iPhone 5S dying on me...

[kiddingguy]

I have an iPhone 5S and the speaker ig going south I think (incoming calls are hard to hear, listening to voicemail on speaker mode is barely understandable ) and the charging takes ages.

 

Is my 5S slowly dying on me...?

It's a 2013 phone, so it can be assumed... (although the actual usage is about 2-2,5 years on and off)

[NinjaGinger]

I'd be extremely surprised if it wasn't.

[ba2017gg]

Have you dropped it, got it wet or done any other sort of possible damage to it? Seems strange for that part just to die, in 2-2.5 years. 

[kiddingguy]

3 hours ago, ba2017gg said:

Have you dropped it, got it wet or done any other sort of possible damage to it? Seems strange for that part just to die, in 2-2.5 years. 

No. It just said waiting (and 'collecting dust') in a drawer in the box.

My regular phone is an XS, and this one is now used for my business.

[Steven P. Administrators]

4 minutes ago, kiddingguy said:

No. It just said waiting (and 'collecting dust') in a drawer in the box.

My regular phone is an XS, and this one is now used for my business.

It may be a simple thing like gunk built up around the speaker grill, I had it on a previous phone (I think it was the HTC 8X) cleaning with a dry toothbrush and blowing cleared it enough so that the volume was acceptable again, but this is just a guess.

[kiddingguy]

4 minutes ago, Steven P. said:

It may be a simple thing like gunk built up around the speaker grill, I had it on a previous phone (I think it was the HTC 8X) cleaning with a dry toothbrush and blowing cleared it enough so that the volume was acceptable again, but this is just a guess.

I got it cleaned a couple of weeks ago by an Apple APR.

I'll use some BluTec or alike to clean the speakers from (new) possible dust.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Just now, kiddingguy said:

I got it cleaned a couple of weeks ago by an Apple APR.

I'll use some BluTec or alike to clean the speakers from (new) possible dust.

Ahh then I doubt it is gunk build up, sadly..