Does Any one know if its possible to change the signal bars from 6 to 4 like in the other galaxy s models.....i think the 4 bars looks way better than 6....thank you.
Yes its possible. The phone reports more than those four steps so you can just have it show four bars full for 5 and 6 too, or any other combo you'd like. The images for them are in the framework-res.apk I believe. Not sure anyone wil do that for you until official froyo though...try it yourself if your adventurous.
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The Elegant Steel port that I did for 2.1 has only 4 signal bars. When 2.2 is officially released I will port it to that as well.
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thanks ill try it....dont mean to bug anyone but is there any steps that can be given?
vmgc1131 said:
thanks ill try it....dont mean to bug anyone but is there any steps that can be given?
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Certainly, inside of any theme .zip is a file called framework-res.apk. You can rename the .apk to .zip and open it in any compression tool, such as 7zip or WinRAR. If you would like, you can decompress and unpack this to a folder for ease of use. There are tons of guides on XDA that will help you with this, I would suggest taking a look at some of the guides made by Dreamsforgotten as they are incredibly detailed, and you can find links to them by looking at the sticky wiki thread. Once you get inside of the framework-res.apk, you will see a folder called "res" and inside of that, another folder called "drawable-hdpi". This is the heart of the framework, and the majority of the images that you see on your phone are contained within. The status bar signal icons are named something like "stat_sys_signal..." etc. Just open em up and edit them to your liking, or grab some images from somewhere else to replace them. Hope this helps, feel free to pm me if you need any more help!
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thank you so much it kinda worked i grabbed a theme with aosp status bar and replaced the pics for the bars and got curious and also changed the battery....well the battery worked it has the gree aosp style one but im not sure which ones i have to replace for the signal bars
vmgc1131 said:
thank you so much it kinda worked i grabbed a theme with aosp status bar and replaced the pics for the bars and got curious and also changed the battery....well the battery worked it has the gree aosp style one but im not sure which ones i have to replace for the signal bars
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Yup no problem. There are multiple different sets of signal bars, on for roaming, 1x etc. Your best bet would be to replace them all, unless you can discern which is which. Look for this in the name "_r_", and if they have this then those are for roaming icons. All others should just be the normal signal.
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thank you....by the i used this on one of the leaked froyo roms.
vmgc1131 said:
thank you....by the i used this on one of the leaked froyo roms.
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Nice, welcome to the world of theming Just an FYI, you may have to change some things again when the official froyo release comes out, there is quite a difference between all three of the leaks, leading me to believe the OTA will be different as well. Glad it worked for you, feel free to ask away someone around here will be happy to help!
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The actual images for the signals start with zz_ if I remember right.
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well thanks again really helped it looks great.
raiderep said:
Yes its possible. The phone reports more than those four steps so you can just have it show four bars full for 5 and 6 too, or any other combo you'd like. The images for them are in the framework-res.apk I believe. Not sure anyone wil do that for you until official froyo though...try it yourself if your adventurous.
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You are correct.
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ok so i decided to replace em all with the files from an aosp rom eveything worked but i dont know how to change the color of the clock or any other font in the status bar.
vmgc1131 said:
ok so i decided to replace em all with the files from an aosp rom eveything worked but i dont know how to change the color of the clock or any other font in the status bar.
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The clock color is controlled by services.jar. You need to edit smili. some of fonts are controlled by the xml files in the colors folder
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say i wanna make my own how would i go about that?
vmgc1131 said:
say i wanna make my own how would i go about that?
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Make your own what?
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my own icons or replace images....ive seen a couple of themes which include green signal bars, different battery icons, custom icons for wifi, bluetooth, usb, etc.
vmgc1131 said:
my own icons or replace images....ive seen a couple of themes which include green signal bars, different battery icons, custom icons for wifi, bluetooth, usb, etc.
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You need to make your own images per pull the ones you like from the different themes. Replace the images in the framework
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I have searched everywhere trying to find a way to change the signal bars. I want either the four bars like the dinc or the five bars that show up before they chnge to six. I tried metamorph but it wasn't working right for me. i just really hate the six bar look. I'm currently on mikfroyo 4.3 and really like everything about the rom and only want to change the signal bars everything else is perfect.
