Xperia X: everything that touches audio is rooted
asked 2018-10-04 09:39:54 +0300
So I installed the latest system update yesterday*, and today my alarm did not go off -- well, it did trigger, but it didn;t sound. This lead me to poke around and discover that a number of other things are non-functional:
Changing anything in the "Tones" section of "Sounds and Feedback" in Settings. The provided music play, "Media" does not start. Third party alternatives Muuzik! and Daedalus suffer the same. Loading up a video from Gallery causes the application to freeze. Trying to make a phonecall simply doesn't work (calling a contact is unresponsive, manually dialing also fails). Using my landline (i.e. another phone) to call myself gets me an instantly missed call (nothing pops up, except a message in the notification stream). Probably other stuff.
What does work, and seems relevant, is SMS (though without sounds), and a third-party music player**, QuasarMX, both starts and does play music. So the networking appears to be fine, and I'm wondering if the problem lies with PA and (warning: 100% speculation) QuasarMX bypasses it by using ALSA directly or something.
I would quite like to fix this rather than wiping it and hoping for the best, as that would be a bit of a pain and wouldn't identify any bugs, incompatibilities, or user errors that created the problem.
Thanks =).
*Delayed as I was overseas and didn't want to risk breaking a functioning system that I needed (digital boarding passes don't pass muster if you can't digital :P).
**I know, I have a bunch of them. Have yet to find one that's fully satisfactory...
A few days ago the alarm clock of my Xperia X didn't ring. I saw the ringer screen but there was no sound despite ringer and media volume set to 60%. When I tested the alarm clock sound in settings it played as expected. I scheduled another alarm and again: ringer screen but no sound. Other system sounds were muted as well. I never experienced this behavior before. Maybe some issue in 2.2.1.18?
Olsen ( 2018-10-04 21:23:49 +0300 )editI can second the audio problems. For example today it was not able to switch from phone to speaker and back. I opened a request for pulse audio upgrade. I recall Jolla was cautious releasing newer version of pulse audio, but we insisted as PA 8 was far too old. Now they released PA11.1 which I had on my desktop and was confronted with similar issues. I upgraded to 11.99 and problems are gone. Someone else suggested that even more problems are gone with 12.2. I hope Jolla hears our voice. Please upvote related.
deloptes ( 2018-10-04 22:17:31 +0300 )editI have slightly different problem since the update: Sound over the headphones is … bad. White noise and whole frequencies missing, at least it sounds very different from when I simply use the speakers.
Ignaz ( 2018-10-09 02:13:07 +0300 )edit@Ignaz it sounds like bad contact of the headphones jack. I had the same few days ago, did you check with the XperiaX headphones ? Did you try any other ?
nas ( 2018-10-09 10:39:07 +0300 )edit@nas Now I did (cough) and during that test I had to turn up the volume to hear something: Clear and perfect sound. That gave me an idea: Try different volumes with the earpieces I actually had troubles with. Turns out, the white noise and “missing” frequency is only a problem on the lowest and probably the second lowest volume level. I would bet though that I did not have these issues approximately a month ago, basically just before the update. Anyway, it’s hard to proof it without rolling back the update (which would mean resetting the device, I guess), so I’ll just have to learn to live with it. Also I’m a bit ashamed that I didn’t think of testing it with different headphones before reporting here. Forgive me, please!
Ignaz ( 2018-10-09 19:38:05 +0300 )edit