My iphone 4s just randomly stopped playing sounds or any audio without the use of headphone

Phone will just not play sounds not matter what quick fix i try unless i am using siri which seems to work

Thanks, I tried that. However, this is what I did and what worked!! I saw this technique on a previous message on this site.
I blew air into the headphone output with a camera cleaning blowy bulb, and put in my headphones, turned them around, and pulled them out several times.
My headphone output my have been compromised with dust or dirt !
Thank you again for your reply.
PS I called Apple support and the fellow had no idea how to fix this.

Similar Messages

IPhone randomly stops playing sound out of iPod docks?

I recently plugged my iPhone 4 iOS6.0.1 (the new update recently put out by apple) and it has stopped playing sound out of any iPod dock I plug it into.
It plays sound normally out of the speakers and charges while on the dock. Has anyone had any problems similar and any solutions?
Also I have restored my whole iPhone this morning and it still has the same problem. My husband doesn't have this problem and he has the iPhone 3.
Is this a bug with the new iOS6.0.1 and is Apple going to put out a new update anytime soon to fix it? Or do I need to send my phone away.
Thank you.

It can't be 3 years old since the 5G iPod was first introduced in Oct 2012
- Try cleaning out/blowing out the headphone jack. Try inserting/removing the plug a dozen times or so. There is a little switch in the headphone jack that disconnects the speaker when the headphone jack is inserted.
Try the following to rule out a software problem
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store. Seems you have a bad headphone jack.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
If not under warranty Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for this price. They do not fix yours.
Apple - iPod Repair price
A third-party place like the following will replace the jack for less. Google for more.
iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens
Replace the jack yourself
iPod Touch Repair – iFixit

My iPad just randomly stopped having sound and will not shut down only restart.

my iPad just stopped have sound. Only works with ear-buds. Also, now when I power it down or even force it, will only restart & will not stay shut off. I have done the whole mute/lock thing, did a reset & even backed it up & restored it. Anybody have any suggestions?? thanks!

Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.)
Check your settings. The iPads have a small switch on the right edge. It can be used as a rotation lock to keep the screen from automatically reorienting itself as you move around, but you need to have the tablet’s settings configured properly. That same switch, right above the volume buttons, can also be set to function instead as a mute button to silence certain types of audio.
If the switch is set to work as a mute button, you can change its purpose to “screen-rotation lock” by tapping the Settings icon on the home screen. On the Settings screen, tap General on the left side, and on the right side of the screen flick down to “Use Side Switch to.” Tap to select Lock Rotation or Mute to set the button’s function. Even if you set the side switch for your preferred use, you can still mute the Mini or lock the screen. Just double-click the Home button, and when the panel of apps appears along the bottom edge of the screen, flick the row from left to right with your finger. Tap the icon on the far left side of the row to either lock the iPad’s screen or mute the iPad’s alerts, notifications and sound effects. Music, podcasts and video are not muted unless you turn the volume all the way down.
iPhone: Can't hear through the receiver or speakers
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1630http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1630
http://www.atreks.com/app-no-sound-on-ipad-4-%E2%80%93-what-to-do/http://www.atreks.com/app-no-sound-on-ipad-4-%E2%80%93-what-to-do/
To solve some sound problems, just follow these simple steps
1. Go to Settings
2. Tap on General
3. Tap on Reset
4. Tap on Reset All Settings
 Cheers, Tom

I cannot hear sound from my computer without the use of a headphone

My Macbook Pro is just over a year old and I am having trouble with the sound and speaker system.
The problem arises when a headphone is plugged in I hear sound, but when they are removed I am not hearing anything and the volume button on the keyboard is inaccessible. There is a circle and a stroke across showing up for the controls.

Is there a red light in the audio output port? If so, the internal switch is stuck. Insert the headphone jack and press the volume key and withdraw the headphone jack. Any difference?
Ciao.

Why do my songs just randomly stop playing?

Everytime I play a song and the song just stops randomly throughout and then iTunes just crashes... It's very annoying.

HA... welcome to the most advanced operating system in the World !!!.... same thing here.... I am hating mac's.... more because I made the stupid thing of buying a lot of apple products, iphone, ipods... now I am stucked and have invested a lot of cash on it.... 8gb ram, 500 hd... and a perfomance worst than a windows vista machine with 1 gb ram... I hate this....

