The Samsung Galaxy S4 launched in 2013, and its startup sound became familiar to millions of users because it played every time the phone fully booted. As older Android devices became meme material online, this chime started showing up in nostalgic tech posts, throwback videos, and parody edits about battery pulls, slow phones, and early smartphone culture. It still gets used because the sound is instantly recognizable to people who owned Samsung devices during that era and because it marks a very specific moment in mobile tech history.
About this sound
The Samsung Galaxy S4 startup sound is the boot chime from Samsung's 2013 flagship phone, often used in tech memes, nostalgic edits and old Android jokes.
This clip is the Samsung Galaxy S4 startup sound, the short boot-up jingle that played when the phone was powered on. It has a clean, polished electronic tone with a bright melodic swell that instantly signals an older Samsung device coming to life. Because the sound was heard so often by S4 owners, it now carries a strong sense of early 2010s smartphone nostalgia. In edits and memes, it works as a quick cue for rebooting, revealing old tech, or joking about laggy phones and classic Android moments.
