[White]3.5mm jack Headset Earphone Mic&Remote Volume Control for Samsung Galaxy S7 S6 Edge S5 S4 Note 5 4 3 Handfree Headphone Earbud

Recording audio from an external microphone on an Android phone should be an easy thing to do but many people have found that it is not as simple as it seems and using a 3.5mm microphone. The only place you can plug in a microphone is in this headphone jack. But you will not get the result you'll want. I'll show you what happens. My microphone has a standard 3.5mm plug on the end. When I plug the microphone in, the phone recognizes that a device has been plugged in. I'm going to use the built-in audio recorder to show you that this won't work at this time. So I'll start the app recording and I'll tap on the microphone. On the display, the VU meter doesn't register any audio. That's because the phone actually thinks that headphones are plugged in. But the audio jack on the phone is for headphones and microphones. To make this work, I'll need an adapter cable like this one from StarTec wh