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Removing Tracfone Boot Logo Startup & Shutdown

viiron

viiron

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Once your phone is rooted, do the following to remove the ugly Tracfone boot and shutdown animations (fairly simple)

In /system/media append .old (rename) to the following files:

Startup
bootsamsung.qmg
bootsamsungloop.qmg

Shutdown / Power Off

In /system/media/video/shutdown append .old (rename) shutdown.qmg

Should also mention that placing bootanimation.zip(s) in this folder does nothing. Also...when you first boot the phone the Samsung logo still appears, then goes straight to the main lock screen.

And there you have it. No more unsightly Tracfone logos. :)
 
Hi there,

I tried this on my Centura, and after renaming the file it said, "could not write file." I did try renaming it using Astro, and the ES File Explorer. ES doesn't give me an error when trying to rename, but it doesn't rename it either. I rename it, click ok and nothing happens. Maybe that had something to do with it, as I could not find the system folder hooked up to the USB. I am rooted using the poot method, and verified using root check. I've restarted the phone, but no avail. Anything you could add? Thanks!
 
viiron said:
Once your phone is rooted, do the following to remove the ugly Tracfone boot and shutdown animations (fairly simple)

In /system/media append .old (rename) to the following files:

Startup
bootsamsung.qmg
bootsamsungloop.qmg

Shutdown / Power Off

In /system/media/video/shutdown append .old (rename) shutdown.qmg

Should also mention that placing bootanimation.zip(s) in this folder does nothing. Also...when you first boot the phone the Samsung logo still appears, then goes straight to the main lock screen.

And there you have it. No more unsightly Tracfone logos. :)
Click to expand...

This worked for me w/o a hitch but it seems to have increased my shutting down and powering up times?

Thanks!
 
Aside from perception of time (since there's nothing to watch), removing the tracfone boot/shutdown animations has 0 effect on the time it takes for either to complete.
 
Worked fine on my st phone. Had to use super manager to rename files. Went into audio too and got rid of startup sound too.
 
I have a Centura and this is what I did (you need to be rooted to do this):

Using X-plore (with "Superuser + mount writable" permission set in the configuration), I navigated to /system/media/audio/ui and found two culprits: PowerOn.ogg and PowerOff.ogg.

I changed the file extensions from ".ogg" to ".off". It was as easy as that.
 
am unable to find above files.pls help
i accessed through es file explorer.
system-->media--->i could see following files
bootanimation_ck.z,bootanimation_gk.z,bootanimation_gk.zi,bootanimation_sky
,bootanimation_sp4,bootanimation.zip,shutanimation_ck.z,shutanimation_gk.z,
shutanimation_gt.zi,shutanimation_sky,shutanimatio_sp4,shutanimation.zip

please help which of above files should i rename in order to change android logo to samsung logo during shutting and starting of device.

thanks in advance
 
In my previous post, I got rid of the startup and shutdown sounds.

To get rid of the blue Tracfone logos, I went to /system/media and renamed these two:

bootsamsung.qmg to bootsamsung.qmg.old

and

bootsamsungloop.qmg to bootsamsung.qmg.old
 
viiron said:
Once your phone is rooted, do the following to remove the ugly Tracfone boot and shutdown animations (fairly simple)

In /system/media append .old (rename) to the following files:

Startup
bootsamsung.qmg
bootsamsungloop.qmg

Shutdown / Power Off

In /system/media/video/shutdown append .old (rename) shutdown.qmg

Should also mention that placing bootanimation.zip(s) in this folder does nothing. Also...when you first boot the phone the Samsung logo still appears, then goes straight to the main lock screen.

And there you have it. No more unsightly Tracfone logos. :)
Click to expand...

What do you use to edit and how to get
 
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