How come HTC didn't make the status bar and navigation bar transparent like everyone else are doing after Kitkat? Am I missing something? Is there an option to turn it off?
edwardlanti said:
How come HTC didn't make the status bar and navigation bar transparent like everyone else are doing after Kitkat? Am I missing something? Is there an option to turn it off?
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It's transparent on the home screen and lock screen, and then changes color based on the app that you're in. It's just a design choice on HTC's part. Custom roms and/or sense 6 toolbox (when it comes out) will probably let you force transparency all the time. However, transparent status bar and white icons with no shadow or outline can make for a bad day if you pick the wrong wallpaper.
TriBeard said:
It's transparent on the home screen and lock screen, and then changes color based on the app that you're in. It's just a design choice on HTC's part. Custom roms and/or sense 6 toolbox (when it comes out) will probably let you force transparency all the time. However, transparent status bar and white icons with no shadow or outline can make for a bad day if you pick the wrong wallpaper.
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Yea when I had my nexus 5 I was basically the same way it varied between apps mainly for that reason that visibility of the of the icons would be horrible.
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TriBeard said:
It's transparent on the home screen and lock screen, and then changes color based on the app that you're in. It's just a design choice on HTC's part. Custom roms and/or sense 6 toolbox (when it comes out) will probably let you force transparency all the time. However, transparent status bar and white icons with no shadow or outline can make for a bad day if you pick the wrong wallpaper.
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Oh I see, I am just asking because I am using the Google Launcher and it doesn't have transparent status/navigation like the Nexus 5 does.
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Hey i working on some nav bar icons but i cant seem to make them different colors, as in they always come out as only one color. Is there a way to get more than one color for them? ignore me i realized i had a particular color picked in rom control wow i feel silly
bethanensinger said:
Hey i working on some nav bar icons but i cant seem to make them different colors, as in they always come out as only one color. Is there a way to get more than one color for them? ignore me i realized i had a particular color picked in rom control wow i feel silly
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I had this same issue for a while. For me I found a way around it, maybe it will work for you. I ended up making the nav bar an image and the different colored icons part of the nav bar image. Then I made the actual icons transparent. As long as the icon order is the same as the order of the icons in the nav bar image, you would be good to go. You can see some examples here http://www.galaxynexusmods.com/nav-status-bars
Hope that helped. Let me know if you have any questions
kgunderson said:
I had this same issue for a while. For me I found a way around it, maybe it will work for you. I ended up making the nav bar an image and the different colored icons part of the nav bar image. Then I made the actual icons transparent. As long as the icon order is the same as the order of the icons in the nav bar image, you would be good to go. You can see some examples here http://www.galaxynexusmods.com/nav-status-bars
Hope that helped. Let me know if you have any questions
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for me i just had to reset my nav bar so that i had un selected a color
I've seen this done on rootz wiki but they stopped updating it past aokp b23 any chance anyone could create a transparent navigation bar background for aokp b32? Now that apex has the option to delete shadows it seems like all that would have to be done is delete the navigation bar background, but I don't know how to do this.
yeah i keep seeing themes all around with either transparent or different colored navbar backgrounds. Would definitely love to be able to change this. I have a feeling lots of people would like to have the option.
bethanensinger said:
I've seen this done on rootz wiki but they stopped updating it past aokp b23 any chance anyone could create a transparent navigation bar background for aokp b32? Now that apex has the option to delete shadows it seems like all that would have to be done is delete the navigation bar background, but I don't know how to do this.
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Every time I've tried the transparent nav bar it was horribly ugly. When you click on the nav bar the glow happens and never goes away and leaves ablue glow on it that looks terrible. That's probably why they stopped doing it
danwguy said:
Every time I've tried the transparent nav bar it was horribly ugly. When you click on the nav bar the glow happens and never goes away and leaves ablue glow on it that looks terrible. That's probably why they stopped doing it
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cant you turn off the glow though?
Trans nav bar causes horrible ui lag.
good day.
I tried it's not nice
Jellybean mods!!!
These Mods are for Stock Jelly Bean (4.1)
Flash mods in your custom recovery of choice
Clock Moved to Nav Bar + fastglow mod
White Clock
ICS Blue Clock
Screen Shot
Left Side Clock on the Status Bar (includes fastglow mod and hidden right side menu)
Download link
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Remove Navbar
Download link
Fast Glow mod
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fast glow + hidden always on Menu on Right
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for 4.1.1
* Fast glow mod is the speed of which the high light animation is played when pressing a softkey
could you tell where and what changes to make to stop my left soft key from being bigger. I finally got my nav bar at 25 and the damn clock clock and other stuff white but by using a new systemui file I have that problem again
OP updated with some NEw and different things
runandhide05 said:
OP updated with some NEw and different things
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Love the navbar clock!
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Boswell20 said:
Love the navbar clock!
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Thanks! Glad you like it
Figured it time for some original mods
Edit: I'm toying with changing the clock color to match the soft keys... feedback???
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runandhide05 said:
Jellybean mods!!!
And for all that know how much i HATE a cluttered status bar
NAV BAR CLOCK!! (includes fastglow mod and hidden right side menu)
see screen shots for this one.(this i believe is a FIRST for ICS or JB)
Here
SCREEN SHOT
New Stuff
Left Side Clock on the Status Bar (includes fastglow mod and hidden right side menu)
Here
screen shot
Remove Navbar
http://d-h.st/bk3
Increase the highlight glow speed aka fast glow mod
http://d-h.st/h1W
fast glow with the always on menu but hidden (only in portrait, why u might ask? Cause these were done for myself and I never use landscape)
http://d-h.st/b2H
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Can you make a no glow animation mod. Just have it flash and turn off instead of fade.
