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DIY Headset HTC std. headset + headphones of your choice

Can't post the pictures, but the links are provided anyhow if it's of any interest..
I made my own headset using the original HTC wired headset, sacrificed a pair of Creative headphones and soldered them both together.Enjoy your music with your favourite headphones, keep the soundquality and still be able to use the original controls and microphone!
Documented it all with my Desire:
1 Pair of Creative Headphones 1 HTC Desire original Headset
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Cut the headphones at the appropriate length (I made it slightly longer than the standard headset)
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Gently pull off the 3 plastic buttons on the headset to expose the solderpoints. Pry carefully with a pair of pliers or a screwdriver to remove the plastic surroundings on each side to expose the PCB completely.
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Here's the 4 solderingpoints, 1 left, 1 right and the two solderingpoints closest to the middle are ground.
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The "Helping hand" with a magnifying glass comes in handy when soldering your new headset onto the control. Remember to put the isolating tape back once you've soldered on the positive wires to prevent a short-cuircuit!
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The two parts have become one!
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Reassembled...
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...and it's working!
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Happy soldering!
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Pair of Creative Headphones 1 HTC Desire original Headset
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Cut the headphones at the appropriate length (I made it slightly longer than the standard headset)
Gently pull off the 3 plastic buttons on the headset to expose the solderpoints. Pry carefully with a pair of pliers or a screwdriver to remove the plastic surroundings on each side to expose the PCB completely.
Here's the 4 solderingpoints, 1 left, 1 right and the two solderingpoints closest to the middle are ground.
The "Helping hand" with a magnifying glass comes in handy when soldering your new headset onto the control. Remember to put the isolating tape back once you've soldered on the positive wires to prevent a short-cuircuit!
The two parts have become one!
Reassembled...
...and it's working!
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Thanks for posting!

I'm well impressed, I like your style.
I shall be replicating this tonight, thanks!

@Rob Pomeroy Thanks for helping out.
Glad it might come to any use =)

Thanks for that, was thinking of doing something similar myself but adding an in-line socket so I can plug in replacement headphones.
Si

Brilliant job, if I didn't have the dexterity of a blind, club fisted gorilla wearing boxing gloves, I'd be doing this my self. Somebody could make a tidy sum offering to do this kind of service for people such as myself.... I cannot understand why HTC didn't offer the original headphones with a 3.5MM socket...

Nice work!! I remember I did that in good old 2004 with my Jens-Of-Sweden mp3 player. It had a brilliant around-the-neck headset with horrible earphones, so I have soldered my Sony MDR-EX71's on it
...however, I have been soldering the ear-buds directly onto the cable as the contacts on them are situated a bit farther apart.
Luckily I have a spare HTC headset so I technically have two attempts to reproduce the work above

thanks, i'll be trying this out!
for those who don't dare, htc an official version of this that you can put your own headphones in for about £25
btw op, what music player are you using in that last image?

samac92 said:
btw op, what music player are you using in that last image?
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It's called bTunes, and I have to say it's the best player I've tried so far..
Support for wired controls included in the app

samac92 said:
thanks, i'll be trying this out!
for those who don't dare, htc an official version of this that you can put your own headphones in for about £25
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After some digging its actually about a fiver
go on fleebay and search item 110516755263

ignore that they put the wrong info on the page...

Exculpo said:
It's called bTunes, and I have to say it's the best player I've tried so far..
Support for wired controls included in the app
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Ah ok thanks ive just bought it! hope its ok
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After some digging its actually about a fiver
go on fleebay and search item 110516755263
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ah ok thanks, but thats only the one with the mic and call button, it doesn't have music controls like this one (it says its for hero, but ive heard it works with the desire)
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=184420
edit: ebay has it for around £14, search for rc e100

samac92 said:
Ah ok thanks ive just bought it! hope its ok
ah ok thanks, but thats only the one with the mic and call button, it doesn't have music controls like this one (it says its for hero, but ive heard it works with the desire)
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=184420
edit: ebay has it for around £14, search for rc e100
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its mini usb tho as opposed to micro

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its mini usb tho as opposed to micro
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oh right :/ ok that wont work!

I have just made the same with my Creative earbuds and HTC headset! Yeeey!!
OP - high five!

Looking good m8

After finally finding a nice small 3.5mm inline socket I've modded mine
Si

what about the mic?

Nice
I was going to do this too, I have two headsets (hero and desire) and I'm an Engineer so the soldering is no problem.
The only reason I havn't is that my expensive Sony earbuds have a single piece wire (not detachable near the earbud end.) So there is no way I could have the microphone near my mouth with another 1.8M of cable handing off (by making the Socket version)
That being said, I'd much prefer if someone could just write a program/service that would let me skip tracks back and forward by double tap or tap and hold on the volume buttons.

