iphone 4s speaker not working at all

Hi All,

I had this Sound / Speaker issue too on my iPhone 4S, with only Ringtone & Headphones working and no other sound coming despite several software hacks and solutions read on forums here. I managed to solve it today after reading online for a perfect solution.

This seems to be a fairly frequent problem amongst users who are using 3rd party (Cheap Chinese) dock connectors or chargers. There is some residue on the charging connector and hence it seems to be stuck in Dock/Headphone mode. I personally had this issue that only Ringtone and Headphone were working. I cleared some stuck particles from the dock connector in iPhone below and voila ! Sound works perfectly. Try it using a cotton bud / swab with removed cotton or I did it with inverted metal paper clip carefully avoiding to scrap and destroy the PCB board. (Other common solution was to remove water particles from headphone hole but I didnt have any)

All the best,

Cheers !

Same issue with the sound on My 4S. Sound from a podcast was intermitent on speaker but ok on headphones. I cleaned out the connecter just by sliding a piece of paper into it to remove fluff etc and then plugged in the Apple provided USB connector cable. Gave it a wiggle and that sorted out the problem.

I'm using only Apple charger n headphone...I had the same problem for a month. Last night used pin & Cotton to wife gently the headphone dock...It dint work initially for sometime but later started to work..try it out...I think this issue was because of moisture content in the dock...

My iphone4s speakers doesn't work. Apple store could not do any thing but suggest to replace new iphone4s for $200. I restore the phone from itune, to select time for recover at the time you think your phone working fine, in my case about 15 days ago. It fixes my speaker problem!

Good luck

I just replaced the battery on my 4s. These phones are incredibly badly assembled. My speaker hasn't been working well for months--it was very soft. I almost bought a new speaker at I fixit, where I got the battery. I decided to try to remove the speaker before I ordered a new one. When I put it back in, voila, it works again. It isn't hard to do. You just need a tiny pent screwdriver and a tiny Phillips head. Go to ifixit.com and it explains the procedure for getting the back off. When you get your phone open, take a look at how askew some of the tiny parts are. There was a little part obscuring both the camera flash and lens. I looked in my wife's phone and it was the same. These things cost too much money for this kind of poor craftsmanship. Apple needs to start beating their slaves more, or better yet, pay them more and pay taxes too

It's right that iphone is very weak for moisture and humid condition. I can't understand why jobs didn't concentrate on this conditions.

It cost to repiar apple authorized shop & repair service shop over $40 in Korea. I think they are robber.

Apple haven't officially spoken thier problem about this malfunctions of iphone 4s.

Iphone 4S: I tried the cleaning the connector and headphone ports, reinserting and / or wiggling the headphone and charging cable, powering off, restoring, and resetting to DFU, none of which worked. This happened to my 4S after using a third-party Stereo iPod Dock: Pansonic HC-SC35. I fixed it by redocking the iphone into my third-party Stereo iPod Dock (Pansonic HC-SC35), playing some sound through the dock, then undocking. I couldn't recreate the problem so I can't determine if the Panasonic Dock caused it or why it happens.

I had same problem after soaking my iPhone in a pool of water at a party. I just played with the charging port and speaker area using a piece of paper and blowing into it. NOt even a minute. Now the sound works perfectly!!