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disable camera shutter sound

Hey Guys!
Is there a way to disable the nasty camera sound? I searched some time but didn't found anything helpful about it.
Maybe there is a chance to delete the soundfile?
Thanks in advantage...
linulli

Do you have root access? If so, you can push an empty file over top the sound file, that's what I did. Otherwise, nope - you are stuck with the sound. I will attach my empty file, here are some instructions (assuming knowledge of ADB).
adb remount
adb push camera_click.ogg /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg
That should do it.

Tanks a lot! Thats exacly what I need.
I have root access an will try it as soon as I reach my data cable.

When you are in the camera app hit menu>settings and uncheck shutter sound.

Dharkaron said:
When you are in the camera app hit menu>settings and uncheck shutter sound.
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What version of the camera you using? That option does not exist on mine.

daveid said:
What version of the camera you using? That option does not exist on mine.
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+1 on that one. haha

Dharkaron said:
When you are in the camera app hit menu>settings and uncheck shutter sound.
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Yah, i dun see that either and I'm using what ever camera came with CyanogenMod 3.2 (i think thats what i'm using)..Is it a 3rd party app that has that feature or the stock camera from a different Rom like rogers or ion or something?

Dharkaron said:
When you are in the camera app hit menu>settings and uncheck shutter sound.
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Please hook up your phone to DDMS and screen shot so we all can see WTH your doing since we can't.

daveid said:
adb remount
adb push camera_click.ogg /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg
That should do it.
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Thanks again! Just tried it, and: The noise is gone.
So its 100% working..!
edit: There is no way doing this without the datacable and the developer machine, right?

[Q] How to Disable Shutter Sound?

Wither the phone is on silent/vibrate or not, the camera always makes the shutter sound. When recording a video, it always makes a bloop when you hit record and stop. There is no setting for disabling this like my previous phones have had.
Without using a third party camera app (I've seen people on other forums suggest Cool FX which is not free) is there a way to disable this?

Try searching around in the system for a .ogg file that could be the shutter sound and renaming it.
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I use an app called "Volume Toggle(free)". I set a custom profile and use an on screen widget to adjust the profiles. Set the system volume to 0. This will also get rid of the DTMF tones, unlock clicks, and other UI sounds.

Ubermicro13 said:
Try searching around in the system for a .ogg file
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What app do you recommend for browsing the files? The built in one doesn't seem to do much good.
zehkaiser said:
I use an app called "Volume Toggle(free)". I set a custom profile and use an on screen widget to adjust the profiles. Set the system volume to 0. This will also get rid of the DTMF tones, unlock clicks, and other UI sounds.
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This works great, but it's a bummer I have to run a third party app to do it. It is nice however that there IS a third party app to do it.

Yeah. It was one thing that bothered me coming from BlackBerry. Every app was customizable with sound, volume, vibration, led, etc. It was great.

xoxidine said:
Wither the phone is on silent/vibrate or not, the camera always makes the shutter sound. When recording a video, it always makes a bloop when you hit record and stop. There is no setting for disabling this like my previous phones have had.
Without using a third party camera app (I've seen people on other forums suggest Cool FX which is not free) is there a way to disable this?
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Could try SilentSnap:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/silentsnap-camera-free/com.blundell
Have heard some concerns, but it does work (After using it, double check your alarm volumes.. evidently the camera sound is DIRECTLY tied to the alarm volume... making an alternative solution to simply turn your alarm volume all the way down I believe...
HTH!
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Looks like .ogg file is in /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg
Don't know what affect it would ahve to delete it.. but you could always rename it, and then make a copy of VideoRecord.ogg (which I believe is SILENT), and rename the copy to camera_click.ogg
Should work *shrug*

sephtin said:
Could try SilentSnap:
Looks like .ogg file is in /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg
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What would be the best way to find that file? What app are you using to browser the phone file system?

There is actually an easier way of doing this. Here's how to have a silent camera, including the autofocus sound with no external apps or editing/renaming system files. Turn your phone to silent on the lock screen (or use the rocker to go to no sound), then go into your native alarm app and uncheck "Alarm in silent mode."
There ya go. Turn down your phones volume and you have no camera sounds. easy easy
Just remember to turn the sound back on or your alarm will not Alarm

That doesn't sound like a solution. Having to modify your sound settings everytime you want to take a picture, then again when you want an alarm to go off? I would rather someone tell me what program I can use to find the sound file and modify it.
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To delete/rename the file, you'll want to use Root Explorer. This requires you be rooted, which I'm just guessing from the nature of your posts you're not (since Root Explorer is often one of the first apps someone gets when rooting).

