No sound except when headphones plugged in

your iPhone thinks that the headphones are still plugged in. This has happened to me a few times. With your headphones plugged in, stop the song you're playing (or is being played) and THEN take the jack out. The iPhone comes with a feature that pauses the music when the jack comes out (how thoughtful). Sometimes however this doesn't happen and it "keeps playing" and keeps the external speakers from working.

I have had this problem more than once, and from what I can tell it comes from unplugging headphones while playing music, talking on the phone or some combonation of all. What I have done to fix this is do just that, play music without headphones, plug them in, unplug them, play again etc. Just go through every possible combonation you can think of. Also if you use an fm transmitter that plugs into the docking port, then you need to use that in your tests as well. I can't tell you the right combination, cause I don't know excatly what it was to fix it, but this has happened to me twice, and I got sound back after both times.

Same thing here no sound except when headphones are plugged in. Only vibrates when a call come in. Started on 9/8. Compressed air did not work. Powering off and on did not work. Removing sim and replacing sim did not work. Any other suggestions. What good is a phone that has NO SOUND!!! Apple please respond, anyone. Is this a way of being forced into buying the 3GEN or something else???? HMMM

I've tried all of the above Phone does not have sound unless the earphones are plugged in. This is very annoying. All the missed called, SMS notifications and alarms will not work.

This happened to me a few times, it was like the phone thought the headphones were still attached. Plugging the headphones in and out a few times ... quickly and a little roughly ... always fixed it and then it stopped happening for good! Hope this helps.

The only way I was able to solve the problem was by using the lowest tech solution by repeatedly blowing hard into the headphone jack.....! I hope Apple finds a better way soon. It's truly annoying and I don't intend to blow into this thing every time I switch from headphones to speaker......!

Hello All


My final resolution after speaking with Apple support about the "no sound" issue, they made an appt for me to take the phone into the Apple store. I did, I was told that it was a speaker problem, currently there is no way to replace the speaker, so my phone was replaced. Problem solved, the speakers on the replaced phone actually sound better than the speakers ever did on original phone purchased.

Same thing has happened to me, I just blew out the headphone jack and charger slot with compressed air. Took care of the problem.

Is it a first gen iPhone or an iPhone 3G?

Its a 1st gen

Our solution to this was: unplug the headphones, open up the iPod, increase the volume and hit play. This restored it back to its external speakers. Hope this suggestion helps! 🙂