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Add tray icon?

I need to have a tray icon for my app, up there with EDGE/3G, Battery and Sound-level.
I have tried the opennetcf's Notify class, but it don't do what I want it to.
Googled alot without any solution, doesn't even seem to be a popular request? I suppose this would be quite crucial to many apps!
What I want to do is:
Add an icon up there, when this is clicked, run some code in my app.
Posibility to change the look of the icon at run time, I guess this could be done by deleting and adding the icon again...

Remove location icon (reticule/crosshairs)

Is there any way to remove the location icon from the notification bar?
I do NOT want to turn location off, I do not want to turn GPS off, I do not want to turn network location off, I just want the icon to disappear.
Still running an older Damage v2 if that makes a diff.
Thanks..

typeadam said:
Is there any way to remove the location icon from the notification bar?
I do NOT want to turn location off, I do not want to turn GPS off, I do not want to turn network location off, I just want the icon to disappear.
Still running an older Damage v2 if that makes a diff.
Thanks..
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you'll have to pull your com.htc.resources.apk from \system\framework, you can use fresh kitchen, regaw toolbox, adb, etc to do this.
Open the apk with 7zip and extract. leave 7zip open as you'll need to drop the res folder back in there later.
in the extracted zip go to the res folder, then drawable-mdpi.
Find the images:
sym_gpsone_0_sprint.png
sym_gpsone_0_vzw.png
sym_gpsone_3_sprint.png
sym_gpsone_3_vzw.png
open these images in gimp or photoshop and delete the image and once transparent save the file as the same name in the same folder.
once done take the res folder from which you just edited and drop back in the com.htc.resources.apk
push the file back to the device to the system/framework folder.
your gps images are now transparent.

sdotcarlisle said:
you'll have to pull your com.htc.resources.apk from \system\framework, you can use fresh kitchen, regaw toolbox, adb, etc to do this.
Open the apk with 7zip and extract. leave 7zip open as you'll need to drop the res folder back in there later.
in the extracted zip go to the res folder, then drawable-mdpi.
Find the images:
sym_gpsone_0_sprint.png
sym_gpsone_0_vzw.png
sym_gpsone_3_sprint.png
sym_gpsone_3_vzw.png
open these images in gimp or photoshop and delete the image and once transparent save the file as the same name in the same folder.
once done take the res folder from which you just edited and drop back in the com.htc.resources.apk
push the file back to the device to the system/framework folder.
your gps images are now transparent.
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OK, these might be 2 stupid follow-up questions but I need to make sure.
1. Does this remove the "satellite (GPS)" icon or the "location (reticule)" icon?
2. Will this leave a gap in the place of the icon?
Example: now I have GSP|loc|EVDO, will it be GPS|EVDO or GPS|__|EVDO ?

typeadam said:
OK, these might be 2 stupid follow-up questions but I need to make sure.
1. Does this remove the "satellite (GPS)" icon or the "location (reticule)" icon?
2. Will this leave a gap in the place of the icon?
Example: now I have GSP|loc|EVDO, will it be GPS|EVDO or GPS|__|EVDO ?
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Yes it will leave a gap. The only way you could comletely remove the icon would be to either modify the GPS/Location services and make them stop reporting to the task bar...OR modify the taskbar to ignore the GPS/Location services......

Kcarpenter said:
Yes it will leave a gap. The only way you could comletely remove the icon would be to either modify the GPS/Location services and make them stop reporting to the task bar...OR modify the taskbar to ignore the GPS/Location services......
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those are the location services if you still want to remove the gps icon it should be in same folder can't remember the image name. it will leave a gap as it will still be an image just transparent. I don't know how to do what Kcarpenter said but that would be the only way to not have gap.

sdotcarlisle said:
those are the location services if you still want to remove the gps icon it should be in same folder can't remember the image name. it will leave a gap as it will still be an image just transparent. I don't know how to do what Kcarpenter said but that would be the only way to not have gap.
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There is not a good way to do what I suggested....smali/baksmali is the only way it COULD be done.

Kcarpenter said:
There is not a good way to do what I suggested....smali/baksmali is the only way it COULD be done.
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Just thought I'd ask since I've seen and used the "no clock" mod, where there was no clock gap after the clock's been removed...
Thanks, I'll just make peace w/ it..

typeadam said:
Just thought I'd ask since I've seen and used the "no clock" mod, where there was no clock gap after the clock's been removed...
Thanks, I'll just make peace w/ it..
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the clockless taskbar was accomplished with Smali/Baksmali
Difficult stuff to work with if you dont know what you are looking for.

Enabling the HSDPA symbol

How do you enabled the H symbol for HSDPA?

Some custom ROMS have it or some customer task bars do as well.

I have read on the Tmobile forum that it can enabled with a simple registry edit, is this true?

