Modded Optimus One Headphones to Sony Ericsson

Corpysix

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• Jul 18, 2011

• #1

Hello,
First I have to apologize my poor English, I am from Estonia and English isn't my main language.
I just looked at those stock headphones and I wanted to save that middle control button and mic, so I found old Sony Ericsson Walkman player headphones what were dead (the wire was broken from connector) so I brake the mic and control button housing to half with little knife, and swapped the earplugs with sony ericsson ones.
It's pretty simple to do that, here are some pictures:

If you are trying to make something like those by yourself, and damage them then don't blame me. Cause you did it, not me.

 

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biggiex2

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• Jul 19, 2011

• #2

nice job...how's the quality?

 

Corpysix

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• Jul 19, 2011

• #3

Thanks, Well quality is way better than stock earplugs managed to play. I can sure say the quality is same as it were in original sony ericsson ones.

 

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biggiex2

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• Jul 19, 2011

• #4

i think i'm going to do this mod to my headphones as well

 

Corpysix

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• Jul 19, 2011

• #5

Hope you don't screw up something, but rly there is nothing much to lose there, stock/OEM earplugs were cheap plastic thingies. And I also got old not working Ericsson in-ear plugs, so there wasn't anything to lose, just gain.

 

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ubajaj

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• Jul 19, 2011

• #6

It's so sad that many countries in the world are getting the earphones and not the in ear ones that you just used from SE. India for example got the in-ear earphones with a decent sound quality almost(not quite) on par with EP630s. But nevertheless it's a good mod and a good solution for those who have earphones to spare and have the guts to try something like that

Also if you want to be sure of sound quality, check it with a 3.5mm jack - fastport converter on SE phones to be sure.

 

Corpysix

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• Jul 19, 2011

• #7

Well thanks, those LG ones were cheap plastic anyway, then why don't turn them something useful with broken sony ericsson in-ear plugs.
Gonna buy new earplugs anyway, but those were easy to do, and I was bored. I didn't even untied those OEM earplugs, before to try and listen with them, then I had this plan to do.

 

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paolog89

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• Jul 20, 2011

• #8

Nice! I'll try it!

 

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schnappi1978

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• Jul 20, 2011

• #9

nicely done!
Can you say on the picture with the pmc where to solder the earplugs?

 

Corpysix

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• Jul 20, 2011

• #10

Here it is, hope it helps a bit. It's not that hard to solder ... :]

 

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schnappi1978

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• Jul 20, 2011

• #11

thank's, that is indeed helpfull!

 

Corpysix

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• Jul 20, 2011

• #12

No problem.
Also, if you don't want to open up that mic/answerbutton-box then you can also take appart earphones itself unsolder off the old ones and solder new ones back. Only thing, some earplugs wont open well, and broke easly.

Show off your mods also!

 

DaXmax

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• Jul 21, 2011

• #13

Should use aJAYS earpiece...

 

lekhwani

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• Jul 23, 2011

• #14

The in ear phones we got in india:

And in Europe, people are getting this Chinese garbage.

That's why they are so frustrated. I suggest them to change these to original LG we are getting in India. Then only they can enjoy audio and audio effects properly.

Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk

 

Last edited: Jul 23, 2011

Corpysix

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• Jul 24, 2011

• #15

I am so jelly to indians. Well, I don't listen music with my phone much, so I really don't care much, but still ...

 

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Blueyedevil

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• Aug 20, 2011

• #16

Well, I don't understand how India gets the good quality earplugs and Europe gets the ****ty ones. Shame LG
Back on-topic, thanks a lot mate for the tip. I also am fed up with the quality of the chinese crap LG delivered to me as earphones and wanted to replace those with some old Nokia that I have around doing nothing (can't use them directly since they have the smaller jack). I was considering cutting the wires, but your solution is more elegant . By the way, how did you put back the plastic housing for the mic/button? Did you glue it or you can just snap it back in place (assuming nothing gets broken when you take it apart) ?

 

Corpysix

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• Aug 20, 2011

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Blueyedevil said:

By the way, how did you put back the plastic housing for the mic/button? Did you glue it or you can just snap it back in place (assuming nothing gets broken when you take it apart) ?

Click to expand...

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You have to open it pretty carefully, it's glued there, I asume if you use hairdryer on it little bit then it would open up a little better. It seemed to clip back togheter pretty well, but I still used a little drop of a hot glue there.
Show your modded earphones also.

 

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charris

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• Aug 21, 2011

• #18

i might try to modd them with my dad's nokia 3k something classic that has 2.5" jack...might try it soon

 

dr.notor

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• Aug 21, 2011

• #19

The howto is missing an important second part - the ritual burning of the Chinese plastic garbage.

 

Garuxa

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• Aug 22, 2011

• #20

Wow, had not seen this, thanks for the input. When I find some headphones that do not serve ... it proves