And you don’t realize it’s not fully seated till you try to listen to music and nada.Īnother very common issue is the delicate nature of the end of the Jack.

It happens, you’re in a rush, even trying to multitask getting the jack in and making a sandwich, and it just goes halfway (I’ve even stuck mine in the phone cover – now that’s embarrassing). So, the very first thing you should always check is if your jack has been inserted all the way. This wasn’t really super visible, but when I took my phone in to fix my “sound problem”, this turned out to be the issue in the report I got. I suspect that I need to do a bit more dusting around the house because somewhere I’ve been putting my phone (or maybe it’s my toddler come to think of it) must have a lot of dust or dirt of some sort because it got into my phone socket! So much so that my jack didn’t want to go all the way. This one time, I had the craziest thing happen to me. The jack is not fully seated into the socket Let’s have a look at 10 reasons why this could be happening to you: 1. What I have realized though, is that over the past few years I have been doing quite a few things wrong, and by changing my habits, I can probably solve my odd sound issue (funny story… my friend actually had a hearing problem, which explained his headphones going quiet in one ear). That being said though, this won’t likely happen with high-quality stereo headphones. Or, one of the enclosure seals might be defective in cases where there is passive noise isolation. It might also be that your drivers have been poorly timber-matched at the factory. A faulty cord is often the guilty culprit. There could be a number of reasons for this happening. Have you ever just wondered why your headphones are louder on one side?

Have you ever had headphones that are louder on the one side? Sometimes my headphones won’t play at all in one ear other times, my headphones are quiet in one ear.

Headphone volume low on computer