I tried fixing mine today and it seems to have worked. But this is definitely advanced level. My current assembly state is this
I did not have a repair cable thin enough to fit through the hole, so I cannot put mine together right now. Jabra used a coax cable with wires as thin as I have never seen before. The hole in the PCB is not much bigger than 1mm in diameter and it proved difficult to find a cable thin enough.
This is the back of the PCB as found
This is what it looks like after desoldering and preliminary cleaning
What I have learned so far: the black plastic they put on the solder pads and in the feed through hole can be melted with a soldering iron and removed with a fiberglass eraser. Unfortunately, I did not have one at hand so I used a flat tip screwdriver for temporary cleaning. That's why it's not as clean as I would like it to be yet.
The mic boom arm is filled with silicone and the outer casing seems to be glued shut. I could not find a way to open it up yet so a full microphone replacement seems unfeasible.
Microphone cable replacement also seems unfeasible because the cable is also glued to the end of the actual mic in the boom arm with silicone.
I couldn't get even a beep through-measurement with my multimeter, let alone an internal resistance measurement. Probably because the cables are so thin. Plus inside the coax cable the insulation between the inner and outer cable layer is just some sort of insulating paint so it is really difficult to get a proper contact. However - after soldering in a temporary cable for testing purposes (and some fiddling with the switch in the headset that mutes the mic when the arm is flipped up) it did work in a test call. So the mic worked after temporary reassembly but I am still doubtful that I will be successful. I ordered a fiberglass eraser and a 0,04mm² cable (could not find a coax so let's hope this one works) and will try to put mine together afterwards. I am not entirely convinced that I can even manage that. If I am successful I'll try to write a manual for the repair. But I still have my doubts. Mainly because of my skill level (or lack thereof). Someone with a higher skill level and better equipment should be able to fix the headset.
I'll also try to get some damaged ones from some colleagues and then try and fix those before posting the manual to make sure that I actually fixed the problem and mine wasn't just an outlier. My mic was still working on and off before I tried fixing it.
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I have the same problem with my Evolve2 75. Worked fine for 3 or 4 years then out of the blue, the mic started flaking out. Yesterday it finally quit working. Boom mic does not seem to detect any sound or it is very very quiet, but the rest of the headset works fine. Really frustrating that this happens with a $300+ headset.
by Jon G