How To Disable Samsung Galaxy S3 Camera Sound / Turn Off Shutter Sound

How to disable Samsung Galaxy S3 camera sound?. Yes, I want to turn off Samsung Galaxy S3 focus and shutter sounds. Don’t want other to know that I am taking photo. Unlike Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S3 camera sounds are not controlled by System Sound anymore. So you can’t control the volume but you still can disable it. Samsung Galaxy S3 camera does not have sound control built in. And can’t control by ringtone, notifications and system volume controls. But definetly there are some ways to turn off this annoying camera sound / shutter sound on Samsung Galaxy S3.

Samsung have launched Galaxy S3 with different version & slightly different Configuration on most of Countries. Like US version have different configuration than that of European Version. So any individual method of disabling camera sound will not work on all this version. If the process 1 work for US version Galaxy S3 then it might not work on European Version. Thats Why I thought to provide all the different ways of turning this camera sound Off, all you have to do is try out all the process & definetly any one of them will work for you.

Process 1 : Natural Way

Turn sound mode into vibrate or mute mode. Not a good idea but at least you can turn off Samsung Galaxy S3 camera sound without changing Samsung Galaxy S3 camera application which requires root access.

Process 2 : Using Third Party Apps

Perhaps the easiest and most efficient solution to this problem is to not use the stock camera app. Instead, download a third-party application. No rooting or hacking required. The mobile carrier can only control the manufacturers native apps, as Sprint noted in its statement above.

You can use Silent Camera App , which is really a good one.

Download : Playstore Link

But, as many of the reviews state, none of these alternative camera apps can replicate the quality of the native Android camera app, which leads us to the next method

Process 3 : Hide Camera Sound Files (Root)

In this process we will rename the Sound file of Galaxy S3 so that system cannot identify it & if system can’t identify the sound file then there will be no sound while taking pictures or recording videos.

This Process Need Rooted Device (Root Galaxy S3)

1) Download Root Explorer.apk on your Rooted Galaxy S3 & install it.

2) Open Root Explorer, navigate to /system/media/audio/ui Folder.

3) Then Mount R/W. (Check Bellow Pic)

4) Now find the Sound File it should be named like shutter.ogg or Shutter_01.ogg.

5) After you found it, long press on that sound file a popup will appear on your screen >> choose rename > & rename the file to shutter.ogg.bak.(Check the bellow pic)

[ Note : If you want to return it back to its original state, simply reverse the name change. ]