hal128
August 5th, 2007, 02:20 PM
This guy found a solution to the iPhone's recessed headphone jack, and it looks really good. He just made his own headphone adapter, and posted instructions on how to do it at his blog. It doesn't look half bad, I might try it. Then I wouldn't have to pay more money for an adapter if I ever save up enough for some really nice Shure earbuds.
The first thing you need to acquire is some type of inline headphone volume control cables. Any one would probably work but I chose the Radio Shack Gold-Plated Volume Control Cable for Stereo Headphones (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102975&cp=&sr=1&origkw=headphone+volume+control&kw=headphone+volume+control&parentPage=search) catalog number 42-2559. They had a ton of them on the shelf at my local Shack for $7.99/each.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUYB-nGnCI/AAAAAAAAAEM/jURZK75YMSA/s320/RadioShack_42-2559.jpg
The next item you will need is either an xacto knife or a single sided razor blade. I had the blade so I chose to use that but either one should work. I recommend a new blade though since it will make it easier to do clean cuts.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUYtenGnDI/AAAAAAAAAEU/3pxSMgRmKAY/s320/blade.jpg
Now you're ready to start cutting. Gently make a circular cut around the base of the plastic piece that surrounds the headphone plug. Try not to get too deep, we can always make it deeper later. Once you have that completed start carefully making vertical cuts parallel to the heaphone plug itself around the area that is keeping us from plugging into the iPhone. Take your time and if you didn't cut far enough in when you made the very first cut you can remedy that now. When you're done you should have something that looks like this.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUZnOnGnEI/AAAAAAAAAEc/n-IjzG0KYOc/s320/Finished.jpg
If there are any small pieces of plastic still hanging on use your blade to trim them up and make it look nice. (After all you ARE going to plug this into your Jesus Phone, right?)
http://bp3.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUZ6unGnFI/AAAAAAAAAEk/99aWU3Dl90w/s320/PluggedIn.jpg
Now enjoy your tunes with whatever headphones you want!
Link: BigMatt's BigBlog(tm) (http://bigmattsbigblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/diy-iphone-headphone-adapter.html)
The first thing you need to acquire is some type of inline headphone volume control cables. Any one would probably work but I chose the Radio Shack Gold-Plated Volume Control Cable for Stereo Headphones (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102975&cp=&sr=1&origkw=headphone+volume+control&kw=headphone+volume+control&parentPage=search) catalog number 42-2559. They had a ton of them on the shelf at my local Shack for $7.99/each.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUYB-nGnCI/AAAAAAAAAEM/jURZK75YMSA/s320/RadioShack_42-2559.jpg
The next item you will need is either an xacto knife or a single sided razor blade. I had the blade so I chose to use that but either one should work. I recommend a new blade though since it will make it easier to do clean cuts.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUYtenGnDI/AAAAAAAAAEU/3pxSMgRmKAY/s320/blade.jpg
Now you're ready to start cutting. Gently make a circular cut around the base of the plastic piece that surrounds the headphone plug. Try not to get too deep, we can always make it deeper later. Once you have that completed start carefully making vertical cuts parallel to the heaphone plug itself around the area that is keeping us from plugging into the iPhone. Take your time and if you didn't cut far enough in when you made the very first cut you can remedy that now. When you're done you should have something that looks like this.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUZnOnGnEI/AAAAAAAAAEc/n-IjzG0KYOc/s320/Finished.jpg
If there are any small pieces of plastic still hanging on use your blade to trim them up and make it look nice. (After all you ARE going to plug this into your Jesus Phone, right?)
http://bp3.blogger.com/_LQojpPn8Ds4/RrUZ6unGnFI/AAAAAAAAAEk/99aWU3Dl90w/s320/PluggedIn.jpg
Now enjoy your tunes with whatever headphones you want!
Link: BigMatt's BigBlog(tm) (http://bigmattsbigblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/diy-iphone-headphone-adapter.html)