Nokia N73 - taking silent pictures? — Nokia N71, Nokia N73 and Nokia N75

ranis 08 Jan 2008, 04:26

Hello,
I got a Nokia n73 and I plan to shoot many pictures with it. My question is can I somehow turn off the annoying capture sound that you hear when you take a picture? How stupid of Nokia not to make a sound off option. Smetimes I just don't want everybody to know that I make a picture!!!!!!!!
Is there a firmware update solution or anything?
Thanks.

msl79 08 Jan 2008, 08:27

The camera sound and the red led light for the video recording are both privacy protection devices, designed to notify others that they may be filmed/videoed. Given that this is in many places e.g. Japan, a legal requirement I don't think there'll be an offical rom update to allow the user to disable these.

There are of course various hacks to disable this, though I have not seen one here in this forum yet. There is one on the web to disable the video led light which involved opening the phone up and disabling a PCB track leading to the led light.....

ranis 08 Jan 2008, 09:12

what about a software workaround?

there's this program cCam v1.02 S60v3

http://www.symbiangalaxy.org/f8/%5B02-nov-07%5D-ccam-v1-02-a-27326.html

but i don't know if it works and if it's safe. has anyone tried it or anything else?

Googlewak 08 Jan 2008, 23:44

If you go tools - profiles (highlight the profile your using)- options - personalise - warning tones and turn them off. That turns off the focusing beep and the shutter sound.

ranis 09 Jan 2008, 05:24

it was one of the first things i tried. it doesn't work in n73. warning sounds are off (all other sounds are off too) but shutter click is still on... i have the US edition.

Nobus 09 Jan 2008, 14:07

I just tried disabling the warning tones under my general profile and the camera sounds went away. I have the South African Vodafone firmware, v3.xx (yes i still need to upgrade to v4...).

I usually just quickly put the phone in silent mode if I'm going to take a lot of pictures. (btw holding # key is shortcut for silent mode).

Googlewak 09 Jan 2008, 16:16

I've got a euro edition n73 on v4 firmware

ranis 14 Jan 2008, 06:16

ok I have the US edition and my firmware version is v 4.0726.2.1.1

can you recommend a different version that will not change my basic features but will take care of shutter sound?

madman91 27 Feb 2008, 01:09

I've had two n73's.

one asian with european firmware (no noise)

one american with american firmware (beep)

I guess if you really want a silent camera, change your product code and firmware. I would do it but i've already set up my applications.

fockewul 27 Feb 2008, 22:45

I have a N73 European edition and I confirm that the beep and shutter noise can be turned off.

Ali_Raja 02 Aug 2008, 12:23

Hi,
I have the Nokia N72 Cell phone, I also have the same problem, i want to silent the alert of the picture capturing. i searched much but not found any thing in my mobile, i request all to please help me and post solution for me.
Thanks