i'd like to do this as well.

 

root the phone,

find the sound file (a .ogg file) and rename it something else.

gone, forever.

in the meantime, set your camera to silent for silent camera.

 

turn the volume of the phone all the way down with the volume buttons the top (side)

 

/system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg

As for a setting, some countries don't allow digicams to not have a sound when they take a pic.

 

Congress wants digital cameras to make sounds so you can't upskirt/take pics of kids w/o them knowing, stuff like that.

 

I got 'Ring toggle' from the market- lets you quick silence before using the camera.

 

If you use Astro File Manager you can do an advanced search to find all the sounds in the phone. I didnt delete it because i may want to have it in the future. Just throwing that out there.

 

if you root it, you could make it whatever you wanted, I'm changing mine to an .ogg saying:

"hey, that creepy guy over there pretending to look at his phone is taking your picture".

 

well i fyou want to go that far i suppose

 

Sometimes I wonder who thinks up this stuff. It just annoys more people and hardly does anything to stop the people who want to use camera phones for those kinds of pictures.

My old BB Pearl would make the camera sound for any picture even when the phone was in silent mode. And yet I could record a video without it making any kind of sound.

 

@mirltime, you're not thinking of the children!!!! /sarcasm Come on, you know to be a politician, you have to knee jerk to every news headline out there.

 

I made mine say DROOOOIIIIIIID! for about two minutes. Just to see if it was possible.

 

I rooted my droid and disabled the shutter sound, but I cannot find the "beep-beep" noise the phone makes after it focuses the camera, does anyone know where this is?

Thanks

 

I'll go ahead and revive this thread.

I'm suspecting my issue is because I'm doing it from the phone, but if I try to rename the files:
mv camera_click.ogg 1camera_click.ogg

it says the file is read only. Do I need to chmod it?

I'm running Pete's bugless beauty but I retained my data, and did the update.zip route, which I suspect is why the camera/video sounds are there, because it looks like he changed it to camera_click.ggo, because that file is in the directory too.

**Found the answer over at alldroid. Credit to the notorious Pete, himself. Seems that you have to remount the whole filesystem as read/write. Seems odd that you can't just chmod the file to 775.