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Screwing around with the jack.
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Posted by: ll Dylan ll

So I've had some modding ideas floating around in the back of my head, many revolving around the iphone's special jack. Lucky me, I happened to come across a broken one, but it's not like many cables I've messed around with. I'm assuming it's for the iPhone, but I guess it could go to any product. There's the copper wire I was expecting, but there's also a red, green, and red-green twisted wire. I'm guessing these correspond to the buds, mic, and possibly something else. Can anyone help me identify which is which?

Posted by: BornInBremen

You do know you can buy an iPhone cable extension for like $3 on eBay, right? I'm all for modding, but not when the fix is cheap and readily available.

Posted by: ll Dylan ll

C'mon, give me a little more credit than that. You really thought I was trying to splice me a pair of new headphones?

What I planned on doing was splicing this cable and an Xbox 360 headset, so I would be able to talk and hear like normal, but also able to hook up my phone so my buds could hear some tunes.

I made a similar item before with a 3.5mm and headset jack, but I didn't incorporate the working headset idea into it.

I also had another item planned, and since this cable look like both a mic and earbuds, I thought it might work without having to dismantle any other objects. I thought I could splice on a IR transmitter and receiver, so I could take the IR signal from my TV remote to my PC, then take it's electrical signal and convert it into a .wav file and then output it via my phone so I could control my TV. In theory this could work...

So, if anyone can tell me which wires transmit what, that would be awesome.

Posted by: BornInBremen

Touché.

Sounds like an ambitious project, I'll be interested to see how it turns out. The wiring diagram has to be out there somewhere, but alas, I have not seen it.

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

Oh yea those wires inside, I found out that pulling the headphones form under someone is a bad idea, all I did was use superglue and electrical tape to patch it... I hope you show pics. Man I would love those vib duo's

Posted by: faithie999

i would bet a cup of coffee that the pinout is:
red right earphone
green left earphone
red/green mic
copper neutral

if the xbox headset just has one earphone, then twist red and green together and connect to the one earphone

Posted by: ll Dylan ll

Quote:

Originally Posted by faithie999

i would bet a cup of coffee that the pinout is:
red right earphone
green left earphone
red/green mic
copper neutral

if the xbox headset just has one earphone, then twist red and green together and connect to the one earphone

It took me a second to process, but I think that could definitely be it. The headphones I previously dismantled were really cheap, I doubt they are even stereo, so that would explain two separate cables in this one. I can't screw around with it until tomorrow, but I'll give it a try and report back. Thanks.