Speakers do not turn on

I updated my 16GB iPhone 4S with the new iOS 6.1 and now the speakers won't play music, videos, or anything that involves sound. The volume bar just doesn't appear. Can I get some help?

Hello Michael
"Seems like a small nit - but why doesn't the computer automatically play throught the external speakers after an off-on cycle? "
When you startup or restarts the startup chime will come from the internal speakers. Then the system should automaticly switch to external when it detects a jack pluged in. From what you discribe it seems to work properly when the computer is up and running, so it sound more like a startup issue.
First reset the SMC the instructions are in this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303446
Then test to see if this solved the issue!
If not then maybe you should Repair Disk Permissions, the instructions are in this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
Then test again!
Let us know how it's going!
Dennis
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Hello Michael
"Seems like a small nit - but why doesn't the computer automatically play throught the external speakers after an off-on cycle? "
When you startup or restarts the startup chime will come from the internal speakers. Then the system should automaticly switch to external when it detects a jack pluged in. From what you discribe it seems to work properly when the computer is up and running, so it sound more like a startup issue.
First reset the SMC the instructions are in this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303446
Then test to see if this solved the issue!
If not then maybe you should Repair Disk Permissions, the instructions are in this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
Then test again!
Let us know how it's going!
Dennis
17" iMac Intel Core Duo 1.5GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.9) Maxtor 300GB FireWire Creative Inspire 2.1 2G Nano

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Hi all,
When i try to turn up or down the volume, I get an image, in the place of where the usual volume thing pops up, of the mostly the same thing, except the "sound waves" coming out of the speaker image are grey, as well as the speaker image itself, and below the volume level ticks is a cancel sign (circle with slash through it), and my speakers refuse to work!
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J
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