Replacement 3.5mm stereo jack

[MrQuadehar]

Hello Ladies and Gents,
 i need to replace my laptop headphone jack of my asus r753ux. I desoldered it and used the search engine from digikey but i didn't find it. Maybe one of you know the model numer of the jack. Size is approx. : 15 mm x 10 mm x 5 mm, seven pins. Mounded inside a cutout in the main board and then soldered through-hole (kind of). Sadly, there is nothing printed on it. I have attached some photos of the device <http://imgur.com/a/nVfZY>
Thanks in advance
MrQuadehar

[Richard Crowley]

First, you almost certainly have a 3.5mm jack, not a 2.5mm jack. So you might have marginally better success searching for the proper part.

That said, finding an exact match for a rather obscure connector like that seems pretty slim.  You may have to replace the whole main board, or at least get a non-functional "donor" board and do a connector transplant. 

Louis Rossman has a quite successful repair business and YouTube channel where he keeps a "junk-yard" of old laptop main boards and regularly repairs units for customers by removing parts from "donor" boards and transplanting them to accomplish the repair.

[MrQuadehar]

Thank you for your fast response. Yes, of course its a 3.5mm that was a typo. Maybe i try to squeeze an off the shelf jack i have lying around into the laptop case and bodge the connections with fine wires. Changing the whole board is most likely not an option for me as i'm on a very tight budget.

[Richard Crowley]

Do you have any possibility of access to discarded laptop hardware where you are?  If you could find a discarded non-functioning similar model, you could probably transplant the connector.

[Rasz]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/audio-Jack-Interface-for-Laptop-32-types-set-each-2pcs-total-64pcs-audio-jack-/301437029668

hehe

edit:
but seriously, your connector is in related searches on ebay listed at $2