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Wear and tear caused the left ear of my X3’s to cut out unless i could get them in a VERY specific position that wasn’t maintainable without keeping my hand above my head. I pulled them apart and need to re-solder the healthy wire back into the ends of the wires coming out of the headphone. I could probably solder them straight to the board, but wouldn’t it be easier to solder the wires together?

The break is likely right at the point where the wire enters the earpiece. That would be a difficult place to solder it together, I had the same problem with the sound cutting out to my Freedom Sprint earbuds. The wire was broken where it entered the right earbud.

  1. Disassemble the right earbud. (or whichever one has the broken wire.)
  2. Cut the individual wires close to the strain relief and temporarily leave them soldered to the the circuit board.
  3. Carefully pull the strain relief down along the good section of cable towards the other earbud.
  4. Strip the outer cable jacket back about 1-1/2 inches.
  5. Don’t try to strip the insulation from the ends of the wires. Just pre-tin them with solder. The insulation will melt back out of the way.
  6. Un-solder the old wires from the circuit board one at a time and replace them with the new wires.
  7. Pull the strain relief into position near the end of the outer cable jacket. Secure into place with a tiny bit of super glue.
  8. Reassemble the earbud

Jaybird x3 has batteries located in your earpieces. When u solder it be careful ir “B” contacts .

hey guys can you help me how can i disassemble earbuds? === ===

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This was happening to me , i wanted to cut the wire to healthy part and then connect it to earbud again but the problem is how can i solder wire without disassemble earbud

Hello, good day Is there a way to change the battery of the Jaybird X3 headphones? Do you know the model? Thanks

Hi, I’m having the same issue, and I want to thank all of you for sharing your insights. I want to add this video that maybe all of your alredy saw, but it also helped me understand a bit more about the construction of the earbuds. I will try to fix mine later, and was the combination of this post and the video I’m sharing that gave me the confidence to do it. (I’m not the author of the video, please visit the link and thank the author) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACHN6mG0…