Hi all,
has anyone else notived the fact that the headphone jack (when using an adapter and high quality headphones) is quite loose and that the plug almost falls out? I used to own a Magician and was quite happy with the "tight" jack
Same problem here.
I too have bought multiple adapters, and ALL are loose. You will find that there should be three sections on your jack for this phone. These fit tight every time and is what I have settled with, HOWEVER, the adapter I used has a PTT mic/clip and a universal 3.5mm two section audio jack. This is the only way to get a tight fit that I have found.
http://www.tangshop.com/25mm-to-35mm-adapter.html
This fits tightly and works well. The cable section reduces the stress on the connector too.
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I was wondering if anyone knows if it would be possible to use the usb port on the hermes and turn it into a line-in jack using the 8th inch adapter that is meant for audio out via software. Reason being is that with a 400mhz processor and 2-4-6gb sd cards it would be nice if I could turn my device into a portable harddrive recording unit for my mixes. Only problem to that is a line-in. Any intelligent responses are appreciated.
totally possible, and i believe a hardware dongle exists already for that very purpose
but there is no reason why you couldn't modify your original headset (other than the fact it uses tiny wires, as a audiophile i like 4gauge, on everything. haha) to assist you.
easiest thing to do would be lop off the mic and wire a jack onto its pads, BUT you will need to watch your levels in ANY case to make sure you are not giving your device wayyy to much power.
Yeah I definately thought levels would be an issue if i decided to just solder somethin up. Other thing is it's mono. Would be nice to have stereo since Im pretty sure it can handle it. If you could post a link to that hardware dongle you were mentioning i'd appreciate it. If its less than a hundred bucks I just assume get that for the purpose of stereo and not to mention not having to bother with soldering crappy little wires.
I have a a USB mini extension lead, so I'm trying to plug in a 3-to-1 adapter to it. So male USB mini, the a-symetrical type (flat one side) to a female USB mini, the symetrical type (wings on both sides). Obviously this doesn't fit!
So is there a USB Mini (female a-symetrical) to USB mini (male symetrical) adapter?
Or could someone at least tell me their proper names so I can google it?
What are you trying to achieve? If it is to increase the cable length between the 3in1 and the Kaiser, I think you would need an ExtUSB patch lead with all 11 pins wired to retain the functionality of the 3in1. I don't know if these leads even exist.
The Asymetrical female socket, like the one on the base of the Kaiser, is double sided on the internal plastic "island" and has 5 contacts on one side and 6 contacts on the other.
The power and data are on the top 5 connectors.
The audio in/out & talk/end are on the bottom 6 connectors.
This is known as ExtUSB and is peculiar to HTC devices.
The Symetrical plug/socket is standard mini USB and will only ever have power and data connections. The mini USB plug only connects to the top 5 connectors in an ExtUSB socket.
Ouch, my dreams of the perfect in-car system dashed! Thanks wizzard that's really explained it very well.
The objective is to have a nice looking car install with only one wire leading to the Kaiser, and the 3-in-one hidden. So ideally:
Power \/
Audio > 3-in-one >> USB extension >> Kaiser
Hands free /\
It was hard enough finding the mini USB extension, so as you say an ExtUSB extension lead may not even exist
I purchased this adaptor for less than £10 from ebay. It ticks all the boxes for me and is the most discrete adaptor I could find. The 3in1 adaptors like this one dont come with a mic so wont work as a hands free without additional adaptors.
My intention is to have the plug fixed to a Brodit mount. The cable is no thicker than headphone cable. This 90cm cable will route to behind the steering wheel on the cowling. The adaptor is flat and low profile with the answer/hang up button on the top. Easily pressed through the steering wheel spokes. The audio 3.5mm and mini USB leads plug in at right angles to each other but will easily route out of site, behind the dash to USB car charger and 3.5mm MP3 In socket on the head unit.
It all works as expected, and even at Motorway speeds callers can hear me clearly. Voice Command works fine, TomTom and Media Player sound great. My only problem is alternator whine when charging, which I think is just an earthing problem. When I get it all properly finished I will post some photos.
After work, wife, kids etc. have finished with me.
Thanks Wizzard. Not a bad solution, and the best so far without the existence of an ExtUSB extension lead.
My only problem with it is that (I assume) it forces the kaiser into handfree mode even when all I was to do is charge and listen to music from the 3.5mm connection.
Again, I am assuming here, but I thought the second adapter you cite would only initiate hands free when I plug in the hands free into its port. I could be wrong on that one though.
