I just spoke to the help centre at play store, they said that no google settings/restrictions are preventing the app from recoding both sides.
I have also tried 3 phones and all the apps. Stopped working for me about 3 months ago.
Ah, I thought google might be the reason as it happend to me on 3 different android phones trying all the recorder apps.. hope some hacker out there can get around this.
Thanks
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