IPhone 3Gs sound problems.

[im15]

hello everyone.
ive had my iphone for just over a yr now and havnt had any problems till now. the sound has just randomly stopped working! it will make the clicking sounds when i put my password in sometimes but then just wont work. ive pushed the home button twice, scrolled across to the volume bar and i dont get to set it. its not on vibrate. if i use the buttons on the side to turn it up, it just comes up with a picture of the speaker and thats it. however if i go into sounds and lets say choose a ringtone, i'll pick one and it will preview the tone no problem. but if i play my music, nothing. ive restored it, done a hard reset, put my headphones in and out of the jack repeatedly and nothing. if im in music and pull the headphones out, the volume bar just dissapears.
help would be greatly appreciated.

IOS 5.0.1
iPhone 3Gs

 

[Saucytii]

i had a sound problem with my iphone 3gs. i lost ringer, key sound, speaker really all my sound. believe it or not on the side of the phone above the two volume buttons there is a ring/silents switch. i turner it off and on twice and guess what? All of the sound came on. I must have by accident hit this switch. good luck.

Thanks that was driving me mad and I finally have it fixed thanks to you!

 

[Frankies]

I recently "lost" the speakers on my 3GS , could only communicate in conference mode i.e. loudspeaker . I cleaned out a lot of fluff from the earphone jack socket and the docking port and it appears to have fixed the problem . As this is quite an old phone I should imagine the problem is common to other models of this type due to age/dust/fluff . Hope this helps someone else .