Perhaps my issue is a small price to pay for 8gbs of music in the car
foaf said:
I thought the second adapter you cite would only initiate hands free when I plug in the hands free into its port.
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I dont have the bulky 3in1 to test, sorry. For me when listening to music and TomTom the audio mutes when I take a call and then resumes seamlessly on hang up without needing to physically touch the Kaiser. I only need to touch the Kaiser to press the Voice Command key once to launch programs and initiate calls.
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I purchased this adaptor for less than £10 from ebay. It ticks all the boxes for me and is the most discrete adaptor I could find. The 3in1 adaptors like this one dont come with a mic so wont work as a hands free without additional adaptors.
My intention is to have the plug fixed to a Brodit mount. The cable is no thicker than headphone cable. This 90cm cable will route to behind the steering wheel on the cowling. The adaptor is flat and low profile with the answer/hang up button on the top. Easily pressed through the steering wheel spokes. The audio 3.5mm and mini USB leads plug in at right angles to each other but will easily route out of site, behind the dash to USB car charger and 3.5mm MP3 In socket on the head unit.
It all works as expected, and even at Motorway speeds callers can hear me clearly. Voice Command works fine, TomTom and Media Player sound great. My only problem is alternator whine when charging, which I think is just an earthing problem. When I get it all properly finished I will post some photos.
After work, wife, kids etc. have finished with me.
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Hi!
Unfortunately the link to the item you have is broken...
I'm trying exactly what you wanna do, I bought this extension.
Is this the same of you?
It works, but I have annoying noise on audio when it's connected to the USB power jacket.
How to fix this?
Thanks a lot.
I recently picked up a set of earbuds and a 3.5mm adapter for my Tilt and have not been able to get the sound to play through the headphones... Is this a radio version issue? I'm a bit new to all this. I flashed my phone to the most recent ROM from HTC, installed the keyboard fix and that's about it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
JM
try flashing another radio...this is usually the culprit with no sounds...
I had this problem. When I plugged in the headphones, sound still came out of the phone speaker. It turned out one of the pins in the usb port was bent. If you get sound from the speaker with them plugged in, that could be your problem.
from my understandings...
There are 2 types of mini usb 3.5 mm headphone jacks. one that pulls form the top row on the mini usb port and one that pulls from the bottom row on the mini usb port. One works with the tilt, the other will not. More than likely you got the one that will not work with the tilt.
dtmcnamara said:
from my understandings...
There are 2 types of mini usb 3.5 mm headphone jacks. one that pulls form the top row on the mini usb port and one that pulls from the bottom row on the mini usb port. One works with the tilt, the other will not. More than likely you got the one that will not work with the tilt.
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The sound comes through the external speaker just fine, I also tried ALL the radios and nothing helped. There are no bent contacts so I guess it is probably that I got the adapter that will not work with the tilt. Does anyone know of a specific manufacturer that makes one that does work with the tilt? I picked this one up off ebay for about .50 cents, no idea who makes it.
I had one adapter with gold plated on the 3.5mm headphone side, the connection to USB was bad. I had to hold it down for it to work properly. I have since bought another one (with L shape USB connector), it works perfectly. Either you need to juggle it to see if it's a connector issue or you simply got the wrong type of adapter.
What kind of adapter is it?
I bought a "OEM" adapter from a website selling Tilt accessories, and it works fine. However, when I picked up a Motorola headphone kit with a USB adapter, it did not work, and the sound would only come out of the speaker.
The Moto compatible adapters do not work. HTC specific adapters are fine. They are also available in 2.5mm if you want to use a cell headset with it instead of bluetooth.
The Kaiser requires an 11 pin usb adapter......I believe the Razr uses a 7 pin? if im correct. That is why you dont have sound....
A cheaper way, ie: FREE! is to make one yourself out of the cheap pair that came with the kaiser!
see this: http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/2006/08/18/orange_spv_m3100_headphone_adapter_hack
its for the TyTN 1, but it still works for the Kaiser, its also very fun and great to show off to people
I use a mini-USB adaptor (3.5 mm) from Boxwave and it works great with my Shure SE 110 earphones! The adaptor was around $12.00.
Internal Microphone
When I plug my heaphones in, it seems that the internal microphone (on the phone) is disabled.
Is it possible to hear the sound through the headphones and talk through the phone?
I hate having to unplug the headphones every time someone calls me.
