Headphone jack: can you tell us how did you do

Question

Hi, I have teh zen micro and reading all the threads concerning the hadphone jack makes me a little bit affraid of it.
But I I still think that with the appropriate handling of the player I could prevent it from that.
I would like to ask some of the Zen Micro owners with a headphone jack problem, to tell us how did that happen, what did they do, how thay handled it, did they put the player in the pocket or did they changed the headphones extremely often by pulling them out and placing them back in repeatedly. There Must be some physical force that cracks the jack however.
I hope to find more specific information from people who have sufferd this problem, so that we, the ones with the still good jacks can prevent the micro from it.
Thank you for cooperation.

Answer 1

I purchased my Nicro on /7 in NYC and enjoyed the hell out of it until 3/7 when I sent it back RMA.
Now I've had portable audio devices since the original Sony cassette Walkman (which came with a shoulder strap it was that big!) and I know full well that the headphone jack is the weak link in all these devices, so I babied mine.
It was never dropped, I almost NEVER... that's right ... Never removed the headphones from the unit and my headphones were the L-shaped kind to minimize excess leverage on the jack..
I always carried mine in an upper pocket of my jacket or vest, making sure to always leave slack in the headphone line on the player end. And the headphone jack still went bad.
That said it's due back 2 weeks to the day that I sent it out, (that's good service!) and if they've addressed the problem such that I don't have to go thru this again, I'll be a happy camper. If not Sony NW-HD3, here I come.