Voice Memos have stopped Recording on iphone 4S

Appreciate advice for eliminating this problem:
Needle not moving when I record voice memos on iphone 4S.
No sound in playback.
Was working great until last week.

Try restarting your iPhone by holding down the on/off and the home buttons at the same time until you see the Apple logo.

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Hi. I recently had to reinstall Windows and therefore iTunes as well. iTunes wouldn't let me sync my music because the iPhone was being synced with another iTunes library on my PC (which I assume would be my old iTunes install). In order to get iTunes to allow me to sync again, I enabled and then disabled the manually manage songs option. Everything seems to be OK except for my Voice Memos.
When I switched to manual management of my songs, my voice memos were then treated as regular song tracks. I added them back to my iPhone manually along with my music and videos. Then I turned back on syncing (unchecked manually manage box). When I synced, the Voice Memos playlist was created again and in the playlist were all my Voice Memos, except for 2. Those 2 ones that are not showing in the Voice Memos playlist are the only two files that show up inside the Voice Memos app. Also now all my Voice Memos (except those 2 I just mentioned) show up twice in my Music category on iTunes.
Is there a way to make it so that the Voice Memos don't show up twice in iTunes, and to have all the Voice Memos be displayed in the Voice Memos app? I would rather the Voice Memos not show up in the Music app. I've already changed the Media Kind to "Voice Memo" and everything. No go...

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If I recheck the Voice Memo genre so that it syncs with the rest of my music, the voice memos get copied onto my iPhone twice, eating up a lot of space! I think my Voice Memos are indeed syncing twice on my iPhone because the Other section is 5.24GB and the files on my PC are 2.62GB, exactly twice the amount of the memos on my PC.......

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Hi, I am trying to get my voice memos from my iPhone 3GS to my MacBook Pro via iTunes and it is not working. I have ticked sync music in the music tab of the iPhone device and the include voice memos box is also ticked. So, apparently this should work, but there is no sign of the voice memos in iTunes or in the iTunes folder in the finder window. Any ideas much appreciated! :-) Thank you.

I've always had the "Include Voice Memos" option selected. I think that only pertains to syncing voice memos from iTunes to the iPhone after it has been copied to iTunes. It has to be the new OS/iTunes not communicating that new memos have been recorded. For some reason they won't sync when I want them to, and then a few syncs later they magically appear.
By the way, I'm VERY comfortable with the iTunes and iPhone systems. I've been using iTunes for 5 years, and I've been recording class lectures with the iPhone voice memo app (and another app) for a couple years. It's not an error of not seeing that the memos were added; they don't exist in my library or music folders.
JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, POST WHICH FIRMWARE YOU ARE RUNNING EXACTLY!!!
I'm on an iPhone 4, running firmware 4.0.1

HT1766 4 voice memos in iTunes backup from iPhone had ! marks and would not play so I deleted them and although they are still on the iPhone, they will not sync back to iTunes from iPhone.

4 voice memos in iTunes backup from iPhone had ! marks and would not play so I deleted them and although they are still on the iPhone, they will not sync back to iTunes from iPhone.

You may have to try deleting all the music from your phone (by going to Settings>General>Usage>Music, swipping All Music and tapping Delete), then sync it all back on with iTunes in order to fix this.

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I deleted all voice memos from the iPhone using Syncios, and now I'm having the following issues:
1) Voice Memos app is broken on iPhone. It opens and then immediately closes.
2) Can't sync via iTunes! Get the following error message:
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3) Syncios is not recognizing the device even when connected. Error message:
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Same problem here. I contacted Syncios and they opened a bug report, but I it seems that they don't have any workaround for the moment :-/
In my case, I also discovered that my iCloud backup was corrupted when restoring my iPhone 6 in order to "fix" all these problems (had to wipe my phone to use it again...)... So it's possible that this Syncios bug also damages iCloud/iTunes backups, which would be very embarassing for them.

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How do I get voice memos from an un-synced iPhone onto a MacBookPro?
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I don't care if the iPhone syncs with the laptop (and the music is lost), I just cannot afford to lose the Voice Memos too as they are very important. Any suggestions?

