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Whenever I plug in my earbuds my microphone doesn’t work. I can hear the person I’m talking with but they can’t hear me. Its worked a few times so I know that it can work.

So my headphones work perfectly fine, except the mic. I can hear perfectly from the earbuds but whenever I make a video or call someone, all they hear is a buzzing sound. I don’t know how to fix it… does anyone know I i could

Do your earbuds have a built in microphone? If so try taking a video and seeing if the audio works that way. There is also a button you can press on the call screen that usually switches it from one microphone to the other. Also, make sure the headphones are plugged in all the way.

So to start off with, at least you headphone jack is working and not stuck in headphone mode which can be a P.I.A. I know this is possible because I have a audio jack I take phone calls with with my car and people can hear me through one of the 3 microphones.

  1. Let’s test to make sure all of your microphones are working. Take two quick video and say test or something on both the front and rear camera. Playback and confirm you have sound.
  2. If you haven’t deleted it with the new IOS, go into voice memo and click the upper right corner of the screen with the sound icon, it’s a little buggy since IOS 10 so toggle it from blue to white a couple of times to make sure its recording on your lower microphone and test the lower microphone by making a recording. If all three of your microphones work than we can go from there. Let me know the results!

Ok. If you read my full post I have you test all 3 microphones without your headphones plugged it. Try all three and post the results.

I use my android headphones as my ps4 mic (EarBuds) the mic on the earbuds dosent work. I can hear my friends but They can’t hear me

When you plug in the headphones, you’ll get a pop up that gives you options. Make sure you select Headphone, not Headset. If you select Headset, you disable your internal microphone.

Ya something to do with the system like my headphones inside my phone system is not on how do I turn it on

maybe ur earphones are worthless or it broke

That’s what I first thought, but when I plug them into my phone the mic on the earbuds works.

Well, I used to have the same problem over and over. First of all, you can try turning on your video because most audio works when the video is turned on. Second of all, you can try one of your three microphones. Most people’s devices have three different sources of audio connection that they can try. Third of all, there’s supposed to be this button on the earpiece, try pressing it once and see if it works. Fourth of all, try to increase the volume on your earphones with the little plus button, it also has a minus button to reduce. And last of all, just check if your earphones are plugged in properly and that none of the wires have issues. If any of these work, then you’re welcome, but if they don’t work, then I’m sorry, you should see a professional or just get new earphones!

Mine just had this problem, saw it was clogged of only god knows. I stuck a sewing needle in them to clean them, not sure that’s the best way but in the moment that’s all i could think of.

please i need help figuring this out

So it is one of four most likely situations, Your microphone in your earphones are broken. This unfortunately can be quite difficult to fix unless your earphones have modular cables. But you might be able to fix it by cutting out the mic connection from where the mic is and connect it to ground.Your earphones have a 4 pole jack despite not having a microphone. This would probably be fixed by making one of the poles insulated, which is most likely the pole 2nd nearest to the cableYour headphones uses CTIA while your phone uses OMTP or vice versa. Adapters are sold which can fix that.Your phone does not support earphones without a mic and using only 3 poles properly. Nothing can really be done on the hardware side then unfortunately as that is a software issue.