Sound working in simulator not in iphone 3GS

Question

I have searched around the website and tried all possible options which have been suggested, to make the sound work in my iPhone app which works on the simulator.

Specifically I have tried what's been suggested here: Sound working in emulator, not in real iPhone

In addition I have tried running the both ".wav" as well as ".caf" file from within my app, with the following code:

CFURLRef soundFileURLRef = NULL;
soundFileURLRef = CFBundleCopyResourceURL (CFBundleGetMainBundle (),
    CFSTR ("applause"),CFSTR ("wav"),NULL );
NSLog(@"Clap Path: %s", CFURLGetString(soundFileURLRef));
AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID (soundFileURLRef,&clappingFileID_ );

AudioServicesPlaySystemSound (clappingFileID_);

Based on the other suggestions I also changed the code to following:

NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDir = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *clapPath = [documentsDir 
                       stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"applause.wav"];
// Put down default db if it doesn't already exist
NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath:clapPath]) {
    NSString *defaultClapPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] 
                                  pathForResource:@"applause" ofType:@"wav"];
    if (defaultClapPath) {
        [fileManager copyItemAtPath:defaultClapPath toPath:clapPath error:NULL];
    }
}


// NSString *clapPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"applause" ofType:@"caf"];
CFURLRef clapURL = (CFURLRef ) [NSURL fileURLWithPath:clapPath];
AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID (clapURL, &clappingFileID_);

NSLog(@"calling initSounds..");
AudioServicesPlaySystemSound (clappingFileID_);

Both the above code pieces work for the simulator but not for the iphone.

Also checked the .wav file properties by doing getInfo. it says: Bit rate: 176 kbps Sample rate: 11.025 kHz Sample size: 16 bit Size 62 Kb
Also tried running .wav file on the iPhone directly outside of the context of app by adding it thru itunes and this works fine. which indicates to me that the codecs are there on the iPhone for the given .wav file and that its not corrupted.

My phone OS is 4.1 and its iPhone 3GS. I have compiled my application for OS 3.2 or above upto 4.2

To get the obvious out of the way, the emulator isn't case sensitive while the device is. Are you using the right file name? — Tejaswi Yerukalapudi, Jul 25 '11 at 15:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 06 '14 at 02:28

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Please verify that the sound mute switch on the iPhone is in the off position.

edited Aug 06 '14 at 02:28

Josh Darnell

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answered Feb 06 '13 at 15:04

AMAN77

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '12 at 01:52

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Try the following: On the device, go into settings and turn up the volume on Sounds->Ringer and Alerts

Then retry your test.

answered Dec 15 '12 at 01:52

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Sound working in simulator not in iphone 3GS

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