Is there a way to change the top notification bar on Stock 2.1 to make it look something like Khal's or any of the others out there. The stock one is very vanilla compared to some of the others I have seen. Will update.zip work with an original sbf (or through OR) or does a custom rom have to be in place before you can modify anything like this? I know there are work arounds for some things like App2sd,...but not sure about something like this.
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Is there a way to change the top notification bar on Stock 2.1 to make it look something like Khal's or any of the others out there. The stock one is very vanilla compared to some of the others I have seen. Will update.zip work with an original sbf (or through OR) or does a custom rom have to be in place before you can modify anything like this? I know there are work arounds for some things like App2sd,...but not sure about something like this.
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I think you can just need to use something like metamorph, but I haven't tried it. The droidpirate website has a lot of different morphs that can be applied via metamorph.
I strongly recommend you get Open Recovery (or better: Androidiani Recovery) installed so that you can make and restore nandroid backups of system, data, and cache. Themeing can easily cause bootloops and nandroid backups will save a lot of headache.
I personally could not install any metamorph themes while on stock 2.1, but then again I was trying to use owq's gb theme and it would hang indefinitely. Maybe it was just the theme perhaps.
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I used metamorph once on stock and got a bootloop. Wasn't sure if anything could be done with the stock. Know how to do it on Khal's rom, but alas that is why it is custom.
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I used metamorph on stock 2.1 too. Not every morph worked but I could change my status bar to black or grey...
Cool. Do you still remember which ones you used? I have strolled around DroidPirate, but bootloops drive me bonkers, so I took a break from tinkering for a bit.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
A fair amount of people have looked at this, so I wanted to shed some light on what I did.
I used Metamorph/Droidpirate and played around with it. It works well but can only apply one morph at a time and it requires reboot after each. Can get tiresome. Make a nandroid before. If you get bogged down or want to start from scratch, just restore your system only part of the backup, reboot and your notification is stock.
And always remember, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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A fair amount of people have looked at this, so I wanted to shed some light on what I did.
I used Metamorph/Droidpirate and played around with it. It works well but can only apply one morph at a time and it requires reboot after each. Can get tiresome. Make a nandroid before. If you get bogged down or want to start from scratch, just restore your system only part of the backup, reboot and your notification is stock.
And always remember, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Check out ZipThemer. With it you can combine multiple morphs into one flashable update (assuming you have OpenRecovery installed).
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Now that some cool things for the Fascinate are starting to show up, I kinda pieced some things together from different sources to come up with my perfect rom (for today anyways ).
I have been running jt1134’s Super Clean D101 rom for awhile now. I found that I like some of the Samsung stock apps that were removed from his rom a little bit better. I found that I really liked the stock clock, music player, and messaging (with the swipeable features). So I added those back in.
Also added was the Blue Minimalism v1.3 Theme for a little blue, and the black notification bar with the see-thru drop down menu from the “Blackmod”. It also has the stock, non-puzzle, unlock screen with blue.
The kernel is stock with no oc.
Just trying to share what I like at the moment. I take no credit other than mixing up some ingredients on work others have done. The credit really goes to:
Jt1134. For that awesome clean rom tons of us have been using lately!
Raiderrep. For porting over the blue minimalism v1.3 theme (thanks to the original developer)
Stanrc. For the black notification bar and clear notification drop down menu.
DroidX007. For pulling the stock Samsung apps out for use and for being brave to test the blue minimalism theme out.
This is a clockwork recovery file. Unzip and put file inside into your SD card/clockworkmod/backup file and restore from menu. If someone knows how to switch it over to an update file, or show me how to do it, that would be great.
http://www.mediafire.com/?c7a24b7y8pyb3ue
Here is in a .zip format. Hopefully that will allow to download directly to your phone.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ded9ar9an9ajceq
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Now that some cool things for the Fascinate are starting to show up, I kinda pieced some things together from different sources to come up with my perfect rom (for today anyways ).
