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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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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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Ony1176

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May 17, 2016 7:37 PM in response to HoustonianK

Nice work discovering this fix.

Jul 10, 2016 12:52 PM in response to Alex_Colyer

TRY... Top left on side .... there is a little switch , when moved there is a little orange stripe which makes the ringer stop but vibration works . slide so orange is gone . Ringer ON 🙂

robiroo

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Nov 30, 2016 11:51 AM in response to HoustonianK

I've been going crazy trying to figure this out hoping I didn't need yet another phone after a year (like my 1 yr and 3 day old HP printer that died just days out of warranty, go figure). But I tried this, clicked on mute, then unclicked it and voila! back to pretty ringer music, thanks. (iphone6)

Dec 1, 2016 3:27 PM in response to Alex_Colyer

https://www.technobezz.com/fix-iphone-not-ringing-problem/
solved my problem. Turns out my phone has a vibrate only / ring button and it was on vibrate only.

Oct 26, 2017 4:37 PM in response to HoustonianK

Years later, HoustonianK's fix saves the day!! 🙂

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