That only lets you pause music, not advance/repeat though

Modded Optimus One Headphones to Sony Ericsson

Hello,
First I have to apologize my poor English, I am from Estonia and English isn't my main language.
I just looked at those stock headphones and I wanted to save that middle control button and mic, so I found old Sony Ericsson Walkman player headphones what were dead (the wire was broken from connector) so I brake the mic and control button housing to half with little knife, and swapped the earplugs with sony ericsson ones.
It's pretty simple to do that, here are some pictures:
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If you are trying to make something like those by yourself, and damage them then don't blame me. Cause you did it, not me.

nice job...how's the quality?

Thanks, Well quality is way better than stock earplugs managed to play. I can sure say the quality is same as it were in original sony ericsson ones.

i think i'm going to do this mod to my headphones as well

Hope you don't screw up something, but rly there is nothing much to lose there, stock/OEM earplugs were cheap plastic thingies. And I also got old not working Ericsson in-ear plugs, so there wasn't anything to lose, just gain.

It's so sad that many countries in the world are getting the earphones and not the in ear ones that you just used from SE. India for example got the in-ear earphones with a decent sound quality almost(not quite) on par with EP630s. But nevertheless it's a good mod and a good solution for those who have earphones to spare and have the guts to try something like that
Also if you want to be sure of sound quality, check it with a 3.5mm jack - fastport converter on SE phones to be sure.

Well thanks, those LG ones were cheap plastic anyway, then why don't turn them something useful with broken sony ericsson in-ear plugs.
Gonna buy new earplugs anyway, but those were easy to do, and I was bored. I didn't even untied those OEM earplugs, before to try and listen with them, then I had this plan to do.

Nice! I'll try it!

nicely done!
Can you say on the picture with the pmc where to solder the earplugs?

Here it is, hope it helps a bit. It's not that hard to solder ... :]

thank's, that is indeed helpfull!

No problem.
Also, if you don't want to open up that mic/answerbutton-box then you can also take appart earphones itself unsolder off the old ones and solder new ones back. Only thing, some earplugs wont open well, and broke easly.
Show off your mods also!

Should use aJAYS earpiece...

The in ear phones we got in india:
And in Europe, people are getting this Chinese garbage.
That's why they are so frustrated. I suggest them to change these to original LG we are getting in India. Then only they can enjoy audio and audio effects properly.
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I am so jelly to indians. Well, I don't listen music with my phone much, so I really don't care much, but still ...

Well, I don't understand how India gets the good quality earplugs and Europe gets the ****ty ones. Shame LG
Back on-topic, thanks a lot mate for the tip. I also am fed up with the quality of the chinese crap LG delivered to me as earphones and wanted to replace those with some old Nokia that I have around doing nothing (can't use them directly since they have the smaller jack). I was considering cutting the wires, but your solution is more elegant . By the way, how did you put back the plastic housing for the mic/button? Did you glue it or you can just snap it back in place (assuming nothing gets broken when you take it apart) ?

Blueyedevil said:
By the way, how did you put back the plastic housing for the mic/button? Did you glue it or you can just snap it back in place (assuming nothing gets broken when you take it apart) ?
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You have to open it pretty carefully, it's glued there, I asume if you use hairdryer on it little bit then it would open up a little better. It seemed to clip back togheter pretty well, but I still used a little drop of a hot glue there.
Show your modded earphones also.

i might try to modd them with my dad's nokia 3k something classic that has 2.5" jack...might try it soon

The howto is missing an important second part - the ritual burning of the Chinese plastic garbage.

Wow, had not seen this, thanks for the input. When I find some headphones that do not serve ... it proves

Waterproof case with external headphone jack?

I ordered the Overboard Smartphone Waterproof Case with headphone jack but quickly cancelled once I finally found the interior dimensions. The Galaxy Nexus is too big for that case. I'm having a hard time finding an alternative waterproof case. Anyone else have better luck?

not sure about waterproof cases but i use a waterproof bluetooth head set, Jaybird Freedoms. They work pretty good, ive had them in the shower to test a few times. Sound quality is decent for a bluetooth device and mic kinda sucks.

what about this one?
http://www.shopandroid.com/overboard-waterproof-case/4A104A7226.htm?d=1464

davidrules7778 said:
what about this one?
http://www.shopandroid.com/overboard-waterproof-case/4A104A7226.htm?d=1464
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No headphone jack on that Overboard case. I don't want to swim with it, I mainly just want to protect my phone while working outside, near my pool, listening to audio. I'm leaning towards the "Dry Case" Waterproof Smartphone Case but I'm not sure yet if the corner area where the plastic is welded around the external headphone jack will make the bottom too thin to fit the Galaxy Nexus. Their dimensions on the website claim 4.25" x 7.5" but I think that is overall size. But it also seems too big to fit in my pocket.
http://www.drycase.com/Content/how-the-drycase-works.html