I Punch Babies said:
I have read on the Tmobile forum that it can enabled with a simple registry edit, is this true?
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I wouldn't be surprised if it is possible to enable it in the registry for the stock icons, but I've never seen one (for this phone or TP2). It always just started appearing anytime I put on custom taskbar icons like speoples mentioned, and that was good enough for me

There is a factory 3g+ icon which I saw for a period of time on my Wife's bone stock HD2.

Ooh, I've been looking into this, since I really wanted the network icon (G/E/3G/H) and didn't really want to install a custom taskbar. Major kudos to all who create them, since I know it's a lot of work, but I 'like' the stock WM6.5 taskbar icons. Most of the custom taskbars are brightly coloured and tacky, or in a style that doesn't match the rest of my interface - I want something that looks, hm, polished and like it's supposed to be there.
The lack of network icon can reportedly be fixed by installing one of the percentage battery indicators - but which one, I'm unsure, since I get super-paranoid about battery drain if I see the percentage, and simply prefer not to do so - thus I never installed it.
Now, I'm unsure whether T-Mo actually took those icons OUT of the ROM's DLLs, or if they just have some kind of overlay/registry entries that prevent them from being shown. This could be checked by extracting the applicable DLL from the stock ROM - I believe it is shellres.192.dll that handles those icons - and checking said DLL to see if the icons are still there
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Also of note, EU HD2s DO have the network icon visible - so it would theoretically be an easy fix if we could get hold of the EU stock DLLs and associated registry entries. The 'fix' of installing the percentage battery increase, which undoubtedly does include said DLLs, clearly shows this is possible. Of course, for those not wanting the battery percentage, it should be sort of easy-ish to get hold of the cab, disassemble, compare the DLLs to the T-Mo stock, and swap out the battery-associated files, leaving the network icons intact and the battery unchanged.
But since I'm A. Not a dev, just a tech enthusiast who likes to tinker, and B. Lazy as hell, I didn't do any of this.
Instead, I decided I'd muck around with some of the Android taskbars (Which, being created from original Android graphics, look more polished than most custom bars) and see if I could keep my existing custom top and bottom bar skins, as well as my custom start icon. Thankfully, I could, so I'm now happily using Dark Ninja's Android iconset on stock 6.5, including network icons, and I don't have the silly Android start button. Glee!
But I'd be keen to see how anyone got on trying any of the above, since all the searching only revealed a few threads with no result beyond "Install a custom bar" and "Try the percentage battery". Apparently the T-Mo TP2 has the same problem, strange thing to want to remove. Maybe they don't want people knowing offhand where HSPA is available.

[Q] Custom quick nav icons

In the past two weeks or so I've tried every method I could find on XDA and elsewhere to modify app icons and names so I could customize my quick nav buttons and make them a unified set after using Nook Touch Mod Manager to assign different apps to them (I know...picky, picky, picky).
Clearly some people have done this. I have not. Can someone who has done it point me in the direction of a tutorial that really works for a noob? I'm trying to change icons and names for market apps, not system apps.

Have you tried apk edit? If not look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890199
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I did. In various versions. It either ran continuously (with ADW or GMail apps, for example) or crashed on applying changes (with Opera Mobile, for example). I do have Java (v. 7) and .NET framework (4) installed. Unless I have to roll back to .NET 3.5, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
The other thing that occurs to me with APK Edit on re-reading that post is that it seems to assume a real communication to root via USB. Plugging in the Nook ST to my computer probably doesn't supply that kind of access. And I haven't gone through the trial of setting up ADB because I've never had any use for it. If I thought that would help, I'd struggle through that.

[SOLVED!]
Victory! After being emboldened by successfully modifying the menu background tones in framework-res.apk (thanks to mergen3107 here--post 23) I finally began to understand the post by ladykayaker here--post 83) and...
Ta-da!
Even better, they work :laugh:

Thanks I never would have gotten there if you hadn't helped me with getting the modded framework file back onto the Nook.
When you told me the screen font for the quicknav button icons I looked through my store of fonts and the closest thing I had was Gill Sans MT. To my eye it didn't look quite right. So I kept a stock icon in my editor all the time, side-by-side with the one I was altering. The stock font was a little taller it seemed to me. I ended up using 16 pt. but it still was not quite right, so in the end I replaced the label in the library icon (which is otherwise unchanged) so that everything would match--that was the whole idea to begin with anyway!
I tried to keep things generic enough so that even if I change apps in the background (like I just changed from the frequently malfunctioning GMail to Email) all I have to do is edit settings.db instead of creating a new quicknav icon.
Hmm....maybe that globe need to come down just a tad......

[Q] Looking for a way to change android system/quicksetting icon color.

So I am brand new to custom android roms and whatnot, and am using Carbon (for the record, completely love it), I have almost everything set up to use a medium-dark green theme, but some of the system icons (most notably the ones in quicksettings menu) stay white, even with every option set to use the hex code #ff006600 or #006600, is there any way to change that?
Also I am looking for a way to stop the volume off icon from appearing at the top right, as I almost always have my N7 muted.
TLDR: How can I change the first image to the second (but less terribly edited)