Music randomly stops playing (same problem in multiple apps)

Since a few days, my Z1C will randomly stop playing sound, while I'm listening music. It will do this up to multiple times per minute, seems somewhat like a online game lagging really badly, after which it will just pause.
It does this on multiple apps (I tried it on the following
- Spotify
- Walkman (or whatever the music app is called now)
- Audible (audiobooks)
The issue happens both when I listen through my bluetooth headphones (Jaybird bluebuds x) as well as on speaker.
I have had the phone for somewhat more than a year now, I recon. The headphone jack is broken because of my own rough handling, but that wasn't a big deal so far because I use bluetooth anyway.
Anyone know what to do about this?

Hi Bmot,
Welcome to the community.
You could try booting the device in to safemode, at least this way you can find out if software is the suspect or if it is more likely hardware.
Safemode instructions
let us know how you get on.
- Official Sony Xperia Support Staff
If you're new to our forums make sure that you have read our Discussion guidelines.
If you want to get in touch with the local support team for your country please visit our contact page.

My iphone has been lost in my house and i need to find a way to track it and its offline. it wont connect to the internet so there isnt a way to use find my iphone. i just want to play a sound on it. is there any way i can get a app that connects my ipod

my iphone has been lost in my house and i need to find a way to track it and its offline. it wont connect to the internet so there isnt a way to use find my iphone. i just want to play a sound on it. is there any way i can get a app that connects my ipod from a laptop or a different way to find it.

If your phone is offline, the ONLY way to find it is to look for it the old fashioned way. Your phone CANNOT be located electronically if it's offline.

For certain songs on my iPhone 4s with iOS7 some songs stop playing audio but continue playing the song almost as if it were muted. Where can I fix this? Say "Stronger" by Kanye West stops playing sound after 2:25 but it is 5 minutes long.

Basically it is just like it says. Certain songs stop playing sound after a certain point in the song but the song continues playing and ticking down like it normally would. Does anyone else have this problem?

Hi I found the answer from another post. So far everything is working find. I been trying to fix this since march,
from
Mike N. (nahyun...
Posts: 2,814
From: New York, NY
Registered: Oct 1, 2003
Re: itune application and itune folder
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 7:16 AM in response to: Austin Smith2
Solved
Reply Email
Deleting the application rarely solves anything on Macs. A better starting point is normally to delete the preference file for the application (in Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.itunes.plist) or see if you have the same problem in another user account on the computer.
PM MDD(1.25GHz 1.25G-RAM 320G-HD) Mac OS X (10.4.10) 20"ACD USB2Connect MacBook (2.0 White)-2GB Report this post
Austin Smith2
Posts: 118
Registered: Oct 31, 2001
Re: itune application and itune folder
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 12:51 PM in response to: Mike N. (nahyun...
Reply Email
Mike, deleting the preferences did the trick, but I don't know why. Itunes downloaded 5 days of podcast! Hurray!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!

Why does my ipod touch (2nd Gen) 32G randomly stop playing while at the same time the volume control slider dissappears?

It randomly stops playing after as little as 7 seconds and as much as 2 minutes. To resolve the problem I began removing and reinserting headphone jack. This sometimes rectified the issue, but inevitably it would stop playing again. I have blown air into the headphone jack receptical and powered down the product but neither action has permanently corrected the problem.
It has been a couple of months since it was last restored.
Any thought on why this has just started to happen. Does it need to be repaired by Apple? The item was purchased in Sept 2009.

It is possible you have a faulty lock/power button. One of my friends iPods did this. See if a faulty lock/power button is covered by your warranty if you don't have a warranty you might have to pay a pretty penny to get it fixed. When the screen flashes does it go black and come back at the lockscreen? If so it is very much the lock/power button.

