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.
February 27th, 2012 at 3:12 am
nice dude it work for me thank you so much
January 30th, 2012 at 8:03 am
Superb! It worked. Like some others here I had to plug and unplug it for about 10 times. Blow into the headphone jack and plug\unplug about 4 times and voila! It worked!
December 6th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
You rock! i blew up the headphone port and it works like magic! thanks for this forum!
November 14th, 2011 at 4:45 am
Blowing in the audio port helped after 10 times. For only 10 seconds…. aaargh!!!
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:58 am
Skype on Windows 7 stops sound from working
Alright this is something that has become pretty frustrating. I’ve had Skype for awhile now and so this was not an immediate problem. Basically, Skype sounds are the only sounds that my computer allows through, HOWEVER, whenever a Skype sound is happening all other sounds are allowed to come through for that specific period of time. Let me give an example:
I always have my music playing so that I will know when my sound is or isn’t working. When I sign in or out of Skype there is that whoosh noise (or whatever you want to call it) and I can then hear my music for another few seconds and then it cuts out.
Whenever someone messages me while Skype is minimized there is that tiny beep noise. My music plays for a few seconds and then cuts out. During calls my sound plays the whole time in the background because a Skype sound is coming through.
I’m running Windows 7. Oh and my headphones work when I plug them in, and my computer recognizes my speakers/headphones as the same device…so I’m not sure how this is happening.
The problem still occurs even when Skype is completely closed (not just minimized). I have even restarted my computer and the welcoming sound does not play when I log in. Well, it plays but I just can’t hear it. The computer is recognizing that the music is always playing because the green bar next to my speaker device is going up and down, but I just can’t hear it. (Unless Skype is making some sort of sound of course)
Please help if you can! Again, I have Windows 7 and my sound device is “Speakers/Headphone – IDT High Definition Audio CODEC”. The music plays out of my headphones when I plug them in but right when I take them out the speakers do not play anything. That’s about all the details I can give you, ask if you need anything more.
October 27th, 2011 at 4:35 am
I have a sony VAIO, i plugged in my headphones (Iphone kind) and then unplugged it and now my speakers don’t work. I tired unplugging and plugging them back fast; it didn’t work. I also tried blowing into the ports; that didn’t work. I don’t have a can of air spray. What are my choices now?
Thanks in advance.
October 20th, 2011 at 11:16 am
My laptop is MSI U200. It is only 1 month old so I was very frustrated when the speaker didn’t work after I unplugged the headphone.
After reading someone’s post saying that he fixed it using the air spray, I tried blowing the plug in with my mouth and it worked!!!!
I blew the air in as hard as I can and the speaker suddenly turned on.
Too bad I read this after I purchased a USB speaker from ebay.
September 5th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
The plugging in and out really fast worked like a charm!!! You deserve a reward!!!! Senator You ROCK HARD!!!!
July 24th, 2011 at 7:04 am
I had the same problem. Ironically, the problem manifested 1 week after my warranty expired. Of course HP was extremely helpful (dripping with sarcasm). When they offered to sell me help for $39, I blew a small gasket. I told the guy this situation smells like something they settled a class action suit over (end-of-lifed code embedded in printers, causing owners to replace them-in the hopes they would be replaced with HP printers). The guy apologized for the inconvenience, and after I told him that somebody would be sorry, that I would share the information with my attorney, and that I’d make sure millions of people heard my voice, he was happy to help. Of course, his solution was to reinstall the audio drivers (which made no sense since playback hadn’t completely failed).
I read many forums, many suggesting that the headphones be quickly plugged in and removed several times. This didn’t work for me, but the concept made sense. I took a can of compressed air and shot a tiny amount into the headphones jack. The result was immediate: glorious sound from my speakers!
July 13th, 2011 at 10:59 am
I just had the same problem, I was so scared too. My PC has been breaking down getting worst every month and now this, lol. I just pulled the headphone plug in and out several times really fast and now it worked. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! I really appreciate this help topic!
July 8th, 2011 at 5:04 am
Hi all,
Let me just say that I really understand the frustration felt by anyone whose lost the ability to hear sound from their speaker after disconnecting their headphones.
