How to remove carrier boot animation on factory unlocked Priv

[shashankmittal]

I bought my Priv from the Shop BB store and popped in a Straight Talk sim (AT&T). After that the Priv loaded some of AT&T branding (as reported by Android Central here).

I was able to change most of the things, sounds, ringtones etc, but I still see that fugly AT&T splash screen when the phone boots up. Funny thing is that it makes their trademark AT&T sound, even if the phone is on mute.

Has anyone found a way to remove the carrier branding animation from the boot sequence?

 

[Amy wineBerry]

I haven't had any success removing the branding animation. It's something that would also occur with my Classic. I always just chalked it up to my sim

 

[CBPilu]

Is there a way to at least mute this?

 

[darigaaz12]

I bought an att phone and when I unlocked and put my t-mobile Sim in I actually get no splash screen at all which I thought was odd. Hope this gets updated for you though. Sound even on mute would be annoying

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[Don_Henry]

Seems odd to me that an unlocked device would have carrier splash screens. Maybe because the Priv is also sold by AT&T?

I got a new AT&T SIM for my Nexus 5X - no AT&T splash screen.

Nexus 5X on AT&T - Posted via the Android Central App

 

[Amy wineBerry]

Seems odd to me that an unlocked device would have carrier splash screens. Maybe because the Priv is also sold by AT&T?

I got a new AT&T SIM for my Nexus 5X - no AT&T splash screen.

Nexus 5X on AT&T - Posted via the Android Central App

Not sure. Even before the Classic was officially announced by AT&T (and I believe the Passport as well), I'd get the AT&T boot screen.

 

[shashankmittal]

I bought an att phone and when I unlocked and put my t-mobile Sim in I actually get no splash screen at all which I thought was odd. Hope this gets updated for you though. Sound even on mute would be annoying

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Per the Android Central link I posted in my first post:

There are logos, wallpapers, splash screens, boot animations and ringtones stored in the Vendor folder in the Priv's system files. You're not downloading anything, and the system just changes which files the default settings are linked to.

It might be possible that the AT&T phone doesn't have these files, it being an AT&T phone and after unlocking, when you popped in the T-mob sim card, the phone didn't have T-mob files to load and thus exhibits the behavior you are seeing. I wonder if there is a "proven" way to delete these files so that the phone doesn't load them.

 

[kertong]

This bothers me as well - what bothers me even more than the boot animations though, is the "AT&T" carrier notification on the top left of the notification bar. On an unlocked priv too! My coworker's nexus 6P does not do this.

I hate it - I started leaving "lux" auto brightness on just so the one icon is consistently showing there. But even then ,when I unlock the phone, it flashes "AT&T" up there for a second or two before showing me my actual notification tray.

It sucks, because the first thing I do when I unlock the phone is generally to check if I have pending notifications in the upper left. It's like AT&T is screaming their brand in my face everytime I want to look at my phone.

Unfortunately, I don't believe this is removable without root, and on the priv it seems slim that we'll ever get root (i'm really hoping, though).

 

[benjamin19]

This bothers me as well - what bothers me even more than the boot animations though, is the "AT&T" carrier notification on the top left of the notification bar. On an unlocked priv too! My coworker's nexus 6P does not do this.

I hate it - I started leaving "lux" auto brightness on just so the one icon is consistently showing there. But even then ,when I unlock the phone, it flashes "AT&T" up there for a second or two before showing me my actual notification tray.

It sucks, because the first thing I do when I unlock the phone is generally to check if I have pending notifications in the upper left. It's like AT&T is screaming their brand in my face everytime I want to look at my phone.

Unfortunately, I don't believe this is removable without root, and on the priv it seems slim that we'll ever get root (i'm really hoping, though).

I just made a post about this asking the same thing. Weird thing is even my wife's att moto x gives her the option to go in and take that off without root. Awesome that Motorola allows users to do that.

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[21stNow]

Some BlackBerry devices pulled the boot animation files (and other apps) from the SIM card that was inserted into the phone. It sounds like the same thing is happening with the Priv. My factory unlocked Z10 always booted with the animation from whichever carrier's SIM card I had in the phone at the time.

 

[shashankmittal]

Some BlackBerry devices pulled the boot animation files (and other apps) from the SIM card that was inserted into the phone. It sounds like the same thing is happening with the Priv. My factory unlocked Z10 always booted with the animation from whichever carrier's SIM card I had in the phone at the time.

A Sim card can't hold that kind of data. These files (animation, logos and metadata) are all on the phone itself.

 

[21stNow]

A Sim card can't hold that kind of data. These files (animation, logos and metadata) are all on the phone itself.

OK, so you're saying that the factory unlocked Z10 has the boot animations for both Rogers in Canada and T-Mobile US?

The phone reads the SIM and then downloads the files OTA for that carrier. Every time I switched SIM cards, I had a small "update" to download first.

 

[shashankmittal]

OK, so you're saying that the factory unlocked Z10 has the boot animations for both Rogers in Canada and T-Mobile US?

The phone reads the SIM and then downloads the files OTA for that carrier. Every time I switched SIM cards, I had a small "update" to download first.

Just to clarify, I meant that the files themselves aren't on the sim. The Z10 might be downloading them from Blackberry servers, based on the sim card in the phone, but on the Priv, these files are on the phone itself and not downloaded from the cloud.

 

[shashankmittal]

OK, so you're saying that the factory unlocked Z10 has the boot animations for both Rogers in Canada and T-Mobile US?

The phone reads the SIM and then downloads the files OTA for that carrier. Every time I switched SIM cards, I had a small "update" to download first.

Just to clarify, I meant that the files themselves aren't on the sim. The Z10 might be downloading them from Blackberry servers, based on the sim card in the phone, but on the Priv, these files are on the phone itself and not downloaded from the cloud.

 

[IGeeve]

Funny thing is I bought mine from a carrier and it doesn't have that splash screen on boot up. I'm with Rogers BTW. Anyway to tell if the phone is locked? Like is there a way to check?

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[anon(1338822)]

Using ES File Explorer, browse to the following location on the device:

\oem\media

You'll see a bunch of folders named with numbers. Each one is associated with a carrier (lots of duplicates, probably for different regions).

50 is AT&T

You can go in and see the boot screen, splash screen and system sounds. Unfortunately, it's a read-only location so you can't get rid of them or modify them.

There doesn't appear to be any Canadian carriers in there. Someone mentioned they have a Rogers device with no branding. Mine is Bell, also no branding, because they're not in that folder.

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[Jamie Wooten]

Hmmm I must be the odd ball. I have an unlocked Priv on AT&T but I don't get the splash scree on start up. I didn't change any settings or anything.