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I was wondering if there is a way to reverse icon colors in the status bar. I just downloaded a black status bar and a lot of the icons blend into the black bar (if that makes sense).
If anyone can help me out, thanks. I don't know anything at all about coding and very little about the root process, so a Metamorph option would be the easiest way for me, although I can figure out theming.
Maybe you like those...http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...tatusbar-icons/page__view__findpost__p__33425
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Maybe you like those...http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...tatusbar-icons/page__view__findpost__p__33425
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I saw those. I wasn't quite sure if it changes the Messaging, Gmail, Voice and other icons since all I see is the USB and USB Tethering icons. Do you know if those are changed?
Haven´t checked that...best, open file and have a look before you morph.
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Haven´t checked that...best, open file and have a look before you morph.
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Wow that is a great idea. I never thought of that haha (still brand new to this stuff). Well, unfortunately it doesn't have icons for Messaging, Gmail and a few others. Thanks for the idea though. Now I know I can check.
Any other ideas?
Anyone know of anything else to do?
Shameless bump because I really want this.
There is a desire morph around somewhere, locate the files or images you want and I can make a morph, just need to know what rom and icons.
Also bumping. Now that CM has theming, I think someone should have one out.
Use ninja morph and inverse the images u want in framework-res.apk ...really easy
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Made this one a while back...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766561
martin0285 said:
Use ninja morph and inverse the images u want in framework-res.apk ...really easy
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I checked out ninja morph. You're right, it does exactly what you said...EXCEPT you have to modify every icon individually, which ends up being an enormous pain.
Also, I could have missed something but how do you inverse icons directly on the phone? I looked around and still couldnt find anything. Ended up transfering them to the pc and editing them from there.
In the end, I'm just amazed that android doesn't have a unified icon / theming system yet. To edit messages, you have to go in to mms.apk (took me forever to figure that one out), to edit gmail you have to look in gmail.apk, system icons were in framework, etc. What a pain.
I've been theming small aspects of JVB, specifically Perception II. I've tried to theme the background of the music controls inside the status bar drawer. On Froyo ROMs, I could just throw a modified png into the zip. Now, I do that and it's still purple. I even decompiled and recomplied with the new pngs, but it doesn't work. Any ideas on what to do? I attached the modded files below. Thanks!
Are you replacing the ones in twframework-res.apk?
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Are you replacing the ones in twframework-res.apk?
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Of course. I opened them in Photoshop and edited and put them back into twframework. Thing is, I've done this before very successfully modifying themes on Froyo.
Wacky.. dunno dude, I'll give it a shot later tonight and see if I can get it to work if the wife doesn't burglarize all my time.
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Wacky.. dunno dude, I'll give it a shot later tonight and see if I can get it to work if the wife doesn't burglarize all my time.
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Wow thanks a lot man
Yeah, that's weird.. changing the png's doesn't seem to affect what actually shows up. Makes you wonder if it's grabbing them from somewhere else entirely..
Edit: I was right! Check out /system/app/MusicPlayer.apk, it has it's own set of status bar png's. I haven't tried replacing them myself yet, but I have a strong feeling that those are the ones you should be changing as opposed to the ones in twframework-res.apk. Samsung seems to enjoy scattering their graphics around.. there are also a couple pertinent to the status bar and dropdown shade in SystemUI.apk and Phone.apk.
Good luck, dude! Let me know if those were the correct ones!
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Yeah, that's weird.. changing the png's doesn't seem to affect what actually shows up. Makes you wonder if it's grabbing them from somewhere else entirely..
Edit: I was right! Check out /system/app/MusicPlayer.apk, it has it's own set of status bar png's. I haven't tried replacing them myself yet, but I have a strong feeling that those are the ones you should be changing as opposed to the ones in twframework-res.apk. Samsung seems to enjoy scattering their graphics around.. there are also a couple pertinent to the status bar and dropdown shade in SystemUI.apk and Phone.apk.
Good luck, dude! Let me know if those were the correct ones!
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Is SystemUI.apk new to Gingerbread? I'll look into it.
