Any way to get rid of shut down and restart sounds?

[French]

I have a rooted Fascinate...is there any way to get the shut down and restart sounds to silence? They are entirely too loud, I can't figure out how to get them turned down, and honestly I'd rather not hear them at all. Is it a matter of deleting a specific file? I'd even be willing to lose the graphic if that's what it takes. So long as it does in fact shut down and restart...I don't care if it's a black screen til the task is complete.

 

[tdosthp]

I went into Settings and turned System Volume off. That fixed the boot up and shut down sounds off...not sure what else it affects, but I haven't missed it.

 

[fatfingertony]

I think there's at least two ways to do this that I know of:

The easy way (app): Grab an app called "Silent Boot" from the market. This will silence both the shutdown and startup sounds for you.

The hard way (shell): Since you are rooted:

adb shell
$ su
# cd /etc
# mv PowerOn.wav PowerOn.bak
# cd /system/media/audio/ui
# mv shutdown.ogg shutdown.bak

The shell process only renames the files, so it's reversible. The function of each of those files should be self-explanatory.

Hope this helps.

 

[namebrandon]

I think there's at least two ways to do this that I know of:

The easy way (app): Grab an app called "Silent Boot" from the market. This will silence both the shutdown and startup sounds for you.

The hard way (shell): Since you are rooted:

adb shell
$ su
# cd /etc
# mv PowerOn.wav PowerOn.bak
# cd /system/media/audio/ui
# mv shutdown.ogg shutdown.bak

The shell process only renames the files, so it's reversible. The function of each of those files should be self-explanatory.

Hope this helps.

Personally, before modifying anything related to startup/shutodwn, I would install CWM recovery. This allows adb to function while your device is in recovery.

Better safe than sorry.

 

[fatfingertony]

I agree, definitely better safe than sorry.

I did successfully run both scenarios that I posted so I can say with first-hand confidence that renaming the sound files doesn't cause an issue, at least for me.

 

[namebrandon]

I agree, definitely better safe than sorry.

I did successfully run both scenarios that I posted so I can say with first-hand confidence that renaming the sound files doesn't cause an issue, at least for me.

Great, in that case shouldn't be an issue. Glad you had tested it out first..

 

[French]

Thank you SO much!! I actually have root explorer so was going to do the rename that way but it doesn't look like I can access the folder using root explorer.

I'll have to wait til I get home to do the rename but I can't WAIT to have those darn things gone.

 

[wtherrell]

Silent Boot did the trick!

I think there's at least two ways to do this that I know of:

The easy way (app): Grab an app called "Silent Boot" from the market. This will silence both the shutdown and startup sounds for you.

The hard way (shell): Since you are rooted:

adb shell
$ su
# cd /etc
# mv PowerOn.wav PowerOn.bak
# cd /system/media/audio/ui
# mv shutdown.ogg shutdown.bak

The shell process only renames the files, so it's reversible. The function of each of those files should be self-explanatory.

Hope this helps.

Silent Boot worked just fine on mine. Just what I was looking for! Thanks.

 

[egg_head]

+1 for silent boot

[tapatalk on android]

 

[jnewell]

Ditto here. Simple, light, quiet, happy.

Silent Boot worked just fine on mine. Just what I was looking for! Thanks.

 

[French]

I ended up w silent boot as well. Works as advertised.

 

[jnewell]

...and was unaffected by the update!

 

[Cory Streater]

The hard way (shell): Since you are rooted:

adb shell
$ su
# cd /etc
# mv PowerOn.wav PowerOn.bak
# cd /system/media/audio/ui
# mv shutdown.ogg shutdown.bak

The shell process only renames the files, so it's reversible. The function of each of those files should be self-explanatory.

Hope this helps.

I would not do this. I did this on my Epic and bricked my phone. It locked up on shutdown looking for the shutdown sound. Being a dumbass, I did a battery pull and then it got stuck on the Galaxy S splash screen looking for the startup sound.

The files must be there. If anything replace them with files that are a few seconds long that play no sound.