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So, I guess I didn't solve things, but I did start to figure out where things are going wrong.

I think I'm going to need help from Boldbeast, as it seems it's something the BoldBeast Application is doing..

I should note that alongside a factory flash to january update for the pixel 4a 5g, and a factory reset and restore via Migrate application, I had uninstalled Boldbeast and installed the latest version 14.4. So it might be a change in 14.4 versus the previous version I had (unsure if 14.3, but 'probably').

I tried recording a selfie video and the audio messed up like it did earlier when I was having trouble getting Boldbeast to record. Audio from the video is very low.

I force quit the camera app, removed permissions from camera app, disabled camera app, reboot the phone, reenabled camera app, start camera app and give permissions, and it works again. Audio in the video recorded by the camera application is fine after doing that. I then make a phone call with Boldbeast running in background. Boldbeast auto records the call. Boldbeast captures the audio but it is of fairly low quality, especially my voice via speaker phone. I then go back into the Camera application and record a video, and the audio in the video the camera application records is too low/inaudible again.

It seems Boldbeast is having a conflict with the default camera application on the Pixel 4a 5g. The two apps seem to be fighting over the microphone or something - they certainly seem to not be getting along.

With further testing I found that I don't even have to cycle the permissions. I can force quit Boldbeast, then I disable the camera app, then reboot android, then reenable the camera app, and the camera application records audio just fine. I think Boldbeast hijacks the microphone for itself.

I've contacted Google Fi support to try to get some help. They linked to some help pages and await my response. In the help page one piece of information might of Immediate Relevance to helping Boldbeast assist in this matter:

From: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/9706190#zippy=,i-cant-hear-sound-at-all-or-its-low-volume,others-cant-hear-me-on-phone-calls

"Step 8: Check your microphones.

Use the Recorder app to record .

If you hear your recording, your bottom microphone works.

Use your camera to record a video with sound .

If you hear sound in the video, your top microphone works.

If one of your microphones doesn't work, learn how to contact Pixel support."

As mentioned earlier, I have had no problem using the Recorder app. But I have been having problems with the Camera App. This suggests that the Boldbeast application is doing something that interferes with the Camera app using the top microphone (assuming the help pages information is 100% accurate).

It's been quite troublesome as I've had two 5-10 minute long videos fail to record audio and this makes it impossible to have confidence any recordings I make are actually being recorded. I won't know until After the recording is done, and you can imagine how frustrating it might be to learn the past 5-15 minutes of footage has no audio.

Moreover, I need my phone to be able to recording video/audio so I can use my phone as an objective 'witness'. I'm being subjected to rights violations and other illegal acts and the only protection I really have is generating objective evidence; hence phone recordings and video/audio recordings.

This is why it is a priority to resolve this issue for me. I am hoping BoldBeast admin might be able to advise as to a solution. I'm not sure how to proceed at this point. Other than to see if Skavelex's call recording application might work okay for the time being, or do another factory reset and manually restore every application without using the Migrate application and hope that was the issue. It'd suck to do that and find out the issue persists.

Edit 2.2.2021 17:12 CST:

I noticed today:

if I reboot the phone the Camera records video with audio like it should UNTIL I make a call and Boldbeast records it.

I note the audio quality of the recording of my voice via Boldbeast is worse than it was previously.

I think the lower audio quality and the issues with the Camera application recording audio are related.