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[Q] Apps to record from Bluetooth headset?

Has anyone been able to find a WORKING app which records audio from a Bluetooth headset on the Galaxy Nexus?
The ones I've tired force close or can't find the audio source...
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when someone calls your google voice phone number. you can pickup the phone call and press 4 to record the call; this works even if you're speaking on a bluetooth headset.

I don't use Google voice, but rather was looking for something to record memos instead of phone calls.
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EP2008 said:
Has anyone been able to find a WORKING app which records audio from a Bluetooth headset on the Galaxy Nexus?
The ones I've tired force close or can't find the audio source...
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Which ones have you tried? There are a LOT of voice recording apps out there!
One example

RTContent said:
Which ones have you tried? There are a LOT of voice recording apps out there!
One example
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I've tried the ones which explicitly say they record Bluetooth audio, but none of them work. Regular recording apps will always pick the mic off the phone, which isn't what I'm looking for.
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Thats not actually true from my experiences. By connecting a bluetooth headset it should 'hijack' the speaker and microphone and use your bluetooth one by default.

RTContent said:
Thats not actually true from my experiences. By connecting a bluetooth headset it should 'hijack' the speaker and microphone and use your bluetooth one by default.
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With the app you posted, using a galaxy Nexus?
I'll give it a try.
EDIT: that didn't work at all. It records only from the built in mic.
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EP2008 said:
With the app you posted, using a galaxy Nexus?
I'll give it a try.
EDIT: that didn't work at all. It records only from the built in mic.
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this is true of the sg2 on various roms i think its pretty damning that a smart phone cant record phone calls really makes android look like a pile o rubbish. i have tried alot to get call recording on a bluetooth headset and nothing works. once after loading about 20 apps on an old ics rr rom it started working litrally by magic so i know it is possible to work but no one seems to care or managed to do it which is deffinetly very pathetic quite fankly. concidering i can watch two channels of live tv while down loading a film using my phone as router over 3g etc all at the same time its amazing but i cant record a phone call ffs.

Its now 2015, has anyone had any luck with this or found and app in the store that actually works. Cheers

seal said:
Its now 2015, has anyone had any luck with this or found and app in the store that actually works. Cheers
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I found one!!
There's an app called Boldbeast call recorder that has worked with Bluetooth on my Note 4: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boldbeast.recorder&hl=en
The good is that it works (on the note 4), the bad is that this app is $11 (free version without auto-record is available), but it works and it saves me from having to waste more time looking for a solution. :good:
I DO NOT KNOW if this works on the Galaxy Nexus, for whoever still owns that phone.

EP2008 said:
I found one!!
There's an app called Boldbeast call recorder that has worked with Bluetooth on my Note 4: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boldbeast.recorder&hl=en
The good is that it works (on the note 4), the bad is that this app is $11 (free version without auto-record is available), but it works and it saves me from having to waste more time looking for a solution. :good:
I DO NOT KNOW if this works on the Galaxy Nexus, for whoever still owns that phone.
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I can confirm that Boldbeast works on my Galaxy S4 (i9500) as well. I had to do a little bit of tweaking (give the app root access, change SELinux to permissive(there's an app on XDA for that)), but I was able to get it to record both ways with a bluetooth headset (Plantronics voyager edge) when I put the Record Mode to "Alsa Mode (Root)" However the volume is a little low, and when I tried to give it a 20% boost in volume in the app settings, the recorded conversation was really really distorted. Turned it back to 0% volume increase, and it's at least not distorting the sound.
I am using a custom ROM (n4/s6 by @alemtro) and kernel (can't remember but as it turns out it's not permissive), and of course it's rooted.
ACR has a far better UI, and does auto call in the free version, but they don't want to play around with SELinux etc because that is against the Play Store terms. So if you don't need BT recording, that's a better app, but like me if you really need BT recording, Boldbeast seems to be the only option (and a good one).

Any way for better recording at live venues?

So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.

Not really; low pressure mic trying to to record high pressure audio created by a speaker which then travels through air. Sorry.
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I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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radrian92 said:
I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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Hmm interesting, I had my headphones in my pocket too. I'll have to try that next time.

I have never had a phone that could record quality audio at a concert regardless of the operating system. I havent heard of the headphone trick but the phone would use that mic instead of the actual device mic so its worth a shot.

