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Tilt - Stupid a$$ ATT 3G Splash Screen audio...

When I have my phone set to silent or vibrate, I usually have it that way for a reason. However, if I soft reset my phone for whatever reason, that stupid AT&T 3G flash movie thing plays with the loud-a$$ audio and all, no matter whether my phone is set to silent, vibrate, or volume on. I hate AT&T, but it sure hurt my wallet a lot less to get the Tilt from them.
I'm sure there's probably not a way to silence that stupid thing, so if someone could tell me how to just remove it without screwing up my phone, I'd be OH-so grateful!
Sorry to rant, but AT&T is worse than laptop sellers when it comes to the amount of crap/bloatware they put on their hardware!

stpete111 said:
When I have my phone set to silent or vibrate, I usually have it that way for a reason. However, if I soft reset my phone for whatever reason, that stupid AT&T 3G flash movie thing plays with the loud-a$$ audio and all, no matter whether my phone is set to silent, vibrate, or volume on. I hate AT&T, but it sure hurt my wallet a lot less to get the Tilt from them.
I'm sure there's probably not a way to silence that stupid thing, so if someone could tell me how to just remove it without screwing up my phone, I'd be OH-so grateful!
Sorry to rant, but AT&T is worse than laptop sellers when it comes to the amount of crap/bloatware they put on their hardware!
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You can flash a different splash screen. I think wiki has something on it.

You could also flash the HTC ROM. This would also get rid of all the bloatware. However this ROM vibrates when you reset, but not as bad as the ATT ROM.

There's a way to turn it off via a registry setting floating around here. Search for it.
And AT&T sure gacked up this product. Seems each new HTC phone they carry gets more and more bloatware.

can be found in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\StartupAnimation
just set the enabled value to 0 and that will get rid of THE most annoying startup animation/sound ever

Thanks a ton Doug.
Cripwalk, as much as I really do want to flash the HTC Rom, I had so many issues with call-dropping issues on AT&T with my original Tytn with the HTC Rom. AT&T Roms don't exhibit the call-dropping behavior and that's enough for me to stick with it, even though I DESPISE everything about how they do business.
>8o|

Get the best of both worlds then: flash the TyTN II OS image only. Leave the AT&T radio in place. I'm having good results with this strategy so far. The TyTN II HTC logo animation is very cool btw but it wastes startup time so I disabled it using the above mentioned reghack..

Or, just edit the registry to do it without flashing anything.

Sleuth, interesting call. So you believe that only the radio has anything to do with the calls, and the OS rom is totally independent? I mean, I know that you can flash them exclusive of each other, but I didn't think it was just the ATT Rom that allowed it to work well.
Also, did you have issues on your regular Tytn as I explained? Or did you always use a Cingular radio rom?
Thanks.

stpete111 said:
When I have my phone set to silent or vibrate, I usually have it that way for a reason. However, if I soft reset my phone for whatever reason, that stupid AT&T 3G flash movie thing plays with the loud-a$$ audio and all, no matter whether my phone is set to silent, vibrate, or volume on. I hate AT&T, but it sure hurt my wallet a lot less to get the Tilt from them.
I'm sure there's probably not a way to silence that stupid thing, so if someone could tell me how to just remove it without screwing up my phone, I'd be OH-so grateful!
Sorry to rant, but AT&T is worse than laptop sellers when it comes to the amount of crap/bloatware they put on their hardware!
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install Kaiser Tweak available on this site on one of the thread... Its wounderful... You can not only shut the startup animation but do many more things...

if you liked Kaiser Tweak, try this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2534516

mineshkp said:
install Kaiser Tweak available on this site on one of the thread... Its wounderful... You can not only shut the startup animation but do many more things...
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Seriously? This thread is 10.5 months old. Looks like someone is trying to raise their post count...

