Internal microphone doesn't work when using headphones

Question

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)

When not plugging in anything, my internal input and outputs work perfectly. When I plug in my headphones, which do not have microphone but only speakers, my input devices look like this (using pulseaudio volume control):

Internal Microphone (unplugged)
Microphone (plugged in)

Before plugging in my headphones, my input devices look like this:

Internal Microphone
Microphone (unplugged)

Now I think ubuntu thinks my headphones contain a microphone, but they don't. Selecting the Internal Microphone does not give any sound, because it says they are unplugged.

I got my headphones and internal speakers to work yesterday by pure luck, but now plugging it out and in again doesn't fix anything. I've also tried rebooting several times and muting one channel of both microphones.

If you need any other information, I'll be happy to include it!

EDIT:

It works sometimes, which is very weird. I have no idea how to consistently get it to work. Sometimes it will not work after rebooting a lot of times and booting with headset plugged in or not. And sometimes it just works for no reason.

Try yelling into your headphone speakers and see if it detects the Sound. — Danial Behzadi, Mar 18 '20 at 14:31

score 19 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 05 '20 at 20:26

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sudo apt install alsa-tools-gui

hdajackretask

Select the appropriate sound card up top in Select a codec:

Then make the Black Mic (headphone jack) override Not connected

Lower right corner, select Install boot override

Image showing how

Then reboot and test

edited Jun 05 '20 at 20:26

Kulfy

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answered Jun 03 '20 at 14:04

Tux

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This worked for me. Had to select and configure the microphone via pavucontrol - but now finally it works. Thank you for your help. – advance512 Jul 16 '20 at 13:46
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Well, at least a microphone appears in the sound settings now, but no luck actually getting it to detect sound – Jack M Sep 15 '20 at 13:35
This worked totally fine in Ubuntu 18.04. Thanks! – Macr1408 Jan 06 '21 at 20:58
It enabled the headset microphone alright, but now I can't get the headset speakers to work, am I the onlyone? – Paulin Trognon Feb 11 '21 at 11:41
This solution worked in Kubuntu 20.04 !!! Thanks. – Yulio Aleman Jimenez Nov 01 '21 at 16:06
I don't have a headset but my internal Mic was not working at all. This solution helped me. I had to click "Show unconnected pins" then find "Pin ID: 0x19" (it was not called Black Mic) and then override not connected. This worked in Ubuntu 2204, with pipewire-debian installed. – Vijay Prema Jul 25 '22 at 20:22

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '20 at 18:48

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My workaround for this problem is to log-out or to sleep, then plug in my headphones, then login or wake up my computer. This keeps my input device as "Internal Microphone - Built-In Audio" while switching my output device to "Headphones - Built-in Audio". This has worked on 18.04 and 20.04, but it might work on other versions as well.

answered Oct 20 '20 at 18:48

Andrew

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Needed to find your answer again after loging out, just to upvote :D – Stevan Tosic Feb 23 '22 at 08:32
No wonder I had seen memes like when a rocket does not fire up a passenger says did you try to turn off and on or something similar. This worked like charm. I had spent like 2-3 hours trying to find an answer and after all this it seems silly. – Nagaraju Jul 24 '22 at 05:01

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 14 '21 at 21:20

I solved this problem in a quite amusing way. I used hdajackretask to tweak some settings and found that leave the settings on the page as default and press Install boot override (and reboot) solved my problem.

A screenshot of the settings I installed:

My system info:

Ubuntu 20.04, kernel version 5.11.0-25-generic

I do experienced similar issue as Andrew Morris (plug anything into headphone jack, then internal microphone functions well). And sometimes my Bluetooth even don't work when tweaking some of the settings. But after some "reboot" and "log out then log back in" (actually one attempt solved my issue), every things worked out fine.

thanks lol this also worked for me in Ubuntu 21.10, with pipewire. — Vijay Prema, Jan 31 '22 at 01:59

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 22 '20 at 14:50

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Known bug since 2012. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1025388

If you'd like, you can add yourself there to the number of users affected.

answered Oct 22 '20 at 14:50

O Rama

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Internal microphone doesn't work when using headphones

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