Broken headphone jack

[TheFaith]

Hello beutiful LTT comunnity!

 

I need help or advices on my old problem. I got this notebook from my friend for free and it had broken headphone jack. Headphones work, but only if you stick something on top of it. I usually use peace of paper, but its temporary solution and I would like to hear any ideas how to fix it on my own. Been googling and youtubing, but hasn't found anything.

 

If there's no hope in fixing it on my own, withouth replacing the whole thing (if it's even possible), can you please tell my how much would it cost (approx.)

 

[Rashy]

Get one of those online USB to 3.5mm Adapter

[FizzyFantom]

Get one of those online USB to 3.5mm Adapter

This is a good idea.

You almost certainly won't be able to replace it. In laptops the jacks are soldered onto the board at several points. You might be able to get replacement ones, but you would need a solder syringe/mop to remove the old one and it may not be worth the effort to you.

[soup]

Possibly a small piece of plastic superglued (non conductive but tends to accelerate corrosion not enough in largish pieces of metal but in small wires... so be very neat) into the exterior of that hole and live with the aesthetics.  TBH if you can't fix it faffing about with adding something to the exterior of that socket,  your going to have to take the laptop apart de solder the socket from the internals solder a new one on then reassemble the lappy. 

I would be too frightened of bricking my laptop through this procedure (changing screens I am OK with but soldering something that is [potentially] that small...).

 You could get it repaired at a professional repair shop however as it is second hand and presumably old, is it worth the money this would cost. 

 

I would probably have a look at what was lying about and try to use that failing that I would continue to jam it in with a bit paper, don't think I would have the 'braves' to attempt a proper repair and I don't feel it justifies the money spent on a professional repair

Cost at PC world, £50 and parts (say £1.50 http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/35mm-pcb-mounting-monosocket-fk02c ) so some where about £50~£60 [1700~2090 koruna)

[TheFaith]

Cost at PC world, £50 and parts (say £1.50 http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/35mm-pcb-mounting-monosocket-fk02c ) so some where about £50~£60 [1700~2090 koruna)

Thanks for the exchange rates I was thinking about getting usb heaphones too. It's just that I have this bad quality, that every peace of tech should work perfect. Well USB heaphones/adapter are the only easy way, so thanks for replies and have a beatiful day, everybody

[acolombo]

If you are able to first de-solder and then solder back the new connector you're good, you're not going to risk anything like bricking the laptop or so. You just need a solering iron, some tin wire and a bit of flux. Also a de-soldering pump could be usefull, but not mandatory. This equipment is really cheap, with less than 20-30$ you could get everything and use it also in the future, also if you want to spend more I'd get a soldering station, but again still not mandatory. Follow some tutorials if you don't know how to do so, EEVblog on youtube is the best. The only thing that could be a bit hard is to find the exact same model of connector, with the same mounting and the same black plastic bezel.

[soup]

you're not going to risk anything like bricking the laptop or so.

 

I wish I had your faith.

[acolombo]

I wish I had your faith.

You can mess how much you want there and you aren't risking anything, the only thing is that you could damage it if you overheat the part so neither a technician would be able to replace the connector after that.

[TheFaith]

Oh, and since I've got all you here.

 

I've got this one little problem with laptop, the lower center side on the back of the screen is VERY hot to toch, not too hot to melt the plastic, but still very unconfortable for use on my laps. So is it normal for laptops to get this hot? Or maybe you could explain me why is it happening?

[soup]

You can mess how much you want there and you aren't risking anything,

 

Well if you say so, personaly I would have thought any faffing about with a soldering iron/ solder on a laptops internals would give you a MASSIVE chance of damaging something, but if you feel blobs of solder on the MoBo is not a problem you go right ahead.

[acolombo]

Oh, and since I've got all you here.

 

I've got this one little problem with laptop, the lower center side on the back of the screen is VERY hot to toch, not too hot to melt the plastic, but still very unconfortable for use on my laps. So is it normal for laptops to get this hot? Or maybe you could explain me why is it happening?

Try opening the laptop and get rid of the dust in the cooler if you have never done so before, it's probably filled with dust so it can't cool properly.

[TheFaith]

Try opening the laptop and get rid of the dust in the cooler if you have never done so before, it's probably filled with dust so it can't cool properly.

It's the back of the screen that is hot. There are no coolers nor there are any ventilations. I clean insides once in 2-3 months.

[acolombo]

It's the back of the screen that is hot. There are no coolers nor there are any ventilations. I clean insides once in 2-3 months.

 

Sorry I misread. It must be the backlighting, try changing the brightness settings if you haven't already tried, it doesn't necessarely have to be too bright -> too hot, it could be also the dimmer when the brightness is lower than 90% that gets hot, so just try different settings.