Hey, well this actually helped me

Remove the AT&T 3G Starup Sound
Tired of that annoying sound and want a simple solution?
1. Create a wave file you like or create a blank .wav file. To create a blank file, right-click your desktop and select New Text Document. Rename the file to 3G_Up_Soft.wav (you'll need to make sure that you can see the file extension). You should end up with an empty wave file on your desktop.
2. Using ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Manager, save the file you made to your Tilt (storage card works nicely).
3. Copy that file into the \Windows directory on the Tilt.
4. Using File Explorer on the Tilt, rename the file you created within the \Windows directory to 3G_Up.wav. (It should allow you to do this without warning or issue, even though a file of that name already exists!)
5) Soft reset and enjoy the new sound or no sound at all!
Mitchel Hudson
Hudson Computer Services
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Microsoft Small Business Specialists

mitchelhudson said:
Tired of that annoying sound and want a simple solution?
1. Create a wave file you like or create a blank .wav file. To create a blank file, right-click your desktop and select New Text Document. Rename the file to 3G_Up_Soft.wav (you'll need to make sure that you can see the file extension). You should end up with an empty wave file on your desktop.
2. Using ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Manager, save the file you made to your Tilt (storage card works nicely).
3. Copy that file into the \Windows directory on the Tilt.
4. Using File Explorer on the Tilt, rename the file you created within the \Windows directory to 3G_Up.wav. (It should allow you to do this without warning or issue, even though a file of that name already exists!)
5) Soft reset and enjoy the new sound or no sound at all!
Mitchel Hudson
Hudson Computer Services
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
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Or
1. download Advance config
2. get rid of startup sound and animation

denco7 said:
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1. download Advance config
2. get rid of startup sound and animation
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Where can I find "Advance Config"??

ALCO4SALES said:
Where can I find "Advance Config"??
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Here is your freebie .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=418151
In future, a simple search is encouraged.

Awesome thread. Just a tip that I don't know if you'll find elsewhere in the forum. Being pretty much a noob, I found this user-friendly registry editor:
http://ceregeditor.mdsoft.pl/ceregedit_setup.exe
It connects through ActiveSync and let's you edit the registry from your desktop (pretty much like regedit in Windows) - very convenient.

HTC homescreen plug and HTC homescreen customizer.

Hi I just upgraded to an at&t tilt. I have been reading these forums to get some customization ideas. Now I just want everyone to know this is my first ppc, just had regular cell phones before this. I have a general idea of what to do but I could use a little help.
What I want to do is get the regular black htc homescreen plug and the home screen customizer. I need help getting ahold of them and installing. From what I have seen so far I just need to find the cabs to dowload directly to my phone, or get them in a zip file and sync them from my pc. If I sync from my pc were do I put them on my phone to access the cabs and install?
If anyone can help me out it would be awsome. I need to find the files and how to install them, unless they are cabs i can download directly to the tilt. Also if anyone has any other cool apps they think would help I would like to hear about them; I will probably get pie scroll fix and some other helpful stuff too.
Thanks for all your help.

Here are the versions I'm using, with no problems. Alternatively you can go here: http://www.pocketemu.com/news.html
You can put the cabs anywhere on the phone (in any folder - my documents for example), or on a sd card then just run from there.
edit:
the home customizer didn't upload but you can get it from the link i posted

Thanks for the speedy reply!
Thanks I will install them and hopefully it will come out the way I want it. Can u put a screenshot of your homescreen so i can see what it looks like? Oh and do u have any recommendations for other tings to make my stock tilt better?

kaiser tweak
Does anyone know if the kaiser tweak already has the home screen and customizer with it, or will I have to install that seperate?

jlsmith3103 said:
Does anyone know if the kaiser tweak already has the home screen and customizer with it, or will I have to install that seperate?
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just flash a new rom.

Flash a new rom
To tell u the truth thats what i wanted to do was just flash it with the kaiser rom but I am kind of afraid to do that because i dont know much about how it will work, what it will change, if it will still work tight with at&t and i dont want to mess up my phone and void the warranty. If i just add plugins and apps I dont have to worry about it as much. Plus I have no idea how to do it.

Here you go boss
http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383904

I just got my tilt a week ago, and have probably flashed it at least a dozen times by now playing with settings and trying out different ROMs.
The only problem I've had with AT&T was when i put an incompatible radio on, my sound stopped working. I could still make calls, I just couldn't hear anything.
A reflash fixed that. Other than that I haven't had any probelms
Just read through the wikis and other peoples posts and everything will(should) turn out fine

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the link takes me to a page that say rotator admin login?
well I will have to read through the wikis. what are wikis anyway? lol!

here is the link to "G.W.E.N.I" which is basically just a big collection of helpful information/links

are there any better or newer versions of what is posted?

the backilght does not work on this version of htc home

Any way to skip device setup stage after a rom flash?

