A little backstory:
Selling my iPhone 4 and using my original iPhone until the new one comes out. I had a damaged SIM reader but it operated 100% perfectly other than just not being able to read the SIM card.
I bought a replacement logic board on eBay last week that turned out to not work (still waiting on hopefully getting a refund there).
Found another working logic board on eBay and it arrived today, installed it this afternoon at work and put the phone all back together. I noticed it wasn't giving me any alert sounds and when I would push the volume button it showed "headphones" as if the headphones were plugged in - even though they weren't. People couldn't hear me on phone calls, etc. because the phone was trying to do it through the headphones.
Now, I remember some hooplah when this phone first came out about dirt/lint getting in the audio jack and causing this issue on early original iPhones and there were several fixes - QT with a bit of alcohol. Tried that with no luck. There was also one about taking the back case off and removing the water sensor cover and cleaning all the crud out. Well, I did that, and there was virtually nothing in there and this still didn't fix the problem.
I then realized the jack is for some reason reading "backwards". When I have an audio cable plugged in, the phone thinks there is nothing plugged in, and vice versa. With a cable plugged in, I can make normal phone calls, have normal text/call sounds, etc.
Anybody experience this before?
I can only find a couple of references online about flat-out reversed jack symptoms with no real follow up. Did first gen logic boards differ over their life-span in that where the ribbon connects to the board has reversed inputs or something?
Other than cutting off the end of an audio cable and plugging it in there semi-permanently and taping the top or something I'm not sure what to do here to have my phone function normally for the next few weeks.
Selling my iPhone 4 and using my original iPhone until the new one comes out. I had a damaged SIM reader but it operated 100% perfectly other than just not being able to read the SIM card.
I bought a replacement logic board on eBay last week that turned out to not work (still waiting on hopefully getting a refund there).
Found another working logic board on eBay and it arrived today, installed it this afternoon at work and put the phone all back together. I noticed it wasn't giving me any alert sounds and when I would push the volume button it showed "headphones" as if the headphones were plugged in - even though they weren't. People couldn't hear me on phone calls, etc. because the phone was trying to do it through the headphones.
Now, I remember some hooplah when this phone first came out about dirt/lint getting in the audio jack and causing this issue on early original iPhones and there were several fixes - QT with a bit of alcohol. Tried that with no luck. There was also one about taking the back case off and removing the water sensor cover and cleaning all the crud out. Well, I did that, and there was virtually nothing in there and this still didn't fix the problem.
I then realized the jack is for some reason reading "backwards". When I have an audio cable plugged in, the phone thinks there is nothing plugged in, and vice versa. With a cable plugged in, I can make normal phone calls, have normal text/call sounds, etc.
Anybody experience this before?
I can only find a couple of references online about flat-out reversed jack symptoms with no real follow up. Did first gen logic boards differ over their life-span in that where the ribbon connects to the board has reversed inputs or something?Other than cutting off the end of an audio cable and plugging it in there semi-permanently and taping the top or something I'm not sure what to do here to have my phone function normally for the next few weeks.
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