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I am creating an app which is able to record surround sound in background and I follow all the states of Media Recorder which work fine on some devices but throw following exception on some devices too. 

06-19 18:21:35.658: E/MediaRecorder(7439): start failed: -38
06-19 18:21:35.658: W/System.err(7439): java.lang.IllegalStateException
06-19 18:21:35.658: W/System.err(7439):     at android.media.MediaRecorder.start(Native Method)

I search that but found nothing for this error code. Can somebody tell me what is the meaning of this error code and how to resolve that.

I know it might be a duplicate one android: media recorder : start failed: -38 but no help on that post too.

This demo works on Samsung Nexus and Nexus 4 but continuously crashing on Samsung S II. Thanks

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Krishnakant Dalal
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I have same issue with MediaRecorder, and the reason is that your mic is occupied by another thread.

user9404382
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I've had the same issue with -38 , in my case i found that i've had other background service that is using AudioRecord that uses the mic.....

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