Silent Boot is a simple app that uses a workaround to suppress annoying startup sounds on some Android phones. It mutes the phone on shutdown and restores the previous state after boot which prevents any chimes to be played.

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The project has an interesting history, as it originally started off way back in 2010 after a discussion on the Android-Hilfe.de forums. This means it was still created with the Android Development Tools for the Eclipse IDE with an initial API target level of 3 - that’s good old Android 1.5 Cupcake!

The first releases are old enough to break Google Play:

Initial releases on Google Play

Over the years I gradually improved and modernized the codebase without ever doing a full rewrite, which makes the Git history an interesting read.

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Latest Release

Older files

Source

You can find the latest project source on GitHub.