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.
January 20th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Hey thanks so much. Pulling the headphones in and out really quickly helped
Maybe shaking my laptop a little helped as well 
January 10th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
thanx manuel it really worked 5 star rating
December 16th, 2010 at 6:58 am
When i plug my earphones into my laptop i can still hear the sound out loud on the speakers, but i can also hear them on the headphones?why is this? SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE!!!
October 31st, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Hello…
I have a Dell Studio laptop.
I had my laptop connected with a TV/Monitor with a VGA cable, and i had the sound coming out from the monitor…
A friend of mine tripped on the sound cable, and the laptop fell from the chair i had it.
Nothing happened except from it going in sleep mode. I entered the code, and everything seemed normal.
Later I unplugged the VGA and the sound cable, and there was no sound coming from the speakers.
I tried plugging and unplugging the sound cable, but nothing happened. I also tried to restart the Windows Audio Service…
Can I do anything else? There is no visible damage on the laptop…
Thanks in advance.
PS: The sound is allright if i plug headphones.
October 20th, 2010 at 9:32 am
It Works…Thanx Dude…
Now I can listen to my Fev. Songs…
October 15th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
hi, i have a toshiba laptop, but when i play a video on youtube i can play it through headphones, if i then unplug the headphones i dont get sound from my speakers, then if i plug the headphones back in i dont get sound from them either, but if i was to refresh the web page then it works again. any ideas how to fix it? cheers
September 20th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
i have a slightly different problem…..
I have sony vaio-vgn-nr110e
drivers and all properly installed…
my speakers were running fine….
bt suddenly while playing the movie on speakers it stopped working…..
still i can hear on my headphone….
i tried plugging-unplugging 100 times….. bt it didnt work….
any solution?? plz help
September 17th, 2010 at 9:40 am
i already repaired a lot of brand of laptop but there’s only one way of fixing this kind of problem, by inserting and removing the headset jack faster..
September 17th, 2010 at 6:26 am
HERE IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME: i tried the repeated putting in and removing the headphone cable from the jack a couple of times but only after i sprayed the jack with canned air (to remove any possible dust)…careful not to spray in the chemical…the plugging and unplugging trick worked (after the first try)!! … Thank God for these techie forums!!
September 13th, 2010 at 8:45 am
WOW!!! IT REALLY WORKED!!!
AMAZING!!!
September 11th, 2010 at 2:29 am
hi, i have a wimdows vista dell laptop, and last night i was listening to music on my laptop fine, turned it off properly and when i have gone on this morning i cant hear anything from my speakers?
September 2nd, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I have a slightly different problem..
I spilt water over my laptop and then quickly unplugged it and turned it upside down to let the water drain out but the sound stopped playing almost instantly (when water hit or unplugged?)
Since then the sound only works via headphones although the IDT HD SOUND programme (that launches when i put headphones in mic jack) suggests something is ‘plugged in’ to the headphone jack even when the headphones arent…
You’re plugging headphones in and out fast trick doesn’t work for me so I was wondering..
- could the water have permantly damaged the jack or will it eventually dry out (its been about 48 hrs already)?
- can you replace just the jack?
- is this something dell would fix as i’m still in warrenty? if i neglected to tell them about the spilt water!
August 13th, 2010 at 5:48 am
after i plug in my headphones and mic to laptop, adobe flash crashes,everything that has to do with sound stops responding like windows live messenger audio video set up,control panel-hardware and sounds. please help!!
August 8th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
OMG Thank You Very Much, I was Like Freaking Out When It Happened But Thanks To Your Solution About Plugging And Unplugging It Worked And to Those Of You Who The Problem Persisted Don’t Give Up I Probably Had To Do It About like 20 Times Before It Worked
August 4th, 2010 at 1:19 am
I have problem in toshiba satellite A200-24A laptop using windows 7 Os , when i plugged in headphone suddenly no sound on laptop speakers and headphone too ,i tried lot nothing else happened , please need a solution
July 20th, 2010 at 4:04 am
Your suggestion, so simple, yet effective. Thank you for posting the solution to my speaker not working problem on my laptop. You were exact in suggesting the jack contacts were “stuck” in the headphone position, I inserted the headphone plug into the jack on the laptop, wiggled it around a few times, and it instantly, the speakers started working again! Thank you, thank you!
July 10th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Recently I bought a Toshiba L650D laptop and now I can’t hear any sound. The OS (Windows 7) thinks there is music playing, no driver problems, I can see the volume bouncing in Windows Media Player when I play a song. But I can’t hear it, also no succes using headphones, I just hear noise.
Possible causes
- Just before it stopped working I had short circuit while plugging in the battery adaptor. When I tried again with a different plug it reloaded the laptop.
- After the short-circuit I connected the laptop OUT and IN jacks on the same machine (a digital drum).
Can you help me?
Thanks
July 1st, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Thank u so much man
U just saved me lots of time, money and peace of mind
god bless
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:19 am
awesome your da best 5 star rating :}
June 14th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Awesome, bro!! I was already looking for new drivers, thinking it was a Win7 incompatibility.
Great advice, thanks a bunch!
June 11th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
AMAZING!!!! To say the least. For the past few months, i’ve tried every bloody trick in the book and all i needed to do was this? Thanks a lot, dude. May the digital Gods bless you.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:14 am
your my hero.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
your r a genius ty so vm
May 9th, 2010 at 7:14 am
fantastic advice
it worked for me too
thanks so much
May 1st, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I have a windows vista advent laptop and the ring for the audio jack is missing it was fine for a while but now every time i plug in my head phones only a little volume comes out the head phones and the laptop speakers play out loud i have already tried moving about the end or the male jack so please can someone help
April 30th, 2010 at 11:45 am
AWESOME!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
April 24th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
omg it worked! thank you sooo much! I’ve been trying to figure this thing out for months!
April 14th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
It worked for me as well!!!Thank you!!!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Thank you so much for your help. It was so annoying that my speakers stopped working and it was such a simple thing. I just inserted a jack 3-4 times and it started working! thanks a lot!
March 17th, 2010 at 12:43 am
wow you are a beast, lol very good advice, I tried the headphone trick and unfortunately it did not work so i took it to the next level and inserted a plastic covered paper clip so it won’t short-circuit and moved it around making sure I was touching the prongs and bingo. it works…