iOS 5.1 Update: No Sound

dears

try this

go to general .... use side switch to .... change it from lock rotate to Mute

use the switch to mute then open it again and try your apps

tell if it works or not

it worked with me 🙂

Thank you that fixed the issue for me as well. I only noticed this issue after iOS 5.1 upgrade. Apple please fix this bug.

While I know you're trying to help, trust me this is a real issue. I, for one, was flicking the mute button back and forth trying to 'kick start' the sound. When I moved it forward, the 'bell' logo would indeed appear, indicating it was no longer in mute.

Further, the symptom that some people describe - which is the ringer logo without any bars underneath it - does not occ our just because a phone is in mute mode.

Luckily it seems most people get this issue resolved with one or more hard restarts, or at least with an erase everything and restore.

I am having the same problem with my iPhone 4S - resetting is not working, and I'm not psyched for the hassle of a restore or going in to the store. I think this should warrant a small patch from Apple ASAP.

I had an iPhone 4s that I purchased march first 2012 from sprint. got the over the air iOS 5.1 update appear, so I downloaded and installed it over my wifi connection at home. all seemed well until I tried to listen to pandora...

after the 5.1 upgrade pandora would stop and start when connected to 3G

if I got within range of my home wifi all worked fine, if I disabled my wifi back to choppy stop start pander, every 2 seconds or so.

what fixed it for me was holding down the top off button, and the front facing round button at the same time until the phone is forced to hard reset.

.....ok it worked for 3 mins then whent back to being choppy....I alsomtried putting the phone in and out of air plain mode. having battled with android I know that the sprint network has a kind of wireless routing table that chooses the tower to connect to, and on android you can download an update of the file that controls this.

thisnis defiantly to do with 3G data connectivity which is ver worrying given that what's used for calls to!!

I NEVER had this problem before I upgraded to IOS 5.1

the reset seemed to help somewhat but it's still unlistenable

ok looks like hard reset did do the trick, pandora stops and starts if I change the channel I'm listening to, for the first 20 - 30 seconds then seems to settle down and play fine after that....

still not something I had to deal with prior to iOS 5.1 ....something is affecting 3G data transfer???

time for a speed test me thinks!

ok downloaded and ran speedtest.net

results

1st test download speed 9.5 KB/s upload 49.5 KB/s

2nd test down 6.5 up 49

3rd test down 38 up 52

4th test down 1.5 up 33

then just to check I turned on the wifi connectednto my home router on cable...

down 2742 KB/s up 485 KB/s

my signal shows sprint 3G with 4 bars of signal strength!!!!

somethings defiantly not right with this!

I'm also facing the same problem. Have done hard reset at least 10 times but no respite. Cant listen to music, play music apps and even the youtube videos are silent. Dont have any keyboard sounds, camera sound, etc. apple has really messed up big time. I wish i hadnt installed this update.

Any other ideas??

Did you try the 'erase everything' and restore?

One of the suggested remedies in this forum resolved my "No Audio" problem on my iPad 1st gen after the 5.1 update. Here's what worked for me:

In the Settings menu, go to General and change the Lock Switch function from Rotate to Mute. Then make sure the physical switch next to the volume rocker is turned off (Meaning the red is not showing on the switch).

Then try the apps that had no audio to see if they are now working properly. I hope this resolves yours audio problems as it did mine. Thanks to the original poster of this solution :)

Just to be sure - the mute button fix, as it were, only works on the iPad correct? There is no comparable setting for an iPhone - just wanted to confirm that.

As an update to my own efforts at resolving this - after numerous resets, I finally wiped my phone (clear content and settings) and restored, and the problem persists. I should also note that as an intermediary step, that is, before I restored the phone, the "no sound" problem was still presenting.

At this point, I think the resolution is going to be a genius bar appointment and a new phone. I should point out that the other ios 5.1 devices in my network, my wife's phone and my iPad 2, have had no issues with the update.

Mute button fix worked on my iPad. If I am not wrong this option is not available on iPhones.

This bug is so funny on iphone 4

Yesterday and without any notice , all sound gone and even the ring gone and after many hard reset and soft reset the problem did not resolve , after playing one of my videos taken by camera every thing go normal again :):)

I did a restore when I installed 5.1. Like Egypt, things where going along ok unless you count the low volume in calls and ringer since the update. Today however, I was using my phone to look something up on the internet and I got a call. Instead of ringing and vibrating, all it did was vibrate. After the call I went into settings sounds and checked to make sure I had a sound selected for ringer. I did and tried to re-enter the sound. No sound. I tried again and again and after about 4 or 5 tries I get a half sound. Then I hit it again and sound was back on. So I restarted and we'll see how long it lasts.

This sound issue is real and it does need attention soon. I gave up on android because there were just too many little issues that because too much to tolerate. I'm beginning to get that feeling again with the iphone. The sound issue is a non starter. The battery draining faster can be tolerated with a plugin until it's fixed, but loosing sound on a PHONE, needs to be handled.