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[MOD] Black Notification Bars - CM 4.2.7.1/Dwang v1.13 [12-05]

Credit to jonnybueno for all of the edited .png files in here, I took 90 images from it. Sorry for the period of time this wasn't up here, I was drunk when I redid the thread.
I have received a few requests in the past for a black notification bar from some members, and figured that if a few people want it, well then more do as well request thread)
Latest updated 12-01​
CM 4.2.7.1 (no longer has smorg icon, apparently it is really hard to tell how much battery you have when the battery looks good)
http://www.mediafire.com/?xgzmjqqzzcf
Dwang v1.13 (still has smorg battery icon)
http://www.mediafire.com/?no4znnwymjn
CM 4.2.3.1 with Stericson's Latest Lockscreen
http://www.mediafire.com/?jezgymucuzy
mirror: http://www.4shared.com/file/147284694/a28bfa58/black_bar_4231_SL_110309-new.html
Old Versions​If you need an older version shoot me a pm, comment in this thread, or look in the attachments. (it could be there depending on if it had the lockscreen in it.)
Sorry it has taken me so long to make an official update for this.
About various other apps/widgets being skinned, well basically you can take the apk that it is in the theme and put it on the root of your sdcard and do this in the recovery console
Code:
mount system
mount sdcard
ls /system/app (only if you need to find the exact name, skip if you don't need the exact name)
cp /sdcard/exactappnamecapsandall.apk /system/app/exactappnamecapsandall.apk

awesome! keep up the great work

We can haz screenies? Or am I missing something blatantly obvious?

AdrianK said:
We can haz screenies? Or am I missing something blatantly obvious?
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you are actually having a massive fail (but its ok). there are 3 files edited. one .png, one .xml, one .dex.
literally all this is is a black notification with the clock and date and the text for the notifications white.

david1171 said:
you are actually having a massive fail (but its ok). there are 3 files edited. one .png, one .xml, one .dex.
literally all this is is a black notification with the clock and date and the text for the notifications white.
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Oh I see...thanks.

I would prefer black bars too, but the problem is that app icons are designed for white background, so some of them can't even be seen when the bar is black.

cigar3tte said:
I would prefer black bars too, but the problem is that app icons are designed for white background, so some of them can't even be seen when the bar is black.
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if there is a theme with icons you like i can pull them from there and drop them into it so that the icons are visible.

david1171 said:
if there is a theme with icons you like i can pull them from there and drop them into it so that the icons are visible.
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I personally never cared about the app icons on main screen; I only look at the tray icon and notification bar colors and icons.
The icons I'm talking about are notification ones like the one for Swift, which is just a black flying bird. This would be a black bird on black bar background, making it invisible.

cigar3tte said:
I personally never cared about the app icons on main screen; I only look at the tray icon and notification bar colors and icons.
The icons I'm talking about are notification ones like the one for Swift, which is just a black flying bird. This would be a black bird on black bar background, making it invisible.
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ooohhh i was talking about battery, signal, wifi, notification icons, but yeah i can't really do anything about other apps

actually i think you could probably use that one method to do this also. where you make the apk match the theme. here wouldnt you just have to look for the png and invert the color? or no? i really dont know just says what I's thinks

roadrunnerx7 said:
actually i think you could probably use that one method to do this also. where you make the apk match the theme. here wouldnt you just have to look for the png and invert the color? or no? i really dont know just says what I's thinks
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i could but then if some of the apps or paid then it would be an issue of warez and i would rather not get into that. also it would need to be done every time the app is updated.

true. too much work and trouble. well then, guys if you want a simple black bar, be ready to sacrifice some notifications. none of mine are black, except weatherbug, but thank god you can change that one to white its an option in the app!

Sorry 4 being such a noob but how do I use this

coolmarkoo said:
Sorry 4 being such a noob but how do I use this
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just download it, put it on the ROOT of your sdcard(meaning NOT in any folder) then go into recovery and just flash it like you would flash a rom.
basically its exactly the same as flashing a rom.

