[tw] carrier logo/text in notification bar

[garyd9]

I've been playing around with trying to get rid of the carrier text that the AT&T variant of the Note II displays in the notification bar if there are no other notification icons up there.

After abusing apktook to get the smali/xml, I find that the carrier logo/text is handled in layout\tw_status_bar.xml. The offending (offensive?) section is:

            <TextView android:textSize="15.0dip" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/carrierLabel" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />
            <ImageView android:id="@id/operatorLogoIcon" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:src="@drawable/tw_stat_notify_operator_logo" />

The visibility is already set to gone, so changing that won't do the trick. If I delete that textview, systemUI crashes (which kind of makes sense.) I considered setting the entire LinearLayout with a "gone" visibility, but there are other items in that particular LinearLayout that I want visible at times.

Short of hacking the smali deal with this (and I'd be at a loss as to how to go about that right now), is there a way to get rid of just that one carrierLabel?

I've included the entire tw_status_bar.xml file as a code block below for easy viewing (but please don't quote the entire thing when replying.)

Thanks
Gary

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBarView android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/status_bar" android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" 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">
    <ImageView android:id="@id/notification_lights_out" android:paddingLeft="6.0dip" android:paddingBottom="2.0dip" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:src="@drawable/ic_sysbar_lights_out_dot_small" android:scaleType="center" />
    <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/icons" android:paddingLeft="0.0dip" android:paddingRight="2.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
        <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/left_icons" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1.0">
            <TextView android:textSize="15.0dip" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/carrierLabel" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />
            <ImageView android:id="@id/operatorLogoIcon" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:src="@drawable/tw_stat_notify_operator_logo" />
            <ImageView android:id="@id/doNotDisturbIcon" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/tw_dnd" android:alpha="0.7" android:scaleX="0.85" android:scaleY="0.85" />
            <com.android.systemui.statusbar.StatusBarIconView android:id="@id/moreIcon" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:src="@drawable/stat_notify_more" />
            <com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.IconMerger android:gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/notificationIcons" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" />
        </LinearLayout>
        <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/right_icons" android:paddingRight="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_alignParentRight="true">
            <LinearLayout android:gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/statusIcons" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
            <LinearLayout android:gravity="center" android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/signal_battery_cluster" android:paddingLeft="2.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
                <include android:id="@id/signal_cluster" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" layout="@layout/tw_signal_cluster_view" />
                <TextView android:textSize="12.0dip" android:textColor="#ffa6a6a6" android:layout_gravity="center" android:id="@id/battery_text" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/status_bar_network_name_separator" />
                <ImageView android:gravity="center" android:id="@id/battery" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
            </LinearLayout>
            <com.android.systemui.statusbar.policy.Clock android:textSize="@dimen/status_bar_clock_text_size" android:textColor="#ff959595" android:ellipsize="none" android:gravity="left|center" android:id="@id/clock" android:paddingLeft="3.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" android:includeFontPadding="false" />
        </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
    <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">
        <ImageSwitcher android:id="@id/tickerIcon" android:layout_width="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:layout_height="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:layout_marginRight="4.0dip">
            <com.android.systemui.statusbar.AnimatedImageView android:layout_width="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:layout_height="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:scaleType="centerInside" />
            <com.android.systemui.statusbar.AnimatedImageView android:layout_width="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:layout_height="@dimen/status_bar_icon_size" android:scaleType="centerInside" />
        </ImageSwitcher>
        <com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.TickerView android:id="@id/tickerText" android:paddingTop="2.0dip" android:paddingRight="10.0dip" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0">
            <TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.PhoneTicker" android:id="@id/ticker_text_view_old" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:singleLine="true" />
            <TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.PhoneTicker" android:id="@id/ticker_text_view_new" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:singleLine="true" />
        </com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.TickerView>
    </LinearLayout>
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBarView>

 

[jug6ernaut]

Short of hacking the smali deal with this (and I'd be at a loss as to how to go about that right now), is there a way to get rid of just that one carrierLabel?

I've included the entire tw_status_bar.xml file as a code block below for easy viewing (but please don't quote the entire thing when replying.)

Thanks
Gary

(Fair warning i have never done any modding/apk editing of any sorts lol).

Have you tried manually specifying the size of the view to 1x1 pixels? I mean technically it would still be there but reasonably should not be view-able.

 

[ssojyeti2]

Edit: nvm

 

[Stratrix]

Would it be possible to move the operator textview and imageview into a new linearlayout that's visibility is set to gone?

 

[Droidzone]

(Fair warning i have never done any modding/apk editing of any sorts lol).

Have you tried manually specifying the size of the view to 1x1 pixels? I mean technically it would still be there but reasonably should not be view-able.

Same idea over here. I've done similiar things by setting the height/fontsize to 0.

 

[Ofeliax]

Same idea over here. I've done similiar things by setting the height/fontsize to 0.

Yes me too
I usually set height to 0.0dip
Cheers

 

[garyd9]

I'll give it a try when I get a chance (tonight, probably.) "Ingress" is starting to ingress into all my dev time. Damn you, google.

 

[MonsterBandit]

Same idea over here. I've done similiar things by setting the height/fontsize to 0.

I agree...in researching softkey mods its suggested that when you want to remove one of the options from the navbar to set the fontsize/height/dip to 0.0 instead of just deleting the lines. Hope this helps...i can attach the link to the thread of needed

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[pulser_g2]

Gary, have you considered the xposed framework for this? It sounds like a good way to just get rid of it by hooking the method showing it with a null method

 

[garyd9]

Gary, have you considered the xposed framework for this? It sounds like a good way to just get rid of it by hooking the method showing it with a null method

I'll have to google that... I've never even heard of that framework.

 

[toxicthunder]

I'll have to google that... I've never even heard of that framework.

Might save you searching -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

 

[C3P0LOL]

Yes me too
I usually set height to 0.0dip
Cheers

This will do it. I did this in my theme to get rid of the carrier and the clock in the status bar.

 

[zohawkish]

take a look here

 

[lickarock]

Ahhh... I found a way to (kinda-sorta) do this on the SII. And I see no reason why it shouldn't work here.

Yes, it's cheating. But it works.

Find the hex that controls the color for the carrier identifier. A good majority of what is in SystemUI is colored with transparency hexes. Yeah... you already see where I am going with this. Change those first two digits on your hex to 00.

Technically, yeah, its still there. But that doesn't mean you have to look at it.




Edit: Or just do what the guy above me posted.

 

[devabhishek]

i have a international version of this device , so i can not be in your boots , in the international version the carrier text is located in tw statusbar expanded .xml ,

can you share the systemui.apk and the frmework-res.apk and the twframework-res.apk ? so that i can also take a look and try it ,

 

[DAGr8]

take a look here

^^ what he said

 

[garyd9]

Just a followup with this (that I forgot about): I ended up changing the font size to 0.0 and that did exactly what I wanted.

I explored the option for editing the smali for updateNetworkName, but decided that I wasn't happy with the side effect of it causing the network name disappearing from some other areas in the UI.

Thank you,
Gary

 

[ssojyeti2]

looks like the carrier logo name is located in "drawable/tw_stat_notify_operator_logo". So that would mean SystemUI.apk/res/drawable/tw_stat_notify_operator_logo.xml. Changing the string text in that xml should do the trick.

 

[Robobob1221]

There is a bools value for carrier logo appearance in the xml directory. If it's set to true, change to false. I did the opposite to enable it.

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