I have been running jt1134’s Super Clean D101 rom for awhile now. I found that I like some of the Samsung stock apps that were removed from his rom a little bit better. I found that I really liked the stock clock, music player, and messaging (with the swipeable features). So I added those back in.
Also added was the Blue Minimalism v1.3 Theme for a little blue, and the black notification bar with the see-thru drop down menu from the “Blackmod”. It also has the stock, non-puzzle, unlock screen with blue.
The kernel is stock with no oc.
Just trying to share what I like at the moment. I take no credit other than mixing up some ingredients on work others have done. The credit really goes to:
Jt1134. For that awesome clean rom tons of us have been using lately!
Raiderrep. For porting over the blue minimalism v1.3 theme (thanks to the original developer)
Stanrc. For the black notification bar and clear notification drop down menu.
DroidX007. For pulling the stock Samsung apps out for use and for being brave to test the blue minimalism theme out.
This is a clockwork recovery file. Unzip and put file inside into your SD card/clockworkmod/backup file and restore from menu. If someone knows how to switch it over to an update file, or show me how to do it, that would be great.
http://www.mediafire.com/?c7a24b7y8pyb3ue
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Very very nice. I don't think I'll be flashing it though. I like the puzzle unlock screen and some of the bloatware that gets removed in this. I also like the neon blue loading screens, but I want to make them darker. I didn't think I wanted anything TW on my phone when I first got it but a few aspects of it have grown on me.
EDIT: We live in the same city :O I think I will flash this. I love blue. But what all gets removed, and what happens if I have certain things frozen with Titanum? Will they just be left alone?
Well man from the Burg, make sure you do a back up first of what you got before you flash any rom. That way, if you ever need to get back those programs, you are safe.
I dont use Titanium but I would assume the files will still remain in you backup folder. When they are frozen, the arent deleted. So as long as you keep that backup file untouched, you should be able to restore those through Titanium as well.
As for everything that is removed, the base rom is Jt's and you can see it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796171
All the essentials are there. Jt just removed a lot of the stuff that really was bogging down the system. He also removed some of the Samsung TW style apps and replaced them with stock android apps. I put those back in as listed in the OP.
Do a backup, flash it then you if you like it you can start adding anything deleted back into it with Titanium.
Also, in Jt's op linked above, you can get the puzzle screen lock back.
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Well man from the Burg, make sure you do a back up first of what you got before you flash any rom. That way, if you ever need to get back those programs, you are safe.
I dont use Titanium but I would assume the files will still remain in you backup folder. When they are frozen, the arent deleted. So as long as you keep that backup file untouched, you should be able to restore those through Titanium as well.
As for everything that is removed, the base rom is Jt's and you can see it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796171
All the essentials are there. Jt just removed a lot of the stuff that really was bogging down the system. He also removed some of the Samsung TW style apps and replaced them with stock android apps. I put those back in as listed in the OP.
Do a backup, flash it then you if you like it you can start adding anything deleted back into it with Titanium.
Also, in Jt's op linked above, you can get the puzzle screen lock back.
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Alright. I hate the bloatware but I'm keeping it frozen so the Froyo update will be easy. I'm flashing now.
EDIT: Finally got it to run. Will this remove my lag fix?
EDIT 2: Why is everything wiped? I was not expecting that...
After restoring, backing up my contacts, and re-flashing, my contacts restored but my apps decided not to. But the phone just feels...faster. Do I need to restore, backup, and flash again?
Looks nice but I am not smart enough to make this work.
GoogleAndroid said:
After restoring, backing up my contacts, and re-flashing, my contacts restored but my apps decided not to. But the phone just feels...faster. Do I need to restore, backup, and flash again?
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Use Titanium to reinstall all your apps. When you flash roms, you get real good at reinstalling your apps and settings. Hint, if you use LauncherPro or ADW, there is a backup function that will back up your screens exactly like you had it!
You should be much faster. JT really streamlined this rom. I love what he did!
dakoop said:
Looks nice but I am not smart enough to make this work.
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Are you rooted with clockwork flashed?
steeeler said:
Use Titanium to reinstall all your apps. When you flash roms, you get real good at reinstalling your apps and settings. Hint, if you use LauncherPro or ADW, there is a backup function that will back up your screens exactly like you had it!