That's wat I did but it said bad file and then it aborted the instalation

coolmarkoo said:
That's wat I did but it said bad file and then it aborted the instalation
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hmmm. which one are you trying, also what did it say , did it tell you it was a bad file (i had that one with a rom, and redownloading it fixed it) or did it say something about about verification or not being signed properly?

I was flashing it normally and it said the blackbar(bad) instalation aborted I was using cm 4.11.1 but I will redownload and try again

i think it might be the signing thing.. does the file name have anything to do with it? cause i see for 4.0.4 it says signed but 4.1.11.1 does not. might be that?
crap i gotta go back to work. be back later!

roadrunnerx7 said:
i think it might be the signing thing.. does the file name have anything to do with it? cause i see for 4.0.4 it says signed but 4.1.11.1 does not. might be that?
crap i gotta go back to work. be back later!
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nawh man, (or else i probably would've heard something from the 15 or 16 that have got it so far).
i think that means that the download got corrupted, try to redownload it and flash it again, if that doesn't work i will resign it and upload it again.

ok i tried redownloading but its not working with 4.1.11.1 then i tried to download the other one to see if it was a problem with my conection it downloaded fine. i think i might need a mirror

[WIP] White Notification Bar

Hello everyone, I am hoping some more developers will try to help out and keep this project alive. Hoping these issues might be figured out by someone.
Issues:
3G and 1X dormant icons are default HTC as well as USB
White clock text
Clear button is dark with black text
Some things worth noting. The stat_sys_data_usb.png icon and the stat_notify_sync_error.png icon are already in /system/framework/framework-res.apk but the weird problem is for some reason these icons are not showing up correctly, and instead they default to HTC. Other icons in framework-res and com.htc.resources are not doing this.
I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR ANY OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR.
Credits:
Zifnab06
DiGi|
ivanmmj based off his Eris Offical 0.7.1 Rom
The original post can be found here:
http://www.thefuzz4.net/home/AndroidPhones/Eris/HowToRootYourHTCEris/WhiteNotificationBar.aspx
Downloadlink for current white notif bar:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/doh3g4
Hoping some further talented devs can keep this alive and finish it...

alexhendershott said:
Hello everyone, I am hoping some more developers will try to help out and keep this project alive. Hoping these issues might be figured out by someone.
Issues:
3G and 1X dormant icons are default HTC as well as USB
White clock text
Clear button is dark with black text
Some things worth noting. The stat_sys_data_usb.png icon and the stat_notify_sync_error.png icon are already in /system/framework/framework-res.apk but the weird problem is for some reason these icons are not showing up correctly, and instead they default to HTC. Other icons in framework-res and com.htc.resources are not doing this.
I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR ANY OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR.
Credits:
Zifnab06
DiGi|
ivanmmj based off his Eris Offical 0.7.1 Rom
The original post can be found here:
http://www.thefuzz4.net/home/AndroidPhones/Eris/HowToRootYourHTCEris/WhiteNotificationBar.aspx
Downloadlink for current white notif bar:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/doh3g4
Hoping some further talented devs can keep this alive and finish it...
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There is a TON of info on editing task bars and other theme elements in the cdma hero section mater of fact a good deal of their stuff works with various eris roms. Some of the roms running over there are legend or eris based now we have ports based off the Sprint roms so theyre themes and various add ons working also (ive tried a few) as far as text and icons I believe it has to do with the .9pngs etc...give it a read and there are a ton of helpful heroc fellas. chubz, vince just to name a few.

