Where is the camera sound file location?
 

Has anyone been able to find where the camera sound file is located. I would like to exchange it with one of the nice email notifier clicks, as the camera sound it just not pleasant... although I would like some sound to validate when a picture is taken. Perhaps I will make my own sound file... will share. Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Thor

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

/usr/share/sounds/camera_snd_title_1.wav

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

Woot! Thanks very much, qwerty12. Now to copy/edit/move the files.

Thor

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

Interesting, I remember reading about a law in the US that requires cell phone cameras to make an audible noise. I wonder what would prevent someone from deleting this file or replacing it with a "silent" wav file and circumventing this restriction?

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Something tells me nothing is going to keep people from doing that. Is it really a law though? I didn't think it was really that formal but I guess every device I've used in the past 2 years or so have a camera noise. I personally find it annoying. Not so much from a wanting to be a pervert standpoint but say at a recital/concert or quiet event where you want to take a picture the sound is extremely obnoxious. It's these events where I prefer a quiet no noise phone camera over my SLR which sounds like a machine gun is going off.

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Really? when the phone is in silent profile it doesn't make the shutter sound... so much for that law.

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lol, exactly! i was pleased that mine didn't make any noises in silent mode... so if i want to take pictures I just put it on silent because the camera sound annoys me

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Are you sure it's the US? If so it might be a state specific law and not Federal. If so the law is pointless since states can't really enforce companies to do so if the companies aren't located in the state. They could try to block sales of devices that don't follow the law but then people would just cross the state border, buy it. And bring it back, just like how people get around the banning of violent games.

Though I do think that law exists in Japan.

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

Yeah might be Japan because of all the upskirt pervs.

As usual a law passed as knee jerk reaction to an issue.

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There was a bill that was introduced at the beginning of the year in the U.S. House. But to my knowledge it didn't any traction. I don't think it even got any cosponsors.

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

Also see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5618

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Just as a point of reference, with my N95 and the U.S. firmware, I could not silence the shutter sound. With the Euro firmware (after changing the product code and reflashing) I *could* silence the shutter noise.

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

The same goes for my wife's N86 NAM. I can't shut up the shutter. In silent mode or not it'll make the click.

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

OK, I created a wave file PCM 24 bit 16k mono (but I did it on my PC with an open mic).... turned out to be noisy but I replaced the files /usr/share/sounds/camera_snd_title_x.wav (x being a 1,2 & 3) with my file - named the same - and those were the files that played.... alas, at full volume. I am going to make some nice quiet sound files that are clean and crisp, perhaps in different volumes, and post them for use... but don't know when I will get to it, though. Sorry for the giant run-on sentence here... Oh, and you must be root to do this. :)

Thor

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

Would you please show me step by step ..! how do get into all that ? Thank

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I'd love to replace it with Phil from Pantera screaming SMILE!!! Heck even better....Perhaps Devin Townsend.
Kinda be funny....

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Yup, voted. Don't see why I shouldn't be trusted just because some country somewhere things all it's mobile phone users are perverts.

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

excellent information guys. I dont mind having my camera make noise when i take pics I just want it to be a little less loud. Edited the sound files using audacity, saved the original files (never know but i might need them), and then replaced originals with my modified version. Camera works like a charm and the sound is much less annoying now :)

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

Well that and it's not like you could hide the N900 anyway.

But anyway, now anyone want to do custom camera sounds in addition to custom ringtones?

Re: Where is the camera sound file location?
 

FWIW I just renamed the _1 sound file, and it's nice and quiet now.