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chi3f

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Dec 4, 2010
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Hi, first time poster forgive me if a working solution to this problem has already been posted and if my etiquette is a bit dodgy...

I have had my iPhone 3GS for about 15months now and about a month ago the external speaker decided to stop working. But i later figured out if i intentionally drop my phone onto a pillow a certain way the speaker would work again, but as you guys know that's not really a fix for the problem. Recently my little trick hasn't been working and....

I have tried in order:
-check mute switch
-check volume
-the headphone trick (re-inserting earphones until something happens)
-upgraded to iOS4.1

--!drop trick stopped working at this point!--

-replace dock connector assembly (which fixed my iPhone's tendency to randomly lose reception)
-hard reset
-clean headphone jack
-suck headphone jack

Everything else on the phone works like when it was new. Has anyone been in the same situation and managed to work out a DIY solution? Any ideas/help would be very much appreciated.

p.s. after doing some research on the issue I found that something called "cirrus logic – audio codec" may be to blame, if so looks like i'll be getting myself an iPhone 4 for Christmas.
 
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