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I picked up a Plantronics phone headset that’s nominally compatible with Kyocera phones, but of course not with the Virgin Mobile K127 Marbl I have. More on why I have that phone there. There are, as nearly as I can tell, no third-party headsets available for this phone.

The Plantronics headset has the pinout shown to the upper right in the note below. It’s straightforward:

• shell — common
• ring 1 — left audio
• ring 2 — right audio
• tip — mic + button

Plugging the headset in causes the phone to throw a hissy fit.

Jamming an open-circuit plug into the phone’s jack has no effect; the phone thinks there’s nothing going on and still routes the audio to the internal speaker.

Evidently, the phone expects a different combination on the plug.

Some Webbish rummaging produced a list of headset pinouts, which goes to show that there’s nothing like having enough standards that everybody can have one…

More tinkering is in order, but I found this list while I was clearing away the rubble from some completed projects and figured I should put it somewhere obvious.