diff --git a/hal/audio_hw.c b/hal/audio_hw.c
index 9ebe142..e186199 100644
--- a/hal/audio_hw.c
+++ b/hal/audio_hw.c
@@ -1361,7 +1361,9 @@
               platform_get_snd_device_name(snd_device),
               platform_get_snd_device_name(usecase->out_snd_device),
               platform_check_backends_match(snd_device, usecase->out_snd_device));
-        if ((usecase->type != PCM_CAPTURE) && (usecase != uc_info)) {
+        if ((usecase->type != PCM_CAPTURE) &&
+            (usecase->type != VOICE_CALL) &&
+            (usecase != uc_info)) {
             uc_derive_snd_device = derive_playback_snd_device(adev->platform,
                                                usecase, uc_info, snd_device);
             if (((uc_derive_snd_device != usecase->out_snd_device) || force_routing) &&
diff --git a/hal/msm8974/platform.c b/hal/msm8974/platform.c
index 475e438..00c3a3e 100644
--- a/hal/msm8974/platform.c
+++ b/hal/msm8974/platform.c
@@ -6202,6 +6202,13 @@
     /*this is populated by check_codec_backend_cfg hence set default value to false*/
     backend_cfg.passthrough_enabled = false;
 
+     /*check if the stream sample 44.1Khz rate is supported of configured device sample rate. If not
+       open afe at default sample rate.
+      */
+    if (backend_idx != HEADPHONE_44_1_BACKEND &&
+        usecase->stream.out->sample_rate == OUTPUT_SAMPLING_RATE_44100)
+        backend_cfg.sample_rate = DEFAULT_OUTPUT_SAMPLING_RATE;
+
     /* Set Backend sampling rate to 176.4 for DSD64 and
      * 352.8Khz for DSD128.
      * Set Bit Width to 16
@@ -6225,7 +6232,8 @@
     for (i = 0; i < num_devices; i++) {
         ALOGI("%s: new_snd_devices[%d] is %d", __func__, i, new_snd_devices[i]);
         if ((platform_check_codec_backend_cfg(adev, usecase, new_snd_devices[i],
-                                             &backend_cfg))) {
+                                             &backend_cfg)) ||
+             (!platform_check_backends_match(usecase->out_snd_device, snd_device))) {
             ret = platform_set_codec_backend_cfg(adev, new_snd_devices[i],
                                            backend_cfg);
             if (!ret) {