Comments on: Speakers stopped working after I used my headphones

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:03:21 +0000

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!

By: Francis

Francis — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:36:56 +0000

You rock! i blew up the headphone port and it works like magic! thanks for this forum!

By: goestin

goestin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:45:22 +0000

Blowing in the audio port helped after 10 times. For only 10 seconds…. aaargh!!!

By: sam

sam — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:58:04 +0000

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.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:35:45 +0000

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.

By: TK

TK — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:16:24 +0000

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.

By: Slym

Slym — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:45:55 +0000

The plugging in and out really fast worked like a charm!!! You deserve a reward!!!! Senator You ROCK HARD!!!!

By: B.Bertrand

B.Bertrand — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:04:29 +0000

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!

By: Lucky Bui

Lucky Bui — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:59:15 +0000

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!

By: senator

senator — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:04:11 +0000

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.