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wen quan Author

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6 points

The iPad volume control doesn't work. I hit the Home button twice to show the Multitask bar and the volume control is missing from the Volume Control button.

As i say, the iPad volume control doesn't work. I hit the Home button twice to show the Multitask bar and the volume control is missing from the Volume Control button. Volume control bar also missing in some apps like youtube..... and i have already checked mute and that is have being set in unmute for sure, and in setting->sounds you also can play the notifcation sound when you choose different tone, so speark should be also ok.

After that i have try it with headphones, that works.

i try both reboot and reset my ipad to factory setting, but it still not working....

it's a ipad 2 with 5.1 ios

Anyone have any idea about it?

iPad 2, iOS 5.1

Posted on Apr 16, 2012 1:41 AM

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procrastiwriter

Level 1

8 points

Posted on May 16, 2012 4:24 AM

This may have been solved but I thought I'd post how I resolved the same problem today on a first gen iPad.

I double-pressed the Home button to see what apps were running in multi-task mode and then closed ALL of them - immediately the sound buttons started working again (I'm guessing that one of the running APPS was somehow hogging the sound controls).

I hope that this helps someone else :-)

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WitDJ

Level 1

0 points

Apr 3, 2013 2:16 PM in response to mandruff

Thanx for the advices I had the same problem.

I just blowed the charging block with a blower and now it working.

Think there was dirt on the charging block

Patsyman

Level 1

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Jul 30, 2013 2:29 PM in response to Egbert87

Thanks, this has worked for me!!!

Dec 26, 2013 11:49 AM in response to Antonio CH

I am having the same problem just happened yesterday. Did you get it fixed? It appears to have happened after connecting via Bluetooth to a Bose music speaker.

Oct 15, 2014 12:21 PM in response to JosephLau

I just had this exact issue and I plugged the adapter back in and the controls were back!

Jun 26, 2016 8:44 PM in response to wen quan

I Found the solution and it's SUPER EASY all you have to do is plug your iPad in

The iPad volume control doesn't work. I hit the Home button twice to show the Multitask bar and the volume control is missing from the Volume Control button.