Removing Tracfone Boot Logo Startup & Shutdown

viiron · Jun 2, 2013

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.

mazzy70 · Jun 6, 2013

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 · Jun 6, 2013

You'll need to mount the directory R/W before renaming the files.

mazzy70 · Jun 6, 2013

Thanks, worked perfect, I forgot all about the mounting of the directory.

StixMan · Jun 11, 2013

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.

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

Thanks!

mazzy70 · Jun 16, 2013

Same for me. The shutdown is really slow, but the startup isn't all that noticable.

viiron · Jun 17, 2013

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.

SteveCampsOut · Jul 25, 2013

Wondering if we can replace the old ones with one of our own. Found the Samsung Theme Designer thread over at XDA Developers and am going to give it a try.

mac55 · Aug 10, 2013

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.

rlg118 · May 18, 2014

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.

sultan · Jul 11, 2014

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

rlg118 · Jul 13, 2014

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

Desiigner · Oct 24, 2016

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.

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