It is rooted, I'm still figuring out what put on there as far as apps go. Looks like it's about $4.

I found a great solution. It's called SilentSnap. It disables all sound from the system when it opens it. It uses your normal camera and disables the shutter sound. Its free.
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Camera zoom fx

Been using this app on icecoldsandwich 5.1 and have found a way around the camera glitch, just use burst mode and set it to 1 picture! The rom now takes perfect pictures I'm no expert on camera's but it might be that the faster shutter speed is doing the trick?

The problem with zoomfx in burst mode is you get not auto-focus and no flash..pictures will look like they were taken from an iPhone 2G hehe...
There's a better app out there IMO for those running ICS roms. Download UCAM from play store and you must be in burst mode for NO glitching. You can touch to focus just like stock camera, turn on flash and it will take up to 9 pictures. Enjoy
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Interesting about UCAM. Whatever app is best should be mentioned within the ROM thread itself.

if you check the latest test build you will notice that there is a fix now posted for the stock camera. I am downloading the latest build at the moment

Turn off the annoying timer beep sound?
Hi,
Is there a way to turn off the annoying beep sound when using the timer function? Setting my phone on silent doesn't do it.

kevink619 said:
Hi,
Is there a way to turn off the annoying beep sound when using the timer function? Setting my phone on silent doesn't do it.
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Use es file explorer, or something similar, enable r/w system, navigate to /system/media/notifications and delete the camera associated ogg files.
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[Q] Removing the shutter sound

Got my Verizon GN3 rooted, went to the same folders as with the GN2 and changed the necessary .ogg files to .bak, which silenced the camera on the GN2. No such luck with the GN3, I'm still getting the shutter sound. I'm sure I'm missing a file somewhere, I did a search with Root Explorer for .ogg files and didn't see anything that stuck out.
Here is the path and list of the .ogg files I renamed with Root Explorer:
System/Media/Audio/UI
Auto_Focus.ogg
Auto_Focus_Error.ogg
Cam_Start.ogg
Cam_Stop.ogg
Camera_Click.ogg
Camera_Click_Short.ogg
Camera_Empty.ogg
Camera_Focus.ogg
Camera_Timer.ogg
Camera_Timer_2sec.ogg
Lens_Flare_Lock.ogg
Lens_Flare_Unlock.ogg
Shutter.ogg
Shutter_Multiple.ogg
VideoRecord.ogg
Anyone have any ideas?

MrClean69 said:
Got my Verizon GN3 rooted, went to the same folders as with the GN2 and changed the necessary .ogg files to .bak, which silenced the camera on the GN2. No such luck with the GN3, I'm still getting the shutter sound. I'm sure I'm missing a file somewhere, I did a search with Root Explorer for .ogg files and didn't see anything that stuck out.
Here is the path and list of the .ogg files I renamed with Root Explorer:
System/Media/Audio/UI
Auto_Focus.ogg
Auto_Focus_Error.ogg
Cam_Start.ogg
Cam_Stop.ogg
Camera_Click.ogg
Camera_Click_Short.ogg
Camera_Empty.ogg
Camera_Focus.ogg
Camera_Timer.ogg
Camera_Timer_2sec.ogg
Lens_Flare_Lock.ogg
Lens_Flare_Unlock.ogg
Shutter.ogg
Shutter_Multiple.ogg
VideoRecord.ogg
Anyone have any ideas?
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It's shutter.ogg, I've deleted it and no longer have the shutter sound when taking a picture.

Of course, rooted or not, turning the volume down silences the shutter.

TabGuy said:
Of course, rooted or not, turning the volume down silences the shutter.
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I just don't like having to turn the system volume down and then remembering to turn it back up afterwards.

airmaxx23 said:
It's shutter.ogg, I've deleted it and no longer have the shutter sound when taking a picture.
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I'll try deleting it, I don't like doing that, but I can't see any instance where I'll ever need that shutter sound. It's strange, the shutter sound is intermittent. I had rebooted the phone earlier today so I don't believe anything was 'hung' up. I'll see after it's deleted.

I've tried renaming it to .bak and moving it to the SD card and it still makes the shutter sound after rebooting.

