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.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Thank you soooooo much =] took a few attempts but it worked..x
March 7th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
omg thank you so much! I plugged it in and out and it worked.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm
AWESOME!!!!
I was having issues with my speakers after using my headphones and couldnt figure out what happened. My two year old nephew had gotten to my computer and i thought he messed with it. then i read this and was like yeah i have been using my headphones for the first time. so i did the plugin/unplug headphone thing and it worked. Thank god i didnt have blown speakers. This definatly felt like a blonde moment. Thanks for the help!!!!!!!!!
February 21st, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Thanks alot. This advice solved my problem
February 18th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
THANK YOU Laptop Freak! I just put the headphones in and took them out multiple times and now the internal speakers work again!
January 25th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
my laptop speakers only work when I plug in my headphones and then it can be heard on my headphones and speakers at the same time. How do I fix this problem?
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 pm
ok I used my ear phones to listen to something took em out and no sound from my laptop. Just a regular mac so restarted it and still no sound. Plugged it in a few times like it says. Still no sound. There’s a red light coming our of the ear phone port and I can get sound on the ear phones but no sound without the ear phones. HELP ME!!!!!!
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:23 am
SO I just had this start happening to me this early morning. It happened once when plugging in external speakers. After a reboot it worked. However after rebooting for Vista updates, no matter how many times I plug/unplug headphones, it doesn’t work.
I got a flashlight and looked into both jacks, the contacts look fine (as far as I can tell), none of them are pushed in as they would be if headphones were plugged in.
Device manager doesn’t list ANY audio devices. When I plug in my USB headset it works fine (different output device obviously), but no matter what I try, normal speakers and headphones refuse to work.
At this point, is my only option to have it looked at? I’d do it myself (I replaced the screen myself after a bunkmate on base stepped on it as he was climbing down off the top rack.), but I’m wary of cracking open the main case and messing with the innards.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Thank you soooo much. This saved me so much time and money. Thanks to Google also for leading me here
January 14th, 2010 at 11:41 am
My Logitech speakers stopped working on my Mac after using headphones. The internal speakers of the Mac only worked. I took Jenny’s advice (#136) but because I have a Mac, went to System Preferences, clicked on Sound and discovered that somehow the Logitech speakers had turned off. So I just clicked them and voila! Thanks Jenny!!!
January 14th, 2010 at 6:24 am
I have a Toshiba Satellite A505,and I have been having problems with my internal speakers working for a while then the next day when I wake up and want to play music they don’t work. I have checked everything for sound and still they do not work. Is there something I can do or should I just send it off to Toshiba?
January 11th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Thanks it helped me. I got scared that my motherboard was faulty… and was going to a repair shop but i stumbled upon this link.. and got my internal speakers corrected…
January 11th, 2010 at 1:23 am
ABSOLUTE LEGEND!
This worked for me – wow, eternally grateful too!
Thank you!
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December 31st, 2009 at 5:59 am
well, i can’t believe it. i spent hours going over every setting, reinstalling drivers, etc… inserted and pulled the plug a few times and it worked.
thanks for the tip.
December 27th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Please help me everyone, I really don’t know what to do!
Got an HP netbook for christmas, and started using it last night and the sound was working perfectly. Suddenly today, there’s just no sound at all from the speakers or the headphones. When I plug headphones in, but not all the way, there’s a weird fuzzy sound and I don’t know what it is. I’ve spent hours on the troubleshooting thing, I’ve tried system restore. I tried twizzling the headphone jack thing and that didn’t work either. Please help, I only got my laptop 2 days ago and I don’t know what to do!
December 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I have a HP touchsmart TX2, and it has been great for the last 6 months i have had it. But then, I inserted the audio jack to listen to music through headphones, and the sound quality was bad: all distorted. I then removed them, and the speackers just poped, fairly loudly.
Since then, my speakers don’t work, but pop each time I unplug my earphones, and the sound quality in my earphones is very distorted. I have tried countless times to quickly remove/insert the earphones, but with no positive results. I have tried with other earphones too and all seem distorted, but work fine on my ipod. Someone please help me!!
I am running windows 7 home premium.
Thanks in advance
Nick
December 12th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
i can’t hear any sound from my speaker but still can hear from my earphone…is there anything that i can do to fix it..tq
December 12th, 2009 at 3:13 am
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. My laptop is DELL INSPIRON 6000 , I tried this solution, but believe me no benefit.So please help me hw to fix the speakers of my laptop which work when i use headphones , but don’t work when i remove the headphones.
December 10th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
WOW. That just worked. You are amazing. Thanks.
December 10th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I spent hours trying to troubleshoot why my notebook internal speakers stopped working after I had used external speakers. Couldn’t figure it out. I was so frustrated. Finally – I found this page – and it WORKED! That was exactly the problem – I had to plug & unplug the external speaker jack several times – saw on the screen finally that the notebook detected the device being unplugged and at the same time the speakers would flicker on. Finally after a few more insertions and pull outs, the internal speakers worked. I can’t believe that jack has contacts that are so flimsy. Thanks so much for posting this solution!
December 9th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Well my problem is that my laptops speakers won’t work but when I put in ear plugs in I can hear sound!! I really need help
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I’m having the same problem and have tried the wiggling of the jack thing…any other ways you readers may have found? I even tried it on its side to use gravity…NOTHING!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
thank you thank you thank you!
November 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
i have HP F739AU Laptop. my problem is when i connect my headphone with my laptop. both laptop speaker and headphone work. i want to fix this problem as when i will use head phone my laptop speker should not work and when i will not use headphone thn laptop speaker will work. how can i do this amd what is a problem. i am using XP service pack 2
November 13th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Thank you laptop freak. i unplugged my head phones very vast and in one tug my sound was restored.
you have my unending gratitude
November 9th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
i hear music come out of the speakers but it sounds really bad and i tried to use my headphones but it still sounds bad.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Thanks man this worked u saved me l0l
October 29th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
boston acustic digital speakers will not work on my dell xps m1730.
called dell just after i bought the laptop about a year ago and was told to buy something go between speakers and laptop.
i forgot what it was & called 8 months later and dell cant help me now.
bose analog speakers work from headset.
set up output to digital 48khz and still no sound.
system is several years old but the speakers will self test all 4 channels & sub. can u help me ? ty steve.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:09 am
This problem was the same for me, the headphone jack solution worked
Thanks for posting!
October 28th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
YOU ARE AMAZING. I LOVE YOU. I CANT BELIEVE THIS WORKED
THANKS A BUNCH