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No sound coming from my iPhone 4s.

I just recently got an iPhone 4s. I am getting no sounds coming from it though. The ringer works, but all other sound is off unless the headphones are plugged in. This goes for recorded movies, music I purchased, youtube videos, the sound effects when I slide the login button. Everything is silent. I have restarted it a few times now, but to no avail. Even the sound buttons on the side do nothing; now they don't even bring up the sound volume overlay.


Any idea what might be wrong?


Thanks!

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Nov 22, 2011 4:48 PM

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Posted on Nov 22, 2011 4:51 PM

I should add another odd wrinkle. Siri works fine. When I bring it up, the volume buttons on the side adjust the volume of her voice, but after I close the program, it all goes back to silent.


Also, I don't have the mute button on, just to get that out the way now. :-)

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Jun 9, 2014 6:32 PM in response to cool_username

This worked for me! Thanks a million

cool_username wrote:


I tried everything and none of it really worked.


BUT then I just pulled up the control center and tapped the airplay icon (little box with an arrow pointing to it) and switched it from "dock connector" to "iphone". This gave me back the volume dots, music volume, sounds from apps, everything. Hope it helps!

Jul 13, 2014 7:16 AM in response to Sharlz

IVE FOUND THE SOLUTION!! This has been a problem for me for a while now!!


Anyhow.... Alot of replies on here said the make sure the headphone duct was clear of any dust or obstacles; HOWEVER, i found that aswell as that, i needed to clear the charger duct. Im not sure if there was dust in there too, but i found that blowing quite hard into the charger duct solved my problem. I tried many ways i saw on here, but found that the sound kept flicking on an off everytime i attached my charger. I blew into the duct to clear it and... WOL LAHHHH!!! Problem solved! I did also update my phone which apparently fixes any bugs, so hopefully i will not have this problem again!!


HOPE THIS HELPS GUYS! Let me kno :0)


Five stars! It worked...!


The issue was that my iPhone 4 was sit in a dock for a long time... dust accumulates in the connector pins and makes kind of a "short circuit" deceiving the iphone thinking is still on the dock even when it's outside the dock.


I cleared the pin connector with alcohol (use mouth washer ahah) it work perfectly. 🙂

Aug 14, 2014 3:21 AM in response to szayat

I have an iPhone 4s that makes no sound from anything. The volume buttons up and down show the slide, the silence button shows ringer on or off, in settings, sound, the slide goes up and down but no sound! In ringtone, no sound when you select a sound, no sound, I have cleaned the dock and there was a lot of lint, I have cleaned the audio jack. I have reset the phone, I have restored the phone but absolutely nothing has worked.


I took the motherboard of this phone and put it into a phone that I know works and there was no sound, so I know it isn't anything to do with the parts in the phone. I am at a loss to know what to do to get sound.

Jan 1, 2015 6:24 AM in response to mgarneau18

thanks so much for this advice, crazy but it worked! After I took it out of the freezer the sound still wasn't there but then I turned the phone off completely and then back on again and hey presto, sound is back! You have saved me! I'm a fitness instructor learning two new Les Mills releases to teach at the weekend and the panic I felt when the music was playing but no sound coming out was palpable. Not now though.Thanks again!

No sound coming from my iPhone 4s.

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