Forums are filled with issues from iPhone and iPad owners who are reporting problems charging their device. The issue could be as simple as lint clogged into your charging port, the video below shows how to clean it carefully. A similar issue also got me puzzled almost a year ago, when my iPhone suddenly got stuck in dock mode leaving the phone muted without any clues.

Apple iPhone is a great piece of technology and like any other gadget can be the source of little annoyances which are simple but tricky to solve, one such commonly encountered problem is when your iPhone thinks it's always connected to a dock and no sound comes out of the device speakers as it diverts all audio to the phantom Dock Connector. Once stuck into the "Dock Connector" mode the volume slider becomes nonoperational and no audio comes out from internal speakers with no option to change the behavior and route audio to internal speakers.