Error after removing jQuery elevate [duplicate]

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How to remove zoom from product details page on 1.9 RWD theme (3 answers)

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I removed the jQuery elevate script from my site using this in the local.xml:

<catalog_product_view translate="label">
    <reference name="head">
        <action method="removeItem"><type>skin_js</type><name>js/lib/elevatezoom/jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js</name></action>
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

Only problem, is that there is an error in the console that says it misses this file:

app.js:649 Uncaught TypeError: image.elevateZoom is not a function

Is there any clean way to remove this error, while also removing the script?

UPDATE

I noticed, by removing the script, the image switching does not work anymore (switching between images to display them in the bigger image)

Answer 1

Well I guess you want to disable the zoom so you will have to override the skin/frontend/rwd/default/js/app.js in your custom theme and remove/comment the following line:

image.elevateZoom();

It's line 1194 in Magento 1.9.2.4