Yeah I've been waiting for someone to come up with a fix for the clock font color, but it seems to be fairly difficult to find? Or perhaps other things are being worked on by the limited amount of devs we've got on the Eris.

you forgot me the guy who was trying to finish it, and posted it for all!:d
alexhendershott said:
hello everyone, i am hoping some more developers will try to help out and keep this project alive. Hoping these issues might be figured out by someone.
Issues:
3g and 1x dormant icons are default htc as well as usb
white clock text
clear button is dark with black text
some things worth noting. The stat_sys_data_usb.png icon and the stat_notify_sync_error.png icon are already in /system/framework/framework-res.apk but the weird problem is for some reason these icons are not showing up correctly, and instead they default to htc. Other icons in framework-res and com.htc.resources are not doing this.
I take no credit for any of the work that has been done so far.
Credits:
Zifnab06
digi|
ivanmmj based off his eris offical 0.7.1 rom
the original post can be found here:
http://www.thefuzz4.net/home/androidphones/eris/howtorootyourhtceris/whitenotificationbar.aspx
downloadlink for current white notif bar:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/doh3g4
hoping some further talented devs can keep this alive and finish it...
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ORIGINAL link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657229

I'm a super noob at this, but I spent part of the day yesterday trying to fix my title bar with the icons I wanted in the Aloysis ROM. It seemed like the text color and icon image files were referenced by xml files? Have you tried looking there for fixes to your issues?
For the record there is a hero theme the Aloysis 4.1 ROM is based off of which may be configured close to what u want. I wanted to configure mine to look more like yours but I got frustrated and gave up.

hex editing
DeezNotes said:
I'm a super noob at this, but I spent part of the day yesterday trying to fix my title bar with the icons I wanted in the Aloysis ROM. It seemed like the text color and icon image files were referenced by xml files? Have you tried looking there for fixes to your issues?
For the record there is a hero theme the Aloysis 4.1 ROM is based off of which may be configured close to what u want. I wanted to configure mine to look more like yours but I got frustrated and gave up.
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A lot of this stuff is xml hex editing from what I've read. There's a ton of info in the cdma heroc forums. It's stickied there. Good info check it out.

Whats up with the black clear button

COMPLETELY OT...
What clock is that ??

is there any way to get a transparent notification bar?

pman219 said:
COMPLETELY OT...
What clock is that ??
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The clock is from the com.betterandroid.deskclock.apk from GrdLock's VanillaDroidv1.zip.
ekolon said:
is there any way to get a transparent notification bar?
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Yes, you could do any color.
Also, I've made quite the progress, this is where I am now. All I have left is the "Clear" button.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Awesome! Can we get an upload? And please tell me how you got the clock. Was it something in the services.jar/involve the odex file included or something more simple?

The last piece has now been figured out.
No more black "Clear" button.

awesome alex! you got a link for us all?

laxattack said:
awesome alex! you got a link for us all?
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Coming soon, give me a day or so. I will post ASAP.

ekolon said:
is there any way to get a transparent notification bar?
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+1 That would make it perfect if you ask me.
And the CLEAR text isn't centered.

alexhendershott said:
The last piece has now been figured out.
No more black "Clear" button.
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Way to go! I was thinking about this last night and trying to figure it out as well. Glad to see you got it.

this is sweet! any news on the link?

I would love a link to this!

awsome! I want it bbbbad!
Sent from my Eris using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

me too (again)
Sent from my rotary phone using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

[lockscreen] photoshop

I dont have photoshop, but i need to have a see through or opaque picture to use as my lockscreen background. can anyone help me, or even make a quick one? with a grey background if its opaque.

BUMP! come on people someone must have photoshop, this would only take 5 minutes.

doesn't the one from the other thread work?....
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=idhtmtuqyrm
..... Then have a play with DroidExplorer?... apparently it can do the ADB stuff for you......
EDIT..... Droid Explorer - 0.8.6.0 [06/19/2010] - Conan O'Brian Edition

Why someone with photoshop. It's just as doable with Gimp, a totally free image editor.

i dont have an image editor, slash i didnt know that. And its not the actual lock screen or anything i need.
i downloaded lockbot and you can use your own image as the background, so if i got a transparent one then i would have a transparent lockscreen..

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=707599
i modified the file from Cronos 1.7.1 so i'm not sure it will work for villainrom...
if you do want to try it ... do a nandroid or bart backup before you PUSH the file onto /system/framework folder

i think i tried that one before, but i'm not sure, i'll give it a shot.

it says verification failed?

