Estou gravando som com o AudioRecord no formato PCM16LE, 8000Hz, 1 canal. Ele grava bem nas versões 2.3.3-4.4.4 do Android, mas grava um som intermitente estranho na visualização do desenvolvedor do Android L (5.0) (no nexus 5, nexus 7 e emulador).

Aqui está a amostra do som gravado (a primeira metade - gravação, a segunda metade - reprodução):https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wcgufua5pphwtt/android_l_sound_record_error.m4a?dl=0

Tentei reproduzir som gravado usando diferentes taxas de amostragem (4000, 16000) e 8 bits, mas o som continua intermitente. Qual poderia ser o problema com esse som?

Estou usando este AudioRecordTask para gravar áudio com getAudioRecord () para inicializar a entrada (nenhum erro retornado durante a operação; recebendo trechos de áudio com o mesmo tamanho do valor internalBufferSize)

public final int SAMPLING_RATE = 8000;

private AudioRecord getAudioRecord() {
    int internalBufferSize = AudioRecord.getMinBufferSize(SAMPLING_RATE,
            AudioFormat.CHANNEL_IN_MONO,
            AudioFormat.ENCODING_PCM_16BIT); //returns 640

    internalBufferSize = 8000; //also tried returned value (640) and values 2560, 30000 - no changes 

    final int SOURCE;
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 11) {
        SOURCE = MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC;
    } else {
        SOURCE = MediaRecorder.AudioSource.VOICE_COMMUNICATION;
    }

    AudioRecord record = new AudioRecord(SOURCE,
            SAMPLING_RATE,
            AudioFormat.CHANNEL_IN_MONO,
            AudioFormat.ENCODING_PCM_16BIT,
            internalBufferSize);

    int state = record.getState();
    if (state != AudioRecord.STATE_INITIALIZED) {
        try {
            record.release();
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
        return null;
    }

    if (record.getState() == android.media.AudioRecord.STATE_INITIALIZED) {
        record.startRecording();
    } else {
        record.release();
        return null;
    }
    return record;
}

private class AudioRecordTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
    final int PARTIAL_BUFFER_SIZE = SAMPLING_RATE;
    final int NECESSARY_BUFFER_SIZE = 15 * PARTIAL_BUFFER_SIZE * Short.SIZE / 8;
    final int FULL_BUFFER_SIZE = NECESSARY_BUFFER_SIZE * 2; //XXX: * 2 for the case when system returns more data than needed
    short[] mBuffer;
    int mTotalSize;
    int mTotalSizeInBytes;
    boolean mResult;
    private Object mLock = new Object();

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute()
    {
        mIsRecording = true;

        mBuffer = new short[FULL_BUFFER_SIZE];
        mTotalSize = 0;
        mTotalSizeInBytes = 0;
        mResult = false;
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
        synchronized (mLock) {
            android.os.Process.setThreadPriority(android.os.Process.THREAD_PRIORITY_URGENT_AUDIO);
            AudioRecord record = getAudioRecord();
            if (record == null) {
                mResult = false;
                return null;
            }

            for (int i = 0; i < 15 * 100; i++) { //XXX: * 100 to record enough data (system can return lesser than needed)
                int datalen = record.read(mBuffer, mTotalSize, PARTIAL_BUFFER_SIZE);
                if (datalen > 0) {
                    mTotalSize += datalen;
                    mTotalSizeInBytes = mTotalSize*2;
                } else {
                    Log.w("", "error " + datalen + " in AudioRecord.read");
                }
                if (isCancelled() || mTotalSizeInBytes > NECESSARY_BUFFER_SIZE) {
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (record.getRecordingState() == AudioRecord.RECORDSTATE_RECORDING) {
                record.stop();
            }

            record.release();
            mResult = true;
            return null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void r) {
        synchronized (mLock) {
            mIsRecording = false;
            fin();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCancelled() {
        //XXX: on old Androids (e.g. 2.3.3) onCancelled being called while doInBackground is still running
        synchronized (mLock) {
            mIsRecording = false;
            if (mAbort) {
                return;
            }
            fin();
        }
    }

    private void fin() {
        if (mResult && mTotalSizeInBytes > 0) {
            sendRecordedAudioToServer(mBuffer, mTotalSize, mTotalSizeInBytes);
        } else {
            showError(null);
        }
    }
}