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(Q) Can I turn off the deafening camera sound? (and others)

That'd be nice. Another few items that are still on the checklist include:
- Button re-mapper. I've used the search function here, but I've only seen this brought up in the context of other phone models and their custom ROMs. Is there a ROOT app that grants me Activator (iPhone) type functionality? I'd love to be able to hold-press skip tracks forward and backward.
- Something to instill confidence in the play/pause button on the stock mic headset. Sometimes it works as it should - other times, you have to press it twice, three times, hold it down, do a rain dance... I know the little guy's got it in him. I've seen him accomplish the feat, it just seems he might need a little encouragement from some ROOT app.
- I've searched quite a bit for this last one. Is there honestly no way to calibrate the S-pen? I do the little rubric that comes up when you dial the #14214# or whatever it is, as well as switching back and forth from right handed to left handed. There aren't any other more fruitful methods?
My ROM is the recent German LPY release.
Thanks guys!

If/when I don't want to hear the camera sound, I just turn the volume all the way to silent. Kind of silly, but I think there is some sort of stupid rule that says phones have to have that sound, so you don't take "bad pictures" of people or some BS.

Search Play Store for "Camera ICS"
It's based on the AOSP camera from 4.0.x but has the menu option of "silent mode"
You can also set the volume keys to be auto-focus and "shoot" for volume +/- so you could hold the phone in "reverse landscape" and have volume keys under right hand fingers then hold volume down then roll finger across to press volume up as well to take the shot? (that's how I have mine configured)

Great camera app! Thanks! No one knows of any fuctioning button remapping software?

u need to be rooted
then use ES File Explorer in setting enable Mount File System R/W
Navigate to
/system/media/audio/ui
rename Shutter_01.ogg to something else

Xephrey said:
That'd be nice. Another few items that are still on the checklist include:
- Button re-mapper. I've used the search function here, but I've only seen this brought up in the context of other phone models and their custom ROMs. Is there a ROOT app that grants me Activator (iPhone) type functionality? I'd love to be able to hold-press skip tracks forward and backward.
- Something to instill confidence in the play/pause button on the stock mic headset. Sometimes it works as it should - other times, you have to press it twice, three times, hold it down, do a rain dance... I know the little guy's got it in him. I've seen him accomplish the feat, it just seems he might need a little encouragement from some ROOT app.
- I've searched quite a bit for this last one. Is there honestly no way to calibrate the S-pen? I do the little rubric that comes up when you dial the #14214# or whatever it is, as well as switching back and forth from right handed to left handed. There aren't any other more fruitful methods?
My ROM is the recent German LPY release.
Thanks guys!
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Try touchscreen tune for note to calibrate spen (you have to register for a fee to make it stick, but you can test to make sure it works on your rom (requires root). If rooted, you can disable .ogg file as another suggested.

Great suggestions, guys! Thanks so much.

antiguangenius said:
Navigate to
/system/media/audio/ui
rename Shutter_01.ogg to something else
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Thank you! Works fantastically.
I just replaced mine with a sample of someone saying "gotcha".
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA

antiguangenius said:
u need to be rooted
then use ES File Explorer in setting enable Mount File System R/W
Navigate to
/system/media/audio/ui
rename Shutter_01.ogg to something else
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I enable Mount File System R/W but I can't find /system, any ideas?

Xephrey said:
- Button re-mapper. I've used the search function here, but I've only seen this brought up in the context of other phone models and their custom ROMs. Is there a ROOT app that grants me Activator (iPhone) type functionality? I'd love to be able to hold-press skip tracks forward and backward.
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I just did a search for this and found this post here (as such I can also confirm what OP has said, and so I'm seconding this notion.)
To add to what OP stated I also would like to create Play/Pause by holding both sides of the respective Volume Buttons at the same time as well. Though I think for that to be done properly I would have to link this functionality to a music based app to prevent unwanted shenanigans.

Delete camera sounds at system media folder (you need root of course).
And replace your camera apk with this (without focus sound to made complete silent camera):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371755

lexi250 said:
I enable Mount File System R/W but I can't find /system, any ideas?
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Enable Up to Root
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Camera Launch Noise

Anyone know how to turn off the camera launch sound ?
Had a quick look around and can't find any way to do it.
Not talking about the shutter sound, it's the noise that it makes when you press the dedicated camera key to launch the camera app.

So that would be no then?
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Maybe you can't do it in the Sony stock ROM, if you've rooted your Z1 though you can probably locate the audio file and delete it, or modify the apk file that calls the audio file and delete the line that actually plays the audio file.

B1nny said:
Maybe you can't do it in the Sony stock ROM, if you've rooted your Z1 though you can probably locate the audio file and delete it, or modify the apk file that calls the audio file and delete the line that actually plays the audio file.
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Probably would work but find it incredible that such an intrusive noise like this can't be switch off. Currently the only way to stop it is to turn the volume down on the phone.

