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Camera shutter sound

I hate to break it to you but yes it must be a carrier thing as mine will be silent in silent mode.
 
It's a Korean thing. It's illegal to disable the shutter sound on a cameraphone there. People were taking upskirt pics and stuff. It's in the Touchwiz Camera apk itself. If you root and hack the apk file, you can get rid of it. Otherwise, there are a ton of camera apps that have silent mode.
 
Mine is not hacked, rooted or anything else but in silent mode the camera is silent also. Mine is the sim free model btw. Any branded Uk users here that can check also?
 
Cobravision said:
It's a Korean thing. It's illegal to disable the shutter sound on a cameraphone there. People were taking upskirt pics and stuff. It's in the Touchwiz Camera apk itself. If you root and hack the apk file, you can get rid of it. Otherwise, there are a ton of camera apps that have silent mode.
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evohicks said:
Mine is not hacked, rooted or anything else but in silent mode the camera is silent also. Mine is the sim free model btw. Any branded Uk users here that can check also?
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And mine is a US carrier locked version for the US where I swear we had a year or two where everyone freaked out and only sold phones that didn't silence the shutter due to upskirting. Mine is also able to silence the shutter sound from within the app itself.
 
evohicks said:
Mine is not hacked, rooted or anything else but in silent mode the camera is silent also. Mine is the sim free model btw. Any branded Uk users here that can check also?
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Same as Evo, no camera sound when silence mode is selected on T-mobile UK:D
 
Didn't know "upskirting" was a common thing or had it's own term. Guess I'm getting old.
 
Cobravision said:
It's a Korean thing. It's illegal to disable the shutter sound on a cameraphone there. People were taking upskirt pics and stuff. It's in the Touchwiz Camera apk itself. If you root and hack the apk file, you can get rid of it. Otherwise, there are a ton of camera apps that have silent mode.
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I can concur. On my Korean Note 2, my camera makes the loudest shutter noise even at silent mode.
 
ren857 said:
It doesn't work for me.

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Did you open the app and activate it, once it's installed? Or is the apk not installing at all?

If you were able to install, you have to open the app and check the radial button to activate.

If you weren't able to install, you have to make sure that the "install from unknown sources" radial is checked. That's in the phone settings area (can't give you a step-by-step because I don't even have the Note 2 yet).
 
We'll have to see if this is a Verizon thing too. But I can see editing the camera sound file, and replacing it with something that's silent. Shouldn't even take rooting no?
 
Yes, that should take rooting to change system folders. I've done that on my rooted Droid X to get rid of the camera shutter sound.
 
serpa4 said:
Yes, that should take rooting to change system folders. I've done that on my rooted Droid X to get rid of the camera shutter sound.
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I've never felt the need to root a phone but this time if I had directions I'd be on the root bandwagon if I could get rid of the camera click and work around the spring wifi tether limitation.

Anyone know how to blaze the trail on the note 2? :-)
 
This was the vid I followed to root mine. His site is a fund of info on all things Note, Note 2 and S3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwsIjw2yPRs

Once done I renamed /system/media/audio/ui/shutter.ogg to shutter_old.ogg as a test and it went fine. I'll replace it with something less intrusive when I find a nice sound.

x-plore is a great file explorer for things like this. You need to change its settings to allow root file changes then SuperSU will ask if you want to grant it root access which you can do as a one off or indefinitely.

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There are a few free tether apps out there that don't require root.
 
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