After a successful update OTA 3 to ICS, I still have an ugly icon launcher. It seems to be not working, it does not do anything, how do I get rid of the icon?
Another thing is ugly battery icon, exchanged by Lenovo. Is there a classic icon of the ICS?
try a custome launcher from the market and change the full look of the screen
ipeople said:
After a successful update OTA 3 to ICS, I still have an ugly icon launcher. It seems to be not working, it does not do anything, how do I get rid of the icon?
Another thing is ugly battery icon, exchanged by Lenovo. Is there a classic icon of the ICS?
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I don't think you can hide the launcher icon in ICS, and it's not removable - lots of folks have tried.
No idea, yet, about the battery icon.
You can modify the SystemUI.apk and replace the icons with different ones. I did it in Honeycomb because of Lenovo's super-white icons and I never had issues. You cannot remove the favorite's wheel icon, but you can replace it with an icon that is practically not visible on the status bar. I would have already replaced both icons, battery and favorite's wheel but without CWR or even adb access within recovery I'm a little scared to mess with my system with no backup.
So there you have it. It is possible with root, but without an option to restore if something goes wrong it is risky.
Great info, obscure. Hadn't heard this before.
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Well, I have a weird problem I have never seen before. My notification bar area has lost touchability. I know, this sounds weird. In other terms, I have lost the touch function of the top ~1 cm of the screen.
I have tried wiping everything possible, changing roms, kernels, recoverys; nothing helps. I have officially given up on making the top bar work. Oh and I might note that I am out of warranty and Sprint will not help.
So now, here comes my question: Is there any app that lets me perform a gesture while inside any app to open my notification bar? Something similar to wave launcher but for opening the notification bar.
If you are on CM7, you can use the Tablet Tweaks under Cyanogenmod Settings to move the status bar to the bottom -- then you can swipe it from there.
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Well, I have a weird problem I have never seen before. My notification bar area has lost touchability. I know, this sounds weird. In other terms, I have lost the touch function of the top ~1 cm of the screen.
I have tried wiping everything possible, changing roms, kernels, recoverys; nothing helps. I have officially given up on making the top bar work. Oh and I might note that I am out of warranty and Sprint will not help.
So now, here comes my question: Is there any app that lets me perform a gesture while inside any app to open my notification bar? Something similar to wave launcher but for opening the notification bar.
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So part of your screen failed...get it fixed... better than a workaround
Why are you out of warranty? They know you're rooted? You should have a 1-year manufacturer warranty from HTC.
Also, if you use 3rd party launchers such as ADW and LauncherPro, you can change your swype down gesture. For example, you can make a swype down on the homescreen open the notification drawer.
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If you've taken it to Sprint & they've refused to fix it, try a different store. Unroot first, of course.
You could always flip the phone to landscape and pull it down from there. I hate auto-rotate, but that's just me.
Also, in slightly older versions of MIUI, the "recent apps" window was part of the notification area. I really liked being able to long-press the home button, then swipe left/right to get to notifications/toggles. It was especially handy in an app where the notification bar is automatically hidden. I believe the last build to include this was 1.4.8, everything since has a separate window for recent apps. If you like MIUI, you could try 1.4.8 or before.
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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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Now as many of you have seen, the stock wallpapers appear without the black bar (where you battery, time, etc. is).
But once you use a wallpaper that is not stock, the black bar appears so the wallpaper is black on the top. I tried to search for the place where you can save the stock wallpapers and tried to add mine there. But I couldn't find the place where the Samsung stock wallpapers are stored.
Do you know to make the black top bar disappear? I thought that was one of the improvements from the S3 but nothing has changed (unless you use the stock wallpapers)..
plus 1 on this one
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I personally see this as a good thing. The lack of Black background for the status bar looked absolutely disgusting.
I personally don't like it. And I thought Samsung promised to change that (to make the bar transparent). Does anyone know how to do that?
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I personally don't like it. And I thought Samsung promised to change that (to make the bar transparent). Does anyone know how to do that?
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+1. I 'm trying to figure that out, too...
What I don't understand (actually I don't understand most of the gaudy crap they've shoved into touchwiz)
is why they've made the status bar (when you CAN see it) this bizarre very dark red/charcoal esque colour, and not just pure black. At least with pure black you could completely hide it or meld it with a dark/nighttime wallpaper or something.
This one is just an eyesore.
WHY samsung WHY????!?! (first world problems.....)
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What I don't understand (actually I don't understand most of the gaudy crap they've shoved into touchwiz)
is why they've made the status bar (when you CAN see it) this bizarre very dark red/charcoal esque colour, and not just pure black. At least with pure black you could completely hide it or meld it with a dark/nighttime wallpaper or something.
This one is just an eyesore.
WHY samsung WHY????!?! (first world problems.....)
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this not a problem just a bit tiny thing m8! problem a very big is the lag that this has and will fixed soon enough in all countries.. focus at more vital staff. just a friendly advice!
Update: If you get the Nova Launcher 2.1 Beta version you'll actually be able to make the status bar transparent. Plus with Nova Launcher the S4 gets less laggy. Hope that helps!
Look in themes and apps, there is a blue theme with transparent statusbar.
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Update: If you get the Nova Launcher 2.1 Beta version you'll actually be able to make the status bar transparent. Plus with Nova Launcher the S4 gets less laggy. Hope that helps!
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How do you do this? I have nova 2.1 and I don't see a setting for transparent status bar.
I just updated my N7 to the new KitKat, the status bar and soft keys only become transparent in Google experience launcher home screen (need to install GEL mannually), but within the app it is still two black bars. As nexus 7's screen real state constantly blocked by these two bars (terrible in landscape mode especially), I was wondering if there is a mod (e.g. mod the systemUI) to make both bars transparent.
This is certainly achievable as I have seen Samsung tabs all have transparent status bar out of box, and in 4.3 there was CyanogenMod that made it transparent, but there is nothing like these for KitKat
I prefer this solution other than hidding the softkey bars (such as GMD) because i don't want to change GEL, and I know in the future , new apps will be able to leverage the new immerse fullscreen so this problem is completely solved, i don't want to affect that function, but in the same time, i want old apps still able to use more screen real states.
please let me know if there is a solution to make this possible.
Thanks everyone!
Any one has figured this out?
Try this to see if it helps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2529594
Thanks, but Google experience launcher only provide transparent status bar and softkeys on homescreen, not inside app
to make it work inside an app, need to deeply mod the system UI file, in 4.2 CM10.2 has done it before successfully!
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Try this to see if it helps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2529594
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I have been trying to remove this battery status indicator above the notification bar. I just flashed chromi-x and cannot figure out what I changed to make this bar appear (orange/red dashed bar in the attached image), I really don't like how it looks and would like it gone. Does anyone know what I did to make this show up?
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I have been trying to remove this battery status indicator above the notification bar. I just flashed chromi-x and cannot figure out what I changed to make this bar appear (orange/red dashed bar in the attached image), I really don't like how it looks and would like it gone. Does anyone know what I did to make this show up?
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Finally found it in the android tuner app. I honestly thought flashing cromi-x would have a greater impact on the tablet than it has, maybe it will take some time for me to discover its full potential.
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Finally found it in the android tuner app. I honestly thought flashing cromi-x would have a greater impact on the tablet than it has, maybe it will take some time for me to discover its full potential.
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It should have been in settings as well. In PAC-man its under Pacman->battery->battery bar. Idk about Cromi-x