Help How do you turn off the Shutter sound for the camera?

[HauntedHallows]

I have looked all over the phone to turn this off with no luck, has anyone figured out a way?

 

[esn]

While the camera is open hit the menue key and the option is there.

 

[Azathot]

While the camera is open hit the menue key and the option is there.

Ummmmm except that it's not.... at least not in froyo...

 

[Paycer]

I have to agree with Azathot. I searched through the menus and settings of the stock camera application and could not find an option to disable the shutter audio.

What camera application are you using, esn?

 

[lexluthor]

Esn must be confused.

What about root users? Can we replace the shutter sound with a null audio file.

 

[izomiac]

Ok, I was searching for a way to disable the cheezy shutter sound, but after a few minutes of searching I got lazy and just did it myself using the most obvious method. Since I don't think it's helpful for people to blindly run commands, I'll try to explain the process a bit. This is only applicable for rooted users and there are no guarantees that this won't cause your phone's battery to explode and maim you for life. It should be pretty safe, but don't blame me if you manage to break your phone by following (or more likely not exactly following) these instructions.

High level overview: We're removing read permissions from the everyone group for the camera_click.ogg file. The camera app doesn't mind and all you can hear when taking a picture is the real shutter. I never found the "beep beep" file for when you focus, but that's a little more useful and completely avoidable if you don't focus ahead of time.

1. Open ADB or your favorite shell prompt (e.g. ConnectBot)
2. Gain superuser permission ("su")
3. Figure out where the device mounted to /system is located ("mount", it's "/dev/block/mmcblk1p21" on my phone)
4. Remount /system as read-write. ("mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system")
5. Remove the read permission for the everyone group on the camera_click.ogg file ("chmod 640 /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg")
6. "sync" and "reboot" (not truely necessary but probably good form)

A decent file manager would let you do this with a GUI, but I haven't happened across a free one yet. "chmod" is a linux command to change file permissions. 640 means 6 = read+write for the file owner, 4 = read-only for group members, 0 = nothing for everyone else. It was 644 before we changed it. Theoretically, by minimally changing the permissions we can avoid screwing up a later system update since the file still exists and is readable and writable for the owner. It also makes our modifications a little more obvious and easy to reverse ("ls -l" to spot the changes, chmod 644... to reverse them). Also of interest might be VideoRecord.ogg in the same directory.

Edit: It looks like someone already looked into the focus beeps. Apparently, they're part of the camera app's code, and not a file anywhere. That thread has an altered version of that app, but I'm not sure which version it is (probably not the one that came with froyo). You can also play with your volume to remove the sound, check that thread for details.

 

[goldz28]

Go to the Market and seach for AudioManager

When you open the program you will have 6 volume options
Alarm Vol
Music Vol
Alerts Vol
Ringer Vol
System Vol
Voice call Vol

If you turn the system volume down you will not hear the shutter.

 

[rlxbmw]

Go to the Market and seach for AudioManager

When you open the program you will have 6 volume options
Alarm Vol
Music Vol
Alerts Vol
Ringer Vol
System Vol
Voice call Vol

If you turn the system volume down you will not hear the shutter.

man thank you I spent hours trying to find a different way then just turning the volume off and trying to delete the camera shutter .ogg file u rock cheers

 

[mruno]

if you use vignette, you can turn the shutter sound off in it: Vignette - Android app on AppBrain

 

[strider51]

Step 1: Root your phone
Step 2: Download Root Explorer
Step 3: Open Root Explorer - Navigate to /system/media/audio/ui
Step 4: Mount R/W
Step 5: Rename camera_click.ogg to camera_click.ogg.bak

To undo, just rename it back

You can kill the video camera start/stop tone here as well.

 

[jlewis74]

Go to the Market and seach for AudioManager

When you open the program you will have 6 volume options
Alarm Vol
Music Vol
Alerts Vol
Ringer Vol
System Vol
Voice call Vol

If you turn the system volume down you will not hear the shutter.

This 100% works!

 

[Hrethgir]

I have to agree with Azathot. I searched through the menus and settings of the stock camera application and could not find an option to disable the shutter audio.

What camera application are you using, esn?

Well, if his info is correct, probably the stock camera app on the Samsung Facinate. So that's probably why we aren't finding that toggle.

 

[normandeplume]

This 100% works!

For the Droid X you have to turn both the System volume and the Alerts Volume down. But it WORKS!!!

 

[diskovilante]

The solution when using AudioManager: Turn down everything INCLUDING ALARM VOLUME.

System volume and alerts volume alone do not turn of the focus beep.