Headphone Jack- New Thr

I want to comment about headphone jacks on portable players. Years ago, I broke many headphone jacks on walkmans, until I started using only right angle plugs being plugged into the players. A long plug that stick straight out exerts great force on the jack when it is pressed against(it acts like a lever!) and can break even a very strong jack over time. For those headphones which have a long straight plug, I plug the plug into one of these,
http://www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf...ccessories^Y88
and plug the right angle plug of this into the player. Since I started doing this, I have had no broken headphone jacks on portable players. I am annoyed that the Creative earbuds that came with my N200 has a straight plug rather than a right angle one, even though it is quite short. I don't use the Creative earbuds anyway, as the other earbuds I bought separately are much better.
Message Edited by JK23 on <SPAN class=date_text>03-28-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>06:49 AM
Message Edited by JK23 on 03-29-2005 0:50 AM

hey guys! one the one hand you are right guys..on the other hand: why are you satisfied with being careful all the time, when you plug in your headphones?
the mp3 player (zen micro), which does cost more than 220?(!) from the well known firm Creative should be a little bit more resistant to plugging the headphones in and out.. even the fact, that there are several ways and angles you can put the earphones into the headphone jack is not normal! My old Sony MD player's headphones could only be plugged in for one way and in one angle! and there were never any problems.... by only plugging in and out the headphone jack of such an expensi've hardware from Creative it MUST NOT brake that easy!!
I was just wondering what Creative will do about this problem... even one hotline member told me that "this problem was new to them and i was the first consument telling about such problems"... funny, isn't it's

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First of all please don't post comments only and only post if you have a problem. Treat this thread like the "Experience with your Creative Player." I want to see how far this thread can go and to see if this is a big problem. Please be respectful and honest about this issue. This is only for the Zen Micro right now since it's the one player that most of users here have issues with. Who knows that someday Creative might look into this or to really see if there really is a problem or not.
If you have friends or anyone else you know who owns a Zen Micro and has this problem, tell them to join the forums and post here, try not to post for them unless they are part of your family. Like if you were trying to do this for your son or daughter.
If you own more than one Zen Micro and that they have the same problem, try to list them seperately. If you just got your player fixed or RMA'ed, made a post here in the past, then all of sudden it breaks again. Please post again with the same format. I want to make sure that each post is for one Zen Micro. Though the moderators are the only exceptions to this.
If any of you think that this thread needs to be edited in any way, please send me a Private Message so I can make the changes.
The format
) Capacity
2) New, Used, Refurbished, Replacement? And where?
3) How long you owned the player?
4) Explain exactly what happened when the problem occured?
5) Did you fix or solve the problem? If not, say so. If yes did you RMA by warranty? Fix it yourself?
6) If you did get a replacement from Creative, is this your second player? Third? Fourth? Fifth?
7) Your own comments/opinions to the whole issue and anything else you want to add. Like RMA service was bad or it was great.
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) 5GB
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3) Since March '05 or about 0 months
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) 5 gig
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HT2844 My front headphone jack does not work when connecting a head phone to a new mac pro desktop computer. The sound still comes from the speakers. Any solutions?

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