Hi everyone, I have the following issue:
I installed a guitar tunner application in my handheld, which uses the microphone to capture the sound. Since I play in a rock band, it´s very noisy when we are setting up, rendering this tuner useless unless everyone shuts up (which never happens).
I have used tuners for the PC, where I plug the guitar directly to the pc's microphone input (just using a 6.3mm to 3.5 mm audio jack adapter), the results are superb, so I was wondering if this could be done with my htc. I searched ebay and found many mini-usb 3.5mm jack headphone adapters with built in microphone, but none that allow me to use a different microphone.
Is there any microhone adaptor out there?
If there is any other way to do this I would love to try it, any ideas??
Thanks!!
Solved...
4Pockets guitar tunner works just as good as my PC tunner and is more responsive than the $25 chromatic tunners sold out there. It also allows me to connect my phone to any sound system and record music with (by far) better quality than using the phone's built in microphone and placing it next to the speakers.
Just in case anyone is interested on how to do it, this is the procedure I followed:
- Buy any inexpensive hands free with 3.5 mm jack and integrated microphone, there are many on ebay at less than $3 incluiding shipping.
- Open the hands free on the microphone side, you should see the microphone, a push button (to answer calls) and the 3.5 mm jack.
- The jack has 3 cables soldered on to it, remove the two that make contact with the tip and center of the plug (this leaves only the ground cable connected to its base, which is probably black)
- The microphone has 2 cables, one is ground and is probably black, remove the other one and solder it to the jack, in order for it to make contact with the tip of the plug (make sure it's on the tip and not in the center contact).
- Make sure the exposed tips of the cables you removed from the jack don´t touch any other cable.
- Seal the adapter
- Voilá, now you have a mini-usb microphone adapter for your HTC.
I don´t know what could happen if you make a short circuit, and i'm not willing to try it.
Cheers!!
woot that was cool
does that hack work with google nexus one or any other phone i wan to input sound from tv when recording with the cam
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4Pockets guitar tunner works just as good as my PC tunner and is more responsive than the $25 chromatic tunners sold out there. It also allows me to connect my phone to any sound system and record music with (by far) better quality than using the phone's built in microphone and placing it next to the speakers.
Just in case anyone is interested on how to do it, this is the procedure I followed:
- Buy any inexpensive hands free with 3.5 mm jack and integrated microphone, there are many on ebay at less than $3 incluiding shipping.
- Open the hands free on the microphone side, you should see the microphone, a push button (to answer calls) and the 3.5 mm jack.
- The jack has 3 cables soldered on to it, remove the two that make contact with the tip and center of the plug (this leaves only the ground cable connected to its base, which is probably black)
- The microphone has 2 cables, one is ground and is probably black, remove the other one and solder it to the jack, in order for it to make contact with the tip of the plug (make sure it's on the tip and not in the center contact).
- Make sure the exposed tips of the cables you removed from the jack don´t touch any other cable.
- Seal the adapter
- Voilá, now you have a mini-usb microphone adapter for your HTC.
I don´t know what could happen if you make a short circuit, and i'm not willing to try it.
Cheers!!
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gr8 work!
can u plz post some pics so that we may follow it more clearly?
My wife and I both have S5 phones.
Our car stereo does not have bluetooth but does have a 3.5mm aux input however neither of the S5 work with standard 3.5mm adapter cables. We've tried both phones with two different cables and yet no signal gets through. My daughter's Galaxy ACE works, as does my Xoom and our Classic Ipod.
In a similar vein I bought a set of cheap headphones with built in microphone for use in the gym. These were very unpredictable in terms of actually getting sound. Sometimes they worked sometimes they didn't. I ditched them because even when there was sound it was very tinny. The stock Samsung headphones work fine.
Any ideas why the S5 wont work with aux cables?
Make sure the jack is clicked right the way in, the S5 is pretty stiff to get the headphone jack connected fully, needs a decent amount of force for the last click
The jack is fully pushed in.
I even take the cover off to make sure.
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Does the patch cable have 4 terminals connecting to you phone? If not you need to get an adapter. I had the same issue, 4 pin 3.5mm jack (with mic) doesn't work well with a 3 pin 3.5mm cable. You can either find one commercially available or make your own omitting the lead for the mic and connecting the other 3 leads. Common wire and your + left and +right. Color codes are pretty much universal. Red=right..........
Search on Google "3.5mm 4 pole to 3.5mm 3 pole adapter". Plenty of vendors have them alreadymade.
Have bought an iBolt bluetooth adapter. Much easier and it means we can keep our phones in their cases.
Thanks anyway.
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Works well
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