You should be much faster. JT really streamlined this rom. I love what he did!
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*facepalm* Heh, can't believe I forgot that. My bad. I've done this for months with my Droid. It's just been so long since I've had something big to flash.
Is this ROM deodexed? I am not seeing it...
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Is this ROM deodexed? I am not seeing it...
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Yes. Jt1134's base Rom is fully deodexed.
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steeeler said:
Yes. Jt1134's base Rom is fully deodexed.
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Awesome, thanks!!!! How has battery life been for you? I have tried the deodexed version and it seemed to go down for me...so I reverted back to odexed. But, want to stay up to date.
Battery life on my Fascinate has never been the greatest but I didn't notice a difference when a switched to a deodexed Rom.
I've read the horror stories but not with my phone. Plenty of happy people on this forum who havent had a problem with the new deodexed roms either.
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i installed this.i hafta say it looks awsome
im lovin it,buh 1 thing tho i was really into the
wallpaper shown in the preview images
where may i get that pls??
I would love % on battery...otherwise it's awesome!!!!! Thanks.
I have not tried this rom, but I assume its deodexed because steeeler is using Jt's deodexed super clean rom. with add mods and tweaks like Raidereps Blue Minimalism theme and other sources as well that he listed at the OP. It looks like it should be a pretty straight forward rom its just not a zip file so it will be installed differently thru CWR.
Cheers
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i installed this.i hafta say it looks awsome
im lovin it,buh 1 thing tho i was really into the
wallpaper shown in the preview images
where may i get that pls??
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Sorry about that. Should have put that up. I added to the op.
Is there anyway to put the visual voicemail back in to prevent the dialer from crashing. If you touch the voicemail button the dialer will crash. That was my issue with JT's rom. I can't seem to get voicemail back in....
Otherwise this is a great rom. Thank you....
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Is there anyway to put the visual voicemail back in to prevent the dialer from crashing. If you touch the voicemail button the dialer will crash. That was my issue with JT's rom. I can't seem to get voicemail back in....
Otherwise this is a great rom. Thank you....
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Good catch, first time I heard of that problem. I always just use the quick dial 1 to go to voicemail.
I wonder if it has something to do with the deodexing. This is a different dialer than on Jt's.
I'll poke around his thread to see if anyone has a fix
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Good catch, first time I heard of that problem. I always just use the quick dial 1 to go to voicemail.
I wonder if it has something to do with the deodexing. This is a different dialer than on Jt's.
I'll poke around his thread to see if anyone has a fix
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Put a deodex'ed VVMService.apk back in system and should fix the fc.
So I'm a bit of a typography nerd, and lately I've been hooked on the stunning "Comfortaa" font by aajohan (all credit to him for the original font!) and have replaced the system fonts on my phone with Comfortaa, and decided I wanted to replace the samsung lockscreen clock text font too.
Of course, samsung couldn't be like google and just use the Clockopia.ttf font in /system/fonts for their lockscreen, instead they made each number a .png image, in two separate sizes.
So today I finally made my own images using comfortaa, and I'm quite happy with how it turned out, and maybe somebody else will want to use this too.
Anyway, I don't use metamorph, and this is my first time making a metamorph theme, but it seems simple enough, hopefully it works (I don't honestly know, I just modified my framework-res.apk directly.)
And like always...
make a nandroid backup first, and I am absolutely not responsible for anything that happens to your phone because of applying this mod.
cheers, =)
Very nice . Now I'm gonna need to change my font to match. Good work +1 wanna hook up the link to your battery mod?
Sent from my vibrant
Didn't work for me but then again I don't really use metamorph all that often. I really like the comforta font though so great idea
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Very nice . Now I'm gonna need to change my font to match. Good work +1 wanna hook up the link to your battery mod?
Sent from my vibrant
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Hi,
I made a handful of versions of my battery mod, mostly with the stock international i9000 "matte" version of touchwiz, you can find the thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758797
I personally don't mind the black & blue color scheme of touchwiz, I just hate the custom "glossy/glass" version that samsung did for only the vibrant.
