Find out how you can silence the default shutter sound on the Samsung Galaxy S II
The Samsung Galaxy S II camera will always make a shutter noise when the camera takes a photo, but you can remove it with a little tweakery.
You’ll need to have rooted your phone first. Then, using a file manager such as ES File Explorer navigate to the root of the device and then into the ‘data’ directory.
Create a file called “local.prop” if it doesn’t exist. Open the file ‘/data/local.prop’ then add the following line to the file:
“ro.camera.sound.forced=0”
Reboot and all sound in the camera app is completely silent. If you ever want to recover the sound, you can either delete the local.prop file or change the code to:
“ro.camera.sound.forced=1”
Cool, thanks for that!
Great tip.. Obvious less that noble intentions aside, not being able to silence the camera shutter is a huge hassle in a library. Having the hardware to be able to capture an excellent quality shot of whatever research material you’re looking at, but being limited to 1 or 2 shots because of the forced sound is pretty frustrating..
And it’s worth adding that this little tweak links shutter and focus sounds to system volume. With volume set to silent you get no focus or shutter sounds, with volume up you do.
A neat little hack and easily reversible.
It is no longer an issue as samsung have now included this fix in their most recent update meaning you don’t have to root if you don’t want to.
mine still clicks noisy, I’m told there is no update available. 12th Sept.
Does not work on my S2. Still shutter sound.
total crap,
there should be an on and off for this function, I shouldn’t have to root my phone to bypass another countries crap laws.
Put your phone in to silent mode and then use your camera.
My problem is just the opposite.
I don’t hear any shutter sound, but it can be useful when you use your phone-camera with the timer.
Any idea why the sound is silent?
Go to setting > sound > volume > decrease system volume…..hope this will helps.
I have samsung galaxy s2, and it is stuck on LOUD, there is only one volume for the camera flash and it is just LOUD, i am not very technical, so i would rather not go through the root procedure, there has been an update someone mentioned, how do i get that update so that the camera shutter sound is controlled by the volume buttons?
please if possible provide all the step-by-step procedure to get the update and help me fix it please.
many thanks.
People are annoying who haven’t actually tried their own advice. If the camera could be silenced via menus than this thread wouldn’t be here. Shutter sound is probably the one thing that would motivate me to root my phone. I appreciate that advice.
All that root stuff and “create a file called ‘local pro’” is all greek to me. Please!! HOW in the heck do I create a file on my phone? I would like to silence my camera forever! I hate that sound! It’s not needed. Please help!