Recently, I have installed Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) over Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) on my Samsung Galaxy S phone. And so far i’m loving it.
The only thing i find irritating is the shutter sound of the camera, it sounds horrible. And because of that, i want to disable it. I’ve check the Camera Settings and i couldn’t find an option to disable the shutter sound. I’ve also set my phone into silent mode or volume off, still no luck, the irritating shutter sound is still there.
So i contacted my friend — google and search for a way to disable the shutter sound. And to my surprise it was simple and easy.
Requirements:
- Download and install ES File Explorer
- Your phone needs to be ROOTED
How to disable camera shutter sound
- Run the ES File Explorer app
- Go to ES File Explorer settings and follow screenshot below:
- Tap Up
- Scroll down and tap SYSTEM
- Tap MEDIA
- Tap AUDIO
- Tap UI
- Long tap on camera_click.ogg until Operations pop-up appears, and then tap rename
- Rename it into camera_click.ogg.off
- After you have successfully renamed it, you should re-mount /system as Read-Only (credit to Todd)
- That’s it. Congratulations, you have just disabled the shutter sound of your android phone.
- Now try it. Open your camera app and take a picture, even if you’re not in silent mode, your camera shutter will not make any sound :).
- If someday you miss that irritating shutter sound and decided to enable it again, just perform the steps above and rename the camera_click.ogg.off into camera_click.ogg
I cannot do this. It just says “Sorry, operation failed!” I’m on a Samsung Galaxy S2, and I rooted it…or at least I think I did. I’m not sure how to tell for sure if that worked. But any idea why it won’t let me rename the file??
Hi Tony, have you successfully rooted your phone?
If you did, could you try the following:
1. Restart your phone
2. After it restarted, open ES File Manager
3. Follow each step above carefully.
@Kent I have my phone rooted because it has Superuser in my app drawer. When I go thru the steps above and get to #2, Mount File System gives “failed to mount” error message. Any ideas?
Hi antking78, Can you please run your Superuser app, if it ask for SuperUser Request choose Allow.
Thanks
@Kent I ran it and all it shows is ES File explorer as allowed. I’m at my wits end with this.
@antking78 @Kent Still no luck? hmmm..how about changing ES file explorer into “root explorer” app, and after you install it. mount it as writable R/W
In Galaxy S2 its Shutter.ogg and not camera click
If it doesn’t work on the first try, try to restart your phone. Follow all the instructions very carefully, and I’m sure it will work.
Thanks for this. I read that the camera sound is mandatory by law in some countries for privacy reasons… as if you couldn’t just stick your finger over the speaker or something … or just use a camera. LOL.
Anyway, I hate how it interrupts my music, so I did this to the shutter and focus sounds. There is visual feedback for the focus anyway.
One addition I would suggest for your instructions, is to re-mount /system as Read-Only after performing this change… Just to be safe.
Thanks again for your help!
@Todd,
Thanks for the added info Todd, I admit i forgot to re-mount it as Read-Only. Thanks again for the heads up.
Cheers
I have a gax s3 this worked perfectly. Thank you much!!!!
works perfect for my phone, a ZP100 with android 4.0.3
layout somewhat different, but contents identical
thanks
Jos
For Samsung Note(N7000), there are 2 options
camera_click.ogg
camera_click.ogg_short
you need to rename both options to .off
camera_click.ogg_short.off
camera_click.ogg.off
Also turn off video recording sound
in the list at the end you have an option video sound
you can change this option to .off