Try CM7? I am running it and I have a 4 bar signal icon...
dman4915 said:
I have searched everywhere trying to find a way to change the signal bars. I wat either the four bars like the dinc or the five bars that show uo before they chnge to six. I tried metemorph but it wasn't working right for me. i just really hate the six bar look. I'm currently on mikfroyo 4.3 and really like everything about the rom and only want to change the signal bars everything else is perfect.
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You'll have to edit some PNGs in your framework. Although its not really 4 bars, it will just appear that way.
You can find the zip of your rom that you flashed, mikfroyo. Open it with WinRAR, or something similiar. Look in /system/framework/ for com.htc.resources.apk. Extract that to somewhere you will remember. Then open up that framework file with the same program you used above and look for drawable-hdpi. Look for the cmda radio signal pngs and swap in the ones you want. If you want to only use 4, then you can use the same signal for a few. Then put that drawable-hdpi folder back in the /system/framework directory from your ..resources.apk. This will overwrite the old one. Then push it with ADB. If you're not familiar there are a bunch of guides on xda here.
I have seen a couple themes (one of which I made a while back) for sense using the gingerbread status bar icons and those themes usually do the edit mentioned above to make it appear as 4 bars even though it is reporting more. I can easily whip this up for you if you need help, I just need to know exactly which ROM you are using.
Thanks for the replies. I have tried cm7 and I just can't get used to the stock android look. I just really like sense and the mikfroyo roms.
I am on mikfoyo v4.30. It would be awesome if you could help me out with that. I want to learn how to do the editing but I need to find a way to do it with my macbook.
How many does it have now and what color are they?
it has six bars and they are green
Im not running that ROM so I cant test the colors or look of it compared to the rest of the ROM but here is my best shot at it. Just flash that zip from the recovery screen and always make a nandroid backup first.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3000044/KspecKustom-HTCresources_for_Mik4.3.zip
Man I really appreciate that brandnek that looks a 100% better than the 6 bars. It looks great it's exactly what i was wanting
I love the 2.2 Notification bar that Culk pulled up.
With the Hidden Gps and the Stock battery with %.
Can someone pull that for me,please? I'm running on VirusRom Kingdom and another one for MikG rom. please.
I would like this with all icons. I don't care what theme, I can use my own pngs.
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Prolly a silly noob question, but is there a ROM/kernel that changes how the signal bars and icons look? When i'm in 4G mode, I like how the official 4G LTE logo comes on (a la HTC Thundebolt).
On my DInc I was using Cyanogen 7 and had custom Notification Bar Icons. I'd imagine Cyanogen 9 will natively support that and it's coming soon. I'm still too cautious to try any other ROMs yet.
Yes I would like to change the symbols too. The default GNex ones are not good. I prefer the Motorola ones.
bisquick24 said:
Prolly a silly noob question, but is there a ROM/kernel that changes how the signal bars and icons look? When i'm in 4G mode, I like how the official 4G LTE logo comes on (a la HTC Thundebolt).
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You can change them yourself by editing images within your SystemUI apk.
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Is there anyway to change my signal bar from the lines to dots like on the iPhone? I dub;t want to make the status bar look like the iPhone, just the signal bars.
ILowry282 said:
Is there anyway to change my signal bar from the lines to dots like on the iPhone? I dub;t want to make the status bar look like the iPhone, just the signal bars.
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If you're rooted and you have Xposed Framework installed, use xStana. It's in the Play Store. But if you would go for a System UI mod rather than an Xpsed module, look in the Themes & Apps subforum.
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I downloaded it and it's not changing the signal bars for some reason. It changed all the other icons. I turned off all of my other Xposed modules to see if something was interfering. It still didn't work. Sucks because that icon was literally all I wanted to change.
Does you phone have 4 or 5 bars for the icon? It could be caused by that because my F460 has 4 not 5 so the mods need to be made for it or it won't work.
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Does you phone have 4 or 5 bars for the icon? It could be caused by that because my F460 has 4 not 5 so the mods need to be made for it or it won't work.
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I have 6 bars.
ILowry282 said:
I have 6 bars.
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I would ask the Dev who made it to see if they can make it work for that. That's what I had to do in order to get the Android L one working on my phone.