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Ear buds shock !?

ViViDboarder said:
It seems you are either arrogant or an idiot and are missing the point.
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Wrong. It's not the earbud's fault. Your body would discharge its buildup through whatever is most convenient for it. It's just a coincidence, at best, that these people have been shocked by their earbuds. If they hadn't had them on it would have been anything else, a watch, a car, an umbrella, that ended up shocking them.


But it was a nice try, I'm glad that you stayed classy and hopped on the low blows.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
Wrong. It's not the earbud's fault. Your body would discharge its buildup through whatever is most convenient for it. It's just a coincidence, at best, that these people have been shocked by their earbuds. If they hadn't had them on it would have been anything else, a watch, a car, an umbrella, that ended up shocking them.


But it was a nice try, I'm glad that you stayed classy and hopped on the low blows.
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I have always worn the same cloths, never been shocked by a device like this before. I maintain contact with the headphones when they are in my ear, so the charge between the phones and me should be evenly distributed. I'm telling you you're wrong, not on principle, but you're wrong about what is happening.

Also, the other part I am trying to make, is that it's not supposed to happen with them. You can't deny that. I don't think Apple intended to have their users experiencing a shock of any kind (giving or recieving) through their ears in use. This is a design flaw. They should have provided better insulation to prevent the flow of charge. I don't see why you don't see that as a design flaw. It's like building a flammable suit for firefighters to wear. You know what the user is going to do and you don't cater to prevent it. Flawed design.

Dr. Cabrera said:
who's the ignorant one ?
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You could quote the rest of my sentence where I explain why my statement is correct... It's not in the specs to allow for a shock. They are not SUPPOSED to be behaving in this manner. The user, however, is supposed to be wearing their cloths.
 
ViViDboarder said:
I don't see why you don't see that as a design flaw. It's like building a flammable suit for firefighters to wear. You know what the user is going to do and you don't cater to prevent it. Flawed design.
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No it's not.. unless the headphones are supposed to be antistatic shock, which they aren't. That's more like a regular pair of pants. Are most jeans flamable? Duh. Is that a design flaw? No.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
No it's not.. unless the headphones are supposed to be antistatic shock, which they aren't. That's more like a regular pair of pants. Are most jeans flamable? Duh. Is that a design flaw? No.
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You're not supposed to wear jeans in a fire. You are supposed to wear your headphones when you walk outside in the cold.

For the record... I do agree with you on why the shock is occurring. I just think that you came here with the intent of antagonizing by calling out users for saying their headphones are shocking them. So what if they say that? It feels that way. It gets the point across. You were being nitpicky about it and decided to boast your correctness. Either way, both of us have stated our opinions and I'll be done arguing. If you want you can have the last word. I won't be checking this thread anymore.
 
ViViDboarder said:
I just think that you came here with the intent of antagonizing by calling out users for saying their headphones are shocking them. So what if they say that? It feels that way. It gets the point across. You were being nitpicky about it and decided to boast your correctness. Either way, both of us have stated our opinions and I'll be done arguing. If you want you can have the last word. I won't be checking this thread anymore.
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No sir, I want the last word...I agree with you entirely.
 
ViViDboarder said:
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Static crashing ipod

For the past week I have been getting shocked in my earbuds, particularly while exiting my car. When the shock occurs, audio output stops. I can navigate menus, but I can't restart the audio until I reboot my ipod. I am also noticed several times lately where my ipod locks up when I put it in my pocket while listening to something and walking.

My assumption is that these problems are due to static electric discharge (it is drier this time of year and I am wearing a jacket, etc.). I don't know if it is damaging my ipod or not.

I tried a different type of earbuds and I still get shocked. I have not worn them enough to reproduce the crash or lock up.

Does anyone know of earbuds that do not have this problem?
Does anyone know if this could be damaging my ipod?
 
Not unheard of.

But try explaining this one: I was typing on my computer like, 20 minutes ago when all of a sudden my iPhone earbuds (which are next to me) began to emit a high-frequency sound.

This crap scares me; I stuffed them in sound-trapping clothes and am going to take it to the Apple Store tomorrow.
 
almasinfe said:
My wife told me when she was listening to music she got shocked by the iPhone ear buds... At 1st I started to laugh due to her reaction at work
She freaked the hell out LOL so I ask has anyone had this happen to them???
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My girlfriend had the same problem, so she got her headphones replaced and when the problem persisted, they replaced her entire phone.
 
I have the NEW Apple in-ear headphones.

Holly Sh*T! I got shocked today!!!!! Got it in both ears a few minutes apart. I was not moving or rubbing against anything. I was sitting at my wood desk in the office watching a video. WTF!!!!
 
ViViDboarder said:
snip.... This is a design flaw. They should have provided better insulation to prevent the flow of charge. I don't see why you don't see that as a design flaw. It's like building a flammable suit for firefighters to wear. You know what the user is going to do and you don't cater to prevent it. Flawed design.
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AMEN BROTHER
 
almasinfe said:
My wife told me when she was listening to music she got shocked by the iPhone ear buds... At 1st I started to laugh due to her reaction at work
She freaked the hell out LOL so I ask has anyone had this happen to them???
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My girlfriend had this same exact thing happen to her, apple replaced the headphones, then it happened again and they replaced the phone.
 
I have the same issue. It got better over time, and I wanted a new pair of headphones (same apple in ear ones) because of the wear and tear on this pair. I just told them they shocked me, they replaced them, and haven't really had the problem other then once with this new pair in the last 5 days that I've had these.
 
This happened to me the other day for about 2 hours on and off. It scared me, I thought I had ruined my Apple In-Ears.
 
Happened to me few times, though I had ipod headphones, plugged into old pc speakers that made that static noise when Phone is around it, and then there was carpet, so everytime i would move - it would shock me, lol.
 
I got shocked by mine once as well, only it was because I was recording in garageband on my computer and lightning struck my apartment complex.
 
I get shocked every day by my Apple in-ear headphones. My old in-ear Shures never shocked me. I tried an experiment by taking the rubber flange tips off my Shures and put them on my Apple in-ear headphones. The shocks have decreased but have not gone away 100%. Instead of getting shocked 10-12 times a day it happens maybe 2 times a day now. An added bonus is that the seal of the phones in my ear is also much better and the Apple headphones now sound GREAT. That said, I consider the shocking to be a major design flaw. I have owned many brands and styles of in-ear headphones over the years and these Apple headphones are the first to ever give me shocks.
 
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