Remove animation and sound from start-up and shutdown
I’ve created a hack that removes the start-up and shutdown animations so you can turn your Samsung Epix on and off without having watch/listen to those irritating animations.
I haven’t timed it, but I think the Samsung Epix starts up and shuts down faster with this hack installed.
After installing this hack your phone will automatically be restarted
If for some unimaginable reason you want the animations and sounds back, just uninstall this hack from Start > Settings > System > Remove Programs > MySamsungEpix.com Clean Startup & Shutdown.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
You don’t need this hack if you put your Epix in silent or vibrate mode before turn on/off. But it’s a great app still
December 4th, 2008 at 5:08 am
dumien, this is true – i think most people don’t think to turn their phone on silent before powering down – but who knows. Anyhow, I just think that the sounds are completely unnecessary and annoying
December 4th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Well, does anyone know how to remove the startup/shutdown animation completely. I bought a Samsung product, not and AT&T 3G “SWOOSH” product. And the animation is annoying and completely useless..
December 4th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I always put my phone in vibrate mode so there’s no issue for me
Anyway have you tried this PointUI app? It’s pretty cool
http://www.pointui.com/Home.aspx
December 5th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
anthoj,
Agreed – i’ve updated this hack to remove both sound and animation. Uninstall the previous version and then re-install this new version.
Hope you like it.
david
December 6th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
david,
I’m glad someone’s on the same page with me. Thank you so much. I’ll test it out today.
anthoj
December 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
david,
There’s no need to time it…IT IS significantly faster…
Thanks again for your great work.
anhoj
January 28th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Hi,
I think this is the best thing EVER for this phone, thanks!
However. I had previously turned off the Windows startup/shutdown logos (http://pocketpc-live.com/pocket-pc/splash-screen.html), and all of a sudden now, those are back — even through the registry values are blank!
Anyone have a clue?
– md
January 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Mdeck, The link you posted is for HTC phones — The Samsung Epix is a Samsung phone, so i don’t think that has any relevance. Are you using a Samsung Epix or a different phone? I’ve only confirmed this hack works on the Samsung Epix.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Hi David,
I’m using Epix, and that hack works on all Windows Mobile phones (because it’s a WM setting); there are other links that talk about it working with other Samsung phones (although I can’t remember if any were Epix….). While that link mentions HTC, the LINK is for all of PocketPC/WM. (The HTC stuff talks about how to disable the HTC-specific logo via registry settings, just like this hack disables the Samsung/AT&T logo — apparently Samsung/AT&T have conspired to put it somewhere un-obvious.)
Anyway, I used those registry mods successfully on my Epix before I applied (or ever knew about) this “remove [Samsung/AT&T] animation” hack (which, may I say, is better than sliced bread, of which I am quite fond!). Now that I have applied this hack, suddenly, I have the Windows Mobile startup and shutdown screens again — something about the hack means WM is no longer looking at those registry locations to figure out what (if anything) to use for startup/shutdown. If I remove the hack, I still have WM startup/shutdown.
I did a hard reset last night (down to factory install and back up again) and have reverified that installation of this hack invalidates the use of the WM startup/shutdown registry entries.
So, Unnamed Beautiful Person who put together the hack: Is the hack simply just registry values, and if so, which ones? Or is it making mods to the ROM or doing something more involved? (If the latter, that scares me — it would be nice if all these “hacks” indicate if they’re really hacks or simply altering registry entries, and if so which ones.)
– mdeck
February 14th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Lots of questions for a guy that gave you something free. All CAB files can be opened with WinRAR, etc. I do it with everything I download before installing it to my phone. All this does is copy files to a folder. The files are 2 blank wav files and 2 gif files that are the same image as the Green Win Mobile logo you see on booting. This not only answers your question, but explains why you see the Win Mobile logo. You could make a black 320×320 gif and replace the ones in the CAB to have no screens if you need. Making cab files is a little complicated though, although you should have MakeCab.exe already with Windows and can lookup how to do it.
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:13 am
This sight has proven to be very helpful. I had a BJ1 and hacked it all up to just the way I needed it…and then the battery power issue got the best of me when I had to replace a battery every 2 hours. That was about 1 1/2 years ago and for the life of me I cannot recall how to install a download into my new Epix.
Will someone please provide more detailed instruction on how to install this download into my new Epix.
Thanks a million,
dj
March 22nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
How I installed the “Clean-Startup-And-Shutdown” CAB file to eliminate the AT&T startup and shutdown splash screen on the EPIX:
Go to the web address:
http://www.mysamsungepix.com/hacks-and-mods/other-hacks-and-mods/silent-startup-and-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-381
Left click on “Download”
Left click on “Save”
When the pop-up “Save As” appears, select to save in: “Desktop”
Left click on “Save”
When the pop-up “Download Complete” appears, left click on “Close”
Attach the Epix to your computer via the USB cable and activate ActiveSync
On the computer:
On the desktop, right click on the “Clean-Startup-And-Shutdown” CAB file
Left click on “Cut” or “Copy”
Right click on “Start”
Left click on “Explore > Mobile Device > My Windows Mobile-Based Device > My Documents”
Right click on “My Documents”
Left click on “Paste”
On the Epix:
Go to “Start > Programs > Applications> File Explorer”
Click on the “Clean-Startup…” file
Follow the onscreen prompts.
When prompted to choose a location to install, I selected “Device”
Click “Install > Ok”
The Epix will self perform a shutdown and restart, without the splash screens!
If you want, go back and delete the CAB file from the “My Documents” file.
Dj
March 24th, 2009 at 2:34 am
FYI… I downloaded this cab file directly to my phone and ran it from there. It works perfectly and you don’t need to use ActiveSync to get it over.
Cheers
Lance
August 30th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Much faster loading .. thanks!
February 11th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Works great in 6.5, except it says you are loading 6.1 due to the dummy imagine it uses.
February 20th, 2010 at 1:45 am
This rocks!!