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blackhand1001 said:
Can you make a no glow animation mod. Just have it flash and turn off instead of fade.
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with everything else 100% stock? or what?
if thats all u want, the one labeled fastglow i think i made with 0/0 millisecond on/off values
this is stock UI plus fastglow mod.
it is set to the fastest it will allow
0/0
http://d-h.st/WEh
Does the clock on the left of the status bar disappear when you have an incoming notification? I ask because the center clock mod I installed from another mod doesn't. The incoming notification shows right over the clock and you can see the clock in the background.
kxs783kms said:
Does the clock on the left of the status bar disappear when you have an incoming notification? I ask because the center clock mod I installed from another mod doesn't. The incoming notification shows right over the clock and you can see the clock in the background.
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notifications show just just like in the screen shot, if you look at the screen shot you can see that the usb debuging notification is after ( to the right ) of the clock
and like normal when the text of a message come in the entire bar shows only the message like normal
updated OP with a stock softkey color clock on the navbar
sorry i m out of topic
runandhide05, may i know what is the weather widget you use? (refer to ur screenshot)
d_dee said:
runandhide05, may i know what is the weather widget you use? (refer to ur screenshot)
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HD Widgets
there tablet versions are AWESOME too
Is it possible to use clock as navbars home button? So clock replaces home but still acts like a home button when it's pressed.
jnr21 said:
Is it possible to use clock as navbars home button? So clock replaces home but still acts like a home button when it's pressed.
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ouuu i like that idea, let me see what i can do
Sweet!
Does it lag or any other weirdness?
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craig.buckie said:
Sweet!
Does it lag or any other weirdness?
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no and to be honest the simply adding the fastglow mod makes it feel a lot quicker. if you havent used it, check it out
Cool mod. Can we get the clock on the left side of the status bar without the hidden menu on the nav bar? Or can you tell me what images to take out of the zip to accomplish this? Thanks!!
kxs783kms said:
Cool mod. Can we get the clock on the left side of the status bar without the hidden menu on the nav bar? Or can you tell me what images to take out of the zip to accomplish this? Thanks!!
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lot more than taking or moving stuff from a zip il get around to a left hand version.
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the reason i say left handed one is cause i will need to move the menu over to the left, so i can put the clock on thr right
jezz i need to read more throe, i so missed your question
if u want to put the stock menu icon back into the apk (which u can do with a zip archive) then the menu will be back to normal(ish) it will always show tho...
jnr21 said:
Is it possible to use clock as navbars home button? So clock replaces home but still acts like a home button when it's pressed.
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It won't draw the clock inside of a button.key.view
Although I do like the idea, out of time for tonight, I'll dig deeper later
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Anyway you can make a JB mod for a search icon. Im so use to pressing search icon to look for apps on my phone.
I'm using the mod for clock in bottom left navbar with right menu, whenever opening my camera/YouTube or any video related I get constant force closing on system ui ...already tried to fix permissions get the same thing
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Haven't seen a thread for the HTC One M8 and would like to see what people have come up with. I hope that people would share their setups and how they did it, so others can get ideas and come up with something of their own.
If you post, please share how you did it, or whatever apps/Xposed modules you used. Also, if the Mods are not clear in the pictures, explain what mods are done.
This is all on the Stock 4.4.2 OS that is on the HTC One M8, it's just Rooted.
All of the Mods come from Xposed Modules:
EX-Themer[KK]
HTC One Tweaker
Overflow Mod
Sense 6 Lockscreen Mods
Sense 6 Toolbox
Smooth System Progress Bars
SoftkeysFadeMod
Tinted Status Bar
Unicon
XSense
*****Unicon is the only module that you download via the Google Play Store, and costs money*****
In the first screenshot, I have custom Icons via Unicon, the Icons themselves are from the icon pack Cryten. Also the Weather Widget is transparent. The Software Keys are smaller, taking up less real-estate than the stock.
In the second screenshot, the App Drawer background is transparent instead of black.
The third screenshot is of BlinkFeed, the Dock Icons disappear.
In the fourth screenshot, the Status Bar and Navigation Bar change color to whatever app it is in via Tinted Status Bar.
In the fifth screenshot, its the same as the previous one, just showing the change in color of the Status and Nav Bars.
In the final screenshot, the Nav Bar icons fade via SoftkeysFadeMod.
I like to customize things to a point where they look kind of stock, like it was made to be the way it looks. I don't like over the top mods. Show me what you guys come up with!
Going to start messing with the Notfication Background, lets see what I come up with.
Hope you guys enjoy!
The home screen thread is under the Themes and apps thread. There is also a bigger one under the international forums also.
Thanks for this. Must have missed it.
Mods, please close the thread.
How do you put icons on the lock screen?
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Veniceee said:
How do you put icons on the lock screen?
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It's like that on stock. What ever apps you have on the lower part of your home screen, those will be displayed on the lock screen.
How I can get a transparent or semitransparent navbar? Would prefer semitransparent.
Only way I can imagine that working is making it yourself.
patroll said:
How I can get a transparent or semitransparent navbar? Would prefer semitransparent.
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would the be so that you could look at the bottom of your background through the navbar?
I ask because that would be the result. an app window wouldn't appear under it, unless in immersive mode... which in full immersive mode - the navbar is transparent...
your typical app is constrained to the screen space between the statusbar and navbar.. they are in non-immersive mode... to better understand what I mean, look at the diagram here;
https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html
also, when u do see apps where the statusbar or navbar look more integrated with the app, that's probably hinting to colourize them to match the app...
anyhoo, I just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in, because I don't think a transparent navbar is going to do what u want it to (?).
I recommend nav bar apps, at least with it the nav bar can dynamically change colors based on the foreground app. This is the app to go-to if you're worried about screen burn.