iPhone keep killing it's sound/signal

Raymond Lin

Raymond Lin

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I keep getting this message, randomly on my 1st Gen iPhone on OS 3.0.




It happens all the time and it comes up when:-

- I am not touching the phone

- Listening to music - it'll then cut off the music/sound, you can imagine how annoying that is when listening to a song.

- when i am on the screen doing stuff, it'll pop up and i have to press "NO" to get rid of it. If i press YES, it'll go into Airplane mode and turn off the network and wifi.

- it happens with or without heaphones plugged in

- If there's no headphone plugs in, and it comes up, there is no sound, the phone would ring, but i can't hear it, i can see it on screen but no sound, no vibrate.

- I am not using any accessories with the phone, it even happens with nothing plugged in....

By the time i typed this post, with the phone sitting idle next to me without me touching it once, the screen went from Black (off), to the message coming up, 7 times. Yup, it pops up even when the phone is locked (i can still press the YES/NO) button with it locked.

It is driving me mad, not only I can't hear the phone, it also stops me using it like an iPod as that message cuts off the sound in the headphones too. The phone was working perfectly for 15 months, until Saturday......then it came up for 24 hours, fine for 48 hours and start doing it again this morning.......It's not an interference in a local area as I was all over Cardiff on Saturday, on the train across the country, in Hereford and now in Worcester. I've tried rebooting it, turning it on and then off, everything but restore...

EDIT - Holy Crap - it even turns itself ON !!!!, i got annoyed with it just now as the message came up 5 times in a single minute so i held down the power button and switched it off, and then it switched itself BACK ON !!!!!!!!! WTF ?

EDIT 2 - I thought i was seeing things the first time, or may be i press reboot instead of off.....I switched it off again, MAKING SURE, and it was off for a good 2 minutes, not touching it and watching it.......it just turned itself on again.......:eek:
 
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mr_x_plosion said:
Take it in to an apple store if you have one near you. Has it been exposed to moisture at all?
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No exposure to moisture, its in a incase silicon/rubber case, it's been dropped once (5 months ago, but worked perfectly since), and its jailbroken......and the nearest Apple Store is miles and miles away.
 
It's something in the dock connector.

I used to get the message on a iPhone 2G after it got wet once.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I've googled and its nothing to do with the firmware, and restoring to normal firmware is useless to me...i am on Orange. :(
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Well its either the phone or the software.

You are up the creak either way, more so if its hardware.

Take the sim out, DFU restore it and see what happens then, the message in theory still come up. You could borrow a mates O2 sim to activate the phone to get into the iPod bit and test.
 
EVH said:
It's something in the dock connector.

I used to get the message on a iPhone 2G after it got wet once.
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Ok.................i blew the dock connector with my rocket blower when it got home, and its now working perfectly :D I guess my breath wasn't strong enough.

Crisis over, thats £40 a month contract avoided !
 
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