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.
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Happening to me a lot of time on Xperia 10 on 4.5.0.19
Whatsapp voice notes doesn’t play until a reboot.
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)
I had the same problem with XA2 and now 10III. Really annoying.
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Is this Portugal beach. Seems really nice!
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
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Maybe not related but anyway:
Since some version in 4.5 cycle my Bluetooth headphones are never listed there.
but they still work?
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.
Does anyone know, if this is fixed with latest version (4.5.0.21)?
I don’t think so. I still have it on .21 on my Xperia 10 III.
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 
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.
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
Still on NOS (PT)? 20char
On my X10III I can correlate with fat android apps (firefox, whatsapp, wire, bmw , etc) or with the native browser hogging the cpu (and likely the memory) on some sites.
Android is more reliably causing it, but I have yet to find a 100% pattern.
I’m almost certain it’s the oom taking it down when peaking memory usage -but no proof.
The recovery is systemctl-user restart pulseaudio as root (no need to reboot ).
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For me works as defaultuser , no need devel-su
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Are there any developers still working on Sailfish OS?
Is there some hope this will be fixed?
Where can we submit a bug report?
It happens with all operators in Portugal. It also happens in other countries but it gets worse as you move South. My best guess is that the weather is causing it.
Sailfish developers from Finland, please come to Portugal and try to fix this, we have the best and least expensive alcohol in Europe.
A phone that periodically loses audio! Not even Microsoft in their best years could make that up.