squeakyg

I have a UK Galaxy Ace that came with Android 2.3.3. I have no interest in custom ROMs or anything -- it's fine the way it is. I've rooted it for the convenience of a few root-only apps.

Just one annoyance: I would like to remove the very loud bootup sound/animation. I am looking at the file structure of the phone with ES File Explorer, and I have located a file called "poweron.ogg" in system/etc/ which seems to be the annoying sound.

How safely can I delete this file? Would it simply stop the sound from playing or would it screw up the phone during startup?

squeakyg

18 people have looked at this thread but nobody answered. Please, I've been waiting on an answer before I try it.

Gammer

I honestly don't know but if you're going to risk it you could copy the file to somewhere else and try playing it.

k0pernikus

I didn't dare to remove the file but I replaced it by one full of silence.

To save you the work, here's the one I used:
poweron.ogg


It worked like a charm.

My smartphone was rooted by SuperOneClick 2.32, and I had to remount the /system in read and write mode.

I did that via Terminal Emulator and running:

su
mount -o remount rw /system

Then I replaced the poweron.ogg via Ghost Commander.