When Apple decided to ditch the headphone jack, the company stated that the technology was simply too old to be effectively useful anymore. All the major Android giants laughed at Apple’s decision at the time, but now almost all of them have ditched the headphone jack, especially from upper mid-range or flagship devices. However, there is no shortage of love for the 3.5mm slot, especially among customers who are more comfortable with budget or mid-range devices.

Normally, headphone jacks are as reliable as they can be. But like all other pieces of technology, the 3.5mm jack is prone to occasional failures. Today, we’ll discuss the rare headphone jack failures and help you get it working again as quickly as possible.

Since it’s a port designed to handle multiple inputs for thousands of applications, you don’t expect the headphone jack on your phone to stutter anytime soon. However, there may be circumstances where you don’t seem to hear any audio coming out of the earbuds plugged into the headphone jack, or there’s some noise that disrupts your audio experience.

In either case, there could be more than one reason why the headphone jack is not working. We scoured the user-friendly forums to find out what issues users are experiencing and how these headphone jack problems can be easily fixed using the tips below.