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I damaged my MacBook's headphone jack!

Hey guys,

Yesterday I was trying to fix my Logitech's speaker system while it was connected to my MBPr 15". I know, I'm an idiot. I was playing with the system's cables to find out which was the stereo audio ones and suddenly the right audio channel of the Macbook's headphone jack stopped working, it now has only a noise that keeps changing intensity. The left channel still works fine.

As screwing up my laptop wasn't enough, I tried to test the speakers with my iPhone (thinking the problem was in the speaker's cables) and boom, same thing happened.

Now I have two devices with only one-channel audio output. I'm feeling the dumbest person in this world to have accomplished that.

Anyway, I wonder if replacing the mac's headphone jack and the iPhone's dock would solve this issue, or if the logic board might have been damaged as well (my worst nightmare). Help me, please!

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Sounds like you've shot through the board. Replacing the audio jack will not likely to fix the issue, you will have to find the fried components and replace them as a board-level repair.

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I don't think I'm able to do that by myself. Do you think an Apple Authorized Service Center would do that instead of replacing the whole logic board?

Also, replacing the iPhone dock would be ok or the problem is in the board as well?

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I don't believe AASPs actually do any board-level repairs, they just replace everything.

There could be some ESD protection on the dock/jack so try the replacement first, maybe the protection took the bullets for the boards. But if not, you need to find a third-party guy to fix the devices for you.

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Got it, thank you very much!

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