To follow this user tip using iTunes 11, fist go to View>Show Sidebar. Also, Transfer Purchases (step 5) is now in File>Devices.
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I would like to request that Apple allow me to adjust the record audio volume level when recording in Voice Memo or Video Recorder modes. Often I find that the audio is distorting and most times I cannot step back far enough to avoid distortion levels. While I love the ability to SEE the audio level in Voice Memo mode, I am hoping that it is only a matter of firmware upgrade to be able to ADJUST the record level.
Also, if it is possible, it would be great to see some indication of audio level when recording video... something simple like a bar graph with green, yellow and red bars with the highest level reached sticking for a few seconds so that I can tell what the level is.
An alternate solution (if none of the above is possible in a firmware update) would be to automatically adjust the recording level to prevent audio distortion.
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Hi SPW06,
If you are having issues with iCloud Calendar not syncing between your Mac and your iPhone, you may find the troubleshooting in the following articles helpful:
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Calendar
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3999
iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4337
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I've just tried to use my voice memos on my iPhone 4 and when trying to record, I've noticed it's not working. The sound is being picked up, as seen by the noise meter moving, but it isn't actually working. I hit record and exited the program. The red bar that tells me I'm recording failed to appear. I opened the program back up, hit stop (which did nothing), hit pause, then hit recordings (which also did nothing). Is this due to a glitch in iOS5.1, or do I need to do something with my iPhone?

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Voice memos has always been super reliable in previous versions but on a new iphone 5s with ios7 I'm finding it cuts off recordings very unpredictably - sometimes after less than a minute sometimes after a quarter hour or so.
I've seen other threads where the issue has been described but this has been explicitly on longer recordings or where the recording is finished so wanted to raise this again as an issue on new hardware with recordings of any length where the recording stops by itself.
The bug is making the app unusable at present which is a shame as it looks like it could be a greatly improved app.
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Apple needs to fix this and let users and tech staff know ASAP.
This has now cost me 2 hours of client time, plus 3 hours of tech support. The client information is priceless to me. I will not be able to retrieve the content of those discussions, even if I conduct the meetings again. Too many variables were at play.
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Hello.
After doing some research it appears that:
There is a bug with iphone (mine is 3g) that when voice memos are recorded they are recorded as .mov files, and then converted to .m4a.
I assume this is because .m4a is a more complex algorithm and the little iphone processor can only record .mov on the fly.
The issue is that if the iphone is interrupted in this process, you will have a voice memo that goes for 0 seconds and a .mov file on your iphone taking up space.
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It seems the only way to delete the files is to Jailbreak. I don't want to jailbreak the phone, simply because i believe that when you pay for apple products, you are paying for a product that 'just works'. In other words, they have done all the trouble shooting and tweaking of things to make it all work seamlessly. Jailbreaking reopens the can of worms of software clashes, and you get back into the land of using a windows style system.
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They won't sync back to your phone as far as I know. You can sync them from your phone to computer to listen to them in itunes. If you delete a voice memo on iPhone, it isn’t deleted from the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes. However, if you delete a voice memo from iTunes, it is deleted from iPhone the next time you sync with iTunes.
You might try this:
In iTunes, select the voice memo you want on your phone, go to “Advanced” and select “Create MP3 Version”. See if you can sync that back to your phone.

Voice memos do not delete from iPhone...

How do I delete the voice memos that are stored on my iPhone 4, and are no longer on my MacBook Pro?
My voice memos folder on my MacBook Pro was over 4 Gb, so I copied its contents to an external hard drive. I left the folder and deleted the voice memos from it. I then synchronized with my iPhone 4, with the hopes that those voice memos would delete from the phone. Unfortunately, they did not. iTunes 11 only shows 4 voice memos, and the iPhone has all of them.
If I control + click on any of the voice memos on my iPhone while looking at them in iTunes, those memos will still play. iTunes 11 does not show an option to delete these voice memos via option + click.
I am running Mac OS 10.9.1, and IOS 7. Thank you for your advice.

Nope, won't do it. If I gently swipe right to left, it jumps to other songs randomly. It has stopped playing the song as it did before I rebooted the phone.
I'm familiar with the swipe process, as I can do it successfully with texts, reminders, and so forth.
Now as I look through my artists, I see perhaps 10% of them are dupes, and none will delete. And in all cases one of the songs will have an I-Cloud icon, while the other does not.
Please explain to me why any of my 300 songs in I-Phone (out of 1900 in I-Tunes) should be coming down from the Cloud? All of them were uploaded from I-Tunes; none were purchased from the I-Phone.
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I recorded a number of meetings to my iPhone using the Voice Memo app. When I sync with my Mac, most of these transfer to iTunes, but a handful don't, for no reason I can see. I did not record them any differently from the ones that made it across. I tried emailing the missing memos to myself from within Voice Memo, but the email silently failed, perhaps because the files are too large (almost an hour).
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In the music part of your iphone in itunes, uncheck the box for syncing voice memos. Then apply changes. Check that it is all gone on your iphone. Go back to itunes and check the box for voice memos and sync. Itunes would copy the voice memos back to your iphone in the process.
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