Hi,
Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Michael Trimarchi wrote:
I don't send any sound to the device so it remains on, it's the correct behavior?
What do you mean by that - what exactly is "send any sound to the device" in this context? Do you mean that you aren't playing any audio from the CPU?
I don't play any audio file (mp3 ogg) to the device but open it during boot sequence using the SpeakerOut profile. The speake audio path is not used. For design decision Android open the device in AudioFlinger Theread:
I/AudioHardwareALSA( 867): Initialized ALSA PLAYBACK device AndroidPlayback_Speaker_normal D/AudioHardwareALSA( 867): Set PLAYBACK PCM format to S16_LE (Signed 16 bit Little Endian) D/AudioHardwareALSA( 867): Using 2 channels for PLAYBACK. D/AudioHardwareALSA( 867): Set PLAYBACK sample rate to 44100 HZ D/AudioHardwareALSA( 867): Buffer size: 16384 D/AudioHardwareALSA( 867): Latency: 371519
and this remains open. So the the lm is switch on on boot. I think that the correct behavior is to have a different profile in asound.conf to avoid power drain and open a different one when the system want to use the speaker or just not open the alsa device.
Hope that the now is clear
Best regards Michael