Transparent Status Bar

[anarchyhunter80]

See Post Eight for download link for fixed SystemUI- thanks to mentose457.


Loving the new CleanRom 6 R2. One thing I have had no luck with is getting the status bar to be transparent. I have tried flashable zips, I have tried the method below which seems to be the consensus on how to go about doing this and I have tried changing out the status bar png's as well but each time I get no status bar and the inability to change my wallpaper (it just goes black). Is there anyone out the who has had success on changing the status bar to 100% transparent or is there a flashable zip that works with Scott's CleanRom 6 R2? I can attach my SystemUI, framework-res, lidroid-res and twframework-res if there is anyone that can help me out.

Credit to team-nocturnals website for where I found this method
1. You should decompile SystemUI.apk
2. Open /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml and change android:background to 100% transparent:
Code:
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.StatusBarW in dowView android:background="#00000000" android:focusable="true" android:fitsSystemWindows="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:systemui="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.android.systemui">
3. Save /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml
4. Open /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml and edit this line to get transparency you need, for example, 100% transparent:
Code:
<item type="drawable" name="status_bar_background">#00000000</item>
5. Save /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml
6. Recompile SystemUI.apk
Done... Now you have 100% transparent homescreen statusbar

 

[andybones]

Loving the new CleanRom 6 R2. One thing I have had no luck with is getting the status bar to be transparent. I have tried flashable zips, I have tried the method below which seems to be the consensus on how to go about doing this and I have tried changing out the status bar png's as well but each time I get no status bar and the inability to change my wallpaper (it just goes black). Is there anyone out the who has had success on changing the status bar to 100% transparent or is there a flashable zip that works with Scott's CleanRom 6 R2? I can attach my SystemUI, framework-res, lidroid-res and twframework-res if there is anyone that can help me out.

Credit to team-nocturnals website for where I found this method
1. You should decompile SystemUI.apk
2. Open /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml and change android:background to 100% transparent:
Code:
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.StatusBarW in dowView android:background="#00000000" android:focusable="true" android:fitsSystemWindows="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:systemui="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.android.systemui">
3. Save /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml
4. Open /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml and edit this line to get transparency you need, for example, 100% transparent:
Code:
<item type="drawable" name="status_bar_background">#00000000</item>
5. Save /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml
6. Recompile SystemUI.apk
Done... Now you have 100% transparent homescreen statusbar

not sure, but after doing this, then go into res/colors.xml and look for the status bar color, (it's either black or that ugly gray) and change that to "00000000" as well. see if that works.

 

[tu3218]

Use morphology. Keep everything else the same but make the status bar transparent.

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[anarchyhunter80]

so i tried the color xml and morphlogy and I still get the same results no status bar and with morphology I am getting a Unfortunately, No recent apps has stopped message.

 

[mentose457]

so i tried the color xml and morphlogy and I still get the same results no status bar and with morphology I am getting a Unfortunately, No recent apps has stopped message.

Alright send your sysui here and ill do it.

 

[anarchyhunter80]

Alright send your sysui here and ill do it.

Thanks for the assistance. Attached is the SystemUI.apk, I cannot attach the framwork-res.apk it is to big.

 

[mentose457]

Thanks for the assistance. Attached is the SystemUI.apk, I cannot attach the framwork-res.apk it is to big.

Out of curiosity, have you flashed any mods or are you on stock CleanROM?

 

[mentose457]

Thanks for the assistance. Attached is the SystemUI.apk, I cannot attach the framwork-res.apk it is to big.

Rename to SystemUI.apk then push to /system/app/ then change permissions to rw-r--r-- then restart. You may have to restart then change the permissions as SystemUI will stop working till you restart. Note that when you first restart the status bar will be black. You need to pull down on the status bar for it to go transparent.

Enjoy.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44601870/SystemUICROM6.apk

 

[anarchyhunter80]

Out of curiosity, have you flashed any mods or are you on stock CleanROM?

no flashing just stock clean rom 6 r2

 

[anarchyhunter80]

Rename to SystemUI.apk then push to /system/app/ then change permissions to rw-r--r-- then restart. You may have to restart then change the permissions as SystemUI will stop working till you restart. Note that when you first restart the status bar will be black. You need to pull down on the status bar for it to go transparent.

Enjoy.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44601870/SystemUICROM6.apk

My friend I don't know what you did but would love to know how you did it. This is much better. Thank you. If you don't mind may I share your link on the CleanRom 6 thread?

 

[mentose457]

no flashing just stock clean rom 6 r2

My friend I don't know what you did but would love to know how you did it. This is much better. Thank you. If you don't mind may I share your link on the CleanRom 6 thread?

All that needed to be changed was #4 from the OP. I also used 00ffffff instead of 00000000, though I dont think it would make a difference. Go ahead and share it.

 

[anarchyhunter80]

All that needed to be changed was #4 from the OP. I also used 00ffffff instead of 00000000, though I dont think it would make a difference. Go ahead and share it.

So I didn't need to change the tw_super_status_bar? Only had to change the values/drawable.xml.

 

[mentose457]

So I didn't need to change the tw_super_status_bar? Only had to change the values/drawable.xml.

Yep. I didnt look at what the other changes did. It may be that they make it so it boots up transparent.

 

[hypertek]

I'm using kindacrap mods over cleanrom.. just make sure you don't use the kindacrap policy mods. I love the transparent status bar.

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