Probably depends on the camera board, but mechanically disabling the LED is either going to mysteriously disable the entire device, or be undetected, or the des

Probably depends on the camera board, but mechanically disabling the LED is either going to mysteriously disable the entire device, or be undetected, or the designer specifically accounted for that and something else happens. As long as you’ve got your iron hot, you could replace the LED with a D(iode): https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/111219/remove-an-led-from-a-circuit https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/111219/remov...