTC phone. he downloaded the app Headphone blocker (or similar) from the play store and that worked. maybe you'll use it temporarily?
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Not compatible with jb
Depump said:
i found this problem in xperia play and SP has problem too
i restart mobile phone or plug earphone and unplug again
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tried many times

double delete

oh,ok.. by the way i had the same problem but i just had to plug in the headphone for short and then it worked fine and the problem never came again. or you shut down the phone for a while?

tried it all.
Shut down lay it away for an hour. Plugged earphones in and put it way for a while..
I really dont know what to do..

Also; it is only with "media" files becasue i hear when someone calls me or sent me a text message. Changing volume is something i can hear to. I just need to reset so that it is not in headset mode any more

hm.. okay.. and where exactly comes the problem? only with walkman or also with youtube or instant buttons or something like that? and can you hear something, if you go to dialer and *#*#7378423#*#* then go to service test and loudspeaker?
oops okay saw it too late ^^ these are the same "symptoms" like I had. If you plug in your earphones, the music for examples functions, right? and if you let the music play and you plug them out while letting the music play it stops?

The problem occurs with everything that uses the speaker. For example youtube. There is absolutly no sound unless i use my headphones. The same is for walkman, apollo and many others.
The service tests dont work. Since i cant hear a thing unless i use my headphones

No the music dont stop when i unplug my headphones

Okay.. but it is loudless.. that's quite difficult ^^ if it thinks the headphine is in did you try to kind of clean the headphone jack connection by blowing into it e.g.?

Okay; very very late response but from me.
I've tried a lot of solutions but a very very weird one worked from me. My speakers are functioning again.
What I did.
After the response above I just blowed a bit air in it. I just, yes very weird, licked the 3.5 mm plug that goes inside in the phone and played a song.
When I removed it the Walkman stopped playing. I thought it was me that I pressed a button or something. So I plugged it back in pressed play and after two songs I removed my earphones and yet again, the music stopped.
WOW it worked!
So I pressed play again and Krewella played through my speaker again!!
So, licking it seems to work? :silly:

Probably because of dust between the contacts inside the hole.
Good you got it sorted
Sent from my C6603 using xda premium

[Q] Does Your Audio Effects Work?

I'm convinced the Audio Effects does nothing. Doesn't matter if it's Speaker or Wired Stereo, I hear no difference in audio settings if I change them or turn them off and on again. I can't remember if they actually worked in 4.2x, but they sure don't seem to do anything in 4.4.
Can someone confirm that, in fact, you hear a difference?

640k said:
I'm convinced the Audio Effects does nothing. Doesn't matter if it's Speaker or Wired Stereo, I hear no difference in audio settings if I change them or turn them off and on again. I can't remember if they actually worked in 4.2x, but they sure don't seem to do anything in 4.4.
Can someone confirm that, in fact, you hear a difference?
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I hear a major difference. Audio quality goes way down if I turn on audio effects while using headphones. It's night and day. I have no idea why Motorola enabled them by default.

sethes302 said:
I hear a major difference. Audio quality goes way down if I turn on audio effects while using headphones. It's night and day. I have no idea why Motorola enabled them by default.
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it's just an app, right? i can't imagine my phone being defective because there's no difference in audio when switching the settings. i'm completely stock, so i don't know what the issue is.
i'll open an incident with moto if i have to, just wanted to get a consensus.

ok hold the phone... maybe it's just slacker. doing some more testing, but apparently the settings do nothing to slacker audio quality.

640k said:
I'm convinced the Audio Effects does nothing. Doesn't matter if it's Speaker or Wired Stereo, I hear no difference in audio settings if I change them or turn them off and on again. I can't remember if they actually worked in 4.2x, but they sure don't seem to do anything in 4.4.
Can someone confirm that, in fact, you hear a difference?
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It works for me on stock 4.4 with Google Play music. I hear a pretty tangible difference on all settings. Maybe try turning the lower frequencies all the way down/up (on custom settings) then toggle and see if that makes a difference.
Thanks for mentioning this; I've turned it off. Always thought my music sounded a little off on my usual IEMs.

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ok hold the phone... maybe it's just slacker. doing some more testing, but apparently the settings do nothing to slacker audio quality.
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doesn't work for pandora either. DOES work for Google Play Music.
well, at least i know there's nothing wrong wtih my device.

640k said:
doesn't work for pandora either. DOES work for Google Play Music.
well, at least i know there's nothing wrong wtih my device.
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I've actually never gotten it to work with anything on mine. Play Music, Pandora, Podcast Addict, etc. all don't work. I think I've only gotten it to work with poweramp when I was testing it but I use poweramp's own DAC so that's the only app I don't need it for.

[Q] Headphone issue

I have an unrooted, locked, never been dropped HTC One.
The headphone socket has stopped working. I've gentley cleaned it out with a q-tip, given it a blast of compressed air etc but it's made no difference.
Is there anything I can check to see if I can get it working again?
Secnod point. The first time it didn't work was the day after I'd updated to 4.4.2. Fluke or connected?

Anyone got any ideas?

moordown66 said:
Anyone got any ideas?
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have you tried some other headphones?
does the sound come out of the speakers even if you have the headphones plugged in?
does the headphone symbol come up in the statusbar?

cr1960 said:
have you tried some other headphones?
does the sound come out of the speakers even if you have the headphones plugged in?
does the headphone symbol come up in the statusbar?
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Yes - have tried other headphones
Yes - sound comes out of speakers with headphones plugged in
No headphone symbol in the statusbar

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like a hardware problem to me. What you tried was good, but I think you probably need to send it off for repair
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Thought as much. Or get Bluetooth headphones!

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Thought as much. Or get Bluetooth headphones!
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thinking outside the box.... nice. :good:

Thanks for your help. Bluetooth route seems less hassle.

Since it happened day after upgrade, and you are locked/unrooted, why don't you boot into safe mode (not sure the steps, but Google HTC boot safe mode). Then plug headphones in, see if it works then.
Last resort, do a system reset before sending in also to see if that solves it. I hate to sound like typical HTC support, but give it a shot. Just seems to coincidental to me right after phone upgraded.
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Full reset, and if that doesn't work, i'm afraid you are going to have to send it in

It's definitely hardware. If I push the jack to the right (while looking from the front) with the jack fully in it will work. That makes me wonder if there's something I could do from the top with a jewellers screwdriver? Any thoughts?