Try rebooting your phone. Hold the Sleep/Wake button for 7 sec and then tap the 
"Slide to Power Off" button. Wait for a minute or so and then hold the 
sleep/wake button agian.

I've encountered a similar problem with my 4S and my old 3GS. It seems that the 
accelerometer needs to be whipped into position every once in a  while for 
speaker phone to take. Try moving it away from your face quickly. 

Kevin
On 2011-12-19, at 8:01 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:

> I believe the correct way to make the phone go into speaker phone is to take 
> the phone away from your ear and hold it as if it was sitting on a table.  
> I.e. flat.  It then thinks it is resting on a table and will go into speaker 
> phone mode.
> 
> Hth,
> Jeff
> 
> On 2011-12-19, at 6:55 PM, Gigi wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys.
>> I have a question, and it is driving me crazy. I just called Apple Care 
>> about this, and basically, I don't think they believed me. 
>> 
>> I use the feature I'm describing all the time. Until two days ago, it was 
>> working just fine. If you're on a call and you want to go to speaker phone, 
>> the manual used to say (it did when I got my iPhone back in January) to take 
>> the phone away from your face and it would become a speaker phone. As I 
>> said, it worked like a charm until two days ago.
>> 
>> Now, all of a sudden, for no reason I can figure out, I have to go to hide 
>> keypadnd then Speaker, a pain with VoiceOver when someone is talking and you 
>> need to switch them over to speaker phone. Also, VoiceOver is quietly 
>> talking into the earpiece, and I'm finding it hard to hear the choices so I 
>> can get the thing turned on.
>> 
>> I could not find this feature in the iPhone manual any more. Is this 
>> something they changed because of Siri? If so, it would have been really 
>> nice if Apple Care people had just said so from the start.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Gigi
>> nd speaker. This is a real pain with 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 4:55 PM, ezzie bueno <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Esther and others,
>>> 
>>> My thumb drive is not in use when I try to eject it.  COMMAND E is not 
>>> working.  What else can be going on?
>>> 
>>> Ezzie
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Esther <[email protected]
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Date sent: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:00:09 -1000
>>> Subject: Ejecting a USB flash drive with a keyboard shortcut [was Re: 
>>> MBPKeyboard]
>>> 
>>> Hi Ezzie and Others,
>>> 
>>> The usual reason that a drive fails to eject is that it is still in use.  
>>> This could be either because a copy or write operation is still going on 
>>> and transferring data, or because you have navigated into the file 
>>> structure of the drive in Finder to query contents.  I do find that 
>>> Command-E works to eject drives provided they are not in use, but there's 
>>> nothing wrong with following either Ricardo's method with the context menu 
>>> or Gigi's checks that the device is not active.  I've retitled the subject 
>>> line to better reflect the content of the discussion.
>>> 
>>> HTH.  Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Esther
>>> 
>>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:32, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I guess I'm old fashion.  lol.  I prefer to bring up the context menu with 
>>> VO shift M and just press enter on eject.
>>> 
>>> Ricardo Walker
>>> [email protected]
>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
>>> www.mobileaccess.org
>>> 
>>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Y'all.
>>> Command E does not always work for me, especially on thumb drives.  I was 
>>> told by Apple that if you are writing to the drive and it gets ejected too 
>>> soon, you can mess up your thumb drive.  Therefore, these days I always 
>>> check to see if my drive is on my list of active devices before I take it 
>>> out.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Gigi
>>> 
>>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Ezzie,
>>> 
>>> Command+E should eject the drive.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ezzie bueno
>>> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:55 PM
>>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>>> Subject: MBP Keyboard
>>> 
>>> Hello list:
>>> 
>>> When I try and eject a USB flash drive, it will not eject.  I know I've got
>>> it selected.
>>> However, when I eject one on my sister's account, it ejects properly.  Is
>>> there a setting I may have modified on my account that I shouldn't have?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ezzie Ez Bueno
>>> Sent from my BrailleNote Apex
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