iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

Thanks! Looks like you are correct. Placed mine in the freezer for 2 mins and it worked, went straight back to normal volume mode. Cheers 🙂

bigdalla, i love that yours is the solution that worked.

So heres the thing. My iphone 4 stopped working unless i used speaker phone or headphone or bluetooth. I did not know what to do dumped my firmware dropped down one level same problem. Was reading your posts guys.. pocket lint can not cause your phone to be stuck in headphone mode its not possible strickly speaking from an egineering aspect. How ever your iphones software can get confused. Yup confused... What happend at least to me was I used my phone last in my car where i was fighting with my radio to link via blue tooth... Well long story short the iphone was definatly stuck in headphone mode..so i linked to the car repaired my bluetooh stuck the head phone in called my voice mail selected bluetooh.. watched the phone go to audio sources iphone, bluetooh, or speaker phone. chose iphone... and voila just like that it was restored. Mind you this is after wasting hours of my time on the phone with my cell provider who told me earliest i would get a replacement was july 27 2011, where today is june 20th 2011 so i kinda told them that was fubard and hung up... calmed down and retraced my steps so to speak... last good place was the car.. well voila it dawned on me the problem was a bad pairing.. as to pocket lint guys its not possible. at all.

regards

jack

I'm not sure this is a permanent fix or not, and after trying everything else except for a system restore. I was pleasantly surprised when this worked. Thanks and I hope it 'sticks'

I had this problem today and a friend told me I must have gotten it wet (I hadn't noticed but did quickly run through a drizzling rain today) and to blow a hair dryer into the headphone jack for 5 minutes. Worked like a charm.

hey i never knew that holding home button for 5-6 secs opens up a voice control thing.... thanx for that.... but yea i am also having this same problem... its sooo iriitating that now i hav almost made up my mind to ditch apple (they hav ditched us first :X) and buy android phone... this is related to HEAT... when evr i use the dumb iphone 3gs for lyk 15 20 mins in a go, it switches to headphone mode...and if i keep it away for 5 minsits back to normal....but this beahviour by a brand as APPLE is really sick... and till now they havnt come up with any solution... i hav read forums dating back to 2007...... 4 years and APPLE has NO ANSWER for this... real shame.. !!! stop buying apple guys

yes it is the heat issue.. and APPLE....plz do something... admit it and try solving it... you are bloody ruining your image..... I AM NEVER EVR GONNA BUY ANOTHER APPLE PRODUCT IN MY LIFE..... I PROMISE... u suck big tym and dnt evn hav d balls to admit it

OK, I managed to spill a little water in the headphone socket at the gym this morning and on the way to work, my phone turned itself onto "headphone mode". I tried absolutely everything to fix this, on/off, reset, calling from other phone, "jacksex", blowing, cotton bud, shaking, cursing...

Someone on this forum mentioned sucking the headphone hole and as a last resort I cupped my lips around it and sucked a full lung. iPhone works again! The sucking must create a strong vacuum which cleared the water/lint inside. It rocks to suck.

Thank you so much everyone. Had the problem today, tried playing with the headphones but to no avail.

But 1 minute in the fridge.... and all fixed!!

Thank you this worked on my iphone 4!

3 Minutes in the freezer! Worked a treat!

I did all that headphones in and out for aaages to no avail.

Sucked in and blew the jack like a ****.

Freezer.

Thank god I don't have to take the looong journey to the apple store tomorrow!

Woo!!

Its a really strange software problem!

On my wifes iPhone 4 (4.3.5) it started after she was out on a run - using her Bluetooth earjack

- Reset, restart, earjack in/out several times didn't work.

Then tried what Jack_astor suggest - and voila!

What to do:

- Connect a Bluetooth sound device (test it)

- Connect standard earphones

Call to the phone and in the menu - select the Bluetooth - or anything else than earphones!

Apple need to make a small update so its possible to change the sound mode, without one of these strange tricks!

The problem is there is dirt in the earjack.

Solution: Get one of those compressed air canisters and shoot a force of air in there to clear it out.

This is what the guys at the Apple store did for me when this happened to mine.

I also laughed when I heard Bigdalla's fix. I tried every other fix in this discussion with no results, then I tried sucking the headphone jack as hard as I could. Wouldn't ya know it, it worked! If all else fail, do try this! Bigdalla, you mad genius.

You're a genius!!! I think? Though this sounded ridiculous, it ended up fixing the problem after I had tried everything else on the forum.

Thanks a million!!!