Silence camera sounds?

[blundell]

Hey,

I'm the Dev of SilentSnap and yeah I've looked into this, so annoying but haven't got a work around at the moment. Have got a few idea's that hopefully Don't! need root access. I'll keep you posted.

Cheers

Blundell

 

[FreyGrimrod]

This is god awful I was at a conference and tried to snap a pic of a powerpoint slide full of numbers yesterday while in silent only to be greeted by beep beep horrified stares *shame*

oh and edit +1 on not buying the "upskirt" bs argument pervs can use video...

 

[anySmarterIdRunLinux]

Yeah I don't really see a legitimate use here for any of this.

EDIT: Aside from taking pictures in a classroom (whiteboard, charts) and business settings.

Picture of sleeping baby?

 

[tgbjr1973]

To silence the two focusing beeps, I skip the auto focusing. Rather than slowly pressing the shutter button a half click and waiting for it to focus before pressing it all the way in (which is when you get the beeps), I simply press it all the way down in one quick motion. Surprisingly, most of my photos are in just about as good focus, and it does avoid those two annoying beeps. (I also have all of the other tones silenced).

 

[greenzkool]

alarm tone

The shutter focus beeps are alarm tones. If you go into your alarm settings and uncheck "alarm in silent mode" You will no longer hear the focus beeps when using silent mode or silentsnap

 

[richpjr]

The shutter focus beeps are alarm tones. If you go into your alarm settings and uncheck "alarm in silent mode" You will no longer hear the focus beeps when using silent mode or silentsnap

I tried this and still get the focus beep. The program Vignette does not have a sound for either focus or snap. I am messing around with the demo, which only allows a low resolution, but may buy the full app just for that.

 

[greenzkool]

The shutter focus beeps are alarm tones. If you go into your alarm settings and uncheck "alarm in silent mode" You will no longer hear the focus beeps when using silent mode or silentsnap

I tried this and still get the focus beep. The program Vignette does not have a sound for either focus or snap. I am messing around with the demo, which only allows a low resolution, but may buy the full app just for that.

All i know is that when i unchecked "alarm in silent mode" all sounds went away, shutter, focus, everything. My DX is completely silent in picture mode.

 

[FreyGrimrod]

THANK YOU!!! Put phone in silent mode (turn ringer down to vibrate)
go to alarm settings uncheck alarm in silent mode only sound is that of the shutter operating no more beep beep!!!

 

[Parasol]

Yes, I can verify that the phone is silenced completely with this settings while taking photos.

Uncheck "alarm in silent mode", and lower your phone volume before taking pictures.

Your volume rocker buttons are zoom buttons when you go into photo/video mode.

 

[richpjr]

Interesting. I did not lower the volume first and it did not work. Went back and tried it and no sound - excellent!

 

[blundell]

Ah thanks for the info guys!

I'll be adding this into the next released of SilentSnap ( this weekend probably! )

 

[blundell]

SilentSnap has been updated, the DroidX Focus noise has been silenced yayy!

SilentSnap Camera Free for Android

 

[Daballer155]

I found the shutter file in the system folder, but has anyone seen the focus beep?

do you have to be rooted to edit the sound files?

Are there any programs available to do that via the PC?

(for example "diskaid" for iphone)

 

[Elkay]

I found the shutter file in the system folder, but has anyone seen the focus beep?

do you have to be rooted to edit the sound files?

Are there any programs available to do that via the PC?

(for example "diskaid" for iphone)

The focus beep is in the code, not a sound file.

You can still use the BlurCamera.apk that I posted that killed that beep if you are running 2.2. I've tried it, works fine.

If you root you can use Root Explorer on the phone itself to browse the system files and do what you want with them (albeit, at a risk of bricking your phone if you remove or change the wrong thing.)

 

[1694kyle]

I found the shutter file in the system folder, but has anyone seen the focus beep?

do you have to be rooted to edit the sound files?

Are there any programs available to do that via the PC?

(for example "diskaid" for iphone)

Sorry this is OT

but I'd go easy root (one click root) and root explorer (file manager) like elkay said, for editing this stuff from the phone. I haven't messed with programs on the computer. It's nice to hack and run.