How to remove the bootup sound

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Some people fine the startup sound completely annoying and the fact that it's tied to "media volume" means just putting the phone in silent mode doesn't fix it.

To turn it off semi-permanently:

First root your phone (you don't have to perform the Recovery Image portion of the guide, you just need to get to the root shell (#))
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581577

Once you are at the root shell, perform the following commands:

# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# mv /system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3 /system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3.old

If you ever want to revert, just swap the filename of the last command above:

# mv /system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3.old /system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3

This works on the stock ROM once rooted.

Fantastic. Thanks.

can i do the same with the Sprint.gif with out editing the XML?

Originally Posted by Negrito

can i do the same with the Sprint.gif with out editing the XML?

I don't see why not...I think some people have! Just mv the old one to another name (in case you want it back later) and put a different one there (it may have to conform to certain lengths/size so you might have to play around with it).

Or if you just wanted to remove it, you can...people have and just have a blank screen during bootup (it doesn't speed anything up, just removes the animation during it)

Originally Posted by thecodemonk

I don't see why not...I think some people have! Just mv the old one to another name (in case you want it back later) and put a different one there (it may have to conform to certain lengths/size so you might have to play around with it).

Or if you just wanted to remove it, you can...people have and just have a blank screen during bootup (it doesn't speed anything up, just removes the animation during it)

Oh i was hoping for a speed boost, but not seeing that horribly pixelated animation would be a good start. thanks for the info.

Why does everyone seem to think that the boot splash screen is slowing down the bootup? It isn't, that screen is something for you to look at while the background processes are initializing, this is true for most applications such as Windows and almost all games.

The sound is annoying yes, I will be nuking it.

/edit, worked great, thanks.