Modded Optimus One Headphones to Sony Ericsson

[Corpysix]

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.

 

[biggiex2]

nice job...how's the quality?

 

[Corpysix]

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.

 

[biggiex2]

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

 

[Corpysix]

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.

 

[ubajaj]

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]

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.

 

[paolog89]

Nice! I'll try it!

 

[schnappi1978]

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

 

[Corpysix]

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

 

[schnappi1978]

thank's, that is indeed helpfull!

 

[Corpysix]

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]

Should use aJAYS earpiece...

 

[lekhwani]

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

 

[Corpysix]

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 ...

 

[Blueyedevil]

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]

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) ?

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.

 

[charris]

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]

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

 

[Garuxa]

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