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I am wondering if it is possible for the text below icons on the homescreen can be removed? I dont think they are necessary and some of the longer names get cut off which annoys my OCD.
rubbledouble said:
i am wondering if it is possible for the text below icons on the homescreen can be removed? I dont think they are necessary and some of the longer names get cut off which annoys my ocd.
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ocd.
Lol..........
I would love a mod for this as well. Like you, I also hate seeing "Android App..." on my screen as well. My OCD also goes a step further; It kills me that "Handcent Sms" isn't properly labeled, "Handcent SMS".
RUBBLEDOUBLE said:
I am wondering if it is possible for the text below icons on the homescreen can be removed? I dont think they are necessary and some of the longer names get cut off which annoys my OCD.
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I use Anycut to create shortcuts to existing applications with my own name. So Mail instead of Google M...
I'm not sure if you can have no text though
Scottland said:
I use Anycut to create shortcuts to existing applications with my own name. So Mail instead of Google M...
I'm not sure if you can have no text though
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Yeah just use anycut to name the icons to whatever you want...
bunt83 said:
Yeah just use anycut to name the icons to whatever you want...
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Cheers for that. You are correct in the fact it doesnt allow clear text fields though.
can you just put a space in the text field?
Yes, very nice!
Branwen said:
can you just put a space in the text field?
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Woohoo! That works!
Well there is still a little grey circle underneath but not too noticeable (for now)
edit - The Messages shortcut wont let me have a space or any other description . it keeps putting th e"messages" description in
SLOYAROLE said:
I would love a mod for this as well. Like you, I also hate seeing "Android App..." on my screen as well. My OCD also goes a step further; It kills me that "Handcent Sms" isn't properly labeled, "Handcent SMS".
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If you add Handcent by going adding widget then choosing "android widget" It adds the icon with text underneath as "Handcent Sms"
I really want to get rid of the clock on my status bar. Can anyone help me?
you cant remove it but i think you can make it invisible. however the space that the time takes up will still be there. any reason why you want it removed?
djosiah said:
you cant remove it but i think you can make it invisible. however the space that the time takes up will still be there. any reason why you want it removed?
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If you have a widget clock like the one on sense then it's redundant to have 2 places where time is shown.
Ace42 said:
If you have a widget clock like the one on sense then it's redundant to have 2 places where time is shown.
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exactly.
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Not always, with me having the Cliq and can't change the clock color(yet) We have black themes so we can't see the clock. It didn't bother me since I had Beautiful Widgets at first. But then I realize how annoying it was always switching to the home screen to look at the time if I was in the middle of some task.
of course you can get rid of the clock, you just need to add this line into the statusbar xml file
android:visibility="gone"
that will remove the clock and will remove the space used for it as well, i would recomend you try apk tool on your framework-res.apk
Heres my experience in the past lol, I got rid of my clock, thinking a widget clock and that status bar clock is useless. About a day after, I couldn't help it. Got it back because that widget clock isn't as useful! It looked great at first, but I couldn't just rely on the widget!
Correcct me if im wrong but the lockscreen shows the time correct?
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Correcct me if im wrong but the lockscreen shows the time correct?
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Do you honestly want to lock and unlock your phone/ go to your home screen to see the time? Seems kind of annoying to me...
JAguirre1231 said:
Do you honestly want to lock and unlock your phone/ go to your home screen to see the time? Seems kind of annoying to me...
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For me it's good cause you can hold the green thing to bring up the (ancient secret)and say alarm or whatever it is to bring up the alarm app.
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Ace42 said:
For me it's good cause you can hold the green thing to bring up the (ancient secret)and say alarm or whatever it is to bring up the alarm app.
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Um.... that's not exactly the most practical way, bringing up Voice Dialer (Gasp, someone else knows) will close what ever your in (or suspend it technically)
JAguirre1231 said:
Um.... that's not exactly the most practical way, bringing up Voice Dialer (Gasp, someone else knows) will close what ever your in (or suspend it technically)
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I for some reason, find you an amusing person. I love reading your posts!
DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for anything adverse that might happen to your phone as a result of using my files. This is a very low risk operation, but you still perform this at your own risk.
