Many of the posts on working with an external microphone suggests you use open camera app or G-cam port apk. Which accepts an external microphone. While Oxygen OS OTA updates do not seem to add this feature. Many of you purchased an expensive external microphone to use with a stock camera for OP6t. But it does not seem to work.
An alternative approach to this problem is for both rooted and non-rooted is to make a WhatsApp call. Your mic is connected through a USB-C adopter with 3.5mm jack input TRRS to TRRS 4 pole plug.
While in a voice call switch to the stock OS camera and then record.
While you are recording stop the WhatsApp call and then go on taking the input from the external mic. once recording stops you need to go through the whole process again and again.
However, sometimes if the call goes longer in ringing mode. If you delay disconnecting the call while recording, the sound may go out of sync for video and audio. It's better to disconnect the call as soon as you start recording the video. But this solution is problematic for content creators. If something or any other app that can emulate WhatsApp calls would be good enough to make OS think of that external mic as input. I already tried with the stock screen recording app which has a microphone option but it does not work either.
After going through google search, I am not sure anyone would have any other alternative solution like Magisk Module or Xposed modules for external mic or any other. This issue with the external mic is widely ignored for the stock camera. Reason to work with Stock Camera is to take advantage of OP6T's 4k60fps and its best way to take what OP6t has to offer. While other apps do this with 30fps.
For those who are content creators like making youtube videos etc, the solution to this problem would be a gift for all to take advantage of OP6T to its full potential. Let me know if this partial solution helps.
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This is a self inflicted problem. :crying:. When I took apart my OneX to do the WiFi fix, I must have damaged the connection to the main MIC used for phone calls. Now my WiFi works brilliantly, but no-one can hear me on calls.
Just to be clear:
A wired headset with MIC works OK.
A Bluetooth headset or car kit works OK
Recording video still records audio OK. Assuming this is because it uses another MIC in the handset.
Unless someone has an idea how this can be resolved in a different way, the sort of thing I would be looking for is a utility to switch the MIC to the one used for recording video. Then I could use it with different ROMs too.
Any help or thoughts? Please?
PS: I have reviewed all the threads about tools and mods for something like this, but can't find anything. Was hoping the audio mod tools might do this but looking in detail, they tend to only improve what you hear, not what is recorded.
I have managed to get an external microphone to work with my fairphone but only on the voice recorder. It seems to automatically take the audio from true external (radio) mic. I can't get it to work with the video which is crucial for me because I bought the phone to film from a distance y=using the radio mic. Ideas please?
Maybe try a different Video capture APP? Or record audio separately with the voive recorder.
A quick search on Google and sample videos on YouTube reveal that the G3 is capable of and should record video with stereo sound, and yet I was disappointed to find out that my new G3 D855 does not record stereo sound in video no matter what I try.
I am also not able to record stereo sound on its own, any app that claims to be able to record stereo sound does not do that. ("Sound & Voice Recorder" by NLL, for example)
I am running official LG firmware (v21a) and I have rooted it in an attempt to modify /etc/media_profiles.xml to fix the problem, to no avail. I have also tried custom camera apps such as XCam LG, but that didn't help either.
Thanks for any help troubleshooting this.
Even thought its capable in my opinion yes it has 2 mics but 1 is for noise cancelling technicly u cant record stereo without 2 mics again in my opinion u need both a left and right channel. It might be stereo quality but tru stereo should need two mics for 2 diffrent reffrence points on sound i may horribly wrong and someone please correct me if im wrong
The mics are placed at two different points - one at the bottom of the phone next to the headphone jack, and the other is on the top of the phone next to the IR blaster. In this video you can see that there are separate L and R channels and you can hear the direction of the sounds that were recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrVcgr3Ps8
See everyone every told me that the top mic was only for noise canceling
https://m.reddit.com/r/LGG3/comments/2bvciq/weird_bug_i_found_after_watching_a_video_that_i/
I tried this same thing to so thats the mono sound in videos
I guess this could be a possible solution:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/732125509/ss07-high-quality-stereo-microphone-for-android
So the google camera app defaults to using the terrible device mic when recording video, even with plugged in headphones with a mic.
I've tried several 3rd party apps but they don't seem to work well with the sensor, the image is flipped and autofocus has some issues.
Any way I could trick or reroute audio with tasker or something similar when headphones are plugged in?
I accidentally discovered strange thing while recording the sound via external microphone (the headset that came with the kit) in default recording app and camera app (maybe in other apps too).
That's what it's all about: when i plug the heaset 3.5mm jack in, the message pop up: "External microphone will be used to record audio". Ok. But! The sound can aсtually recording from extenral mic only if you immediately start talking in it, otherwise it will be recording only from internal mic! Is it a bug or feature?
P.S. And the second question, maybe it stupid:
I tried to record sound from Nintendo switch to Galaxy S9 by connecting them via 3.5mm cable (male-male), the sound did not recorded Now i know it was useless, but is safe for both gadgets to connect their 3.5 ports?
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