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Camera shutter sound

I'm just realizing that the shutter sound on my Droid 3 with Gingerbread also cannot be silenced. What's next? A constant droning noise when shooting video?? What's stopping the perverts from just shooting video? Where does the paranoia stop?
 
drexappeal said:
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).
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I installed it and it is activated by default. Still didn't work.
 
ren857 said:
I installed it and it is activated by default. Still didn't work.
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Okay. Thanks for confirming. That's disappointing because I also don't like the camera sound (especially when you're taking pictures at a concert where the crowd is quiet and you don't want that annoyingly loud shutter sound).

So, I guess it doesn't work on the Note 2 then.
 
Bodestone said:
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.

Edit:

There are a few free tether apps out there that don't require root.
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Do you know how this would affect OTA updates?

ETA: That's root for the international version.
 
If you're looking for root go to QBKing77 channel. He has a video on how to root your Note 2 All Variants (meaning it doesn't matter you're carrier....same root applies).
 
ScandaLeX said:
If you're looking for root go to QBKing77 channel. He has a video on how to root your Note 2 All Variants (meaning it doesn't matter you're carrier....same root applies).
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So what's the deal with Root...it allows you access to system files and folders etc, and you can flash different ROMs and all that....

If I'm just looking to use something like CPU underclocking for when the phone screen is off etc to conserve more battery etc, would I be fine with root?

What about when OTA's come, can you still receive them if you're rooted, or do you have to unroot?
 
PetiePal said:
So what's the deal with Root...it allows you access to system files and folders etc, and you can flash different ROMs and all that....

If I'm just looking to use something like CPU underclocking for when the phone screen is off etc to conserve more battery etc, would I be fine with root?

What about when OTA's come, can you still receive them if you're rooted, or do you have to unroot?
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You basically answered your own questions. To keep root during OTA updates...
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ren857 said:
Do you know how this would affect OTA updates?

ETA: That's root for the international version.
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This current method does increment the flash counter which will prevent checking for OTA updates. As the video mentions however you can reset this for a teeny price with Triangle Away. Once paid for you can use it any time you root.

There may or may not be another root method in the future that does not increment the flash counter.
 
ren857 said:
Do you know how this would affect OTA updates?

ETA: That's root for the international version.
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Ren, you would use this app BEFORE you do the OTA update. It temporarily removes root so that you can do the update.

As far as the flash counter mentioned above, this app has nothing to do with that. But if you root and get the yellow triangle with exclamation mark you can use Triangle Away to get rid of it.
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This isn't really a solution but a more like a small trick around the shutter sound if you are trying to take a sneaky pic or just want a silent snapshot someplace you don't want people to hear. Make sure the phone is silenced and then just head to the camera and take a screen shot with the S Pen. You can crop away anything you don't want in the shot (like the edges where the options are at) and then save. Just a trick I use when I'm at work in my office and don't want anyone to hear my phone going off.
 
MuzzFury5 said:
This isn't really a solution but a more like a small trick around the shutter sound if you are trying to take a sneaky pic or just want a silent snapshot someplace you don't want people to hear. Make sure the phone is silenced and then just head to the camera and take a screen shot with the S Pen. You can crop away anything you don't want in the shot (like the edges where the options are at) and then save. Just a trick I use when I'm at work in my office and don't want anyone to hear my phone going off.
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For anyone that tries this you have to hold the button in on the S-Pen for this to work. If you don't you'll still hear the shutter sound.
Kind of awkward steadying the phone, holding the button and touching the screen. You have to keep the S-Pen on it for the same length of time you would if you were taking a screen shot.
 
I really haven't gotten a chance to use the camera that much, but seems like I may have to root in order to get rid of that annoying shutter sound.

So, t-mobile USA versions got the option in the settings, but Sprint versions didn't? I wonder how Verizon versions will be.
 
Oh really!!! I didn't know Tmo had an option to disable the sound. Wonder why that wasn't a feature just left alone by all carriers.
 
Bodestone said:
This current method does increment the flash counter which will prevent checking for OTA updates. As the video mentions however you can reset this for a teeny price with Triangle Away. Once paid for you can use it any time you root.

There may or may not be another root method in the future that does not increment the flash counter.
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Triangle Away is free on xda legally although of course it's always a good thing to buy and support the dev.
 
ScandaLeX said:
Oh really!!! I didn't know Tmo had an option to disable the sound. Wonder why that wasn't a feature just left alone by all carriers.
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Because, supposedly, it's Sprint policy to disable the option to silence the shutter because of privacy issues...

...which to me is a crock considering how some htc phones on sprint can silence the shutter sound.

I think that I may end up rooting...for this reason and so I can put any app in multi-view.
 
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