Disabling camera click sound, rooting, etc

[peterh337]

This option appears to be missing on my S7, and most others around the world.

I know in the rooted version you can just hack the camera click sound file and that's it - done that on a few devices. But I don't want to risk rooting mine right now. Especially as Samsung are pushing out OS OTA updates fairly frequently and it is close to impossible to get any response on XDA or other hacking forums as to whether a given root method has been tested on a given OS update. People on there mostly don't respond to what they see as noob questions.

One way is to turn down system sounds but that kills a load of notifications.

Wasn't there some app which would notice when the camera was loaded and turn down the notification sounds and then restored them?

Is there any other way?

 

[mikedt]

Sounds like something that could be done with Tasker possibly, detect camera app is started, mute the phone sounds, camera app is closed, unmute the phone sounds.

 

[bIOforger]

Yea tasker should do it, but to be honest how long does it take to mute the phone, take your spy/upskirt pic, then unmute the phone, not that long really

 

[chanchan05]

Yea tasker should do it, but to be honest how long does it take to mute the phone, take your spy/upskirt pic, then unmute the phone, not that long really

The lady may have moved on by then already. Lol.

 

[mikedt]

Samsung S7 has the speaker at the bottom, the palm of your hand mutes it quite effectively.

 

[bIOforger]

The lady may have moved on by then already. Lol.

It's all in the planning mate

 

[GrouchoM]

Have you checked the stock camera's settings? Mine has a silence option.

 

[peterh337]

Definitely not on mine. My S6 and T705 also don't have it, though I rooted them and then it's simple.

 

[chanchan05]

Definitely not on mine. My S6 and T705 also don't have it, though I rooted them and then it's simple.

Or just use Tasker.

 

[peterh337]

Tasker on a non-rooted phone?

 

[chanchan05]

Tasker on a non-rooted phone?

Yes. I'm not rooted an I use Tasker fine. There are of course a few limitations, but simply putting the phone in silent mode when a certain app is on the foreground is certainly doable, because I have a profile to do just that.

 

[GrouchoM]

This is my S7's stock camera's settings:

 

[bIOforger]

yknow what i thought i use to have that option before to be honest, but i dont anymore on my s7e. There was an update for shape distortion which i think got rid of the shutter sound off option at the same time, didn't notice until now :/

 

[peterh337]

I never had that option on S7 S7 T700 or T705. The internet is full of this. It looks like the US carrier branded phones don't have it, and "international" ones don't also. But a lot of these phones sold in the UK are from Malaysia etc and they probably do have it.

An interesting aside is that Iphones have the capability within the OS to hide menu options according to data stored on the SIM card i.e. carrier specific data. I had this 100% proved with the Iphone4 a few years ago. And it would be obvious for Android (well, vendor specific variants e.g. Samsung) to do the same... after all they have to sell most phones via the carriers' shops.

 

[Nick The Great]

I usually just do the mute thing, but I rarely care about the shutter sound. Weddings and things like that, mostly.

 

[peterh337]

I downloaded Tasker and have been reading about it. A very clever tool!

If someone has a script for setting the sound to zero while the camera is in front, that would be really handy and would get me started. I can see various uses for that app e.g. auto-detecting home wifi and doing some stuff...