This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-touch-session - 0.108+16.04.20160407-0ubuntu1
--------------- ubuntu-touch-session (0.108+16.04.20160407-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ] * Add an etc profile.d to add the /custom/usr/share directory to enable using customized notification sounds by the push client. (LP: #1413818) -- Łukasz Zemczak <ci-train-...@canonical.com> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 11:59:05 +0000 ** Changed in: ubuntu-touch-session (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-touch-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413818 Title: Notification sounds aren't being played back on E4.5 (ubuntu-push restricts directories and block custom sounds) Status in Canonical System Image: Fix Committed Status in The Savilerow project: Invalid Status in ubuntu-push package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-touch-session package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-touch-session package in Ubuntu RTM: Fix Released 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