God THANK YOU, that's an amazing find and so useful to me! I am SO GRATEFUL. Damn, Samsung isn't the most efficient company of coders. Putting lockscreen music control backgrounds in framework-res and status bar ones in music apk? Wow.
SystemUI.apk handles all the notification bar/dropdown stuff and all of those images are used instead of what's in twframework-res.apk now (GB).
The background and buttons for the dropdown are in MusicPlayer.apk though. Crazy.
So apparently the toggle PNGs in SystemUI.apk are locked, so they cannot be edited in Photoshop and lose their transparency. Sucks....
Yeah, kinda sucks. I grabbed a screenshot of Explorer with large thumbnails, copied each one and inverted them so they're smoothed to black background, made black transparent, then changed the color. It works out ok I guess.
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Yeah, kinda sucks. I grabbed a screenshot of Explorer with large thumbnails, copied each one and inverted them so they're smoothed to black background, made black transparent, then changed the color. It works out ok I guess.
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They still turn out jagged because the originals, using transparency, are smoothed. I think I can get someone to fix that...
If anyone is interested, I am recreating a lot of the elements by hand. It's HARD OH MY GOD, some pieces require 7 layers of separate transparencies i have to match to the originals. But I'm making a theme, just modded stock for now but I'll be working on it for a while. I'll make a thread soon!
So ALL the battery icons are locked... I downloaded a random GB theme and took out the battery icons, and those are locked too. Decompiled framework, still locked. What the hell???? How do I mod them?!
I figured most stuff out now. Except how to change the status bar background. I put it into SystemUI.apk (2 different names), framework, and twframework. Nothing works. Any clues?
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So ALL the battery icons are locked... I downloaded a random GB theme and took out the battery icons, and those are locked too. Decompiled framework, still locked. What the hell???? How do I mod them?!
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How'd you solve this?
Haloruler64 said:
I figured most stuff out now. Except how to change the status bar background. I put it into SystemUI.apk (2 different names), framework, and twframework. Nothing works. Any clues?
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Check SystemUI.apk drawable-hdpi directory, also check the values directory, there's one xml in there that defines the background color for the dropdown shade.
Edit: nevermind, changing that xml does nothing
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Is SystemUI.apk new to Gingerbread? I'll look into it.
God THANK YOU, that's an amazing find and so useful to me! I am SO GRATEFUL. Damn, Samsung isn't the most efficient company of coders. Putting lockscreen music control backgrounds in framework-res and status bar ones in music apk? Wow.
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Half of it is left over Google crap, half of it is left over Samsung Froyo crap, and half of it is actually being used.
It's quite the mess.
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If anyone is interested, I am recreating a lot of the elements by hand. It's HARD OH MY GOD, some pieces require 7 layers of separate transparencies i have to match to the originals. But I'm making a theme, just modded stock for now but I'll be working on it for a while. I'll make a thread soon!
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Why aren't you using the originals? Is it because they're Index images that don't open properly? If so, open them with Adobe Fireworks, save them, then open them in whatever else.
res\layout\status_bar_tracking.xml has the background color. Change to image:
<View android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
Copy the file from the theme in my sig if you need a working reference. It has no clock in the bar and no text in the toggles as well.
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Half of it is left over Google crap, half of it is left over Samsung Froyo crap, and half of it is actually being used.
It's quite the mess.
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3 halves, it must be all kinds of messy!
modest_mandroid said:
How'd you solve this?
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GIMP, convert to RGB, then it works. But GIMP has no real batch mode, like Photoshop. Which sucks.
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Why aren't you using the originals? Is it because they're Index images that don't open properly? If so, open them with Adobe Fireworks, save them, then open them in whatever else.
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Yeah that's why originally. Can you open 171 files in Fireworks and save them automatically? I don't wanna do that for all the status bar stuff individually.
Also I have to get Fireworks.
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res\layout\status_bar_tracking.xml has the background color. Change to image:
<View android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
Copy the file from the theme in my sig if you need a working reference. It has no clock in the bar and no text in the toggles as well.
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Wow thanks! I'll do that now.
EDIT: Using APK Manager 4.9, I keep getting errors while decompiling SystemUI.apk. Any reason or special method to decompile it?
