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Help Changing the boot Splash Screen of the phone ?

kipsai

kipsai

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Hello everybody,


I'm new on this website so I don't really know if this belong here (correct me if i'm wrong) but here's my problem.

I recently bought a refurbished Huawei Mate 10 Pro.
When it boots, it have a splash screen of the original phone carrier who first sold the phone: Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM).
It displays the name of the carrier on a bright blue screen and makes an "opening" noise. It's annoying as hell and I'm wondering how I could remove that.

I don't necessarily want to put my own boot screen, but I sure want to remove that one. I turn off my phone everyday and I feel like seeing this will be even more boring with the time.

Can somebody who knows how to remove/change the boot splash screen of this smartphone help me to do so please ?

Note 1 : If you feel like you can help me, of course i'll appreciate that, but please don't come with those "how can a boot screen annoy you" or "this is stupid, you don't need to change that" answers. I've seen that while searching for an answer and this is not what i want.

Note 2 : English is not my main language, so sorry for the mistakes.


Thank you anyway. ;)
 
mikedt said:
To change or remove a Mate 10 Pro boot splash screen, you'll definitely need to root and hack it for a start.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/how-to/how-to-huawei-mate-10-pro-standard-t3709535

Good luck.
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Thank you for the link, it's very useful.

Dannydet said:
If rooting is too complicated just leave it as is.
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It doesn't look that complicated although i've never done it. I just don't want to "break" anything while rooting and removing the boot screen.

Dumb question though : can i unlock the bootloader, root the phone, then change/ remove the boot splash screen and finally "unroot" the phone to put it back to normal state.

I have no use of a rooted phone outside of that and i don't want to risk damaging it on the long term if i keep it rooted.

Thank you.
 
Rooting will void your warranty and you'll not be able to upgrade the OS, unless there's a rom for your device out there...
Also a lot of banking and work apps will not function on a rooted device.
Just sayin...
 
Dannydet said:
Rooting will void your warranty and you'll not be able to upgrade the OS, unless there's a rom for your device out there...
Also a lot of banking and work apps will not function on a rooted device.
Just sayin...
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Yeah i've seen that. o_O
That's why i was wondering if i could unroot the device, but after spending the last hour looking about that, i've seen that it's way easier than rooting it so it should be ok.

I'll give all of this a try.:)
 
What do you mean by the image of the OS ? Are you refering to the boot splash screen ?
Because if so, it's not really a problem for me.

What i have in mind : unlocking the bootloader and rooting. Then changing the bootanimation and making sure it works well. Finally, locking back the bootloader with adb and unrooting the device.

Outside of the bootanimation, will there be something left indicating the device has been rooted that the apps are refering to when deciding not to open on rooted device ?
 
Yep. When you change anything, including the boot animation or boot image, you have now altered the OS image. Doesn't matter what the unlocked to locked bootloader does. You've altered the stock rom and everything will check that moving forward
 
It really depends on how the carrier integrated the image and the audio file. The last phone I did something like this to was my Nexus 6 which came from AT&T. AT&T made it easy to change, though. All you have to do was delete a specific partition and the files no longer existed. There was no need to root and it remained stock.

Your carrier may have indeed integrated the boot image in the ROM or bootloader which will change the OS signature. This most likely would break updates as @Dannydet pointed out.
 
Wow, ok. That is more problematic that what i thought. :thinking:
Out of curiosity, can you point me to informations about this please :
lunatic59 said:
All you have to do was delete a specific partition and the files no longer existed. There was no need to root and it remained stock.
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That was 5 years ago and I can almost guarantee that your device doesn't do it the same way. Sorry. :(

Everything I was able to find about debranding a Mate 10 Pro was speaking specifically to remove the carrier bloat and not the splash screen. All methods seem to be complicated and required root.
 
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