Motorola W755 (Cell Phone) Exhibiting Extremly Strange Behavior

Factual Questions
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I have a Motorola W755 cell phone. Among its capabilities is the ability to store and play mp3s. It has a headphone jack, but it’s a 2.5", not the standard 3.5", so I bought an adapter so that I can use the more common 3.5" headphones. The issue is this: there seems to be a “sweet spot”, if you will, for the placement of the adapter into the jack (and possibly for the headphones into the adapter). When the adapter is in this sweet spot, the music will play just fine. If, however, the adapter jiggles around in the jack, then the phone will cut out of the music application and dial the most recently called phone number. I have tested this with various most recently called numbers, and every time the adapter shifts, the most recently called number is rung again. Also, if the headphones move past the nearly imperceptible notches in the adapter, the sound goes from stereo to mono to no sound at all (not in that order, necessarily).

Someone please shed some light on this situation. I would like to listen to music while I’m walking (with my phone in my pocket), but this issue renders the music player almost inoperable. The normal shifting of the phone in my pocket that occurs because of my walking bumps the adapter out of precise alignment within 10 steps. I can’t find reference to this issue anywhere else on the internet.

2

I assume " means mm in this case, not inches. Or the phone is huge.

Really the best approach would be to get the right size headphone plug.

3

Hah, silly me. I did indeed mean mm, not inches, the symbol notwithstanding.

4

I’m wondering if the headphone jack is non-standard for a reason? Perhaps the Moto approved headphones have an inline remote and perhaps terminate in a 3-way (or more) plug.

If you have the headphones which came with it, have a look. Chances are you are shorting out the remote control connection and the spuriious signals are controlling the phone.

tim