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Hello for some reason my audio jack on the Imac have been pushed in so that when i connect speakers it will not get stuck anymore and the sound gets loose. is there anyway to fix this by my self?
picture showing wich part i mean what i mean:
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i know what you mean and i see the problem when i look at the teardown of the 27" imac
the audio jack isn't part of the logicboard - it's a plastic bracket that will become loose by only thinking of it ;-)
you can see the L shaped part in the middle of the picture
the bad part is, there is no guide for that part - but you can use any other guide to open the imac, getting to the part should not be the biggest problem - since you know where is hast to be ;-)
good luck
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I can se many L shaped parts:) not possible to ring it in? well anyway thank u for the answer. I will also mention that i've had it in for this problem before and i think that it where temporay fixed that time and i really don't want to send it in again but i you have to open it i'm not sure anymore if i wanna try this my self.
Then if u look at it u can se traces of a tool around the jacket on the chassi it self so isn't there a tool i can use without have to open the mac?
i edited a picture of the part in my post above. i don't think that you could easily use a "tool" to get this part into the right position. opening the imac with suction cups should leave no marks at all. i recommend a extension cable for the audio jack after you fixed it
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`You can replace the audio jacks yourself pretty easily. There are good instructions on this page: iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2428 Audio Ports Replacement
Took me 50 minutes, but I dropped on of the audio jack screws into the cooling fan and had to remove it to recover the screw.
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The headphone jack of my 2017 iMac 27” got loose and pushed in too deep. After my initial panic, the fix was easy:
Initially the right channel was only connecting if I pulled down the headphone jack, so I put a tiny piece of paper underneath it. Now it’s working fine.
I put a 10 cm extension cable between my headphones and iMac, so I don’t have to put the iMac’s jack under any more stress and risk getting it loose again. Now I only need to find a way to play music through the speakers while that extension cable is plugged in.
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Same problem here on an iMac (late 2012). Last week the headphone jack occasionally popped out the socket. Then one day it just cracked and was pushed inwards.
Went to a Apple retailer and they said I could return it to an Apple store. When it's proven it's not because of bad use (I switch between speakers and headphone once a day max, so it's not) they can fix it within 2,5 weeks for free (within 2 years European warranty). I think I just buy a new external sound card which I was already planning to do.
If anyone succeeds in fixing this I would like to hear. Maybe I give it a try.
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