Silence camera sounds?

[pm1066]

Toycam is completely silent. Not top quality, but works.

 

[Backnblack]

Keep it OT please....

No one cares why anyone wants it silent......

Well at least not in an open forum.

 

[mhuff29]

I found an app called "Retro Camera" and everything is silent but it has its own drawbacks. The field of view is much smaller and there a few different choices of old cameras to use to get it back in color.

 

[Elkay]

I was at a wedding 2 days after the X came out and I wanted to take a ton of pictures but I had to be extremely reserved because of the focus beeps. Really sucked. I've also searched high and low for the beep sound but haven't had any luck. The camera click silences with the phone on vibrate so I'm not worried about that. I would almost call this a "bug" that Motorola needs to fix. Silent should be silent across the board.

 

[hotprowl]

I think the real reason it doesn't go 100% silent is to protect people. Thats why newer cameras & cell phones have the shutter or click sound. This way, some guy at the mall trying it take pics up womens skirts isn't going to get away with it as easilly as with a totally silent camera.

 

[1694kyle]

I think the real reason it doesn't go 100% silent is to protect people. Thats why newer cameras & cell phones have the shutter or click sound. This way, some guy at the mall trying it take pics up womens skirts isn't going to get away with it as easilly as with a totally silent camera.

What else would you use the phone for?

 

[Elkay]

I think the real reason it doesn't go 100% silent is to protect people. Thats why newer cameras & cell phones have the shutter or click sound. This way, some guy at the mall trying it take pics up womens skirts isn't going to get away with it as easilly as with a totally silent camera.

I use video for that, so the point is moot.

Lol jk.

 

[1694kyle]

Helpful Shem from motorola

Shem: Hi, my name is Shem. How may I help you?

Kyle Bonnet: yes

Kyle Bonnet: How do i scilence the focus beeps on my droid x

Kyle Bonnet: ...

Shem: Are you trying to get rid of the shutter tone every time you us the camera of your phone?

Kyle Bonnet: yes, but not just the shutter. I want to get rid of the beeps it makes when it focuses. I've tried using it in silent mode, but that does nothing for the focus beeps

Shem: Let us see what we can do about it.

Kyle Bonnet: ok

Shem: Your phone really beeps it makes when it focuses. Unfortunately, your phone has no option to change that feature.

Kyle Bonnet: ghey

Hacking is the only way. And no camera apps that give you a .000008457 MP photo

 

[Elkay]

There is a sound file in BlurCamera.apk. Don't bother, already tried. That's not it, either. I'm hoping it's not part of the camera driver.

 

[Elkay]

This is going to be a bigger pain in the butt that we thought to get rid of. Looking at the source of Android's stock camera app:

android.git.kernel.org Git - platform/packages/apps/Camera.git/blob - src/com/android/camera/Camera.java

If you go down to line 1255 you'll see that the sound is being made by ToneGenerator and is not a sound file embedded as a resource in the application nor a file in the file system. After browsing the resources in BlurCamera.apk I can say that we're likely looking at the same situation here.

 

[deranger]

I think the real reason it doesn't go 100% silent is to protect people. Thats why newer cameras & cell phones have the shutter or click sound. This way, some guy at the mall trying it take pics up womens skirts isn't going to get away with it as easilly as with a totally silent camera.

FWIW, all camera phones in Japan cannot have their shutter sounds silenced for this very reason.

 

[Elkay]

Alright, before I say anything else I must say (as usual) YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. If you brick your phone, it's not my fault that you decided to use this and don't say I didn't warn you.

That being said, I've attached a BlurCamera.apk app with the call to ToneGenerator during focusing removed. I had to decompile and recompile the resources, so this wasn't a simple "swap a byte" or "remove a file" hack. I haven't tested every little tiny feature, but from basic use it all seems to be working.

** You must be rooted to do this. **

To install:

First, rename BlurCamera.zip to BlurCamera.apk.

Copy the apk to your SD card with your preferred method.

Launch Root Manager. It's worth it to just buy the app if you haven't already. I grew up with DOS so I'm no stranger to command lines, but I'm not listing every single command line command to do this here. If someone else wants to list it for people to use Terminal instead, thank you.

Ensure that /system/app is mouned R/W (read/write). There's a button for it at the top right in Root Manager to toggle it.

Move /system/app/BlurCamera.apk to your SD card somewhere in /sdcard. THIS IS THE BACKUP OF YOUR ORIGINAL CAMERA APP THAT YOU WILL LIKELY NEED TO RESTORE BEFORE DOING AN OTA UPDATE. Also, don't be stupid and overwrite the one you just copied to the SD card, otherwise you're accomplishing nothing. Put it in a different directory.

Move the BlurCamera.apk file from where you put it on your SD card to /system/app.

Set permissions on BlurCamera.apk to rw-r--r--. This is User R/W, Group R, Others R. As of the current version of Root Manager this is checking the first two in row one, the first in row two and the first in row three. The rest are unchecked. Since this is standard Linux permisions, it won't likely change, but in case it does just make sure you're checking off the right ones and make sure you end up with rw-r--r-- when you are finished.

Reboot.

Enjoy.

 

[cardr]

So, I'm clueless about rooting, and don't really want to except to get rid of these camera sounds. So, my question is....if I root to do this can I unroot and the phone be the same as it was before except for the camera sounds? I've read the rooting thread and still don't really understand if I can root do what I want and unroot and it be like it is now.....

Any help for the new guy would be appreciated. Also has anyone else used Elkay's new file without the focus sound in it?

Thanks!

 

[debdroid1a]

I think the real reason it doesn't go 100% silent is to protect people. Thats why newer cameras & cell phones have the shutter or click sound. This way, some guy at the mall trying it take pics up womens skirts isn't going to get away with it as easilly as with a totally silent camera.

FWIW, all camera phones in Japan cannot have their shutter sounds silenced for this very reason.

What if the woman is too busy chatting or texting and doesn't hear anyway... or maybe she's hard of hearing... or he's too fast for her... or

 

[quadjacks]

I think the real reason it doesn't go 100% silent is to protect people. Thats why newer cameras & cell phones have the shutter or click sound. This way, some guy at the mall trying it take pics up womens skirts isn't going to get away with it as easilly as with a totally silent camera.

FWIW, all camera phones in Japan cannot have their shutter sounds silenced for this very reason.

What if the woman is too busy chatting or texting and doesn't hear anyway... or maybe she's hard of hearing... or he's too fast for her... or

ROFLMBO.....Perv...lol...