Cheers, =)
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Didn't work for me but then again I don't really use metamorph all that often. I really like the comforta font though so great idea
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Hi,
Yeah, I don't personally use metamorph, I just know that so many people have so many different themes they prefer to use, so it seemed easier to try and throw a morph together instead of uploading complete pre-compiled versions of framework-res.apk. Its even worse now with so many variations, I'd need one for Eugene's roms, one for Bionix, one for stock JFD and another for stock JI6, then versions for both the stock JFD and JI6 lockscreen mod variations too, lol.
So, anyway, if the morph doesn't work, can someone try to point me in the right direction why?
And of course, you can always do the mod manually too:
download the zip and just extract the 22 png images
adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk
open framework-res.apk it with 7-zip, and drag-and-drop my comfortaa images into /res/drawable-hdpi.
adb push ~path_to_modded_file /system/framework/framework-res.apk
then reboot into clockwork recovery, and wipe cache & dalvik-cache
reboot one last time
Cheers, =)
an you tell me what battery you have I like that icon.
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Yeah, this Morph doesn't work. Just tried it. Said something about a theme control file missing. Hope this helps you, the purple lock screen looks awsome!
s0niqu3:.
Not having made a morph myself, I am basing this off of just comparing your XMP file to a morph I have applied many times (EVO BlackBar)...
It appears there is nothing wrong.
Not sure why it sin't working. Currently doing a nandroid. Going to try it out as this is a great idea! Surprised it hasn't been done yet. Could go hand-in-hand with the FlipFont.apk thread.
Transition Animation MetaMorphs(Bouncing, Flipping, Flying, Stock)
PLEASE READ:
Here are a few MetaMorphs I made to change only the transition animations of your current ROM/theme. They are still very much BETA releases. I've tested them all on Bionix-v 1.3.1, but I need testers on other ROMs. It's very likely they will work on most ROMs, however, it's also possible there may be issues with conflicting compression levels. For that reason, I strongly suggest making a nandroid backup beforehand. Please report what ROM you're using, which MetaMorph you applied, and whether or not it was successful.
NOTE: These may also work on other devices, but please, if you're going to test it, MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP!!! Or at least know how to restore your current framework.)
Disclaimer:
I do my best to thoroughly test and make sure my themes and updates as universal as possible. That being said, not every flash is perfect. Issues with my themes/updates in the past have been rare, and easily recoverable, but that may not always be the case. Just as with any other updates you apply to your device, you're taking a small risk; That risk can grow when negative factors are added, e.g. human error/misjudgment, bad downloads, bad flashes, etc. I make these updates in my spare time, and offer them to anyone interested, however I am not responsible for damaged software, hardware, or any lives that brutally fall apart after flashing my updates. Please make sure you fully understand what you're doing, and the steps to reverse it if necessary, before applying these updates. XDA is a valuable source of information, simple searching/reading threads will often help you find a solution.
Instructions:
MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP if you don't know how to restore your framework if anything goes wrong.
If you don't already have it, install the MetaMorph app by Stericson from the Market.
Download one of the attached .zip's, and place it somewhere you'll remember on your sdcard.
Make sure USB storage is unmounted, and for best results, activate Flight Mode.
Run the MetaMorph app, Start Checks, and Unzip/Extract the .zip you previously placed on your sdcard.
Close the description and apply.
If you didn't encounter a forced reboot, it will prompt you to reboot, do so. Otherwise try again if it was unsuccessful, and reboot when it's done.
Deactivate Flight Mode and enjoy!
Awesome... First to comment too...
Will try this out. Thanks dude
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Flying works fine. Nice thread thanx
Edit flipping works great too,
Eight hours later no problems
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I tried the flip, didn't work for me. Currently on stock deodexed kb1, but that shouldn't matter right?
edit....took on the second try. Looks great, nice job on these!
