No audio after some time, have to reboot

[nephros]

That being said, I have yet to see the proof that OOM killing has anything to do with the problem.

People seem to tend to attribute a lot of things to the OOM killer without really checking that is was to blame.

[kanguru007]

I’ve been trying to find out what causes this for a week now and:

• without opening any apps, just the phone and the music player, it happens in a couple of days
• using a mapping app it happens in a few minutes
• and everything in between

[kanguru007]

Is this device related? Is there a phone I can get where Sailfish OS is usable? Is anyone working on fixing this?

[Ride92]

@kanguru007

Is this device related?

Yes, never had this issue on all XA2 Platform, have on 10 III.

@kanguru007

Is there a phone I can get where Sailfish OS is usable?

XA2 imo is best suitable, but phones are underpowered

@kanguru007

Is anyone working on fixing this?

Only some part of community. Jolla couldn’t reproduce this bug, like many others. Wouldn’t count on official/community fix anytime soon

[kanguru007]

Thank you for the answers. Should we offer Jolla an Xperia 10 III? Do Jolla employees use Sailfish OS phones?

[Drekkarian]

This might be related:

[4.1.0.23][4.0.1.48][4.4.0.64][4.5.0.16] No notification sounds (ringing, SMS, alarm)

REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): second time so far BUILD ID = OS VERSION (Settings > About product): 4.0.1.48 HARDWARE (XA2, Xperia 10…): Xperia 10 UI LANGUAGE: Slovenian REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?): Yes (compared to v3) DESCRIPTION: Twice so far (first time was with 4.0.1.45) notification sounds stopped working - no alarm, no ringing, no SMS alert tone), in addition if I go to Settings → Sounds and try to change the volume there, the Settings app freeze…

[kanguru007]

Yes, it looks like the same issue.
For me it consistently happens in minutes with some apps.
Could it be worse with my carrier (PT NOS)? / 4G coverage? / the weather?
The place I live in is on the opposite side in Europe from Finland and (also) quite beautiful. Boat to the island every 10 minutes costing 1 Eur. Good beer for 50c.

[Valorsoguerriero97]

Happening to me a lot of time on Xperia 10 on 4.5.0.19
Whatsapp voice notes doesn’t play until a reboot.

[kanguru007]

I think I accidentally found a way of keeping the audio from failing: Playing some music with the Unplayer music player immediately after a reboot. Then audio worked for a full 5 days without failure (I just had to reboot today because I removed the cards from the phone)

[Dickus51]

I had the same problem with XA2 and now 10III. Really annoying.

[filip.k]

@kanguru007

Boat to the island every 10 minutes costing 1 Eur.

Is this Portugal beach. Seems really nice!

[thigg]

How do you play audio before the incident? Are you connecting headphones, bluetooth? What devices?
if you connected bluetooth headphones, do they show up in pactl list sinks? Also chekc if the volume is above 0 in the output.

If you do a pacmd info what sink is listed for the sink input? Also check volume of the sink-input.
Example:

[...snip...]
1 sink input(s) available.
    index: 56
	driver: <protocol-native.c>
	flags: START_CORKED
	state: RUNNING
	sink: 6 <bluez_sink.78_2B_64_CD_39_3E.a2dp_sink>
[...snip...]

If there is nothing suspicious, we got a sink and a source connected to the sink. Both got volume. then i would expect the problem to be outside of pulseaudio

[filip.k]

Maybe not related but anyway:

@thigg

pactl list sinks

Since some version in 4.5 cycle my Bluetooth headphones are never listed there.

[thigg]

but they still work?

[filip.k]

They do. But it’s not possible to boost to low max volume by:

pactl set-sink-volume ch# 200%

as ch# is not listed anymore.

[Caluna]

Does anyone know, if this is fixed with latest version (4.5.0.21)?

[Steve_Everett]

I don’t think so. I still have it on .21 on my Xperia 10 III.

[fabio.87]

I’m on 4.5.0.21 and to me still occurs the bug after few days/weeks (just now I rebooted the phone ), and I didn’t use GPS yesterday/today

[kanguru007]

I’ve been traveling for the last 3 months and:

• 3 weeks in Finland and it never happened!!!
• in Germany and the Netherlands it rarely happens (maybe once a week)
• in Portugal it happens several times a day

It’s not related specifically to GPS usage, I’ve been using a second phone for GPS.

[MeeGo-Junky]

I experienced this bug during my 10 day trial of Sailfish 4.5.0.25 on Xperia 10 III as daily driver for test purposes. I did use GPS and Android apps and then some time later there was no sound anymore, I use talefish as folder-based music player but the seconds were running very slowly, no sound from media, Webbrowser and no ringtones, just dead silence. Also in Portugal very close to Fuzeta that was pictured by kanguru007, but the SIM from a German provider. In Juni I will be in Germany and can test country-dependency, but I am skeptical about country specific effects, but who knows.
Very annoying behavior to have no acoustic notifications about incoming calls. Currently I can not provoke this no-sound behavior reliably, it is coming out of the blue more or less. No suspecious high RAM or CPU usage in SysMon during this no sound, no Bluetooth involved, only a reboot restores sound