Has anyone lost the sounds for typing, email, sleep, etc but not ring even though the buttons are on when viewing settings screen. Reset has not helped. It has happened twice but not sure how I got it fixed the first time. I currently have no auxilliary sounds. Ipod plays fine. Help
I have been having this problem too. It has happened twice now in the last two weeks. The first time, I plugged in and plugged out the headphones several times. Eventually; it started making sounds again. The second time; I did a hard reset and deleted all files from memory and then rebooted - it came back up making the sounds correctly again. Do you have a link for a source that says apple is aware of the problem and working on it
This is probably not your problem, but I noticed once that I didn't have any sounds. I was about to freak out but then I just happen to notice that inadvertently I had switched the little Silent switch (flip switch directly above the volume on the left side). The red/orange was showing; so I flipped it back and I had sounds again! Just a thought...
I second that. This happened to me about an hour ago. The ringtones were playing out of the correct speaker, but none of the other sounds or iPod music. I never changed my sound settings, though I remembered that the change happened after I unplugged the headphones. So after reading this thread, I just kept plugging and unplugging the headphones and the sounds eventually came back.
I'm so glad I found this thread, I was ready to get all ****** that I had to drive 2 hours to the nearest apple store. The unplugging worked, but this the fact that it happened is ridiculous. Get on the ball with those software updates apple!
I too am grateful for this forum. I was getting pretty frustrated. I goto make a call and cant even tell if the phone on the other end is ringing. This problem only surfaced a few days ago, though I've had my iPhone for several weeks now. I'm guessing it has something to do with the iPod functionality in conjunction with that auto-sensing headphone jack. I dont use the headset a lot, but I use the iPhone as my mp3 player in the car, and I use a headphone adapter to plug into a line-in cable from my car stereo. So, it gets plugged/unplugged at least every time I enter/exit the car. I mention the iPod functionality because of two quirks exhibited both times this problem has arisen:
1. The album art for the song I last played in iTunes shows as my wallpaper, even though the song isnt playing
2. When I plug/unplug the headset to fix the problem, the last song will be playing, even though I paused it before exiting the iPod application. I'll go into iPod, pause it again, unplug the headset, replug the headset, and the song resumes playing. Once this behavior stops, the other sounds return from being muted
Thanks for the plug-in plug-out tip, it seems to have done the trick for me.
The odd sound issue I had did not involve the "sound effects" other had problems with, like mail sending woosh, or incoming mail dings. Rather, I couldn't make phone calls! The speaker that sits next to your ear whiel making a call did not work at all. Speaker phone mode worked, and headphones worked, but not the regular telephone speaker.
I first noticed a problem when I unplugged my headphones, and the iPod did not goto "pause." (should have clued me in there might be a headphone issue.)
I next noticed the problem when I dialed a call from the keypad, and did not hear the keypad sounds.
Then, of course, I noticed I couldn't hear anything!
800-MY-iPHONE was friendly, but just tried normal common-sense things ... turn it off and on, check volume is up, etc... and said to restore the unit. If that didn't work, to bring it in for repair.
So now I am wondering if the in-and-out trick will be required frequently, and if I should send the thing in for repair rather than deal with a phone that dies periodically. *(yes, a phone that has a non-functioning ear speaker is dead)
