Had my iphone 5 for 5 days and all of sudden couldn't hear from ear piece.

I could only hear while using the speaker phone or headphones.

I tried the trick of plugging and unplugging ,

HD restart

remove SIM ,

reset the setting ,

cleaning the ear portion of the phone.

I removed plastic protector since day one

restore , a millions times and failed to success

BUt guess what I ? I work between time and time by chance , It's shamed on front of my people when I enforced to turn it to speaker to hear voice while other hearing my private conversation

I tried everything ...everything u could imagine I believe It is a hardware issue , in Iraq where I do live I have no chance

Following all advise listed above , I believe it's hardware issue but why it work between time to time just by chance

The only solution left , is to give it to the Apple Store to replace with new one .

what it make it worse is where i do live ( iraq ) we do not have apple store or authorized reseller ,

Apple !! I love your sexy products , my home is full of MacBook Pro retina , MacBook Air , 3 iPhone , if you do respect your customer an d like to maintain the relation , please extend your support to me if you care about

Iraq / Erbil