Ive ended up with stupid issue here, basically I replaced my digitizer with a cheap ebay one and made a mess of it, so now my touchscreen doesnt work. Ive been ok with that until today I flashed the rom to unlock the phone and the first screen pops up with "Please tap the screen to set up your device" or something similar. Thats something I cant physically do so if anyone knows a way around that I would LOVE to hear it
Cheers.

Not yet
People will recommend using tools such as mymobiler and such, that enable you to connect to your device over the PC using activesync.
It does work, for the first tap only. The screen alignment after that is where you are boned, I find myself in the same situation.
Try researching for registry keys that can be modified, as programs like Soti's Pocketpro will allow you to modify registry keys. I'll post if I find anything similar.

search for and read about "welcome.not". the idea is to create a blank file named "welcome.not" on your storage card so the phone chooses to skip the screen alignment wizard on first boot up.

The "solution" may be:
Try flashing one of Witschey's ROMs, because he does not include neither screen alignment nor apps setup in the ROM, so that you'll access the device after flashing, no need to soft-reset nor anything.
The question is, what are you going to do if you can't touch the screen ?

Well, i can do a few things that I need with it. Use it as a phone for a start
I get a free upgrade soon so Ill go with the hero or an iphone but until then I will need a phone and an mp3 player. You can still kind of use google maps even for GPS its just tricky. I did manage my way around London with it lol.
Thanks for the tips anyway guys, Ive tried deleting the welcome file already today but the device kind of locks after that in that you cant really see any icons, even tried 2 roms with it. I will give that Witschey ROM a go though that sounds like it could be the answer to this.

welcome.not
Welcome.not file worked for me, but I did not put in on a SD card, just in the root of the device after MS does activesync.
My computer<device<double click<paste
Took the battery out, turned it on, presto.
Thanks for that!!
No need to reflash, was cool.

Well I tried a Witschey ROM and its working great! Thank you afn961 for that one. It runs very fast indeed as well compared to the stock T-mobile WM6 I had on there. Only issue I have now is that I cant access some menus without the touchscreen, worst one being the running programs menu so stuff just stays open. Cant win em all though.

quite a few cooked ROMs these days are built so that the screen alignment wizard is skipped and it won't show up unless you invoke it explicitly.
i suggested the "welcome.not" approach because it is known to work in terms of skipping the screen alignment wizard and i thought you wanted to stick to the ROM you had because it was to your liking, else i'd have suggested one of the ROMs mentioned in the first paragraph.
finally, you CAN manage running applications using one of the many third party task switchers. i will suggest "showcase" or "taskfacade". the idea is to map your PTT button to invoke the task switcher. not sure if the following will work properly but you can set the default htc task manager to close applications (instead of minimizing them) when you press OK. so you can press OK to exit the foreground application or you can invoke the third party task manager to SWITCH to another application. that way, you get multitasking AND the ability to close the applications you don't need.
check it out and let us know how it goes, good luck!

DUAL OS chinese t5353

hi, does anyone know how to hard reset a t5353 Dual OS so that both Android and WM go back to factory settings?
i was able to do a reset on wm by going thru the settings and all but i'm having problems with android part of it.
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ANDROID OS!!!
i tried to calibrate the ANDROID screen and instead my finger, i used my stylus. It picked up my stylus during calibration but after that my screen stopped responding to any touch what so ever. i can press volume, windows, back buttons (or soft keys?) etc and they work just fine showing that the OS itself is working but it's not picking up anything on the screen. Actually, i did notice that when it is about to "sleep" and the lights get "dim", me touching on the screen wakes it up... any help would be appreciated....
i have tried the two of the following available HARD REST combination - neither one worked.
i also know that the touch screen itself is working because when i boot it in WM, the screen and everything else works just fine.
i've made a post in another thread but it's under WM area and my problem is with Android (for mods, just in case they think it's double posting--i'm sorry).