HLS encryption VOD randomly stop playing on IOS

We have 4 AMS servers load balanced (DNS) with identical application on each. RTMPe is playing fine from flash desktops, however, HLSe on IOS devices randomly stops playing part way through the content. I do not see any relevant errors in AMS/Apache. The front end player shows the following errors when the content stops playing:
"CoreMediaErrorDomain" "No response for media file in 0.49632s"
"CoreMediaErrorDomain" "Segment exceeds specified bandwidth for variant"
Similar issues discussed here: http://openradar.io/15060374 (thought not AMS specific).
This could be a player issue. It seems to randomly have issues grabbing an HLS segment. Has anyone else had any similar issues?
(the following IP's, certs, URL's have been replaced for privacy).
httpd.conf
<Location /hls-vod>
                HLSHttpStreamingEnabled true
                HLSMediaFileDuration 8000
                HttpStreamingContentPath "/mnt/store0/"
                HLSFmsDirPath ".."
                HLSJITConfAllowed true
                # Cache-control header configuration start
                # Specify the max-age(in secs) to set in the Cache-Control header
                # for different response types (m3u8, ts, drmmeta,...).
                # A value of -1 turns off setting the cache control header.
                HLSM3U8MaxAge 86400
                HLSTSSegmentMaxAge 86400
                HLSMetaMaxAge 3600
                # Cache-control header configuration end
                # Uncomment the following directives to enable encryption
                # for this location.
                     HLSEncryptionScope server
                     HLSEncryptCipherKeyFile "../creds/vodkey.bin"
                     HLSEncryptKeyURI        "https://myurl/hls-key/vodkey.bin"
                Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
        </Location>
httpd-hls-secure.conf
<VirtualHost myip:443>
ServerName myserver
DocumentRoot "../webroot"
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile    "/opt/certs/mycert.crt"
#Uncomment the following if the file specified above does not
#have the private key
SSLCertificateKeyFile "/opt/certs/mykey.key"
#Client Authentication configuration
#SSLVerifyClient require
#SSLVerifyDepth       9
SSLCACertificateFile "/opt/certs/myintermediate.crt"
SSLOptions           +StdEnvVars +FakeBasicAuth -ExportCertData +StrictRequire
<Location /hls-key>
HLSEncryptHostCipherKey true
HLSFmsDirPath ".."
HLSEncryptKeyRepository "../creds"
SSLRequireSSL
# SSLRequire %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN} eq "iPhoneOS Device Certificate"
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

I just wanted to add an update in case anyone else runs into a similar issue. I seem to have found a solution to the problem. Here's what I did:
1) Plugged in to my computer and removed all music from my iPod (just unselected "sync music" then allowed the iPod to sync).
2) In iTunes, under the summary tab of my iPod, I selected "convert higher bit rate songs to 256 kbps AAC" in the options section.
3) I synced my iPod. This took a REALLY long time, as I have just over 52GB of music that I chose to put on my iPod. This is 52GB AFTER the conversion to 256kbps. Anyway, it took a couple hours to sync the first time because it had to convert almost every song. After the first sync, it doesn't take long to sync unless I add a lot of songs and even then, it only takes a few minutes.
I've listened to my music on a variety of devices (in my car, different types of headphones, computer at work etc) and haven't noticed any degradation in quality, despite the fact that nearly all of the original music files on my computer are 320kbps. I'm not sure if the problem I was having was due to the higher bitrate or the fact that the original music files are a variety of formats (aac, mp3, wav, and some others).
I did this later in the evening after I posted the original question and have not had a problem since (about 15 days). Skipping songs seems to go a lot faster as well. I use my iPod a good 6-10 hours everyday, so I think that having no problems in the last 15 days is pretty good evidence that this is a good solution.
Hopefully this is helpful to anyone that stops by here

My iPad 3 iOS 8.3 suddenly stopped playing sound on its speakers while on Spotify. Volume max. Side switch not on mute. Tried rebooting thrice. Sounds won't work on other apps. Works with earpods.

My iPad 3 iOS 8.3 suddenly stopped playing sound on its speakers while I was listening on Spotify. Volume was maxxed out. Side switch not on mute. Tried rebooting thrice. Sounds won't work on other apps (Soundcloud, NPR, Clash of Clans). There are sounds when I attached my earpods. I tried the switch to mono solution on the other threads, didn't help either.
My iPad is generally muted because of classes, but when I un-mute it it works fine. It just stopped after one song, and now I can't get it to work. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Hi!
I've the same issue after updating to iOS 8.3. on iPad 3.
sound is working properly only with headphones attached.
when I tap on AirPlay button it says "Docking connector" while it should "iPad"
when i play with sound settings and try to change e.g. some alert sounds, sound is played and volume slider in control center magically appears.
any other app can't play sound.
is there any fix for that?
Thanks

IPod stopped playing sound out of speakers

I have an iPod touch 5th Gen which is around 3 years old and today it suddenly stopped playing sound out of the speakers. If i put headphones in sound plays fine out of them but as soon as I take them out no sound comes out even if there is something playing.
The speakers were working fine around 20-30 minutes before I realized they weren't working and my iPod has been doing nothing but sitting on my desk in that time. I tried restarting my iPod but this didn't fix the issue.

