12-10-2022, 02:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2022, 03:09 PM by Zebulon Walton.)
(12-10-2022, 10:43 AM)treebeard Wrote: Something you might try before restoring an image is reverting to pulseaudio. It might be as simple as stopping&disabling the pipewire-related services and enabling&starting the pulseaudio services.
FWIW, I found this issue that seems to describe what I've been experiencing - audio going to the wrong place.
Good idea, I'll see if reverting back to pulseaudio helps. All of the serious audio problems (those making the phone unusable) occurred after switching to pipewire. It does seem to be an audio profile issue, with audio being routed in this case apparently to /dev/null.
Followup - I went back to pulseaudio and audio appears to be working now, basically the same way it was before moving to pipewire. That is, audio on calls is working but the volume control does not work. The volume display pops up on the screen and the indicator moves but volume does not actually change. (The volume control does work properly when playing audio or video files through the internal loudspeaker.)
The internal earpiece volume is slightly low and the wired headset a little too loud. The workaround for this is to press the phone tightly against the ear when using the phone's internal sound and pull the earphone slightly out of the ear when using the headset. After several reboots the audio is still working, so at least it's stable.
So, while it's inconvenient not having working volume control during calls at least the phone can be used. (As I recall the volume control problem is why I tried pipewire in the first place. While that did work for a while it does no good if there's no audio output at all!)