If your looking to set an image as a lockscreen background its not as easy as having a transparent image. Android does not treat it as if it is transparent.
Hoping someone can work out a fix soon though.

oh i see. well thats helpful thanks. Also when trying to flash all these zips that people are putting together for me, when i try to flash them i get an error "verification failed"!!

archie winnington-ingram said:
I dont have photoshop, but i need to have a see through or opaque picture to use as my lockscreen background. can anyone help me, or even make a quick one? with a grey background if its opaque.
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use GIMP instead.

Lennyuk said:
If your looking to set an image as a lockscreen background its not as easy as having a transparent image. Android does not treat it as if it is transparent.
Hoping someone can work out a fix soon though.
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There was a Vanilla ROM with transparent locksscreen. I think it even was SuperHero and I remember it coz people did not like transparent lockscreens. It made screen look messy. Also some other vanilla ROMs have semi transparent lockscreens - it shows only wallppaper, not all icons and widgets - which I found very cool, especially if you like live wallpapers. I want to make it work on sense ROMs, don't know how so

for future reference:
fotoflexer.com
free online image editing.

Have you got a rooted phone?

How to install black/glass status/notification bar

I have the Cyanogen custom rom loaded on my rooted Nexus One and I have been trying all day to morph/flash ways to change my notification bar, but no good.
Would appreciate from you fantastic people if you could lend me a hand or advice?
Thank you! (If this is wrong format in this forum I apologize greatly it is my first time posting here, but I've been following XDA for some time now)

there are many themes over in the themes forum that have meta morph files you can apply to change your status bar to black. which do you want? do you want the desire black bar? or a pure black bar? i can post my theme which i use, it has a mixture of pure black bar, circle battery icon, my preferred wifi icon, and the rest are desire icons, all mixed together to give me my favorite theme. currently using it on cyan 6 nightly from sunday.
EDIT: i added the file. i left the name exactly the same, but a few edits have been made so i hope the originator of that theme doesnt mind. you can search out that thread by the file name i uploaded.

the thing is when i attempt to morph a theme every thing changes EXCEPT the status bar. While it skins the framework.apk (mis-spelled) It takes extremely long and I eventually reboot my phone because it does not load. How long does it take for you to morph a complete skin? I was trying to morph the Carbon Notification bar and it takes very long.
Thanks btw for your reply really appreciated

yeah i am stuck at the same problem too.. it is taking too long for such a small file... even flashing roms are faster...

na dude i got a different version MM nd it morphed quickly but not right status bar always white

huh ? i didnt get u... cant u rephrase ur sentence pls .. are u saying u downloaded an older version of metamorph and it morphed quickly but that version of metamorph did'nt change ur status bar to the desired color ?

It works for me every time, very quickly. Do you have usb bugging enabled? You need that.
Like I said, that's the exact file I use every time, not sure what is wrong...
Are you sure a reboot doesn't make the white turn to black bar?

haha.. it works for me now.. i didnt enable USB debugging the last time .. awesome.. loving the new carbon fibre status bar.. wicked stuff !!

Ha nice, its always the little things

hey guys quick question: is it possible to install a black/glass status bar morph on a rooted nexus with the stock rom?

suffix642 said:
hey guys quick question: is it possible to install a black/glass status bar morph on a rooted nexus with the stock rom?
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Yes, but the text would also be black. It has to be a custom ROM to modify the text too.

yes there's a stock FRF91 ROM thread over in the other forum which is theme ready so you could use any morph you want.

RogerPodacter said:
yes there's a stock FRF91 ROM thread over in the other forum which is theme ready so you could use any morph you want.
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Good info.. I have Enom's all lined up to go on mine when I get my new MicroSDHC... Still using the stock 4G card, need more space.

