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• Bandwidth limit blown; no cache?

  Posted by: midow on November 13, 2006 at 12:55 PM

• or, ya know, just getting a bluetooth headset.

  Posted by: 3ricj on November 13, 2006 at 2:52 PM

• I did this a while back and I think I may have actually damaged the headset somehow.

  Posted by: chroma on November 14, 2006 at 4:57 PM

• hello. i want to make a 3.5mm headset adapter for my k610i cellphone. can u post how to do it please?

  Posted by: iamsinned06 on November 15, 2007 at 2:31 AM

• What I need is the other way around. I would like to use a PC headset - the ones with the two 3.5mm (1/8 in) connectors, for mic and headphones, on a cell phone with a 2.5mm mono jack. For the phone use, I am not picky on getting both headsets powered - mono/ single will do fine.

  That way, when I am traveling (which is every week) I can listen to music from the laptop in stereo, and issue voice commands to the computer, as well as use the same headset to talk to my cell phone. I do not want to carry 2 headsets, nor am I thrilled with using a mono headset to attempt to listen to music.

  Often I end up in a "consultant's bullpen" - a converted conference room with a number of other consultants all working / talking. The headphones help tone down the background confusion.

  I have a bluetooth phone headset - which I use when not at the laptop, but I don't want to pull one off and put the other on, when the phone rings - just swap plugs.

  AND I can't use Skype - few client sites have the ports open on their firewall to allow IM, much less Skype conversations.

  Extensive googling has yielded no results.....

  Posted by: kirkrr on November 18, 2007 at 9:07 AM

• BTW: it is not as simple as a pure size change - there are pin out rewires required, and the PC Headset has a +5V bias on the center ring of the mic connector - something that is not available on the 2.5mm phone connection (nor does it seem to be needed?).

  SO, for those folks that say just get a stereo to mono adapter - it does not change which wire goes to where, so it does not work - sorry.

  Posted by: kirkrr on November 18, 2007 at 9:15 AM

• Any way to do the opposite? Take one of those much more comfortable headphone/microphone units used for Skype and make an adapter? (i.e. 3.5mm female microphone and 3.5mm female headphone connectors to a combined 2.5mm male three-ring adapter)?

  How would that be wired out? Is that sold commercially?
  

  Posted by: Miles on January 2, 2008 at 1:17 AM

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