topic Re: 3.5 mm line out in E Series

3.5 mm line out

caver_tim — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:36:21 GMT

Brand new Xperia E

So i can plug in a variety of earphones and the sound comes out of the headphones, even a mono one with a mono 3.5mm jack

BUT

when i plug in a 3.5mm stereo jack to plug my phone into my car, the audio continues to come out of the phone's speaker

Re: 3.5 mm line out

ranzola — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:33:24 GMT

I have exactly the same problem. I thought it was the cable I was using to connect the phone to the car and bought 2 different brands, none of which worked.

Car audio system detects phone as AUX but still music continues to be heard over the phone´s speaker.

Re: 3.5 mm line out

caver_tim — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:48:42 GMT

In the old days plugging in a jack plug into a product physically lifted a contact which broke the curcuit to the speaker of whatever device you had plugged into .

In this phone it appears to be a software solution.

I bought a 3.5mm jack to 2x 3.5mm socket splitter.

I can plug that into the phone and the phone keeps playing on the speaker

I can plug a line in lead into one of the two sockets and the phone keeps playing on the speaker

As soon as i plug a pair of headphones into the other socket, the phone senses them and swaps it's audio output to the external devices.

So its not a faulty lead or connector you're using.

I'd consider this a design flaw and people should be aware that its not as easy as it should be to plug this phone into an external audio device (eg car, recorder, mixing desk etc)

Re: 3.5 mm line out

ranzola — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:32:57 GMT

Tim,

Thx for the guidance.

It's definitely a flaw.

I would expect my cell phone to work just like an iPhone; plug it into my car's stereo and hear music on my car's speakers.

Can somebody from Sony comment, pls?

Re: 3.5 mm line out

ssd — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:58:00 GMT

before u plug into car 3.5mm jack just make sure its of good company..cause duplicate jacks are bigger than usual destroying ur plug...ith happened to my ol phone and it can be used in car ...tuen in has special car mode for songs

Re: 3.5 mm line out

caver_tim — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:09:29 GMT

while the is generally good advice, its not the cause of this problem.

Re: 3.5 mm line out

ssd — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:14:30 GMT

Ok...but i think the maps on it are flawless and i have tried using it on home theatre , car it worked well ...just it was lagging in output

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Johan — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:16:09 GMT

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Re: 3.5 mm line out

rjsep — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:09:55 GMT

I' have the same problem with my receiver and with a speaker with a built in amplifier.

A speaker from another brand works fine.

If I use the line in of my surround system it sometimes works and sometimes not.

SONY please do something about this!!

Re: 3.5 mm line out

Johan — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:49 GMT

This have now been checked and unfortunately it's not supported due to hardware limitations.

Re: 3.5 mm line out

caver_tim — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:01:42 GMT

So in summary.

If you want to use an Xperia E as music player into a car or a mixing desk etc you might have problems with the output device not being recognised by the phone....

😞

Re: 3.5 mm line out

jocampeao — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:27:10 GMT

Hello sir, i have the same problem and i'm very disappointment with this device... How we can fix this???

Re: 3.5 mm line out

caver_tim — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:16:22 GMT

my solution to hear my phone over my car's aduio system is as follows

I bought a 3.5mm jack to 2x 3.5mm socket splitter.

I can plug that into the phone and the phone keeps playing on the speaker

I can plug a 3.5mm line in lead into one of the two sockets and the phone keeps playing on the speaker even if i plug the other end of the 3.5mm lead into the car

As soon as i plug a pair of small cheap headphones into the other socket on the splitter, the phone senses them and swaps it's audio output to the external devices - and in this case the audio comes out of the car.

In actuality the splitter plug is plugged into the car's audio in socket, and in 1 of the two sockets i plug in a set of ear phones that are cable tied up so they don't roll around. I then use the 3.5mm - 3.5mm jack lead to connect that to the phone.

Re: 3.5 mm line out

jocampeao — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:47:33 GMT

But SONY NEED to fix this! I don't wanna buy 3.5mm jack to 2x 3.5mm socket splitter to just listen to music in my car....

Re: 3.5 mm line out

ranzola — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:31:41 GMT

Johan,

Appreciate your answer and interest on this thread.

I've had the Xperia E dual for almost half a year, and this product is so not Sony:

- Sony excels with its cameras. Xperia E's though is fixed-focus and cannot even read HR codes, not to say of poor picture quality.

- Then this issue with audio ouput.

- Phone's memory as well as internal storage are rather limited. However, from the Settings -> Apps menu, I'm not able to move downloaded apps (at least those which allow the option) to the external SD card, which has ample wasted space. I can only move them to the internal storage. Or is there any way to move apps to the external SD card?

- And finally, my device has not picked up the JB update as of yet, even if it was rolled out in May. I'm not sure though I want JB after reading several comments similar to:

grochu • 10 days ago

Got the new 4.1.1 on my Xperia E dual - it's more laggy than 4.0.4. Today I'm going back to 4.0.4. I see no reason yet for going to 4.1.1.

Appreciate your comments on above.

Thanks again for your interest and patience.

Re: 3.5 mm line out

deepakgharpure — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:39:46 GMT

dear johan,

I am deepak from india and i want sony to replace my phone bcoz of this problem would u be able to help me to get it done or should i go with a legal procedure. I cant expect from a company like sony to do such a silly mistake. Now if this has been done unfortunately also sony should take the responsibility and fix this problem in future as well as existing units.

Regards,

Deepak

mail id: deepakgharpure@gmail.com

Re: 3.5 mm line out

RajaPalani — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:32:46 GMT

Any solution for this from sony?

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TirthankarMukhe — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:20:00 GMT

Any updates .. any software solution ... just got my Xperia E yesterday, and it doesn't play in my Logitech 2.1 or in my car speaker.... please help ...

Re: 3.5 mm line out

chip_shorter — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:08:33 GMT

I really find it hard to accept this as an answer. I've had a variety of phones over the years, and this is the only one that has ever suffered this problem. Hardware limitation? - I mean, come on, it's 2013 for goodness sake, it's almost embarassing.

Re: 3.5 mm line out

HatarSony — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:13:26 GMT

The problem is that the earplug connector do not use the lifting contact. Internalie it has an pullup resistor which apply an voltage to the earplugs. the earplugs have an resistans of 32 ohm and nearly shorten the voltage.

If you connect an 33 ohm resistor from left to ground and another resistor from right to ground it will work.

It works, I have done it, for everyone else, a 2x3,5 and earplugs is easiest.

Perhaps Sony could make an menu who ignore the hardware selction of output.

I also have an problem with Bluetooth, I have an Bluetooth headset but not using it so often (use earplugs) but the phone turns on bluetooth once a week or so. I have to unparing the Bluetooth.