Q: iPhone 4S sound problems

Try resetting your device by holding down both the home and lock buttons for ~10 seconds or until the device restarts, ignore the power slider.

It worked for my 4S.

Three days ago, when I was listening to a music on my phone without a earpiece, the sounds stopped working all of a sudden. during the follwling days, my phone was completely mute. it did NOT have any sounds. No body could hear me and i couldn't hear anybody either everytime when I made a call. Then i took my phone to the apple store and had someone check it. The employee told me there was no damage of my phone but ONLY the speaker didn't work, so he replaced my old phone by a new one with NO charge. That was really cool. I guess that you could also go to an apple store and explian your situation and they will change a new one for you. Good luck.

If you haven't solved this problem, just look on the left side of your phone. There's a mute button which you can pull up or down. When down, no sound; when up, sound. Hope this helps

The butter knife thing totally worked for me ( except i used skinny tweezers )thank you thank you thank you if it were not for you i was going to have to take it in but it really worked and i have all my sounds back i am sooooooo happy thanks so very very much!!!!!

thank you so much, your advice worked for me and fixed problem, all system voices came back but my last problem is switch not working and turn sound off.

Hi

I had the same issue on my iphone 4s-somehow it locked itself in dock mode resetting and rebooting didnt' work.

I did a variation of srode1000s solution. I dampened peice of paper towel with rubbing alcohol and placed over a small flat knife to insert in the docking port and gently moved  that along the inside a few times (using a flashlight to see inside the port) and it is working Thank you very much!!!!

I tried everything, including a complete restore.  I took it to Verizon yesterday, and they worked on it for a few minutes and started filling out forms to send me a new one. Mine was completely silent. All it does is vibrate.  Oddly, also, I just found that I wasn't receiving voicemails.  10 just showed up on my phone icon, some as old as 5 days.  Very strange.

I upgraded to ios 6.0 two weeks ago, and the sound had been cutting out off and on since then.  Finally I lost all sound, including key clicks.  I did everything others suggested to get back the sound (all pulled together nicely at iphonenosound.com (it's a real url!) but none worked.  I just lost all of my game history from an incorrect backup.

I have been having the same issue with my iPhone 4S. The speaker stops working, I restart the phone and then it works fine for a while then it goes again. I checked all settings and also made sure that I hadn't accidently hit the silent mode switch on the side and nope it wasn't in silent mode. I use my iPhone as my alarm clock so the first time the speaker died, I didn't hear my alarm go off! Oops! Thankfully my internal clock woke me up and I had to really scramble to get ready for work and catch my bus!   I think I will switch to using my old Touch until the problem is resolved.

I too had the same issue and i happened to resolve it after searching so many soultions in the internet. You can clean the handsfree port, have a hard reset, restore the iphone, etc..

Finally i found that the problem is with the dock connector. I took a hair dryer (Its not a joke , iam serious) and kept it near the dock connector and my problem was after that solved. This is a tip i got from the internet and it was success. 

As crazy as it sounds, it worked for me

I used a thin piece of aluminum with part of a clean T-shirt with alcohol, I noticed it worked only when I stock it on the left side of the connectors in the iphone 4s. I didn’t move it sideways, only in and out and is working again!!

Thank you srode1000

I would suggest to everyone check ALL the connector cables that you have! It does not hurt to clean and check USB ports and connectors either. Check connector cables for strain on the wire or kinks, breaks, wire protruding, if the outside jacket of the wire is causing the inner wires to show through, TOSS IT and get a replacement. Unless you are terribly handy with a soldering iron. this also applies to headphones!

Hi I am also having the problem.i hv tried all the solutions bt itz not working. In handsfree mode itz working fine. In normal mode some times volume come n sometimes dont.plz help me.

that wont help anything

plzz help me guyz stick with no sound problem...........is thre any kind of permenent fix or something?

Try srode1000 solution it actually works!!!!