Hey, I’ve been curious how we as a Samsung community feel about carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T displaying their boot animations on startup, and how it affects our boot times. I personally feel that Samsung allowing carriers to add their own chimes and logos just slows down the startup speed and ruins the premium experience of the phone. Idk, what do you all think?
I use an unlocked phone, but I definitely agree. Realistically this is something on the carrier side, but Samsung does have the ability to pushback on including it in the software.
I think it should be a toggle that defaults to "On" but can be switched Off.
Realistically speaking, nobody reboots their phone in public (if it was for marketing purposes), and me seeing the carrier logo will definitely not change my view positively of the carrier.
The only genuinely good argument for it existing unconditionally is to know if a phone is locked when buying second-hand. However, it should ideally be removed when the phone eventually gets unlocked.
Until then, you can probably use Download mode to flash the unbranded version of One UI, but I personally didn't try it.
Also, I'd highly doubt the boot time is actually affected by the animation, but I have no evidence so yeah.
Unlocked phone here. Most of my family (All Samsung) are unlocked. To add my opinion and not camping for either side. The carriers aren't going to sell a phone they can't brand and Samsung wants to sell phones through carriers. If you buy a carrier phone, expect them to brand it. If you don't want the compromise, pay for an unlocked phone.
I have an unlocked phone, but often had a carrier branded phone (t-mobile) and I think the unlocked takes as long to boot up. the splash screen animation is just something different to look at in the time it takes to load. in it's absence, we look at the samsung logo longer.
