setStreamMute never unmutes

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Apperantly, there is a bug in these Android versions; Tested for versions 2.2 and 2.3.3 and the bug exists.
Looks like, if you call setStreamMute on an AudioManager object:

AudioManager am = (AudioManager)context.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
am.setStreamMute(...., true);

and you lose your reference, then get a new reference:

am = null;
am = (AudioManager)context.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);

No matter how many times you call am.setStreamMute(..., false) now, it will never unmutes.

I think ill report this bug now..

Lesson: Keep a static reference to your AudioManager.

@Michell Bak, thanks for giving me the idea to check whether its the Android software bug 🙂 I’ve been stuck on this thing for way too much time, and I never had the idea to see if its not my fault.

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