“ Originally Posted by csmartycssmarty 
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so its not a complete waste, what did you do and how did you fix? there are a lot of noobs that might find this in a search and save a stupid thread in the future. not that this was stupid, dont worry bout it bro we all have our moments
Sure and I completely agree with that thinking. I was installing a program and CAB for it and had the phone open (keyboard out). Before pushing it out my finger simply lowered the volume button on the side of the phone all the way down to the lowest setting, then to on, vibrate and then to OFF. So without realizing it I had shut off all sounds on the phone. As mentioned above everything worked fine on the phone and opened up like normal including the music player, youtube, etc, but no sounds. I went into settings and nothing was turned off there. I soft rebooted the phone, still no sound. then I posted here thinking I had accidentally pushed some weird combination of keys on the keyboard and used some unknown keyboard shortcut to turn off the sounds on the phone.
And then after racking my brain and getting really pissed off and ready to throw the phone directly into the back of my brick fireplace, I decided to try the volume buttons on the side of the phone, lol. And pressed the up button and sure enough the sounds came back on.
As mentioned above - I am an idiot, lol.