822868 - No way to control volume of SMS alert sound

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Suppose you're in a movie theater or another place where phone-noise is disturbing.

STR:
 1. Send a SMS (text message) from another phone to your b2g phone.
   --> alert sound plays when it's received.

 2. Turn the volume down all the way with the volume rocker.
    OR: Visit Settings|Sound and turn down "Ringer and Notifications" all the way.
    OR: Hold power button and press "silence incoming calls"

 3. Send yourself another SMS.

ACTUAL RESULTS: 
  Alert sound plays.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
  There should be _SOME_ way to silence the "incoming text" sound.  I'd expect all of the methods I suggested in step 2 to do so, but none of them seem to have any effect on the text volume.

I'm using my own B2G build, up-to-date as of this morning, built from following steps at https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G (so, using its preferred gecko version in the "gecko" folder, etc.)  I'm not sure if this affects dogfood builds at this point, but if it doesn't, I suspect it will soon. :)

Comment 1

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

I have the 12/18/2012 build and I do not get the alert sound.  Are you building with development or production?

do a :
make production

in the gaia directory and please try again.

Comment 2

[David Scravaglieri [:scravag]]

Renominate if reproducible

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Sorry, I was busy focusing on another b2g bug and didn't end up trying comment 1 before re-flashing w/ the beta (dogfood) image.

In any case, I can confirm that this is WFM in the latest (>1 week old) beta build, w/ build ID: 20121212102240 .  (Though it might be that this is a new regression on trunk, per end of comment 0)

Tentatively resolving as WFM; I'll reopen if I can reproduce again when the next stable build is released.

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #0)
>  2. Turn the volume down all the way with the volume rocker.
[...]
>     OR: Hold power button and press "silence incoming calls"

(Incidentally, that last method (pressing "Silence incoming calls") still does _not_ silence the SMS sound, and I'd advocate that it should. (since it seems like that feature intends to be a quick-and-easy "silent mode" toggle, for use when you're entering a place where noise is frowned upon)

That's probably just because the button is broken entirely, though (per bug 823625), so I'm not holding this open or filing a followup for that problem.  If that button ends up being fixed at some point to silence calls, but still doesn't silence texts, I'll file a followup at that point.)

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #4)
> (Incidentally, that last method (pressing "Silence incoming calls") still
> does _not_ silence the SMS sound,
[...]
> That's probably just because the button is broken entirely, though (per bug 823625)

This part is now WORKSFORME too, in this nightly build:
  https://releases.mozilla.com/b2g/2012-12-24/
(Apparently bug 823625 was fixed, and that must've fixed its impacts in comment 4, too.)