Q: Headphone jack broken snapped inside ipad, iphone, ipod... socket

where did you get yours fixed here in the phils.?

I got this idea from the last few posts. I used the ink cartridge inside the pen and used the hole at the bottom. As a grip I used the hard plastic on the outside that holds the ink cartridge. I pushed down until it was securely around the piece f the jack in pulled out and it took me .5 seconds to realize that it worked. I got a new set of headphones 1 hour after and everything works perfectly.

Thanks this worked and costed nothing

Thanks Chema777..!!

It took me less than 20 secs to pull out the broken piece with a BIC pen. iPad back to normal sound output. For those who want to use drill bits and super glue, please do so at your own risk.

mine is not stuck but it is bent how can i fix it my self and if u brought it into the apple store would i have to pay to fix it??

Awesome. Thanks.  Read your post.  Then it was like the movie - Signs, but with pens instead of glasses of water.  I have tons of old pens in a shoebox.  I got the shoebox out and tried pen after pen.  Then 6th one clicked and I pulled it out. I could not find the tip of the earphone jack. Then I saw it wedged in the pen tube. It was in there so tight that I had trouble getting it out - not that I really needed to.

The key is finding a pen tub whose outer diameter will fit in the earphone hole and whose inner diameter is just the right size to fit snugly over the broken earphone jack end.  If you have lots of old ink pens, you are sure to have one that fits.  Once you find the right one, it is a 3-second operation.

Hey there. I had the broken jack problem as well. I tried the super glue, no success. I luckily found a drill bit kit in my friends apartment, picked the smallest bit, and went to town on the protruding stuck jack. I drilled and drilled and drilled until it was deep enough for me to leverage the broken headphone piece out. It flew across the room. I took my pants off and danced in my underwear for a minute. Thanks for the ideas and help, previous posters.

The Bic pen trick did the job!!!! AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!

THANK YOU!!!!

My mother took it out with scissors.. 0_0

I just freaked out when the tip of the headphone pin was lodged inside of my 15 inch MacBook Pro. After trying to pry it out with small rods and then use Krazy Glue with a cut-off Q-tip, I found the solution.

I applied Krazy Glue (Green label with red top) with the brush included in the bottle to the remaining part of the headphone pin. I then placed this into the headphone jack and applied pressure. After about fifteen seconds of pressure, I pulled the headphones out, and with a little force, retrieved the piece that was stuck. Whew!

Great...my daughter has got the headphones jack stuck in the headphone hole...and yes she used superglue before telling me what she had done...Grrrrr...tried the bic pen method...no go, debating weather to drill it out, I did take it to a local shop that fixes iPads...iPods etc and he reckons the screen will need to be taken off, with the added worry that if it cracks in the process I have to pay for a new one!!! ... I'm getting my drill out !!!

( a very slightly peed off mother !)

I got mine out in 5 minutes using tweezers and small bathroom scissors. It took some prying and lots of tries but I eventually pried it out!

A friend had his headphone jack break off inside an IPad. We looked up the bic pen method of removal and, yes that looked like it would work. Since we have access to some electrical tools he used a plastic pin insertion / extractor tool from AMP, I believe it is a little bigger than a D-Sub pin. The idea and size is approximately the same as a plastic bic pen end, but the plastic extractor tool end is slotted so it can expand to fit just around the broke end of the jack pin.

The key is to use a little bit of Gel type Super Glue so no drips will fall into the jack area. Using the gel Super Glue with the plastic allows it to "weld" to the plastic thereby creating a stronger grip. Once you carefully insert it into the slot and feel it just go over the end inside, let it set up for about 15 minutes and it should easily be pulled out. In this case it came out and is now fully functional.

I can't believe Apple stores should have a problem performing this minor and inexpensive "surgery" either!

Dave

My daughter broke off the headphone jack and about half of it remained in our ipad.  Just wanted to say that I used a tiny bit of superglue and inserted the broken headphone jack back in, waited about a minute and the quickly pulled the whole jack out!  I am shocked that it worked but thrilled!