How Do You Fix A Headphone Jack?
Everyone has experienced the moment when your headphones stop working. You jiggle the jack and they work fine until the day when jiggling the jack doesn’t work anymore and you can no longer hear anything. The problem isn’t your headphones, or that the player has stopped, but simply the solder on the jack has broken inside the case. You can learn to repair a headphone jack and, instead of buying an expensive new player every time the jack breaks, you can open up the case and fix the jack with a few simple tools. Step 1 Open the case by removing the screws that hold the case cover to the backing. Depending on whether you are repairing a headphone jack in a computer, laptop or MP3 player, the screws will be located in different areas. Locate and remove all the screws. If the case does not pull free, stop and look for screws you missed. Step 2 Clean the old solder from the connection between the jack and circuit board it attaches too. Do this by lightly touching the heated solder iron to t
