2012-05-16 09:57:00
Apparently, there are plenty people who experience problems with their iPad2 pertaining to the internal speaker. Specifically: the iPad refuses to play audio and the volume slider does not work. Thanks to some troubleshooting and help from the Apple support fora I've fixed our iPad.
Symptoms:
A lot of people hypothesized that the problems are linked to the upgrade to iOS 5, or that you need to flip the hardware switch settings between "mute" and "rotation lock" a few times.
It's none of that. As forum member Val E Um notes, it's the dock connector: something is causing glitches, causing the iPad to think that it's dock-connected to external speakers. By wiggling a dock cable in the iPad I could make the volume slider appear and disappear. If I wedged the dock connector in at just the right angle, sound kept on working.
The solution: take an alcohol wipe, wrap it around a stiff piece of cardboard and scrape the dock connector on the iPad. Of course, first power down the iPad! After cleaning the dock connector, my sound problems are over :)
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Posted by Cailin Coilleach
Darn, the problem has -not- been fixed. It's still that dock connector though.
But yeah, it's fun when a problem is relatively simple :)
Posted by Kate
Thank you so much..... I have been looking for this fix on and off for 6 months, yours is the only solution that worked!!!!!!! So grateful <3
Posted by Cailin Coilleach
Hi Kate,
Well, it turns out that in my case that was only a temporary fix! Because not a few days after, it was broken again. The dock connector itself was broken, so I took it in to the Apple Store. They replaced it with a new iPad.
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2012-05-16 13:15:00
Posted by Menno
I think it's really cool such a low tech solution works for a high tech machine :).
Same with my parents dvd player a couple of days ago. The tray wouldn''t come out. It''s one of those trays that flips open the front cover.
So I opened the cover with a paperclip, pocked my finger inside and just randomly turned some gears back and forth.
That did the trick!