How can you disable the internal speakers with a hardware solution?
My aluminium unibody 2008 Macbook has two audio issues. First of all, the internal speakers are damaged, they are very silent and start distorting a lot as soon as I turn the volume higher. Optical out and headphones still work like a charm. The Apple service said I got to change the logic board. No, thanks, not for this cost... :)
The second issue is the common one, that the audio jack frequently jumps back to "Internal speaker", disrupting the sound via headphones. As I cannot use the internal speakers at all, I would like to disable them by some tricky soldering on the logic board. I want to be able to switch between Optical-Out and Headphones-Out.
Does anyone know how to do this? I could not find a explanation for the contacts of the audio jack on the logic board. Can anyone help how to do this? Thanks a lot in advance. Martin
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I could now reach my goal by destroying the correct strip line on the logic board, sensing the current state of the audio jack. Now the macbook thinks I have an optical connection with the red light, even if nothing is connected. If I connect a analog jack (headphones) it switches to the headphone mode.
Perfect solution for me with my broken internal speakers. I even think with some fine soldering work, the original state could be restored. If this is useful to anyone, I'd be happy to send you a pic where you have to scratch to make this happen. All on your responsibility, of course.
Thanks for all your replies.
из Martin
Hello. No clue if you're still on this forum but I will give it a try. Yes I would like to do the same for the speaker on the right side of my Macbook Pro 2011. Any tips on how to find what I have to scratch/disconnect?
из Michael Roust
Disable internal speaker with the help of following steps:
1) Go to device management
2)From the view, option-click on show hidden devices. Now "Non-Plug and play drivers" will become visible.
3)Click on beep option.
4)From beep, properties click on the driver tab.
5)Select disable
из vertika jain
Hi Michael, yes, still here. :)
I scratched the connection marked in red at this picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X251BIl...
This was the Unibody MacBook from 2008. Be aware, that this will disable any internal sound, not just one speaker. Hope you'll find the right spot on your Mac.
Best
Martin
из Martin
Disable the damaged internal speaker with the help of the following steps:
1. Go to System Preferences.
2. Go to Sound.
3. Click on Output.
4. Move the balance away from the damaged speaker.
Good luck
из Kusse Sukuta Bersha