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When I connect my headphone to headphone jack in my laptop, I don't hear any sound. Unless I do not fully plug it in and instead just plug it in around 50%.

Sometimes I hear sound but it is all garbled.

This headphone used to work fine before and now it is giving me this problem for some time.

If I connect another headphone then it works fine so I don't think headphone jack is the problem.

Does anybody know why this is happening and how to fix it?

EDIT

Found a similar question. When I said that sometimes I head sound but it is all garbled then this is what I was talking about as discussed in this question.
Why do speakers sound different when they're not fully plugged in?

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Frank Martin
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    This is probably off topic, but have you tried different headphone/device combinations? – clabacchio Oct 14 '14 at 13:21
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    If another pair of headphones work fine it sounds like the headphones are the problem. Probably a loose or intermittent connection. – ACD Oct 14 '14 at 13:21
  • Related: [What is it that strips vocals from audio when a 1/8" audio jack is partially unplugged?](http://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/42623/2028) – JYelton Oct 14 '14 at 18:14

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Probably one of the wires coming out of the plug has broken. Cut off the plug along with a few inches of cable (to get past the point where a wire is broken), then solder on a new plug.

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