HTC Wildfire earpiece speaker problem - very quiet

Good day,

My HTC Wildfire version 2.2.1 has a problem with the earpiece speaker as it is very quiet. It would not function at all initially but the speakerphone and headphones would work fine.

I removed some tissue what was in the bottom of the headphone jack and now the earpiece speaker will work but is so quiet that I can hardly hear it.

If I turn the phone on whilst holding the down volume button and then select recovery the whole screen changes to a picture of the phone with a red warning triangle.

Any advice as to what might fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.