I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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Wrong post. Haha.

chrischoi said:
Wrong post. Haha.
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You didn't happen to go the Art Institute of Pgh did you? i saw you're from PA. I went to AIP with a Chris Choi.

dennistpm said:
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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What's Record Forge? I googled it but nothing came up besides a bunch of results for Forge Records.

Sorry. My bad. It's called RecForge.
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Gotcha...thanks.

dennistpm said:
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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So wait. You can shoot a video and this program will separately record the sound? What happens to the sound from the native video app? I'm confused
EDIT: It does not seem to work. Every time RecForge is recording, the video fails to record immediately.

From everything I've experienced, all native Android sound recording is pretty poor. I have the paid version of Hi-Q MP3 Recorder and I've found it to work quite well. I emailed the dev a few weeks back asking to give options to increase the recording bit rate, and you now have the ability to record up to 320kbps. It'll of course take up more room, but the quality is better. It records straight to mp3 file instead of amr or whatever the stock one uses.
I don't know how well it'll work for concerts though, as that's just a really loud environment!
And if you wanted to get just the audio from any video recording, there's an app called Freecorder (don't know if available for Macs) which takes any audio directly from the sound card of your computer. No background interference or anything like that, right from the card so anything playing through your computer will be recorded. It's great for getting any audio from a video, or a streaming file, though I don't condone stealing

I need a solution too!
zeron89 said:
So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.
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I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?

salsa2333 said:
I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?
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I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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mattzeller said:
I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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No, I haven't tried that but my guess is that it would sound pretty muffled. I'm going to try different camera apps next but I'm trying to understand what that "concert mode" does internally in the Droid4. There's an app called "LG Camera" that seems to have some pretty robust settings for the audio. You can potentially change the audio encoder, the samplerate and the bitrate. There's also an option to "enable stereo mode" (if device supports stereo sound recording). Possibly one of those settings could do it?
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I also found this thread which makes me think I'm on to something with the LG Camera app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/mod-hacked-camera-apk-audio-quality-t1104051

I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.

There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
<<< PLEASE say thank you if I was of help!
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aarongillion63 said:
There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
<<< PLEASE say thank you if I was of help!
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You're doing this with your HTC one? You must have a massive butthole....

1BadWolf said:
I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.
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Any luck?

[Q] Camcorder one channel audio (no stereo in video recordings, top mic low volume)

Hi,
I have very annoying issue in my Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
I'm running LiquidSmooth 3.1 (4.4.4 KitKat) ROM.
Cutting to the chase, when I'm recording video (through stock app or google camera from Play store) my phone records right channel audio very well (bottom microphone). Unfortunately audio recorded by top mic (left channel; camcorder mic) is very looooow on volume.
Example: I record a video, then I upload it on my computer, starts playing it - I can hear audio in right speaker, left one seems totally quiet. When turning volume up to the max, I can hear audio in left speaker but it's still very quiet.​
I thought it's just video recording problem, but I tested it with Easy Voice Recorder Pro - when recording mono, everything is fine. When recording stereo - same issue as while recording videos.
Does anybody encountered same issue? Is it software issue, maybe whole ROM related? Or is it hardware issue?
Thanks

MikeSome1 said:
Hi,
I have very annoying issue in my Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
I'm running LiquidSmooth 3.1 (4.4.4 KitKat) ROM.
Cutting to the chase, when I'm recording video (through stock app or google camera from Play store) my phone records right channel audio very well (bottom microphone). Unfortunately audio recorded by top mic (left channel; camcorder mic) is very looooow on volume.
Example: I record a video, then I upload it on my computer, starts playing it - I can hear audio in right speaker, left one seems totally quiet. When turning volume up to the max, I can hear audio in left speaker but it's still very quiet.​
I thought it's just video recording problem, but I tested it with Easy Voice Recorder Pro - when recording mono, everything is fine. When recording stereo - same issue as while recording videos.
Does anybody encountered same issue? Is it software issue, maybe whole ROM related? Or is it hardware issue?
Thanks
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Well, not especially rom related, but all AOSP, CM etc. seem to have those sound issues atm. If it is important for you, consider a TW rom.

