No audio after some time, have to reboot

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#21

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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#22

Happening to me a lot of time on Xperia 10 on 4.5.0.19
Whatsapp voice notes doesnā€™t play until a reboot.

#23

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)

#24

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

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#25

Is this Portugal beach. Seems really nice!

#26

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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#27

Maybe not related but anyway:

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

#28

but they still work?

#29

They do. But itā€™s not possible to boost to low max volume by:

pactl set-sink-volume ch# 200%

as ch# is not listed anymore.

#30

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

#31

I donā€™t think so. I still have it on .21 on my Xperia 10 III.

#32

Iā€™m on 4.5.0.21 and to me still occurs the bug after few days/weeks (just now I rebooted the phone :pensive:), and I didnā€™t use GPS yesterday/today :thinking:

#33

Iā€™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

Itā€™s not related specifically to GPS usage, Iā€™ve been using a second phone for GPS.