# Your microphone in your earphones are broken. This unfortunately can be quite difficult to fix unless your earphones have modular cables. But you might be able to fix it by cutting out the mic connection.
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# Your microphone in your earphones are broken. This unfortunately can be quite difficult to fix unless your earphones have modular cables. But you might be able to fix it by cutting out the mic connection from where the mic is and connect it to ground.
# Your earphones have a 4 pole jack despite not having a microphone. This would probably be fixed by making one of the poles insulated, which is most likely the pole 2nd nearest to the cable
# Your headphones uses CTIA while your phone uses OMTP or vice versa. Adapters are sold which can fix that.
# Your phone does not support earphones without a mic and using only 3 poles properly. Nothing can really be done on the hardware side then unfortunately as that is a software issue.
# Your microphone in your earphones are broken. This unfortunately can be quite difficult to fix unless your earphones have modular cables. But you might be able to fix it by cutting out the mic connection.
# Your earphones have a 4 pole jack despite not having a microphone. This would probably be fixed by making one of the poles insulated, which is most likely the pole 2nd nearest to the cable
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# Your headphones uses CTIA while your phone uses OMTP or vice versa. Adapters are sold which can fix that.
# Your phone does not support earphones without a mic and using only 3 poles properly. Nothing can really be done on the hardware side then unfortunately as that is a software issue.
So it is one of three most likely situations,
# Your microphone in your earphones are broken. This unfortunately can be quite difficult to fix unless your earphones have modular cables. But you might be able to fix it by cutting out the mic connection.
# Your earphones have a 4 pole jack despite not having a microphone. This would probably be fixed by making one of the poles insulated, which is most likely the pole 2nd nearest to the cable
# Your phone does not support earphones without a mic and using only 3 poles properly. Nothing can really be done on the hardware side then unfortunately as that is a software issue.