No sound from 3.5mm jack on a raspberry pi 4 [solved]

[PranavLal]

Hi all,
I am not getting any sound on my 3.5mm jack. I have tested with a pair of ordinary headphones and powered speakers. I have used the same configuration on a USB sound card without any problems. You can see my alsa configuration at the following link.
http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=eadcce675 ... 7aa13ac04d
the output of amixer is as follows.
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
Mono: Capture 26281 [40%] [on]
pi@raspberrypi:/usr/share/sounds/alsa $

aplay -l yields the following.
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
Subdevices: 7/7
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 2: bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI1 [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Set [C-Media USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

I am also attaching my /boot/config.txt file to this message.
Anyone any ideas on what I should try? I can hear a click when the pi reboots which means something is happening.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi all,
I am not getting any sound on my 3.5mm jack. I have tested with a pair of ordinary headphones and powered speakers. I have used the same configuration on a USB sound card without any problems. You can see my alsa configuration at the following link.
http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=eadcce675 ... 7aa13ac04d
the output of amixer is as follows.
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
Mono: Capture 26281 [40%] [on]
pi@raspberrypi:/usr/share/sounds/alsa $

aplay -l yields the following.
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
Subdevices: 7/7
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 2: bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI1 [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Set [C-Media USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

I am also attaching my /boot/config.txt file to this message.
Anyone any ideas on what I should try? I can hear a click when the pi reboots which means something is happening.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... -config.md

The sound is line level only so will need amplification.

[6by9]

The one device feeds three potential outputs (analog, HDMI0, and HDMI1) based on a control.
Select the appropriate output from the volume control on the Raspbian desktop, or use "amixer -q cset numid=3 1" (1=analog, 2=HDMI0, 3=HDMI1).

Or you can add "snd_bcm2835.enable_headphones=1 snd_bcm2835.enable_hdmi=1 snd_bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=0" to /boot/cmdline.txt (do not add any carriage returns) and you'll get 3 independent devices for the 3 audio outputs. We're looking at switching to that by default, but there are a few complications.

[dengfeng]

raspberry pi 4B , the same problem . but it is ok now . I do the things :
the first step maybe be my monitor's problem .
1. use raspi-config
-> Advanced Options -> AA pi 4 vedio Output -> disable both 4kp60 and analog (choise the item and save , shutdown)

2. switch the physical hdmi connect to another （there two hdmi interface）

power on , play the wav , it's ok

I think it's a bug .

the latest raspbian os thers isn't the bug . the other dist , eg arch , manjaro , This problem still exists

I use Debian-Pi-Aarch64 https://github.com/openfans-community-o ... Pi-Aarch64 , it's really good if you are very Familiar with linux .

[simmaz]

raspberry pi 4B , the same problem . but it is ok now . I do the things :
the first step maybe be my monitor's problem .
1. use raspi-config
-> Advanced Options -> AA pi 4 vedio Output -> disable both 4kp60 and analog (choise the item and save , shutdown)

2. switch the physical hdmi connect to another （there two hdmi interface）

power on , play the wav , it's ok

I think it's a bug .

the latest raspbian os thers isn't the bug . the other dist , eg arch , manjaro , This problem still exists

I use Debian-Pi-Aarch64 https://github.com/openfans-community-o ... Pi-Aarch64 , it's really good if you are very Familiar with linux .

This fixed it for me. Must be the same bug. Thanks a lot!

[myguel]

I had the same problem and @dengfeng solution also fixed it (1000x thanks).
You have to disable the 4k in order to have sound on the jack (I hope it will be fixed on a future update of raspbian).

1) raspi-config
2) -> Advanced Options -> AA pi 4 video Output -> disable 4kp60
3) save
4) reboot

[aurorab]

Thank you for the above advice, I had the same problem with my Pi 4 sound and after following the instructions it's working great now.

[from_darbhanga]

I had to select `raspi-config` -> `Advanced Options` -> `A4 Audio Force audio out through HDMI or 3.5mm jack`. Select `1 Headphones`.

[petros42]

I have a PI4 with latest Raspbian everything. I have Docker + Teslamate installed as well as Recoll (https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/).

I have no sound and the desktop UI says "No audio devices".
The PulseAudio volume control says "no output devices available" when I select Show: Hardware Output devices.

My symptoms are identical to dbeach in this thread: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/new-install ... g/46383/10

The only way I get any audio out is via:
aplay -D sysdefault:CARD=Headphones /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

VLC gives nothing and shows only the "Dummy Output" under Audio Device.

I'm trying to setup Rhasspy ... so the audio in/out is somewhat necessary

Any help would be most appreciated.
I've ordered a couple more PI4's so I'll be able to test on a clean platform compared to the one I'm currently running.