Tried these on trigger v2.7 with no problems all day. Thanks for these
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Thanks for the feedback guys! Much appreciated. Still would like to hear if they're working on other ROMs besides stock deodexed, Trigger, and Bionix-v; but that's an awesome start! Hopefully there won't be any compression issues, but from what I've read so far, I might not have to worry about it.
Confirmed working on trigger 2.7 themed w/honeycomb theme.
Sent from the ever changing vibrant.
Running Bionix 1.3.1 with TW theme. Tried the morph with all 3 (no stock) with no luck. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
any chance of a video, so we can see what these are like?
Yeah ditto that. I'd like to try on Bionix 1.3 but seems like there may be issues.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
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Yeah ditto that. I'd like to try on Bionix 1.3 but seems like there may be issues.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
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I tested them on 1.3.1 with no issues. Granted I did not try the flying animations, I assumed they were the animations from the old Nero betas and wanted to try something else.
We'll I'm gonna flash a new rom. Either trigger with overstock or Hat's BC I'm getting horrendous battery life with this rom. So, I will try this on the new one and report back. Thanks for the heads up.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
Is this confirmed on darkys 9.3?
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Thanks for putting this together for us man!
Quick question: I'm running bionix 1.3.1 with the Honeycomb theme that's here on XDA, if I flash the "stock" animation will that get rid of the one that's on the theme? Will it even work since it's a theme that I'm using? Thanks!
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Running Bionix 1.3.1 with TW theme. Tried the morph with all 3 (no stock) with no luck. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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I've found that sometimes MetaMorph can take a few tries when modifying framework-res.apk, which is exactly what these do. If your animations didn't change (not even some of them), that means MetaMorph didn't actually change anything. If it was incompatible for whatever reason, you'd probably have forced reboots. My best advice is to keep trying, make sure MetaMorph has superuser permissions, and maybe try wiping your dalvik-cache. If none of that helps, maybe try uninstalling MetaMorph, and installing the latest version from the Market.
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any chance of a video, so we can see what these are like?
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That's a good idea. I might have access to a video camera later tomorrow, but if anyone else could beat me to it I'd really appreciate it. Credz and your video in the OP!!! In the meantime though, I included stock animations so you can easily test them out and switch back if you don't like them. My personal favorite is flipping.
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Is this confirmed on darkys 9.3?
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Not yet, but I'd certainly appreciate it if someone were to nandroid backup and test our for me.
Duce HD2 said:
Thanks for putting this together for us man!
Quick question: I'm running bionix 1.3.1 with the Honeycomb theme that's here on XDA, if I flash the "stock" animation will that get rid of the one that's on the theme? Will it even work since it's a theme that I'm using? Thanks!
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Yes, it should work on all themes, and stock would get rid of the animations you don't like.
working on the latest bionix. thank you!
Works on bionix v 1.3.1 but i did get stuck at bootloop at first. Then had to pull battery. Works fine after but phone seems sluggish now??? Any idea what could be up with that. And what is this stupid metamorph thing i had to use to put this on? Why cant i do it through clockwork mod?
Btw im using the flipping animations.
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Hi, I have a Droid x2 rooted running GB 2.3.3.
i have been experimenting to see what i can do, i have changed the boot animations, no problems once i read up on various posts so i know what i'm doing.
Various fonts and a couple of other "safe" apps.
Well now i don't know what happened but it happened after using ROM Toolbox and Spare Parts, but now at the top of the notification bar all the icons are skrewed up, font is not right, as things are added is stays on the notification bar, if i pull down the notification bar the body is ok, but at the top the it just keeps adding items, but if i reboot it starts out ok i guess but it keeps happening, even after a battery pull.
I have included a .jpg hope you can make out what i'm talking about
sknoxx
1. Use a screenshot app. Screenshot ER or AndroSS work great.
2. Get familiar with RSDlite & the SBF process cuz you may have to do it to fix this.
3. Stay away from anything that's not specifically for the X2. Droid X stuff has a tendency to soft-brick this phone.
Just my $.02
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Read the sticky faqs. Says specifically in first line not to use rom toolbox. I have changed fonts before using root tools by jrummy but went back to stock as I felt it made my phone laggy.