I bit the bullet and bought the Dry Case after finding this video ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4-aJSb-VHU
Even though the Amazon listing shows the vacuum valve and headphone jack on opposite sides. Hopefully the one in the video with the valve and jack on the same side is the current model. I'll post an update/review tomorrow once it arrives.

swedub said:
No headphone jack on that Overboard case. I don't want to swim with it, I mainly just want to protect my phone while working outside, near my pool, listening to audio. I'm leaning towards the "Dry Case" Waterproof Smartphone Case but I'm not sure yet if the corner area where the plastic is welded around the external headphone jack will make the bottom too thin to fit the Galaxy Nexus. Their dimensions on the website claim 4.25" x 7.5" but I think that is overall size. But it also seems too big to fit in my pocket.
http://www.drycase.com/Content/how-the-drycase-works.html
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oh ok, well glad u found one

I got it (Dry Case for Smartphones). It's just like the one in the video with the air valve and headphone jack on the same side. The listing on Amazon from where I bought it showed the air valve and headphone jack on either side. It's a tight fit though. It can't slide into the bottom portion. If it is in the bottom end either the power button or volume button gets pressed in. I've found sliding it as close to the top opening with the headphone jack plugged in and tucking the wire behind the air valve there is enough room to press the power plug and toggle the volume button. It comes with a hand pump but you can easily suck the air out with you mouth. It's a one way valve so you won't end up adding moisture inside it. So you can easily open an reseal it when out and about without carrying the pump around. I'm not sure if I would take it under water though. I saw some droplets of water under the lip of the seal portion when I opened it after being in the rain. I didn't buy it for swimming though so I'm not too concerned about it. It also came with a arm band/strap. I just keep it in my pocket though. I used it for a 17 mile bike ride yesterday in intermittent rain showers trying to watch the rainy Lauderdale Air Show.
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I was also about to buy this Drycase, but after reading swimmers reviews on Amazon, I backed off.. it seems like a good product for stationary use, but most people that used this for swimming are reporting leaking issues...
Has anyone purchased a similar product ?

How to make your earphones last longer

Over the past few years I've went through a few pairs of earphones.
One pair I lost the others broke.
They never lasted me more than 6 months before problems started to come forth.
Making them last longer means taking care of your earphones. They are fragile.
1stly check this link of how to take care of them.
Now I've found that every time my earphones break they usually break right at the jack because the cable bends alot there.
So one of my friends showed me this nifty trick to ease the bend of the cable
Just get a cheap click pen and remove the spring preferable one that looks like this
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then take the cable of your earphones and insert it like this
wind the spring around the cable bit by bit
and slide it to were the cable joins the jack and let the end of the spring stretch over the rubber so it is secured on
Sofar my earphones have not yet given me any problems with this method.
Always be consiouse of your cabel at your jack make sure it never bends sharply.
Try not to put your device in your pocket when listening to music as your device moves around and bends the cable on the jack.
As I said that is were my earphones usually broke.
I Hope this helps you guys alot and may you have sweet sound to your ears werever you may roam.

I feel like it would annoy me tho, and I always just end up losing them instead of breaking them haha
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Boooty said:
I feel like it would annoy me tho, and I always just end up losing them instead of breaking them haha
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Hahaha oh well I can't help you there bro. But I don't even realize the spring on my earphones at all.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

I just wrap mine around my mp3 player everyday after my workout and have never had a problem, though mine have a 90 degree connector instead of the straight connection like yours.

I will try that.
Thanks
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

In general, my headphone cable is brokenThis is a good article:laugh:

MissionImprobable said:
I just wrap mine around my mp3 player everyday after my workout and have never had a problem, though mine have a 90 degree connector instead of the straight connection like yours.
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But how often do you use your earphones? I mean I use mine everyday the whole day.
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As I said, daily during my workout as well as well as always when working in the yard as they block external sound very well and keep the work from getting boring. Again, I have the feeling that a major part of the issue is having a straight in jack instead of an angled connector. The point of your mod is to keep stress off of the connection points within the housing, which an angled jack will experience a lot less of.

