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Transparent Notification Bar?

Hello, I'm fairly new to the whole customization thing. I've got a rooted Droid 1 and am running UltimateDroid 2.0 right now. After looking at some of the posts on digitalvanity.me, I've taken more and more liking to transparent notification bars.
In order to implement this, would I have to go in manually and play around with this? My only fear is that since I'm not as experienced as others that I might accidentally mess up and brick it.
Any advice?
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As long as you do a nandroid backup you shouldn't have too much to worry about but anything you do to customize, you run that risk. I would experiment with other ROMs to find the look your going for, personally I like cyanogen mod and liquids ROMs the best but they all have their benifits and draw backs. Good Luck and welcome to the world of modification.
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I'll just start and hopefully I don't mess up
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Would you please be so kind and post the .zip file?¨
I also want the transparent bar for my Milestone but cant find it anywhere..

[REQ] quick boot option from power button long press menu

Could someone make a flashable zip to replace the silent option from the power button long press menu, to a quick boot shortcut. Silent option seems pretty useless since it is built into the notification menu in 2.2. Would do it myself except I don't know how. I'm sure this would be cake for the talent we got from our epic devs.
Using free version of quick boot but would upgrade if necessary
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Is this not possible
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I think this would be cool. My co-worker has a sprint hero and it had this option. He's running cyanogenmod froyo, btw.
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It is posible but takes quite a bit of work. Devs have held off on doing it until official froyo because it has to be reworked from scratch each time a new version drops.
You can get this option on some of th 2.1 roms n themes.

leatherneck6017 said:
It is posible but takes quite a bit of work. Devs have held off on doing it until official froyo because it has to be reworked from scratch each time a new version drops.
You can get this option on some of th 2.1 roms n themes.
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Thx for the info
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Thx for the info
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Me and raiderep are the only 2 that have accomplished this. He has it for a stock on 2.1 and I have it in my 2.1 theme. theres a couple of xml files that have to be edited in the framework-res.apk. There also 3 .jar files to be edit and smali is a *****. There's a guid for another galaxy s phone that we follow but there's to many differences between the epic and that other phone. Now there is a huge difference between eclair and froyo. I'm personally waiting to we get an official froyo. I can't speak for raiderep
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I'll echo what mystery said, its a tough mod and also hard to get right alongside other mods like the battery % one. I have been waiting for official froyo to play with it again like mystery is. I like the idea of switching what one of the other already existing options does as it might be easier than creating new ones....hmmm....might try that while I'm waiting like everyone else.
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I don't use airplane mode. You could change that and troll some folks.

Does vol up+power+camera not quick boot 2.2??

[Q] TV like screen off visual

I come from the Samsung Vibrant Dev area. A friend of mine has a Droid X and all he does is flash Roms, doesn't know much about them. His phone does a TV like on/off animation when the screen goes on and off. What is that? Where is it located/ implemented. any info on it would be great. As search is down right now i cant search it. I am interested in possible porting it.

The liberty tool box has a bunch of different startup animations to choose from, I'm not sure if the one your looking for is in it but it does have the option to add ones from your SD card. Its meant to run on the x with the liberty rom but if you can port it then it might be a good place to start.
Edit:ah just reread your post you're looking for when it goes to sleep, sorry don't know that one. Sounds cool I'll have to look out for it.
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I think its part of the apex rom, might want to contact the dev
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thanks for the quick reply, ill contact the dev. and look into the Rom files as well. and get his permission of course before i kang it

No prob, good luck.
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Zudovex said:
I think its part of the apex rom, might want to contact the dev
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Unless his rom is built on 2.3 I don't think it is. Since that power off tv animation is part of 2.3 and 2.3 only good luck.

I think you might be right but I thought it was a feature he was planning on adding. I did some searching and did find that the ultimate Droid has the feature, here's the link...
http://www.theultimatedroid.com/forum/index.php?/files/file/68-the-ultimate-droid-300-beta/
Edit: and just because its a feature of 2.3 doesn't mean its impossible to port it.
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Hellllll with tv screen off animation and setcpu!!

