Whatsapp recorded message 9 November 2022 at 3:11PM in Techie Stuff 6 replies 151 views

lindabea

Hello guys, I need someone's help please as I'm losing my patience with whatsapp.  My daughter is currently working in Dubai and I been trying to send a recorded whatsapp msg to her, but it keeps failing.  She is able to send me her recorded msg and I'm able to listen to them but when I send my recoded msg, she just receives a msg of 0.01 secs long and nothing that I have recorded.  I am pressing the green mic button and speak into the mic; I can see the red mic flashing in the left hand corner of my screen and the seconds counting, but when I let go of the green button, (which I understand will send the msg) it tells me that msg is sent but my daughter receives the 0.01 sec msg,  So something is going through to her phone but not the recorded msg.  Does anyone please tell me what may be going wrong and how to put it right.  I'd be grateful for any help as it's the only way I can communicate with her - apparently whatsapp calls do not work in Dubai.  I can use Zoom but this is not as convenient. (if I can get whatsapp to work) 

carly

Have you tried recording the message to your phone and then sending it as a Whattsapp attachment ?   Not perfect but it might help whist you get it working properly.

km1500

1. what are you using (android, iphone,  whatever)

2. Does your whatsapp app have permission to use the microphone and/or storage?

There are also a few things you can try here:

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/whatsapp-voice-messages-not-working-heres-what-to-do/

ballyblack

perhaps Dubai is blocking the audio message;

https://www.cloudwards.net/whatsapp-ban-in-dubai/

lindabea

carly said:

Have you tried recording the message to your phone and then sending it as a Whattsapp attachment ?   Not perfect but it might help whist you get it working properly.

That sounds like a great idea if I give up on trying to get whatsapp to work.  Thank you for your suggestion as a possible workaround alternative .  I sent a msg to whatsapp support and all I got from them so far is an explanation on the significance of the two blue check marks with messages.   

lindabea

ballyblack said:

perhaps Dubai is blocking the audio message;

https://www.cloudwards.net/whatsapp-ban-in-dubai/

Thank you for your reply.  I am aware that whatsapp voice calls are blocked in Dubai, but I don't think recorded messages are as well.  You certainly can send texts.  But the problem is def with my phone, as I tried sending recorded msg to a friend's phone here in the UK, and I get the same problem. Funny enough, she is also not able to send recorded msg from her phone.   

lindabea

KM1500 - My phone is a Nokia 5 using Andoid 9 ( I think) and yes - whatsapp does have permission to use the mic and storage.  I looked at your helpful link and there are some excellent suggestions to resolve the issue.  I shall try again this evening when I'm able to do some more tests with my friend's phone. 

However, this sounds like a common/known problem with whatsapp.  It may be interesting to know if other whatsapp users have a similar issue