Problem with Volume in iOS6

Hi All,
I was playing Street Fighter on iPhone 4 (iOS 6) whilst i was playing i received an incoming call which i declined, but post that the volume of the game went into mute and couldnt hear a thing. I pressed the home button, then double clicked it and closed the game. Then restarted the game to get my volume in my game back.
It happened again and this time i tried increasing the volume, no help what soever. I re-tried the work around and i got the volume in my game back.
Any ideas whats going on, as this didnt happen in iOS 5
Regards
Bhargav

I think the behaviour you described for the solo button is the expected one. When you use bus routing, the "columns" are the source?where the channels will be copied from, and the "rows" are the destination where the channels will be routed. If you are not playing music that uses a pair of channels, routing them to others?won't do anything. For stereo sources it's better to route in the 'Wave' column. If you use a playback software that supports ASIO output plugins you can assign channels arbitrarily whithin the program.

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My volume button gets stuck when I keep pressing it, it's software or hardware issue?

Restore as new, if that fixes the problem it is something in your settings or backup that was causing the issue.
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Hi Strontium90,
Thanks for the reply!
That is because Firewire and USB drives do not mount until the Finder is active. This is the default behavior, meaning that server, booting to the login screen, will not mount "transitory bus" devices. However, this can be overcome. You need to run this command to alter the default behavior (note this is all one line):
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool YES
Well, unfortunately, that's what I meant in my original post when I said that, yes, the file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount.plist already exists. I have already executed the command you indicated, which creates the .plist file. And while this does seem to mount the drive right after a reboot, as I stated, the act of logging on and then off causes the drive to be unmounted. In fact, the as far as I can tell, no matter how the drive gets mounted, it is automatically unmounted at every logoff.
But unless I am misreading what you are trying to do, that will allow the drive to mount automatically during startup and be available to the system without a user session.
And it does... but it doesn't stay mounted. And it doesn't explain why mount -a fails with the errors I listed.
As for a remap of the Users folder... If this is for network homes, then simply define the share point and define it to go to your external drive.
It is indeed for network homes. Unfortunately, all of the defaults in server when creating accounts want to use /Users. I know I can change these defaults, but my experience with Apple is that successive operating system upgrades never respect or protect changes to defaults. Since all of the admin tools (and applications, and etc.) want to use /Users, I want to simply mount a larger partition at that point.
Which, unfortunately, brings me back to my original three questions...

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