Sound distortion of everything through headphones

I recently upgraded my 3GS to IOS 5.1, and now everything through headphones sounds really distorted, i've found loads of answers saying check your itunes files and such, but it's not just my music, I tried Youtube and games through my headphones, and they all sound the same, they're all really badly distorted.
Can anyone help with this? It's really irritating.

Do a reset (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons about 10 secs or more till Apple logo appears)
Note: You will not lose any data
Is it the same without the headset?
Did you tried a different headset?

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I am using Lenevo P780 phon.
Baseband version P780.V23,2013/12/06 12.26
Build number
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Kindly let me know if there is any update regarding this.
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Please refer to http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Phones/LENOVO-P780-PROBLEMS/td-p/1250941/highlight/true
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No sound through headphones/microphone ALC892

I've been trying for days to fix this issue, and am lost. I've got a new desktop and cannot get sound to come out my headphones, or take input from my microphone. I believe my sound card driver is installed correctly, and that it is a pulseaudio problem. I've gone through the troubleshooter on Arch's alsa, and pulseaudio wiki pages. I do get sound through my monitor speakers when I use HDMI, but would prefer headphones. I have tried Debian, Linux Mint, Manjaro, and crunchbang and none of them have had working audio for me.
where I see a problem is in pavucontrol, all my profiles, and input/output devices say (unplugged). So in output devices, and next to Headphones it says (unplugged) when it is plugged in, same with my mic. i see the visualizer playing to the music under headphones though.
everything is unmuted in alsamixer.
I've tried both the front panel mic/headphone port, and the back panel.
thanks in advance.
EDIT: i did get sound to play through my roommates USB headset, they have there own sound card. So sound does work, but I cannot always use these and still want to get sound through my headphones/mic.
"aplay -l":
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
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Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
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Front Right: Playback 51760 [79%] [on]
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Front Right: Capture 9620 [15%] [on]
Last edited by felixnigh7 (2014-03-11 00:26:17)

Perhaps you have previous configuration files on your system (~/.asoundrc or similar)? You might want to look at you mapping of signal paths/jacks with hdajackretask found in alsa-tools (Frontpanel might be inactive on your particular hardware setup). Double check if correct module model is loaded for your card (line 36).
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Please respond to this thread and try to sort this issue. Is bad sound from "headphones"+CMSS On due to a limitation of the hardware (is the sound quality degradation compared to "2/2. speakers"+CMSS On due to a much more complex algorithm of 3D positional sound mixing)?
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Message Edited by acrh2 on 0-3-2006 0:45 PM
Message Edited by acrh2 on 0-3-2006 0:46 PM

The only possibility that I can think of is that 2/2. mode is NOT as simple as headphone mode with crosstalk cancelation. Perhaps the HRTF only kicks in for sound sources outside of the arc directly in front of the listener. If that were the case, you wouldn't percei've any distortion for sound sources in front of you.
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Bencio wrote:
I have new iPad and it works well. The speakers sound nice. Only, when I plug in any type of headphones, they sound distorted. It does not make any difference if it's a song or a movie. Anyone has any idea why this might be happening and what should I do about it?
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