External mic on iPhone headset not detected in Win7 with MBA

Is there a new solution about a driver?

Or is there any other solution?

Has anybody gotten this to work? Just got the Steelseries Siberia V2 for iDevices thinking that's what I needed... only to find out that my mac won't even detect the external mic! Is it really difficult for Apple to create this bootcamp driver? I mean... they have it for OSX already, why won't it work for Windows?

Guys.. guys... Why do keep buying Apple again?

This combined with the horrible bootcamp trackpad driver. Oh man.

I've been following this issue for years and have not seen anyone post a fix. I just tried Boot Camp 5 drivers and that did not help either.

I did learn something new that might be of interest from Boot Camp 5. It seems this updated my NVidia display dirver so that the brightness controls no longer worked. I thought it was another driver issue but was able to find that it was a registry key that needed to be manually added. I wonder if afix might be in the registery rather than in the driver for our audio problems with the headset microphone. I haven't ever seen anyone explre this possibility before.

Yup I have been looking for a hack solution for more than a year now and I think the simple answer is "you can't" simply put apples drivers / 3rd party drivers or maybe its even windows that just doesn't support the switch on that port like OSX does. I would how ever give my left arm to get it working as having to use a usb mic every time is a pain in the arse.

soooo....

I have come to the same conclusion. You can't use headsets with microphones or any external mics on your bootcamp partition. It's sad. I need to run several apps in a dedicated win install due to mac restrictions which would greatly benefit from the use of a mic. I don't think apple is interested in solving this problem. Ever.

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Seriously...

If Bootcamp Software does not improve before the Next year, I will sell my Macbook Air 2011 and buy a a new Windows ultrabook.

I like OS X, but I use Windows too. I won't have 2 laptops just because the Macbook has terrible incomplete drivers in Windows (specially the Trackpad and Audio drivers).

The current problems that I have in my MBA mid-2011 under bootcamp are:

- There is no option to disable Trackpad when Mouse is connected.

- The drag and drop works pretty slow (with delay) and the three finger gesture is not available.

- The 2 finger scrolling is not calibrated and it uses the Mouse scrolling as reference....so when you change to a mouse i need to re-adjust it.

- The internal micrphone JACK is totally useless with the windows cirrus logic drivers.

- HDMI/DP audio is not working with some devices (like my Denon 1712 A/V Receiver).

Probably many more but i can't remember now.

The another point is..the mid 2011...(i5 Sandy bridge) heats a lot in this MBA case.

So i have another reason to upgrade to a new MBA or a new Ultra Book.

But considering all this bootcamp problems...I think i'll go for a non apple product and resign to OS X for a while.

Ok, I just bought this....a cheap workaround for Bootcamp (and for OS X too, since it's a better sound card and very cheap for the quality).

Sound Blaster Play 2

I'm using this with Sennheiser PC-151 headset and the conversation quality is incredible.

It also includes a 3 way adapter for the headsets (MIC INPUT + LEFT OUTPUT + RIGHT OUTPUT):