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Help headphone jack glitch?

ooolalacey

ooolalacey

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I plug my phone into the car via the headphone jack, and when I do it gets completely buggy, as soon as I plug it in it tries to go to the voice command stuff and usually I can keep pressing home/back to get out of it, and I do, get to my music and then it just keeps happening in the middle of a song or whatever, it beeps and starts listening for a voice command, and then sometimes completely bugs out and freezes. I have tried a few different cables and it's always the same. Any idea?
 
I have this same issue and can't really find an answer. I try to use mine in the gym for workout and the slightest movement, its switching song, jumping back, pulling up voice dialer, calling the most recent number, and it is ONLY when the headphone jack is in.
 
I read about this on another android forum. Apparently this has to do with the design of the headphone/mic jack. It has 4 contacts to accommodate a mono microphone, whereas a basic earbud or aux audio cable plug has 3 contacts. So the headphone plug is incorrectly telling the phone there is mic headset attached and the phone is misinterpreting the signal it's getting. Since it sounds like this is happening with all different headphones and cables, I'm thinking the design tolerances on the jack are off. One workaround that someone mentioned, was to install an app called Headset Blocker from the market. It's supposed to intercept the rogue control signals. I haven't tried it yet myself, so I'm not vouching for its effectiveness. But it seems to have a pretty positive rating.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.idunnolol.headsetblocker
 
sharksfan7 said:
I read about this on another android forum. Apparently this has to do with the design of the headphone/mic jack. It has 4 contacts to accommodate a mono microphone, whereas a basic earbud or aux audio cable plug has 3 contacts. So the headphone plug is incorrectly telling the phone there is mic headset attached and the phone is misinterpreting the signal it's getting. Since it sounds like this is happening with all different headphones and cables, I'm thinking the design tolerances on the jack are off. One workaround that someone mentioned, was to install an app called Headset Blocker from the market. It's supposed to intercept the rogue control signals. I haven't tried it yet myself, so I'm not vouching for its effectiveness. But it seems to have a pretty positive rating.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.idunnolol.headsetblocker
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I contacted HTC and forwarded some copy and pastes of message board complaints....guess what, its our fault.
 
Bump. I posted this on HTCs facebook, they asked what I ment, then never replied again.
 
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