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Originally Posted by Britbonic
Also, have heard of other items like speakers that use the line out but work ok. Doubt that apple would have changed the pinouts for line out. More likely there is some sort of handshake that happens using other pins that enables lineout, especially since iPhone has built in speaker unlike iPod.
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I think Britbonic hit the nail on the head here. It appears that if the iPhone sees that something is being done with the line-out (i.e., going to an internal amp for powered speakers), it will route the sound that way and bypass the built-in speaker. However, on passive line-out devices like ALO or Sik or PocketDock, the iPhone doesn't "see" anything happening with the line-out, so it refuses to send the signal that direction and routes the sound to the built-in speaker. It's frustrating, but I can understand why Apple set it up that way. The internals of the iPhone dock should have what ALO or any other passive line-out manufacturer needs to make this work.