Good find. But how do you tie it in to a member finding a loop bug having to do with audio?
Gmail might be trying to launch its notification sound? The audio getting tripped up could be caused by just about anything.
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Good find. But how do you tie it in to a member finding a loop bug having to do with audio?
I just reset my phone, waited a while and called it from a known number. It rang! Then, I opened gmail and called it, it didn't ring, and wouldn't after 5 or six calls. I reset the phone again and called it, it rang!!!. I opened gmail again and called it, it didn't ring...and won't ring, it may very well have to do with syncing/data download while receiving a call....
hmmmm.
I hate to say this, but the conclusion was that google sync was not the cause of the audio loss. Part of the testing on XDA was to actually have someone factory reset and flash a 2.1 leak, then not log into his google account, so there was no way there could have been a google sync trying to happen. The audio problem was still present. This is a kernel side bug and will most likely persist untill the official update when HTC releases the source for 2.1.
This is a pretty consistent way to recreate the problem on the hero, maybe it will work for the eris too.
Avalaunch from the XDA-Developers forum has put in very much time on trying to fix this problem, apparantly so has cyanogen and a few other rom devs too. No one has figured it out.
The trigger that causes the issue is the audio drivers not restarting. when your phone sits in sleep after a while the drivers restart. which is why when you put it to sleep for 5-10 min. it will have the issue.
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"i have found a pattern. before it wasnt 100% sure. but with the roms flashed and none of my fixes applied then if you play audio, let it be a ringtone or music, then let the phone sit in sleep for 5 -10 min. then it WILL occur. "
"from what i understand, the htcpowermanagement in the newer roms turn off everything besides tower polling after 5 min. including drivers unless their being used. we cant take that out so no ideas there."
Other ROMs have not been able to fix this?
Nope, even with the audio fix that they came up with, it still happens occasionally. They can't change the actual file that causes it because no one has the source code, so the "fix" is really a workaround. Google or HTC has to fix it.
And seeing their apathy towards the N1's 3G issues, we're boned.
...For instance, Avalaunchmod thinks one of the triggers is when you reach 50 hours of uptime. I don't know if that's true, but if so, we could restart our phones every 48 hours...
VZW just actually replaced my phone because of this issue. I had been rooted, tried various roms and all had the same issue. I downgraded and took it into the store. They called my phone like 10 or 15 times before they got it to not ring. The boy in the story said ok its defective, we'll send you a new one.
Got the new one, rooted it last night and so far ringtones and ringer are working
Just wondering how many here with the problem use Yahoo mail? My wife uses Yahoo as her main account and I do not have yahoo at all. She has the phone bug a lot and I have not had it. Same operating system and same apps beside that one thing.. This is from 2-28-10 when we got the phones and then upgraded to V2 of 2.1 leak.
No Yahoo here, and I've had the bug. I think we've ruled out the possibility of it being *caused* by an app, although there could be something different about the way each of you uses your phone that *triggers* it on her phone and not yours. For instance, she might use Bluetooth more often, make more phone calls, something like that.
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I truly believe that it is something native with the phone/os and that the trigger, while maybe *visually* appearing different to all of us, is the same.
Not even sure I know what I just said, but I have no other way to say it that makes any more sense.
could it be gmail for some crazy reason?
raise you hand if you have this issue and use gmail
(i dont have this issue, and i do not use gmail)
could it be gmail for some crazy reason?
raise you hand if you have this issue and use gmail
(i dont have this issue, and i do not use gmail)
I don't use gmail either but still have the bug. Not being able to figure out *why* is almost as frustrating as having the issue present itself.
Right. I've tried the suggestion for replicating the bug from the Hero several times (play music, sleep, awake, pause music, sleep, wait ten minutes, call phone from another phone), but it doesn't trigger the bug on my Eris. I also can't get Gmail sync to trigger the bug, although I wouldn't rule it out. The only things I've noticed about my own experiences with the bug were:
a) I was often using Bluetooth or speaker for the call before the bug.
b) It tends to happen when I rapidly go from one call to another.
c) When the bug is in effect, the volume rocker attempts to control "media volume" instead of "ringer volume".
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