My iPad has no sound

If you had no sound through the earphones too, EVEN when all apps were closed and sound NOT turned off, then it most probably has nothing to do with iOS. Still, if you are more comfortable with windows for listening to your music collection, then you could try one of their phones - even second hand it would be quite sufficient and you could carry it in your pocket.

Anyway, the mini jack socket possibly got some bad treatment and there's now a bad connection. If you don't want an intermittent paperweight, you should have it looked at.

ThinMan, you don't need to open Settings to turn off bluetooth. Just flick up from the bottom edge of your iPad and you'll see something useful appear.

Do follow Everson's advice.

After closing all apps reboot. This does not mean putting the ipad to sleep. You have to switch off the ipad, wait till the screen is completely black, then switch it on again. You will see the apple logo for a while before you get to your home screen.

Some apps really do mess up the sound and once you find which one is doing this, trash it and never use it again. I had a warning about a music app not being updated anymore but I liked it and didn't trash it then forgot. It was a sneaky one that only caused sound to disappear once in a while but I finally got it by a process of elimination. I think the developer hadn't followed Apple's "sound" ;) rules for use with ios updates.

I have had this problem with my ipad 2 twice now. The first time I was able to fix with 10 second hold home and the sleep button for reboot. The second time I tried everything that was in every thread I found including: cleaning charging connector, sliding mute button, soft reset in settings (even the reset choice that wipes settings and media), updating OS, disabling bluetooth as it could be connected to a speaker and few other things. The only thing that worked is a tip from someone in this support community which suggested to go to youtube and do a search by the microphone button (like SIRI type search). This will ask accesses to your microphone so say yes and the external speaker will star working. In my case the sound through the headset always worked, so check to see if you get that to make sure you have similar problem like mine. I'm thinking that this is old hardware/advanced OS problem and I predict it will come back to me soon. Probably few people have real issue with failed hardware and will never find a fix, but the majority are software related. Some will get it fixed with reboot or reset but maybe it's time to start looking into a new generation ipad!!!!!!!

In only caught this comment today, when the new ios has once again taken out the sound.

I paid more than $500 for my ipad. I expect it to work for more than two years. Buying a new one? Why on earth would I buy something so glitchy?

I tried the reset step but had no luck then found this post http://iphonenosound.com/sound-and-speaker-has-stopped-working-on-ipad/ pretty strange but it says to clean the docking station. Also closing all the apps and deleting the facebook can help as well. There was heaps of dirt in there so must of had something to do with it, hope this helps!