Androidwizzard said:
Well, not especially rom related, but all AOSP, CM etc. seem to have those sound issues atm. If it is important for you, consider a TW rom.
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Okay, thanks for answer.
Is it happening to everyone or just some unlucky people?

MikeSome1 said:
Okay, thanks for answer.
Is it happening to everyone or just some unlucky people?
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It is very common issue for all users, as I said: atm=at the moment. Even phone calls can suffer from mic troubles.
One important thing: It might be solved already lately or in the next hours or days. Read in the threads

Does Call recording works ? which app ?

Any one has tried for call recording ? which app is work fine. I want to buy this phone but want to sure that call recording is work or not ?

t33n said:
Any one has tried for call recording ? which app is work fine. I want to buy this phone but want to sure that call recording is work or not ?
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Yes supported u can download any call recording app from playstore

Are you sure? Because it will cost me almost 400 bucks. Do you use this phone? Which app do you use?

t33n said:
Are you sure? Because it will cost me almost 400 bucks. Do you use this phone? Which app do you use?
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yup i m using this device since 15 days.... call recorder working confirmed
i m using "Automatic call recorder" u can find it on google playstore

Call recorder doesn't work with headphones plugged in
Unfortunately, I haven't found a call recorder that actually works when you switch the recording source to "voice call" on Moto Z2 play. I can record no problem using the "mic" option but that doesn't help if you're using a Bluetooth headset or regular plug-in headphones. Additionally, recordings don't sound nearly as clear coming from the person on the other end of the phone since it's just the phone's built in microphone picking up the sound coming through the earpiece on your phone. Does anyone know if any call recording apps actually work with the "Voice call" recording source (with headphones plugged in)?

Is there an application records via kernel? No microphone bs.

Hello
I've been using Callbox (I can't post the link as I'm new to the forum but you'll find it on play - automatic call recorder CallBox) for a few months now and it really works. I've tried some others before and never got the seeked result (often problems with recording while on bluetooth or poor quality).
Callbox works great on Moto Z Play (I'm on RETEU 7.0, not rooted, original ROM). Nice quality on both sides and no problem recording when I'm on bluetooth connection in my car. I use my Z Play for my pro calls and use it a lot.
Good integration also with Google drive.
Have a nice day
dodecaeder

I use "call recorder" (paid) https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1441643&page=1 and it seems to work well. It's not on the play store currently for some reason but when I started using it - it was.

t33n said:
Any one has tried for call recording ? which app is work fine. I want to buy this phone but want to sure that call recording is work or not ?
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Boldbeast call recorder works fine without root
Search in play store ( it's paid app)

dodecaeder said:
Hello
I've been using Callbox (I can't post the link as I'm new to the forum but you'll find it on play - automatic call recorder CallBox) for a few months now and it really works. I've tried some others before and never got the seeked result (often problems with recording while on bluetooth or poor quality).
Callbox works great on Moto Z Play (I'm on RETEU 7.0, not rooted, original ROM). Nice quality on both sides and no problem recording when I'm on bluetooth connection in my car. I use my Z Play for my pro calls and use it a lot.
Good integration also with Google drive.
Have a nice day
dodecaeder
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Thank you.
It works fine on Moto Z2 Play as well.

Enable Stereo Audio Recording

Hey guys,
This is a minor but annoying problem, and I know I'm not the only one.
Is there a way to enable stereo recording for purely voice recording? I've tried many apps(the included Voice Recorder app, easy voice recorder, even Recordr) and everything came up mono even after enabling the stereo option.
I assume its a system level lock, because stereo audio is enabled when the phone records video.

I need this too, I hope it can be enabled.

The HTC one has good recording quality, and is one of the very few that doesn't distort when there are high sound pressure levels.
(so concerts, etc). So potentially the best choice for musicians and people who like to record live music.
Because of the focus of HTC on getting audio recording right, it is unexplainable that stereo recording is only available in video !
If HTC fixes this, they really have an extra USP.
User [D4v3|R4v3] posted that maybe he can help to get it enabled, see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/htc-10-audio-thread-t3358064/post69112492#post69112492
Mine is not rooted (yet) so I cannot help with this one.
But hopefully HTC will also fix it, so it will also be available to users that don't have their device rooted. should be very easy i guess.
I really don't understand the reason to block stereo recording to other apps.
At least HTC should make stereo recording available in their own voice recorder app.