Android VM - Can it use the phone?

[#1]

So I've been forced to get another phone thanks to my rotten Nokia 3.2 deciding to give up the ghost (I punished it brutally for months keeping it going after it's torturing of myself).

So with ASDA having an offer on the TCL 505 at 59.99 instead of 89.99 (the 89 being the price in argos, currys etc - so a genuine deal) I bagged one and got it up and running. 128GB ram, 8GB memory (4GB being a ramdisk so only really 4GB of physical memory) and an octacore proccy at 2.2GHz.. it should keep me happy for a while.

It's running Android 14. I've installed a virtual machine of Android 5.1.1 on it. Can the phone app on 5.1 actually make and receive calls? - anyone ever had any luck using a VM phone app?

The TCL is replacing my nokia but the nokia was not used for phone calls - only internet and apps. Reason being that it couldn't record phone calls but android 5.1 CAN. If it will record calls on this VM then I'd rather ditch the medion phone too and just use one physical phone running both systems - if that makes any sense.

So, anyone got any experience of phone calls from a VM on android?

[#2]

Congrats on your new phone @7up . I`ve no idea about what your asking! Is `VM` Virgin Media? 🤔 Confused.com!! 😄

Running Android 14 means your more up to date but I`ve no idea what Android 5.1.1 is? Call recording isn`t something I`ve needed or tried out, although I think my Samsung has such a feature, I`ve never looked for it in the phone settings. Thought I`d bump this up for you in the hope you might get some feedback. 

[#3]

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@plusmouse wrote:

 I`ve no idea about what your asking! Is `VM` Virgin Media? 🤔 Confused.com!! 😄

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I think "VM in this instance is shorthand for "virtual machine".

I've no experience of virtual machine s/w on mobile devices so I cannot provide any further assistance.

[#4]

I would say no unless TCL was rooted  ( happy to be proved wrong though) and if you root it the reason for running the virtual machine is pointless as u could install an app record anyway. I would personally say easiest way to do this would be to port the number too Andrews & Arnold and use the VOIP to make your "mobile calls" this has the facility to record all calls (but you would loose the included outgoing calls allowance from your current number).