Droid X Camera... Can you mute the clicking sound when you take pictures?

[AutoXRacer]

Is there a way to mute the camera clicking sound when you take a picture...? Its pretty loud when you are in a quite place...

I'd like to take pictures without everyone knowing. And it still clicks when the ringer is on vibrate!!!

Thanks!!

[Wildman]

The alert made by carea is tied into the alarm volume, so the only way for you to disable is to turn the alarm volume all the way down (If you do not use alarm this shouldnt be a issue).  Goto Setting > Sound > Volume > Uncheck "Use Incoming Call Volume for Notification and then turn Alarm all the way down..

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If you do not want to have this turned down all the time, a work around counld be done with cVolume, with it you can place quick audio profile links on phone home screens and trigger it before using camera and then click another quick profile to switch all audios back to normal....

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[Wildman]

Found a nice app to silence camera sound today that works perfectly, check out SilentSnap Free, it does what you want..

[Cody21]

There are other Camera APPS out there you could try as well that have this option (to Silence).  I have Vignette ..  very nice app and it comes with that ability. You can try the FREE version to see if it suits your needs. I paid the cheap .99 for the full version as it has a LOT of configurable options.

good luck

[Wildman]

Cody I tried Vignette and Camera 360 since I updated to 2.2 and I noticed to stock app improved so much that the Vignette or Camera360 app wasn't as good, I hated to put a quality app like these away especially since I paid for the full version when I was 2.1 and the app was superior then but after 2.2 upgrade I just couldn't go back to the 3rd party apps.

Do you like the quality over stock?

[Wildman]

NOTE:

I notice one thing about using SilentShot, when using the stock camera icon to start camera sometimes confuses the volume option and sound does not restore when camera is closed on its own but if you use the SilentShot icon I noticed that the volume mutes before camera opens and then reactivates when camera is closed.  So the best thing to do is use the SilentShot icon only to avoid confusion with notification alerts.

[Cody21]

Wildman wrote:  "Cody I tried Vignette and Camera 360 since I updated to 2.2 and I noticed to stock app improved so much that the Vignette or Camera360 app wasn't as good, I hated to put a quality app like these away especially since I paid for the full version when I was 2.1 and the app was superior then but after 2.2 upgrade I just couldn't go back to the 3rd party apps.

Do you like the quality over stock?"

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I think the quality is just as good as the Stock App (Camera) ...  but Vignette has so many additional configurable options that I just prefer it over the stock App.  When you say it wasn't "as good", do you mean the resultant pictures??

[Wildman]

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Cody21 wrote:

Wildman wrote:  "Cody I tried Vignette and Camera 360 since I updated to 2.2 and I noticed to stock app improved so much that the Vignette or Camera360 app wasn't as good, I hated to put a quality app like these away especially since I paid for the full version when I was 2.1 and the app was superior then but after 2.2 upgrade I just couldn't go back to the 3rd party apps.

Do you like the quality over stock?"

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I think the quality is just as good as the Stock App (Camera) ...  but Vignette has so many additional configurable options that I just prefer it over the stock App.  When you say it wasn't "as good", do you mean the resultant pictures??

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Thats correct, since 2.2 update the quality of the 3rd party apps appear to be poor compared to the stock app in my opinion, and as for features in app, I never use any settings but the iso settings so the other options hasn't interest me.  But that has just been my experience.,

[deborahgfan71]

When I want to take pictures without the clicking noise i just turned down the sound. My camera works really well after the latest update. 

[h2o]

Wait for the new update, then the shutter sound will be the least of your problems.

[AutoXRacer]

What update!!???

[Wildman]

h2o why you trying to start trouble? If you are talking about Gengerbread I dont plan to mess with it because 2.2.1 fixed all my miner issues and I have nothing to encourage me to step into a new unverified OS again.

[h2o]

Im running 2.2.1. Just got update a few days ago. My dx was rock solid until 3 days ago when I got the forced update. Nothing I've done and I have 3 dx and they all got the update within a 3 hr window and now they all have the exact same issues. We all run different apps, launcher, etc so its not a user issue.

[Wildman]

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h2o wrote:
Im running 2.2.1. Just got update a few days ago. My dx was rock solid until 3 days ago when I got the forced update. Nothing I've done and I have 3 dx and they all got the update within a 3 hr window and now they all have the exact same issues. We all run different apps, launcher, etc so its not a user issue.

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I bet your issue is the same that I  have noticed with others, the phone OS was updated to 2.2.1 with untested software already installed and also the setting file was carried over to the new OS, when doing a OS upgrade it may be wise to hard reset so no apps can get corrupted during update process because the update process requires overiding files that apps may be using that usually causes issues.

Try a hard reset and you should be ok, since the update my device has been running like butter... But I always wipe before a OS upgrade and this seem to help me minimize my headaches.