darauf

Q: how to solve greyed out volume control

after upgrading to Mountain Lion lost control of volume settings.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 12, 2012 3:52 PM

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Q: how to solve greyed out volume control

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  • by hpinboise,

    hpinboise hpinboise Aug 3, 2014 3:01 PM in response to emptymind
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    Aug 3, 2014 3:01 PM in response to emptymind

    For me the solution was more simple.

    >>Sound

    >>Output

    >>Click on Internal Speakers instead of Multi-Output device

  • by jiujitsubadboy,

    jiujitsubadboy jiujitsubadboy Aug 29, 2014 9:11 AM in response to GroundZeroUK
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    Aug 29, 2014 9:11 AM in response to GroundZeroUK

    Hey guys,

     

    I had no output from speakers, or headphones. And the System Preferences - Volume was greyed out.

     

    I tried everything up to including a PRAM reset and nothing worked.

     

    Took it to the company tech and after awhile he figured out what was wrong.

     

    The inner head phone jack was dirty. He  cleaned it with a qtip or a special computer cleaning device. Apparently there’s a internal sensor in the jack that will prevent the internal output from functioning if it’s to dirty. It’s not like a dropped the computer in a dirty pond. I would have never figured that out.

     

    Anyways, that’s what fixed it for me with the same symptoms as listed.

     

     

  • by Squirrel Mafia,

    Squirrel Mafia Squirrel Mafia Oct 20, 2014 6:08 PM in response to ashierdeleon
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    Oct 20, 2014 6:08 PM in response to ashierdeleon

    THIS IS THE WINNING SOLUTION. TRIED ALL THE OTHERS ABOVE. DID THE TRICK. ETERNAL THANKS, HOMIE.

  • by TedinSC,

    TedinSC TedinSC Nov 1, 2014 12:06 PM in response to Thicot01
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    Nov 1, 2014 12:06 PM in response to Thicot01

    I have never experienced this issue until recently upgrading to OS X 10.10 "Yellowstone".

    A very excellent solution!

    Thicot01's solution worked perfectly in this release. If you have not discovered already, where he wrote "console" you need to open "terminal."

  • by TedinSC,

    TedinSC TedinSC Nov 1, 2014 1:04 PM in response to Thicot01
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    Nov 1, 2014 1:04 PM in response to Thicot01

    I had not experienced this issue until recently upgrading to OS X 10.10 "Yellowstone." It happened a number of times within the first week.

    However, Thicot01's very elegant solution worked perfectly.

    NOTE: If you have not discovered already, where he wrote "open console" you need to open "terminal."

    Happy listening!

  • by sarookhat,

    sarookhat sarookhat Dec 3, 2014 5:33 AM in response to PradeepReddy
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    Dec 3, 2014 5:33 AM in response to PradeepReddy

    Repairing Permissions in Disk Utility solved this for me, when none of the other suggestions in this forum worked.

  • by AnthonyTLiu,

    AnthonyTLiu AnthonyTLiu Jan 1, 2015 3:12 PM in response to Thicot01
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    Jan 1, 2015 3:12 PM in response to Thicot01

    This works for me, thanks.

  • by anothertrad,

    anothertrad anothertrad Jan 9, 2015 9:37 AM in response to ashierdeleon
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    Jan 9, 2015 9:37 AM in response to ashierdeleon

    amazing! it fixed my problem as well

  • by velasken,

    velasken velasken Feb 1, 2015 4:05 AM in response to Thicot01
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    Feb 1, 2015 4:05 AM in response to Thicot01

    Thanks a lot! Quick and durable solution. Congrats.

  • by Mudd@$$ir,

    Mudd@$$ir Mudd@$$ir Feb 16, 2015 9:39 AM in response to darauf
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    Feb 16, 2015 9:39 AM in response to darauf

    forget everything

     

    Just try this steps

     

    1. Plug your headphones back in.
    2. Play a bit of sound through them (e.g., a song), then stop the sound.
    3. Make sure Preferences is quit.
    4. Launch Preferences and open the Sound pane.
    5. While the Sound pane is open and set to Headphones, pull out the headphone plug from the jack.
    6. It will reset itself to "Internal Speakers" and you are good to go.

     

    That's it

     

    Regards

     

    Muddassir

  • by lowellMBA,

    lowellMBA lowellMBA Mar 8, 2015 4:10 AM in response to Mudd@$$ir
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    Mar 8, 2015 4:10 AM in response to Mudd@$$ir

    Had the same problem.  Read through every post in this thread to date and tried all the solutions multiple times with no success.  Finally, something someone said pointed me in the right direction.  I am running Yosemite on my mac book air, btw, never heard of Yellowstone. My problem was that I have two external monitors connected.  When they were unplugged, the Mac internal speakers and the headphone jack worked fine.  When the monitors are connected the sound output device was to my Samsung Syncmaster monitor and the volume control was greyed out at max volume.  I then found I could control the syncmaster's volume using it's volume control.  However, having it greyed out on the mac book air I believe is a recent development as I don't recall having this issue prior to installing Yosemite.  I've had this monitor arrangement since OS Mountain Lion days.  I suspect Yosemite doesn't support my old syncmaster monitor and Samsung doesn't have a Mac driver for it so it looks like time for a new monitor if I want volume control from the Mac.

     

    Bottom line is if you are using an old external monitor you may be S.O.L.

  • by ChrisA_W8,

    ChrisA_W8 ChrisA_W8 Apr 2, 2015 11:10 AM in response to Mudd@$$ir
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    Apr 2, 2015 11:10 AM in response to Mudd@$$ir

    Running Yosemite 10.10.2 when this happened to me ... after trying every other solution in this thread, THIS ONE WORKED :-))) Thanks

  • by eatmychickenpie,

    eatmychickenpie eatmychickenpie May 5, 2015 7:34 AM in response to ashierdeleon
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    May 5, 2015 7:34 AM in response to ashierdeleon

    Doing the headphone thing worked for me. It's amazing how sometimes, it's the simplest action that solves the issue. Thanks for you tip!

  • by doonkin,

    doonkin doonkin May 11, 2015 7:01 PM in response to ashierdeleon
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    May 11, 2015 7:01 PM in response to ashierdeleon

    omg - you rock! i tried everything and...nothing. this totally worked.

    im listening to 'back in black' to celebrate

  • by jamestknz,

    jamestknz jamestknz Jun 26, 2015 2:30 PM in response to darauf
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    Jun 26, 2015 2:30 PM in response to darauf

    Yosemite 10.10.3  Quick Solution

     

    1) Open System Preferences

    2) Sound

    3) Adjust Output Volume [Using Slider] 

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