[edthebum]

Love my new Z10, but can someone PLEASE tell me how to turn off the annoying camera sounds!

Thanks Ed

[Commers]

Look at the Silent Foto app in BlackBerry World. Bizarre that an option isn't native to the OS, perhaps in a later update..

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[Bluenoser63]

Love my new Z10, but can someone PLEASE tell me how to turn off the annoying camera sounds!

Thanks Ed

Get used to it. Most countries either have laws on the books or will have that make it mandatory to have sounds for taking photos with a cell phone.

Canada has it on the books and it will be on the books in the US.

H.R. 414, better known as the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act. Here's the text of the proposed legislation:

SEC. 3. AUDIBLE SOUND STANDARD.

(a) Requirement- Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, any mobile phone containing a digital camera that is manufactured for sale in the United States shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone. A mobile phone manufactured after such date shall not be equipped with a means of disabling or silencing such tone or sound.

(b) Enforcement by Consumer Product Safety Commission- The requirement in subsection (a) shall be treated as a consumer product safety standard promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission under section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056). A violation of subsection (a) shall be enforced by the Commission under section 19 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2068).

[just_luc]

Get used to it. Most countries either have laws on the books or will have that make it mandatory to have sounds for taking photos with a cell phone.

Canada has it on the books and it will be on the books in the US.

H.R. 414, better known as the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act. Here's the text of the proposed legislation:

SEC. 3. AUDIBLE SOUND STANDARD.

(a) Requirement- Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, any mobile phone containing a digital camera that is manufactured for sale in the United States shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone. A mobile phone manufactured after such date shall not be equipped with a means of disabling or silencing such tone or sound.

(b) Enforcement by Consumer Product Safety Commission- The requirement in subsection (a) shall be treated as a consumer product safety standard promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission under section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056). A violation of subsection (a) shall be enforced by the Commission under section 19 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2068).

+1 and for good reason.. if you need to take a picture in silence you are probably doing something you shouldn't be doing. I for one and happy it's illegal to do so.

[ctuffy]

+1 and for good reason.. if you need to take a picture in silence you are probably doing something you shouldn't be doing. I for one and happy it's illegal to do so.

Not necessarily. I like taking pictures of sleeping puppies and babies. Just sayin'.

[canderson85]

This has always been the case with moat phones.

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[Tony Ak]

This has always been the case with BlackBerry's. It's for privacy reasons. You can't even silence the sound when taking a screen shot

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[just_luc]

Not necessarily. I like taking pictures of sleeping puppies and babies. Just sayin'.

I did say probably.. . of course there is always exceptions.. but for the greater good, I'll risk waking a puppy or baby so that the guy in the stall next to me in the mall bathroom can't snap a picture over the stall without me knowing.

[jamieqq]

If you want a temporary solution you can try plugging some headphones in.

I know some phones will play the camera sound through the headphones if they are plugged in.

[edthebum]

"The greater good"?!?! Come on buddy, if you're a perv you can buy a 1000 different camera's online that will do the trick.

[just_luc]

"The greater good"?!?! Come on buddy, if you're a perv you can buy a 1000 different camera's online that will do the trick.

You are entitled to your opinion, and I am to mine.. luckily for me I have the law on my side.

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[ScwB]

This has always been the case with BlackBerry's. It's for privacy reasons. You can't even silence the sound when taking a screen shot

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I can see why there's a sound for the regular camera, but is a sound really needed for a screenshot? That one bugs me a bit because it's so loud compared to other sounds. I can get over it, but it would be nice to disable that sound at least.

[droggy66]

I love when people take a snapshot of me on the toilet! LOL!

[QuIcKsIlV3r]

And before anyone says "But my iphone/samsung phone allows me to silence the shutter".... This is US and Canadian Law and BlackBerry is abiding the law!! If you don't like it, move on to another manufacture!!

H.R.414: Camera Phone Predator Alert Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

And here is another thread already, if you had taken the time to search!! Silence Camera Shutter?

[sf49ers]

And before anyone says "But my iphone/samsung phone allows me to silence the shutter".... This is US and Canadian Law and BlackBerry is abiding the law!! If you don't like it, move on to another manufacture!!

H.R.414: Camera Phone Predator Alert Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

And here is another thread already, if you had taken the time to search!! Silence Camera Shutter?

depending on your region and carrier, you may not be able to turn off the shutter sound on your Samsung Galaxy S3.

For example, if you're in Korea and certain locales in Europe, your smartphone's shutter sound cannot be muted—it's the law. If you have a carrier like Sprint in the U.S., the camera sound will also remain on at all times. However, if you have AT&T, they do allow you to turn off the camera sound.

