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?

While making a test call to my voice mail I switched my ringer silence button (the rectangle button) TO SILENT and my ear speaker started working!!! I switched back from silent and the speaker still works 😀 I hope it works for everyone else too!!

@touzi: thanks!

I clipped the sticky end of a post-it note and wrapped it around the smallest screw driver I had. (I'm sure a paper clip would also work) I did this so metal would NOT be touching metal, possibly scratching or scraping something that shouldn't be.

With the phone turned up side down I made small circular cleaning motions and sure enough the phone, which previously thought it was connected to the head phones, realized it wasn't.

Thanks guys and hope this bit helps!

It is not due to loose connection or software issue. the problem is caused by dust clogging either the earpiece mesh or dust/lint in the headphone jack. Just take a blower, like a hair drier or a vaccum cleaner or similar and blow into the headphone jack and the earpiece. this will solve the problem. Atleast it worked for me.

I had noticed that my speaker phone volume was low since some time. I blew using the hair drier into the speaker as well and that too started working. So concluded that iphone speakers are too sensitive to dust/lint. just blow it away and it works....Perfect.Relieved.... 🙂

Just got off a plane to find that me iPhone 4 speakers weren't working anymore either!

Just to say that emomoop's solution of closing all apps running in the background worked for me - thanks emomoop!

If it is showing headphones when u turn your volume up their is something stuck in your headphone jack. Do not stick anything in the jack. Turn your phone upside down and get a blow air inside the jack the stronger the air the better all I had to use was a small compressor. The kind u use on a blow up mattress. If u have something stuck real bad u might have to use something stronger. As long as it says headphones when u turn up the volume something is stuck in the jack

I've tried everything, put something in the jack to see if anything comes out, but found this post

Ceeski

If it is showing headphones when u turn your volume up their is something stuck in your headphone jack. Do not stick anything in the jack. Turn your phone upside down and get a blow air inside the jack the stronger the air the better all I had to use was a small compressor. The kind u use on a blow up mattress. If u have something stuck real bad u might have to use something stronger. As long as it says headphones when u turn up the volume something is stuck in the jack

It actually worked. People could hear me but I couldn't hear them. Now it works. -.- Thank you!

Hi ethosworkshop,

your suggestion really helped.. thanks.. i think some water or a bubble probably went in there. Wasnt dust for sure since the blowing into the headphone jack did not help nor did a dryer or making the iPhone upside down. phew !!! relieved.. that was a close one...

Had the same problem and this fix of just pushing on both sides of the speaker with some pressure (not too much to break glass, obviously) WORKED! The "genius" at apple had no idea on how to fix, and since phone is out of warranty just offered to replace for $150. Thank you so much for this trick to fix. Will be getting iphone 5 when it comes out - but this fix should get me to October when iphone 5 comes out. Thanks "im2hot4ya"!

it's work on my iPhone 4, when i checked headphone jack, there's a cotton stuck in it.. and after i pull it out, my problems solves, thanks guys

Pushing on the top of the phone worked for me too - Thanks!!! It seems that it is happening again when I push hard on the top button (for muting the ringing of a call). It must be a loose connection of the earpiece to the circuit board (I must admit the phone has had some nasty falls though). If it continuous I may have to follow the guidelines to open the phone and try to tighten the screws.

Thanks to everyone for all their suggestions! Great community! As I looked closer to the speakers (there are 2 small rectangulars at bottom of phone in between the dock connector), something looked odd. I got a can of preassurized air duster (invaluable) and sprayed the speakers. Problem solved! A tiny piece of hair blew out. Sound is now clear & full! Phew.

I had a similar problem after using new headphones. The phone indicated the headphone jack was in use, even though I had removed the headphones.
High pressure compressed air did the trick after some judicious poking around with a small screwdriver didn't.
I am very relieved. Thanks for all the good advice.

Wow... I'm amazed!! I used the method of pressing firmly on the ear speaker and IT WORKED!!! I thought "no way this is going to work", but it did!!! Thank you very much for the advice!!

very easy your ear speaker has broken

WOW!

ZOZ2112 wrote:

Had the same problem and this fix of just pushing on both sides of the speaker with some pressure (not too much to break glass, obviously) WORKED! The "genius" at apple had no idea on how to fix, and since phone is out of warranty just offered to replace for $150. Thank you so much for this trick to fix. Will be getting iphone 5 when it comes out - but this fix should get me to October when iphone 5 comes out. Thanks "im2hot4ya"!

I have tried EVERYTHING...!!! Nothing worked, tried the Q-Tip, blowing into jack, restoring!

ZILCHO!!!!!! NOTTA!!!!!

Then I read your suggestion, was getting VERY desparate, cause my iPhone is the only way I can contact ALL the people I know and I work on call mostly...SCARY not having a phone that works!

So...out of shear desparation, I pressed both sides of the speaker (ear speaker that is)....

VOILA!

Miracles DO HAPPEN, works fine now.

THANK YOU so very much "ZOZ2112".

Seems the simplest things work best!