Is there a way to change the status bar (where it shows Wifi, 3G/4G, Time) and so on in an HTC-esque look? The reason I picked out the HTC DNA is because I hate hate hate hate the way the Samsung UI looks compared to that of the DNA, I have a 14 day trial and the lack of an external sd card and the battery is killing me and the Galaxy was my 2nd choice but I hate the status bar
ROM or Theme customization certainly has access to the status bar UI.
EchoX860 said:
Is there a way to change the status bar (where it shows Wifi, 3G/4G, Time) and so on in an HTC-esque look? The reason I picked out the HTC DNA is because I hate hate hate hate the way the Samsung UI looks compared to that of the DNA, I have a 14 day trial and the lack of an external sd card and the battery is killing me and the Galaxy was my 2nd choice but I hate the status bar
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the status bar is one of the easiest things to theme IMHO, not many .9 files, usually only have to deal with just the SystemUI.apk, unless you are adding MODs that incorporate into settings.apk or something.
anyway, could you be more specific about what you want, because the DNA has no toggles, it's just a plain pull down...
or are you asking for a black status bar, (or HTC colored, either or can be done) and then the signal icons,, like wifi/signal/battery/4g/3g etc..?
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All the "Desire bar" / BlackBar morphs and themes that I've looked at use the same icons for data connectivity, with text (G/E/3G/H) directly above the arrows. These icons have a "bug" - they look like they've been brought together from several places, and when you loop between them - you see the different arrows, fonts and location, which makes the experience very annoying when they flash on the screen.
I tried to use the stock icons on the Desire bar, but their background was visible on the bar, annoying to the eye.
So I took 15 min and removed that background (setting it transparent), leaving the arrows and text. The result is attached and can be used in themes/morphs/ROMs for black or dark notification bar.
I've modified the Desire notification bar morph by XebozZ to include those icons and stock battery icon, to be able to morph in 1 step. It works only for pre-themed ROMs (having pre-themed white notification bar text version) or latest Enomther, CM6 and others (allowing to change the notification bar text color). See 2nd post for morphs.
I've decided to share the morphed Black notification bar that I use for myself. Since I do it for myself, it'll naturally be made for the ROMs I use - which happen to be Enomther's.
Will work on Enomther's ROM starting 2.12.prealpha and up, CyanogenMod 6.0, or any other ROM that supports white text notifications.
Download and apply the attached morph, using stericson's Metamorph from the market.
Don't forget to change notification text colors in Spare Parts.
I didn't try other morph apps, you can do it, don't complain if it doesn't work, though.
My morph includes the following changes from the usual Desire Bar found everywhere else:
1) Modified stock data connectivity icons from the 1st post.
2) Stock battery indicator (the % are too large for DesireBar battery indicator, doesn't look good IMHO).
Thanks to Saphroxx for Desire Bar morph template, dumbestcrayon for the update.zip template of older versions, Enomther for ROM, stericson for Metamorph, and the rest of thanks to the people behind Andoid, both community and corporate.
For those that like Desire/Sense battery icons, Sapproxx made a version that includes them instead of stock battery icons:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7983261&postcount=20
Will this work with Enom's stock ROM or should I flash the Prethemed White text file he has on his thread before I flash this?
Edit: Nevermind. I re-read a part of your 2nd post and I see you included his services.jar.
Thanks, man! I really appreciate this!
Updated for 2.11.3.
Services.jar is erroring out on install.
Edit: Says E: Wrong Digest and gives the location of services.jar.
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Thanks mate, morph works fine with cm6 nightly.
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Services.jar is erroring out on install.
Edit: Says E: Wrong Digest and gives the location of services.jar.
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Sorry, forgot to sign the ZIP.
Please download again, I've updated the file.
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Sorry, forgot to sign the ZIP.
Please download again, I've updated the file.
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Perfect, man.
Thanks again for this. It's my favorite notification bar so far.
Have you thought about doing one of these in pure black? I know there's somebody out there who has a pure black one, but I didn't like his battery icons and everything. The icons and the way this is put together is exactly what I like, and maybe a pure black one without the glossy highlights would be cool too. Just sayin'...
Also, have you noticed that the battery percentage is slightly to the left in the battery icon? Is that something that is fixable or is it just the way Enom's ROM displays the battery percentage?
Thanks again for your work.
I can do the pure black, it's only a matter of changing a single PNG file - but personally I don't like the pure black, the area "melts" with black background and the bar isn't distinguishable.
The battery percentage is a bit tricky. The icon is shifted right - because of the "nose" of the battery, which has to protrude left, but the battery also has to remain within icon boundaries and be balanced between them. So to make the text in the middle of the battery, it has to be shifted right several pixels. The text appears exactly in the middle of the icon space - but since the battery is shifted right because of the "nose", the text seems a bit left.
i take it this doesn't work with leo's 2.0?