This is a statement straight form Sprint:

"Sprint has had a policy in place for the last couple of years...that requires...that the shutter sound in the camera cannot be muted by the end user. This policy is in place for privacy reasons so that using the native camera creates a sound that would be noticeable to any subjects of a photograph, willing or unwilling. This policy is another example of Sprint's ongoing commitment to privacy when it comes to mobile device usage. This specification does not have any bearing on 3rd party camera applications that a user may download and use outside of the native device camera."

[silverfloor]

Why must it be perverse to want such an option. In most circumstances you can't hear the camera noise because of white noise or just outside noises. The law is the law however. There is no such thing as a stupid question.

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[kill_9]

+1 and for good reason.. if you need to take a picture in silence you are probably doing something you shouldn't be doing. I for one and happy it's illegal to do so.

What if you are taking photographs of unlawful acts by law enforcement? Do you want them hearing the click-click-click? Oh you have nothing to fear from law enforcement? will show you otherwise.

[KidCaboose]

Why must it be perverse to want such an option. In most circumstances you can't hear the camera noise because of white noise or just outside noises. The law is the law however. There is no such thing as a stupid question.

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It's not inherently perverse to want the option. But as stated, it's for the greater good. There are plenty of things that are illegal that aren't necessarily perverse or dangerous by nature. As to the screenshot sound, it's probably been pointed out a hundred times that you can take a screenshot of your camera window. Gotta give it to the pervs, they're sure tenacious!

[Xopher]

Not that I would use my phone as a primary camera while working, but when I photograph weddings, the quieter the better. My pro cameras have shutters that can be quite loud in small churches. Having the ability to disable the shutter sound in a situation like that can help keep distractions to a minimum. It's bad enough to have to deal with people holding up their iPads and blocking people's views.

[KidCaboose]

What if you are taking photographs of unlawful acts by law enforcement? Do you want them hearing the click-click-click? Oh you have nothing to fear from law enforcement? will show you otherwise.

I think the phone cam should make a whirring sound like one of those reel projectors. I wanna know when I'm being filmed. And the police, knowing they're being filmed or snapped, may control themselves a bit more mindfully, and not beat someone down, or fire that shot, or bear mace an innocent bubble blowing protester.

[Emu the Foo]

Yeah I was gonna post that info about it being illegal but obviously I got beat to the punch

[Jaybles]

I think the phone cam should make a whirring sound like one of those reel projectors. I wanna know when I'm being filmed. And the police, knowing they're being filmed or snapped, may control themselves a bit more mindfully, and not beat someone down, or fire that shot, or bear mace an innocent bubble blowing protester.

Really?

So every video you would take would have the whirring noise in the background. That would be great.
And you say it would be good because if police know they are being filmed they won't beat someone down, funniest thing i have heard today..... I hope you are being sarcastic. If we have to audibly film police to make them behave then its a sad state of affairs.

There are lots of reasons I would like to turn off the camera shutter noise. Mainly because I hate my phone making any noise at all. I understand the reasons and its not a massive deal. Just a bit of a shame.

[slashstarfish]

The clicking sound has to be saved somewhere on the device. Maybe that file can be deleted? That would be possible on other platforms, but BB10 is probably too locked down to do that, at least until somebody discovers a way to access operating system files. Or has this been done already?

[KidCaboose]

Really?

So every video you would take would have the whirring noise in the background. That would be great.
And you say it would be good because if police know they are being filmed they won't beat someone down, funniest thing i have heard today..... I hope you are being sarcastic. If we have to audibly film police to make them behave then its a sad state of affairs.

Really? Yes, I was being sarcastic, about the whirring camera sound.

No, I wasn't being sarcastic about the police thing. Police brutality isn't a sad state of affaires, I think, it's just a normal state. Whether it be in Derry, Montreal North, LA or London. Police officers are human, and they are subject to all the normal stresses and anxieties the rest of us go through... taxes, divorce, dropping their Z10, death in the family, mortgage, sickness and renovations. Compound the human condition with the types of people that often want to become police officers (not the Ghandi archetype), the mentalities that will be trained into them through their education and training, and the confusing dichotomy of roles asking them to be both enforcers and role models to the children... et voila!

I work with police on almost a daily basis. These people are not paladins or paragons, despite what we expect of them, because they weren't trained or recruited to be, and it is not the role demanded of them from on high. They're hated until needed, and that has an effect on them. Talk to one at length, and you'll get a sense of the injustice they feel. Those camera sounds clicking away can provide that extra split second needed for them to defuse immediate reaction into a simple over-aggressive suggestion.

Now, wanna hear the funniest thing I've heard all day? My friend's kid just pooped and puked simultaneously.

[Jaybles]

Not going to get into a psychological discussion about police mentality.

I just don't see how a camera click is going to have any impact on the way they carry out their job. If anything it might aggravate them.
The main benefit of the camera click is to stop people taking pictures of sensitive data in businesses.