Apple earpods microphone not working

I have the apple earpods and the microphone does not work with my iphone 4 running ios 6. Everything works except the mic, when I plug them in the mic on the physical phone is never disabled and I have to use the phone mic if I want to speak. I want to use the mic on the headphones control, how do I fix this? (I do not want to upgrade my ios)

think it more likely that it's an issue with the connector in the iphone
a connector connect a piece of metal inside with the middle ring on the minijack if they don't touch it don't work

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