No volume on iPad

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No volume on iPad

I have a whole bunch of games, News App's etc on on my iPad which all play and work just fine but the volume only works if my headphones are plugged in. This goes for ALL games, News App's. When my headphones are not plugged in and my volume is on full I have no sound at all. I have gone into settings, General Sound and volume is how it should be and my friend has an iPad that works just fine with and without the headphones.

Does anybody out there know what could be wrong with it and why it will not play any sound when the headphones are out??

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Becca

iPad 2, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 24, 2011 10:32 AM

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Answer 1

King_Penguin

Level 10

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Oct 24, 2011 10:34 AM in response to Becca81

Have you got notifications muted ? Only notifications (including games) get muted, so the iPod/Music and Videos apps, and headphones, still get sound.

Depending on what you've got Settings > General > Use Side Switch To set to (mute or rotation lock), then you can mute notifications by the switch on the right hand side of the iPad, or via the taskbar : double-click the home button; slide from the left; and it's the icon far left; press home again to exit the taskbar. The function that isn't on the side switch is set via the taskbar instead : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4085

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Answer 2

Dec 27, 2011 11:28 AM in response to Becca81

Try going into General again, but with your headphones off.

The reason is that you can have two options or configurations of sound volume, one with headphones, other without. So if you have your headphones on and turn the volume to full blast, when you simply try to take headphones off, volume changes back to what it was set to WITHOUT headphones.

Couldn't find mentioning of these configurations on the user guide, had it discovered accidentally.

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