MobileBritain said:
Probably would work but find it incredible that such an intrusive noise like this can't be switch off. Currently the only way to stop it is to turn the volume down on the phone.
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I just received my device and I'll have a look for you. I can't provide an easy way to disable the sound though since I'm not that good with smali or whatever. But I can probably locate the audio file and tell you about it. Other than that, wait for the custom roms.

Perhaps it can be replaced by a quieter shorter sound, the current noise is the electronic equivalent of Dom Joly shouting 'I'M USING MY CAMERA'.
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Okay I found the audio file for you, didn't do it last night because of other things.
It's located here: /system/app/SemcCameraUI.apk/res/raw/start_up_notifier.wav
I assume you can delete it and you shouldn't have the start up sound anymore. The problem at the moment is that unlocking the bootloader breaks the camera, and I don't feel like breaking my camera to try and see if it works.
Just to be save, make sure you backup your "SemcCameraUI.apk" file before modifying it and if things don't do as planned, put it back.

you dont have to unlock the bootloader to delete that file, root is enough.

Ricochet23 said:
you dont have to unlock the bootloader to delete that file, root is enough.
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That's totally true, but you can't modify the odexed apk file. You first have to deodex it, delete it, then odex it again and see if it works.. speaking of which I can give it a shot. Will report back later!

[Q] Sound volume button

Hey guys,
i got my nexus 6 today. I instantly rooted the device for titanium backup and stuff. Now i have one problem left. Is there a way to disable the sound when pressing the volume up or down button? On my other phone i simply had to rename/delete some sound files in "system/media/audio/ui". But there are no soundfiles like that. Some ROMs have an option to disable those sounds, but i didn't find something like this either. Is there any workaround for this?

No ideas how to fix this?

schockfroster said:
No ideas how to fix this?
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ROMs have this option. I believe Rastapop and some others have it. Its been a while wince I used Rastapop I'm running LS currently and I don't see the option.

With root access i think there has to be a way to locate these sound files and simply rename them or replace them with "empty" sound files. But even total commander couldn't find them while searching the whole system. I don't know the exact name so i searched for "*.ogg". There were files like camera focus or low battery.

Pilz said:
ROMs have this option. I believe Rastapop and some others have it. Its been a while wince I used Rastapop I'm running LS currently and I don't see the option.
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What he said. I'm using euphoria and it has the feature. It's under settings to sound and notifications to other sounds.
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Is there a way to make the speakers even louder?

I'm rooted and I have tasker. The phone is for an older person who can't see. I'm using tasker to automatically turn the volumes and turn the speakerphone on whenever someone calls but I would still like it to be louder.
Is there any sort of way to do that... like how MX Player seems to be able to up the volume on movies even more than a regular video player at full phone volume?

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Change the value in mixer_paths.xml. Google search on how to do it or do speaker gain using a kernel with the capabilities.

LaTropa64 said:
I'm rooted and I have tasker. The phone is for an older person who can't see. I'm using tasker to automatically turn the volumes and turn the speakerphone on whenever someone calls but I would still like it to be louder.
Is there any sort of way to do that... like how MX Player seems to be able to up the volume on movies even more than a regular video player at full phone volume?
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Viper4Android?

zephiK said:
Change the value in mixer_paths.xml. Google search on how to do it or do speaker gain using a kernel with the capabilities.
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I'll look this up. I assume I just need a file manager that supports root access to edit it. I know I've edited some xml files before to do different things but I can't remember the exact app I used. I'm thinking ES File Explorer.

LaTropa64 said:
I'll look this up. I assume I just need a file manager that supports root access to edit it. I know I've edited some xml files before to do different things but I can't remember the exact app I used. I'm thinking ES File Explorer.
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just use viper4android. its the loudest youll be able to get them, and itll raise the quality of sound. there's a thread for it in the apps and themes section. and you will need root.

LaTropa64 said:
I'll look this up. I assume I just need a file manager that supports root access to edit it. I know I've edited some xml files before to do different things but I can't remember the exact app I used. I'm thinking ES File Explorer.
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Well, I think I found the variable I need to adjust and it doesn't seem to be making any difference.
<ctl name="RX7 Digital Volume" value="84" />​
I've set that as high as 168 and it still sounds the same to me. (rebooted too just in case).
simms22 said:
just use viper4android. its the loudest youll be able to get them, and itll raise the quality of sound. there's a thread for it in the apps and themes section. and you will need root.
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I'll check it out. I really didn't want to install an app for it but if it works and doesn't suck down the battery life than I'm game.

