Okay I want to make the status bar transparent and the pull down tray as well.
I want something like the transparency the top bar in OSX 10.6. I hate hiding my background and since I'm going for a minimal look, it's awfully distracting.
I tried to make the edits myself in photoshop and went ahead and resigned the .9.png files too. But when I pushed the framework-res.apk file back...only the notification bar had changed. and the pull down bar stayed solid.
Can anyone list for me which files specifically I need to change so I can make the notification bar and pull down tray transparent?
I would go ahead and make the changes myself.
I'm currently on FreshEvo, anyone think it would look better on cm6? or easier?
I found that 85% opacity seemed to work well enough but the black bar on sense was less than ideal, but acceptable. There was a problem with that too, the icons for mail notifications, cell signal, etc had their own black background that showed like black squares, I'd need to know which files to edit for that too.
I'm thinking that the aosp top bar, or if anyone knows of a white/aosp theme for senseroms, would work better.
P.S. The first time I edited my framework-res, I had to re-add all my accounts on the phone? what happened?? lol
All help appreciated
overthinkingme said:
Okay I want to make the status bar transparent and the pull down tray as well.
I want something like the transparency the top bar in OSX 10.6. I hate hiding my background and since I'm going for a minimal look, it's awfully distracting.
I tried to make the edits myself in photoshop and went ahead and resigned the .9.png files too. But when I pushed the framework-res.apk file back...only the notification bar had changed. and the pull down bar stayed solid.
Can anyone list for me which files specifically I need to change so I can make the notification bar and pull down tray transparent?
I would go ahead and make the changes myself.
I'm currently on FreshEvo, anyone think it would look better on cm6? or easier?
I found that 85% opacity seemed to work well enough but the black bar on sense was less than ideal, but acceptable. There was a problem with that too, the icons for mail notifications, cell signal, etc had their own black background that showed like black squares, I'd need to know which files to edit for that too.
I'm thinking that the aosp top bar, or if anyone knows of a white/aosp theme for senseroms, would work better.
P.S. The first time I edited my framework-res, I had to re-add all my accounts on the phone? what happened?? lol
All help appreciated
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in launcher pro, making the status bar transparent wont matter becuase there needs to be a wallpaper hack i believe, unless you use a live wallpaper, the transparency will show. All the files are in the framework-res.apk that you need to change i believe, aside from the pulldown tray, that is the services.jar. i could post my theme for ya, but it changes everything.
What is your theme? Maybe there's a framework-res in it I could take a peek at to compare your edits.
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brock1909 said:
in launcher pro, making the status bar transparent wont matter becuase there needs to be a wallpaper hack i believe, unless you use a live wallpaper, the transparency will show. All the files are in the framework-res.apk that you need to change i believe, aside from the pulldown tray, that is the services.jar. i could post my theme for ya, but it changes everything.
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What do you edit in services.jar? I cant find the reference to it... the pulldown tray, that is, making it transparent.
The bars in your bottom picture are in framework-res/drawable-hdpi/
-status_bar_background.png
-status_bar_header_background.9.png
-statusbar_background.png
-status_bar_close_on.9.png
In that order
You need to edit all of the status bar icons also they have black blocks behind all of them. Like stat_notify_disk_full.png there are some in framework-res and some in com.htc.resources
The white part can only be made transparent with services.jar. I know there are downloads of it on here just do a search for services.jar.
Manup has a bunch for download that make it transparent and remove the clock and stuff.
Here is a guide on how to make your own
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7739623&postcount=53
Thank you, answered my question fully.
Would I be correct to assume that in cm6, all the status bar icons have white blocks begins them?
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So I've been searching for a solution to turn my statusbar completely transparent but with no result.
I've edited the statusbar_background.9.png file to completely transparent but all I get is a black statusbar.
On other threads and screenshots they are using other launchers, could this be the problem? Im using ADW launcher.
Btw, The statusbar is transparent when the lockscreen is on but as soon as I unlock and return to the homescreen the statusbar is black.
What I want is my background to go all the way up but still see all icons in the statusbar, so disabling the statusbar is not an option.
Note that I do not mean the draggeddown statusbar.
post your framework-res and i will post a transparent one for you
other launcher use 16 bit resolution. transparent notification bar can only be showed in twlauncher i think
This is my framework-res.apk without the statusbar edits I've done.
Thanks!
It worked now. Thanks anyway lgkahn.
The problem was ADW Launcher as corgar said.
Worked fine with Zeam launcher, lets see if Zeam is worth keeping.
Lol turn off 16 bit mode 'wallpaper hack' option in adw settings. That will give you transparency you wanted.
nvm I found it our
Thanks Merdini!!
I tried to get a semitransparent statusbar in the sgs 2. Some launchers like Zeam and TW support transparent statusbar. I modded the framework-res.apk and system ui. But seems there is something else that prevent transparent statusbar. Any ideas?
send a message to the person or post in the thread about their theme as AFAiK they have a transparent notification bar in it
EDIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1064958
I've been searching the forums all afternoon looking for a way to change the notification bar on the synergy ROM to flat black with gingerbread icons. Or even just flat black with stock icons if that isn't possible. Does anyone know how this can be done?
Something similar to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100493&highlight=black+notification+bar
jjensik11 said:
I've been searching the forums all afternoon looking for a way to change the notification bar on the synergy ROM to flat black with gingerbread icons. Or even just flat black with stock icons if that isn't possible. Does anyone know how this can be done?
Something similar to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100493&highlight=black+notification+bar
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I just added a flat black and grey theme... just go to the link in my sig
all the status bar icons and stuff and even notification things are in systemui.apk in /system/app in gingerbread. just modify whatever you want.
Is there anyway you can make your GS2 have a clear top status bar? I like having it clear as opposed to having a black bar across. Just seems cleaner that way.
Thanks!
It's doable and you should probably see one pop up in the themes section before too long.
wish it was as easy as just replacing the statusbar_background.9.png in systemUI but there's a bit more to it than that.
check the themes sections.
my miui theme has a clear status bar and should now work for all deodexed roms.
also posted a tutorial on how to do it on other themes /roms with files needed.
theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19122657#post19122657
tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332153