ICS notification icons overlapping with center clock

[Insomaniac10]

So I've been searching around for the last couple of days for a solution to this, and I can't seem to find a detailed explanation. This thread addresses it, but only says

Also the notifications overlap the clock when they get to the middle, I know how to fix that one, but just to lazy to bother as I never have that many notifications going on. The width of the notification display just needs changing.

Play around with it. Let me know how it goes.

And then i found this thread, which appears to be a fix but is for a different device, and does not outline the specific changes that were made/how to do them.

Hoping someone here can help, because I don't have any coding knowledge. Thanks ahead.

Running Chimerav1.1 with Devil v0.67

 

[Insomaniac10]

So I found this in this thread:

To fix the notification overlap you need to add a little to this line:

<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/ticker"

Scroll right to the end of that line and add this

android:background="@drawable/statusbar_background"

The whole line will look something like this:

<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/ticker" android:paddingLeft="6.0dip" android:animationCache="false" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="@drawable/statusbar_background">

Clock centred, no overlap!

^^ status_bar.xml obviously
Now I just gotta see if this works on our device....gotta find, Woodrube

 

[Woody]

So you should be able to do this right quick with Notepad++ or some other type of hex editor. Go into the the SystemUI/res/layout, find the status_bar.xml find this line of code

 <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/ticker"

and use the Notepad++ to add this part in

android:background="@drawable/statusbar_background"

.

Seems that all this is done once you decompile the SystemUI.apk (done with APKtool-can be found here along with a general theming guide.) and the input the changes to the status_bar.xml then recompile it with APKtool, remount and the reboot.

Couple of things. I think someone like Dougfresh or Annex would be better at this, but I can give it a shot. As you know make a backup first. Can you upload the SystemUI.apk that you are using and I will try to get to it tonight after kids go to bed. Might take me a day or two to get around to it bc of work and stuff.

 

[Insomaniac10]

Thanks as always....i may give it a shot myself when i get home, but as ive told you before, not once have i EVER been able to successfully decompile/recompile. so if you could try it that would be boss. thanks much.

 

[Insomaniac10]

Woodrube, have you tried Chimera yet??

im running that with the Devil kernel and holllllllllly ****, my phone is like silk!! and you knwo ive been an ICS hater! i strongly suggest you give it a shot. everything that i used to complain about (data fix, lag, overly aggressive task-killing, etc.) seems to be non-exsistant. and its also an AOKP-CM9 hybrid that i said would be nice to see! also, with the devil kernel, GPS is fully functional even in deep sleep. pants-tent.

ive officially made the jump...if you havnt tried it, GET TO DA CHOPPAH AND DO IT NOW!

 

[Woody]

Welcome aboard. Was wondering when you would finally come over to the Blue Side.

Funny you should say that. I am picking up another used Vibrant tomorrow to start deving on and I just might check that out. I was reading about it on the website this past weekend and it seems the Nelson has made considerable leaps with this new install method.

Also being that I will have another one to work on, it will be much easier to exeriment on and try some different things, much like the above posts.

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

 

[Insomaniac10]

You know I'm a sucker for blue

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[hawaiigrown]

what is this devil kernel...? sounds interesting. can you point me in the right direction to get more info on it? thanks

 

[N00B_IN_N33D]

what is this devil kernel...? sounds interesting. can you point me in the right direction to get more info on it? thanks

Here you go... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694339


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