Earpiece speaker being flakey....

Hey I'm wondering if anyone has had similar issues and if you found a fix without going to the apple store. My earpiece speaker is being weird. It stopped working the other day for no apparent reason and I could only talk on speaker or with headphones. It wasn't picking up that headphones were in the socket because my external sound worked fine. It was just the earpiece. The following day it started working again for no apparent reason. Then it stopped and started working again.. And now it's not lol.
What do you guys think the problem is? It's pretty annoying and I dont have a store in my city... And before it's asked I did a hard restart and restored to factory in which neither worked. Thanks.

The standard troubleshooting steps in order are:
Power your iPhone off and on.
An iPhone reset.
Restoring your iPhone with iTunes from your iPhone's backup.
Restoring your iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup.
If no change after restoring your iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup, your iPhone has a hardware problem.
You can call AppleCare to handle a warranty claim over the phone, or make an appointment at an Apple store if there is one nearby. Unless you plan on visiting San Antonio sometime soon, you can call AppleCare.

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