For users with the dock, and both MicroSD and SD slots utilized, the icons tend to monopolize the display area. Has anyone had any experience blocking them from displaying or any idea the extent to which these notifications can be modified?
Ideally, I'd just like the card slots and dock notification to be optional... tends to get pretty crowded pretty fast. Many thanks.
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Do you know of a wifi strength widget, i.e. tells you what the connection strength is when connected.
Tried searching the market, only wifi togglers.
edit: Retro wifi widget does it.
Wifi analyzer rocks as well
it does, but its not a widget.
I can't remember if the stock theme does this but Nextheme's wifi icon changes in the notification bar depending on strength. I don't know your exact needs but assuming you didn't know that might work.
I remember there was one with one on the themes for ahome mini. Install it , then go and download widgets from within the app and in there is the wifi widget.
Will that aHome widget work with Home++ ?
I have separate SD,RAM,APP_HDD digital meters...right now the retro analog wifi meter looks like the odd man out. Also looking for a CPU usage 1x1 widget, preferably a vertical progressbar.
Why do you want a bunch of widgets that are going to run down your battery and slow down your phone?
Stock android, even themed ones, have a wifi icon in the notification bar that tells you the strength of the signal. As for SD usage, not sure why you would have to keep that close of an eye on it to have a widget on your home screens. RAM, well I guess, but the widget itself is going to use up RAM and I don't really think the N1 is at a loss for RAM, to say the least. APPs, I suppose, you can also hold down the home button for a couple seconds and the list of apps running will pop up.
britoso said:
Will that aHome widget work with Home++ ?
I have separate SD,RAM,APP_HDD digital meters...right now the retro analog wifi meter looks like the odd man out. Also looking for a CPU usage 1x1 widget, preferably a vertical progressbar.
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It worked on the default home. The widget will be downloaded on the sd card. copy it from there to a sfae place and then get rid off the ahome.
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Why do you want a bunch of widgets that are going to run down your battery and slow down your phone?
Stock android, even themed ones, have a wifi icon in the notification bar that tells you the strength of the signal. As for SD usage, not sure why you would have to keep that close of an eye on it to have a widget on your home screens. RAM, well I guess, but the widget itself is going to use up RAM and I don't really think the N1 is at a loss for RAM, to say the least. APPs, I suppose, you can also hold down the home button for a couple seconds and the list of apps running will pop up.
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Just used to getting a overview of my superphone status with a glance.
The built wifi-meter always is at 1 or 2 bars, so its not very helpful. Nice to see the actual strength in dBm.
Holding the home button down shows you 6 recent apps, they need not be running. AppSwipe shows you exactly whats running.
Is it possible to put bar gauges above and below the bottom bar (soft key bar) like dci battery and qwerty memory does on the top bar(task bar)?
I'm currently using dci battery and qwerty memory and also battclock. I like lots of info on my home screen, but don't want any redundancy and don't want to cover up some task bar items I like.
I just got the new version of battclock and it's got some nice capabilities, but I don't want to use them all on the task bar. I do want to replace the little battery gauge, but nothing else on my task bar. I use wktask and like how it shows open apps on the left side of my task bar (wish it had more capabilities like mmtask or arkswitch or whatever they are, but that's another issue)
I do like some of the other info battclock offers, but wish I had another way of displaying it. What I would like to do is display two more bars like dci battery and qwerty memory does except at the bottom of my screen above and below the bottom bar (softkey bar).
Does anyone know of anything like that or if it can even be done? If it can be done and doesn't exist does anyone feel like developing it?
Moved as not software release.
Does anybody know if there is a way to keep the status bar icons visible in wp7.5? Is there some option to disable the autohide function via some registry changes?
I know that this is against the minimalistic approach of wp7 and that it's easy to see the signal strenght and wi-fi signal icon, etc. just with one tap on top of the screen, but I sometimes like to have such information just at a glance, without one extra touch... especially that I often have to deal with very weak signal...
Anybody help please? I would appreciate it very much...
Not Possible atm
unless they push the setting in an update, you have to be content with the tapping top middle screen
I would also like this to happen; and there is always a way either by the way of a reg hack or a dll hack. Please someone do this
Currently not possible. But just a FYI.. If there is no signal, top bar will be automatically shown. Same applies for WiFi indicator as well.
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Currently not possible. But just a FYI.. If there is no signal, top bar will be automatically shown. Same applies for WiFi indicator as well.
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That's bad news. Maybe it's my personal opinion but I don't like having to swipe to see this information plus it leaves an akward looking space. Like I said maybe it's just me.
But for me, it presents much cleaner screen and I don't have to look at those symbols anytime. If there's an issue that needs user attention, it will be shown automatically. That's really cool imo. But We have to live with it for now.
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Hi guys,
Is there any way to make our status bar longer / wider ? It really irritates me that some notifications do not show up on the status bar (like GMail, Facebook, Tapatalk etc.), because there are other apps occuping the place in status bar permanently (like CPU Usage Monitor, Battery Indicator Pro, Tasker or Avast! Mobile Security). So sometimes if I don't catch the notification sound I can't tell there is new email, facebook event or tapatalk post just by looking at the screen. I need to click on the status bar to see all the notifications. I turned off permanent notifications for some programs like Tasker or Avast, but this way they are not prevented to be killed by internal task manager. Taking into consideration the fact that status bar occupies only small part of the screen I would say it is a huge waste of space. Is there any way to hack it and make it longer / wider to display more icons / notifications ? My HTC Sensation shows more icons in the status bar and it has this nice arrow sign to indicate there are additional notifications. Here we don't have such indicator.
I'm not absolutely sure about the stock ROM -- although I think I do know and that the answer should be in the negative -- but on CM10, for example, there is an option to display the number of open notifications in the task bar. I haven't tested it so far -- if I remember to, I will give it a shot and report back in.
Bottom line: probably on a custom ROM.
I have a formerly mysterious notification dot on the status bar. I figured out what it was for when I was investigating why the wifi and data icons weren't appearing. The notification dot indicates that there are other icons that it can't show because (I guess) it thinks it doesn't have enough room. For some reason the OS is only allowing a very small portion of the status bar to be used(see screenshot) . Why? Is there a de-clutter setting I need to turn off somewhere? Is there any way to fix this? Is this an Android 10 issue or a LineageOS 17.1 issue?
If you want details of my investigation, ok: In the status bar settings when I disable the mobile data icon, the notification dot disappears and the wifi icon appears. When I disable the wifi icon, the alarm icon replaces the notification dot. When I move the clock to the left side or the center, the alarm and wifi icons appear. When I go into the clock settings and turn off the alarms, the notification dot is replaced with the wifi icon. But the alarm clock icon wasn't showing before I turned the alarms off. In between the disabling, what was previously disabled was re-enabled.
What idiot programmer thought it would be a good idea to have a notification dot appear in the status bar and not tell you what it means? When you google Android status bar notification dot, nobody has any idea what it means. The only answer I found is from someone who figured out what it was indicating for them (different than what was indicating for me) by investigating like I did. There's no general documentation, but even if there was, it wouldn't do you any good unless it told you where to go to view notification dot messages. I assume there is no such place.
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I believe I have also seen it... LOS 17 on Moto Edge.
I think I figured out what the problem is. First here's an explanation of how the Status & Notification bar works from here:
The status bar and the notification bar are very similar, but in reality, they are two different things. The status bar is located at the top of the display, on the right. This is where you will see things like the current time, battery status, and current connections (Bluetooth, cellular network, and Wi-Fi). The Notification bar, on the other hand, is located on the upper left side, where you'll find app icons to alert you to new messages, updates to the Play Store, and other notifications.
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It looks like the OS is allocating way to much space to the left side so the right side doesn't have enough space to display its icons. I assume its actually LineageOS doing this, not Android.
This is a known gripe for certain people. It's androids attempt to plan for folks with holepunch and notch cutouts. At default zoom settings you can fit maybe 4 or 5 notifications as well as your clock and status indicators before you're full.
This is compounded by the fact that some apps (mostly messaging apps, text, telegram, gmail) respect this and will show one icon to illustrate that you have unreads, which you can then expand to see all of your various chats/emails. Other apps (looking at you youtube) will show an individual icon for every single notification. 5 unseen videos because you're at work? I guess we don't really need to know about literally any other notification we've gotten.
The best solution I've found is to set a custom dpi so that the screen is as small as is still usable, and to install gravitrybox. It comes with a setting where it will try to increase the amount of notification icons you can view. (in my case its about 9)
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This is a known gripe for certain people. It's androids attempt to plan for folks with holepunch and notch cutouts. At default zoom settings you can fit maybe 4 or 5 notifications as well as your clock and status indicators before you're full.
This is compounded by the fact that some apps (mostly messaging apps, text, telegram, gmail) respect this and will show one icon to illustrate that you have unreads, which you can then expand to see all of your various chats/emails. Other apps (looking at you youtube) will show an individual icon for every single notification. 5 unseen videos because you're at work? I guess we don't really need to know about literally any other notification we've gotten.
The best solution I've found is to set a custom dpi so that the screen is as small as is still usable, and to install gravitrybox. It comes with a setting where it will try to increase the amount of notification icons you can view. (in my case its about 9)
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The notification side isn't the problem. That side is empty most of the time for me, but I'll try gravitybox.
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The notification side isn't the problem. That side is empty most of the time for me, but I'll try gravitybox.
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looks to me like your time font is a tad large.
besides that, seems to be the same issue. android/lineage is trying to prevent the notification bar from becoming cluttered, but it is being way too aggressive.
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This is a known gripe for certain people. It's androids attempt to plan for folks with holepunch and notch cutouts. At default zoom settings you can fit maybe 4 or 5 notifications as well as your clock and status indicators before you're full.
This is compounded by the fact that some apps (mostly messaging apps, text, telegram, gmail) respect this and will show one icon to illustrate that you have unreads, which you can then expand to see all of your various chats/emails. Other apps (looking at you youtube) will show an individual icon for every single notification. 5 unseen videos because you're at work? I guess we don't really need to know about literally any other notification we've gotten.
The best solution I've found is to set a custom dpi so that the screen is as small as is still usable, and to install gravitrybox. It comes with a setting where it will try to increase the amount of notification icons you can view. (in my case its about 9)
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I didn't do the custom dpi setting, but I did do the GravityBox setting(which I think only effects the status side) and now all of the icons are showing.
The version that LSPosed installed wasn't working. It was saying: "GravityBox system framework not responding. Exiting" while the module was trying to load. I had to install the latest version(which LDSposed notified me of but wouldn't download or install) from GitHub. I had to reboot for it to take effect.