Static in headphone jacks!

I get static when I plug in my speakers or headphones in my 1/8" jack.
I tried compressed air without much success, and I'm guessing its dust.
What can I do to hear music without static?

 

which notebook is it?

 

its an old fujitsu, but it happens in my HPDV6000 as well sometimes.
Also want to clean out my mp3 player jacks.

 

So your getting static during music play back? This could be many of things, from a short in your cord, bad sound card, bad speakers, bad source files. You have to single each thing out and decide where the static is coming from, then try to fix it once you have a better idea what it is.

 

Lets take what was written above and elaborate on it.

First, ensure that your source application is outputting at full volume. For instance, if i were using windows media player, id set wmp to full volume and then use the windows volume panel to regulate the volume.

If you are listening through external speakers with their own volume control: Set your laptop to full volume and use your speakers volume controls to regulate the volume.

1. Is your source file of good quality?

2. Listen with headphones.
a. If you were to plug in these headphones to an mp3 player do you hear static?
b. Plug these headphones into your laptop. Do you hear static?

3. Listen with speakers.
a. Repeat 2 a, but w/ speakers
b. Repeat 2 b, but w/ speakers

Answer the 3 questions above and we can move on.

 

same for my laptop..

i also posted a thread

tried lot of song files. even tried wma format.

 

You just need a real sound card on your laptop nocturnal310. Yeah, in all reality laptops should sound as good or better than your mp3 players, but due to cheap companies cutting corners, it doesn't. You also have the problem of having your sound card inside the laptop, in which case its exposed to alot of interference so thats why its best to get a external sound card.

 

Its pretty normal for laptop - few companies make laptop with decent headphone jacks (Sony, Toshiba comes to my mind). I recommend USB sound card, or even better, USB headphone amp.

 

What solution would you use to simply clean the jack?
I don't think its a sound card issue, I just think it needs to be cleaned.
My past residence was next to a construction zone and I would get a lot of dust inside, that may have caused some of the problems because a lot of my devices which have a headphone jack started giving me this type of static.
Any sort of cleaning solution you recommend?

 

use a moist earbud.

and blow the jack dry after clean to dry up.