My iPhone stopped working, and was fixed with a technical solution
I land in SFO after the fun flight from London which I luckily didn’t miss (Mark Reinhold, also). What do I do after I land? Why turn on my iPhone of course. There is an obvious desire to check email and voice mail as SOON as you land a plane. Just look around.
The problem was that I couldn’t hear any voice mail. Hmm. I try to call, and no cigar. When I got to the car I could use the bluetooth integration, and it worked fine.
So, I did what I normally do, and I setup an appointment at the Stanford shopping mall store. I just got here, and after a lot of testing they realised that some lint fell into the mic line, and the sensor there told the phone “oh, the headset is on, so pump all AV out through that”.
So, if you don’t hear anything out of your phone, and it wasn’t the speaker setting, or audio sources, give this a try: blow into your mic input.
December 15th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
What an easy solution :P
December 15th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I’ve been having the same problem lately. Really annoying, especially when I call someone and then can’t hear anything since audio is being sent to the headphone jack. My fix has been to re-insert and remove the headphone connector, which has been doing the trick today. But I’ll have to try to figure out if there’s some lint jammed down in there.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I have a big problem with my iphone. After I received the “low disk space” msg many times, I restarted the iphone then suddenly it couldn’t start again!!
Pls help.
thx
April 16th, 2008 at 2:07 am
just bought an iphone from saudi arabia,i used it for around 2 months,then it started switching off alon after i stop playing the music,i restarted it multipul times,but it just dont seem to work,then today i tried to restart it ,i could not,so my iphone is standered with a black screen,,,,,please any one out there ,help me if you know the solution….thanks
June 14th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Thanks for the tip, as soon as I blew into the mike I cant sound back in the ear piece. Tremendous… Thanks for saving my iPhone
June 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
very good.thank you!
June 29th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Hey ahmed,
This ones for u..same thing as u described happened with me. The same EXACT thing..and so what I did was hold the Home button and the power button at the top together for about 10 seconds and I kept doing that on and off for a while..I read that somwhere..Do it for 10 secs, let go, then do it again, then let go..and so on..Do it 4-5 times and then I read the first kalimah and turned it on. It worked..InshAllah I hope yrs works too…:)
July 12th, 2008 at 5:29 am
ya thanks,,,but i allready bought a new iphone by then,,,anyway i realy upreciate your concern,,,Id like to know if your a saudi who live in saudi arabia,this is my Email abuyabisahmedms@hotmail.com..:)
July 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Wow!! I had the same problem today, and you were spot on! Blow into the port and it’s fine - amazing. Thanks heaps!