No audio from MacBook headphone jack

For all of you wondering why your headphone jack stopped working and start thinking is hardware related, i've got a solution i wanted to post here.
After the last update i made ,i found out that on system preferences u don't have a headphone output until you plug the earphones, so check that when u plug them the mute checkbox is unchecked since the speakers and headphones volume choices are different from each other, so while in one is working u plug the headphones and then its mute for that one, what makes u think is not working.
Have fun
-ALF
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Kenji Kitahara wrote:
Brand new out of the box, this thing has a faulty headphone out. No sound through headphone, itunes stops, pointer turns into spinning circle. Audio/Midi setup & sound preferences says that it's a "Digital Out" not a "Headphone out". I've been waiting on software updates or whatever, but nothing's happening.
Does it also have a red light coming out of the hole? I hear sometimes the dual headphone jack/mini-optical out gets stuck in digital optical mode. Something about trying an object in the hole to clear it.

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