Using a morph - it works with ANY deodexed ROM.
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I can do the pure black, it's only a matter of changing a single PNG file - but personally I don't like the pure black, the area "melts" with black background and the bar isn't distinguishable.
The battery percentage is a bit tricky. The icon is shifted right - because of the "nose" of the battery, which has to protrude left, but the battery also has to remain within icon boundaries and be balanced between them. So to make the text in the middle of the battery, it has to be shifted right several pixels. The text appears exactly in the middle of the icon space - but since the battery is shifted right because of the "nose", the text seems a bit left.
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That's cool. I just figured I would suggest it. Thanks for the bar you've already done, which is pretty much all I've used since I switched to Enom's ROM.
can we get a screenshot of the reuslt pls...
Posted in the 1st post.
Bumping for an update to 2.12 pre-alpha!
Since I've realized that Enomther's ROM has the text color set in Spare Parts now, I've updated the 2nd post to suggest using morph method for Enomther's 2.12.prealpha and up.
Jack_R1 said:
Since I've realized that Enomther's ROM has the text color set in Spare Parts now, I've updated the 2nd post to suggest using morph method for Enomther's 2.12.prealpha and up.
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Works like a charm. Highly recommended.
The same instructions that MicroMod777 gives for his themes work for this one too.
"To properly set white text colors go to "Spare Parts", "Status Bar Options", "Status Bar Colors", "Set All Colors", use code "ffffffff". Then go back to "Notification Items", and set them ALL black to: "ff000000". Then Reboot."
The only other thing to get this looking exactly like the 2.11.3 zip version is to go into Status Bar Options -> Status Bar Colors -> Notifications in Pull-Down and make sure Clean Notifications Button is also set to ff000000. This is supposed to say "Clear Notifications Button" but he mistyped it.
thx for continuing my work and the reference. Note that my nickname contains an "h" though as in Saphroxx.
Only thing I noticed is that the stock battery icon is there now instead of the desire battery indicator.
Good job on fixing the differences in arrows mate
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thx for continuing my work and the reference. Note that my nickname contains an "h" though as in Saphroxx.
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Fixed 10chars
For the people who prefer the Desire/Sense battery icons, like I do, I created this alternative Desirebar-Black-Pulldown-SenseBatteryIcons.
To be applied with Metamorph.
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Everyone will be knowing that MIUI supports transparent notification - (http://img.tapatalk.com/62cede0e-f9b4-58c5.jpg)
I prefer using the TW launcher rather than the MIUI launcher - of course, I know that I can still use MIUI notification drawer on the TW launcher, but the problem is that you lose the transparency on the home screen ... with most drawer themes.
I noticed that the notification drawer theme "Galaxy S" - is actually transparent, even on TW home screen.... my question is, does any one know how to make ANY notification bar transparent, or know of any other themes that have this transparency effect on TW?
+1 would love transparent bar on apex with miui!
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Also thank you for the galaxy s suggestion.. Status bar looks nice but unfortunately the notification drawer looks terrible! Any way to only change the status bar, or any notification themes with the same drawer, but transparent bar??
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octavian90 said:
+1 would love transparent bar on apex with miui!
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Also thank you for the galaxy s suggestion.. Status bar looks nice but unfortunately the notification drawer looks terrible! Any way to only change the status bar, or any notification themes with the same drawer, but transparent bar??
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I am not an expert at these things but i am pretty sure they cant be seperated. Its true, the drawer is quite bad... Too dark for the font used. Have tried a few other themes with no success
octavian90 said:
+1 would love transparent bar on apex with miui!
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Also thank you for the galaxy s suggestion.. Status bar looks nice but unfortunately the notification drawer looks terrible! Any way to only change the status bar, or any notification themes with the same drawer, but transparent bar??
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Ok... I have just made a discovery!!
You cant change the background to the drawer.. But you can combine texts and icons from another theme.
1. Go to theme then set the theme you like the text, colour and icons of. i like the 'gentleman' theme
2. Then go back to theme and then go to 'mix' and change only the 'status bar, to ' galaxy S'
Of course, mix and match everything else. Looks perfect now.
Just spent hours trying to modify themes using theme editor, and also modifying systemui.apk... Failed sigh.
Any theming wizards able to make the status bar background Grey or clear with apex launcher?? Basically I figured out that there is no file for status bar background, and the miui launcher defaults to clear, while apex defaults to black. I tried adding a Grey background, but failed..
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octavian90 said:
Just spent hours trying to modify themes using theme editor, and also modifying systemui.apk... Failed sigh.
Any theming wizards able to make the status bar background Grey or clear with apex launcher?? Basically I figured out that there is no file for status bar background, and the miui launcher defaults to clear, while apex defaults to black. I tried adding a Grey background, but failed..
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Hi, now i dont know anything about the theme wizard... But i am going to try the apex launcher to see if i can sort the issue out myself toward the end of this week. will be an interesting thing to sort out. Be sure to keep me posted...
nirpaudyal said:
Everyone will be knowing that MIUI supports transparent notification - (http://img.tapatalk.com/62cede0e-f9b4-58c5.jpg)
I prefer using the TW launcher rather than the MIUI launcher - of course, I know that I can still use MIUI notification drawer on the TW launcher, but the problem is that you lose the transparency on the home screen ... with most drawer themes.
I noticed that the notification drawer theme "Galaxy S" - is actually transparent, even on TW home screen.... my question is, does any one know how to make ANY notification bar transparent, or know of any other themes that have this transparency effect on TW?
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Try immerse statusbar for MIUI
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Try immerse statusbar for MIUI
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wow how old this thread is! and how Android has moved on since!
Hi im just wondering if there would be a way to add apps icons ,like in Windows quicklaunch in the taskbar,since there is so much space in between.or even just icons for recently used apps.or dropdown liek the one in the time,batt status .Ive never liked the multitask..i dont know why..
found one app,works well enough
Notification Toggle
ive been searching for some time now and i really cant quite find what im looking for, i have rearranged my statusbar icons layout to match the ios statusbar layout of icons, now my only problem is the notification icons the overlap with the clock, what i want to do is to stop dislplaying the icon of the notification and just show the stat_notify_more icon instead regardless if there is only just one or more notifications, does anyone have an idea how to do this?
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thirdzcee said:
ive been searching for some time now and i really cant quite find what im looking for, i have rearranged my statusbar icons layout to match the ios statusbar layout of icons, now my only problem is the notification icons the overlap with the clock, what i want to do is to stop dislplaying the icon of the notification and just show the stat_notify_more icon instead regardless if there is only just one or more notifications, does anyone have an idea how to do this?
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in cm is a option that the notification symbols geht not al showed theres is then a little number which you show how many notifications you have araived.
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was that what you wanted to know??:cyclops:
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in cm is a option that the notification symbols geht not al showed theres is then a little number which you show how many notifications you have araived.
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was that what you wanted to know??:cyclops:
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unfortunately im not running cm as it is not available for my device due to lack of sources, i was jus wondering if its some xml or smali i have to modify
Samsung retread here. Had S9 years ago then went to Pixel 1XL then Pixel 3XL. Old fan of XDA and now find the need to "fix" crap with the Samsung crap put on here. I have the S21+ from Google Fi. Got rid of Bixby as well as the Samsung keyboard which prevented all of my restored apps from being able to use autofill. So much crap on here for a phone that is not supposed to have Samsung bloatware installed. So where I am is that I need to enlarge the status bar. The icons are too small. Anyone know if this can be done? I want the signal bar and all of the icons along the top to be enlarged a little bit.
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Samsung retread here. Had S9 years ago then went to Pixel 1XL then Pixel 3XL. Old fan of XDA and now find the need to "fix" crap with the Samsung crap put on here. I have the S21+ from Google Fi. Got rid of Bixby as well as the Samsung keyboard which prevented all of my restored apps from being able to use autofill. So much crap on here for a phone that is not supposed to have Samsung bloatware installed. So where I am is that I need to enlarge the status bar. The icons are too small. Anyone know if this can be done? I want the signal bar and all of the icons along the top to be enlarged a little bit.
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Is this a stupid question or does no one know?
don't know, never tried. is the status bar rendering a function of the launcher or lower level OS/UX layers?
85gallon said:
Samsung retread here. Had S9 years ago then went to Pixel 1XL then Pixel 3XL. Old fan of XDA and now find the need to "fix" crap with the Samsung crap put on here. I have the S21+ from Google Fi. Got rid of Bixby as well as the Samsung keyboard which prevented all of my restored apps from being able to use autofill. So much crap on here for a phone that is not supposed to have Samsung bloatware installed. So where I am is that I need to enlarge the status bar. The icons are too small. Anyone know if this can be done? I want the signal bar and all of the icons along the top to be enlarged a little bit.
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I don't know how Samsung themes work but icon size is determined by dimens.xml in the systemui.apk res/values folder.
I have an S21 and I too wish you could enlarge the icons in the status bar, as it stands they are pretty useless to read at a glance.
As far as I'm aware this is not possible however there is a hack to enlarge the clock and battery percentage that I found that works.
How to increase the size of status bar icons?
in note 9 When you changing the screen size the size of the status bar icons Also change. but in note 10 the status bar is very small and not changed. is there a method to increase it.
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