CREDITS:
zach.xtr for his awesome xtrROM
.mak for the Espresso lock screen PNGs pulled from zenEXP
Android SDK (source of vanilla PNG files)
*All PNGs were optimized after pulling them from source*
This guide will give an even more vanilla look to xtrROM for those who like the orange highlights and white notification bar. Additionally, I have included the Espresso lockscreen (refer to screenshot) in a modified com.htc.resources.apk file. The lockscreen will still remain transparent, I just chose to use a wallpaper, so the screenshot doesn't show the transparent one. Most everything will have the highlights changed to the stock orange color, save a few things in the HTC-specific apps.
Before you do anything, make a NAND backup and/or make a backup of the files being pushed in this tutorial before pushing the ones I have provided. I have not tested this on another phone, as I only have the one that I performed this mod on, but I can't think of a reason it shouldn't work on another phone.
This was performed with xtrROM v 4.5.2. This may not work on previous versions.
Perform the following steps using ADB:
1. Push framework-res.apk, services.jar, and com.htc.resources.apk as follows:
Code:
adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework/framework-res.apk
adb push services.jar /system/framework/services.jar
adb push com.htc.resources.apk /system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk
NOTE: You *MUST* push the services.jar file if you want the clock to appear black on the white notification bar. Otherwise, it will remain white against a white background. Not very appealing, imo.
2. Your phone will soft reboot - this is normal. If you want, you can just force a hard reboot with:
Code:
adb reboot
YOUR PHONE MAY TAKE A LONG TIME TO BOOT. THIS IS NORMAL. If it takes an exorbitant amount of time (say 7 - 10 mins.), then it's probably safe to call it a failure. As long as your boot animation hasn't restarted or frozen, don't give up hope.
As pointed out by adrenalinerush12 and jadesdan, you must push com.htc.resources.apk if you want all the notification bar icons to appear white, since the stock HTC file overrides them in framework-res.apk. This means you will also get the Espresso lock screen (which, in my personal opinion, is the best-looking lock screen), but if somebody REALLY likes the boring grey "boomerang" bar, I suppose I can cook one up. Let me know.
com.htc.resources.apk Download:
HTML:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IYU0T72P
framework-res.apk Download: Link down - file uploaded to this thread below.
services.jar Download: Link down - file uploaded to this thread below. VERY IMPORTANT: the file is named services.zip at the bottom because XDA doesn't let me upload .jar files , SO make sure to rename it to "services.jar" BEFORE you push the file to your phone.
The reason why I installed 2.1 is so I can have Sense with a black notification bar. Oh well, some people might actually like this. Nice work!
This looks awsome! I love the XTR roms but couldn't stand the black bar.....
The framework and services.jar links are down
EDIT: I should have read the word "temporarily" a little closer.
Freakin SWEET! I love the speed of xtrROM, just didn't like the green highlights and black notification bar. This is perfect for me. Thanks a bunch.
jadesdan said:
This looks awsome! I love the XTR roms but couldn't stand the black bar.....
The framework and services.jar links are down
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Yeah, you're right, they are down. Damn you, Megaupload!!! I think those two files might be under the XDA 8 MB limit...I'll try and upload them directly.
EDIT: OK, framework-res.apk and services.jar (as services.zip) are uploaded directly to XDA for your downloading pleasure. I don't know what Megaupload's problem is right now. Make sure to rename "services.zip" to "services.jar" - I made a little note of it near the bottom of my OP.
That's odd, because it wasn't down for me. It let me download them just a few minutes ago.
adrenalinerush12 said:
That's odd, because it wasn't down for me. It let me download them just a few minutes ago.
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Yeah, I don't know why Megaupload does that. I've had it happen a few times before, and it's never consistent. Anyway, let me know how it works out for you. I haven't officially heard whether it has worked for anybody, so I'm excited to hear back!
Okay, when I pushed both framework-res.apk and services.jar, this is what I get:
Don't know what the issue is, but I pushed it twice to make sure. Still does the same thing.
