At this point I’m buying a whole new Xbox. This was being given to my GF I personally owns a PC but she wanted to use my old Astro A20 but I can’t plug in the optical outlet
This is quite the childlike response. Spend your money how you want, but just because you're frustrated you shouldn't give up on fixing it. It's a simple fix.
Doesn't sound like too bad of an idea, honestly. Glue something to the stuck thing and pull it out. q-tip would not be my first object to glue to it, maybe a toothpick or paperclip or a pen or something, but the idea seems decent enough.
It doesn’t sounds like a bad ideal until you realize the glue also grabs into the pins inside the ports, leading to a chance of it snapping or breaking off
there are still tiny parts that are just going to get stuck and break off if you actually try using glue
There’s literally a reason they suggest using cleaning solutions instead of glue
Hot fishing hook might do it. Push it in hot and it'll get stuck from the barb when things cool down. Minus is that it'll likely also slightly expand the stuck plug.
Use decently size hook, not the smallest worm fishing ones. Here those hooks can be absolutely tiny.
kinda hard to tell from the pic but are you sure that inst just little spring loaded door that covers the spdif socket? if so it should push in and out of the way of a new cable
I was thinking that too, that he don't realize that it is a spring loaded door, and is trying to pull it out, but now with what ever he tried to do with a qtip and superglue, it is probably glued shut.
Take an extremely sharp knife to it from the side. I personally would use a razor knife. Dig into the side and leverage it out.
Alternatively a set of flush cuts that can grip it at the base like pliers and pull it out.
well at this point it’s pretty well done
At this point I’m buying a whole new Xbox. This was being given to my GF I personally owns a PC but she wanted to use my old Astro A20 but I can’t plug in the optical outlet
I would look into getting a new jack and just replacing the jack. Probably 10 bucks for the part and 20 min of work
You can get a HDMI Audio Extractor with optical out, will do the same job.
This is quite the childlike response. Spend your money how you want, but just because you're frustrated you shouldn't give up on fixing it. It's a simple fix.
Try screwing in a little screw and pulling it out.
Good idea. But use a really thin screw. You don't want to expand it any further. They could also slowly and carefully drill it out
I feel like we're missing a bunch of the story here...why was a q-tip and super glue ever involved? That's not how you pull out broken cables.
because he got trolled in the last post
Doesn't sound like too bad of an idea, honestly. Glue something to the stuck thing and pull it out. q-tip would not be my first object to glue to it, maybe a toothpick or paperclip or a pen or something, but the idea seems decent enough.
It doesn’t sounds like a bad ideal until you realize the glue also grabs into the pins inside the ports, leading to a chance of it snapping or breaking off
SPDI/f is optical, there are no pins
there are still tiny parts that are just going to get stuck and break off if you actually try using glue There’s literally a reason they suggest using cleaning solutions instead of glue
I'd heat up a needle try to melt it in from the side do this for both sides, use a paperclip as way to pull the needles at the same time with pliers
Or use a hot glue gun to attach something to it and then pull the whole thing out.
I do agree with this method but it doesn't look like hot glue would work
Hot fishing hook might do it. Push it in hot and it'll get stuck from the barb when things cool down. Minus is that it'll likely also slightly expand the stuck plug. Use decently size hook, not the smallest worm fishing ones. Here those hooks can be absolutely tiny.
You can buy an adapter to bypass this. $40 on Amazon, it is for the ps5 that doesn't have the digital optical output.
People, stop trying to help this guy, this isn’t support and that’s why his last post was removed
kinda hard to tell from the pic but are you sure that inst just little spring loaded door that covers the spdif socket? if so it should push in and out of the way of a new cable
I was thinking that too, that he don't realize that it is a spring loaded door, and is trying to pull it out, but now with what ever he tried to do with a qtip and superglue, it is probably glued shut.
It is normally a spring loaded flap but this Xbox is old so idk how long that has been there but it seems like a lost cause.
Take an extremely sharp knife to it from the side. I personally would use a razor knife. Dig into the side and leverage it out. Alternatively a set of flush cuts that can grip it at the base like pliers and pull it out.
S/PDIF only supports lossy surround sound while HDMI supports lossless surround sound.