Sweat causing earphone induced malfunction?

[Crash Override]

So, I've had this happen about three times while at the gym. I've got my iPhone in my pocket, using the iPod function with the screen locked. I'm using the stock earphones, which I usually run inside my shirt to minimize the wires bouncing around. All of a sudden, songs start to paus and unpause, skip to the next track, pause.... etc. I've tried pulling the earphones out of the connector a few times, rebooting the iPhone, and choosing different playlists, all to no avail. the only thing that seems to work is blowing on the mic/clicker, or swinging the eaphones around for a few seconds. I think the only explanation is that sweat is accumulating in the mic/clicker and causing it to short. I've got kind of longish hair and have worked up a pretty good sweat by the time this happens. Anyone else had anything like this happen. I'm thinking about adding some kind of foam "bead" onto the wire to try and stop sweat from reaching the clicker. :embarrassed:

[OJsakila]

I stand around outside all day sweating like a hooker in church and I'm afraid that the presperation will run into the earpiece like it did with my ipaq. So far so good, though...

[Fenway 2004]

I had the exact same problem with my headphones. I do a lot of running and after a month or so songs would skip, stop, etc while I was running. I brought the headphonesinto the Apple store and they swapped them out no questions asked. The headphones are covered by the same 1 year warranty as the iPhone.

[x999x]

The only thing that keeps me using these headphones are the built-in Mic, but apparently it's got problems.

I suggest you switch to some real cross training headphones, they'll sound better for starters, and they're more suited for active use.

This is probably not the answer you want to hear, because you lose functionality, and that just begs the question of why bother using the iPhone in that case. It's obvious that it's convenient to take calls without having to stop your rhythm, so unless your idea works at collecting sweat, we've got a marketing problem waiting for a solution.

[mjohnso8]

it sounds like everyone is saying it is the head phones. My 3g will start to have the same problem of stopping and cutting in and out at about mile 3 of a run. I thought it might be the sweat getting into the iphone itself but it makes more since that the headphones are the problem. Just to confirm, you think it is the headphones that cause the start/stop/skipping?