Screen off animation help and setcpu with cm7!
My tv screen off animation worked for probably 1 hour before I downloaded apps... idk why it's gone but I would love to get it back without widgetlocker.
Also I have read people getting 15 + hours of battery life using setcpu I just want to know what I should set it to and if I should use screen off addition. Thanks
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I have min set to 264 for pandora to work and max at 748. You may need to play with max since every hero can run 691, but not all can go higher.

hmmm, i had same problem with the tv screen off animation. i don't use setcpu i am using kifno's tweak. he has two, one for more battery life and one for more performance. reason i mention it is that when i flashed his tweak, suddenly my screen animation came back and has stayed.

Yeah ill try his tweak. I'm gonna go with battery rather than performance. Will I lose all my apps? It says I have to wipe I'm pretty sure
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Do I flash both MP and BL?
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lukieray2310 said:
Yeah ill try his tweak. I'm gonna go with battery rather than performance. Will I lose all my apps? It says I have to wipe I'm pretty sure
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No you will not loose any apps. Mp= More performance and Bl=more battery life. Don't flash both. Just read the thread carefully, choose one and flash from recovery.
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I just flashes battery life. I'm going to wait til completely dead but I see absolutely nothing different so far... is it just like signal strength and little boosts like that? And battery of course. Should there be another application? Something in my settings? It just seems too easy
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Also tv animation is still gone :/
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Also, I use autokiller memory optimizer. It doesn't say anything in the description but let me know if it's bad for it
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lukieray2310 said:
Also, I use autokiller memory optimizer. It doesn't say anything in the description but let me know if it's bad for it
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You should really take the time to read the whole thread or as much as you can to understand how you are modifying your phone setup. The risk/benefits will/should be posted by the OP. Also user experiences and feedback will be posted there as well.
With that being said.
The BL mod will take time to setup you will not see an immediate extension in battery life untill you have properly calibrated your battery. However you should experience a boost in 3g dl/ul
speeds. This will be minimal compared to the Mp mod but should be better than stock.
The Mp tweak results should take effect immediately hence the name of the mod.
Basically you can't have both. Its either one or the other. I run the Mp tweak and it might help with your animations. This is my understanding of the mod. To gain a better perspective hop over to the thread and read or Pm the dev. He's on break now but I think he's answering Pm's. He's quick to respond and is a cool dev.
Well Good luck. If you want to try a mod and have read upon it and need any help let me know if I can I will.
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Alright thanks. I'll tell ya how my battery life is. Still looking to get that tv animation back so if you find out let me know
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Make a WiFi only Rom

Hi the title tells it all I got a g2 but want to be WiFi only like without airplane mode on
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Why not just turn on airplane mode then turn on WiFi?
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TimeMonkey said:
Hi the title tells it all I got a g2 but want to be WiFi only like without airplane mode on
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Why on earth would you want that? And as xT4Z1N4TRx said just put on airplane mode and then switch over to wifi.

he wants a wifi tablet/iTouch lol

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he wants a wifi tablet/iTouch lol
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It's a legitimate request I've seen before. I mean, why let your old devices just waste away when your children or family members could totally use them as dirt cheap replacements for iPods and such. You don't want them making accidental emergency calls or circumventing the settings you put in place.
Should be able to completely remove the radio somehow so that the cellular stuff just won't work.
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That's what I need my friend broke his iPod and I told I got this old phone laying around but the u gotta put it into aplane mode each reboot and he ain't tech savvy
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Maybe this is a project for some of the budding devs on xda. In theory, it sounds like a simple change. Simply remove the phone aspects of a rom and repackage. I'm sure it's harder than it sounds in terms of stability and usability though (I'm not a dev) =/

Athrun88 said:
Maybe this is a project for some of the budding devs on xda. In theory, it sounds like a simple change. Simply remove the phone aspects of a rom and repackage. I'm sure it's harder than it sounds in terms of stability and usability though (I'm not a dev) =/
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Eh, some apps certainly wouldn't work, anything that needs to communicate through telephony and such. But really shouldn't be that difficult.
I'll come back when I'm not too terribly busy with some links about breaking down and customizing ROMs and such. I know that I've found a thread specifically for this kind of thing for another device, but there are a few of them I read up on so it may take a while to locate. Hell, you could just about remove the phone and contacts apps and edit your build.prop and leave an existing ROM intact. I'm no dev or anything though lol so I'll look around.
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buxtahuda said:
Eh, some apps certainly wouldn't work, anything that needs to communicate through telephony and such. But really shouldn't be that difficult.
I'll come back when I'm not too terribly busy with some links about breaking down and customizing ROMs and such. I know that I've found a thread specifically for this kind of thing for another device, but there are a few of them I read up on so it may take a while to locate. Hell, you could just about remove the phone and contacts apps and edit your build.prop and leave an existing ROM intact. I'm no dev or anything though lol so I'll look around.
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TeamDRH over in the gTablet forums have added something similar to this into their ICS ROM for gTablet. Might be a useful place to look.

