I bought my G900I from Optus when it first came out and for the longest time had trouble disabling the shutter sound. I have tried renaming system/media/ui files with .bak extension, even renaming the file all together but none of these seem to disable the shutter sound. I even tried muting system, running tasker scripts, EnforcedSteamSilencer etc. You can use another camera app like Camera FV-5 or Zoom FX but for some reason those apps seem to have zooming problems for close ups even in macro mode.
So if theres anyone out there having the same problem as I am, here is how to disable shutter sound once and for all on stock camera. (you do require root)
edit system/csc/customer.xml
around the halfway line you should see:
<Multimedia>
<Camera>
<ShutterSound>on</ShutterSound>
</Camera>
</Multimedia>
change that to off, save and restart.
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Just for starters, please don't reply to this thread with messages such as "If you go into the camera setting you can just turn the sound off" because in many ROMs (such as the telstra one) the selection has been removed. Also don't go telling people to just flash a ROM, if they wanted to they would have done so. With that said, I have had many PMs about this, so attached is the file, just unzip it (7-zip)stick it into the "windows" directory on the phone (overwrite the existing one, you may need "total commander" to do this).
NOTE: this will only stop the camera sound. On these ROMs when the camera application is started the sound on the phone is turned on to maximum (even if you had it on silent before), so if you get a call or message it will ring at max volume (you can overcome this by replacing these with a blank sound, or turning your phone on airplane mode at the time)
I've been trying some paid camera apps, specifically Camera Advanced and Camera360
I found myself really comfortable with the Camera360 antimovement sensor, cameraadvanced is more technical but lacks this feature, the main ISSUE is that i can't SILENT THOSE APPS!
Even if i select the silence option they still make a LOUD shutter, that personally i don't like.
I'm speaking about the commercial apps, not the free versions, i've tried both and went refund, cause i was disappointed by the non-functional sound issue! If i have no other way to silent them, i'll get camera360
As far as I know they only way to avoid this shutter sound is to delete the sound file from /system/media/audio/ui. I can't tell you how the file is named, since I already deleted it, but it was something with "camera" in it.
You can delete the file by using root explorer.
dear lord! it was so easy!
:-(
I used to have a SHARP phone (a Japanese brand) and the camera shutter sound was mandatory (no option to turn off). They explained it's because, well, it's Japan and people use phone camera to take pictures of you-know-what parts of girls secretly in public.
I assume because our new 407 ROM is a Korean carrier ROM (and Korea is similar to Japan in that regard) so the shutter sound is made mandatory too.
GF has this phone and she's been complaining about it. It has been very annoying to her lately. And naturally she blames me for flashing her these ROMs (she's not into dev'ing or flashing stuff, she's sort of a "simple" phone user). It's probably the only problem I have with this ROM. Sometimes she just wants to take a picture quietly in public, like taking a picture of the beautiful and tasty plate of food while in a restaurant etc but the shutter sound can't be turned off.
Anyone has any suggestions?
By the way, I tried installing some third party camera app but no luck, the sound can't be turned off whatsoever. Looks like the sound is not at the app level, but rather has been built deep in the system level.
From camera app, Configuration --> Shutter Sound is missing?
You can "disable" the shutter sound by simply deleting the audio file with an file explorer and root access. That's the way I did with all my roms before
It doesn't work with the autofocus sound though, or at least I haven't found the corresponding audio file. In my opinion the autofocus sound ("beep") is far more annoying
zAm1987 said:
You can "disable" the shutter sound by simply deleting the audio file with an file explorer and root access. That's the way I did with all my roms before
It doesn't work with the autofocus sound though, or at least I haven't found the corresponding audio file. In my opinion the autofocus sound ("beep") is far more annoying
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That's a tremendously great idea. Do you still remember what the name is for the audio file that corresponds to the shutter sound?
If you turn system sounds down to zero that should disable both the shutter and auto-focus sounds. You can use a tasker profile to do this whenever the camera app runs or use a volume control app that exposes the system volume like Volume Control + or Volume Control.
Edit: No root needed for this method.
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That's a tremendously great idea. Do you still remember what the name is for the audio file that corresponds to the shutter sound?
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No sorry, don't remember it as i don't have it anymore. But as far as I remember there are only ~20 audio files, so you can check them by hearing in a few minutes, if the file names aren't that clear
set build.prop to
Code:
ro.build.FEATURE_SHUTTERSOUND=0
the line appears 3 times because an entire group of things appears 3 times, just set all 3 to be sure (or fix the repeats, just dont make any mistakes)
Gonna take some naughty pictures now?
