Windows 10: Windows 10 laptop stopped detecting earphones after updates

I have a Dell laptop running Windows 10. About a month ago I started using a simple set of wired earbuds in the headphone jack, and they worked fine. But after an auto-update-and-reboot a few days ago, the laptop no longer detects my earphones when I plug them in. They work fine on another device. I made sure "Show Disabled Devices" and "Show Disconnected Devices" are checked in the Sound control panel, but they still aren't listed. I uninstalled and auto-re-downloaded the audio drivers. No Realtek Audio Manager. No manufacturer listed on the earphones so can't go hunt down a driver. Jack is n

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laptop is not detecting the earphones ( good earphones )

All the drivers are updated . earphones are also working well , but not detected by my laptop .

 

Earphone mic not being detected

Maybe as a work around you could use a Y spliter. Where you plug in your headphones into it and the other ends will go in your mic and earphone ports on your pc/laptop. Yes i understand they are combo ports but i'm just suggesting this as a workaround till you can find drivers that makes the combo port work correctly.
Here is the cable i was talking about. You don't have to use it but just a suggestion as a workaround and as a last resort.
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Headphones/Earphones aren't detected

My laptop can't seem to detect earphones/headphones, and I'm using the Windows 10 on a Asus X4414. I've tried to plug and unplug, restart the laptop, update the audio drivers, look for the headphones in the 'disabled devices' area in the Playback of the
Sound System, tried the Troubleshooting, even disabling and enabling the audio drivers, but all to no avail. Sometimes audio would come out of both speakers and headphones (but it's still not in the audio system's playback list), and most times audio doesn't
come out of the headphones/earphones at all and just have the speakers blare out audio, even though my laptop seems to 'detect' it somewhat by saying that a device was plugged in, but it would never show up in the Sound System at all. However, at rare moments,
it would suddenly work, but even when it does, the Sound System's Playback tab couldn't detect it, so it's not in the list at all. After unplugging the earphone when it does
work, I tried to plug it back in to check just in case if it's alright now, but then the same problem would ensure, which would be no audio coming out of my headphones and have the internal speakers play the audio instead. My earphone works just fine in
other devices, and is fairly important for college-related tasks, so this is quite troubling. If anybody's ever faced the same problem and found a solution, I'd be really grateful to hear about it.