Ok well.I went and remove like all telephony apk in my Rom and some app don't work like he said
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Not the OG article I had read, but after a bit of Googling I came up with a script that you should be able to set to run at boot which will disable your radio.
You may also be able to dial *#*#INFO#*#* and choose turn off radio, but that will not be persistent across reboots. I would use the script and a third-party launcher that can hide apps so that you'll keep the phone and contacts apps and such for stability, but not have them readily available.
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And a flashable zip! Thank you jellybellys!
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Just to elaborate about that flashable zip, it will actually "permanently" (until you wipe and install another ROM) disable the radio and clean out the apps that you don't want. Also installs some kind of binaries if they're currently absent from the ROM. Great find, I'm glad you asked about this!

exactly, my first thought would be just to use titanium backup and disable/freeze but not remove apps such as dialer or what you dont want/need. not sure if this will work but its worth a try. probably a few treads across xda on this (especially on older model phones) id search in those and see if there is a quick answer short of developing a whole new rom

Yeah I use that zip from jellybean but like android.process forced close alone with like sms app this is all on miui
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TimeMonkey said:
Yeah I use that zip from jellybean but like android.process forced close alone with like sms app this is all on miui
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So you used the zip, and once booted those processes were force closing?
I'll try it out on my phone, see if I can't replicate the issue and speak with the dev. Exactly what MIUI build are you on?
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Installed on EliteMod 120316 and upon first boot did get something about the mms process FC'ing. Upon subsequent reboots no more message though, have you tried another reboot? You had two processes FC?
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I have the miui USA one I think I'm not home well won't be till Sunday night
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Some of the experimental roms work like that
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This is a swing in the dark...
Try remove htcril.so or libhtcril.so from system/lib.... That should disable the radio and keep Wi-Fi
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TimeMonkey said:
I have the miui USA one I think I'm not home well won't be till Sunday night
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So that's the MIUI.us "Pure English?" I've just downloaded the last available build and will soon flash and then install jellybellys's zip. I'm hoping that will get me the same FC's as you are.
Once you've gotten home after the weekend, try rebooting it a time or two and see if it consistently gives you the FC's.
Also, just curious, but are you using MIUI just because it's the most similar Android overlay to iOS? To make it a bit easier for your friend? Because you could hook him up with some ICS goodness otherwise
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Ok, looking through his updater-script vs. my /system/app/ directory, it looks like MIUI names a couple of apk's differently. I'm currently installing a fresh MIUI so that I can see the directory before moddified by the OG jellybellys zip, then I'll update his zip to reflect those different names and try to run it again. If successful, I'll post the modified file and hopefully we can get your friend a fun little multi-tasking media player

Ok sweet umm can u send me the edit zip
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Had a good look at the flashable zip, very simple. I need to learn to code, I guess this is a good small place to start lol
All I did was unzip his file, change a few things and added a couple extra lines to remove one more app he hadn't worried with. As said above this will disable your radio, install the radiooptions binary if absent, and remove a number of apk's from the /system/app/ directory.
Removed apps:
TelephonyProvider.apk - cellular service
TelocationProvider.apk - emergency location service (I just don't see the need if you're not connecting to cellular networks)
Phone.apk - your phone app - should also get rid of dialer, I'm trying to find out why it doesn't.
Mms.apk - messaging app
All credit to jellybellys @ rootzwiki.com of course, I couldn't have written this myself or anything.
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Again, the phone app will still be on the homescreen and you actually can't remove it. It won't dial anything, and will just cause the acore process to FC if you try. It's looking like the only way to get it really removed is to modify the ROM's zip so that it never installs the app to begin with.
I'm going to restore the apps again, see if Titanium Backup can't do a better job than outright removing the app does.