Intermittant loss of sound

since i updated the software on my iphone 4 i have intermittant loss of sound i have researched and this is a common problem trouble is no one has an easy fix answer the best suggestion is to revert the phone back to the old software but i have no idea how to do this and apple dont seem to be acknowleging that they messed up with the update so if anyone can help i would be very gratefull
many thanks

I have been there and done that.....makes no difference. Why do you think that the all of a sudden it would change the output in the first place? Things don't change by themselves for no apparent reason. It was still on the bose speakers when I went into sys pref. Amazing that you think that it would change itself everyday....did you really read my post or were you distracted?

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