Ok... after digging into this for a while it seems the issue is in ubuntu-push-client. It can't find the sound because on Aquaris phones we use a customized sound file that's not located in a XDG_DATA_DIR. From the log:
2015/09/16 16:43:40.739431 sounds.go:76: DEBUG [UqURQ1yBEeWC7foWPmWXaQ==] unable to find sound /custom/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/notifications/Aquaris.mp3 FWIW, we should not only add support for this path (/custom/) but instead don't restrict sound files to XDG_DATA_DIRs at all. For example Ubuntu Touch Tweak Tool supports changing the default ringtones just by setting our used gsettings key. Eventually we will probably allow the user to select his own sound files for ring tones with the default settings app just like that. In which case we'd run into this bug again. ** Package changed: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) => ubuntu-push (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413818 Title: Notification sounds aren't being played back on E4.5 Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-push package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This affects mostly the push notifications based alerts, SMS et.al. work fine. With export PULSE_PROP='media.role=alert' This has no audible output: paplay /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/notifications/Slick.ogg This does: paplay /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/ringtones/Soul.ogg $ system-image-cli -i current build number: 14 device name: mako channel: ubuntu-touch/stable alias: ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/14.09 last update: 2015-01-16 13:12:29 version version: 14 version ubuntu: 20150116 version device: 20141119 version custom: mako-1.1 The hunch is some buffering going on on the android side for short sound bytes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1413818/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