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version 2
I just wanted to share with you all my custom status bar, honeycomb style battery mod and drop down window for all GINGERBREAD & FROYO GSM roms with CWR except cm7 (I will make one if interest arrives)
CDMA users: SOMEONE SEND ME A STOCK FRAMEWORK.APK
I took the gingerbread overcome gold theme and icons and changed some things.
Thanks to the overcome gold guys.
Thanks to mendozinas for making most of this possible.
Here is what I changed.
*BatteryMod - changed it to a colorful blue hybrid Honeycomb style icon, that shows percentage, and changes progressively from red (low batt) to yellow, light blue then a darker blue. Appears on your lockscreen also.
*Window Animation - TAKEN OUT, BACK TO STOCK AMINAMTIONS upon request.
*Changed overscroll glow colors to custom light blue, dropped transparency of windows
* Status bar icons are now blue
*Status bar - changed background
*Status bar time is now blue. so are written notifications. New blue status bar system radio icons
*Dropped transparency of carrier label
*Customized the Drop down window. window is 0%, also altered style and color of Notification bar, header is transparent now. Made Background transparent around 4 service icons its now blue on black with white text for ongoing items, instead if black on black, dropped transparency
* made the colors more uniform
*A few more things.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL GSM USERS
ALLWAYS do a nandroid backup of anything you change, so you can revert easily. I prefer cwr backups.
Have cwr
Just download correct version and place on sd card. (BlueBarMod ZIP is for gingerbread and FROYO ZIP is, well.......)
flash in CWR.
use fix permissions option.
Reboot and enjoy
Just wanted to share.
New flashable and pics UPLOADED!!!
HIT THE THANKS BUTTON IF THIS BRIGHTENED YOUR TABS DAY
*reserved*
CDMA someone send me a framework.apk so i can get one up .for u
Thanks, downloaded and installed no prob!
Great work
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Thanks, downloaded and installed no prob!
Great work
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How do you like the new window animations?
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How do you like the new window animations?
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They are, *sniff* beautiful.
makes my tabs much mire animated.
Looking nice man. Will this work on the new overcome kernel?
Damnnnn ! Goood theme ! Good windows animation like ubuntu lol this run on overcome gold ! Just one thing , can i remove the 'notifications' text on the status bar ;-) ?!
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Installed on Overcome RC1 (Haven't gone Gold yet... still doesn't seem quite right)
Everything looks GREAT! No offense to AB86 or the Overcome team, but the notification bar on RC1 was not functional. This looks great, and I love the animations! The new clock font for the lockscreen is pretty cool too.
All in all, 9 stars out of 10
Also... since you obviously know the answer to life , the universe and everything("42"), I wont mention what I think would make it a 10/10
No offence mate but how do I go back to the stock notification layout? Its really awesome, just too much eye candy for me Hope you can help me out here mate.
Cheers!
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No offence mate but how do I go back to the stock notification layout? Its really awesome, just too much eye candy for me Hope you can help me out here mate.
Cheers!
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Rule #1 of flashing ANYTHING. Nandroid first, flash second.
You need to reflash your stock ROM most likely... Unless you can piece together what changes where made and rewrite your framework.... Yeah, that'd be fun :/ Or if you have a Nandroid, use it... But if it's not recent, you'll loose any changes since the backup.
Fantastic work mate. Genuinely different from most I have come across and fun too!! The fonts very cool I think, not sure about its longevity but for now I'm enjoying it.
Cheers.
I have a sprint tab.can this work, looks great.iam rooted,how do I flash.dont think I have clockwork rocovey.cant seem to be able to flash it.can I flash in rom manager useing the verizon clockwork.thanks.P.S. New to tap but flashed my vibrant many many times.so I understand some stuff.
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if anyone wants anything changed please let me know. I will post a few alternative ones.
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I have a sprint tab.can this work, looks great.iam rooted,how do I flash.dont think I have clockwork rocovey.cant seem to be able to flash it.can I flash in rom manager useing the verizon clockwork.thanks.P.S. New to tap but flashed my vibrant many many times.so I understand some stuff.
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I will look into a method for you.
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Fantastic work mate. Genuinely different from most I have come across and fun too!! The fonts very cool I think, not sure about its longevity but for now I'm enjoying it.
Cheers.
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anything you want changed? I know the window animation isnt for everyone. try spare parts to make the animation much faster.
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Looking nice man. Will this work on the new overcome kernel?
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yes it will, any gsm gingerbread except CM7.
rurouniphana said:
Damnnnn ! Goood theme ! Good windows animation like ubuntu lol this run on overcome gold ! Just one thing , can i remove the 'notifications' text on the status bar ;-) ?!
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Did you want a different color?
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No offence mate but how do I go back to the stock notification layout? Its really awesome, just too much eye candy for me Hope you can help me out here mate.
Cheers!
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You want everything back to stock? check back in about an hour or so.
All is good, but just this pixel text in a status bar notification when i m down simple black it s good i think.
So very good job boii
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Good work man. Just a tip and a request. First add an extra step of fixing permissions after flashing this in tabs that has other modded themes otherwise it will flash but wont be applied on boot.
As for the request (you did say you were open for change). Can we have the notification area clear instead of white grid (hehe reminds me of primary school math notebooks).
I know the triumph is the new kid on the block and doesn't have a lot of dev or theme work for it yet,but was just wondering if anyone has accomplished making the status bar and pull down black with white lettering? if so... how?
thx
I've tried a couple metamorph themes, as well as an apk I found named GingerBar, all to no avail. Hopefully with CM7 just around the bend we will see black notification bars on our triumphs
I've been trying the same thing. I've tried flashing several metamorph themes and such, even .zip to be installed from recovery. Nothing actually worked. A few metamorph themes just installed indefinitely without finishing. I did a restore from my backup just to make sure there's no damage. I made this thread on HowardForums and someone suggest UOkitchen or whatever it's called lol, but that's seems crazy time consuming. Also, someone posted a screenshot here on XDA in the show your homescreen thread with a modified status bar, might be worth sending him a message asking how, maybe he or she would be willing to help
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I've been trying the same thing. I've tried flashing several metamorph themes and such, even .zip to be installed from recovery. Nothing actually worked. A few metamorph themes just installed indefinitely without finishing. I did a restore from my backup just to make sure there's no damage. I made this thread on HowardForums and someone suggest UOkitchen or whatever it's called lol, but that's seems crazy time consuming. Also, someone posted a screenshot here on XDA in the show your homescreen thread with a modified status bar, might be worth sending him a message asking how, maybe he or she would be willing to help
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I would try the UOT Kitchen. Its less time consuming than the methods previously mentioned
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I would try the UOT Kitchen. Its less time consuming than the methods previously mentioned
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it makes the status bar black, but it doesn't change the text color from black to white
ceejay83 said:
it makes the status bar black, but it doesn't change the text color from black to white
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Okay, well since there is root access it should be able to be done right?
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nbeebe24 said:
Okay, well since there is root access it should be able to be done right?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
i tried opening the services.jar with winrar like the guide says, but can't find any of the files in there. i was told i need to open it up with java, but it's getting too technical for me. maybe you can figure it out
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
i tried opening the services.jar with winrar like the guide says, but can't find any of the files in there. i was told i need to open it up with java, but it's getting too technical for me. maybe you can figure it out
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I'm taking a trip to Ohio tomorrow morning at 4 a.m., 10 hour drive IF there's absolutely no traffic. I can't sleep, because if I do my dad'll have trouble staying awake lol. I have a car-to-wall outlet charger thingy that works with my laptop, so I'll give it a shot on the way. I'll let you know how it goes!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
i tried opening the services.jar with winrar like the guide says, but can't find any of the files in there. i was told i need to open it up with java, but it's getting too technical for me. maybe you can figure it out
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I should br receiving mine soon so I'll look into it as well
I found a bunch of themes at droidpirate. com. They all seem to work pretty well
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elflip88 said:
I found a bunch of themes at droidpirate. com. They all seem to work pretty well
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The metamorph themes? Which themes are you referring too?
what MM theme works on triumph?
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what mm theme works on triumph?
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yup yes indeed
mm themes don't change the text color, so it'll be black text on black bar and you won't see anything
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The metamorph themes? Which themes are you referring too?
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Yrah they're metamorph themes. There for the status bar, status background, and for all the icons on the status bar
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Yea just go to Droid pirate and use metamorph... who really needs a clock on the status bar anyways? U can theme all the notifications and status bar icons and turn the bar black.
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I'm still working on the "white text" half of the conundrum, but in the mean time something like Fancy Widgets should be good enough.
Although a black-bar-white-text theme is something that's a personal goal.
Metamorph makes it easy, but it has a lot more bugs than flashing a theme.
Okay so I am slowly diving into theming and decided to look into some XML edits. My goal is to make some edits to the status bar and move the clock to the center, notification icons to the right, and signal and battery icons to the left. Here are the steps that I took:
1. Using APK Manager, I placed the SystemUI.apk from Humble 5.0 in the place-apk-here-for-modding folder
2. Selected the apk using TWframework-res as a dependency and then decompiled systemui.
3. Navigated to projects/SystemUI.apk/res/layout and clicked edit on the status_bar XML file.
4. Went to the line containing com.android.systemui.statusbar.IconMerger and changed androidaddingLeft="6.0dip" to Right and changed android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" to Right
5. Changed the line containing android:id="@id/statusIcons from androidaddingRight="6.0dip" to Left and changed android:layout_alignParentRight="true" to Left.
6.Changed the line containing com.android.systemui.statusbar.Clock from androidaddingLeft="6.0dip" to Center and left the rest of the line alone.
Can anyone with more knowledge of XML edits help shed some light on whether or not this will do what I am looking to accomplish or if there is more to it than making these little changes? I'd eventually like to find a way to move the status bar to the bottom of the screen similar to the Nook Color but I gotta take this one step at a time, haha. Any insight is more than appreciated!
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Okay so I am slowly diving into theming and decided to look into some XML edits. My goal is to make some edits to the status bar and move the clock to the center, notification icons to the right, and signal and battery icons to the left.
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You need to change a lot more than just that. Give me a few minutes and I'll link you to a guide. I was able to use this guide to get the following changes:
Centered clock
Icons on the left
Notifications on the right
Only problem with my results is that the notifications overlapped the clock.
Here's the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361715
Make sure you "thank" TheGrammarFreak for the write up!
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You need to change a lot more than just that. Give me a few minutes and I'll link you to a guide. I was able to use this guide to get the following changes:
Centered clock
Icons on the left
Notifications on the right
Only problem with my results is that the notifications overlapped the clock.
Here's the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361715
Make sure you "thank" TheGrammarFreak for the write up!
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Yeah. The only way around this is to give the notification icons a background color instead of having them just be transparent.
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Yeah. The only way around this is to give the notification icons a background color instead of having them just be transparent.
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Hey if you're available I'm gonna hit you up on gtalk sometime tomorrow cuz I need some serious help with this statusbar background lol. I can't get anything to work haha.
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Yea I figured it was much more involved. Thanks for the link spc, I'll post up a screenshot once I figure all this out. Once I get the hang of this I may even try to get notification icons to work using Statusbar+. I think its very clean looking and, since I'm going for the WP7 look, it's a WP7 status bar but doesn't support notifications.
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You need to change a lot more than just that. Give me a few minutes and I'll link you to a guide. I was able to use this guide to get the following changes:
Centered clock
Icons on the left
Notifications on the right
Only problem with my results is that the notifications overlapped the clock.
Here's the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361715
Make sure you "thank" TheGrammarFreak for the write up!
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yeah thats about as close you can get to center clock mod without diving into smali
the mod used in tsm parts and other apps like that is different and puts the clock in the center in a different fashion and doesnt overlap, but will still be present when u use the pulldown
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Yea I figured it was much more involved. Thanks for the link spc, I'll post up a screenshot once I figure all this out. Once I get the hang of this I may even try to get notification icons to work using Statusbar+. I think its very clean looking and, since I'm going for the WP7 look, it's a WP7 status bar but doesn't support notifications.
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Let me know if you figured it out. If not I can let you know how to do it.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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