I have a Sony voice Digital recorder ICD-B25. I tried using a phone
recording cable on it, and after that, the record feature stopped
working. This cable has a phone jack on one end and a regular male
jack on the other end, to fit in the mic input. I bought the cable on
ebay and the ad mentioned you can use it with a micro cassette
recorder. I asked the seller if it can be used on a digital recorder,
he said he does not know. Is it possible that this cable wrecked my
ecorder? anything else I can try? thanks for your input.

btw: it has voice activation feature (only recodes when there is sound
coming in, other wise it pauses). So when I record it is always
pausing. If I turn off voice activation, it shows that it is
recording, but when I listen to the recording, it sound like quiet
white noise. So I deduct that since the voice activation does not ever
get engaged, it means the mic is not picking up any sound (that
applies to both external mic or built in mic). recorder is 1 year o


btw: it has voice activation feature (only recodes when there is sound
coming in, other wise it pauses). So when I record it is always
pausing. If I turn off voice activation, it shows that it is
recording, but when I listen to the recording, it sound like quiet
white noise. So I deduct that since the voice activation does not ever
get ingage, it means the mic is not picking up any sound (that applies
to both external mic or built in mic). recorder is 1 year old.