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My Asus Zenfone 5 is beginning to have some malfunctions :

No more sound, which means :

  • I can't make calls (the phone freezes to black and I can only start it up again by holding the power button)
  • I can't receive calls (callers go directly to voicemail)
  • I can't open the camera to take pictures or videos
  • Alarms don't ring, they just vibrate
  • I can't listen to music
  • I can't watch videos (videos taken with my phone, on youtube, on any social media app...) : video just won't start.

I got this bug report from NewPipe, a youtube client :

Exception

  • User Action: play stream
  • Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_AUDIO_TRACK_INIT_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH2v_m5dBdg
  • Content Country: GB
  • Content Language: en-
  • App Language: fr_FR
  • Service: YouTube
  • Version: 0.25.0
  • OS: Linux Android 9 - 28
Crash log 

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecAudioRenderer error, index=1, format=Format(null, null, null, audio/raw, null, -1, null, [-1, -1, -1.0], [2, 44100]), format_supported=YES
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:566)
 at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
 at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:198)
 at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:65)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.AudioSink$InitializationException: AudioTrack init failed 0 Config(44100, 12, 44100)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink$Configuration.buildAudioTrack(DefaultAudioSink.java:2110)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioTrack(DefaultAudioSink.java:1070)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioTrackWithRetry(DefaultAudioSink.java:1049)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.initializeAudioTrack(DefaultAudioSink.java:846)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.handleBuffer(DefaultAudioSink.java:929)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.MediaCodecAudioRenderer.processOutputBuffer(MediaCodecAudioRenderer.java:703)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1894)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:792)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:989)
 at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:490)
 ... 3 more
 Suppressed: com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.AudioSink$InitializationException: AudioTrack init failed 0 Config(44100, 12, 44100)
  ... 13 more

I don't know if it's related, but I've also noticed that in the play store, when I check the the compatibility of any app with my device, it is identified as Asus UNKNOWN_PRJ_ID, instead of X00QD.

I don't know how to proceed from there, is my phone fixable ?

The last time it happened, I was able to fix the issue by shutting down and restarting the phone a dozen times, but this time it's not working.

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  • There's a GitHub issue tracker related to this exception. According to them, it has something to do with low memory. Is this device running on stock ROM or custom ROM?
    – Andrew T. ♦
    Mar 19 at 9:53
  • I am running on stock ROM, and have 4 GB of memory. Also it happened without bluetooth activated.
    – l0r3nz4cc10
    Mar 19 at 15:05
  • Update : I think it's just that my phone is dying : it has also lost 4g capabilities (unless its very close to a tower) depite showing it has signal, SMS rarely works, accelerometer is gone... I was able to get it working again after a factory reset and countless restarts, but only for a few weeks, and the symptoms just started showing again
    – l0r3nz4cc10
    May 15 at 8:55

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