As said above u may need sbf to fix. There may be something else u can do but most of us stay away from rom toolbox for now so not many will know a fix for ya.
Hello
First I would like to thank bharat_goku for this awesome ROM, so thank you
Now lets get to the business
1. Sometimes I have an odd problem. Apps that are installed not from the market force closes. On some apps this problem fixes itself after half a day or something like that. Magic, isn't it? I remember reading in some ROM thread that broken APK signatures may cause force close problem. The question is how can i fix it?
2. Is there a way to replace current transparent status bar to default one?
3. Is there a way to remove recent apps from notification box? It really feels sluggish now and lacks some space.
4. Is it possible to get default 2.1 lockscreen running? If so, what would I need to do to get one running? However this is more like for experimentation
5. Is there a way to *lock* apps like Phone and Messages in memory so they could always respond as fast as possible. I remember them being auto-killed on some roms... I currently didn't experience such behavior on this ROM since I didn't get any calls but I would like to be sure
6. I suppose I could manage to find this one easily but since I'm asking already... Where could I find old market app?
7. I'm thinking of making swap file and enable Compcache since GB eats memory pretty fast. I've seen them doing magic on Heroine (Sense 2.1) ROM. I'm gonna try these tweaks when I find some spare time... Has anyone tried something like that on this ROM? Was it worth it?
Well I think thats it for now. I'm not afraid of (adb) shell so if some answers involves using it that would not be a deal breaker
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Hello
First I would like to thank bharat_goku for this awesome ROM, so thank you
Now lets get to the business
1. Sometimes I have an odd problem. Apps that are installed not from the market force closes. On some apps this problem fixes itself after half a day or something like that. Magic, isn't it? I remember reading in some ROM thread that broken APK signatures may cause force close problem. The question is how can i fix it?
2. Is there a way to replace current transparent status bar to default one?
3. Is there a way to remove recent apps from notification box? It really feels sluggish now and lacks some space.
4. Is it possible to get default 2.1 lockscreen running? If so, what would I need to do to get one running? However this is more like for experimentation
5. Is there a way to *lock* apps like Phone and Messages in memory so they could always respond as fast as possible. I remember them being auto-killed on some roms... I currently didn't experience such behavior on this ROM since I didn't get any calls but I would like to be sure
6. I suppose I could manage to find this one easily but since I'm asking already... Where could I find old market app?
7. I'm thinking of making swap file and enable Compcache since GB eats memory pretty fast. I've seen them doing magic on Heroine (Sense 2.1) ROM. I'm gonna try these tweaks when I find some spare time... Has anyone tried something like that on this ROM? Was it worth it?
Well I think thats it for now. I'm not afraid of (adb) shell so if some answers involves using it that would not be a deal breaker
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3. you can download and install "Remove recent apps from status bar" under Options from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090186
4. you can try this lockscreen for Wildfire which is similar to default 2.1 lockscreen for Hero, download and install "Wildfire Lockscreen" from the same thread mentioned above.
Cheers!
2. Is there a way to replace current transparent status bar to default one?
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I found that if you select the slate skin, you get the status bar back and the whole rom feels faster. I also like the blue button highlights.
Thank you for your answers
Prof Peach I am currently using Slate theme but it just doesn't feel right
1. Sometimes I have an odd problem. Apps that are installed not from the market force closes. On some apps this problem fixes itself after half a day or something like that. Magic, isn't it? I remember reading in some ROM thread that broken APK signatures may cause force close problem. The question is how can i fix it?
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I have found out that this problem is related to sd-card. It seems to be mounted as read only and some programs force closes when they cant write to that sd-card. I suppose this kind of stuff should be defined somewhere (maybe some ini file). So now the question is how can I make it writable.
P.S. I doubt it's my cards fault since I can access it through recovery USB mount without any problems.
P.P.S. I cant mount sd-card as disk drive through ROM.
