Transparent status bar?

[Kreatur3]

Hey guys is it possible to make a fully transparent status bar? I am using the newest bumblebee if that helps.

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[ceejay83]

think that only works on gingerbread roms

 

[asadullah]

yeah you just have to add a transparent mask to statusbar.background.png in framework-res.apk rezip it and push it back to your phone

 

[Kreatur3]

yeah you just have to add a transparent mask to statusbar.background.png in framework-res.apk rezip it and push it back to your phone

Uh...yeah. Thanks for the information although I don't know jack about it that's what google is for. Thanks a bunch asadullah.

 

[hyruu]

If your running Bumblebee then you can flash this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19675089/blackBB.zip then once you have that one you can then go to UOT Kitchen and make you another one how you like it.

 

[arhtard]

thanks

i flashed that blackbb file and it screwed up my phone, thanks. hundreds of force closes on bootup.

 

[drezliok]

If your running Bumblebee then you can flash this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19675089/blackBB.zip then once you have that one you can then go to UOT Kitchen and make you another one how you like it.

What is in that zip? I have been messing with UOT Kitchen and having mixed results. I flashed an older status bar mod then flashed my UOT file over it. It works but I don't know if it reversed some new features or not. Is that zip made from 2.4 or fully compatible with 2.4?

 

[drezliok]

Re: thanks

i flashed that blackbb file and it screwed up my phone, thanks. hundreds of force closes on bootup.

Did you flash it into Bumblebee Rom or into stock/some other rom? I believe it was meant for Bumblebee Rom only.

 

[Kreatur3]

What is in that zip? I have been messing with UOT Kitchen and having mixed results. I flashed an older status bar mod then flashed my UOT file over it. It works but I don't know if it reversed some new features or not. Is that zip made from 2.4 or fully compatible with 2.4?

You can flash the 2.3 black bar over 2.4 and it won't screw anything up. If you use the 2.1 black bar, however, than it will. I created one with 50 percent transparent on the notification area and left the status bar black. Then I went in and edited the footer and made it 1 pixel tall lol. Stupid UOT and their fattening all of the bars. Also made the top bar it fattens 1 pixel tall.

 

[drezliok]

Cool. I don't get a lot of free time to teach myself how to do stuff like this. I've rounded up some of the howtos and instructions for later. When I do get some time I will be making my own themes. I have a crazy idea for a Thundercats theme but I have a long way to go and lots to familiarize myself with.


Oh! For got to say thanks, I don't have the time now but because of these themes starters I can still have a custom theme.

 

[Kreatur3]

Cool. I don't get a lot of free time to teach myself how to do stuff like this. I've rounded up some of the howtos and instructions for later. When I do get some time I will be making my own themes. I have a crazy idea for a Thundercats theme but I have a long way to go and lots to familiarize myself with.


Oh! For got to say thanks, I don't have the time now but because of these themes starters I can still have a custom theme.

It was a lot of trial and error to find the right png files to edit and then to figure out how to edit them and not get a "bad" file when trying to flash. When you find the backgrounds for notifications in drop down you can do some cool ****. Like you could make a transparent notification drop down with the thundercats logo and the rest transparent. That would be pretty sweet.

 

[asadullah]

It was a lot of trial and error to find the right png files to edit and then to figure out how to edit them and not get a "bad" file when trying to flash. When you find the backgrounds for notifications in drop down you can do some cool ****. Like you could make a transparent notification drop down with the thundercats logo and the rest transparent. That would be pretty sweet.

Whatever happened to the good ole fashion

adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk

unzip it
navigate to res/drawable-mdpi
edit statusbar_barground.9.png (the notification bar)
edit status_bar_background.png (the area that is shown when you pull down the notification bar)
edit status_bar_close_on.9.png (the little bar at the bottom when you pull down the notifications)
edit status_bar_header_background.9.png (the area that shows your carrier logo)

throw those into a zipped up version of the apk then

adb remount
adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework

who needs uot for that

 

[Kreatur3]

Whatever happened to the good ole fashion

adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk

unzip it
navigate to res/drawable-mdpi
edit statusbar_barground.9.png (the notification bar)
edit status_bar_background.png (the area that is shown when you pull down the notification bar)
edit status_bar_close_on.9.png (the little bar at the bottom when you pull down the notifications)
edit status_bar_header_background.9.png (the area that shows your carrier logo)

throw those into a zipped up version of the apk then

adb remount
adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework

who needs uot for that[/QUOTE]

No one NEEDS it.  ;)  However I was just playing with different things and I detest adb when I can do it another way.  Lame I know as using adb is important.  I just used "open archive" with 7zip on the flashable zip from UOT as explained by, hell forgot the name and lazy, then chose open inside on the framework-res.apk.  Dragged those items to the desktop, edited them with GIMP, then dragged them back into the folder I dragged them out of.  Went into recovery and flashed.  A lot more effort than your way to be sure but I like messing with the guts of stuff.  Found out what plenty of those other png files are by doing this.  :)

 

[arhtard]

Re: thanks

Did you flash it into Bumblebee Rom or into stock/some other rom? I believe it was meant for Bumblebee Rom only.

well i found out why the force closes, i'm new at this android stuff. yesterday i flashed BB and then partitioned my 8 gig sd card, did ext2sd mod and then tried installing this zip posted here with a series of force closes... had to pull battery and do a recovery, then i tried leslieann's black bar mods and ended with same results, multiple force closes on everything... i did a fresh BB install, new recovery saved and then installed this with no problems at all.. i then reran the ext2sd mod and everything is running great!! it shows 1 gig internal phone memory, lol. and best of all, i have a black notification bar with white clock font which i wasnt able to figure out on UOT Kitchen, I kept ending up with black font on a black bar.. anyways, sorry all and thanks to all you devs out there! much love from utah...

 

[Kreatur3]

You have to manually edit the text color for the clock. Uot won't do it for you unfortunately. I want to learn how to remove the clock altogether.

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[jstntp]

You have to manually edit the text color for the clock. Uot won't do it for you unfortunately. I want to learn how to remove the clock altogether.

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services.jar will produce .smali files when it is decompiled. That is where you control the clock text color or removal. I had a great tutorial for removal, but I must not have saved it :-\

 

[Kreatur3]

services.jar will produce .smali files when it is decompiled. That is where you control the clock text color or removal. I had a great tutorial for removal, but I must not have saved it :-\

That sucks I'm sure I'm not the only one that would have liked the clock removal write up. At least now I know the file I have to mess with.

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[arhtard]

That sucks I'm sure I'm not the only one that would have liked the clock removal write up. At least now I know the file I have to mess with.

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Kreatur3 - did u find how to remove the clock?
i'd like info on this if anyone can share.
i bet mmarz has something available!

 

[jstntp]

That sucks I'm sure I'm not the only one that would have liked the clock removal write up. At least now I know the file I have to mess with.

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I know there are some over on xda. I found it before by google searching sevices.jar clock removal.

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[Kreatur3]

I'll have to look again on xda. I had found the info on changing clock text color there but not on removal.

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