Hi there,

I don't know if anyone is having similar problems, but I seem to be going through a lot of sets of headphones with my N900. It seems that they don't last more than a couple of months before invariably losing output to one earphone.

I had been using a succession of pretty cheap earphones, and I had assumed that perhaps they just weren't particularly reliable, but today my latest, more expensive set suffered the same fate. Could the N900 be causing the damage?

Cheers

- Owen

The loss of output to one earphone is usually a cable problem. I've had it happen a lot with earphones that I'm not very gentle with.

Might be worth cleaning the earphone socket on your N900 with switch cleaner, just in case it is due to dirty contacts.

the jack itself, is it a 90 degree angle or are they straight? I find that if I have the straight jacks they bend and warp the wires and I have the same fate as you. sony made a fantastic new brand of earbuds and headphones called PiiQ and they have bent jacks and great quality, really last a while too. $15-$30 at best buy. ultimately probably just from heavy use, not directly the device itself