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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...

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 *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 :P).

**I know, I have a bunch of them. Have yet to find one that's fully satisfactory...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...