HOW TO - Skype headset adapter (2.5mm to 3.5mm jack, mobile phone to PC adapter)

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MAKE reader Cuthbert writes - "If you don't like carrying two headsets with you (one for using Skype on your laptop and another for your cell phone) then here is a small adapter that will convert a cell phone headset with a 2.5mm jack plug to the 2x 3.5mm jack plugs used by PCs." - Link & cached.

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  • DIY Skype VoIP Phone Adapter - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 13, 2006 08:42 PM
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Posted by: midow on November 13, 2006 at 12:55 PM

Bandwidth limit blown; no cache?


Posted by: 3ricj on November 13, 2006 at 2:52 PM

or, ya know, just getting a bluetooth headset.


Posted by: chroma on November 14, 2006 at 4:57 PM

I did this a while back and I think I may have actually damaged the headset somehow.


Posted by: iamsinned06 on November 15, 2007 at 2:31 AM

hello. i want to make a 3.5mm headset adapter for my k610i cellphone. can u post how to do it please?


Posted by: kirkrr on November 18, 2007 at 9:07 AM

What I need is the other way around. I would like to use a PC headset - the ones with the two 3.5mm (1/8 in) connectors, for mic and headphones, on a cell phone with a 2.5mm mono jack. For the phone use, I am not picky on getting both headsets powered - mono/ single will do fine.

That way, when I am traveling (which is every week) I can listen to music from the laptop in stereo, and issue voice commands to the computer, as well as use the same headset to talk to my cell phone. I do not want to carry 2 headsets, nor am I thrilled with using a mono headset to attempt to listen to music.

Often I end up in a "consultant's bullpen" - a converted conference room with a number of other consultants all working / talking. The headphones help tone down the background confusion.

I have a bluetooth phone headset - which I use when not at the laptop, but I don't want to pull one off and put the other on, when the phone rings - just swap plugs.

AND I can't use Skype - few client sites have the ports open on their firewall to allow IM, much less Skype conversations.

Extensive googling has yielded no results.....


Posted by: kirkrr on November 18, 2007 at 9:15 AM

BTW: it is not as simple as a pure size change - there are pin out rewires required, and the PC Headset has a +5V bias on the center ring of the mic connector - something that is not available on the 2.5mm phone connection (nor does it seem to be needed?).

SO, for those folks that say just get a stereo to mono adapter - it does not change which wire goes to where, so it does not work - sorry.


Posted by: Miles on January 2, 2008 at 1:17 AM

Any way to do the opposite? Take one of those much more comfortable headphone/microphone units used for Skype and make an adapter? (i.e. 3.5mm female microphone and 3.5mm female headphone connectors to a combined 2.5mm male three-ring adapter)?

How would that be wired out? Is that sold commercially?


Posted by: TjienPing on June 13, 2008 at 8:28 PM

The opposite adapter choices

I have the opposite need: I'd like to use existing 3.5mm stuff for 2.5mm phones. I found a couple of things:
1. www.adaptaphone.com
2. http://www.eforbuy.com/2-5mm-to-3-5mm-audio-converter-adapter-with-microphone-.html
3. search for "PPCPADPT12"
4. http://oriongadgets.amazonwebstore.com/3.5mm-Jack-Input-to-2.5mm-Audio/M/B0013YYPIA.htm?utm_campaign=froogle&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=froogle

I just bought the last one, hopefully it'll work, but I have to wait till it gets here.


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