Are you referring to the task bar at the top? Is it called a status bar?..I thought it was task bar. You learn something every day. I would love to help. I have a thread that I posted the other day about changing it to black and everyone said that it required a rooted phone. I tried for a while last night to find the location for the status bars settings but had no luck.
haha ill fool around with it and ill keep you updated. how did you get to where you could change those entries?
I downloaded "Root explorer", navigated to "/system/framework", then copied the "Framework-res.apk" file to my SD card (Long press, select "Copy", then navigate to your SD and select "Paste".
Plug the phone into the PC, mount... snag the saved file. Rename it to "Framework-res.apk.zip" and extract. The pictures are in the folder: res/drawable-hdpi
Yeah, if you changed it to pure black, it would be a pain to see. I was aiming for a dark gray, personally.
The files I changed:
status_bar_background.png
status_bar_close_on.9.png
statusbar_background.9.png
I thought statusbar_background.9.png was it. So its got to be one of the vertical bars.
status_bar_header_background.9
status_bar_item_app_background_normal.9
status_bar_item_background_normal.9
Right? I mean thats all thats left really.
I am glad I refreshed the page again. I was about to tell you the same thing. I don't know of a different way. Are you compressing the file again before you put it on the sd card?
Yep compressing to zip.
I think I have found the problem. Nothing will install onto the phone unless it is signed. After compressing the file, it has to be signed before it can be pushed back to the phone.
I am reading up on how to do that now, but it's starting to make my head hurt.
Signing Your Applications | Android Developers
Cant you go around this by putting the droid in debug mode?
I wish we could get some help. haha I would consider myself pretty comfortable with programming. I'm no expert by any means. We'll get it though. I expected more people to be interested on how to do this though.
It's only been up for about 3 hours. I am sure someone will chime in at some point tonight. Mid-day means most people are either at work or at school, so forums move slower.
I am sure it is something stupid that we are just overlooking.
I've been reading about skins and stuff, and those keep making reference to losing apps while loading the skins. I am hoping that isn't the case with this. If it is, then so be it... but my fingers are still crossed.
A guy over on droid forums was able to change the notification bar color and make it transparent, and he posted instructions. Check it out.
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