[Gta04-owner] Replicant: no sound during calls

[Lukas Maerdian]

Am 19.01.2015 um 21:43 schrieb L.B.:
> On 13/01/15 21:47, Lukas Maerdian wrote:
>>>> Also, I did not yet optimize anything for power management/consumption,
>>>> so don't expect it to last too long.
>>> 8h use time is enough for me to get a useable phone for work.
>> I did not yet test how many hours we get with the current state. If you
>> do an experiment, please let us know!
> 
> I got some time this week end for a test. With the phone in energy
> saving mode the battery lasted 15h. By comparison, qtmoko can last up to
> 3 days, but 15h is enough for me anyway.

Cool, thanks for letting us know! 15h is actually more than what I
expected. So it seems like the GTA04 could already be a usable Replicant
phone once we sort out the last critical/blocking bugs, as battery
lifetime would be enough to get you through one working day.

Of course, having the battery last for 3 days should be the target once
we start working on power optimizations!

>>>> The non-optimal sound quality/distorted voice is expected (because of
>>>> software-routing). This will be gone once we get hardware voice routing
>>>> to work. You can experiment with it if you have an GTA04A4, by adopting
>>>> the values in /system/etc/tinyalsa-audio.xml.
>>>> I only have an A3 and thus could not implement/test hardware-routing. If
>>>> you get it to work, please send in your patches! It should just be a
>>>> matter of a correct tinyalsa-audio.xml configuration.
>>>>
>>>> You can enable hardware-routing, by changing the "Voice route" control
>>>> from "Voice to SoC" to "Voice to twl4030", and then you need to find
>>>> good values for all the other controls, in order to make the voice come
>>>> through.
>>>>
>>> I do have an A4 board, I've been experimenting with hardware routing but
>>> so far, no luck. Is the sound routing the same with VoIP? That would
>>> make testing easier. Also, is it possible to modify the
>>> tinyalsa-audio.xml file via ssh (or other remote tool)? If so, how can I
>>> update the changes/reload alsa?
>> VoIP works with nice voice quality. But the routing is completely
>> different to GSM voice routing, as the voice does not have to get
>> transferred to and from the modem module.
>>
>> tinyalsa-audio.xml can be modified remotely via the Android Debug Bridge
>> ("adb shell"). The changes are reloaded on reboot, there probably is a
>> more elegant way to reload alsa, but I don't know it.
> Audio can be reloaded via "adb shell killall zygote" then "adb shell
> start zygote", it seemed to work for me, the media player was working
> after a restart. This should work for graphics or RIL too (see
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Replicant40PortingGuide).
> However I have a strange problem now: since I accessed my phone via adb,
> the touch screen became irresponsive. I'm trying to sort this out now...

Thanks that might be useful in the future! For restarting the RIL I
usually just do "killall rild" or "stop ril-daemon && start ril-daemon".

I've had strange problems with the touchscreen, too (very rarely). In
that situation I could see messages about a problem with the i2c bus in
dmesg/on serial console. I didn't investigate further up to now, but a
reboot made it work again.

Best,
  Lukas

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