more info.
here is some more stuff that i've tried with the advice from adstrylight who was kind enough to spend some time on my problem
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Android vs WM..
Which version of android do you have with your phone btw? Is it running from internal storage, or the sdcard(the easy way to tell this is if your SDcard contains a file called zimage or not)? I only ask as my phone originally came with android running from th SD, and was laggy/buggy beyond belief, and the latest version of A2.1 (the "fourth edition") is a world away in terms of stability etc.
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not sure but when it boots, it shows the android logo (monkey or bugg or whatever it is), then it shows SOHO 2, and then shows a screen with "android" written on it...
no Zimage on SDcard. My device did not come with an SD card either and there is only one slot ( that i can see ) and it has my own SD card from before (which does not contain zimage). i even did a search on my entire phone and did not find zimage.
adstraylight said:
Don't know where this came from, but did you try pressing the zoom bar bellow where it says 'ok'? I only did this once, a long time ago, but this thought just occured to me over dinner....
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yes, that is what i though initially. I was tapping all over the screen, trying to press "zoom out", trying to slide my finger towards "zoom out". I am not sure if it responded to me pressing over "OK" on the screen or "ZOOM OUT" or "CALL BUTTON" but it rebooted and did a hard reset. I was very happy at first only to find out that it only performed a hard reset on WM [very disappointing].

a_sun_of_beach said:
no Zimage on SDcard. My device did not come with an SD card either and there is only one slot ( that i can see ) and it has my own SD card from before (which does not contain zimage). i even did a search on my entire phone and did not find zimage.
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I think, this device not use zImage and use bootloader.

DmK75 said:
I think, this device not use zImage and use bootloader.
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i'm not sure what that means... someone asked me in a different post if there was an external SD with a file named zimage... and my answer was that the device itself did not come with an SD card, i installed my own and it does NOT have zimage file.
thanks in advance for anyone who can help.

anyone? i'd really appreciate any ideas.

It could mean that you have a very different setup, or perhaps that it's an Android OS clone. Are you able to install apps through Android Market place ?

shavenyaknz said:
It could mean that you have a very different setup, or perhaps that it's an Android OS clone. Are you able to install apps through Android Market place ?
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i "was" able to download apps from market place but since the screen does not respond to me "touching an icon", i cant really do much (nothing at all).
NOTE: the screen does however respond when the back light turns dim, me touching the screen wakes it up.

Mann i don't understand how no one knows the answer. All the hackers and crackers making big softwares available to everyone, and no one knows why android OS is not responding to touch????

a_sun_of_beach said:
Mann i don't understand how no one knows the answer. All the hackers and crackers making big softwares available to everyone, and no one knows why android OS is not responding to touch????
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Pardon?! You own a freaking clone which probably nobody else outside china owns and you are requesting any in deep assistance when nobody has the slightest knowledge about these fancy copy&paste devices?
Form you descriptions though, just to get that right... you had to calibrate your screen where you had to touch the 5 white boxes? If your Android installation is somehow a copy of the XDANDROID system which contains the touchscreen calibration app, then look for a file called "ts-calibration" on your device. Delete it and reboot into Android. (However that is done your device.)
Michael

mweirauch said:
Pardon?! You own a freaking clone which probably nobody else outside china owns and you are requesting any in deep assistance when nobody has the slightest knowledge about these fancy copy&paste devices?
Form you descriptions though, just to get that right... you had to calibrate your screen where you had to touch the 5 white boxes? If your Android installation is somehow a copy of the XDANDROID system which contains the touchscreen calibration app, then look for a file called "ts-calibration" on your device. Delete it and reboot into Android. (However that is done your device.)
Michael
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1. thank you very much for your response. i will try to find the ts-calibration file and give it a try. i can upload the "rom" online, it says SOHO 2 when it's loading (if that helps?)
2. i think this device reboots like my samsung galaxy s, press and hold POWER and it asks you if you want to go in flight mode, power off etc.

i looked for this file, i actually did a search through my computer to see if i could find the "ts-calibration" but did not find it.
in WM section (using Resco Reg), i found a few .DLL files that had the word "touch" in them. One was "TouchRecognizer" and one was "touch.dll". i'm not sure which one exactly, but there were a few #s that changed after i did a caliberation ( on WM ). Is there a file in Android that's like that, maybe i could just copy those #s from WM into the .dll or something for Android?
thanks again for taking time to help.

