Though I'm posting for the first time, I'm a constant visitor of this forum.
I have been using the N900 since the past four months and whenever I feel that I'm getting bored of maemo and android looks greener, its the community and the great dedicated developers who keep it intresting with the sudden release of a new app or a new feature update for an existing. Hence, I'm really enjoying in the maemo world. Thanks to you guys!

Recently a new rule came up in my college that camera phones are no more allowed in the campus. N I cant live without my n900 even for a moment. Moreover, as I use my N900 a my primary phone, its difficult for me to keep swapping my SIM between ultra low-end phone & n900 everyday..

So, if possible could someone make a script to disable both cameras on the device??
Note: The camera shouldnt re enable itself upon device reboot. It should be more like a permanent solution until I myself enable the camera though the command line or something of that sort.

Any help?? thanks in advance.

try renaming
as root. it worked at least for me.

That didnt work for me, I renamed the camera-ui file to camera-ux using filebox in root mode, but the camera app, still opens on opening the lens cover.
Could some script be made so that a message would be displayed on opening the lens cover, that the cameras on the device have been disabled. In that way, I can convince them to let me take my phone to college.

don't know about those fileboxes etc, I use purely command line and renamed the file as camera-ui.backup

so if someone can confirm that renaming the file works, I could see if I have time to write a simple script to do it.

I think this thread covers something similar to what you are looking for. Apply it to the camera. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...+accelerometer

question is, will they beleive theyre disabled once youve done it...............

i renamed the file as told....but now my phone is going through a reboot loop...after te nokia hands...I dont have access to a computer at the moment...pls help!

that seems to be mission impossible. I bet you need flasher in order to get your device back up.

Will I only have to reflash the firmware? Do i have to flash the emmc too? Hav lots of my data in the emmc.

only .firmware.

Btw, don'just rename the file camera-ui, because there is
a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.post which autostart
the camera-ui on boot. This causes the reboot loop.