iPhone 4 low earpiece volume after ios 5 upgrade

Thank you for the feedback post. It really helped me get rid of the sound poblem on my iPhone4 ear speaker. Both methods of cleaning and switching the sound off while calling my voice mail box worked wonders. Thanks Guys!! 🙂

I have had the same problem of really low music volume on my iPhone 4s. I even started to think I was losing my hearing. I have tried every bit of advice on here and nothing worked. But then I noticed that the volume was also really low on my iPad and an old iPhone 3GS. By chance, I just found a set of old iPhone headphones and tried those and the sound is sooooo much better. In my case, it seems to be the newer headphones with the pause/volume button on the wire that don't work (I tried 2 of those and had the same problem). So maybe different headphones might work for others.......Good luck

iPhone 4S - less than 4 months old. Earset volume during calls was unusably quiet, all other sounds (speaker, bluetooth, headphone out) work perfectly. I tried [Settings>General Settings>Reset>Reset All Settings] with minimal results, then took your advice and cleaned the earset mesh with a toothbrush and shop-vac and my earset volume is back up to normal volume. I worked on construction sites for months with my 3GS and never had the earset clog up on me... My 4S has lived in my pocket while I work a retail job and was already stopped up enough to prevent it from functioning properly. I'd hate to think this could be a simple design flaw after all the other things they did RIGHT with the 4S...
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tl:dr - TO ANYONE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE EARSET ONLY, CLEAN THE MESH it made an unbelievable difference for me.

Firoze I LOVE YOU ! ! ! !

I own a iPhone 4 since 27 months!!!!! And my earpiece never worked correctly ( so low you could barely hear anything ) they tried to fix it everywhere and nothing worked for this weird problem and your fix #2 saved the day! After 27 months... !

Thanks

Ps: what you want for Christmas? ;)

I, like everyone else here had the same volume problem. Just like a post or two above, clean the screen over the earpiece! After I saw that I grabbed an old jewelers loupe and was astonished just how crudy it was!

I used a toothbrush first, with not much luck. I eventually used a needle and very carefully scratched and picked at the screen. Finally I used a couple of Q-tips saturated with Windex. Not so much to get the liquid in the earpiece, but enough to wet it and scrub witht he cotton portion.

It's now clean as it was when it was new, and the volume is back where it should be!

I never thought much about it, but I work construction and I figure between the sweat, oils, dust etc... the very fine meshed screen never had a chance!!

Hope this helps!

Yes! I actually carefully pried off the mesh covers of the earphone speaker and went at both sides of the mesh with q-tips and rubbing alcohol. I dried them off and reassembled. I probably got a 50% boost with music if not more. I can't wait to try it later on a phone call.

Be careful if you do this. There's a fine wire inside that's attached to a piece that will want to come off with the mesh. The mesh is slightly flexible so you can pry out the piece the wire is attached to. The rubber padding bumper can tear too if your not careful. Also remember that if your sharp little prying tool slips its probably going into your hand. Be careful!

I downloaded the iOS 5.1.1 update as well and now during calls I can't hear anything the person on other end is saying at all. I've even bought and replaced the earpiece speaker twice thinking maybe it had blown or gotten wet or something but it didn't help. I've cleaned the mesh covering and still nothing has helped. Is there a fix for this issue??

Hey everyone,

Got a fix, at least it works for me, and it's only temporary.

I have the same problem. iphone 4 ios 5.1.1. I found a temporary fix, while the music is playing, turn keyboard clicks on and off. I will also get the volume back with any alert notifications. It seems any system sound will return speaker, wired, or bluetooth headphones back to normal volume. But it only works until you've paused the music, upon restart the volume is reduced and you have to do it again.

Rebooting seems to help also.

I also have VERY LOW volume on my 3GS with the iOS 5.0 upgrade.. Makes it not very usable.. Where's the patch?

Yes, I just tried the fix above and it didn't work..

tried FIROZE's temp fix and it works for me!!! many thanks dude... you rock! 🙂

^ I'm glad it worked for you Kimpoy. Unfortunately the volume bug seems to manifest itself in different ways dof different people. I will try a full restore and see if the problem still persists.

Hi i am having problem with earphone,unfortunately its seems a bug...waiting from Apple to resolve it

Having the volume problem after upgrading to iOS 5 on both my phone and my wife's phone (both iPhone 4's), I tried this "fix". IT WORKED. Thanks!

Ok, my bad - was using faulty iPhone headphones. Soon as I changed headphones all was good... that is after restoring the firmware and having to reinstall all my apps/apply settings. Grrrr!