The left ear bud wont work - Skull Candy Ink'd Stereo Ear Bud Headphones - Pink

When you pull the wire up does it increase the right ear bud volume/ sound? If it does, then it means the right side ear bud has a short within the head phones circuit which is aka the wire that leads to the musical device in which the ear buds branch off from.

If the right side ear bud does not produce an increased volume for sound by picking the wire up or pulling it in towards you or to the left side of your body or musical device then it means that the right speaker is blown.

I know that all head phones come spiced together aka they are stuck together and have to be pulled apart in order to get both head phones seperated from each other so that they can be worn in the ears. If you pulled the wire apart to much or too quickly then that is what ruined the right head phone.


I suggest that regardless if the ear phones begin to work by pulling the wire up,side ways, or into towards your body that you return them back to the store since after awhile the problem will eventually continue to happen causing the right ear bud to completely blow. Once you return the ear phones be cautious with the new set when you seperate the ear buds from each other since they are very touchy and have to be handled with delicateness when seperation is taking place.

Please let me know how it works out for you. I have had many ear buds and I tell ya something; they are very easy to blow one side when seperating. I had to learn after a few pairs that I was ruining the speakers by the way I was seperating my wires. I kept thinking for the first 3 pairs that the store was selling blown ear buds until I began having same problems with another few stores so I said to myself "well the solution is to figure out what I am doing wrong in order to blow one side of my ear buds every time". After few seconds it was not that obvious that all I had to do for assembly was to pull the wires apart in order to get both ear buds to go into my ears.

Fair warning, this response may be a dead end & be a waste of time. I can only refer you. In attempting to find a fix to your problem I did a little research. I am not sure that what I am telling you is even allowed on this site. On YouTube, type in ' Connect stereo to earbuds on BMW1200LT'. there is a vid showing stereo install. It may help. Sorry, I am a hardwire tech not a wireless guy.

Here is how to repair.

The ear buds are not only the headphones but are also the antenna for the radio.
This one issue that has to be addressed by the dock manufacturer. You will have to tamper around with the Nano to modify it to work with out a ear buds by letting a wire permanently hang out from the device - which I think would look ugly !!!

Hi,what makes the left hear completely silent it because the wire inside the left side ear bud might have cut and it's not contacting with the speaker inside the ear bud.

What you will do is this, open the left ear bud that is not working, check if the connection is not properly fix. Also after checking if the wires are intact, if the wires inside are intact with no trace of cut inside,that means that the speaker inside is damaged and will need to be replaced..

If you can't do it your self, I would advice you contact a skilled personnel for help.


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take the wire off and solder the broken part.

yes a coil can burn out in secounds i think you have better have the unit looked at by an technition

i have this problem too, except it's the left side that doesn't work. i think that's because the copper wire inside broke or is severed partly. there is no way to fix it... just go buy a new one and this time try to kot coil the cords around hour mp3or ipod.

ur headphones are messed up