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iPod touch 5th Generation: Broken Microphone or Software Glitch?

53kyle

53kyle

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Mar 27, 2012
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Sebastopol, CA
I updated to iOS 7 GM yesterday and now my iPod's microphone is totally dead. I first found this out when I went to use Siri and it sat there with an extremely active "sound wave" and wouldn't even acknowledge that I spoke by saying "I didn't understand" or something, so I investigated. I opened voice memos and pressed record. Even while in a silent room it acted like there was a loud noise and when I listened to the recording all I heard was white noise. Video recordings have the same static. My final test was to FaceTime my sister and guess what? THE SAME STATIC! Is this a known bug or hardware issue or what? It would be nice to get help before the 18th when I can bring my iPod into the apple store and have it tested.
 
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Jelliess

macrumors newbie
Nov 14, 2012
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My mic after updating onto 7 GM works well. tested with Siri, it does do my command.

Hard reset would be able to help you out.
After installations, device rebooting is recommended.
 
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defunct32

macrumors regular
Jul 19, 2013
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53kyle said:
I updated to iOS 7 GM yesterday and now my iPod's microphone is totally dead. I first found this out when I went to use Siri and it sat there with an extremely active "sound wave" and wouldn't even acknowledge that I spoke by saying "I didn't understand" or something, so I investigated. I opened voice memos and pressed record. Even while in a silent room it acted like there was a loud noise and when I listened to the recording all I heard was white noise. Video recordings have the same static. My final test was to FaceTime my sister and guess what? THE SAME STATIC! Is this a known bug or hardware issue or what? It would be nice to get help before the 18th when I can bring my iPod into the apple store and have it tested.
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Similar problem here?:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1630035/

Seems like it could be iOS 7.
 
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Ghostbusters

macrumors regular
Nov 12, 2012
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As defunct32 has pointed out, this seems to be an iOS 7 Beta glitch. If you want your microphone to work guaranteed, I suggest you either revert back to the current stable iOS 6 release or be patient for the official iOS 7 public release.
 
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