I sometimes use Maps and Waze in split screen and on 13 I see the notification bar is hidden. I need to be able to see my battery charge and more but cannot.
I can drag at the screen to get a temporary view but it moves the map also. I find this to suck butter milk.
Can I split screen and keep the notification bar?
Thanks
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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.
People... sometimes I miss all the 4.7 screen for games or reading. Then I thought about an easy way to turn the notification and status bar on and off at my will, not needing to reboot the phone or mess with the build.prop everytime.
My phone is the xt925 and I use ICS 4.0.4 Retail Brazil rooted.
All you need are two programs (they are paid and totally worth the money) + ROOT (rooting is very important for them to work). Of course you can try other programs. I´m not advertising. I´m just giving an idea.
Download 'GMD hide bar' to have control over the notification and status bar at your will. And also download 'Virtual Button Bar' to replace the notification bars.
When I want to read my ebooks or play some games I use these 2 programs and they always work pretty well.
Also, Virtual Button Bar has a really nice function that is: The button controls stay hidden on the position you want of the screen and then, if you just pass your finger in front of the light sensor (don´t even need to touch the screen), they appear.
Its really convenient and awesome!
Hope you enjoy!
=p
I tried GMD Hide Bar on my Maxx HD running JB (4.1.1) but every time it hid the Navigation Bar on the bottom it also hid the Status Bar on the top. I've found several apps that'll hide them both but no app that'd hide the bottom bar and NOT the top bar. I assume that the reason these apps are set up like this is that in tablets running JB the two sets of functions are BOTH in the bottom bar, not in two separate bars. Have you been able to get GMD Hide Bar to hide the Navigation Bar and not the Status Bar?
Hello,
I use an app called Display Brightness which allows me to toggle the brightness instantly with an overlay bar in the notification bar. I just installed it onto my S8+ and it doesn't appear within that notification bar, it displays it just under it which kind of ruins any apps that require text input at the top (which seems to be a lot).
Is there any reason for this? Or is there any alternative app which allows instantly display toggle from the notification bar?
Thanks
nugget123 said:
Hello,
I use an app called Display Brightness which allows me to toggle the brightness instantly with an overlay bar in the notification bar. I just installed it onto my S8+ and it doesn't appear within that notification bar, it displays it just under it which kind of ruins any apps that require text input at the top (which seems to be a lot).
Is there any reason for this? Or is there any alternative app which allows instantly display toggle from the notification bar?
Thanks
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Look at screenshots attached.
This is what i use
One app is called Lux Dash (Play Store)
Other snapshot is an app Shortcutter ((Play Store)
It might give you some idea what to do.
The built-in brightness bar can even be shown just above the notification bar, without having to expand the quick settings panel.
And apparently in the future Android O the TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY will be deprecated and apps overlaying the status bar will no longer work.
https://www.xda-developers.com/android-o-is-breaking-apps-that-overlay-on-top-of-the-status-bar/
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Hmm that's disappointing that they are going to make this feature obsolete, this app has been by far the most useful ever, oddly, when I restart the S8, the brightness toggle overlay does appear in the notification bar but then after a few minutes, it appears further down again as shown in the screen shot.
This screen shot shows the S7 toggle bar working perfectly
This screen shot shows the S8 working less perfectly lol
I understand the default one can show at the top of the notifications bar but that requires the drawer being pulled down doesn't it? This app allows toggle immediately from the top of the phone on any app etc without any further touch
Currently my status bar will show about 4-5 notification icons before it shows the "dot dot dot" icon meaning there are more notifications but no room to show them. When this happens there is still a ton of space left to show more icons. Unfortunately the icons that do display are usually persistent ones, so when I get notifications that I actually care about I'm unaware until I pull down the notification pane.
Is there any way to change this behavior so that emui continues to display new notification icons instead of hiding them?
No way to remedy this I guess - bummer, it's my only real complaint about this phone (EMUI I guess). Constantly have to be pulling my notifications panel down, otherwise I miss notifications because they don't all display in the notification bar.
Both of these things happened on the Android 10 update. Randomly ongoing notifications will take up basically the whole shade with blank information. Requires me force closing the app for them to go away.
The 2nd issue is that hitting the bottom of the space bar (actually the whole bottom row) does not work anymore when I have navigation gestures on. It detects the input, as noted in the attached gif, but the keyboard just does not register it.
Yes that's an annoying change or bug that there's an invisible space at the bottom where input isn't registered.
If you are using the Android 10/Google implementation of navigation gestures there's a magisk module called "Immersive Gestural Navigation Bar (Q)" that's supposed to get rid of this bar.
Sadly this doesn't work for the Asus implementation as this one has the same problem since Android 10, which it didn't have on Android Pie.
You can observe this black bar by starting Super Mario Run e.g.
It's also very noticable even though it's not visible in the Youtube app in landscape mode when you want to click the 3 dot menu button.