Speakers stopped working after I used my headphones
My speakers were working fine one moment but then stopped working after i used in my headphones. I still have sound when I use my headphones but when I unplug it, i can not hear anything from my laptop speakers. I went through the troubleshooting on my laptop but I still can not get sound to come out of my laptop speakers. Please help!
I think you have a problem with the headphones jack in your laptop. There are contacts inside the headphones jack, you can see them if you look inside the jack. When you plug the headphones into the jack, the plug shorts these contacts and the sound switches from the external speakers to the headphones. Apparently, these contacts got stuck in the headphones mode and because of that you cannot hear any sound from the external speakers.
I’m not sure if you can fix this problem yourself, probably you’ll have to take your laptop to the repair shop. Try plugging and unplugging your headphones a few times in a row, do it fast, it might help to release contacts inside the jack.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
awesome! fixed it for me! Thanks a lot!
September 28th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Hi..
I have a same problem with Tishina..
I bought an SONY VGN-SZ433N about 15 monts ago.
When I plug in headphones into the jack, the internal speakers go mute but I also can’t hear anything over the headphones.
Anybody an idea ?
Thanks.
September 27th, 2008 at 2:47 am
yes it worked for me too!!!! cheers!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Thank you so much! I was tweeking out looking for a solution and this fixed it right away! THANK YOU!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
freakin awesome.. thank you
September 18th, 2008 at 6:57 am
I am having a problem with my sound on my laptop computer. the speakers nor the headphones work, and they were just working yesterday. i had restarted my computer and they stopped working all together. i dont know what to do about it…my sound is up and my headphones are new, ive tried multiple pair in the computer but nothing works. HELP!!!!!!!
September 6th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Thanks SO much for posting this solution!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:41 am
Sir,
After 3 hours of “software” fixes this worked. Its always the stupid stuff that fixes these problems.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I tired the unpluging and pluging the head phone jack a thousand times, and nothing changes. Not only does my sound doesnt come back but its always saying “No Audio Output Device Installed” i am using a toshiba satellite. please help.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:23 am
My laptop is compal hel 80, and I bought it about a year ago. Since then, I’ve had problems with sound. Whenever I decide to use my headphones, first, I have to switch manually my speakers to headphones, otherwise the sound will not appear at all. The same happens when I decide to do the other way round.
I don’t understand why I have to switch the sound manually. Is it because of Vista (home premium 32 bit)?? I’m very patient, but there are moments when it becomes very annoying:(
If there are any mistakes in the language above, my excuse is that I’m not a native speaker of English;)
August 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Ah Im so happy this worked!
I tried everything and got really upset before I found this, little did I know I just had to jiggle around my headphone plug..
August 21st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Nice one! What a genius.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:18 am
Worked perfectly… quick wiggle, worked perfectly.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
my speakers were working just fine. but my computer froze up completely while i was playing a game. and my headphones were in at the time. and i didnt know what else to do so i pulled out my battery for a few seconds. ever since i put the battery back in the internal speakers in my computer havent worked. but when i put my headphones in it works just fine. and my volume is all the way up on everything.
(by the way i tried putting the headphones in and out of my computer and it didnt work =[ =[) PLEASE HELP ME!
August 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Hi
I think I have the same problem here. I have a ACER Aspire 8920G and the sound worked perfectly until today I unplugged the headphones and my speakers went mute. I still can hear sound when the headphones are plugged. I´ve tried the in and out trick with the jack but it didn´t solved the problem
August 17th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hey,
I know this has been asked before, but no reply has been posted. I’ve had my HP Dv9000 laptop for a year and a half, and a few weeks ago the power cord stopped working. After using a new cord, I found the internal speakers worked fine but headphones do not produce sound . The internal speakers play when the headphones are inserted. I have used the exact headphones with laptop for a few months, and they work fine with my ipod. I tried several other pairs of headphones,and the wiggling trick with no result. Is a USB audio jack the only option? What model would you recommend?
August 16th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Help!
I’ve tried pretty much everything on all the websites that mention this issue, and still nothing! My sound works fine when I use my headphones, but when I unplug them I hear a second of sound with my built-in laptop speakers and then NOTHING. I tried to wriggle it, tried pulling it in and out fast about 30 times…but nothing seems to work.
It says all my drivers are ok and are up to date – any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
August 9th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Thanks a lot, i saw a lot of websites that were only telling me to get new speakers, only tha laptop freak knew what to do, thanks again.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Worked like a charm. So glad I didn’t have to reinstall drivers!
August 5th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Dear Laptop-Freak,
I have got a similiar problem. I bought an Acer Aspire 3680 (XP SP3, 2 GB RAM) about 15 monts ago. Headsets have never worked on this laptop.
When I plug in headphones into the jack, the internal speakers go mute but I can’t hear anything over the headphones. I have looked around in various forums, saw a lot of users with the same problem ,however, couldn’t find a solution.
The things I have already done to solve the issue:
- installed the latest Realtek audio system driver (updated other drivers as well)
- bought new headphones which don’t work either
- wiggled the jack about 20 times
I am really frustrated about this as the Acer website isn’t really helpful.
Anybody an idea ?
Tks in advance.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Simply awesome!! I had the same problem and I started looking into the forums and found this one. Thanks a bunch!!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
WOW!!! I was just surfing the web randomly as I have run into this problem several times with two of my computers, one a laptop and the other a desktop. Its amazing the extensive steps other forums told people to go through and so I tried this simple technique before rebooting, restoring my laptop to a former point, checking drives (I don’t know about others but I am not exactly a techy kind of gal) and this worked GREAT for me. You are AMAZING!!!
July 29th, 2008 at 4:58 am
i have got the same problem my laptop speakers doesn’t work once i use my headpones
i have
compaq notebook series F739AU with amd processor
July 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Have the same problem with an HP Pavililion DV 2025nr and no luck with all the wiggling. Uninstalled and reinstalled the Conexant drivers. This is annoying. I can hear fine with headphones but not externally.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Help I have the same problem but without headphones attached my playback device list is empty. I don’t have an option for speakers at all. This began when I upgraded from Vista Business to Vista Ultimate. It’s like the OS doesn’t know that there are internal speakers. Any Ideas?
July 24th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
PERFECT… Did work perfect.. I had tried this intuivitly (or how ever you spell that word) but not as hard as required.
Just move the plug recklessly inside the jack.!!!
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Awesome, saved me some money laptopfreak!
July 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hi,
I’ve got a customer’s Sony GR370 laptop and the sound works fine through the headphone jack (with headphones or external speakers), but with the plug removed the sound is there but very faint. He said that it was working and just kept getting softer and softer. Could the speakers BOTH have gone bad or??? I’ve tried the insert/remove the headphone plug “trick” but it didn’t help. Any suggestions?? Is there an additional amplifier somewhere in/on the Mainboard that’s needed to drive the speakers or not? Help??
July 8th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I’ve spent the past few hours looking for an answer to this as well. Unfortunately its on page 3 of google. Hopefully people will find it. Problem solved on a Dell Inspiron E1505.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Melissa,
Try reinstalling the audio driver. You can download it from Toshiba website.