Removal of Carrier from Notification Bar

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So far all my searches on how to remove the carrier from the drop down notification bar focus on changing the string value to something else or blanking it out. I would like to remove that whole section. I am on Rogers and my carrier is not listed in eri.xml, so that is not an option anyway.

I found some interesting info on this site:
http://www.absolutelyandroid.com/ui-...m6-a-tutorial/

which explained some bits inside status_bar_expanded.xml from the framework-res.apk. I am not that familiar with the code (yet) but wondered what would happen if I removed the chunk that refers to "plmnLabel" and "spnLabel"? Could I safely remove that wasted space that tells me what I already know (that I'm on Rogers network).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<com.android.server.status.ExpandedView android:orientation="vertical" android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants" android:directionality="leftToRight"
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:background="@drawable/status_bar_header_background" android:paddingTop="3.0dip" android:paddingRight="3.0dip" android:paddingBottom="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <LinearLayout android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingBottom="1.0dip" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_marginTop="1.0dip" android:layout_weight="1.0">


            <TextView android:textAppearance="?textAppearanceLarge" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/plmnLabel" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

            <TextView android:textAppearance="?textAppearanceLarge" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/spnLabel" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

        </LinearLayout>
        <TextView android:textSize="14.0sp" android:textColor="#ff000000" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/clear_all_button" android:background="@drawable/btn_default_small" android:paddingLeft="15.0dip" android:paddingRight="15.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginTop="4.0dip" android:layout_marginBottom="1.0dip" android:text="@string/status_bar_clear_all_button" style="\?android:attr/buttonStyle" />

</LinearLayout>

    <FrameLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <ScrollView android:id="@id/scroll" android:fadingEdge="none" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0">

            <com.android.server.status.NotificationLinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/notificationLinearLayout" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0">

                <TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBarTitle" android:id="@id/noNotificationsTitle" android:background="@drawable/title_bar_portrait" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/status_bar_no_notifications_title" />

                <TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBarTitle" android:id="@id/ongoingTitle" android:background="@drawable/title_bar_portrait" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/status_bar_ongoing_events_title" />

                <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/ongoingItems" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

                <TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBarTitle" android:id="@id/latestTitle" android:background="@drawable/title_bar_portrait" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/status_bar_latest_events_title" />

                <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/latestItems" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

            </com.android.server.status.NotificationLinearLayout>

        </ScrollView>

        <ImageView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/title_bar_shadow" android:scaleType="fitXY" />

    </FrameLayout>

</com.android.server.status.ExpandedView>

The only reason I don't intend to remove the next level of nested FrameLayout tags is because the Clear button appears in it. I'm not sure what to do about that.

Eventually, I would like to figure out how to add power control toggles to this are (much like some other themes/roms have done).

Any thoughts?

I found a little more info (not directly helpful to what I want to do) that will help blank the carrier if that is all you want to do.

My carrier is not listed in my eri.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<EriFile VersionNumber="1357" NumberOfEriEntries="12" EriFileType="1">
    <CallPromptId Id="0" CallPromptText="CallPromptId0" />
    <CallPromptId Id="1" CallPromptText="CallPromptId1" />
    <CallPromptId Id="2" CallPromptText="CallPromptId2" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="64" IconIndex="1" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA 64" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="65" IconIndex="65" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA 65" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="66" IconIndex="1" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA Ext 66" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="67" IconIndex="67" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA Ext 67" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="68" IconIndex="68" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA Roam 68" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="69" IconIndex="69" IconMode="1" EriText="T-CDMA Ext 69" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="70" IconIndex="70" IconMode="1" EriText="T-CDMA Roam 70" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="71" IconIndex="1" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA Ext 71" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="72" IconIndex="72" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA Ext 72" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="73" IconIndex="73" IconMode="0" EriText="T-CDMA Roam 73" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="74" IconIndex="74" IconMode="1" EriText="T-CDMA Ext 74" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
    <EriInfo RoamingIndicator="75" IconIndex="75" IconMode="1" EriText="T-CDMA Roam 75" CallPromptId="0" AlertId="0" />
</EriFile>

But I did find a file located on my phone that lists many providers with their details (from all continents):
/etc/customization/content/com/sonyericsson/r2r/client/preloaded_config.xml

Gonna take a browse through that and look for "Rogers".