P.P.P.S. I am also using LVX 0.6.2 so that may be a problem... I'll try flashing 0.5 when i get home
I guess I'm gonna need to reflash the ROM <looking for encouragement >
infernaz said:
Hello
First I would like to thank bharat_goku for this awesome ROM, so thank you
Now lets get to the business
1. Sometimes I have an odd problem. Apps that are installed not from the market force closes. On some apps this problem fixes itself after half a day or something like that. Magic, isn't it? I remember reading in some ROM thread that broken APK signatures may cause force close problem. The question is how can i fix it?
2. Is there a way to replace current transparent status bar to default one?
3. Is there a way to remove recent apps from notification box? It really feels sluggish now and lacks some space.
4. Is it possible to get default 2.1 lockscreen running? If so, what would I need to do to get one running? However this is more like for experimentation
5. Is there a way to *lock* apps like Phone and Messages in memory so they could always respond as fast as possible. I remember them being auto-killed on some roms... I currently didn't experience such behavior on this ROM since I didn't get any calls but I would like to be sure
6. I suppose I could manage to find this one easily but since I'm asking already... Where could I find old market app?
7. I'm thinking of making swap file and enable Compcache since GB eats memory pretty fast. I've seen them doing magic on Heroine (Sense 2.1) ROM. I'm gonna try these tweaks when I find some spare time... Has anyone tried something like that on this ROM? Was it worth it?
Well I think thats it for now. I'm not afraid of (adb) shell so if some answers involves using it that would not be a deal breaker
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1. I think I've fixed it. I reflashed the ROM without wiping everything and now SD card works as it should, no FC's after that..
2. I have changed theme to Slate and then just accidentally changed back to default theme and the status bar is not transparent anymore
3. As stated few posts above the mod from SalsaSense works perfectly.
4. Same as 3.
5. It does seem to work well so I think it may not be needed here. However it would still be interesting to have some information about this.
6. Seems that old market app does not want to work with this ROM.. Oh well..
7. I've found out that compcache is not compiled into LVX kernel (or not enabled) so I could not test it out. About swap I did not test it either since atm my sd-card is too slow to even begin with something like that.
I hope this information will be useful to someone.
However I still have some issues... The phone drains battery in a day or so while doing nothing. Thats odd since with older sense 2.1 roms I could manage to push 3 to 5 days with light phone usage (really light, like 1 call a day, 3 texts and 10 mins browsing and of course alarm clock). However I did not use LVX kernel back then and governor was ondemand where now govenor is smartassv2. So battery life may not be entirely roms fault.
I'm gonna try to wipe battery stats and see how it goes then.
EDIT: Seems that wiping battery stats helped somehow. I don't have any idea how battery stats works, seems strange...
2. I have changed theme to Slate and then just accidentally changed back to default theme and the status bar is not transparent anymore
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This doesnt work for me, are you sure you didnt do anything else to remove transparency?
absar.shah said:
This doesnt work for me, are you sure you didnt do anything else to remove transparency?
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Well the thing is I used Slate theme from the beginning and then after having problems and reflashing ROM without wiping any data etc I changed theme to Default one. Since then the status bar is just like the original one, no transparency.
I have also flashed a mod that removes recently used apps from notification bar so maybe that has something to do with this. Strange.
infernaz said:
Well the thing is I used Slate theme from the beginning and then after having problems and reflashing ROM without wiping any data etc I changed theme to Default one. Since then the status bar is just like the original one, no transparency.
I have also flashed a mod that removes recently used apps from notification bar so maybe that has something to do with this. Strange.
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I tried reflashing ROM without wiping any data still its transparent, which confirms the second part
I have also flashed a mod that removes recently used apps from notification bar so maybe that has something to do with this.
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If you want the normal statusbar,just flash the battery mod from the optionals in the cdma thread....
Sent from my HTC Hero using xda premium
The battery mod just changes battery indicator, notification bar is still transparent.
absar.shah said:
The battery mod just changes battery indicator, notification bar is still transparent.
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not really it reverts it to the default statusbar which is not transparent....
anyway i've removed the transparent status bar in Rose V4 so it shouldnt be a problem now on...