No, you can't copy windows DLL to Android. I assume the only chance you have is searching the net, or some dedicated clone forums for the answer on how to reset your android installation.
Sent from my MSM using XDA App

a_sun_of_beach said:
i "was" able to download apps from market place but since the screen does not respond to me "touching an icon", i cant really do much (nothing at all).
NOTE: the screen does however respond when the back light turns dim, me touching the screen wakes it up.
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Perhaps there is simply no Android?

DmK75 said:
Perhaps there is simply no Android?
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i hope that the android i messed around with when i first received the phone, and saw all the setting etc was not an illusion? how can there be no android in it?
http://www.moon0755.com/

a_sun_of_beach said:
i hope that the android i messed around with when i first received the phone, and saw all the setting etc was not an illusion? how can there be no android in it?
http://www.moon0755.com/
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I want to say, no working android.
Read and search in this topic, and you find custom roms.
Even with updated to 2.1 system.bin and data.bin android files.

DmK75 said:
I want to say, no working android.
Read and search in this topic, and you find custom roms.
Even with updated to 2.1 system.bin and data.bin android files.
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thank you for your help. I have already been talking to some people in the link you just posted.
I've solved my issue by simply re-flashing it.
Thanks everyone who responded.

Mr. Personality Robot

Does anyone have one of these, and if so, how far have you gotten in building new personalities? I would love to be able to edit the text files to control the sprites, but don't know how. Last I heard several years ago android78 was working on an editor to do this, but has since disappeared. I know how to change the mp3's, and rebuild the .vivo file, that's not the hard part. Those dang text files are. I am not even sure what they are written in. To me it doesn't even resemble any languages I have come across. Anyone out there? This thing would be bad to the bone with completely new personalities since Wowwee gave up on it too soon!

I just picked one up @ goodwill and agree it would be super cool. Unfortunately, mine has no files on it at all (the drive is blank when I plug in the USB cable) so it stays at "loading" with the progress bar at 0 even with a fresh vivo file in there. Does yours load a personality? If so, do you mind letting me know if there are more files in there besides the vivo?
If I can get mine to work I bet I could get some of the dev's at work to figure out the text file.
Thanks.

The original file was called Max_Simon.vivo. If yours has no files, try getting the Mr. Personality software from the Wowwee website, and then the original file and push it back onto him via USB and the software. I looked and all I could see are the .vivo files. The .vivo files can easily be seen if you rename it to a .zip and extract it. Before loading though it needs to be changed back. That's how I was able to work with the .mp3 files, but it does take the software to push it back onto him and then go into settings to pick a personality to load. If it is the only personality it should load automatically if the file is original and not corrupted. If you need either of the files, let me know and I will post them for you. That would be awesome to get someone to take a look at these files and let us know what we need to do. I know there are a lot of people out there with these sitting in closets because of the great support they threw and it, not. It's up to us now!

acemartini said:
I just picked one up @ goodwill and agree it would be super cool. Unfortunately, mine has no files on it at all (the drive is blank when I plug in the USB cable) so it stays at "loading" with the progress bar at 0 even with a fresh vivo file in there. Does yours load a personality? If so, do you mind letting me know if there are more files in there besides the vivo?
If I can get mine to work I bet I could get some of the dev's at work to figure out the text file.
Thanks.
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Holy crap, I thought I was the only one who had this issue! Mine's been down for nearly 5 years by now; I happened to shut Mr. P off in the middle of recording a voice memo, and when I turned him back on he had the exact same symptoms with the loading screen as you mentioned. Now I made a topic on Robocommunity shortly after but all that was suggested in that thread didn't work at all. I don't know if I was doing anything wrong but after all this time it still doesn't work. It really disappoints me because this is actually a really cool robot that I always wanted to load up with my own personalities... and then it conks out.
If anyone could help figure out how to get this guy working, I'd be really grateful.

I know this is an old thread, but would appreciate anybody leading me to the Mr Personality software and the default voices for Max and Simon, as wowwee no longer lists these on their site. Thanks!

I got one and connect to my pc.There are some files of Max and Simon.I try to find some more personality files online,but failed. Is there anyone have them?Thanks.my email is mrmm[email protected]