Tutorial: Replace Hermes headset connector with 3.5mm socket - Page 2

hshortt · #11 (**permalink**) 21-08-2006, 11:24 AM

Good work Dave, anyone wanting to use their Hermes as a media player should be checking this out. When are you going into production??

waveydavey · #12 (**permalink**) 21-08-2006, 12:12 PM

Well, the Strtrk headset gets it tonight, so as soon as the first order comes in....

dickie · #13 (**permalink**) 22-08-2006, 11:40 AM

wooooooot (or something)

this is fantastic.
I tried the exact-same thing last week (after the previous thread) and I've got the exact same helping hands!
Needless to say my soldering was **** and I think I must have created a short circuit because the phone started telling me I had an error with my charger (that was a sweaty few minutes whilst I did a reset I can tell you).

I'll check my work (soooo glad it works tho). Apart from the two gold wires does it matter which wire attaches to which contact tho?

extremely grateful dickie

waveydavey · #14 (**permalink**) 22-08-2006, 01:14 PM

Theoretically it does matter as you'd get stereo or reverse stereo depending on which way round they were. Realistically I'd challenge anyone to know which way round it was supposed to be.

pgamble · #15 (**permalink**) 27-08-2006, 03:20 PM

Hi Wavey

I've got an old (unused) ipod 3g jack - the white one that has the funny flat plug next to the 3.5mm one on one end and a chrome clip with volume / back and forward and pause buttons on it with the extension jack. I'm planning to take that apart to make my adaptor. There is an activate button and a volume button on the supplied HTC USB headphone cable. Any idea which wires inside are used for stereo l/r, activate and volume ?

Paul.

waveydavey · #16 (**permalink**) 28-08-2006, 11:41 PM

Hey Paul,

I didn't open it up that far down I'm afraid, but it should be relatively easy to determine when you pull the control box apart. From memory I think the red and green wires were l/r and the gold one the ground.

pgamble · #17 (**permalink**) 30-08-2006, 12:02 PM

What puzzles me is that the gold wires touch the red and green .... In addition they also then touch each other when we connect them together for a common earth. Electrically this means that all wires are effectively connected together ... so how on earth can it work at all ?

P.S. I did end up going for your mod rather than using the ipod adaptor.

andmjones · #18 (**permalink**) 03-09-2006, 11:56 AM

I dont trust myself with soldering iron, as much as the tutorial seemed straight forward enough. Can i become a customer of WaveyDavey accessories? I not too fussed on waiting around for HTC to bring out a converter, may never happen...

waveydavey · #19 (**permalink**) 03-09-2006, 11:31 PM

Shouldn't be a problem. Drop me a PM.

tonybro · #20 (**permalink**) 04-09-2006, 10:47 AM

Not wanting to take anything away from WaveyDavey's entrepeneurial start-up business but I am sure time may be against him in building a stock of these adapters.

For those who can't wait I saw that Boxwave are doing a variety of adapters and connectors that fulfil the same purpose here.

Hope that helps....