Help Me Find This Accessory


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This is intended to be a catch all thread for people looking for Pandora accessories, but unable to find them at a reasonable price.

To kick it off, I have a pair of iphone earbuds that I picked up on the cheap. They seem servicable, and have a microphone built into them. I knew they wouldn't work out of the box with the Pandora, because of Apple's proprietary wiring on the TRRS connector. So what I'm looking for is either:
An adapter that will cross the wires over for me that doesn't cost more than the $6 US, otherwise the adapter would cost more than the earbuds, and that's just ludicrous. :)
Or, detailed instructions as to which wires should be crossed over to make Iphone headphone/microphone combos work on the Pandora.
 
Here is some info about the pinout and it's also described in the Hacker's Manual. The second quote points to the iPhone pinout.

mali said:
Awakening said:
I doubt you can just plug in any mic to it since it's a combined headphones+mic port.
That's right.
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/45089-audio-connector-pinout/page__view__findpost__p__665938
edit:
Link in that post broke after forums upgrade, fixed link:
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/04/zen-vision-m-video-cable-other-4pole-35mm-pinouts.php
mali said:
^ According to this, ground and microphone contact are switched compared to the Pandora's pinout:
http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/iphone_headphone_pinout.shtml
 
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Thanks Mali, you are ever diligent, man. I searched this out on the forums last night. I guess I was too tired and missed that one. I swear I read that thread. :p
 
There should be a links thread for different stores in different regions where people can buy things like SD cards, OTG cables, screen protectors, etc. That people can keep updated. I suppose this'd be better for the wiki?
 
It won't do any harm to establish it here, I suspect - if it needs to be on the wiki, put it there once a good international selection of recommended links has been established (and screened for things such as sellers of fake SD Cards!).
 
Well, I said the wiki because I'd be worried about a thread becoming unmaintained, and left in a state where the person is no longer around and can't be edited. With a wiki, there will usually be a moderator who could appoint an editor for the page or something (and there could be an accompanying thread, too.). Would be good than free reign editing to avoid spammers putting their stores in the list. Though login requirement may be good enough.
 
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