Help please
So I've downloaded the Glass Status Bar morph, and everything works except my status bar is still white. I'm trying to run it on CM 6, froyo, N1. Any help would be appreciated as to why this might not be working.
Do I need to adjust any settings in CM?

shankinstuff said:
So I've downloaded the Glass Status Bar morph, and everything works except my status bar is still white. I'm trying to run it on CM 6, froyo, N1. Any help would be appreciated as to why this might not be working.
Do I need to adjust any settings in CM?
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Go into the CM settings under the notification bar settings and untick the custom bar and untick custom color. Reboot and then it should work.

Thanks for the tip kp and it seemed to work at first but when I tried to change back to my preferred wallpaper (when it rebooted after applying the morph it reverted to the standard Cyanogen live wallpaper) the status bar become black.
Any other suggestions?

shankinstuff said:
So I've downloaded the Glass Status Bar morph, and everything works except my status bar is still white. I'm trying to run it on CM 6, froyo, N1. Any help would be appreciated as to why this might not be working.
Do I need to adjust any settings in CM?
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Where did you find the DL for that?

kpjimmy said:
Go into the CM settings under the notification bar settings and untick the custom bar and untick custom color. Reboot and then it should work.
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Thanks for the tip but it didn't work. I unticked everything you said, reapplied the morph and it re-started and seemed to work although the wall paper had changed by to the standard CM live wallpaper. When I switched back to my normal wallpaper the notification bar was black. Same thing when I tried other wallpapers.
Any other ideas?

shankinstuff said:
Thanks for the tip kp and it seemed to work at first but when I tried to change back to my preferred wallpaper (when it rebooted after applying the morph it reverted to the standard Cyanogen live wallpaper) the status bar become black.
Any other suggestions?
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Are you running a CM6 nightly?
Im running the CM6 stable and everything works fine on my end. For the nightly, I heard that you need to stick a static wallpaper you do not want up and then go to the live wall paper to place "on top of" the wallpaper. There may be more to that but that was the jist of the conversation I read in passing.
EDIT: Here's the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=763443

kpjimmy said:
Are you running a CM6 nightly?
Im running the CM6 stable and everything works fine on my end. For the nightly, I heard that you need to stick a static wallpaper you do not want up and then go to the live wall paper to place "on top of" the wallpaper. There may be more to that but that was the jist of the conversation I read in passing.
No, I'm running the stable mod, not any of the nightly's. Tried what that thread suggested, still no luck. I'll keep trying on my end.
Just to go through the steps I did, I downloaded the file from XDA. Placed it on my N1. Used Metamorph to unzip it and install it rebooted and no-go.
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[THEME] Kalagas Mixed theme for CM 6.1.2

All credit goes to Kalagas.
I only ported some of icons from original Milestone theme and mixed some of sense icon. Enjoy!
To get screen like shown in first picture, check the following menu option:
Settings->CyanogenMod settings->Input Settings->Phone and Messaging
Get modded LauncherPro from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=889036
Changes:
1. Browser tweaked for more icons.
2. Added some more tweaked apps.
3. Battery icon changed to BlueBattery.

Guys, can I have some feedback?

Your pictures really don't do it justice.
I thought it looked pretty awful from the pics but actually looks pretty good in the flesh. I like all blue icons, not a huge fan of the data icon though. I really like the menu themeing, xda app looks much better and the color icons when you push menu in homescreen are a good touch.
Why didn't you theme the new market blue? I don't like the buttons on the dialer either, doesn't look right with numbers but no buttons. Browser looks really smart I'm blue. Circular battery mod would have been good too
Sent from my CyanogenMod Desire HD

Find blue market (not modded by me) in first post. For phone I will post link in a day or two.

How do I apply this theme? I tried using metamorph to do it and it didnt work? Do i just place it on the sd card and flash it like a normal rom? Im really confused and i cant find any help anywhere. The theme looks sick, but i cant figure it out...

nickcash said:
How do I apply this theme? I tried using metamorph to do it and it didnt work? Do i just place it on the sd card and flash it like a normal rom? Im really confused and i cant find any help anywhere. The theme looks sick, but i cant figure it out...
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Yes, you need to flash it like a normal ROM. By looking at screen shots (I am lazy to post several screen shots) it may look sick but believe me it is fantastic from inside.