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For many months on this forum I was baffled by calls for class action lawsuits, people being on their 5th Micro, and people swearing off Creative and going to the Fruit Side, all because of the supposed "Headphone jack design flaw" which plagued every Micro.
My Micro, bought in December of last year, never gave me that trouble. Half the time I felt lucky, the other half of the time I felt that the claims of this problem were somewhat exaggerated, that perhaps some people just abuse their electronics. That is, until <i>last week</i>!
Yes, after 7 months of occasional use and treating my Micro like a baby, I too have now suffered the inevitable. It appears I was merely postponing destiny. Well, Creative received my unit yesterday. I hope they can turn it around before I leave for Hawaii in two weeks. If not, I'll have to buy a new mp3 player and sell the refurbished one on eBay.
For those of you who have gotten their players repaired, does the repair hold up? Or does the jack merely fail again? And for those of you buying new Micros, has the jack indeed been re-enforced? I've heard conflicting statements on this.
-Lyle

Lyle_JP wrote:I used my Micro a couple times a week on average. I always left my headphones plugged-in except for the period of time that I was using firmware .0.02 (which would drain the battery when the headphones were left in).
Out of interest, do you wrap the headphone wire around the player?
How did it break? Through perfectly normal usage, that's how! Why? Only Creative knows (and they ain't talking!).
Someone before gave a relati'vely detailed description that (I think) the way its soldered, the middle joint acts like a fulcrum and therefore eventually the end joint breaks free. If that's to be believed of course.

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