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Turn off the camera shutter sound

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sdguy67

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Is there a way to turn off this annoying shutter sound without silencing my whole phone? If not, there really needs to be because it is really loud and annoying
 
Cannot be done. It's required to be there by law.


However, there are other applications on the Market that take pictures without a shutter sound.
 
Telexen said:
Cannot be done. It's required to be there by law.


However, there are other applications on the Market that take pictures without a shutter sound.
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I would love to know where that law is in the law books. By the way every windows mobile phone I ever owned could shut off shutter sound out the box. Those crazy law breaking windows phone guys
 
Put your phone on silent or turn the media volume all the way down. Tadah.

Edit: Just to be clear, Telexen is correct in that there is no way to turn off the camera shutter sound on its own. You can, however, make it go away if you sacrifice other sounds :).
 
I just got the Camera Pro app. That seems to be the best for me out of a few apps I've tried.
It has a silence function. There are other free camera/demo apps that can silence it too, but some of them add too many other cute features for my liking.

I believe the "law" thing comes from Japan where I heard that they required all cell phone manufacturers to have a sound on for the cameras. (I'm not sure of that but that's what I heard).

Charles
 
dB Zac said:
I would love to know where that law is in the law books. By the way every windows mobile phone I ever owned could shut off shutter sound out the box. Those crazy law breaking windows phone guys
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Same goes for my old Blackberry, so I have a hard time believing that it is a legal issue. If it was, I doubt they would allow apps in the market place that violated the law blatantly
 
No way it is a legal issue, my Eris has a way to turn off the shutter sound in the stock camera app, works great.
 
Download Camera ZOOM FX. Has the "Disable Shutter Sound" option ... but more important than that, it has the best camera user interface for the DROID. I also bought PRO Zoom 5X which can also turn off the shutter sound. It's UI is better than the stock camera, but not as good as Camera ZOOM FX. Just my two cents, of course. YMMV
 
Telexen said:
Cannot be done. It's required to be there by law.


However, there are other applications on the Market that take pictures without a shutter sound.
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LOL!!!! Sorry, but that response was just priceless...untrue of course, but funny none the less....

Anyway...to the author of this question....as other's have already mentioned, please download "Camera Zoom FX"...does away with the annoying shutter sound that came default on the Droid (sad...why is this "customizable" phone not stocked with the simple camera options as all my other cheap-o Verizon phones I've had in the past, like being able to turn off or change the shutter sound, use multi-shot, brightness control, etc...)
 
meandmydroid said:
LOL!!!! Sorry, but that response was just priceless...untrue of course, but funny none the less....

Anyway...to the author of this question....as other's have already mentioned, please download "Camera Zoom FX"...does away with the annoying shutter sound that came default on the Droid (sad...why is this "customizable" phone not stocked with the simple camera options as all my other cheap-o Verizon phones I've had in the past, like being able to turn off or change the shutter sound, use multi-shot, brightness control, etc...)
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Actually there's a bill in Congress in the works that will enact such a law. Japan currently has such a law, so does Korea, and China.
 
Easy to do Actually!

Remove the camera_click.ogg file from your phone.

You must be rooted to do this but you can do this using ADB Shell or Terminal Emulator. Make sure to change /system to RW first.
ADB shell
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mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg.old

Done!!! No more Clicking sound

There are a few programs on the market that allow you access the file on root as well through a GUI if your not comfortable using command lines.

Enjoy.
 
It's not a law in the US but it's a law in other places. Straight up, the law is an upskirt or anti-perv measure for people who use their camera phone to take lewd or private photos without the other person doing it. So even though there's no law for it here, phone manufacturers do it for the lowest common legal denominator just in case the law spreads and they just don't have to deal with it.

Similarly, it is totally legal to record your phone calls without the other person knowing if you live in certain states, but you'll find that function is disabled on Moto Droid, too, because they pander to the lowest common legal denominator.

Like the above said, you can go with Camera FX Pro or just silence your phone before snapping.
 
n0really said:
I thought it was legal everywhere, but you can't use it in court in some states unless you give prior notice.
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You are correct. In California for example, it is illegal to record someone on the phone without their knowledge and also inadmissible in court as well.
 
This is why phone manufacturers don't allow that option. Haha. ...sadly. Even more sad is there's a whole thread with a bunch of these people getting caught in the act but I can't find it.

 
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