Fix Siri's "Raise to Speak" After 7.1.1 Update

I found that after updating my iPhone 4s to iOS 7.1.1 this morning that Siri no longer triggered when I put the phone up to my ear. Settings/General/Siri showed "Raise to Speak" was still enabled. Flipping it off and then on again did not fix it, still no Siri (long pressing the Home button still triggered Siri btw).
Finally I switched "Raise to Speak" off again and restarted the phone (sleep/wake and home press), once it had rebooted I went into settings and put "Raise to Speak" on again, and now Siri is happily launching when I put the phone up to my ear again. Hope this helps anyone else who may encounter this problem.

Did a hard reset on the iPhone this morning and that seemed to straighten it out. Able to sync with iTunes, DiskAid, and Image Capture now. So far, issue resolved.

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