Sheel freezes for a short time when pressing the "Play" key on a connected BT keyboard

[Niklas Wenzel]

How to reproduce:

1) Connect a bluetooth keyboard to your Nexus 4.
2) Press the "Play" key on the keyboard.

What happens:

Unity8 freezes for some seconds.

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ system-image-cli --info
current build number: 114
device name: mako
channel: ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed
alias: ubuntu-touch/vivid-proposed
last update: 2015-02-27 15:25:45
version version: 114
version ubuntu: 20150227.1
version device: 20150210
version custom: 20150227.1

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

This is most likely because the play button does the same as the headset buttons. You could accept an incoming call with it.

So pressing the play button does "callManager.handleMediaKey(false);"

Tiago, can you explain why this seems to hang for like 5 seconds or so?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package telephony-service - 0.1+15.04.20150227-0ubuntu1

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telephony-service (0.1+15.04.20150227-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * New rebuild forced.

  [ Tiago Salem Herrmann ]
  * Check if default sim is active before sending messages. (LP:
    #1423942)
  * Do not create instance of GreeterContacts to avoid dealock with
    unity. (LP: #1426399)
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[Niklas Wenzel (nikwen)]

Thanks for the quick fix!