One SOUND reason not to upgrade Q10 to Passport or Classic

ref:  headphone jack hugely erratic
No replies to prior posting.  In the meantime, the hyper-sensitivity of the headphone jack is driving me crazy.  I'd been using the headphones for Music play the last two months.  One month ago, my Q10 went off its 1 year warranty -- coincident with the headphone jack starting to act weird and erratic.
The slightest movement of the jack (using BB earbuds or Phillips or other) will cause the music play to stop, and default to the Main Speakers.  Nearly impossible to restart the earphone sound, without stopping play and slowly re-inserting the jack into the port.  Even then, its trial and error and often does not work.  Once working, its back to slightest movement of the jack stops play.  I tried moving the wire (without moving the jack), but this does not stop play.  
From my observations, the Q10 is constantlyl checking the connections, as the jack is inserted into the port, and using some complicated logic to turn on or off the headphones.  So erratic, and driving me nuts the last month.  And that's aside from the **bleep** Voice Control turning on when inserting the jack, no consistency for when this occurs, just starts talking out loud.
Unless Blackberry can implement a simple and 100% reliable fix, I will not consider upgrading to the Passport or the Classic.  I suspect they use the identical headphone jack/port logic to enable/disable the headphones with 10.3.
Please consider enhancing 10.3.1 or 10.3.2 etc with a new Sound Setting to:
(1)  Fully DISABLE VOICE CONTROL
(2)  Fully ENABLE ON the headphone jack port for sound (i.e. disable Main Speakers).  When set to ON, stop checking for integrity of the headphone jack connection, and insertion and removal logic.  If there is a momentary loss of connection, the sound should stop momentarily -- but DO NOT STOP PLAY, and requiring re-checking for headphone connection or insertion.  Just route the sound signal through the headphone jack, and assume headphones are plugged in with good connection.
Keep it simple ... and reliable.  Please respond to my enhancement request.   This single problem is enough to not buy another Blackberry.  All my friends with iPhones and Androids are not fiddling with their earphones to keep them working.  Its old technology, make it reliable.  The problem affects the Music player, Video player, StereoTube, and YouTube.

I just thought of an alternate solution to having a manual Headphone Jack ON switch.
Instead, since its momentary faults (i.e. disconnects) last only a split second that cause the Music or Video player to stop PLAY and go into PAUSE mode, the electronic/software logic should check TWICE for a disconnect before going to PAUSE.
That is, if a disconnect is sensed, check again in 0.25 second.  If the connection is still disconnected, then go to PAUSE.  If the connection is good at 0.25 second, then leave it alone and keep in PLAY mode!   Pretty simple.
Perhaps, someone in the Support Forum can forward this to the BB developers.  They could test to determine the ideal time between disconnect checks, i.e. 0.15, 0.25, 0.4 sec etc.
This could eliminate nearly all problems related to slight movement of the headphone jack caused by movement of the cable or jack for any reason.  I know this would work, as after switching from PLAY to PAUSE, I can hit the middle button on side and immediately go back to PLAY for 90% of the time.  On some occasions, I must reinsert the jack slowly to engage back to earphone jack sound.

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