It did, but it's still continuing up to now, and I think LJ posted somewhere that third party hosts are to blame? idk. I have received your reply and the one after yours in a timely manner, which is... more than I can say for yahoo. I haven't yet gotten my notifs from a week ago :(

They are! I'm fairly lucky some of them lasts like a year or so, and this set came with my phone. But I've been considering buying earphones for my laptop as well, so I guess it breaking is just... apt, haha. I'm thinking of buying either Sony or Phillips.