Help Anyone know how to turn off the "Droid" sound when turning phone on?

jegesq · Jul 1, 2011

Whenever my Droid Charge starts up, it plays an audible and very loud "Droooiiiddd" voice. I have looked in settings and there is apparently no way to disable this, at least none I could find.

Is there a way to do it without rooting the phone? I haven't decided whether I'm keeping it yet, and still have a week to return it to Verizon. I very much like the phone, but I really want to turn off the "Droid" spoken voice. My phone actually reset itself this afternoon, and I was in court (I'm a lawyer) and even though I had it turned off, it still announced itself, much to the chagrin of everyone else in the courtroom. It was kinda funny, but really there are situations when I just don't need that to happen, and that was one example.

Any help on this? Again, I don't want to root the phone (not yet) but I do want to turn that voice thing off. If there is some setting I'm overlooking, please point it out someone. Thanks.

Sclark161 · Jul 1, 2011

Go into settings..sound settings..volume..system volume and set to full low. That should do it.

Rominucka · Jul 1, 2011

Just change the notification sound to something like "bubbles" or whatever else they have.
Go to settings > sound settings and change the "notification ringtone".

Edit : ignore my entire post...I thought you were talking about when the battery is done charging. So much for not reading huh?

jegesq · Jul 1, 2011

Thanks folks. I actually found the way to do it independently and it's pretty simple: Just put the phone on silent when turning it off. Next time it boots up, there will be no sound at all, which is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the other suggestions.

treb1797 · Jul 2, 2011

Even better. Go to Settings..Sound Settings...Volume..on that screen turn System Volume all the way down and this will stop the Droid sound when turning your phone on. Hope this helps.

Elevated · Jul 2, 2011

treb1797 said:
Even better. Go to Settings..Sound Settings...Volume..on that screen turn System Volume all the way down and this will stop the Droid sound when turning your phone on. Hope this helps.

That also turns the volume when clicking keys, which I like too. I wish those two were separate.

summamd · Jul 2, 2011

Elevated said:
That also turns the volume when clicking keys, which I like too. I wish those two were separate.

if you want to eliminate the clicking while typing entirely, go into sound settings and deselect audible selection. or whatever it is right below audible touch tones.

YankeeDudeL · Jul 2, 2011

jegesq said:
Thanks folks. I actually found the way to do it independently and it's pretty simple: Just put the phone on silent when turning it off. Next time it boots up, there will be no sound at all, which is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the other suggestions.

Of course, you won't hear your phone if it rings. I suppose if the sound of it vibrating on your end table is adequate enough for you, then it's alright.

yehaww · Aug 7, 2011

YankeeDudeL said:
Of course, you won't hear your phone if it rings. I suppose if the sound of it vibrating on your end table is adequate enough for you, then it's alright.

Yeah, that doesn't seem like much of a solution. I've turned the system sounds down the whole way, which works for a while, but then seems to reset to default levels any time the phone reboots. Nothing more annoying than turning your phone on when an airplane lands and having your phone scream DRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

treb1797 · Aug 7, 2011

YankeeDudeL said:
Of course, you won't hear your phone if it rings. I suppose if the sound of it vibrating on your end table is adequate enough for you, then it's alright.

Read the above posts this does not turn your ringer off

laughingmom · Aug 7, 2011

I came across this a while ago and used it to silence the startup DROID, and the shutdown verizon tune. Worked great!

http://androidforums.com/samsung-droid-charge/371301-dialing-code-string-droid-charge-fascinate.html

stueycaster · Aug 8, 2011

laughingmom said:
I came across this a while ago and used it to silence the startup DROID, and the shutdown verizon tune. Worked great!

http://androidforums.com/samsung-droid-charge/371301-dialing-code-string-droid-charge-fascinate.html

That's way cool. It works great.

CalBearsFan95 · Aug 8, 2011

jegesq said:
Thanks folks. I actually found the way to do it independently and it's pretty simple: Just put the phone on silent when turning it off. Next time it boots up, there will be no sound at all, which is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the other suggestions.

I have to do this, if I turn down the system volume to low, it's still ridiculously loud on startup/shutdown.

mwproto · Dec 20, 2011

app store: Silent Boot

jrileymail · Jun 22, 2013

On my Droid 2 Global I was able to silence the "Droid" sound as follows:
-Go to Settings.
-Go to Sounds
-Go to Volume
-There will be 3 slide bars, one each controlling volume of Ringtone, Media and Alarm, followed by a box "Use incoming call volume for notifications".
-Uncheck the box and a new slide bar will appear which separately controls Notification volume. Set the level to minimum volume (off).
-Now you will not hear the "Droid" sound upon start-up. You also will not hear any notification sound upon receiving emails, texts, etc. (not an issue for me), but the phone will still vibrate if it's set to do so--zeroing the notification volume has no effect on the vibrate function.

Don't know if this will work on other Android phones, but you can check it out.

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