@tek_dmn @rose frankly I'm glad they're gone because when they fail they tend to Scuttle the entire audio circuitry of a cell phone.
Between engineering jobs I spent two years at Fry's Electronics as part of their service team and I hate it fixing jacks.
There's no easy way as an end user to bypass a broken headphone jack auto-sensing circuitry.. tip broke off in phone. Oh well!
Once manufacturers give us a real audio control panel then I will welcome them back..