[mac4theblind] Re: Really really strange problem with friend's device
- From: Justin Harford <blindstein@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:37:54 -0400
Could he try just turning the volume up with the side buttons? I have found
that those system sounds can be effected by that volume control if you adjust
it when the speech is silent.
El 24-04-2011, a las 17:45, Christopher-Mark Gilland escribió:
> OK, perhaps one a you all can shed some light on this, as I'm totally at my
> witt's end. I must say, though I normally don't get this way, I'm! for once,
> perplexed! My friend clames he is having a really strange problem with his
> IPod touch 4th Gen 64GB. I had this happen once to me to, and god for the
> life of me! don't remember to save thw world! what I did to fix it.
> Apparently, he clames his voiceover sounds are gone. Yeah, he's on IOS
> 4.3.2. but does that matter really? When it happened to me, I think I was
> actually on 3.2, or such. It wasn't v 4, I know that. It wasn't even on my
> 4th gen I think that was back when I had a 3GS 32GB. He can hear speech just
> fine. It's not like he muted speech. If it was that easy, I'd a just had
> 'em do a 3 finger double tap. That won't work though with this. It's not
> his voice that isn't working, it's actually the physical navigational sounds
> in Voiceover that don't work. You know... if he had an IPhone, I'd tell him
> to check if the phone had somehow gotten the silencer switch set wrong. Or
> if it was an IPad, I'd had told him to see if mute was on either from the
> side switch or whatever. But again, those options hardware speaking aren't
> there being he has a Touch 4th Gen. I dono even the last thing he did before
> it happened. He doesn't recall either. I know the time it did it for me, I
> put my unit on a really el cheapo dock that really didn't work that great.
> For one thing, it didn't even support charging. I think it was some sort of
> a Sharper Image stereo with a dock built in. Ever sinse I got my IHome
> though, I've never once had that issue, and frankly when it did happen it was
> a royal fluke, and nothing I did fixed it. I don't even think hitting
> home+sleep did anything. even rapidly quintupplely pressing the sleep button
> to just refresh the springboard didn't work. His IPod's not jail broken, and
> never ever has even came close to being, even from a remote distance of fact.
> So yeah. We're both just pulling our hairout! over here trying to figure
> out what in the world on earth he did. I suppose I could have 'em restore
> it, and then once done restore from his last ITunes backup, but isn't that
> somewhat extreme? I think I had to do this to fix mine when it happened that
> one time, but come on! first me, now him. Surely! thus, this is sort of a
> kind of, ish, known issue.
>
> Any ideas. Man? I'm! out of options! I'm stmped and have absolutely no
> clue. this is totally wakkid! Very, very! bazaar!
>
> Chris.
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