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Here is the updated CAB file:
http://personal.yunord.net/~dzoolee/clean-startup.cab

Cheers

Lance

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

Will someone please provide more detailed instruction on how to install this download into my new Epix.

Thanks a million,

dj

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