Is my ipod broken?

whalley665
whalley665 Posts: 150
edited June 2009 in The Crudcatcher
When i plug my earphones in, only the left side works. I've tried 3 different earphones with the same outcome.

How can i get this fixed or will i have to send it back to apple?

Thanks
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  • TheRevOlutionary
    TheRevOlutionary Posts: 1,176
    Sounds broken to me :? same happened to my old iPod mini, but that was more abuse than poor manufacture!
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  • Kiblams
    Kiblams Posts: 2,423
    Is this a new issue? or are they brand new? Make sure that you have pushed the jack all the way into the socket as a partialy inserted earphones will only send the sound down one side.

    Faulty if this isn't the issue.
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  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    ^^^
    What Kiblams said. If it isn't fully inserted, (oo-er!) it'll only sound down the one side.
    If the iPod is less than a year old, it is still covered by Apple's one year guarentee. Go onto their website and see if you can get it sent in for repair.
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  • Graydawg
    Graydawg Posts: 673
    My iPod shuffle started doing this but it turned out because I had been sweating so badly from running and working out at the gym, that the left earphone had become saturated with sweat and clogged the sound....

    After I left to dry out at home it was fine! :shock:
    It's been a while...
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,702
    If it isn't covered by guarantee/warranty, it can be fixed if you can get it apart. It happens because a connection breaks to the jack, so if you can re-solder that, it will work again. This all depends on whether you can get it open though...
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Plenty of guides online on how to open iPods. The older ones are a doddle to open, newer ones are much harder to open in such a way to reuse them.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.

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