u/mad87645

Hey all, I recently inherited my father's old S23 and am having issues getting Aux adapters to work. It's my first phone with no headphone jack and I have multiple devices I'd like to connect the phone to with a standard aux plug but I keep randomly losing the sound with them. I'm convinced it's an issue with the phone's software/hardware after all I've tried. Ideally I'd like to just leave an adapter plugged into each aux cable so I don't need to keep track of 1 single adapter. I'd also like to not have to change/upgrade my devices to be wireless or have native USB-C connectors as that would be a great expense even though at this point I've spent about $150 on adapters and only have 1 that works (well 2 technically).

The devices I'd like adapters for are

-Headphones I use for gym/when out and about

-My home stereo setup

-A portable stereo I use around my house/in my shed

-2 classic cars I drive that I use aux to cassete adapters

+1 adapter with a power passthrough for listening to audio while charging my phone in my daily driver

The one for my daily driver (JSAUX brand) actually works perfectly, aside from some crackles but I can live with that. I suspect because the power passthrough "reminds" (for lack of a batter term) the phone it's connected so it doesn't lose the audio connection. I've used it for over 6 months and even driven 8 hours at a time in the car without losing audio once that I can recall.

All the other adapters though will randomly lose the sound at some point. It might be after 5 minutes, it might be after 45, but I don't think I've ever had one last longer than an hour before it's lost the sound. It doesn't matter if I'm listening to music, listening to a podcast or playing a video. Whether it's through the web browser (and I've tried multiple), through a seperate app or on files stored locally on the phone. Eventually they all fail, and they always keep playing the media without pausing it. So it appears to me that the phone is unaware it's lost the sound connection as it will pause any type of media if I say unplug the aux cable from the adapter or unplug the adapter itself.

It doesn't matter what I do with the phone. Whether I'm running/lifting at the gym, walking around with headphones in, driving in a car or the phone is resting. It doesn't matter if it's sitting completely stationary or I'm waving it around like a madman trying to get it to purposefully cut out (yes I've tried), the problem still occurs and always at random. I'm convinced it's not an issue with that I do with the phone, and short of opening the phone up and replacing the USB-C port I've tried every variable and nothing seems to directly cause it.

Initially I blamed this on a single faulty adapter (JSAUX brand), until I tried out all 5 adapters and they all behaved the same (all JSAUX brand) even though they advertised Galaxy phone compatibility. So I replaced them with 5 more adapters (ENVEL brand) that also advertised Galaxy compatibility. The issue still persisted.

After a few months of putting up with it I got sick of it and decided to try the official Samsung adapters (part number EE-UC10JUWEGUS). These are quite expensive ($35 each from Amazon's official US store, where I had no choice but to get them from as my brief research informed me there are a lot of fake Samsung adapters being sold online) so I decided I'd rather not waste the money to buy 5 just to have the same issue so I decided to buy 2.

The first one actually seems to work flawlessly, finally. So far I've only used it maybe 10 hours in total but it's not dropped the audio once. It works at the gym, while walking with headphones, in the cars etc. So thinking I found the solution I tried the other Samsung adapter in my home stereo, it's somehow even worse than the third party ones I've tried. It works for maybe 3 minutes tops before it loses audio, and does this consistantly. Both arrived on the same shipment from Amazon's US store, both were packaged the same in what looked to me like genuine packaging so I don't think I got a counterfeit. Maybe it's just my luck it's defective but I doubt it, I think my phone just doesn't like it as much as the others.

I'm at a loss for what to do as I'd rather not keep buying Samsung adapters at $35 a pop until I get 5 that happen to work. So do any of you know any that actually work without the sound dropping? Or better yet is there a way to fix this and get the 11 adapters I've already acquired to work, like some sort of setting I've missed or patch for this issue?

Thanks in advance

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