You have been subscribed to a public bug: 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. ** Affects: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: High Assignee: John McAleely (john.mcaleely) Status: Confirmed ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: Confirmed ** Tags: bq -- Notification sounds aren't being played back on E4.5 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413818 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs