diff --git a/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxActivity.java b/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxActivity.java
index 166d69ebe0..0e2daa76fb 100644
--- a/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxActivity.java
+++ b/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxActivity.java
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ public class RockboxActivity extends Activity
         Intent intent = new Intent(this, RockboxService.class);
         intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
         intent.putExtra("callback", new ResultReceiver(new Handler(getMainLooper())) {
+            private boolean unzip = false;
             private ProgressDialog loadingdialog;
-
             private void createProgressDialog()
             {
                 loadingdialog = new ProgressDialog(RockboxActivity.this);
@@ -64,16 +64,21 @@ public class RockboxActivity extends Activity
                     case RockboxService.RESULT_INVOKING_MAIN:
                         if (loadingdialog != null)
                             loadingdialog.dismiss();
+                        setContentView(new RockboxFramebuffer(RockboxActivity.this));
                         break;
                     case RockboxService.RESULT_LIB_LOAD_PROGRESS:
                         if (loadingdialog == null)
                             createProgressDialog();
-
                         loadingdialog.setIndeterminate(false);
                         loadingdialog.setMax(resultData.getInt("max", 100));
                         loadingdialog.setProgress(resultData.getInt("value", 0));
                         break;
+                    case RockboxService.RESULT_LIB_LOADED:
+                        unzip = resultData.getBoolean("unzip");
+                        break;
                     case RockboxService.RESULT_SERVICE_RUNNING:
+                        if (!unzip) /* defer to RESULT_INVOKING_MAIN */
+                            setContentView(new RockboxFramebuffer(RockboxActivity.this));
                         setServiceActivity(true);
                         break;
                     case RockboxService.RESULT_ERROR_OCCURED:
@@ -85,7 +90,6 @@ public class RockboxActivity extends Activity
                 }
             }
         });
-        setContentView(new RockboxFramebuffer(this));
         startService(intent);
     }
 
diff --git a/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxService.java b/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxService.java
index c07ed9d328..e38ff350a3 100644
--- a/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxService.java
+++ b/android/src/org/rockbox/RockboxService.java
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ public class RockboxService extends Service
 
         if (!rockbox_running)
             startService();
-        putResult(RESULT_LIB_LOADED);
 
         if (intent.getAction().equals(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_BUTTON))
         {
@@ -163,12 +162,6 @@ public class RockboxService extends Service
                 String rockboxCreditsPath = "/data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/rockbox/rocks/viewers";
                 String rockboxSdDirPath = "/sdcard/rockbox";
 
-                /* load library before unzipping which may take a while */
-                synchronized (lock) {
-                    System.loadLibrary("rockbox");
-                    lock.notify();
-                }
-
                 /* the following block unzips libmisc.so, which contains the files 
                  * we ship, such as themes. It's needed to put it into a .so file
                  * because there's no other way to ship files and have access
@@ -178,7 +171,21 @@ public class RockboxService extends Service
                 /* use arbitrary file to determine whether extracting is needed */
                 File arbitraryFile = new File(rockboxCreditsPath, "credits.rock");
                 File rockboxInfoFile = new File(rockboxSdDirPath, "rockbox-info.txt");
-                if (!arbitraryFile.exists() || (libMisc.lastModified() > arbitraryFile.lastModified()))
+                /* unzip newer or doesnt exist */
+                boolean doExtract = !arbitraryFile.exists()
+                        || (libMisc.lastModified() > arbitraryFile.lastModified());
+
+                /* load library before unzipping which may take a while
+                 * but at least tell if unzipping is going to be done before*/
+                synchronized (lock) {
+                    Bundle bdata = new Bundle();
+                    bdata.putBoolean("unzip", doExtract);
+                    System.loadLibrary("rockbox");
+                    putResult(RESULT_LIB_LOADED, bdata);
+                    lock.notify();
+                }
+
+                if (doExtract)
                 {
                     boolean extractToSd = false;
                     if(rockboxInfoFile.exists()) {