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 Thomas
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 Thomas
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.
-> http://www.kilala.nl/index.php?id=2092
Posted by Dustin
Thank you so much for the solution! Could not find the solution anywhere else. You deserve an award or something for posting the solution even after you had fixed it yourself. Thank you thank you thank you!
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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!