TheManii said:
set build.prop to
Code:
ro.build.FEATURE_SHUTTERSOUND=0
the line appears 3 times because an entire group of things appears 3 times, just set all 3 to be sure (or fix the repeats, just dont make any mistakes)
Gonna take some naughty pictures now?
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Changed all three to 0 still no good. Shutter sound is still there after reboot.
OK I see what's going on. GF repeatedly told me there's no such setting in camera app. I just double checked, there is.
In Camera settings, the rightmost setting, scroll it down to the bottom, there's a setting to let you turn off the shutter sound. So problem solved.
Sorry again for being a complete idiot.
oh yea i forgot to say the last part, setting those to 0 will make that option appear in the camera app now, that entry is removed when the line is set to 1
I see. Thanks. So it was indeed because of your solution. Thanks.
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i cant turn off the camera shutter and focus sound...i tried to replace the camera files in ui folder with silent ones and didn't work..and tried deleting the whole folder and didn't work..tried root apps from play store and still !!
the only app worked is camera mute which is actually mute the phone while in camera application and i didnt like that
there should be an option in the camera settings to turn off the camera shutter sound, unless it's different for the international models?
Check this thread in the General forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2480683
You need to have Root, but there's a code you can add to your CSC files to enable it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using xda app-developers app
There is an app to turn of camera shutter sound in note 3. It does not require root. PM me for the link [New members can't post links]
There are multiple ways to disable this "feature". Here in EU it isn't allowed to have cameras that don't make sounds when taking a picture because you could sneak pictures from people and so. Basically, the option to turn off sound is implemented in the camera software. But the files initiallizing the app on start up tell the software to show or hide this option. That said, you can try to use an app to disable the stock app sound, you can manually change settings in the files that tell the camera what to do (as easy as adding a line of text or even just changing one bit from 0 to 1 or vice versa) or you can use an Xposed module like wanam where there's an option for this that can easily be toggled.
So far I haven't heard of a method that works if you're not rooted, so root seems to be mandatory if you want to do this.
If root isn't your thing, check out other picture taking apps in google play. There are certainly apps that allow to disable shutter sound, and some of those apps provide more/better camera functionality than the stock app. Dpreview.com is a great photography site which also has a mobile phone section called connect. There you get in depth reviews on phone's cameras and apps from a photographers point of view.
Hello, all!
This is a little specific, but I was hoping that perhaps other LG G6 users could help me test for this problem to figure out whether it's affecting all the phones/firmwares or is specific to mine.
Basically what happens is that in any camera app, except the native one, if you use specific manual settings (so, through the Camera2 API) there's a bug that changes the value on its own. Perhaps the easiest way to check it is using Open Camera:
1) Switch to video mode (camera choice does not matter).
2) Pick the exposure icon, set ISO to 50 and shutter speed to 1/20
3) Start recording video...
4) On my device after 5-10 seconds of recording the screen turns black (or nearly black) as the exposure speed drops to ~1/10000.
Touching the screen to refocus fixes it for a moment, then it jumps back to ~1/10000.
Basically ISO50, shutter range 1/20-1/30 will cause this. I have seen this in any app that allowed manual settings, like Open Camera, ProShot, Hedgecam 2, AZ Camera, Footej camera etc. Some of them turn black, others just crash/freeze. Sounds like an API bug to me.
I'm on Android version 8.0.0, Software version: V20c-EUR-XX installed through OTA.
Would really appreciate if someone could also try this.
My minimum shutter speed is 1/30... This with stock camera........ Stock oreo by OTA v20c.
No problem with recording.
vs0587 said:
My minimum shutter speed is 1/30... This with stock camera........ Stock oreo by OTA v20c.
No problem with recording.
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Thanks for taking the time to check, but the stock camera works ok. It's the others that have this problem. Like Open Camera or HedgeCam2. The reason I want to use those is they recently added an option to change image processing (noise reduction, edge enhancement) so if you turn those down and film video with them you actually get nice, natural looking video and not the overprocessed watercolor look that the stock camera (and most other apps) provide. And if we go for a "cinematic" 24fps look then the Shutter speed could often be 1/24 or so.
Since I have seen some threads looking for a way to get cleaner video I'll attach two snapshots from a video - one with stock camera (and those crazy cartoon edges) and another from HedgeCam 2.