Broken headphone jack! 3.5mm dillemma. Help. Please.

The problem with the bic pen tube idea for me was the lack of rigidity of the tube. So I cut a small piece of bic pen tube to about 1 1/2 inches. Opened up each end slightly with an electrical screwdriver then forced the screwdriver most of the way down the tube. You only need a 1/4 to 1/2 inch or less of tube showing over the end of the screwdriver, before using the screwdriver to push this piece of tube down the earphone socket hard and over the broken plug. This has just worked for me.

We have a tool specifically designed to easily solve this problem without having to disassemble the device, use glue, drilling, or any other unsafe method. It also works for any mobile device, tablet, computer, or any other electronic equipment that has a 3.5mm headphone jack. The name of the tool is GripStick, and it was successfully funded via a Kickstarter campaign. Watch it in action here:

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I used a small eyeglasses screwdriver the lift out the broken headphone prong from the port. You have to be careful and dig it around the side and pull. It takes 2-3 times and soon it will be out.

Awesome advice on this page. Thanks guys - Got my brain working!

Earphone Jack snapped off in our computer! Tried glue, needles and pins to get the thing out. Nothing worked, including all of the online advice was "helpfully offering". Then I thought of heating the thumb tack point up. It melted the insulation between the metal parts of stuck plug. After waiting a minute for it to cool, I gently pulled and out it popped. Just thought I'd share something that actually worked! 😎

Hope this helps out!!!

Have great day

There is a tool, the GripStick, specifically designed to easily solve this problem without having to disassemble the device, use glue, drilling, or any other unsafe method. It also works for any mobile device, tablet, computer, or any other electronic equipment that has a 3.5mm headphone jack. The GripStick was successfully funded via a Kickstarter campaign. Watch it in action here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii5OKvtNxe4

You can order one here:

http://nightek.com/

Before you try any of the solutions posted here, I wanna suggest the following:

Use the other part of the broken jack (the one that is still connected to your headphones) and see if you can use this to get the broken piece out of your headphone connector. I just inserted the broken jack, bent it a bit sidewards and pulled the whole thing out!
In my case, this was a super easy solution!

Good luck!

This just happened to me with a new iPad. The super glue trick worked. I put a half of a drop of super glue in the cavity on the broken male jack and placed it directly into the broken off piece in the iPad. I waited 30 min and pulled straight out.

The key is just a little glue

I would make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store. Maybe they can get it out.

BTW, the iPod uses Flash memory. It does not have magnetic storage media like a hard disk.

You tried all I would try. I would not try the drill bit since could likely destroy the headphone jack if you are not careful.

Hi AP,

Just to give you a little encouragement, my buddy and I just got the end of a jackplug out of an ipad 3! Having tried all manner of tweezer/plier combos and then having moved onto various attempts with glues (both epoxy and superglue), we just succeeded using the method found here-

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3554135?answerId=17542607022#17542607022

We chopped off a cheap piece of aerial of a little radio set (the second section of a telescoping antenna), filed off the rough edges and checked with another jack plug to see that it was big enough in diameter to just fit over the piece in question, then we gripped it with pliers as we carefully knocked the aerial section down into the hole. We made a few markings on the pipe so we could check how far it was moving, and when we figured we were down at the level of the edge of the broken plug, progress seemed to stop. At that point we began using the pliers to give a turning force to the tube as we gently tapped it with the hammer. Suddenly the tube snicked down by about 3mm... We held our breaths as we held the ipad upside-down (so that if the plug had been loosened but was now subject to gravity we wouldn't leave it behind!) and used the pliers to pull out the tube.

Voila! That is an ipad that now plays sound.

[SEE BELOW AT BOTTOM OF COMMENT FOR A CHANGE TO THIS!!] As a caveat, I should point out that the socket is not itself yet functioning. I think we have done a little damage to it, or it is possible that there is glue from our previous attempts now coating an important contact. I appreciate that if your prob is with an iphone or ipod then it won't do at all to have a non-functioning socket. This is marginally less of an issue for the ipad, which can at least now be used to play sound and isn't rendered completely mute.

I'll post again if I ever figure out what happened, if you like.

Good luck with it,

Alex

STOP PRESS!! My buddy just came back in and showed me- ignore the above about the socket not working!! Just discovered the ipad has two seperate volume controls, one for the jack and one for the speaker!!! Woohoo it's as good as new!

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I should add- a big thank you to ITHACAN99 for that brilliant tip!!

@Apanster:

Hi dude,

I too had a same problem, when I attached AUX IN pin of my car to my ipad it got stucked in it.I went to Apple Store, they were helpless and asked me to replace it with new one for 16000 INR😁.

What I did is, I took a refill of a pen and sharped its back so that it exactly sits into the gap. After thar I applied some pressure and pulled it out...I got the remaining part wich was stucked.

Try this, I hope this is risk free. All the Best.🙂