6 Signal Bars - Android

Okay, I've looked everywhere for this.
Can somebody throw me a bone?
I've diff'd a coulpe files and there's too much changed to do just the one mod that way.
Thanks
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dsb9938 said:
Okay, I've looked everywhere for this.
Can somebody throw me a bone?
I've diff'd a coulpe files and there's too much changed to do just the one mod that way.
Thanks
D
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PM "The Dub". He had modded our sprint's 6bar's into 4bars for his Simply AOSP ROM, so reverse engineering? Hope that gives u a better lead.

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Shoulon said:
PM "The Dub". He had modded our sprint's 6bar's into 4bars for his Simply AOSP ROM, so reverse engineering? Hope that gives u a better lead.
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Yeah, he just modded the 4 bar images. There is a hack to make it actually accurate with 6 bars.
That's what I'm looking for. Thanks though.
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TheDub said:
This is fairly simple but does require some framework modifications..
All we do really is replace the 6 images of the 6 line signal strength bar with the images of the one with 4 as already mentioned.
To make it accurate you just name them accordingly and do some math to get it as close as you could...
Each bar of signal is represented by an image with 1 out of 6 bars or 4 out of 6 bars in the framework. So knowing that...
1 - 2 out of 6 real bars of strength is represented by 1 out of 4 bars in the icon (1/6 and 2/6 are roughly 16% and 33% signal strength, represented by 25% on the icon.)
3 out of 6 real bars are represented by 2 out of 4 bars. (Self explanatory 3/6 and 2/4 = 50%)
4 out of 6 real bars are represented by 3 out of 4 bars. (4/6 is 66% and represented by 75%)
5 - 6 out of 6 real bars are represented by 4 out of 4 bars. (5/6 is 83% and represented by 100%)
^^^ That's how I did it. You could switch 5 out of 6 real bars to 3 out of 4 on the 4 icon bar since it's closer to 75% then 100% but I just went with it... You just rename your new signal strength bar pictures accordingly in the framework (framework-res.apk) and done!
I don't think I can provide a more detailed exclamation then that
Edit: I don't have file names of the signal strength icons in front of me, but they are in framework-res.apk and shouldn't be to hard to find, there will be 6 of them, I believe at the end of the file name is their number so yadda_yadda_1.png for example.
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Thats how He did his on the ROM. reverse engineering will give you the 6bars your looking for. NOT just a visual look. you would just need to do some math.

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I believe it's part of an XML file. Find where the file loads the signal icon, depending on signal strength. You'll have to decompile framework-res.apk. It's different per phone, but most people just use the same two images for 2 signals when going from 6 bars to 4. (for example, signal 1 will have a 1 signal icon, signal 2 and 3 will have the signal 2 bar, signal 4 and 5 will have the 3 signal bar, and signal 6 will be the full signal bar. You can take a look @ my MattedReds theme, download it, open up the framework-res.apk > res > drawable-hdpi > search signal and find the one that says Sprint. There will be a total of 14 icons. inside the AOSP version, you'll find I simply used the same image for a few.