How to Increase Your iPhone Speaker Volume by 100%

By Gary Ng on January 23rd, 2008 221

One of the problems with the iPhone I find (along with many others) is the less than stellar speaker volume. I know 1.1.1 was supposed to address this issue, and some have tried the 3rd party software route of AudioAmp, but none of those methods have made a significant change. I am going to tell you a trick today on how to increase your iPhone speaker volume–by at least 50-100%!

This mod requires some intense training and will require you to invest in some expensive materials. For this iPhone speaker mod, you will require:

  • a needle or clothespin img_2379-medium.JPG
  • some patience/courage/determination
  • …and a sense of humor ;-)

How to Increase your iPhone Speaker Volume

  1. Before we being…test our your external speaker by calling yourself, or listening to an mp3. Try to remember the volume level.
  2. Take your needle or clothespin and gently poke it into the speaker holes on your iPhone (Where is the speaker? the speaker is below the Home button, on the bottom left; the right is the mic).
    • Don’t poke too deep, poke about 2 millimeters or so, or until you feel the needle/clothespin penetrating material. You will see some white residue that looks like dried glue of some sort.
    • This is what you will be poking your needle through: iphonespeaker2-small.jpg
    • This is what it looks like behind the protective material:
    • iphonespeaker1-small.jpg (images thanks to Mr. Geddy from flickr)
  3. That’s it! Now, go back to your speaker test…and voila! Your volume should be increased substantially! On my iPhone, the speaker volume is nice and LOUD, compared to before. Love it!

Get ready to do something like this…

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Things to think about…

  • Some people posted about the possibility of DUST entering through these newly penetrated holes. Yes, that is possible, but it’s not like you’re using a drill and making massive holes here. We’ve just puncturing the material that is impeding the speaker’s performance.
  • If you’re worried about dust, maybe you should avoid this mod altogether. Dust will enter any electronic device, regardless. Personally, I think it’s worth it since there’s no point in having your iPhone if you can’t hear it ringing in your pocket!

Thanks to skorpiond (modmyifone.com forums) for the heads up on this!

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  • Rich

    Worked a treat

  • Taylor?! :)

    This worked amazing

  • Sylvia_b

    This worked brilliantly…….thanks so much !!!

  • Adeldozeneh

    you are fantastic its work!!
    its dirt in the speaker cover hole. the needle clear it and the sound become better
    tanks
    f.
    lebanon

  • Adeldozeneh

    you are fantastic its work!!
    its dirt in the speaker cover hole. the needle clear it and the sound become better
    tanks
    f.
    lebanon

  • Sphyn0x

    It works for me, big thanks!

  • Sphyn0x

    It works for me, big thanks!

  • Adam-bentley

    nice 1

  • Adam-bentley

    loads  better so much dust behind the foil any way

  • Adam-bentley

    loads  better so much dust behind the foil any way

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  • SmashRazz

    Does this apply with an iPhone 4 as well? Eager to try it, but it doesn’t look the same as the images shown D:

  • eLerma

    Will this work on I phone 4? And when I play pandora I hear the music comeing out the right speaker(looking at the screen) the left side is silent.

  • Jakathes

    nice…. thaught going to change to samsung galaxy….! now totally abundant the plan oledy… increase at least by 50%….. sound abit distorted… but for god sake surely better than last time…..!

  • Jrp99

    Does this work for an ipod4

  • DGO

    Apple computer. You are wrong speaker is on the right side

  • Chris Alexander

    Seemed to work .. Poking out the speaker screen does indeed improve volume levels

  • Chris Alexander

    I t would apply if in fact there is the tiny screen over the speaker volume.  The process is identical as for Iphone 3G.. Good luck

  • Khill31

    i pulled the whole screen out 2x louder but did i f up my phone??

  • Abrahim

    balls….i think i messed up…i don’t know where to put it because mine had a solid wall in the slot with one slot on either side. i put it on the left side, left being if i was looking at the screen, and it shut itself off

  • john

    This did seem to work. I would suggest to people to use very fine point stick pin and to not push it straight in but at a bit of an angle being careful that it doesn’t jump down deep and damage the speaker.

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