MissionImprobable said:
As I said, daily during my workout as well as well as always when working in the yard as they block external sound very well and keep the work from getting boring. Again, I have the feeling that a major part of the issue is having a straight in jack instead of an angled connector. The point of your mod is to keep stress off of the connection points within the housing, which an angled jack will experience a lot less of.
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All good and well its just the earphones I have don't come with angled jjack and my port on ny phone is ontop. But you are one of the lucky few with strong earphones. Look after those earohones man
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

or buy earphones with a removable cable. I baby all my stuff, and the weak strain reliefs on my Klipsch S4i's split after a year of every day use, so I repaired them (and gave them to my son). My Shure's have a removable cable, so never going to be an issue there.
This is a good tip, though, may save some people's earphones. Most important part is to limit stress on all joints of the cable by minimizing bending them there.

jRi0T68 said:
or buy earphones with a removable cable. I baby all my stuff, and the weak strain reliefs on my Klipsch S4i's split after a year of every day use, so I repaired them (and gave them to my son). My Shure's have a removable cable, so never going to be an issue there.
This is a good tip, though, may save some people's earphones. Most important part is to limit stress on all joints of the cable by minimizing bending them there.
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Here in South Africa we don't have a big variety of decent earphones. Skullcandy is like the best we can get here as far as I know and I use in ear earphones but I want some Aviators wich also has the replaceable cable. That's like the only headphones I've seen here with replaceable cables. But I'm broke at the moment lol...
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good tip! Thanks!

Theres another 'extendor' you can add to make earphones last longer
I've purchased one of these 'extendors' have a coiled cable
the one i bought from ebay was under the title '4pole 3.5mm 3ring M-F Right angle iPhone extension cable coiled line 0.3-1.6ft '
Here's an image http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODAwWDgwMA==/z/hL8AAOxygj5ScyAv/$(KGrHqF,!lkFJvT2IRdEBScy!ug!1g~~60_57.JPG
These ones have 4 poles that allow for play/pause buttons on earphones and their right angled so they fit many phones better.
The coils help minimize impact to the earphones by minimizing tension forces on the earphones and placing them on the coiled part.

Review of Ultra Waterproof Bluetooth wireless speaker w/lots of pics!!!

This is a Review of Ultra Waterproof Bluetooth wireless speaker. http://www.sw-box.com/Ultra-Waterpr...SW-BOX&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=product
As a mentioned in the past, due to so many generic wireless speaker clones, I decided to review only models with unique features. Here is something I found to be a perfect fit for this category. The whole point of wireless speaker is to be able to play and to control music or to receive calls from your phone remotely, and to be able to do that at louder volume than your phone or tablet. This bluetooth extension gives us freedom to move around within 20-30ft wireless range, but also imposes limitation since we have to keep electronics away from water and dirt. Or perhaps you are waiting for an important call and need to jump in the shower. The speaker I would like to present to you today has IP67 waterproof and dustproof rating that will allow you to play it anywhere, by the pool or even in a shower, without skipping a beat. Here is what I found.
Arrived in a rather generic plastic see-through box, you get a good 360 degree presentation of the product even before you take it out. Beside the speaker, it also comes with an accessory box with a user manual and usb power cord. The power cord is unique by having full size USB connector on one side and 3.5mm power connector on the other side. It's not your typical usb cable, but I have seen similar ones in the past so finding a replacement shouldn't be a problem. The reason such power connector is chosen for this design because every port needs to be kept sealed. Power connector is the only port in here, and the plug for this power port has a better seal since it will go deeper into the connector to make sure no moisture or dust gets inside.
Taking a closer look at the speaker itself, it has a cylindrical drum shape with a large suction cup in the back. The speaker opening comes out from the back as well, and the top has a sealed rubber buttons to control its functionality. In the middle, you have Play/Pause/Stop button, to the right/left you have multi-function volume up/down which also doubles as skip next/prev buttons, at the top there is a power button, and at the bottom you have Phone/Call button with microphone pinhole. There are physical buttons underneath of these rubber cover buttons, and they are very easy to feel and to push. As I mentioned before, the power port connector on the side is sealed with a rubber flap. With a help of a rather strong suction cup, you can attach this speaker to any smooth surface, vertical or horizontal. This becomes especially handy if you want to use it in the shower.
The pair up was very easy, and the speaker under "My Speaker" id got connected both to the phone and to the media audio. Operating range was around typical 25-30ft. The sound and call quality were just OK, nothing too outstanding, but still relatively clear and loud. Obviously, this speaker is not designed to provide audiophile quality sound or being competitive with large wireless speakers, but its sound performance was on par with other small wireless speakers I tested in the past. The main advantage of this speaker is to provide a remote sound from your phone/tablet as well as the ability to pickup calls in the "wet" environment. Furthermore, unlike so many other speakers that only let you control the volume, here you can also control the playback with Play/Pause as well as skipping to the next or the previous song. And when you are in the shower streaming your tunes from the phone, you can also pick up a phone call directly and talk without stepping out. Now, that is priceless!!!
Overall, I found this speaker to have a lot of unique features including a full playback and call controls, a very compact design, a loud clear sound, and strong suction cup. With its IP67 rating, this Bluetooth wireless speaker will become your shower's best friend and you will never miss a beat or a call even under the water! I wouldn't advice to actually keeping it for too long submerged under the water, but being splashed under the shower while attached to a wall shouldn't be a problem. Also, for $15 plus change its a great value!
Here are the pictures.
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