LaTropa64 said:
Well, I think I found the variable I need to adjust and it doesn't seem to be making any difference.
<ctl name="RX7 Digital Volume" value="84" />​
I've set that as high as 168 and it still sounds the same to me. (rebooted too just in case).
I'll check it out. I really didn't want to install an app for it but if it works and doesn't suck down the battery life than I'm game.
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it works, battery drain is not noticeable, and sound quality is a HUGE improvement, especially via headphone. after you flash it(or install into /system/priv-app/) open it and itll ask to install the driver, press yes. after installing the driver(i pick highest quality) youll have to reboot for it to take effect. after you boot up, open the app and look at its options(press the top right), pick ui setting then pick expert. itll give you more choices for you to set up

simms22 said:
it works, battery drain is not noticeable, and sound quality is a HUGE improvement, especially via headphone. after you flash it(or install into /system/priv-app/) open it and itll ask to install the driver, press yes. after installing the driver(i pick highest quality) youll have to reboot for it to take effect. after you boot up, open the app and look at its options(press the top right), pick ui setting then pick expert. itll give you more choices for you to set up
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Is there anyway to get rid of it completely after installed? I granted it access to root to install the driver and after rebooting. "Ok, Google" doesn't work anymore. It just shows on the screen "Can't open microphone."
I want the phone to be extra loud but not at the expense of the Google Now voice commands no longer working.

LaTropa64 said:
Is there anyway to get rid of it completely after installed? I granted it access to root to install the driver and after rebooting. "Ok, Google" doesn't work anymore. It just shows on the screen "Can't open microphone."
I want the phone to be extra loud but not at the expense of the Google Now voice commands no longer working.
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my ik google works fine, and with the screen off and not plugged in as well.
you might have to install a selinux mode changer app as well, i think it needs it on the n6. if no more selunux mode changer apps available in the play store anymore(new rule), there are a few kernels that set it as permissive.

Viper was a bust for me (at least from a new user perspective). I uninstalled the driver and uninstalled the app and the Mic is still broken. "Can't open microphone." on every voice command or even tapping the mic icon on the Google Now bar.
It looks like I get to reset to factory defaults.

LaTropa64 said:
Viper was a bust for me (at least from a new user perspective). I uninstalled the driver and uninstalled the app and the Mic is still broken. "Can't open microphone." on every voice command or even tapping the mic icon on the Google Now bar.
It looks like I get to reset to factory defaults.
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you tried rebooting? also, try retraining it to your voice(long press any empty space on the homescreen, press settings, press voice, ok google detection, delete voice model).
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btw, here is the viper thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/themes-apps/viper4android-t2952137

Disable Shutter sound?

Hey,
I had to buy a new phone (P10 VTR-L29) in Japan and I have an japanese SIM card. Japanese phones and SIM cards always make the shutter sound. By rooting my phone and by flashing a magisk module, I could delete the shutter sound for whatsapp and other apps. But the stock camera still makes the sound. Is there a way to disable it? There is no option in the camera app to turn off the shutter sound.
Thanks!

Go to settings o f the camera app then scroll down find the mute settig then enable it.

yundaime07 said:
Go to settings o f the camera app then scroll down find the mute settig then enable it.
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Like I already said: "There is no option in the camera app to turn off the shutter sound."

There should be mute in the settings (drag from right in camera app).
I haven't yet rooted this phone so can't be sure but there should be somewhere in "system/media/audio/ui" to find the camera .ogg files and either rename so you can easily put them back or delete. I would just rename to play safe camera_click.ogg.backup or something (for all camera sounds).
Obviously remember to backup before fiddling in /system

SavageRobot said:
There should be mute in the settings (drag from right in camera app).
I haven't yet rooted this phone so can't be sure but there should be somewhere in "system/media/audio/ui" to find the camera .ogg files and either rename so you can easily put them back or delete. I would just rename to play safe camera_click.ogg.backup or something (for all camera sounds).
Obviously remember to backup before fiddling in /system
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Can I ask what is the font?

SavageRobot said:
There should be mute in the settings (drag from right in camera app).
I haven't yet rooted this phone so can't be sure but there should be somewhere in "system/media/audio/ui" to find the camera .ogg files and either rename so you can easily put them back or delete. I would just rename to play safe camera_click.ogg.backup or something (for all camera sounds).
Obviously remember to backup before fiddling in /system
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In the attachments is a screenshot of my settings.
I also replaced the system/media/audio/ui files by flashing a magisk module. It worked to some extent. Snapchat, whatsapp and so on won't make a sound, but the stock camera app still makes a sound.
So I am guessing that Huawei hardcoded this setting into the stock camera app if you bought it in Japan.
Maybe someone can extract their stock camera app so I can install it on my phone?

CyberCodeDroid said:
Can I ask what is the font?
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Don't think I am using any different font, I am using Text style default but theme Skyline and Oreo Emoji.
thx4nothing said:
In the attachments is a screenshot of my settings.
I also replaced the system/media/audio/ui files by flashing a magisk module. It worked to some extent. Snapchat, whatsapp and so on won't make a sound, but the stock camera app still makes a sound.
So I am guessing that Huawei hardcoded this setting into the stock camera app if you bought it in Japan.
Maybe someone can extract their stock camera app so I can install it on my phone?
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I wouldn't imagine be hardcoded into apk. If you are rooted there is no reason I can see you not being able to turn it off. I would try changing all the sounds off manually rather than through module in case is slightly different names or something, only verified working for Lineage.
Also I think you can change the camera names in build.prop
As I say I haven't rooted this so can't be sure where it is, what it's called or indeed even if there is something there.