POSSIBLE SIMPLE SOLUTION TO HEADPHONE JACK PROBL

It may have been suggested before but, purchase the wired remote cos its
very useful particularly when you are walking about or in the car,and you can
leave it permanantly plugged in the jack thereby considerably reducing wear
and tear on the socket. Then you can plug any other various phones/speakers/
aux/etc. to the remote
GOOD IDEA EH ? all donations to British Heart Foundation thanks lol :smileyvery-happy:

I think this is the 2nd time I read a post very similar to yours. Sorry to put you down but I really don't believe this will help at all. If you think about it, you pretty much have the wires in your pocket, in your backpack, or purse. Anyway, you have to keep that wire secure and free from movement or else there will be stress on the headphone jack.
If you don't believe me, try it out. I bought a headphone extension cord from radio shack that is about 5-6 inches long. I need it for my headphones to work, anyway, I noticed that whenever I'm walking with the extension cord plugged in and not with my earphones, the wire keeps falling down and starts going under the micro. Then everytime I walk, the wire starts moving in my pocket which starts putting some stress on my headphone jack.
My advice is to not leave anything in the headphone jack when not in use.
The important thing is to wonder is why are we doing this in the first place. Why are we so worried about our headphone jack from breaking? Is this really our fault? Is it creative's? Since when did we start thinking about headphone jack failing? Straight jack? Right angle jack?
I'm getting sick of this, Creative should really do something about this. Investigate!

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I bought a USED zen micro 5 gb the other day (what a mistake!), only to find the headphone jack problems start appearing fairly soon after buying it. I e-mailed Creative, and they told me the unit was out of warranty b/c I'm not the original owner. Thinking I could fix it myself, I tried to try to solder the contacts on. Unfortunately, in the process I got solder on the two black rectangle things closest to the headphone jack. In trying to remove the solder, the black pieces broke off. Now, the audio doesn't work at all (I'm assuming it is because I pulled off those black things). First, how the heck do you solder that contact in the upper right? How do you get a soldering iron in that tight space? Second, is there any way to replace those black things? Can I just buy a new circuit board for the headphone jack? Where would I buy something like that? What do you recommend I do?
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alexandryan wrote:
I'm on my second micro, the hard dri've on the first one was damaged, they replaced it for me and about a month after I got the replacement the sound went. As you said the jack is damaged and I have to constantly fiddle and push the earphones to hear from both ears, as I'm sure you both know it is the most ANNOYING thing ever! I'm not even bothering sending it in because last time it took ages. I'm going to buy a microphoto and just move all my music over. I'm probably mad though because I still have 2 months left on my year warranty.
[size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">I have the exact same problem!! I have to constantly fiddle with my earphones to hear from both ears!! Otherwise, I hear no music at all, music only at one ear, or intrumental music only (with the vocals sounding a mile away) this is seriously frustrating!! I know its got nothing to do with my earphones, because I've tried about 5 and eventually, it goes back to sounding faulty. This REALLY SUCKS and I really want to do something about it. Any ideas ?
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[size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">The thing is, I'm not sure if I have warranty or not. I bought my Zen Micro back in Feb.05 and I foolishy threw away my receipt. I've been told that I need a new RMA. But I have no idea how I get this process started with CREATIVE. Do i need my reciept? *eeeek* so confused!! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you
[size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">I really would like to listen to my Zen micro again but the faulty audio system is preventing this from happening!
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