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Firstly, welcome back sir! Good to hear from you again on this board!
Secondly, try cleaning out your lightning port with a small brush, I did that 2 weeks ago and not one connection issue since. I thought I was breaking cables but the dust in the port (I keep my phone in my pocket) was preventing it from making good contact.
I usually clean the lightning ports and other ports with those 'compressed air-bottles'.
For phones that spend a lot of time in the pockets they pick up quite a lot of 'fluff'
Thanks matey
Yeah I've tried cleaning it out a few times but it's still playing up, haven't tried the @samu method though...
This is a good method, just as good for desktops, laptops too, they suck so much dust, so it's always a good idea to clean them out if possible every now and then.
If it's stuck really hard try this
^ yep. I've had to go pin diving a few times over the years. Horrifying, always.
I was too scared to use a pin, so used a wooden cocktail stick previously.
I haven't got a compressed air thing, but blew into mine like an elephant possessed, which has actually made a difference, though my teeth feel significantly looser now.
Careful with compressed air that there isn't any fluid in there. With the cans the best thing is to point the nozzle away at first in case any liquid comes out (there's often a little spurt of liquid gas before the air comes out), and then point it at whatever you're cleaning.
To clean out a lightning socket a can should be OK. For computers it's better to get a compressor type thing.
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Most 'can airs' are ok as long as you hold the bottle upright or slightly tilted. Holding the bottle upside down to reach places is not a good idea. I do not recommend can-air for cleaning DSLR sensors unless you love spotty pictures
For iPads, computer keyboards and fans and other 'hard to reach' place it''s been working like a charm for as long as I can as long as the can is not held upside down...
I think it depends on the quality of the canned air, most of the ones I have used have had a habit of leaving a sticky residue on stuff if you're not careful, even when used uptight. Also if you're cleaning out a dusty computer a can of air is a bit underpowered. The DSLR I leave well alone, not willing to risk trying to clean that.
Just use a toothpick or cocktail stick. Surprisingly effective!
We use a cheap hand pump balloon-blower-upper as an 'ever full' forced air cleaner for ports, computer power supplies, cpu fans, etc. (Works great with with no worries about moisture).
As for the potential loss of the headphone jack, it's difficult to see how it wouldn't be another 'devoted niche sector gets ground up by the gears of progress' moment for many musicians. The simplicity of my iRig Pro/headphone jack monitoring approach on my iPad Pro is a joy. I would guess it would be years before jackless made its way to iPads, but I feel for uber-portable iPhone musician if such a thing actually occurs. If Apple follows through they must come up with a simple, non--price-gauge-y solution for connecting multiple devices (with power) to the single port.
Considering the many 'docking options' for the single USB-C port 'MacBook' it would be nice if apple had the same standard for all the future devices i.e USB-C. There are already cables for USB-A/B/C to USB-C and all the variants in-between while Lightning-Cables are limited to USB-A and in some cases Micro-USB to Lightning(The cable that ships with iRig Mic HD). USB-C is also a more 'Hub-Friendly' standard than the Lightning-Port...
USB-C would be nice, but I think it will be a while because it is used for right now for external hard drives. How many devices other than hard drives have it?
There are some Android phones with USB-C and they ship with a micro-usb adapter
Also there is quite a bunch of USB-C docking stations/port-expanders available.
But since iOS devices are not 'full' computers yet they can not take advantage of port-expanders with built-in graphics cards, web-cams etc.
But technically it would make more sense to skip the lightning port and go with USB-C if it wasn't for things like 'carplay' but even there usb-c would make more sense and not 'lock' the car-owner to a certain brand...
Time will tell where things are heading...
It might be a prudent move to invest in as much twin shielded cable as possible. I can see that in decades to come, there’ll be a nostalgic return to the “warmth” and “realism” of the authentique that is wire. People will remember wire, wistfully. They’ll be unaware of the painfully depressing effect of pulling a cable and having it drag other cables with it. They’ll be a total stranger to having to untangle a cable that you hitherto wrapped into a neat coiled bundle. They’ll never know the utter pointlessly suicidal frustration of having a 25-pin or 9-pin RS-232 plug use its ridiculous screw appendages to catch on every single other thing in the near vicinity as you drag the cable out. They’ll never wonder who decided to put that locking catch that always breaks, on the Ethernet plug. They’ll never wonder what the inventor of the SCART was smoking. They’ll never have the experience of the quantum superposition effect of getting the USB B plug oriented correctly the third time. Wire, man — it’s the real thing.
The Wistful Wires
I can totally see that one coming. There's already a subset of humanity that argues as to whether cooper or steel cables sound better, but once we go wireless this will indeed be a thing
Wireless is not a completely accurate description of what's happening with the jackless move, it could more accurately be described as externalizing the DAC outside the iPhone. Even with bluetooth headsets there are probably some wires involved unless they're in ear where a circuit board may work; of course bluetooth does eliminate the wired connection between the iPhone and headphone. People already can go the bluetooth route for apps that support this option, use USB audio interfaces, or lightning headphones and docks.
The funny thing about all this 'External DAC' issue is that Apple would still ned a DAC on the iPhone motherboard to feed the built-in speakers unless they decide to remove them too...
Wireless headphones need to be powered with a cable and run out of juice. Wired headphones don't have that problem.
After a few weeks of experimentation I've found that short blasts of air from my mouth, are more effective than my previous cocktail stick forays. I used to spend twenty minutes fiddling around trying to get a connection - and with a dying battery it's a regular occurrence - before it would connect and charge. Since blowing hard, short blasts into the socket it only takes a minute or so, and getting a bit of moisture in there seems to help too.
I do need a new phone though, wish they'd get the new one out come on.
Aha, a blowjob, and like that misnomer, have you tried the reverse.
Although this rumour has been repeated over and over and over I still doubt Apple will remove the headphone jack. Because there's nothing wrong with it and no real advantage to removing it for the user. There's nothing wrong with the signal quality of the jack. If they wanted to go really audiophile then they'd have to go lossless in the actual audio files as well to make sense at all. I don't think that'll happen (yet). And even then the risk of pissing off a large chunk of their loyal customers and possibly causing a boycott wouldn't be worth it. It's still quite possible to happen but I'm sure it would have very undesirable consequences. There's really no way to make the removal of an essential port a selling point over the previous model. If it's really another similar looking model to the 6 they better give some very good reasons for upgrading from a 6s. We'll see in 4 days if they really took that risk but I really hope they didn't.
That's pretty amusing. Doubt it all you want. The headphone jack is gone.
So you work for Apple?
No, but all signs point to the headphone jack being gone on the 7. If it's not, then it will be gone on the one after that.
I'd be willing to wager a decent amount of money that it's gone on the 7.
Apple its dropping the headphone jack. It's gone. And if it doesn't happen now (very unlikely) it will happen next year. And in 2 maybe 3 years it will be gone from every other major smartphone/ tablet/ PC (it's already gone from a few of them) maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense now but that's where things are going. Sometimes people doesn't mind compromises, I would be glad to go Bluetooth and charging my headphones every few days if that means getting rid of annoying headphone tangles and easily broken cables, getting my headphones stuck in a doorknob or something else while walking, Having to work around them while doing something else. I would be glad to go with lightning/USB-C for professional stuff if that means higher audio quality. In my opinion there are clear advantages if we drop the headphone jack both in the consumer and creator sides.