[arale/krillin] Toggling wifi on/off causes media playback to hiccup

[Jim Hodapp]

1. Play a song with music-app
2. Switch wifi off, notice that music-app playback pauses for a moment
3. Switch wifi on, notice that music-app playback pauses for a moment
4. Watch the CPU usage with top while toggling wifi and notice that the usage spikes to 100%

Expected results:

Music or video keeps playing without pausing while toggling wifi on/off

[Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane)]

The same bug was filed a long time ago. Because this bug can be reproduced without touching indicator-network (by sending the wifi disable commands from the command line) it was reassigned, but I can't for the life of me find what project it was assigned to.

I would assign this bug as a duplicate of that one, but as I can't find it now I'm just going to close this. If you can find a sequence of steps where this occurs only when doing the toggle in indicator-network but not when doing the same from the command line, feel free to reopen.

[Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)]

I would like to make sure that this is still assigned in a different project and still planned on being fixed. Can you think of someone else to ask who might know where this bug report actually lives?

[Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)]

I got this bug filed in the appropriate place now.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I found it.

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

Worth looking at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/barajas/+bug/1383236

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

There are more details in the duplicate #1447077.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

This bug is specific to arale, krillin, and most likely vegatta ( although as I don't have once, I haven't been able to test ). It's related to the fact that on devices using MTK's Wi-Fi driver, we're forced to use hybris for power control of the Wi-Fi radios. This leverages the Android HAL functions wifi_load/unload_driver(). On systems configured without kernel modules, this results in a driver command to start/stop Wi-Fi ( this is accomplished by writing the string "0" or "1" to the character device ( /dev/wmtWiFi ).

I just checked mako ( rc-proposed, #222 ) and no stuttering occurs when Wi-Fi is enabled or disabled.

Also re-checked arale ( rc-proposed, #88 ) and krillin ( rc-proposed, #104 ) and both still skip/stutter when Wi-Fi is toggled.

Bug #1487529 reported for arale.