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How to Permanently Get Rid of Headset Mode on Your Old Orange SPV

written by: Simon McElvanney

My old Orange SPV decided that for the rest of its life it wanted to stay in headset mode. All the usual tricks of blowing, sticking a cocktail stick in and putting in the headphones and taking them out again. This usually took around 10 minutes to work. And it also only worked for about 10 minutes deciding then, to go back into headset mode again.

As this was my old phone I decided to take it apart, rip out the headset port and put it back together. I had already taken it apart before to spray it a different colour and I followed the guides that you can find on quite a few sites on the internet so I had a reasonable idea what was ahead of me.

I followed the guides right to the end and I was left looking at the headset port, which I gleefully pulled out and took a few of its little arms too. Great I thought. Connected the battery and guess what? That’s right – headset mode! NOOOOOO!

I then took a few more of the arms off – still no luck. So at this point I had to go deeper into the phones than the guides took me. I gingerly unscrewed the 2 screws that held the keypad circuit board in place and popped it out of the little socket holding it.

Time to get the soldering iron out. Make or break time I thought. I tested several of the connections around the headset before I found the correct 2 to solder together.

Now the digital camera I borrowed off a friend was 5 mega pixels. However, it didn’t seem to like taking such detailed photos at such a close range. So it was either a shot too far away with little detail or a blurred shot, which I could edit a bit in paint to show what I did.

I have highlighted the headphone socket to remove in blue and the connecters to join in red. The 2 to solder together are as follows. If you are looking at the phone with the screen upwards and to your left then the first one to solder is to contact immediately to the left of the black headphone socket. Join this to the contact immediately to the right of the headphone socket in a straight line. Before you rip the headphone socket out though, just take 5 minutes to look at the connectors and try and figure out in your head the ones you want to connect. I’m pretty sure you could do it without taking the headphone socket out first. That may even be better. Not sure if it would work though as I had assumed that if there was no connection then it would not be in headset mode. Seems to me that the default setting is headset mode somehow and it detects that there is not a headset in it so it goes to normal mode. When a headset is in it then it trips back to the default setting of headset mode.

Then I sanded my SPV outer front case, gave it a few sprays of gold and then gave it a few layers of Plasti-kote clear metal sealant, which seemed to do the trick. Last time I didn’t use this and the gold spay just flaked off after a few weeks.

What would I have done different? Think I’ll be more careful about touching the screen. It seems to pick up black fingerprints that won’t come off too well. Also, The sandpaper I used was a little bit harsh. Next time a finer sandpaper might be better. I can see my MPX200 shaking from here…hmmmm maybe a nice bronze…