I noticed there is so much people asking for automatic call recording. Today phone calls are a blend of cellular/WhatsApp/Signal and others. How do you deal with call recording from messaging apps ?
Automatic call recording
This is exclusively for actual phone calls. You can't really do universal voip call recording since the data comes in all kinds of different ways.
Found this after a search. I'd definitely like this feature. Surely since the recording feature is already implemented, a switch for automatic shouldn't be too cumbersome.
riddlemethis Surely since the recording feature is already implemented, a switch for automatic shouldn't be too cumbersome.
"easy to do" is easy to say.
ve3jlg Who are you quoting.
riddlemethis Surely since the recording feature is already implemented, a switch for automatic shouldn't be too cumbersome.
It might be instructive to code it up and report back how much code a baseline implementation is. But that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Recently there was a post about a situation where a user had inadvertently filled up device storage by accidentally leaving video recording on overnight. Luckily, restoring the device to usability was possible without a factory reset, but the situation was still a bit of a sticky wicket.
So automatic call recording, to be safely deployed to the masses, arguably needs a bunch of code to suspend its own operation if storage space is getting low. How low? Once that point is reached, how should the user be alerted? Should the user be alerted before automatic call recording is disabled? What if the user disabled notifications for the dialer app? How about folder structure? If a user is likely to collect thousands of recordings, should they all be dumped in one folder, or should they be split by year and month?
It would arguably be prudent to have some sort of carrier testing plan. The initial roll-out of call recording was complicated because the "record" button was off the bottom of the screen for some users whose carriers supported some optional in-call features that, apparently, the developers didn't encounter in their testing.
What looks like one simple toggle on the screen might have a lot of code behind it, and also a lot of testing work.
de0u Recently there was a post about a situation where a user had inadvertently filled up device storage by accidentally leaving video recording on overnight.
Notice how the first and only response was a link to the Google Android support page? That's because this is a ROM of Android and thus an Android problem. Not a GrapheneOS problem.
de0u So automatic call recording, to be safely deployed to the masses
Automatic call recording wouldn't be deployed to the masses enabled. It would be opt-in by a settings toggle.
de0u if storage space is getting low. How low?
Are you comparing tremendously large video files (probably 4K) to low bitrate audio files recorded during a phone call, as the same thing? :\
de0u The initial roll-out of call recording was complicated because the "record" button was off the bottom of the screen for some users whose carriers supported some optional in-call features
Completely irrelevant to this discussion.
The record button & functionality exits. It's on every call. It has been for a long long time. This is a really simple concept which logically designates 'when call comes in: button automatically enabled'. It's not rocket science.
de0u What looks like one simple toggle on the screen might have a lot of code behind it, and also a lot of testing work.
It certainly does when there are entirely moot and irrelevant purview's being made about it ;)
riddlemethis Call recording is already a feature. Unless I am missing something, it was implemented by someone who isn't a project member (see the commit for it).
GrapheneOS project members have a lot on their plates already. I think somebody from the community will have to put in the work for this to be added.
i've noticed another issue with call recording. when the dialer is on call and when the dialer is closed the recording stops and we have to start the recording again. this does not happen on the other phone that i have where same type of dialer call recording is implemented.
riddlemethis Automatic call recording wouldn't be deployed to the masses enabled. It would be opt-in by a settings toggle.
where can i activate these Automatic call recording setting in grapos?
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Automatic call recording isn't currently a feature. An issue is open for it, though its not a priority as the last comment says. Someone self assigned themselves 2 weeks ago, so who knows when it could be added?