Ok guys, .... It's my turn to ask newbie question..
I'm using Ogo2's fresh Betas rom and besides some minor issues, everything is working fine, I can use the rom every day without problems.
I just noticed something and although it is not really relevant, I just would like to know whether I am alone or not, and whether it could be fixed "easily". If not, then not a problem at all!
The fact:
The notifications icons are too large for some applications, and cannot fit within the notification bar. But not for every applications, only a few (such as FourSquare, Wifi Status, ... But no problem for 3G Whatchdog, WhatsApp, ...).
And if I change the icons with the UOT Kitchen, to change the battery icon for example, then the new icon is also too large and doesn't fit the notification bar.
I already used those apps and the UOT Kitchen previously, for other roms, and there was not such "issue", so I am pretty sure it is related to this rom.
Again, it is more curiosity than a problem I couldn't live with, I only want to know if I am the only one to get that, and if something can be done by myself to change it.
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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.
is there any way to remove the clock from the notification bar? if your have something like beautiful widgets running it looks almost stupid having 2 clocks there. or at least have the option in settings to keep the clock or remove the clock?
i can understand the other aspect of when your in applications people would like to see the time in the notification area. but i just wana see if i miss it or not.
i gave it a quick google, and most of the responses were fairly old and for different handsets. just wondering if it is possible?
im running SuperE 1.0.1 on a 32A, cheers!
something to try.
check your spareparts app (mine is ver. 2.1_update1) it has user UI tweak at the bottom.
Clock can be set to hidden. (may not work)
while your are there, make the clock color to match your status bar. In case the hide clock part didn't work. (try transparent as well)
yeah in cyanogen's latest rom he includes a modded spareparts app that lets you control this. maybe you can rip it out of his rom and put it into yours if your version isnt the same. maybe can you download it from the market as well, not sure if that version is up to date.
thanks buddy! had no idea i should even look in there =)
the hide clock option doesnt work for some reason, even after rebooting. but changing the transparency to nothing hides it.
only thing is now it leaves an ugly gap where the clock used to be lol. i need to try find a way to remove it completely!
oohwee13 said:
thanks buddy! had no idea i should even look in there =)
the hide clock option doesnt work for some reason, even after rebooting. but changing the transparency to nothing hides it.
only thing is now it leaves an ugly gap where the clock used to be lol. i need to try find a way to remove it completely!
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I tried hiding mine as well one day (a week ago maybe?), and it didn't work. Then yesterday I noticed, out of the blue, there was no clock in the notification bar. LoL So it did remove it, eventually.
it works just fine you'll just have to reboot a couple times
rightly so! i was wrong before, it does work. like losinc said u just need to reboot a couple of times. the changing of colour of the clock works too. just took a few times to get it right =)
thanks for ur help guys!
i had problems changing colors in cm 5.0.7 so i updated to 5.0.8t1 and it worked at once
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Is it possible to remove any of the default icons from the status bar? I have so many up there that I barely have any room for notifications. The location icon is pointless. It's there whether you have location turned on or off. I realize this may require rooting, but is it possible?
It will be possible at some point Im sure. Developers were just starting to get rid of them on the Hero (2.1 Android) before I upgraded to the Evo. I was happy to finally get rid of the battery icon since I use a percentage widget in the notification bar anyway. Many were also getting rid of the clock if they had one on their homepage.
Agreed. I have the clock removed on my moment, thanks to the devs at sdx im sure someone will do the same over here as well.
Seriously the Target icon is annoying! And I thought I was a waste of space.
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Seriously the Target icon is annoying! And I thought I was a waste of space.
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I hate having the GPS and BT icons show up, I already know gps is always on and the blue light tells me if BT is on.
Will it require loading a custom rom that already has these icons removed or will there be a way to manually remove them from any custom rom after it has been loaded onto the phone?
also interested in this, that location icon/cross hair/reticule is insufferable
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I hate having the GPS and BT icons show up, I already know gps is always on and the blue light tells me if BT is on.
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What blue light????
Also interested in this. Don't need location, vibrate/silent, or clock.
in for this too, preferrably an app in the market
any custom roms provide this?
Hey guys, I'm having a series bug or issue with my phone. After I got the radios working yesterday, I installed some new apps and everything went fine. But now my dialer and contacts just disappeared! I can't make calls or even view my contact list. Also ontop of that, my status bar will only show signal level, battery and time. But it will not show the date, even when I ask it too in cyanogenmod settings.
I tried searching for an x10 app repository but I can't find one. I'd really like to restore things like mediascape and especially my dialer and contacts.
When I first installed I need to change the notification colours to everything readable on the status bar. Has the dialler disappeared or just force closes. I know I had issues after installingvthe Arc pack due to the InfinityView issue
The dialer has straight up disappeared. No phone capabilities at all when I try to call, but I can receive? And when I receive calls, the voice sounds all warped and hollowish? Does it have something to do with the baseband I installed?
Hello
I have stock rooted N7 with 4.2.1. I really hate the top status bar since the bottom button bar is half empty, there is enough space for couple of icons there (wifi, etc). Is there a patch or something just for this? I don't care about the rest of tablet UI, just this. I have searched and read that there is no tablet UI since 4.2, is that true? Is there a way to make just this one change somehow (no top bar, icons moved to bottom button bar)?
I don't see point in flashing i.e. Paranoid or other custom ROM since I am satisfied with stock and I don't want to risk any bugs or restore my apps and settings. I rooted only to be able to use PPP Widget.
Thanx
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