iPhone 4 ear speaker not working after 2 restores and cleaning the headphone socket.

sounds like you have a hardware failure. If you want a working phone, you'll either need to pay to get it fixed or buy a new one.

I have the exact same problem with my ear speaker after my IOS 6 upgrade. My speakers work, bluetooth works, the earphones work, but the ear speaker doesn’t work. I noticed this IMMEDIATELY after the upgrade was completed. I also have the following problems:

-Very slow call connect time. 30 - 45 seconds just to connect is typical. Signal strength is 5 bars (ATT)

-Problems attaching to known networks

-Very slow internet browsing with many timeouts on both the ATT 3G service and known Wi-Fi networks.

- My camera was missing after the IOS 6 upgrade. I restored that from Restrictions inside of the Settings App

- Music was so screwed up it was easier to just restore it

I went to the Apple store hoping to get some support. Between my wife, my son, and myself we have purchased 4 iPhones and an iPad over the last few years with plans to purchase another iPad in a month or so. So it’s not like I' not familiar with Apple Technology and their typical level of support.

The individual who waited on me was rude and condescending. He insisted that all of the problems were hardware related or ATT’s fault, or my fault. He further asserted that IOS 6 had NOTHING to do with any of the problems. I pointed out that it would be quite a coincidence for my hardware to break, for ATT to have network problems, and for me to suddenly forget how to use an iPhone at the same exact moment that IOS 6 had been installed. He maintained his position and offered to sell me another phone.

I don’t expect the folks in the store to reprogram the OS. Mistakes happen. I’m going to guess that Apple’s OS programmers are already working on a fix for many of the IOS 6 complaints that are easy to find on Google. Assigning blame to the customer and denying any responsibility is not a model for success or customer service. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t accept that kind of excuse from their component manufacturers and don’t think it is how they should deal with their customers. Further, Apple wants to own the device. They want to control the apps, the OS, battery, the delivery channel. I’m good with that so long as when there is a problem, they own that as well.

And BTW… I’m not including the maps in my list of issues with IOS 6 because I kind of like the new maps and am willing to give Apple the benefit of the doubt. I believe that their map service will get a lot better in a hurry.

Same here, my ear speaker doesn't work anymore, the 3G network data dissapears ramdomly and so on. Everything after "upgrading" to ios 6. I don't even spect kind of support apple since it is an old terminal, they probably blame on your usage or something like that, but the fact is that things stop working after two generations of hardware.

Hello,

Sorry to ressurect an older thread there but I have some insight on the speaker issue.

This has happened to me several times over the past year or so (I have an iPhone 4 16GB black).

Often a hard reset would do the trick (by holding power + home for around 10 seconds).

If the hard reset doesn't work, I've been succcessful 100% of the time by performing a full erase on the phone. This is a bit of a pain but if you back up to iCloud it should take any longer than about 20 minutes to restore your phone.

I believe when I initially did the full-erase I didn't restore from iCloud right away to rule out any software / apps messing my phone up. Running bare iOS it finally started working again.

Hope this helps you guys out. This seems to be a software problem

EDIT:

I just realized that you already did a full restore (apparently you need to read posts entirely before replying 🙂)

Might I suggest to run the phone bare for a few weeks to eliminate any software or app issues.