Simple Black Bar (Metamorph)

[Zane_Grey]

I had been searching around and couldn't find a nice looking simple black notification bar. The only one that I could find had a rounded corner bottom bar. So I decided to take the stock ones and edit them in photoshop. This changes the notification bar and the close bar to black. There is also a framwork-res subtheme to change the status bar background to black.

To use this you will need to be rooted, deodexed, and have metamorph installed. Just unzip the file and place the BlackBar folder in the Android Themes folder on your sdcard. Then flash using metamorph. I noticed that it causes the notification bar to start force closing, but after a battery pull or getting lucky and hitting power down between force closes it will work fine. You will need to apply one subtheme at a time.

Black Bar Mod



As always I am not responsible if you messing up your phone. Make a backup first.

Edit: I finally learned how to edit .9.png and recompile them so they are correct now.

[Mbk]

The force closes has always been the case with any Gingerbread ROMs using MetaMorph to change things in the SystemUI.apk, so by adding things like 'the bottom bar to black' (status_bar_close_on.9.png) causes that.....not a big deal since you can simply pull the battery as stated....but there are things that are just in the framework-res.apk that can be changed without causing the FC's...like the notification pulldown (status_bar_background.png) like I have done in the screenshot below...
So basically what I'm getting at is if you don't really need to change anything in the SystemUI.apk, then don't... and the MetaMorph.zip will flash smotthly...

Just Win Baby!!...


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[Zane_Grey]

The force closes has always been the case with any Gingerbread ROMs using MetaMorph to change things in the SystemUI.apk, so by adding things like 'the bottom bar to black' (status_bar_close_on.9.png) causes that.....not a big deal since you can simply pull the battery as stated....but there are things that are just in the framework-res.apk that can be changed without causing the FC's...like the notification pulldown (status_bar_background.png) like I have done in the screenshot below...
So basically what I'm getting at is if you don't really need to change anything in the SystemUI.apk, then don't... and the MetaMorph.zip will flash smotthly...

So thats where the notification background is! I saw one in systemui and changed it but mine still looked alittle to blue..Ill have to fix that! But thanks for the advice Im not used to gingerbread I was on the d1 from the time it was released till 2 weeks ago when it broke and I went with the bionic.

[Mbk]

Yeah the D1 was fun to work with when it was Froyo, but GB threw a curve with it's SystemUI.apk...and now the Bionic is another curve with it's Blur***.apks'...lol

[Zane_Grey]

Once the D1 went to the hacked GB I stopped messing with metamorph and just used the cm7 themes from the market.

HAHA!! I messed up again I put the systemui before the framework-res in the theme control file..lol you cant tell metamorph that its okay to theme the framwork when you have alot of fcs!!

Edit: I think im going to have to make the systemui metamorph seperate from the framework-res metamorph since putting the systemui first causes fcs and themeing the framework reboots the phone when it is done.

[Mbk]

You can make them both in one MetaMorph.zip, but simply instruct members to apply one subtheme at a time

[Zane_Grey]

You can make them both in one MetaMorph.zip, but simply instruct members to apply one subtheme at a time

okay thanks. For now im just going to leave the framework out I need to fix the notification background. I used the quick select tool in photoshop then just changed the fill to black. I checked keep transparency but on the phone its not as transparent as stock was. Any ideas? I don't really want to create my own from scratch.

[Mbk]

okay thanks. For now im just going to leave the framework out I need to fix the notification background. I used the quick select tool in photoshop then just changed the fill to black. I checked keep transparency but on the phone its not as transparent as stock was. Any ideas? I don't really want to create my own from scratch.

So you're basically saying that you created a png, color filled it with bl;ack, and then want to make it semi-transparent...correct?
What you need to do is use color to alpha for transparency, and perhaps l;ighten the black to a dark gray, then choose color to alpha white,,,

[Zane_Grey]

So you're basically saying that you created a png, color filled it with bl;ack, and then want to make it semi-transparent...correct?
What you need to do is use color to alpha for transparency, and perhaps l;ighten the black to a dark gray, then choose color to alpha white,,,

I cheated and just took the stock background png and used the quick selection tool then went to fill then changed it to black but kept the transparency. Im not that good at creating my own Im just now getting into photoshop. I decreased the opacity and it seems to have lightened it alittle more.

[Versatile1]

I like that white handle I may use that