No SMS sound when in dock

Hi all,

Some strange behaviour:

1) After restarting my iP4, when first placing it into the charging dock (connected to the wall, not the PC, and no audio cable attached to it), I get the "charging" beep, or some kind of sound. Great. But every other time I take the phone out and place it bank in the dock, there is no beep. It charges fine, but there's no confirmation. Is this normal?

2) While it is charging, I get no sound notifications when I receive an SMS. Calls ring out as normal while it is in the dock, but I get no SMS sounds. While the phone is out of the dock, SMS sounds work as normal.

What gives?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

PC, Windows 7

Posted on Oct 29, 2010 4:08 AM

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Nov 25, 2011 2:26 AM in response to -deadlock-

My wife was complaining about not hearing SMS alerts so I tried an experiment. Send an SMS/iMessage and get an alert but plug the 3GS into the Apple dock and no SMS alert. So, great relief that she's not going mad! While plugged into the dock I went through all the Settings for Sounds. I Adjusted everything, decreasing and increasing volume, changing the alert tone and back again etc.


Quick retest and amazing, now it works.


So there must be some sort of context sensitive setting somewhere is tripping things up.


jsl

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