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User profile for user: Alex_Colyer
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iPhone 4 doesn't ring, only vibrates, but speakers work.

My iPhone 4 (AT&T) suddenly won't ring when someone calls or I get a text, it only vibrates. The speakers play music fine, and I can have phone conversations and hear/speak to the other person fine. Also, the alarm clock sounds The mute switch doesn't seem jammed or anything, but when I switch it off, it doesn't show the picture of the bell with the line through it while vibrating to let me know its off. Also, the volume buttons get no response when pressed. Any ideas?

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jul 10, 2012 3:31 PM

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User profile for user: John Siebenthaler 1
John Siebenthaler 1
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Posted on Oct 25, 2013 2:53 PM

Worked, mystery, thanks.

HoustonianK wrote:


I still continue to have this issue. I fix this by going to settings> general> accessibility > AssistiveTouch.

Turn AssistiveTouch on, you should see a white circle on upper left corner, tap it to see a pop up of four icons. Tap the device icon,another screen appears where you seen an bell that you can unmute/mute. That fixes mine every time. Don't know why it mutes itself here even though nowhere else on my phone shows the phone to be on mute!

Hope that helps,

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User profile for user: ihrinc
ihrinc
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Jul 13, 2015 10:30 AM in response to HoustonianK

HoustonK's suggestion helped because it led me to a solution. On my iPhone 4, however, when I unmuted the bell using the Assistivce Touch>Device>Mute icon, oddly enough when it shows the phone is not muted, it won't ring. I thought I would cycle it through Mute>Unmute>Mute>Unmute to see if it would then Unmute, but what I found much to my surprise, is that it rings when the Mute/Unmute icon is set to Mute and it doesn't ring when it's set to Unmute. Talk about counterintuitive! Looks to me as though there's a glitch in the software.

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iPhone 4 doesn't ring, only vibrates, but speakers work.

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