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      08-17-2013, 09:57 AM   #2
sipman
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Samsung Galaxy S3 issue

So my research revealed it's a problem with the phone.

Apparently, and I apologize for my layman's terminology here, the phone doesn't see any resistance, therefore doesn't think a headphone is attached.

So the solution that worked for me (YMMV), was to cut my adapter cord and solder two resistors between the hots (Left and Right) and Ground. This tells the phone that there is a level of resistance between the positive and negative of each channel like the phone would find when sending a current through the magnetic coils of a headset.

I took a stab in the dark at using radioshack's carbon film resistors in a 10 ohm and 1/4 watt variety.
My rationale was that older headphones operate in the 8ohm realm, and newer ones are 16 or 32 ohm. so 10 is in the middle of the two. My wattage was just because. No rationale there except that I couldn't imagine a ton of wattage goes through these wires anyways.

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