The status bar icons on the HTC One M8 (at least for Verizon) are out of control. The ones on the left (that aren't actual notifications) are now taking up 3/4 to 4/5 of the bar, leaving two or three useful notification icons on the right. I'm not seeing any way to disable or change the excessive ones and some of them are completely useless or excessively long, such as the headphones-plugged-in icon, the Boomsound icon, and the battery-sideways icon (which is twice as long as the Nexus 5's vertical battery icon).
I've attached a screenshot showing them all (with battery percentage enabled, which I want, and vibration-only, which I sometimes want), and then you'll notice two useful icons on the left (calendar day and podcast player status, but then the overflow icon). Note: Boomsound doesn't usually let me disable it, and I found no option to disable the headphone icon.
On every phone I've had before (Droid, Droid Razr, and Moto X), the icons on the right were not excessive nor excessively large, and rarely took up even half the bar. I'm not sure if this is just HTC's customization or it happens on all Android Lollipop phones, but it appears the icons are oversized compared to other phones, and I'm hoping this isn't a new trend because the ones on the left are generally more important to me more often.
Note: The launcher I'm using is Nova Launcher Prime with TeslaUnread badges and Power Toggles as the bottom widget in case you're curious.
I've attached a screenshot showing them all (with battery percentage enabled, which I want, and vibration-only, which I sometimes want), and then you'll notice two useful icons on the left (calendar day and podcast player status, but then the overflow icon). Note: Boomsound doesn't usually let me disable it, and I found no option to disable the headphone icon.
On every phone I've had before (Droid, Droid Razr, and Moto X), the icons on the right were not excessive nor excessively large, and rarely took up even half the bar. I'm not sure if this is just HTC's customization or it happens on all Android Lollipop phones, but it appears the icons are oversized compared to other phones, and I'm hoping this isn't a new trend because the ones on the left are generally more important to me more often.
Note: The launcher I'm using is Nova Launcher Prime with TeslaUnread badges and Power Toggles as the bottom widget in case you're curious.