If you need to record calls on Android mobile, the best thing that can happen to you is that the mobile has the possibility to do it in the phone application. Otherwise, you will have to resort to apps to record calls which are not working very well from Android 9 Pie.
The good news is that EMUI has a native call recorder. The bad news is that Huawei eliminated it in EMUI 10, at least in the West. The best news is that it is possible to activate native call recording download the specific application adapted to the EMUI version. We tell you how.
Install the right version for your mobile
EMUI is fully prepared to record calls using the phone app and recorder app, although it lacks a key part that is not preinstalled in newer terminals, a simple APK that activates the function.
On Huawei phones with EMUI 9.0, enabling call recording was as easy as installing the APK recording, although until recently there was no version compatible with EMUI 10 or higher. The only solution was to go back to EMUI 9.0, install the APK and update to EMUI 10, which was not very convenient.
Fortunately, there is now an easier way to activate it, as we have changed versions of the app for the major versions of EMUI today: EMUI 9.0, EMUI 10.0 and EMUI 10.1. At the moment, no news from EMUI 11. It is important that you install the correct version for your version of EMUI, otherwise it won’t install or install, but it won’t work properly.
If you have any doubts about the version of EMUI you have on your mobile, you can check it by opening the app Settings and enter the section About phone. There, just above the Android version, you will find the data of EMUI version.
For the rest, all you have to do is install the app from its APK, which is usually a matter of a few clicks. It is possible, yes, that you need it first give permission so that it can install apps on the app you used to download the APK (eg Google Chrome).
How to record a call with EMUI
After installing the previous APK, you won’t notice anything new on your mobile until you make a call. Then one of the buttons appearing on the screen during the call will disappear to make room for the Record. When you press, the call starts recording.
The phone app before (left) and after (right) installing the recording app Therefore, when you want to start recording a call, you need to press the record button and press it again when you want to stop recording. You can start and stop recording multiple times during a call and, in addition, hanging up automatically stops recording.
How to record all calls with EMUI
If you prefer to configure the mobile so that record all calls Alone, you can do this after installing the previous APK. To do this, open the Phone app, press the ⋮ menu button and choose Settings. A menu that did not exist before will appear: Automatically record calls.
In this menu, you have several associated parameters. To begin with, there is a switch to activate the recording of all calls, although below you can change the option so that not all are recorded, but those of certain numbers. If you choose this option, you can select from which contacts you want to automatically record all calls.
By choosing this option, the call recording will be activated by itself, without you having to remember to press a button after lifting the phone.
Check recorded calls
When a recording ends, you are notified by a notification on your mobile. By pressing it, you can see the result of the recording. Another way to do the same is to open the app Huawei Grabadora, which is preinstalled on the mobile. In it, press Calls to view the last recorded calls.
If for some reason you do not have the Recorder app on your mobile, the audio files with the recording are normally saved in the folder Sounds / call recording internal mobile storage and in m4a format.
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