When getting the Fairbuds XL out of my backpack, or sometimes during usage, just when moving my head, the audio stops working in the left speaker. Pushing on the USB cable usually works immediately. After disassembling and reassembling, the problem disappears for a while.
So there’s a bad connection somewhere, and I know if it starts to annoy me too much, I could buy a replacement part. But which part? It could be a faulty connection on the left speaker, or on the cable (and unlikely, but it could conceivably even be a bad connection on the right side).
Does anyone have any tips to track down the fault? I’ve considered trying another USB-C cable I have, but a normal cable wouldn’t fit in the headband, and just holding the cups up to my ears won’t work either because the problem takes a while to reappear after reassembly.
This is a problem that – I think – Fairphone meetups in three different places all experienced at one point, and it was always fixed by pushing the USB plug back into place (I vaguely think it tended to be the one on the left speaker, too).
Now as to what might cause it – just a thought: Perhaps it’s adjusting the whole set to various “head diameters”? When extending the whole set to the biggest “diameter”, we might unwantedly come to move the plug out of the socket. The cable already bends to the inside bordering on touching the head (especially with small diameters), so Fairphone might have calculated and designed it a bit too short.
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