Bug 9493 – Profile-specified audible alerts sometimes do not go back to normal after headphones are unplugged

Bug 9493 - (int-167240) Profile-specified audible alerts sometimes do not go back to normal after headphones are unplugged

(int-167240)
Summary:	Profile-specified audible alerts sometimes do not go back to normal after hea...

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Product:	Multimedia
Component:	Multimedia framework
Version:	5.0/(3.2010.02-8)
Platform:	N900 Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	multimedia-framework-bugs

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Depends on:	9578
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Reported:	2010-03-11 02:33 UTC by spektrx
Modified:	2011-01-18 15:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Description spektrx (reporter) 2010-03-11 02:33:20 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
(Settings > General > About product)
Maemo 5, Version 3.2010.02-8.002

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
(Explain in detail what you do (e.g. tap on OK) and what you see (e.g. message
Connection Failed appears))
1. Starting from a freshly booted n900, set profile to 'General', which
specifies full audible alert tones for email/sms/phone calls/etc.
2. Plug in headphones and listen to music on media player. This will cause
alerts for email/sms to be routed to the headphones, and to only play a simple
'beep' instead of a full alert tone.
3. Unplug the headphones, and the device will not revert to playing full 'alert
tones' - it still plays the quiet beeps that it would play if the headphones
were still plugged in. Changing profiles to silent and back to general does not
resolve this - a reboot is required.

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
Upon unplugging the headphones, the device should revert to the selected
profile, and play the alert tones as described in the profile.

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
The device will not revert to playing full 'alert tones' after headphones are
unplugged - it still plays the quiet beeps that it would play if the headphones
were still plugged in.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
8/10

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:
The Headphone Daemon (that pauses the music applet when headphones are
unplugged). I can extract a full list on request - but I can't see anything
else that seems related to this.

OTHER COMMENTS:

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Comment 1 Venomrush 2010-03-16 21:44:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

> 2. Plug in headphones and listen to music on media player. This will cause
> alerts for email/sms to be routed to the headphones, and to only play a simple
> 'beep' instead of a full alert tone.

This is not the case for me when I tried to reproduce this on a clean PR1.1.1
It blasts out music to earphone and loudspeaker when there's an incoming call
with earphone plugged in. Not a 'beep' like you mentioned.

Comment 2 spektrx (reporter) 2010-03-18 14:09:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > 2. Plug in headphones and listen to music on media player. This will cause
> > alerts for email/sms to be routed to the headphones, and to only play a simple
> > 'beep' instead of a full alert tone.
> 
> This is not the case for me when I tried to reproduce this on a clean PR1.1.1
> It blasts out music to earphone and loudspeaker when there's an incoming call
> with earphone plugged in. Not a 'beep' like you mentioned.
> 

Well, it's different with phone calls - that always plays my full 'ring tone'
whether I have my headphones plugged in or not. However, for email&sms alerts,
plugging the headphones in changes the tone to a 'beep'. The problem I have is
unplugging the headphones doesn't change the email&sms tones back to the full
tone, often it just goes to vibrate for some reason. This isn't a duplicate of
that other bug for that reason (although they are both related to profile/audio
problems).

Comment 3 Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh 2010-05-04 23:27:12 UTC

Unable to reproduce bug here.

Comment 4 Michael Hasselmann 2010-05-05 00:14:23 UTC

I think I managed to get "silent mail" when I stopped the media player only
after unplugging the headphones, but I could not reliably reproduce it.

Comment 5 Ian Cullinan 2010-07-09 03:28:30 UTC

This is happening to me too. PR1.2, headphone daemon and last.fm scrobbler
installed, but nothing else related to audio. After listening to music through
headphones for a while, I unplug the headphones. Music stops, but when I get an
SMS or IM, the N900 plays the short beep you would hear through the headphones
upon getting an message, but through the loudspeaker.

A workaround I'm using at the moment is to going into the settings to edit the
General profile, and then back out.

Comment 6 spektrx (reporter) 2010-07-11 07:33:09 UTC

I want to confirm that this still happens to me after the upgrade to PR1.2,
although now sometimes instead of the 'headphones plugged in' beep-only-alert
after unplugging the headphones, I sometimes get no alert tone at all (despite
being on the GENERAL profile). I cannot always replicate this, but the overall
problem itself is definitely repeatable, and like Ian I can only fix it by
either rebooting the phone or editing my profile.

Comment 7 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2011-01-18 15:37:02 UTC

*** Bug 9597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***