ipad internal speakers not working.

Gary,

If you are out of warrenty, you are probably stuck.

Before you give up, there may something stuck in the headphone jack, simply blocking the contact when you unplug the phones. Try plugging and unplugging. The phones to see if you can work that free. Blow into the hole, or use a little can of compressed air.

You may need to simply live with it. Find a small external speaker you can plug in.....

Apple's solution will be an out of warrenty swap, which will cost you the published price. You may be better off selling it as is, and getting a new or used pad 2 or a new 3

Tough luck for you. This is likely a 5 cent piece bringing down a $500 device.

There are, of course, third party repair services. Since you are out of warrenty anyway, you have little to lose.

Hello Gary,

I have a solution for you. I had the same problem you did, and the "geniuses" didn't have a good answer. The problem it seems is that the ipad is confused and thinks it's on a docking station, when the speakers should be playing. Here is what you do. Use the connector for the ipad that connects it to the TV. When you plug this in, the speakers should start playing and the volume buttons should start working. Then very slowly withdraw the connector from ipad, but not all at once. Before you remove it all together, leaving it just touching the ipad connector for a while. This should keep your speakers playing. You may have to do this a few times because the ipad will shift back to thinking it's on the docking station if you do it too quickly.

Blake

BlakeThorn's solution worked for me as well. However this ipad keeps reverting back on its own, which tells me the connector port is faulty. It seems to be switching back and forth between docked and speakers at random now. I may try to have the port replaced and see if that corrects the problem permanently.