help! my phone is stuck on headphone mode - Page 2

amart79196 · #11 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 02:54 AM

I had the same problem. What worked for me and looks like it worked for others here is to plug in a 3.5mm plug in and out a bunch of times. I did it about 50 times and I never had the problem happen again.

**deadwrong03** · #12 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 09:14 AM

i had that problem before and now its back but worst....the first time plugged it in and out 20 times and it removed the headset and it never happened again till last night.

now my charging port is lose and will barely charge, and sometimes when i try to charge my phone the headset icon gets stuck. So im going to have to get it replaced for the loose/faulty charging port and also the 3.5 mm jack

ac0x · #13 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 11:31 AM

Well if your charging port is loose, then your phone is obviously just flat out "broken" and needs to be fixed/replaced.

But I did have the "phone stuck in headphone mode" problem. I reset the phone. I hard reset the phone. I plugged and unplugged the headset several times. I reset the phone with a headset in. Without a headset in. I blew air in the plug. Nothing worked. I had a replacement sent from Verizon, and was ready to set it up. Then one day, the old phone just started working again, and has been OK for several weeks. Who knows. My guess is just schmootz in the headphone jack was causing contact problems that finally got dislodged.

unsane · #14 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 01:45 PM

NO,NO,NO.....Dont be putting alcohol or anything else in your jack....!!! This is a software problem, not a hardware problem....the only way to get rid of it is to RE-BURN the STOCK ROM from your carrier and hard reset after that....Ive had this issue before many of times especially with the earlier custom roms.....

ac0x · #15 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unsane

NO,NO,NO.....Dont be putting alcohol or anything else in your jack....!!! This is a software problem, not a hardware problem....the only way to get rid of it is to RE-BURN the STOCK ROM from your carrier and hard reset after that....Ive had this issue before many of times especially with the earlier custom roms.....

My issue was NOT a software problem. I hard reset the phone back to the Verizon 6.5 ROM several times and it didn't fix the problem. It eventually just "fixed itself". Which to me points to a hardware problem, either a bent contact, a broken contact, or a dirty or clogged contact.

duykhang · #16 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 11:41 PM

I poked my stylus in the 3.5mm jack played around and it worked

cge10 · #17 (**permalink**) 02-24-2010, 12:49 AM

when this happened to me i had to hard reset it is not a physical problem so dont go and stick something in there l unless this happed on a locked phone. i had flash mine back to telus and lock it again to give it back, i tested it before and it worked so i unlocked it and flashed my rom onto it and have not had a problem since its bean over 2 months

.ohms. · #18 (**permalink**) 02-24-2010, 01:16 AM

i've had my tp2 for about 2 months now and this has happened to me twice. the first time i did a soft and hard reset and concluded that it wasnt an electrical/software problem so i did what urantivirus did and i probed the jack with the stylus and it worked. im guessing that the contacts inside the jack are sticking after you unplug the headphones.

kimbrojw2 · #19 (**permalink**) 02-24-2010, 02:36 AM

off subject about cleaning but anybody have problems with the 3.5 not outputting to an aux port in a car deck.

tom5b · #20 (**permalink**) 02-28-2010, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duykhang

I poked my stylus in the 3.5mm jack played around and it worked

I did the same thing and it also worked.

I also purchased one of those 2.5, 3.5 mini-usb headphone, mini-usb power plugs from ebay and now I only use that... have not had the problem since.