Just picked up a Verizon V10, was shocked and saddened to find out that the current 6.0 ROM doesn't have root - all of my prior phones have been rooted going back to the original galaxy S, so I'm in a bit of shock haha.
One of the things that's driving me most crazy, is all the default icons cluttering up my notification bar - especially since they don't tell me anything I need to know. Specifically:
1. The battery icon (since I have percentage on, this is redundant).
2. NFC icon (I always leave it on, why do I want this icon?!)
3. Bluetooth icon (again, always on, always connected to my watch, not telling me anything...)
4. The 4G icon while I'm on Wifi
5. The HiFi icon (why would I even want to turn this off?!)
6. The Alarm icon (I have to wake up every day.. why do I need this icon)
Is there anyway to hide/disable these icons from showing, without root? Thanks in advance.
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Im interested in seeing what small helpful features everyone is finding buried in HC. Im also making sure there isn't any settings I'm not aware of that could be making my experience with HC even better. This may be helpful to many of us who just recently became acquainted to View 4G through numerous internet fire-sales.
I have 2 helpful tips, though they are small. I don't think these are specific to HC, but i think they help.
1. There is a slight screen animation when you exit an app and return to the home screen. It occurs on pretty much every screen change, its like its growing/expanding. Anyway this animation mixed with straining to see the smaller app icon text and smaller widgets of HC may make you nauseous after seeing it over and over again. Just go to Settings/Screen/Animation and set it to no animations. My stock weather widget still does its cool full screen animations, so i don't think i'm missing out on any good animations by changing this setting.
2. For better battery life:
a. use airplane mode.
b. use a wifi widget for quick, convenient on/off toggle. If i mostly keep wifi off my tablet lasts forever for reading, drawing etc.
c. set your screen to timeout after 1 minute or less. Settings/Screen/Timeout
d. set the brightness to low. I keep mine as low as it goes and turn automatic off. Settings/Screen/Brightness
[Q] if you could just tap the wifi icon in the new hc soft status bar to toggle on/off without it taking u all the way to the settings menu that would be amazing- Am i missing something? If its going to hog screen space it should be a super convenient status bar equipped with this feature-
Hi. Recent, happy convert to CM7.1 on my Nexus One.
Question, though. I use Widgetsoid, and now that I'm root, I'm using the root data toggle method. This works, but the widget provides no feedback about what state you're in. So when I click it, I need to wait several seconds until the notification bar icon appears (or disappears) to find out if the click took. Also, If I have WIFI up, the cell data notification icon goes away, so I don't know whether cell data is also enabled. Since I routinely turn off data to preserve the battery when I'm not using it, this is a frequent issue.
So. Is there a way to get Widgetsoid to light up the data toggle widget when data is enabled? Doesn't seem to be - which is funny, because I used to use the old 2g/3g toggle, which did light up to indicate whether data was enabled, even though the widget itself was only a shortcut to the data settings.
Or... is there another widget that works the way I want?
I have moved on to the Vivid as my daily carry, but still have uses for my Aria. I would like to use it as a full time GPS and media device for the car. Is there a way to remove the SIM card and signal strength status bar icons?
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
duckredbeard said:
I have moved on to the Vivid as my daily carry, but still have uses for my Aria. I would like to use it as a full time GPS and media device for the car. Is there a way to remove the SIM card and signal strength status bar icons?
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
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I'm not sure why you want to, but you may be able to cook your own (using the UOT Kitchen).
Another option is to hide it from the main screen:
Step 1: Load ADW
Step 2: Open ADW settings
Step 3: Open UI Settings
Step 4: Open Screen Preferences
Step 5: Scroll down to "Advanced settings" and select the option "Hide Status Bar."
This provides the most screen real estate, at least on the home screen.
The other option is to use a custom status bar (from UOT) that is all black or white (or the color of your GPS application). This won't remove it from the screen, but it will at least make it not seen.
One other option is to set the phone into airplane mode. This will remove both the SIM card and signal strength icons, BUT will add an airplane mode icon. This still reduces the number of unwanted icons from 2 to 1 though. ;P
I have found that Sweeter Home has a full screen option. I can then build a fake notification bar (more like a banner) with clock, battery info to provide pertinent info. Come back later for screenshot...
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
Not going to do what I want. Google map and navigator do not run in full screen, so the status bar shows.
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
duckredbeard said:
Not going to do what I want. Google map and navigator do not run in full screen, so the status bar shows.
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
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Sounds like you may need to live with the status bar...
Status bar is ok...just don't want those loud blaring irrelevant icons warning me of things I no longer intend to use.
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
Hi everyone,
I searched the web for quit a time now, but did not find anything to answer my question:
Is there any way to disable the icons in the notification bar which appear while apps running in background without losing their full funktion?
For example I have an "Anti-Virus Program", "LBE Security Master" an "Tasker" running in Background. There a little Icons shown in the Status-Bar and big notifications when I pull down the notification bar. Of course many apps have an option to disable this, but they tell me that they won´t work right anymore if I would disable that. Since Jelly-Bean, I think, there is a way to disable notifications from every app but same thing here - apps seem not to work right anymore.
Is there a way to get rid of the icons or the big notifications without losing their funktion?
Thanks for answers
GP
Really no one has that problem?
This is a very good forum but sadly in very most cases no one answers...
I have an IPcam App called SYSD that keeps 2 annoying icons on the top left of my LG G2 phone, I dont like them at all.
But I need the app to be always on, because it is very important as it should always work, it rings when a motion is detected.
Is there a way to hide these icons without causing an interference in the running app?
Any help? Problem with no solution?
Nothing ?
At all?
You can use something like AOSP Status Bar, but you'll need to root your phone I believe. Any mod that allows you to disable persistent notifications is what you're looking for. There are various options and they're usually specific to your phone model, but that's what you're looking for.