Hello Gang,
I just recently picked up an Sprint HTC Bolt. After mistyping a command and having to RUU twice, I finally got my phone customized to my liking, and I like this phone; A LOT.
However it was three things that truly bothered me:
The Bloatware, The Ugly Boot animation, and The Location Icon(s).
I was able to remedy the top two by rooting and S-OFFing to completely uninstall (not disable) bloat and for the boot animation, just changing the name of boot animations (from hTC_bootanimation.zip to sprint_bootup.zip and etc; it's a guide here on XDA by another awesome member) to re-obtain the stockm HTC Boot aniamtion.
There was still one issue for me. For some reason, there are TWO location icons. One for E911 (I think) and One for actual GPS. It was just taking up space and annoyed me, as when the GPS was in use, it was another icon beside that one which didn't make any since to me. I also wanted the stock HTC status bar Icons Back. There is No Xposed for Nougat (yet, that I know of) so I spent a while figuring out how to do this.
ALAS, I finally found out how. It was a line in the default.xml file! (Can't remember the exact one but it's similar to the Sku_ID line on the One Max for changing those same ugly Sprint icons). I changed that and now I no longer having the annoying, taking-up-space, secondary GPS/Location Icon. It also changed the Status Bar icons to the stock HTC Sense ones (not the Sprint ones).
Not sure if anybody else was like me wanting to get rid of the useless secondary location icon in the status, but just in case you were (or you may have wanted stock Sense icons, whatever the case may be), here you go! Enjoy.
Instructions:
I) Download the file.
II) Unzip.
III) Go to /system/customize/acc using a root browser of your liking and rename the default.xml in there presently to xxxdefault.xml or whatever.
IV) Go to your SD card where you extracted the downloaded default.xml and move that to /system/customize/acc/
V) Set Permissions
VI) Reboot.
VII) Profit!
http://imgur.com/6eeA0Mn
I just recently picked up an Sprint HTC Bolt. After mistyping a command and having to RUU twice, I finally got my phone customized to my liking, and I like this phone; A LOT.
However it was three things that truly bothered me:
The Bloatware, The Ugly Boot animation, and The Location Icon(s).
I was able to remedy the top two by rooting and S-OFFing to completely uninstall (not disable) bloat and for the boot animation, just changing the name of boot animations (from hTC_bootanimation.zip to sprint_bootup.zip and etc; it's a guide here on XDA by another awesome member) to re-obtain the stockm HTC Boot aniamtion.
There was still one issue for me. For some reason, there are TWO location icons. One for E911 (I think) and One for actual GPS. It was just taking up space and annoyed me, as when the GPS was in use, it was another icon beside that one which didn't make any since to me. I also wanted the stock HTC status bar Icons Back. There is No Xposed for Nougat (yet, that I know of) so I spent a while figuring out how to do this.
ALAS, I finally found out how. It was a line in the default.xml file! (Can't remember the exact one but it's similar to the Sku_ID line on the One Max for changing those same ugly Sprint icons). I changed that and now I no longer having the annoying, taking-up-space, secondary GPS/Location Icon. It also changed the Status Bar icons to the stock HTC Sense ones (not the Sprint ones).
Not sure if anybody else was like me wanting to get rid of the useless secondary location icon in the status, but just in case you were (or you may have wanted stock Sense icons, whatever the case may be), here you go! Enjoy.
Instructions:
I) Download the file.
II) Unzip.
III) Go to /system/customize/acc using a root browser of your liking and rename the default.xml in there presently to xxxdefault.xml or whatever.
IV) Go to your SD card where you extracted the downloaded default.xml and move that to /system/customize/acc/
V) Set Permissions
VI) Reboot.
VII) Profit!
http://imgur.com/6eeA0Mn
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