I've tried both with the MegaUpload files and also the ones linked here, but this is what I get. I've even tried wiping Dalvik and all, but this is the best I can do. You can tell that it's taking, but I think there might be some icons missing.
adrenalinerush12 said:
Okay, when I pushed both framework-res.apk and services.jar, this is what I get:
Don't know what the issue is, but I pushed it twice to make sure. Still does the same thing.
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Hmmm, actually now I remember that some of the PNGs in framework-res.apk are overridden in the com.htc.resources.apk. I didn't think it was so many, though. Try pushing the com.htc.resources.apk, too. If you don't want the espresso lock screen, I can always change it for you later, but I just want to see if that fixes the notification bar icons.
Yup. That fixed it! I actually deleted HtcLockScreen.apk because I like the stock horizontal slide one anyways. Thanks a bunch man.
adrenalinerush12 said:
Yup. That fixed it! I actually deleted HtcLockScreen.apk because I like the stock horizontal slide one anyways. Thanks a bunch man.
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Hell yes! I was worried that I'd screwed something up. I can be a bit absent-minded sometimes. I'll update the tutorial. Thanks to you and jadesdan for testing!
No problem, but it seems that the notification bar clear button is black.. and so is the text, which makes it difficult to read. Not a huge deal, but. And icons such as a new text message with the stock app are still messed up looking. (With black as the background).
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No problem, but it seems that the notification bar clear button is black.. and so is the text, which makes it difficult to read. Not a huge deal, but. And icons such as a new text message with the stock app are still messed up looking. (With black as the background).
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Download and push the new services.jar (services.zip at the bottom of the thread) to fix the black "clear" button. I actually just fixed that last night - took a lot of fishing around to find out how to do it. I know the stock htc apps still have their original look in the noti bar - I didn't want to take the time to change them. Haha, maybe in the future.
Oh, and when my 3G icon changes to 1X to send a text, it goes back to the black icon. Then changes right back to the right 3G one.
i am trying to apply this to xtrSENSE. i've got the white bar working, but the services.jar part is doing nothing. do i have to extract anything or just simply rename it? i have renamed it, but it says not found or something to that effect. i do understand that this may not work due to the fact that this is slightly different than xtrROM with rosie and whatnot.
malpracti said:
i am trying to apply this to xtrSENSE. i've got the white bar working, but the services.jar part is doing nothing. do i have to extract anything or just simply rename it? i have renamed it, but it says not found or something to that effect. i do understand that this may not work due to the fact that this is slightly different than xtrROM with rosie and whatnot.
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Cool, so framework-res.apk pushed successfully. You shouldn't extract anything from services.zip, just rename it to services.jar and push it. There are modifications to the smali code in services.jar, rather than just swapping out PNGs, so it's somewhat likely that it won't work. It's very picky - one thing out of place, and it doesn't boot. I've learned that the hard way.
May I ask what you are using for the Sense like clock/weather and the icons? They are pretty cool.
jeffgman said:
May I ask what you are using for the Sense like clock/weather and the icons? They are pretty cool.
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For sure. The clock/weather widget is called "Fancy Widget". It's no longer on the market because the developers received a cease and desist order from HTC (can't imagine why ). Anyway, just google "fancy widget 1.3.0", and I guarantee you'll find it. I wouldn't have a problem uploading it, but some people might take issue since it's now a black market item. Whatev.
By the icons, do you mean the widgets that I have under the weather/clock widget? Those are all by curvefish and free in the market. Just search "curvefish". And if you're referring to the smiley face messaging icon I have, it's because I found a modified vanilla mms apk on a forum (can't stand HTC's slow as hell excuse for a text messaging program). Since that's open source, I've attached it to the post if you want it. Just be sure to delete HTC's mms, or you'll get some weird behavior.
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For sure. The clock/weather widget is called "Fancy Widget". It's no longer on the market because the developers received a cease and desist order from HTC (can't imagine why ). Anyway, just google "fancy widget 1.3.0", and I guarantee you'll find it. I wouldn't have a problem uploading it, but some people might take issue since it's now a black market item. Whatev.
By the icons, do you mean the widgets that I have under the weather/clock widget? Those are all by curvefish and free in the market. Just search "curvefish". And if you're referring to the smiley face messaging icon I have, it's because I found a modified vanilla mms apk on a forum (can't stand HTC's slow as hell excuse for a text messaging program). Since that's open source, I've attached it to the post if you want it. Just be sure to delete HTC's mms, or you'll get some weird behavior.