It can't be 3 years old since the 5G iPod was first introduced in Oct 2012
- Try cleaning out/blowing out the headphone jack. Try inserting/removing the plug a dozen times or so. There is a little switch in the headphone jack that disconnects the speaker when the headphone jack is inserted.
Try the following to rule out a software problem
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store. Seems you have a bad headphone jack.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
If not under warranty Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for this price. They do not fix yours.
Apple - iPod Repair price
A third-party place like the following will replace the jack for less. Google for more.
iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens
Replace the jack yourself
iPod Touch Repair – iFixit

How can I make the iPhone podcast app automatically stop playing after one episode?

How can I make the iPhone podcast app automatically stop playing after one episode?

When playing a song, are the controls at the top of the screen there? (Genius, Shuffle, Loop?)
If not, tap the center of the page once to expose them
now keep tapping the circle on the left part of the exposed controls untill a one (1) appears...

ITunes randomly stops playing purchases that have previously viewed on the same hardware. It has an error message about HD. How can this issue be resolved? What information is available besides the "learn more" option that does not deal with the problem?

iTunes randomly stops playing purchases that have previously viewed on the same hardware. It has an error message about HD. How can this issue be resolved? What information is available besides the "learn more" option that does not deal with the problem?
Many people have the same problem. However, there is little or nothing readily available to users. This problem has existed for two or more years. Does anyone have anything to offer about this disturbing problem?

Thanks for the suggestion kcell. I've tried both versions
9.0.115 and 9.0.124 and both fail with the policy permission error.
I also tried with and without your crossdomain.xml file but
with the same result. It looks like this file is intended for URL
policy, instead of socket policy. Recently Adobe separated the two.
When I run with the files installed on my dev PC, it does
work, which makes sense because the flash player isn't loaded from
an unknown domain.
I did get one step closer. If a crossdomain.xml in the server
root exists and the socketpolicy file is loaded from the app folder
then the first two warnings disappear. The logs now show:
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
https://192.168.2.5/trunk/myapp.swf
OK: Policy file accepted: https://192.168.2.5/crossdomain.xml
OK: Policy file accepted:
https://192.168.2.5/trunk/socketpolicy.xml
Warning: Timeout on xmlsocket://192.168.2.5:843 (at 3
seconds) while waiting for socket policy file. This should not
cause any problems, but see
http://www.adobe.com/go/strict_policy_files
for an explanation.
Warning: [strict] Ignoring policy file with incorrect syntax:
xmlsocket://192.168.2.5:993
Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://192.168.2.5:993 by
requestor from https://192.168.2.5/trunk/myapp.swf is denied due to
lack of policy file permissions.
Which basically says, everything is okay, but you stay out
anyway.
PS: I found the XML schema files here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security_02.html
and the socket policy schema:
http://www.adobe.com/xml/schemas/PolicyFileSocket.xsd.
UPDATE: When serving up the policy file on port 843 using the
example perl script then the socket connection seems to be accepted
and the connect succeeds. After that flex hangs trying to logon to
the IMAP server.

IPhone has just randomly erased all of my texts messages,can I get them back?Ask your question.

iPhone had just randomly erased all of my texts,can I get these back?

You are correct, they do keep a record of texts sent and received and subscribers can access this information themselves using their online account.
They do do keep the content of text messages at all just like they do not keep copies of phone conversations. If the text message is deleted from the sending and receiving instrument it is gone. Getting a court order for the content of text messages from a provider would be a worthless endeavor as it is well known that information is not available.
If a text message has not been successfully delivered the system will continue to try to send it by accessing the senders device and resending the message; you are right they are not from cosmic radiation or echoes from the moon, they are from the device that sent the message.

My iphone 4s just randomly stopped playing sounds or any audio without the use of headphone

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for