I used an xposed module to turn it off (it just renamed it) but it didn't work. So I tried completely deleting the renamed file and it still makes the sound when I take a pic.
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There is an option for it in wanam module
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I deleted the Shutter.ogg file and the sound is gone when using the camera. But if I'm in Kik, the shutter sound is still there. It's not that big of a deal for me, I just thought all app's used the system sound files, especially for a system app.

you guys can try installing the app Note 2 Hidden Settings:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steinapps.note2hiddensettings&hl=en
it has a function to enable the shutter off option in the camera app.
*requires root

mintcookies said:
you guys can try installing the app Note 2 Hidden Settings:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steinapps.note2hiddensettings&hl=en
it has a function to enable the shutter off option in the camera app.
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Just wanted to let others know...this worked. Wanam didn't work and renaming the shutter didn't work.

I haven't tried that Note 2 hidden settings thing, but have tried a couple other methods including Wanam.
I noticed today though, that I get the shutter sound when smart stabilization is on, but no sound when it is off...
Pretty weird, but maybe it will help diagnose?

mintcookies said:
you guys can try installing the app Note 2 Hidden Settings:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steinapps.note2hiddensettings&hl=en
it has a function to enable the shutter off option in the camera app.
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I can confirm this works for my note 3. Added the option for camera sounds in camera settings menu. Opened camera then went into settings then toggled off.
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Perhaps this will help some of you with Shutter sounds. it also states that the reason that deleting the ogg file isnt working is that it's included inside the Camera app now!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2486948
This thread gives several solutions.

For me what worked is to put Jrummys root browser into system using titanium backup. Then use the built in editor to modify system/csc/feature.xml. change camera sound from false to true. Done.
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mintcookies said:
you guys can try installing the app Note 2 Hidden Settings:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steinapps.note2hiddensettings&hl=en
it has a function to enable the shutter off option in the camera app.
*requires root
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This didn't work for me. It also shut off text messages for me. Just FYI beware
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Other devices currently owned and in use At&t Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Google Nexus 7 2013

pwhitersxs said:
For me what worked is to put Jrummys root browser into system using titanium backup. Then use the built in editor to modify system/csc/feature.xml. change camera sound from false to true. Done.
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Thanks. Did the same with root explorer. Rebooted and had the settings option to turn it off in the camera app.
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TSman74 said:
Thanks. Did the same with root explorer. Rebooted and had the settings option to turn it off in the camera app.
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No problem! This is definitely the easiest way. The only remaining noises are on the arrows for the other settings on the screen. They are annoying but not nearly as annoying as the picture taking noise.

pwhitersxs said:
For me what worked is to put Jrummys root browser into system using titanium backup. Then use the built in editor to modify system/csc/feature.xml. change camera sound from false to true. Done.
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Definitely the best way to get it done.
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Other devices currently owned and in use At&t Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Google Nexus 7 2013

Unable to mute camera - Root

I have used this method in the past on both my S3 and S4 and it always worked. I just rooted my Note 3 and tried the same without any success. I do the following:
Navigate to system> media> audio> ui Then I proceed to change the name of the following:
Camera_click.ogg
Camera_focus.ogg
Shutter.ogg
Shutter_multiple.ogg
As I stated above, this has always worked but it's NOT working on the Note 3. I have tried it 3 times already and rebooted each time and nothing. Does anyone know if there is something different with the camera sounds on the Note compared to the S3 and S4?
Thanks.

Yes some sounds are baked into the app itself. To fully mute camera you need to use a root Explorer. Go to system / csc/ open feature. Xml then go to camera_shuttersound menu and change it to true. (it's close to the top, under camera features.)
Then go to camera and you will have a mute option in the settings.
Profit.
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Awesome! Needed this!

Awesome! Thanks a ton for this information. This was driving me up a wall!
mrlaigle said:
Yes some sounds are baked into the app itself. To fully mute camera you need to use a root Explorer. Go to system / csc/ open feature. Xml then go to camera_shuttersound menu and change it to true. (it's close to the top, under camera features.)
Then go to camera and you will have a mute option in the settings.
Profit.
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There is an app called Enforced Stream Silencer that will disable all of the camera sounds once it's installed.
https://sites.google.com/site/enforcedstreamsilencer/

mrlaigle said:
Yes some sounds are baked into the app itself. To fully mute camera you need to use a root Explorer. Go to system / csc/ open feature. Xml then go to camera_shuttersound menu and change it to true. (it's close to the top, under camera features.)
Then go to camera and you will have a mute option in the settings.
Profit.
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I tried this and after changing false to true, it would not let me save the file.

BobC43 said:
I tried this and after changing false to true, it would not let me safe the file.
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You need to make sure the system is mounted as RW with whatever file explorer you are using.

njfoses said:
You need to make sure the system is mounted as RW with whatever file explorer you are using.
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It does show rw-rw-rw for permissions after I changed it from rw-r--r--. Not sure what is up.