iPhone 4S no sound except ringtones works

OMG!!!!! My phone has been like this for over 5 months and it was a stupid little fix!! I'm really feeling a certain way right now! I thought my phone was broken. LMBO....wow!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH a million times over!!

Blueloony wrote:

did you make sure your iphone isn't mute ?

Try this:

Settings>General>Accessibility>AssistiveTouch>Toggle AssistiveTouch On

you'll notice a "white ball" on your screen (aka AssistiveTouch)

Touch the white ball>Device>Mute>Unmute (nd result should make your iPhone unmute)

now try.

Alternatively,

Do a Restore.

Steps for Mac/PC.

1. Open iTunes, Backup your iPhone

2. Click iPhone in the left plane

3. Select Restore (on the right plane)

4. Follow onscreen setup (on the iPhone) until the set up iphone.

5. Select restore iPhone (select iTunes)

Note: you iTunes library need to be re-synced after this process.

Hope this helps,

Blueloony

check out this video guide how to solve the problem !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtxp8VaMpw

Thanks!

I too found that cleaning worked. Here's my combined summary of your suggestions and one other set of instructions.

1. Use a tooth brush ore a small brush from a hair trimmer, electric shaver or grooming kit.
2. Thoroughly but gently brush the charging port for about 15 seconds. (This worked for me after a couple of tries. The problem returned a few months later but this worked again.)
3. If that’s not enough, dip the brush in isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) and lightly scrub the charging port for about 10 seconds.
4. Dry it with compressed air. If it still doesn’t work, try a few more times.

This is obviously a common problem. I wish the port had a flip cover or something. I think I'll add some tape to the opening in the bottom of my plastic cover and when I need to connect the phone, I'll remove the plastic cover.

thanks JMauldin77

it worked for me

done it with a toothbrush and some smirnoff

worked 1st time

thanks agen :-)

Iphone 5 - had the same problem:

headphones would work for all sounds, music, etc, but the external phone speaker would only work for changing and selecting ringtones (??!). When I pressed the volume buttons or the mute switch, it would think it was sending sound through the headphones. This happened after a very small splash of water got on the bottom of the phone.

I tried a trick with a cut q-tip dipped in a little Windex (a clip of this is online: http://thebigboss.org/guides-iphone-ipod-ipad/iphone-speaker-issues)

Didn't work, but got some gunk out.

Waited a while, then here's what did it:

I took one of those bubble things that comes with an ear-wax removal kit (also the kind to suck snot out of babies' noses). I sucked through the headphone jack and speaker "grille" several times, and then also blew puffs of air into them several times.

Worked LIKE A CHARM, all is better!

MY sound is not working except my ringtone what should I do???

Thank you so much, I fixed mine following your instructions except I used WD40 and blew it out with low pressure air line.

After scouring the Internet and thinking the sound on my iPhone 6 was shot, I ran across this post by JMauldin77 and had it fixed in less than two minutes. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

q: i phone 4s no sound except ringtones works

Thank you! Worked perfectly.