Has anyone experienced no sound when recording video on iPhone 4/4s?

THIS IS ACTUALLY A SOLUTION. My wife has an (ancient) iPhone 4. Yesterday she downloaded latest iOS her phone will accept -- 7.x. All of a sudden she had no audio on her video recordings nor with Facetime (she could hear the other end, but they couldn't hear her). Scoured the net and saw many "solutions" -- shut down and reboot; clean small mic next to headphone jack with a needle; etc. Nothing worked. And then I came across an obscure post from 2010. Here's what fixed the problem: (1) While completely covering (as in letting in no sound) the above-mentioned tiny mic next to headphone jack on top with your finger, make a video recording; then (2) While completely covering the mic on bottom to the left of USB port with your finger, make a video recording. Now try to make a video as normal. For me, bam...problem solved. Maybe making the two recordings while covering the mics somehow recalibrated the system? Who knows. Hope this helps.

I was really bummed when this happened to me. I've only had my iphone for a month. I JUST figured out what was wrong. Apparently the video sound is a separate function from the iphone's volume. So, all I did was play a video and while it was playing, turned the volume up using the plus button on the side of the phone. If you do this when you're not playing a video it will only affect the iphone's volume and not the video's. Hope this helps!

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