Heh.  There's nothing more annoying that the stupid "shutter" sound of a cell phone camera in just about any situation but there are lots of non-creepy situations where I'd like to discretely take a picture.  It always used to be off when my phone was on vibrate, where it spend 99% of it's life, and now even with system sounds muted it still makes the dumb noise.

you have dusty to thank for that

Nooooo....

 

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...ooooooohp!

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...but I can probably figure out a defeat for it -- just find the file with the shutter sound in it, and replace it by name with a file of equivalent silence.

You can flash different cameras if you're rooted.

Stupid Verizon makes it very difficult (from my research) to root.

 

Thankfully after a reboot the camera will now go silent if I have my phone on vibrate/mute.

I'm on Verizon Nate, wasn't really that bad at all. If you still use an S3, now might be a good time to start thinking about rooting and unlocking to allow it to keep up with the future phones.

 

Here is a toolkit that will work on all 14 major variants of the Galaxy S3. On windows, it will install drivers, root, help you unlock, install recovery, and much more. All you have to do is enable USB debugging in the developer's menu of the phone (Go to phone info and tap the build info until it says "you are now a developer" to access it). Probably a good idea to allow unknown apps to run as well.

 

www.skipsoft.net/?wpdmdl=18

 

EZ unlock will unlock the bootloader with one click once you are rooted: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32456-app-920-ez-unlock-14-easiest-way-to-unlock-your-bootloader/

 

EZ recovery will let you update your recovery easily: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mmmeff.ez&hl=en

 

Here are the latest clockworkmod recoveries: http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager

 

First thing I would do after rooting and flashing a recovery is to make a backup (preferably to sdcard1).

 

If you want to flash a ROM, I recommend paranoid android. I posted instructions in post #631 above.

 

XDA-developers has a forum for each carrier and phone that is usually very active. They have the best info if you need something. Hopefully that is all you will need.

Lollers, it's been so long since I've used my tablet, it just went through two upgrades in a row.

 

OTOH, Netflix!

Ordered a Moto X last night. Today, not so sure that was a great choice. Grrrr.

Yeah, Ric. That was a bit of a shocker. Did you go the extra $25 for one of the wood backs?

This is exactly why no one should smoke crack

google got rid of motorola faster than a social network.

Yeah, Ric. That was a bit of a shocker. Did you go the extra $25 for one of the wood backs?

We had a coupon and 'upgrading' wasn't an option. White front/cement back/orange trim picked out by GF. Have a feeling OS releases just got delayed, though I hope it will be business as usual for awhile.

The Moto X is still a great phone, Ric, and you can always root and go with Cyanagenmod or other rom you like.  With the deal, I think you did well.

I'm sure you're right and there will be options. We're an iOS household primarily, but have Android gear around and have always gone Nexus. This felt the first time we could stray and still stay in the Google family. Funny timing is all.

 

 

EDIT: Wow, they're fast.

 

 

Edited January 30, 201412 yr by blessingx

Anyone have a recommendation for a tabbed PDF viewer? How Polaris works on my S4 drives me nuts.

Download the paranoid android 4.0 alpha (Beta will be out in a few days) on xda developers (I have the Verizon S3).

Download the paranoid android gapps from goo.im (I'm on 11-26 build).

Have a rooted phone and unlocked boot loader, boot into clockworkmod or twrp recovery and flash the ROM first (install zip file from sdcard).

Clear data/factory reset and then flash the gapps.

Wipe cache and reboot system. From there you just install apps from play store and set up your accounts.

 

So, what's up with PA these days? Seems to be stalling a bit. I noticed that the OTA updates for my S3 (ATT) seem to be unavailable, presumably because the maintainer isn't doing their job. I like it a lot so far, but unsure what the future looks like. Perhaps I'm missing something? 

Do not update to stock 4.3 OTA if at all possible on Verizon at least. They have added KNOX trusted boot protection which will relock the boot loader and you will lose access to custom software like ROMs and kernels.

PA is back to being mostly AOSP for the time being and they are rewriting and optimizing everything for Kit Kat. For the S3, it's on the second revision of beta 6. Expect PIE controls could be added back in in the next release. It's very stable and smooth right now, but lean kernel is a must for decent battery life. I'm getting updates for it about once a week currently.

This look right?

Looks good. I recommend the aosp lean kernel too if possible. The vzw version by notta was updated to 4.1 beta today.

The odd thing is my maintainer seems to have broken the OTA update or its not pointing the proper place:

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Or is that just the message when no updates are available? I guess that just isn't clear.

I will look into moving to the specific kernel, good idea. Probably pretty simple to do just need to load the right package via recovery?

Edited March 5, 201412 yr by luvdunhill

No updates are available yet is all. Yep, kernel is usually simple and doesn't require factory reset. Just flash, clear cache, and reboot.

Not seeing any recent leanKernel for d2att. Any pointers?

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I think I found it:

http://androtransfer.com/?developer=imoseyon&folder=d2

Should work?

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