Tutorial Simple 2.5mm Headphones

[barge]

I had one of those adapters for changing the 3.5mm headphone jack into a 2.5mm one. But I would always forget it when I needed it most. So this morning I took the time to make a set of headphones (3.5mm jack) into a set that could be used with the Treo 650, or any phone with a 2.5mm jack.

Materials:
Xbox headset
headphones
box cutter
scissors
knife
soldering iron

Ok first things first. All you need to work with is a original Xbox headset and pretty much any set of headphones.


Here is the Xbox heaset we will be disassembling.


This is the 2.5mm jack that we will plug into the handheld when we are finished.


First remove the cusion and cover over the speaker.


We want to maintain focus on the red and blue wires, these are for the speaker.
Desolder the red and blue wires alond with the gold and white ones, Leaving just the
small circuitboard. The white and gold are for the mic. Which may be the next mod.


The mic for the xbox headset will remain seperate. Keep the circuitboard, we will use
this later to connect everything. I trimmed down the circuitboard by cutting the
capacitor off, but you don't have to.


We will fit the transformation in here, to neatly hide this mess of an adapter.


Cut a find line across the seam where the two pieces meet. Be carefull there is a
solid magnet in there.


Remove the magnet and shave off any excess rubber. You know just clean it up a bit.


Whoops wasn't paying attention. That must have been how the tip got so dirty.
Don't forget to clean the tip of the soldering iron to remove all keyboard residue.


Splice the wires of your headphones and use the trimmed circuitboard to connect the
red and blue wires from the Xbox headset to the headphones of your choice.

Leave the white wire insulated and trim down the gold wire because there are
only wire for the speaker through the cover of the headphone wires. Tie a knot in
both sides of the insulated wire, to keep from putting tension on the circuitboard.


Spread open the rubber cover, and carefully put the transformer
inside.


It is a little cramped, but carefully situate things so that everything fits nicely.


Take your time and superglue the cap closed.


Finished product. Better than the adapter huh? Hope so.


Now you can watch your movies or listen to music using a
headset dedicated to your handheld, Enjoy friends.

-barge

[Stillrockin]

Very Good Barge!

Hey heres a mod thought for you. widen that hole on the keyboard and convert it into a sync Cradle for the Palm . . . . .

All Jokes aside! Nice Job on the headphones!

[boutwell]

Nice tutorial

(gasp!) Is that Walk the Line playing on your Treo? You must have some big shot Hollywood connection to get a movie that is stilll on the bigscreen in a legal downloadable format! ;)

[barge]

It's the trailer, muhahhahahah!

[boutwell]

A 31+ minute trailer?

You are so busted!

[barge]

See it's a video I made mixing up all of the trailers, so that it seems like you are watching the movie. They give away so much now adays in these "trailers".

[fortezza]

Don't let them bother you. A lot of people download movies to preview them. If the movie is good, then they go see it in the theatre. Also, occasionally they also d/l a movie they liked but can't wait for the DVD to come out in order to see it again, so they d/l and then by the DVD when it comes out to show their support of a good movie.

Right now this is technically illegal, but I believe in the future there will be one or more compromises to current laws that allow some sort of previewing. I mean, you buy ( except music ) something in the store and don't like it you can return it. With movie theatres and most music media you do not get this choice, so people find their own solution. After some time, a permanent solution will be found.

Remember when music playing radio stations were going to destroy the music industry ( music companies tried to prevent it ), television was going to destroy the movie industry( again movies companies tried to prevent movies broadcast on television ). Heck, the reason Hollywood is where it is today is early film makers did not want to pay patent licensing fees to Edison ( who had a patent on movie cameras ), so they made their movies on the West coast where the law was harder to enforce ( US marshals were on the East coast ).

Ok, enough banter. I think I made my point. Some things never change, and the accusers were once the accused.

[Loki047]

anychance of getting the pictures back?

[plunker]

I just bought the adaptor and leave it connected to the headphones so when I need it, it's there. Of course I only use the headphones with the treo.

[TrippleOptics]

that's great, where are the pics?