iPad says headphones are plugged in - but they aren't

I am unable to hear anything on my iPad b/c it seems to think that headphones are plugged into the machine, which they aren't. When headphones are plugged in, the volume works; however, once they're out, there isn't any volume. I have reset the iPad, but that didn't fix the problem. Any ideas? Thanks.

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Posted on Sep 15, 2010 4:39 PM

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Posted on Jun 14, 2012 10:19 AM

Two solutions in the past were -

1. Plugging in headphones, playing music, pausing play, unplugging the headphones and resuming play successfully!

2. Plugging in the power and the headphones, unplugging the headphones, using the volume control on the side to adjust the volume, and then unplugging the power!

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Aug 1, 2015 12:26 AM in response to amytpetty

I had a similar problem to everyone. My iPad Air kept saying it had headphones plugged in and there was no sound... unless you actually plugged headphones in. I tried all the things listed... Nothing worked for me, however on the premise of some of the other ideas I tried this: I have a iluv mobile speaker- Bluetooth. I plugged my iPad in with my apple cord to charge. I plugged in the my earbuds and put the volume as loud as it would go. Then I took my iluv mobile speaker and turned it on to connect to my iPad. Once connected I put my earbuds on the speaker and hit play on a video in Netflix. the mobile speaker picked up the sound in a few seconds. I unplugged the headphones and let the show play for a few minutes and then I turned off the mobile speaker..... And hooray the sound started coming from my iPad again. I did try this a couple times before I figured out that the sound had to be right on top of the speaker so it would pick it up. Hope that this helps others out there! Good Luck to you!

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