Android Nexus One Call Recording with Tasker

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 29, 2010

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“I wanted to record calls on my Android phone (Nexus
one). The easy way would have been to download an app but I like
tinkering. And given that I recently bought Tasker, android’s very
own swiss knife, I thought I should give it a run. After just an
hour I was able to create my very own call recorder (some time went
into trial and error with things as this was my first major task
with tasker and also some things didn’t work with nexus one, which
I will note below). I’ll outline the process to set it up here in
as much detail as possible and will also provide the profiles.
Please note that I made this setup for nexus one but it should work
on pretty much any android phone and, in fact, it might work even
better on your phone by making a few tweaks that I will outline as
Nexus one doesn’t allow jacking into the call streams directly but
your phone might.

“So, let’s begin. My visioned scenario is like this:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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