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Root Disable Camera Sounds?

Dr. Dank

Dr. Dank

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Is there any way to completely shut off the camera and camcorder sounds?? BTW, I HAVE deleted the system/media/audio sounds that had the name camera or camcorder in them...

Thanks
 
Deleting the file from /system/media/audio/ui won't work. The HTC camera app uses its own internal audio files. Here is how to remove them:

Back up an original unmodified copy of /system/app/HTCCamera.apk for safe keeping
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 (I removed them all)
Replace the original /system/app/HTCCamera.apk with your modified file
Change the permissions to rw-r--r--
Clear Dalvik cache and reboot.
 
edit::: Ostrich Egg beat me, but will leave this here because maybe it's helpful.


This is how you do it (need to have root):

1) Connect device to computer with USB debugging

2) open command prompt / terminal and go to sdk folder

Type at the command line: "adb pull /system/app/HTCCamera.apk"

This should download the camera app from your phone to your computer.

3) Look in the folder on your computer for HTCCamera.apk

4) Make a copy of this file as a backup.

5) Rename the original file to HTCCamera.apk.zip and Open the APK file in archiving program (such as Winrar)

6) Inside the zip file, find the sounds at /res/raw/ and delete the sounds you don't want (they are OGG files) you can delete all of them.

Note: this might not matter but to be safe (this is what I did) make sure if you delete all of them the empty "raw" folder is still in the archive. If you are using winrar it deletes the empty folder and you need to navigate back to /res/ , right click and do "create new folder".

7) After you deleted the files from the zip, rename HTCCamera.apk.zip back to HTCCamera.apk

8) At the command prompt again, transfer the file to your phone's Sdcard by typing: "adb push HTCCamera.apk /sdcard/HTCCamera.apk"

9) Enter the adb shell by typing "adb shell"

Type the following at the adb shell (not the $ or # part, just the commands):
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/null /system
# rm /system/app/HTCCamera.apk
# cp /sdcard/HTCCamera.apk /system/app/HTCCamera.apk
# mount -o remount,ro /dev/null /system
# rm /sdcard/HTCCamera.apk
# reboot


When the phone is rebooted, you might need to make shortcuts to the camera app again (old shortcuts might be missing)

Now there should be no sound. good luck.
 
I just deleted the cameraclick.ogg and mine is gone. Maybe it's because i'm using JMZ's shooter rom.
 
Ostrich Egg said:
Deleting the file from /system/media/audio/ui won't work. The HTC camera app uses its own internal audio files. Here is how to remove them:

Back up an original unmodified copy of /system/app/HTCCamera.apk for safe keeping
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 (I removed them all)
Replace the original /system/app/HTCCamera.apk with your modified file
Change the permissions to rw-r--r--
Clear Dalvik cache and reboot.
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ok... tried this all on my phone... hope it works. rebooting now:smokingsomb:
 
yay.... NO CAMERA APP... idk what you mean by open it as a .zip.. theres no option to.. just extract all (which i did) and CREATE a zip... not open as one.. I'm using root explorer. ill mess around and see what i can get i guess...
 
yeah... i can't figure out how to 'open as a zip'... please help. thanks

please explain it to me as if I were a 2 year old...
 
The easiest way is to copy it to your desktop, rename it to HTCCamera.apk.zip, open it in an archive program, remove the files, and then rename it back to HTCCamera.apk and put it back in /system/app
 
I'm lost too....can't get the internal evo v storage to show - only the sdcard under my computer and so I can't edit the apk
 
Connecting to your computer is usually to access your sd card. To see the phone's internal memory contents, use an app like es file explorer. Don't forget to go in the settings and check root explorer and mount file system.
 
Okay so anyone with more knowledge than me correct me if I'm wrong but if your are rooted you could probably use root explorer to get a copy of camera.apk. Make a copy on your computer and keep the original for safety. Then on the one you are going to modify remove the file you need to with 7-ZIP then replace the one on the phone with the modified one.

7-ZIP lets you look within the apk without decompressing it if I'm not mistaken.
 
haro138 said:
Okay so anyone with more knowledge than me correct me if I'm wrong but if your are rooted you could probably use root explorer to get a copy of camera.apk. Make a copy on your computer and keep the original for safety. Then on the one you are going to modify remove the file you need to with 7-ZIP then replace the one on the phone with the modified one.

7-ZIP lets you look within the apk without decompressing it if I'm not mistaken.
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How is it that you'd be able to get the fire from the sd card to the computer? I have the apk cord to the sd via root explorer. Now getting it onto the computer...? Use 7-zip for sure? It won't show just exploring the sd from the computer as it is..
 
Dr. Dank said:
How is it that you'd be able to get the fire from the sd card to the computer? I have the apk cord to the sd via root explorer. Now getting it onto the computer...? Use 7-zip for sure? It won't show just exploring the sd from the computer as it is..
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You have to copy the HtcCamera.apk from the System to your SD Card first then you can get it from your Phone
 
Slightly off topic, there's an app on the market called notepad that's made for taking surreptitious photos. It's called notepad to even hide it's existence on the phone. :)
 
I used WinRAR and it worked fine... Do they have that for Mac?

I'd be happy to upload the camera apk with the shutter sound removed, just not sure if it's kosher or if I'll run afoul of HTC's copyright...?
 
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