Phone not recognizing 3.5mm jack cable

[Toxic Tom]

Ok I am desperate now. I've tried different cables, bought new ones, fiddled with different adapters but no luck! All I want to do is plug a 3.5mm jack cable into my phone so I can play it through my CD player and in the car but IT WONT WORK. I have no idea why, it works fine when I use my headphones, but with the jack cable it just keeps playing the audio out of the phone's speakers. It's weird because my phone even worked before somewhere else, plugging it in to a set of speakers with a 3.5mm TRS jack cable. The cable I have is a TRRS cable (I can't see any problems with that, as my earbuds are also TRRS, and they work fine) but the phone just won't recognise this cable!

 

Please help I don't know what to do. Also, does anyone know if the headphone-socket-detection is electrical or physical? That might help me troubleshoot?

[lani100]

Ok I am desperate now. I've tried different cables, bought new ones, fiddled with different adapters but no luck! All I want to do is plug a 3.5mm jack cable into my phone so I can play it through my CD player and in the car but IT WONT WORK. I have no idea why, it works fine when I use my headphones, but with the jack cable it just keeps playing the audio out of the phone's speakers. It's weird because my phone even worked before somewhere else, plugging it in to a set of speakers with a 3.5mm TRS jack cable. The cable I have is a TRRS cable (I can't see any problems with that, as my earbuds are also TRRS, and they work fine) but the phone just won't recognise this cable!

 

Please help I don't know what to do. Also, does anyone know if the headphone-socket-detection is electrical or physical? That might help me troubleshoot?

Your phone does not have a tv-out mode or something like that i had that issue a few years ago because my phone could also output video on the 3.5mm jack.

everyting is wired correctly to your radio? can you test the cable with another phone or laptop.

[Sauron]

Maybe you have to select the source from your car's radio.

[Toxic Tom]

Your phone does not have a tv-out mode or something like that i had that issue a few years ago because my phone could also output video on the 3.5mm jack.

 

Don't think so

 

 

Maybe you have to select the source from your car's radio.

 

Yeah I did that

[Toxic Tom]

Ok it works fine with my laptop...

[Sharif]

Can you manually change the output settings?

my old Nokia has it 

[Toxic Tom]

Can you manually change the output settings?

my old Nokia has it 

 

I can't find the option anywhere

[Sharif]

Are you sure the cable is properly plugged in into the phone?

[Sharif]

Use this and use it as a widget 

[Toxic Tom]

Use this and use it as a widget 

 

Right so that app is not compatible with my phone, but I found an app called SoundAbout that does the same thing, and that seems to have done the job. Thanks for the help!