Help Can you turn off the shutter sound?

[TheConcertKing]

Go to settings>sound>sound profile, and select silent. Or the easiest way to do it is put the sound profile widget on your home screen, and then just do a quick tap, and you're in silent mode.

The camera still makes the auto focus and shutter sounds when the phone is in silent mode.

 

[Fazermint]

The camera still makes the auto focus and shutter sounds when the phone is in silent mode.

Allow me to repeat:

OK, I came across a way to turn the shutter sound off completely without being rooted.

1) Plugged in my headphones.
2) Started the music player and started playing a song.
3) Turned off the song and exited the music player.
4) Unplugged my headphones.

Camera makes zero noise at this point, and stays that way until: I get a notification or listen to a voice mail, or do anything that would normally cause a sound, then the camera sound would come back until I do the 4 steps again.

Small update. If you mute the sound, then you don't have to worry about notifications bringing back the shutter sound. I'm really glad to have found this workaround. I'm attending a convention next week, and I'd really like to take some pics of the speakers without the people next to me being bothered by such an obnoxious sound.

 

[Antiochus]

Old thread revival alert.

There is an app called silentcamera that works for this and you don't have to Root. Just install and snap.....silently.

 

[adaaaam]

There are many spy camera apps on the market for you unrooted perverts that silence the shutter but also have the added bonus of hiding the display. However I myself would never use the Evo V for such purposes as the backside is so conspicuous with two lenses.

 

[Antiochus]

There are many spy camera apps on the market for you unrooted perverts that silence the shutter but also have the added bonus of hiding the display. However I myself would never use the Evo V for such purposes as the backside is so conspicuous with two lenses.

Sounds like you have done your research on this issue.

 

[adaaaam]

I had a need on a different phone to photograph documents without the owner's knowledge so through that experience I became aware of the multitude of spycam apps, which I assume are mainly used for perverted purposes.

 

[ODGeek]

You must be rooted for this.

Back up a copy of /system/app/HTCCamera.apk, open HTCCamera.apk in your favorite archive program as a .zip, remove /res/raw/camera_click.ogg and any other sounds you don't want, replace the original /system/app/HTCCamera.apk with your modified file, clear Dalvik cache, reboot. Camera click gone.

Did that (using 7-zip on a Windows7 box), and now Camera & Camcorder apps disappear. HTCCamera.apk is still in /system/app/HTCCamera.apk, has same permissions as all other *.apk files in the directory.

Where did I go wrong?

Renamed the modified HTCCamera.apk to HTCCamera.zip on root of sdcard, and flashed the zip from booting into recovery...Works like a charm!

 

[OverByter]

You don't have to do this in recovery, after making your changes just name the extension back to apk and install as usual.

 

[Tejer]

Did that (using 7-zip on a Windows7 box), and now Camera & Camcorder apps disappear. HTCCamera.apk is still in /system/app/HTCCamera.apk, has same permissions as all other *.apk files in the directory.

Where did I go wrong?

Renamed the modified HTCCamera.apk to HTCCamera.zip on root of sdcard, and flashed the zip from booting into recovery...Works like a charm!

Could you post the sold on here so I could download them? Otherwise i'll do this when i'm off work and post them.

 

[imabitfighty]

I'm using mobsters ICS rom for this phone and the camera app has the option to disable shutter sound.

its a rooted custom rom, definately worth installing, it almost completely gets rid of Sense while keeping the phone fully functional.

 

[Tejer]

I'm using mobsters ICS rom for this phone and the camera app has the option to disable shutter sound.

its a rooted custom rom, definately worth installing, it almost completely gets rid of Sense while keeping the phone fully functional.

I just performed s-off, i'm about to put on the 2.25 version of mobster rom v. I really like Android on stock, i've enjoyed it on the Optimus V and on the Elite, now i'm going to enjoy it on the Evo V

 

[MaxPower1]

You must be rooted for this.

Back up a copy of /system/app/HTCCamera.apk, open HTCCamera.apk in your favorite archive program as a .zip, remove /res/raw/camera_click.ogg and any other sounds you don't want, replace the original /system/app/HTCCamera.apk with your modified file, clear Dalvik cache, reboot. Camera click gone.

Nice, I did that on my EVO 3D running MeanROM and it worked like a charm. I did try to install the modified APK but I got an "Application not installed" error. So I just copied back to /system/app/, agreed to overwrite the original one, rebooted into recovery and cleared the Dalvik and cache.

 

[concessiongirl]

Small update. If you mute the sound, then you don't have to worry about notifications bringing back the shutter sound. I'm really glad to have found this workaround. I'm attending a convention next week, and I'd really like to take some pics of the speakers without the people next to me being bothered by such an obnoxious sound.

Thank you, thank you, Fazermint for the convoluted, yet SIMPLE NON-ROOT, workaround. Perhaps someday I will care enough to attempt to root a phone. For now, I just want the dumb thing to work right "out of the box." I actually have the HTC Evo Design 4G and was perfectly happy with it right up until after the latest update....when it started making the incredibly LOUD shutter sound. I didn't even have any music to play, so I downloaded a free song and emailed it to my phone to try this trick. Totally worth it.

Oh, and yes, I created an account expressly for the purpose of being able to THANK YOU!

 

[werewolfboy13]

OK, I came across a way to turn the shutter sound off completely without being rooted.

1) Plugged in my headphones.
2) Started the music player and started playing a song.
3) Turned off the song and exited the music player.
4) Unplugged my headphones.

Camera makes zero noise at this point, and stays that way until: I get a notification or listen to a voice mail, or do anything that would normally cause a sound, then the camera sound would come back until I do the 4 steps again.

I tried this and for some reason I get an operation denied even after moving to the sd card.