My ipaq 4150 lost sound!

[ignar]

My iPaq external speaker stopped working today. :( I can't recall any event that might have caused it. It just stopped working. I can still hear sounds using an earphone though. I tried everthing I can think of including hard reset to fix the problem, but nothing worked so far. Before I call and send it to HP, is there anything I can do? I really hate sending it away.

[Janak Parekh]

The headphone jack is designed to "switch off" the speaker when you plug in headphones. Sometimes, it gets stuck even when you remove them. Try jiggling in the headphones a few times (maybe up to 10 times) and see if it "unsticks". That's the most common problem given this symptom.

--janak

[ignar]

Wow, Thanks Janak. It worked!!!

I had tried what you suggested before, but didn't do enough times. Doing it 10 times did the trick! 8)

[jook00]

amazing! wish they made the headphone jack better! Anyways, what other problems came up on the 4155s?

[ignar]

To be fair to HP, I haven't seen other reports of the same problem. So probably it's specific to my unit. 4150 is a fantastic PDA except the yellow tint screen.

[omikron.sk]

On my h2210, it happened only once. I plugged in a headphones, unplugged them (once) and speaker worked.