@john, can you also reproduce this from Sound settings, i e, when choosing a notification signal, does it work there or not?
-- 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 pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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