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[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Tomas Öqvist <tomas.oqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> I have installed the new pulseaudio module after upgrading to utopic r94 on
> my Nexus 4. My observations so far:
>
> Wired headset working (don't know if this is thx to new pulseaudio module or
> not, but it is the first time I have got the mic working)

Yes, I also fixed 2 annoying issues when landing the new module:
 - Wired headset/headphone should work directly from boot
 - Wired heaset should also work when doing voice calls

> Bluetooth audio from the Music app works with my Logitech Wireless Speaker
> Adapter, but sound stutters for a while initially

This might be a bug in our bluez/pulse stack. Does that also happens
when connecting the same device on your desktop (ubuntu)?

> Phone connects with my Jabra Street2 bluetooth headphones, but BT audio does
> not work

That's interesting, minding running 'pactl list' and giving me the output?

> Phone detects, but won't connect with my BlueAnt ST3 car audio device

Should work once we land the BT changes done by cyphermox (hopefully
later today/tomorrow).

> None of my BT devices work with the phone app

This is expected atm.

> Voice call quality without headset as bad as before

Also expected, will take better look at this issue this week.

Thanks a lot for testing it.

Cheers,

Ricardo

> Regards,
> Tomas
>
> 2014-06-23 09:30, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo skrev:
>
> Hi,
>
> As discussed previously, we decided to change our audio stack to use
> the Android HAL driver instead of using ALSA + UCM directly. This
> decision was basically because not every device supports and
> implements a proper Alsa driver, making our stack supported mostly by
> Nexus devices (because the default Audio HAL uses ALSA).
>
> Luckily Jolla created a project that implements a pulseaudio module
> that talks to the Android Audio HAL (over libhybris), exposing
> sink/source elements and media/call profiles. As we also use
> Pulseaudio as our default audio sound server, we decided to integrate
> this element and include it by default on touch. In case you want to
> know more about the original project, the code is available at
> https://github.com/mer-hybris/pulseaudio-modules-droid.
>
> The integration is currently done, and I'd like to ask for help
> testing and validating the silo, as this changes a critical part of
> our system, and might effect voice calls and normal audio playback.
>
> You can find the packages at
> https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/landing-018.
>
> To test the new audio stack:
> - Install latest Ubuntu Touch on mako/manta/flo;
> - Make the image writable (phablet-config writable-image);
> - Add the silo 18 ppa:
> $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/landing-018
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> $ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-droid
> - Reboot
>
> Please test normal audio playback, with speaker, wired headset,
> bluetooth (a2dp), and voice call. Please let me know about any weird
> behavior, specially when doing voice calls.
>
> I know we currently have a voice call quality issue, and from my tests
> results this is still a problem even with this new module (voice call
> with android is better than with ubuntu). Will spend some time this
> week to better understand the issue, as it could be related with lack
> of effects (echo/noise canceling).
>
> I didn't yet test this package with Nexus 5, but should hopefully fix
> the audio issues we had with it as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
>



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Ricardo Salveti de Araujo