Iphone 4 has no text tone

My iphone 4 will not ring on texts. It will vibrate but no sound. It works fine on calls. All settings are correct. I have the ringer on and volume turned up, it is not something silly I am missing. When I tap the different ringtones under sounds and texts none of them make a sound. I have reset and rebooted the phone, neither did any good. I don't know what to do next.

I had a similar problem and found my answer here: i have no sound when recieving texts but i have sound on phone calls
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