Switching off Camera Shutter noise

[Agent]

SO pleased with my Galaxy S ii but one niggle is there is no option on camera settings to switch off the camera shutter noise. I have done some research online and found following:

[COLOR="blue"]Trick 1:

First create a file "local.prop" in /data/ if it doesn't exist. Eg: "/data/local.prop"
Then open the file "/data/local.prop"
Now add the line to the file:
Code:
ro.camera.sound.forced

Finally reboot and all sound in the camera app is silent.
To recover the sound, you can either delete the local.prop file or change the code to:
Code
ro.camera.sound.forced=1

Trick 2:

unrar the attached file "local.prop.rar"
Then copy the "local.prop" file to your ADB folder
ADB push local.prop /data/local.prop
Reboot phone.
To restore sound, just delete local.prop and reboot
........

How do I actually get access to the "files" they mention on the phone? Do I need to connect it to my p.c to do it?
Is it safe to do these procedures anyway?

Cheers. Andy

[Richardj]

with the camera open click on the cog icon, click on the spanner icon, scroll to shutter sound, there are 4 options, one of which is off

[Red5hark]

sorry this made me lol...uber complicated way of turning off sound opposed to the more sensible 'actually bothering to look' at yer settings...priceless

[Red5hark]

...just a shame the simple way doesn't work :-(

[Digital]

I click on the cog icon, but I dont see any spanner icon after that.

[Zakir.Umar]

lol...i think this is a bit OCD about saving battery life!!!

EDIT: okay maybe if you're taking a pic and you don't want people to think you're a perv it's useful! So i'm doing it! How do i create a file?

[wellsyuk]

Has anyone managed to get this to work for the Galaxy S2? What type of file needs to be created in /data - a folder? I tried that and it doesn't work and admin prevents me editing the ogg sound file that makes the shutter noise - is there a way to get admin rights to amend it?

[llBlackenedll]

On my SGS II at least, there is no shutter sound option in the camera. However, I can confirm that the first method in this post works on the Galaxy S II.

In the terminal, cd to /data then vi local.prop and add the line ro.camera.sound.forced. I don't know what other text editors there are for Android, haven't really looked into it, but vi works on everything (though admittedly it's not very user friendly, especially not on Android as pressing "Esc" is a little more awkward). Not sure but you probably need to have a rooted device for this.

The great thing about this method is that it only mutes the sounds if your phone is on silent, so you can keep them in situations where it's useful.

I don't know if you noticed, but you're listing 2 methods here - one is creating the file yourself and adding the line, the other is the potentially easier method of downloading a readily made local.prop and copying it to the relevant directory. You kinda need the attached file referenced by the copied text for that...

[azkur]

wawawa wawawa

[NZtechfreak]

I just used Tasker to set the phone to silent on opening the camera app and turn off silent on exit. Simples. Tasker is amazing, well worth a little time to learn it.