[Q]: external microphone to SGS2?

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Would like to get reasonabe sound quality to video even outside and a little wind...

If you have a sponge, cut out a tiny piece and stick it around the mic. It prevents the annoying blowing sounds. There really is nothing else to do about the wind sounds.

If you want 44,1 kHz audio, you need one of the custom roms that has the HQ camera mod.

I just did a test with 2 different earbuds w/mic. the Camera app doesn't seem to use the external microphone when recording video, it just uses the internal mic. When I used the voice recorder app it does indeed use the external mic and makes a huge difference.

I have a Rode videomic at home. I'll try it later today vs a headset but I expect the same results.

very disappointing.

Originally Posted by outofmyelement

When I used the voice recorder app it does indeed use the external mic and makes a huge difference.

How did you use external mic with voice redorder app, then?

Originally Posted by prodygee

If you have a sponge, cut out a tiny piece and stick it around the mic. It prevents the annoying blowing sounds. There really is nothing else to do about the wind sounds.

If that is really so, maybe there would be market opportunity for new accessory: easy attachable pieces of sponge:)

Originally Posted by akwaarius

How did you use external mic with voice redorder app, then?

For the voice recorder app it just uses it automatically if its plugged in, same as playback is when you plug in headphones.

Unfortunately the Camera app does not operate this way which should be the normal or standard way of working when you plug in a headset/mic.

I would call it either a bug or poor design. Not sure if a hack could fix it and I don't think there are any 3rd party apps that record in HD and same quality that would use the mic if plugged in.

Do you think it's possible in any way to monitor from external mic (while recording audio) trough a bluetooth headset?
That way you could have cable free audio monitoring which would be particularly useful when I connect my external mic with a splitter cable to both the SGS II and a Zoom H4n.
I'll have quality audio for sure but I hate to be connected to my recording device with a cable for the headphones.
And I'd like to do just that with preferably the hardware I currently have.
I like mixing gadgets up for new usage scenario's

Forgive my ignorance, but I came across this thread looking for information on recording video while using an external microphone for capturing the audio.

So, are you saying it is impossible (at the moment)?

Any update on a possible way to record video with an external microphone? And which time of Microphone.

Apologies for bumping an old thread but I'll do it anyway just in case it helps even one person looking for the answers I was.

Recording video using an external microphone is possible, using one that's plugged into the 3.5mm socket. It appears, however, that you need to be running a ROM that's based on 2.3.5 or higher.

Another thread (which I now can't find) said that you might need a 'Y-splitter' (to split the phone's 3.5mm socket to separate headset and microphone connectors), but these cost very little.