How do I repair the audio jack on an iPod?

Asked by NoCatharsis (207

) August 4th, 2009

My iPod Touch is 2 years old, so it’s out of warranty. The audio jack is very fault now due to lots of usage. When I plug headphones or a stereo cord into the audio jack, the left speaker does not work at all unless I apply pressure to the right side of the input jack. Basically the jack is not making a connection and it requires an extra amount of force to make contact. Otherwise my iPod is perfectly fine and I do NOT intend to spend another few hundred on another.

What is the best way to have this repaired? I saw places online that let you mail it to them, but it looks like there’s nothing under $100 for this kind of repair. Anybody have other suggestions?

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Buy a dock for it and don’t move it around. The audio will go out through the dock connection. But this assumes you will never move it.

You are kinda fucked. Fixing the headphone jack will be super spendy. I used to go through a Walkman every two months. The jack always died.

You could try twisting the jack around. It could work. But you are kinda screwed.

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What kind of dock do you mean? I have a stereo dock that plugs into the elongated data port which works perfectly fine, but I need the audio port for headphones and my car connection.

Is there a converter out there that could convert from the data port to an audio jack? That would work perfectly for my circumstances.

Thanks for the help.

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