Google will kill call recording apps on Android for good starting May 11

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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Now we just have listening apps, and the conversation can be recorded somewhere else!

[–]POLICEAGENT 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

call recording apps have been in the process of being disabled for a while.

when i want to record a call, i take the call on speaker and i record using a second android phone.

so google can kiss my ass.

[–]jamie0342 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've been doing this for years

[–]Cyberat 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I also think you can blue tooth link for recording and NFS broadcast to another "device".

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

This is the reason why I haven't been updating my phone in quite a while. If you update from like Android 8 to higher versions, call recording will stop working. Fuck Google.

[–]flowerpot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

i dont know if this works, but anyways.. after reading all of this, my preference would be to have a completely de-googled phone that is rooted from the factory. i think they sell factory rooted phones at walmart, ffs.

How To Enable Call Recording in Google Dialer on Android 11 (Rooted phones only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSeSQ07MiZU

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Rooting a phone using some third party software you randomly found on the internet might install a backdoor into your phone.

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's right.

Most people prefer the only back doors available to be for apple, Google, FBI, DHS and local law enforcement, and theirs party friends of Google..

[–]Brewdabier 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Kinda hoping no more telemarketer calls but just a dream.

[–]SoCo 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This will screw up a lot of handicap accessibility and force professionals to use alternative phones.

Now only Google apps will be able to record calls on Android.

I'm sure this is more important than adding a feature to block incoming calls and texts numbers with a wild card matching, so I can block all the damn text spam that comes through Google gmail to text portals.

...you know, features even home land line's had in the 1990's.

[–]Cyberat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How do you block Verizon if it's your CSP ? They keep harrassing me to buy a "Smart"-er spyware new phone.

[–]awdrifter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Are there any rogue apps that can bypass this?

[–]flowerpot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

i have never owned a "rooted" android phone, but i am pretty sure that if you buy a phone that is already rooted OR you know how to "root" your phone, i am pretty sure that you can run some phone recorder software.

with a phone that is not rooted, the cell phone company configures your phone and you are unable to modify many of their factory settings.

with a rooted phone, you can change that phone up to do anything you want it to do.

also, there are "de-googled" phones that have all traces of google removed from them.. you may want to look into this.

there is a phone called a "pine phone" that they speak very highly of, but i have never used a pine phone.

be careful about recording people, if you are in the united states for example, do some research on what is meant by a "one party state" and a "two party state" before you make any of those recordings public... you could end up with some kind of "wire tapping charge"... i think that can be a fairly serious crime.

some states in the united states are considered to be one party and some are considered to be two party states..

where i live is a "one party" state, which means that as long as at least one person involved in the conversation is aware that the recording is being made, it is lega.

in a two party state, ALL PARTIES THAT ARE BEING RECORDED must be aware that the recording is being made and they must all agree to be recorded.

now here is the weird thing... if i am in a one party state and i call someone in a two party state, the two party rule becomes the rule...

https://www.rev.com/blog/phone-call-recording-laws-state

video: pine phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKMxzz9cjs

[–]Cyberat 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm waiting for a Full Linux OS phone.

[–]awdrifter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have a rooted phone, but for some reason when I tried to install Magisk modules it doesn't stay. Maybe it's blocked somehow?

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You would need root access.

And even then, you have to create modules that will allow this

[–]jostiniane 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

what does that mean?

--posting from my OnePlus with LineageOS--

[–]Cyberat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They record you but you can't record them... Rules for Thee but not for Me.