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Hello, A headphone tip broke off in my audioport, and after reading terrible advice on some forums I tried the superglue idea to remove the tip.. Resulted in my port being glued together. Long story short, I found a company who thought it would fix my internal speakers if the audio port was removed from the Logic Board. Guess what, it didn’t. It seems impossible to get a replacement part for the audiojack as well. Now, is it possible to desolder the Line-In port and solder it on the audio port’s place in order to fix my internal speakers? I don’t need the headphone jack to work persé, I just want my internal speakers to come back to life. Greetings, Marc
schoutenmj, the Line In jack and the Audio Jack are different. Apple part number for the Line in jack is 514-0635 and the Audio Jack is 514-0671. Sure you could always try, but the biggest issues is that you may run into trouble soldering it twice and trying to make it fit. More room for error. If you do want to replace it, you can try and find a new jack or you can get it of an old board. The issue here is that it will require quite some skill to solder it properly. Take a look at the schematic. Pin 1 and pin 2 are normally closed, and open when you insert the jack. So if you remove the jack, your circuit will be open. Try to place a jumper from pin 1 to 2 to close that circuit.
