[Root only] Triumph Boot Sounds - Solution and Help

[jntdroid]

If you can't seem to get the boot sounds to disappear on the Triumph, I might have come across something that's a partial solution...

I haven't solved the "why", I'm not a coder or xml (I think?) guy. But I have figured out what's controlling that and causing them to play. If you look in /system/bin, there is a "bootanimation" file. I opened it up in a text editor, and most of it is garbled (need a hex editor?), but I found this text near the end of it (sorry it's not organized, simply copying from notepad):

debug.sf.nobootanimation 0 %0 80 persist.sys.playBootSnd 1 BootAnimation Get property persist.sys.playBootSnd as %s. /hidden/data/Power-on sound/ Open DIR %s OK. Find file %s. .. %s%s Open file %s OK. Open file %s failed. Open DIR %s failed. Set boot sound %s. /system/media/audio/notifications/DearDeer.ogg Get boot animation from path /data/local/bootanimation.zip Get boot animation from path /system/media/bootanimation.zip Get boot animation from path /hidden/data/Power-on animation/bootanimation.zip Get boot animation from path /hidden/data/PowerOnAnimation/bootanimation.zip Use default Android boot animation. desc.txt descMap is null %d %d %d p %d %d %s images/android-logo-mask.png images/android-logo-shine.png

There is also a reference to /system/bin/linker near the top of that file, but I could find nothing inside the "linker" file.

What's odd is there are a couple of directory references that just flat out don't exist - as well as a couple of image file references. Unless they're somehow hidden...

Long story short, if you remove the bootanimation file from /system/bin (move to sd or rename, I wouldn't delete it), all sounds and bootanimations are gone - you get a blank screen for a few seconds between the "M" Logo and the main lockscreen.

I have seen no ill effects from removing that file - which makes sense.

Now, that's not an ultimate solution. When that file is removed, there seems to be no way to get any sort of boot animation between the M and lockscreen. I kind of like at least having the simple Android logo - but for now, I prefer blank with no sound.

I would imagine some tweaks to that file could fix the problem ultimately, and hopefully someone smarter than me can come along and figure that out!

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[settel]

just go to hidden/data/ and hidden/data/CDA/content and you will see your sounds and everything in there =]

- just replace them with a silent mp3 file =]

[maclaren]

So I tried the same thing and successfuly changed my tone. I also noticed 2 file locations with the same file

1. Hidden/data/cda/content/startup sound...

2. Hidden/data/power on sound...

both had the same mp3 file. I also tried (and this is where I show my noobness) the same method with the boot animation. Same file paths. I had success with the audio and the first 2 image changes doing a simple cut and paste replacement of the file

Then I tried a third .zip file and it worked but I didn't like it as much and when I tried to switch back to my second one, the file stayed in the location but on reboot the 3rd file still played. So I deleted the 3rd file and now all that shows up is the m and then the slide lock homescreen. I even tried to put the original VM animation back and still nothing and it killed the sound too.

So what to do? I am open to any sugestions

I should have practiced this stuff on my Samsung intercept. At least if I brick that one its not a big loss





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