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Mac OS X Lion: Sound problem after unplugging my headset/headphones.

Hello all,

I have an early 2011 i5 Macbook Pro, 8GB ram, 320gb HDD, recently upgraded to Mac OS X Lion. I've been looking through the discussions, but I haven't found any other topic with my same problem, unless I missed it.

My problem is: sometimes I will leave my wireless headset (Plantronics .Audio 995H, via USB) or headphones (via audio jack) plugged in for hours at a time. Once my headset battery dies, or I just decide not to use either my headset or headphones, I will unplug it. When I unplug it, NO sound is coming from the built in speakers whatsoever. Also, when I plug the headset/headphones back in to see if the sound is still going to play through them, it doesn't. I have checked my sound preferences after I unplug (System Preferences > Sound) and it's on the default "Internal Speakers" but no sound is coming out. I press the volume adjust buttons on my keyboard, and they work but still no sound.

This DID NOT happen when I had Snow Leopard..

The only way I can get my sound back is by rebooting. Right when I click restart, all the volume adjust sounds, Skype IM sounds play RIGHT before it reboots. I have done PRAM and anything else suggested by other users in the discussions to reset hardware but nothing has worked. Does anyone else have this problem? and did you find a solution?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 28, 2011 1:20 PM

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karmennim Author

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Posted on Aug 1, 2011 3:06 PM

I figured out what was causing my sound to go out after unplugging headphones/headset. IT WAS WINE/X11. When I quit the app, the sound starts working, when I don't have it running and unplug my headset/headphones sound goes through the speakers as they are supposed to!

Do any of you guys use Wine/X11? Maybe that could be your problem too?

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Mar 24, 2012 9:42 AM in response to karmennim

Same problem with a 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i7 MBP running 10.7.3

Temporary fix that worked for me was to sleep and wake the computer with the headphones plugged in.

Hugely inconvienent. Hopfully there will be a fix in the next update.

Aug 20, 2012 1:59 AM in response to karmennim

here's one easy solution to yall. worked for me.

plug back in ur headsets. keeep pressing the increase /decrease volume control button (HOLD THE BUTTON)

then quickly unplug ur headsets with the beeping sound.

pce.

keeth

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Oct 10, 2012 10:55 AM in response to karmennim

I've had this problem with my MBP since I bought it (13-inch, Early 2011). Having to kill coreaudiod all the time has been a hassle.

Updated to 10.7.5 yesterday and it now appears to be fixed. Hope it stays this way!

Anyone else have luck with 10.7.5?

Jahicks

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Feb 26, 2013 11:32 AM in response to karmennim

I had an issue where any type of file action was producing the god awful crinkle/crackle/pop sound. As it turns out, a change was somehow made in my system preferences (definitely not user initiated) whereby the sound effect output was changed to aggregate device instead of internal speakers.

To fix, simply open System Preferences, Sound, and select the Sound Effects tab. Ensure internal speakers are set as your output device in the dropdown menu.

If this isn't your issue, I wish you the best of luck in finding resolution!

Nov 30, 2014 1:30 PM in response to karmennim

SIMPLE SOLUTION....for some reason many macs get stuck and think their input source is still headphones or external speakers after the source has been removed from the computer. You will notice the headphone port still illuminated after removal of external output device(speakers, headphone, etc). Well here is a simple solution:

1. Close preferences

2. Plug in your external source(headphones, external speakers) and play some music for a few seconds.

3. Stop music.

4. Open system preferences and go to sound.

5. Remove headphones or speakers from computer (This may or may not solve the issue at this step but if not you will see headphone port still illuminated)

6. With FORCE blow into the headphone port a few times and this should do the trick.

Im not sure why this works but hopefully apple with come out with a bug fix for this

kyen99

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Aug 6, 2011 5:14 PM in response to kyen99

The problem happens to me enough that I created an app to fix the problem. http://goo.gl/qyyGI

Yelles

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Aug 22, 2011 2:55 AM in response to kyen99

kyen99 wrote:

The problem happens to me enough that I created an app to fix the problem. http://goo.gl/qyyGI

thanks ! Your fix works fine !

Buddy99

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Sep 26, 2011 9:20 AM in response to karmennim

You have to sleep the computer and after 5 min re open it easy !!!!!!!!!!!!

Oct 18, 2011 6:54 AM in response to karmennim

Since upgrading to OS X 10.7.2 this issue has gone away for me.

karmennim Author

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Jul 30, 2011 2:41 AM in response to karmennim

Another update: I found another solution to get the sound back! EXIT ALL YOUR APPLICATIONS! So far that's the only thing, besides rebooting, to fix this problem.. Well, I've only done it once.. I'll see if it works again later in the day.

Sep 9, 2011 5:57 PM in response to zaxe

I have a MBP 2011 and had a similar issue with 10.6 which I could resolve by plugging and unplugging my headphones.

I am now on 10.7.1 and the problem is MUCH worse. I can only get sound back by holding power button to power off then sometimes also have to run "sudo killall coreaudiod" after booting.

I have also noticed that when the sound is out I also lose my USB port (closest to back). The port still supplies power but will not connect device to the OS.

I seem to have had this since upgrading to Parallels v7 - but I cannot be sure as I haven't uninstalled parallels yet.

bsheahan

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Apr 25, 2012 10:02 AM in response to karmennim

I have had this same issue and am not sure what happened, what caused it.

My fix was to go to Preferences > Sound > Output and make sure the 'Internal Speakers' was selected. I had 3 options in the output selection box and am not sure where the other two came from. There was the one needing to be selected, 'Internal Speakers', then there was two 'Soundflower' options; a 2 channel and a 16 channel. I don't have a clue where they came from.

Selecting Internal Speakers restored my sound. Hopefully this helps someone...

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Running late 2011 MBP, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, OS X 10.7.3

ssaurav

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Jan 17, 2012 2:16 PM in response to karmennim

Reinstalling a new downloaded version of itunes did the trick for me 🙂

Mar 4, 2013 2:04 PM in response to karmennim

hi, I've updated the software and found same problem.

Just go to adjusts/ system preferences and the click in audio tab, what happened to me was that in "output" another sound driver (i don't know why) was selected.

click on speakers and problem fixed.🙂

😮pheww i was panicking

Sep 15, 2011 5:26 AM in response to hell_voyager

Parallels Desktop 7.0.1 is out... and apparently fixed my problems...

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