Sound issues - only headphones or speaker working

Hi all,
I've only had my phone a few weeks, but I've today started having a problem with the sound on my iphone 4. The system is acting as though my headphones are permanently plugged in - in that I can only hear callers etc if I have them on speaker phone or use headphones.
I've tried resetting the phone, just in case, and have tried plugging and unplugging the headphones jack repeatedly to no avail. The phone hasn't been dropped or damaged in any way (as far as I'm aware!). Any suggestions appreciated
Sophie
Any ideas?

Perusmuro,
I don't think it is a software issue, most headphone jacks take care of the transfer between speaker and headphones thru mechanical switching.
I really am starting to become gun shy of this forum. It seem like every time I browse it someone finds a new Major problem and as soon as it is mentioned a dozen people chime in with "Yup me too".
This sound like a low quality headphone jack problem and something that will require a phone exchange.
It is just amazing how one high end phone can have so many serious problems and not a single comment from Apple about any of them except for the antenna issue and there reply to that was it doesn't really exist and if it does it is OK because all smart phone have this problem that doesn't exist.
Maybe just because it is late and I am tired but it appears the iP4 has more problems than it has components. Before I get all the folks jumping me about theirs works fine, so does mine but I'll be damned if I am going to plug a headset in to find out if I can break mine - I would just as soon not know. Ignorance is bliss or something like that.

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XuYimin, can you please give more info on what you mean by "update (alsa)"? There is no "alsa" package in Arch as alsa & it's modules are part of the (linux) kernel.
As you have already gone into alsamixer to ensure the appropriate channels are unmuted & set at the desired level, have you also gone into your KDE systems settings -> Multimedia -> Audio and Video Settings & rechecked your settings?
sorry，it's really misleading in my words.what i want to say is 'no sound after update, and the sound system is alsa.'
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