The notification icons are too dim, hard to see notifications.
Is this a jellybean feature?
Yes
The solution is simple:
Decompile SystemUI.apk
Navigate to res/values/dimens.xml
You'll find a dimen item called status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha
In Samsung roms you'll also have tw_status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha
The value is given in percentages. Android dims the icons by setting their transparency (usually to 65%, Samsung - to 50%)
Increase the number and the dimming will go away.
Note that increasing it to 100% will make them a tad too bright. Use 100% only if using translucent status bar with bright BG.
Recompile and Enjoy
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I have search high, and low, and all I seem to be able to find is that you need to have a rooted device to be able to change the icons in the status bar, and what not. Well my slide is rooted, but I do no see any where that tells how to change them, or change the battery icon to show % and what not. Could someone point me in a direction, or give me some pointers on how to change the icons? Mainly the battery app/icon, I want one that shows % in the right, which most apps will show a % but then I have 2 battery icons, I just want the 1.
Along the lines of his question. Whatever happened to the status bar/tweak options in CM Settings for CM7?
They are implementing the color changing through the themes app they are providing. I wouldnt be suprised if the theme process will eventually cover the unlock slider aswell.
I am using a picture of my dog as my background. It seems that the notification bar becomes transparent on the home and lock screen and because of the color of the picture, I cannot see the notification bar (time, signal, battery %) are basically invisible. Any one know of any setting or app to lock the notification bar to a specific color such as black?
If you look closely at these screenshots (http://imgur.com/a/ZxQJC), the icons and buttons are fully white when the nav and status bars are transparent. However when they aren't, the buttons fade to about 70% and to a grey.
Is there any way (preferably with xposed) to keep these buttons and icons opaque all the time?
I'm trying to figure out how to fix my keypad lockscreen so that the status bar uses the lockscreen wallpaper. T989 running Lightspeed (4.1.2)
The keypad lockscreen status bar shows the main wallpaper, not the lockscreen wallpaper (see first attached image, original). Does anyone know how to force the keypad lockscreen to show the lockscreen wallpaper (or at the very least be black)?
I tried xperiacle's How-To (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2384892), which used the correct status bar wallpaper, but the status bar chops off the top of the clock (see second image, 0900). It looks like the space between the keypad and where the numbers are entered is increased by the same height that is being chopped off of the clock (compare to first image).
First question - is it possible to edit the layout of the keypad lockscreen? If so, where can I find that file? I would like to be able to adjust the height between the keypad and the number entry line.
Second question - when I first power up my phone, the lockscreen status bar is black. But once I unlock and do anything on the phone, the black status bar on the lock screen goes away and I'm left with the invisible status bar showing the main wallpaper. What activity is starting that changes the lockscreen status bar? Any ideas on how to logcat this?
Any help is greatly appreciated, let me know if I can provide an ymore info.
Fixed! not like a pet.
I found my answer to the first question!
I found the way to add a margin above the clock after some detailed apk investigating.
Below is a rough outline of the steps...
Pull and decompile System/framework/Framework-res.apk
Find the file Keyguard_screen_password_portrait.xml in res/layout
Add:
android:layout_margintop="20.0dip"
to the end of the line that starts with <com.android.internal.widget.DigitalClock (line 4 for me).
Recompile, push to phone.
Success!
The story is as follows. I want to make the statusbar and navigion bar completely transparent. I set them to hide with windowTranslucentNavigation "> true and windowTranslucentStatus"> true in styles.xml in style <style name = "Theme">. Added the line android: fitsSystemWindows> true. As a result, transparency appeared, but new problems also appeared. I showed them in the screenshots, the clock indicator moved to the right and so on. How to make transparency without shifting the text? I've read a lot of ways on the Transparent / Translucent style, but what am I doing wrong? It would be desirable that there would be a transparency as in an album from Sony, instead of a black frame.
Don't touch styles.. Just set the primary and secondary colors to #00000000 in values / colors.xml
shehabskull said:
Don't touch styles.. Just set the primary and secondary colors to #00000000 in values / colors.xml
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These colors do not color the status and the nav. bar, in my framework there is no code of black color. Apparently Sony has somehow standardized the navigation panels in black, which can only be turned off and turned on. I used the firmware on android 4.3, where it worked, and on 6.0 I can not understand