Hi Jeff, Love the suggestion of the two-fingered swipe. I'd tried a flick all right but to no avail which is why I posted. The headphone issue isn't one I've seen so thanks for that.
Dónal On 25 Jul 2012, at 18:01, "Geoff Waaler" <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings Dónal, Diane and list, > > Another solution is to perform actions/gestures that should cause VO to emit > speech and press volume up while its presumably happening. EG, pressing the > power button normally causes VO to announce the time. Without VO though, I > have no way of ascertaining whether I just locked my screen or unlocked it. > If I use the two finger flick up gesture, and press volume up, usually by the > time vo finishes announcing the time, date, notifications, and slide to > unlock/take picture admonishments, its at full volume. If not, then I > probably locked it, and a repeat of the sequence of pressing power, followed > by the two finger flick up and volume up will do the trick. > > Usually when this happens, the head phone volume is unaffected, so if you're > not comfortable acting on faith, you can put on the headphones, locate a > volume control, and then remove the headphones before manipulating the volume > slider via the flick up gesture. > > Lastly, there is a very intermittent issue that likely still exists with > current IOS devices; I had it happen once a couple years ago on my 3GS. What > happens is that a speck of dust gets into the headphone jack which causes the > microswitch to remain open, fooling the hardware into believing that the > headphone jack is engaged and there bye route sounds accordingly. In this > scenario, the solutions suggested by Diane and me are ineffective. Instead, > one can probably dislodge the item with a little canned air, or by inserting > and extracting headphones into the jack several times quickly. > > HTH. > Geoff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Diane Bomar > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:59 PM > Subject: Re: My temperamental iPhone! > > > This used to happen to me, quite frequently, especially after having the > phone on a music dock, then taking it off. Hasn't happened under ios 5.1.1, > though. My solution was to call the phone from another line, and raise the > volume while the call was live. Sometimes that meant pressing the home > button, so that the call screen was not in the foreground. > > There is a rotor option for volume, but difficult to use that when VO is not > speaking. Actually, I had not thought about this problem for a while, but > have not experienced it on my 4s. It used to happen when I was using a 4, > though. Don't know if the problem went away, or if a hardware or software > upgrade fixed it. > Glad to know you got it working,for now. > Diane > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dónal Fitzpatrick" <[email protected]> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:32 AM > Subject: My temperamental iPhone! > > > Hi all, > > this is very bizarre. Here are several scenarios: > > 1. voiceover is turned on. no sound whatsoever from the phone. No voice, > no background beeps; nothing. > > 2. someone rings. voiceover behaves perfectly. > > 3. voiceover is turned off. Phone behaves perfectly. > > I am confused. very very very confused! help! > > cheers :) > > Dónal > Dónal Fitzpatrick > [email protected] > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Dónal Fitzpatrick [email protected] <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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