You might try telling Siri to turn voiceover off. Then once it does that, tell it to turn VO back on. Otherwise, try pressing the home button to wake the device, swiping up with two fingers, then repeatedly pressing the volume up button to try to get speech back. If all else fails, you can turn off find my iPod from iCloud.com.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 21, 2015, at 22:05, SSEric <sseri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Touch 5 32gb. Has worked just fine for a couple of years. Last > night I charged it overnight. I used it for an hour or so this morning to > read NFB NewsLine. It sat unplugged and untouched until about 9:30 this > evening. It was paired with a bluetooth speaker I use quite a bit. > > When I tried turning it on, I got a buzzing sound. Sort of a lower pitch > burned out florescent tube sound. I had someone view the screen and it was > black. Swiping would not do anything; no voiceover at all. I did get the > buzzing to stop by pressing the power button about 10 times. Seri was > working and voiceover was on, but would not speak and swiping the screen, > pressing volume buttons powering to sleep and awake did not emit any sounds. > I did have Seri play music which I could hear. I did try plugging in earbuds > and could hear the music but could not get anything from touching the > screen. > > In my efforts to do anything, I must have turned the thing completely off > because Seri will no longer even work. It was recognized when connected to > iTunes through my PC. I tried resetting, but it said I had to turn off Find > My iPhone in iCloud first. Real helpful. I synchronized things, so it was > being seen, but there still is no sound coming from it and the screen > remains blank. > > I should mention I also plugged in the power cord. I could hear the tones > when connecting, but that was the only sound I could get. > > Is this thing a brick? Is there anything more I can try? I have never had a > problem with it and do use it all day long nearly every day for reading, > BARD or streaming. > > Any ideas will be most appreciated! > > Eric > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
