iphone volume slider has disappeared

iPhone 4 or 4S volume bar disapper & music stops automatically

This is a hardware issue. Apple repair centre agents replaced the charging dock of my 4S and now music is working perfectly. this is not a software problem.

I had tried everything on these forums without success (other than taking it in for repairs), but then I tried one thing that cannot be posted here, and it's been great without incident.

I would call it a hardware and a software problem. The hardware is an issue because something, being dirty or corrosion, is giving the OS a false positive. The OS thinks there is an accessory attached and disables most sounds.

The fix is simple, but that's all I can say here.

It seems that this fault is very common with the traditional iPhone 26pin dock connector where some fluff or dust rests inside the port and creates a very small short circuit across some pins and cheats the iPhone/iPad into thinking its on a dock and thus making the volume slider within the software to disappear!!

The easy fix is to use a dry toothbrush and brush out any loose dust and blow into the dock connector to help move anything hiding inside. Clean the headphone socket too as it does no harm to clear all the dust from these small sockets.

Don't use anything metal or wet.

This should fix most problems related to missing volume slider on the iPhone and iPad with 26pin socket.

Good luck!

Can you perhaps email me the "simple fix". I've tried everything that hs been discussed.

My email address is cassie8@gmail.com

Thank you I appreciate it

Cassie

It worked . Thanks .

please watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BAx8uZfVM it worked for me Perfectly!

I pushed the the dock up towards the home button and it worked, thanks for that suggestion whoever it was!

Stuck a knife into the docking device and viola my volume slider is back!

What must be done with the knife in there? It sounds a bit drastic to me.

After about 3 weeks without the volume slider and many, many, MANY different advises without success the phone dropped by accident from my pocket and viola back to normal it was.

So rather drop your phone (by accident) and hope it doesn't break the front or back glass covers!

All the best, I suppose my advise is as "sad" as the problem itself and the solution from Apple. It sounds as if it is not only a problem experienced by only one iPhone owner!?

Thank you very much Dltmdwn95. I cleaned the 32pin port that was all. Now I have the sounds back on my iphone. Thanks again.

Yes I have the same problem as well.but try connecting your headphones in. it worked for me

What you can do is plug in your headphones and plug them out repeatedly see if that works.

This happened to me today, I just plugged it in to its charger a few times to dislodge anything stuck up there in the port on the bottom and it started magically working again. I'm sure compressed air or a little brush would work as well.

I've been having the same problems with my 4s, however, plugging my headphones in doesn't work, the volume still disappears. I don't know if it is a coincidence, but my phone's battery is also dropping really fast without much use.

I did recently get water on it, but at the time it seemed that the case had prevented any water from going into the phone. It worked fine for a couple days after that. I've tried cleaning the dock port, and it hasn't worked. The dock had the purple marks in it like you mentioned, so does this mean I need to replace my dock?

I'm going back on what I said. It works with the headphones in now.