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Great, thank you for the information. I have heard of Fancy Widgets, just never used it. I have purchased Beautiful Widgets and used it a little bit. I have searched for a theme that resembles the Sense one but have not found it yet.
I am currently using xtrSENSE so I have the Sense UI. Once Zach updates xtrROM I am going to install that and go back to launcher pro and beautiful widgets for my homescreen.
Rooted phone running Stock (Sprint) rom.
I've resized many images for my lockscreen perfectly, but every time I set one, they get horribly decompressed.
Is there a workaround for this?
Attached is what I'm talking about.
Just making sure, is your image 320x455?
And in your screenshot, should we be looking at the artifacting in the background? Or something else? Because it looks like that's present in the whole image, in the lock bar and the notification bar too.. just a result of jpeg compression.
c00ller said:
Just making sure, is your image 320x455?
And in your screenshot, should we be looking at the artifacting in the background? Or something else? Because it looks like that's present in the whole image, in the lock bar and the notification bar too.. just a result of jpeg compression.
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Yes, size 320x455.
I've attached the original for comparison. A lot of the red around the gun is distorted, instead of the smooth quality that it should be.
The problem is, or I think is, the phone compresses images no matter the size for lockscreen wallpapers. When I set the same image to my Home screen background, it appears perfectly fine.
So, would there be a workaround for the lockscreen wallpapers?
Anyone?
(Bump)
Not familiar with this but look for someone named impaler, he is into themeing and such. If he doesn't know he may be able to point you in the right direction.
Froyo.... my hero's dirty little secret.
MrSpradlen said:
Not familiar with this but look for someone named impaler, he is into themeing and such. If he doesn't know he may be able to point you in the right direction.
Froyo.... my hero's dirty little secret.
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Will do, thanks MrSpradlen.
No problem Vvh
Froyo.... my hero's dirty little secret.
Btw if you get it working can you send me a download for that, it looks good.
Froyo.... my hero's dirty little secret.
You might want to try an app called 'CropWallpaper'. I use it for my wallpaper, but you may be able to use it with your lockscreen. I'm on CM6 right now, so I can't check how it will work with sense, sorry.
I think you need to size it for the actual screen size of the Hero. On the home screens it is larger because it has to scroll through several other screens.
jiber said:
You might want to try an app called 'CropWallpaper'. I use it for my wallpaper, but you may be able to use it with your lockscreen. I'm on CM6 right now, so I can't check how it will work with sense, sorry.
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No worries, and thanks for the suggestion. Sadly it didn't work. But it's handy for normal wallpapers.
Jim M said:
I think you need to size it for the actual screen size of the Hero. On the home screens it is larger because it has to scroll through several other screens.
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That didn't work out well either. The exact size of the screen is 320x480, 320x455 is when you take into account for the notification bar.
Sadly, there's no current fix for this ( that I've found ), if anyone else reading this thread comes up with something, please post.
Thanks to everyone who has commented thus far and to theimpaler747 for trying very hard to help. I really appreciate it guys.
Ok, so I've been using that APK Manager to change the slider and unlock on the WidgetLocker screen, like that thread provides.
I thought I'd give it a try with my "SMS Unread Count" apk that I have. I changed the icon successfully and now I'm wondering if I can change the little red circle with the number in it? To another color. Where would that be?
peniston said:
Ok, so I've been using that APK Manager to change the slider and unlock on the WidgetLocker screen, like that thread provides.
I thought I'd give it a try with my "SMS Unread Count" apk that I have. I changed the icon successfully and now I'm wondering if I can change the little red circle with the number in it? To another color. Where would that be?
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If i'm not mistaken i think that involves actual code editing for the file.
boogieEpic said:
If i'm not mistaken i think that involves actual code editing for the file.
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Ah. That's way beyond my level for now. Thank you.
I have a sort of simular question... forgive me if i shouldnt post it here..
I was thinking of replacing the sms-unread icons for my lockscreen. And i wonder if it is even possible.
