Voice Memos Issue - 3GS

I have an iPhone 3GS and I've had it for about a month.
I have a band and we rehearse in a small storage space. I'd like to use my iPhone to record our rehearsals for when we come up with something good.
Our first rehearsal, everything worked fine (though the recording sounds quite bad since the phone was being overloaded the whole time - but an overloaded recording is better than no recording). But tonight something weird happened. I noticed that Voice Memo stopped recording in the middle of us playing. I tried recording after that and the volume meter was not going up. I tried turning off the iPhone and turning it back on but it kept going in and out of whether it was picking up sound or not. The room was very loud the whole time, so it's impossible that the meter was reacting correctly. I checked the recordings and some parts have audio and some parts are just blank.
I also noticed that sometimes when I was holding the phone it worked, but when ti set it down on my guitar case, the needle stopped moving.
It was like if you have a bad audio cable or something. The sound just pops in and out - that's how the meter was reacting tonight, even after restarting the iPhone.
What could be the issue? Is Voice Memo a buggy app, or is my iPhone defective? I've made a couple calls since the rehearsal, and there were no voice issues, so I know the mic is not broken or at least completely broken.
Thanks

Hi,
I also have this problem on my 3G running os 3.1.3
Any third party app or voice memo doesn't get any audio from the mic (apart from a wierd spike if you blow directly into it) but using the phone app, the voice comes through perfectly.
It there a separate protocol being used by the phone app and other apps?
If it helps, I noticed the problem in EXACTLY the same way (ie, recording a band practice, where one of the recordings just trailed off).
The microphone has been intermittent ever since.
As far as I can tell, this is not a very common problem, but I have seen a few other posts on another topic with this problem.
Hopefully it will be resolved in OS 4, as the standard 3 steps didnt work.

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