No sound on iPad speakers.

Thanks a lot , that worked. Was starting to panic.

Same problem here, tried everything below, but problem stays. I noticed some strange behavior, when I put the irig midi connector everything is working normal again. When I pull this out, after while the sound stops again and instead of the choices for AirPlay which should be apple tv and iPad, it's apple tv and dock connector. The strangest thing is that magic piano always works normally the only app that gives a sound. If I want to charge the battery after I put the irig midi connector in its giving the message 'not charging' if I pull out this default charge connector I see the battery percentage again.

By the way I use the new iPad (ipad3)

Thank you. My docking port was sligthly oxidated, cleaning with a clean dry toothbrush and doing a reset fixed my sound problem.

Finally i Solved my problem, no knives or toothbrushes used, also competly installing recovering, installing again, but clean, didn't solve anything.

It's really a hardware bug of the new iPad. The problem starts when you use iRig multimedia midi and accidently type 3 times the home button for voiceover, when the soundbutton is programmed for systemsounds. Complicated, but it took me 4 weeks to discover. Exactly the same way you get rid of it. So shut of in the system preferences the soundbutton for systemsounds en when voicer over is activated with te home button, put in again on and off. Hope i say this right, it's quite complicated but it works. Nothing else works, it's really in the hardware, not in any software of system software. It's a bug in all versions of the iOS software, so i Hope they get rid of it.

Thank you for all the comments, it was keeping me searching. Spread the word.

I use the dutch version of IOS 5.1 and if you're dutch and you want to know if you have the same problem as me, then you can find out with the voiceover. If you use it for example ibooks of for text in safari, the voice is going to a question with a point. So every sentence ends with a question voice. Very weird behavior of the voiceover and the problem is exactly the same.

Plugging in the earphones, hitting play, then pause, then removing the earphones and start playing worked!! In the past pressing the home and on/off button at the same time worked but not this time. Thanks!

That wont work cause as soon as you take the headphones out, the volume slider us unloaded. baiscally......

iOS 5 breaks 1ST generation iPad internal speakers. Why? I don't know and neither does Apple Tech Support. Now... sound only plays back with a 3.5 phone jack.

I've seen/followed the threads and the advice therin, but there is no answer. So much for all my apps, radios, clocks? My iPad s basically useless.

Found the fix.

If the reboot doesn't fix it.

If the headphoens work find, but no external speakers.

If the double-click and page right to the software mute, doesn't show the sound knob - just the brightness

If your pop-up shows "Docking Station"

Then, the problem is very likely a dirty connector. The iPad/iPhone/iPod connector uses a resistor value to determine if the device is connected to an external 'speaker'. There are a range of resistances, for a range of products. This is known as the Connector Pin 21 issue.

Take some windex on a que-tip, or perhaps a Windex paper scrub and rub it on the bottom connector port. Somehow, "something" has gotten on those contacts, and it is pulling the voltage on pin #21 down - so that the iPad "thinks" it's connected to an external speaker - this will disable the internal speaker circuitry, as well as the internal speaker volume controls.

Do not over-saturate and short out your iPad. Do not throw it in the sink, do not use the kitchen faucet to flush it out. A Que-tip with a few drops of Windex (or other gentle cleaner) should work just fine. Takes all of 30 seconds - and magically, the volume knob appeared and everything worked just fine.

This worked for me! My kid was toggleing the voice over over and over!

Thanks Bali Hai. I double tapped the home button and it fixed the problem. Dont know how, but it worked. I get audio through the ipad speakers now! You rock.

Omg,that solved the problem. I rubbed the connector with a quip soaked in pure white alcohol and ...dada sound again from tha speakers. Although there wasn't any sign of dirt or other stuff, that apparently helped to clear the area of something, and sound again. Fewwww

I also was having problems with sound on my original Ipad in connection to using the Airplay Apple TV. I couldnt find the ipad symbol on my ipad. All that would come up was dock connector and Apple TV. I had tried everything even resetting the Ipad and still no sound.

I read all the postings, and what I did in the end was insert my headphone and take it out and the sound has come back. I am hoping that this has done the trick.

I hope this might help!!!

the Qui-tip with a little window cleaner sprayed on it worked for me. I was only getting sound from the headphones, and the speaker symbol (on the home bar) would disappear when I pulled them out of the plug.