My iPhone 4 ear speaker is not working I could't able to hear any thing from ear speaker to lessen I had to put on loud speaker or to use handsfree please help me out with this problem if some body have answer?

I have something similar.. a high pitch loud sound during phone calls.. ever since the update. Both me and the other person on the phone can hear it yet i can listen to voice mail just fine??? I have no idea if it is worth taking to the store.

went to apple last night and they flashed the phone a few times but could not get the speaker back. They gave me a new phone under the 1 year. All good now and running iOS 5. I hope they can find a fix but in my case I guess there was a bad SW part that could not be formatted... Seems really strange to me.

Reboot it. It worked for me

At least its good to see this is a known problem. I have returned my phone and waiting for it to be fixed. Hope it they will fix, or give me a new iOS5 updated phone.

Well, get this. I just got back to the states after being with the ear speaker not working for about 7 days. I landed 6:00 AM, and I was about to go to the Apple store this morning with an appointment at 9:10 AM. Went home, backed-up the phone, synced everything, peeled off the zagg protector and just after getting rid of the protector, I got a call. My reflex was to pick it up, and it worked!! Maybe it was working before that, but I couldn't tell; it wasn't working when I boarded the plane, that's for sure.

I really don't understand. I reset it, reflashed it, downgraded it, did the accessibility thing, the headphones jack thing, checked the usb connector for dirt or hairs, nothing worked. I really do prefer it that way, I don't want a refurbished phone.

You are not alone! I upgrade my wife's iphone 4 to iOS5 today and the same thing happened. Had no problems before this upgrade. Also, ran into another bug that people have found - call go directly to voice mail if WiFi is set to on. (You can dial out, but people can't call you!) Turning off Wifi seems to fix this for now. So some pretty serious bugs with ios5.

I have the same problem. After upgrading, have to put on speaker phone to hear callers talking to me, although they can hear what I am saying. Or I have to use the ear buds. I also tried Ayman's solution and saw the options briefly (there was one for speaker and one for iphone) but now cannot make those options come back. ALso, ran into a nice bug that stops calls from coming in if you have WiFi turned on.

Update. so I have wiped the phone and reloaded the phone to no avail. Took it too Verizon and they did some reset and wipe and still the high pitch if you make a call is heard on both ends. So end of the line for this phone, they are sending me a replacement. According to Verizon help they are not familar with this problem, but when the guy heard it at the store after the wipe he said lets get you a new phone.

I took my iPhone to the apple store last Friday and the gave me a me phone since my phone is still in guarantee . Now I'm happy again. I hope that you guys can get this issue addressed as well. Good luck

Same problem here.

In Brazil you should send the iPhone to Apple at São Paulo, and that signify two weeks without phone... Great, isn't it?

Any notice from headquarters about 5.1 update?

I am having the EXACT same problem. Upon upgrading to ios5 from 4.33, POOF the ear speaker ceases to work and no rebooting/resetting can fix it. appt tomorrow at the "genius" bar.

@seangingras; iPhone 4? I've had this issue with my new 4s, actually 2 4s's (1st one was replaced due to water damage). No apparent problem w/incoming calls. On outgoing calls I don't get sound through the earpice and toggling between between speaker & iPhone doesn't help during the call. But, once an incoming call comes in it works again for a while.

Here are a couple of trouble shooting steps I've taken:

1) from iPhone cal my home phone - result home phone rings, but I don't hear it in the iPhone earpiece. Toggle to Speaker; hear it through speaker; toggle back to iPhone, no sound through earpiece.

2) Call iPhone from home phone. iPhone rings, I pick up and the earpiece works.Hang up from that call; use iPhone to call home phone and the earpiece on the iPhone now works. Apparently the incoming call did something?

3) The condition from step 1) re-appears occasionally, maybe after de-activating my BT headset? Once I get an incoming call all is good for a while.

I'm following this thread and it's still unclear to me whther it is a HW or SW problem. The reason I asked my first question to @seangingras is if it's a 4, maybe it is iOS5? Given the apparent volume of this issue I've got to believe that Apple will make a statement and a fix in the near future.

mine wasnt intermittent. problem occurred IMMEDIATELY after ios5 upgrade.

- restored 2 times to my orig phone- no luck.

restored to new phone- no luck.

no amount of fiddling had any effect. no water damage to the phone. it was 362 days old though. luckily...

Brought to apple store in boston. they attempted a restore, no luck. and they gave me a new one. however, if this had happened next week, I would have been screwed.

that applecare extension is looking better...

I got mine replaced @ the Apple Store yesterday. We verified that it wasn't my Bluetooth headset. So far so good.

I've read comments in this and other threads regarding the level and quality of support for this issue. I will go on record as saying Apple really did well by me. Both in store and over the phone.

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Im having the exact same problem, took it to the apple store, the people there said they can't verify whether this is a hardware of software issue as they are not allowed to take the phone apart to check out the speaker (they can only take the back cover off). My warranty expired so they can't replace the phone for free either...

this ***** man!!! i hope someone can help as I am not familiar disassembing my phone and fix it myself...