What i want is:
when there are no missed calls - no icon is visible
when there are missed calls - icon and number of missed calls are visible!
Same for sms (and mail)
Is this possible? If yes how? If someone could give me a little push in the right direction i will ofcorse try it myself and share it here!
tikker said:
I have a sort of simular question... forgive me if i shouldnt post it here..
I was thinking of replacing the sms-unread icons for my lockscreen. And i wonder if it is even possible.
What i want is:
when there are no missed calls - no icon is visible
when there are missed calls - icon and number of missed calls are visible!
Same for sms (and mail)
Is this possible? If yes how? If someone could give me a little push in the right direction i will ofcorse try it myself and share it here!
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You'll have to pull the .apk from your phone
Edit the images found in /res/drawable folder
Yeah, that's it
Android SDK
Photoshop/GIMP.
Code:
adb devices
adb remount
adb pull /data/app/sms.unre.. app
adb push sms.unre... /data/app/sms.unre...
zHk3R said:
You'll have to pull the .apk from your phone
Edit the images found in /res/drawable folder
Yeah, that's it
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when i pull the apk (i used apk-manager, should be ok i guess)
i can only see 1 png. so that is 1 png for both 0 and more missed calls.
since i want to see no icons when i have no missed calls i figured i needed 2 images: 1 "invisible" and 1 "normal".
Is this possible or should i get deep inside the code for that?
Uhm..
No. Use CMD to pull the apk.
Rename the .apk to .zip
res\drawable - There are all the images.
You need to edit the ones you wanna.
it makes no difference... i see the same files
still stuck with the same question
tikker said:
it makes no difference... i see the same files
still stuck with the same question
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The images you're looking for might be in drawable-hdpi or something similar.
All pictures (pngs) are located in the drawable folders.
i have found the images... and i know how to replace them...
But that is not the problem!
i want the widget be invisible when there are no missed calls and visible when there is a missed call.
tikker said:
i have found the images... and i know how to replace them...
But that is not the problem!
i want the widget be invisible when there are no missed calls and visible when there is a missed call.
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DUDE.
You obviously need to edit the images, something along the lines of:
- Make the NO MISSED CALLS image 100 % transparent
- Make the MISSED CALLS image .. whatever you want.
(OMG!!)
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DUDE.
You obviously need to edit the images, something along the lines of:
- Make the NO MISSED CALLS image 100 % transparent
- Make the MISSED CALLS image .. whatever you want.
(OMG!!)
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If it was simple like that... i wouldn't have to ask here
but...
The problem is that there are no separate images for "no missed calls" and "missed calls"
tikker said:
i can only see 1 png. so that is 1 png for both 0 and more missed calls.
since i want to see no icons when i have no missed calls i figured i needed 2 images: 1 "invisible" and 1 "normal".
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I figure it won't be easy as replacing a png or two.
but i am still hoping to find out how to make this...
You can orobably control that in the XMLs. But you have to know how to work with them.
ilangoadigal said:
You can orobably control that in the XMLs. But you have to know how to work with them.
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Use APKManager to decomplie the XML first.
It's basically binary if you don't decompile it.
Do a quick search for APKManager on Google.
tikker said:
I have a sort of simular question... forgive me if i shouldnt post it here..
I was thinking of replacing the sms-unread icons for my lockscreen. And i wonder if it is even possible.
What i want is:
when there are no missed calls - no icon is visible
when there are missed calls - icon and number of missed calls are visible!
Same for sms (and mail)
Is this possible? If yes how? If someone could give me a little push in the right direction i will ofcorse try it myself and share it here!
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Just pushing this Question up....
Are there any updates if exactly that is possible??
Its exactly that what i am looking for ...
So, any Updates on that???
Found similiar Widget....and modded
Okay...so if anybody is interested...
Found another (Fun-)Widget....that simply does what i am looking for -> changing Icon if SMS is received and show a "Bubble" with Counting unread SMS !!
Link to Original Widget: HERE
I changed the Icon if NO unread SMS to transparent. Changed the "notification bubble" and the icon if SMS is received and unread!!
EDIT:
Talked to the Developer...and seems that we will create a new one that will be really exciting...stay tuned