I tried everything today and short of throwing the d#$n thing at the wall… something happened. I was fumbling around the jack area and i began to hear crackling and static.
With the problem resolved, I’d like to advise the following.
The problem is not software/driver at all. It is totally hardware. Please do not muck around with your drivers and deactivate stuff and rebuild ur machine…
The problem is hardware manufacturing these days has streamlined production of headphone/speaker/microphone jacks to be one in the same. In doing so, there is minor short circuiting going on resulting in this problem.
To resolve you can blow into the jack’s openings or plug/unplug the jack in and out really fast. While these worked for some according to all the comments before me, I got my speakers working only when i moved the slot that looks like the PCM-CIA inlet. U might recall that before the advent of USB, there was PCMCIA slots on the sides of some laptops… modern chassis still have a PCM CIA slot but usually have a plastic covering… jiggle that a little and it is enuf to cause the short-circuiting to deactivate and u’ve got ur speakers again.
I have a 6 month old…
HP Probook 6555b
Win 7 enterprise
Good luck to you if ur struggling still but that’d be my best advice I can give at this time.
June 30th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
I have tried everything nothing works now I have no sound the computer will not recognize my logitech speakers, I bought out of frustration, so I could hear something, it is under warranty and I am going to send it it in, if I had my way i would get a refund and buy a MAC ! This piece of rubbish has never worked properly and is the biggest waste of money, time and soft ware, if anyone is thinking of buying a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC Laptop DON’T !!!!!!!!!!!
June 20th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
Problem with my Dell inspiron is when I start I could hear sound from speakers. Then I put the headphones and I cannot hear anything from Headphones. I remove the Headphone jack and Cant hear anything from Laptop Speakers as well.
Tried plugging and Unplugging the jack. Blow Air. Nothing works.
May 31st, 2011 at 7:15 am
This trick worked perfectly!!! Thank you!!!
May 4th, 2011 at 9:40 am
This is the same problem I was having with 2 out of 3 of my kids’ Nintendo DSI games! I was so frustrated! This trick worked perfectly!!! Thank you!!!
April 15th, 2011 at 8:32 am
Yes!!! Blowing in the jack helped! Thanks!
April 8th, 2011 at 10:22 am
IT WORKED!!
Thanks so much.
March 27th, 2011 at 10:40 am
I had the same problem with my Dell Vostro laptop running Windows 7. I tried the plug & remove technique for a while.. maybe more then 15 times.. Didn’t work.. then I blew air with my mouth into the two headphone jack holes a few times and tried the plug & remove technique again..and it worked after 3 or 4 tries.. Thank you for your help!!
March 20th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Hey guys, thanks so much for posting with such detail, sisi74 in particular, after trying the push n pull technique, i blew into the headphone jacks n voila! was cruising to coldplay….
amazing stuff..
so seriously try the blowing technique to get sound back from speakers after removing headphones!
March 9th, 2011 at 7:58 am
I was browsing because I had the same problem, and this fixed it. Thanks a ton!
March 8th, 2011 at 11:50 am
dude, YOU ABSOLUTELY ROCK! that plugging trick worked!
I was kinda freaking out, not anymore…….
thanks man
February 21st, 2011 at 2:40 am
please after i put outlet going to my speaker my laptop speaker not working now and it is very hot
February 5th, 2011 at 10:26 am
what if the headphones jack housing thin metal that does the s.c. (short circuit) is broken and i wanna fix it myself . . any reply ?
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:45 pm
hey i do followed ur advised it works,,but after few sec it happened again..i agn tried plugin n unplugin but no luck dis tym…plz a little advised wil b of gr8 hlp futher..thnx..
January 29th, 2011 at 3:21 am
GREAT!!!!
…. pluging in and out several times worked!!! 
…. Thanks a lot !! 
January 21st, 2011 at 9:05 am
Oh My God!!! I tried everything. Uninstalled drivers and reinstalled then did hours of research. Played around with control panel then found out one of my headphone jacks was “stuck.” I tried this trick of fast play with the headphone cable and it did not work. I do not have any canned air either so I sucked in all the air I could with my mouth over the two ports. After this I tried the fast trick again and it WORKED with in three times. Thank You to everyone on this forum!!!!!!!!!