[Gen8 Android Development] Reditus2:
Sadly i do not own this device anymore so will not be able to continue on this project. You all have been amazing for support and everything so thankyou to you all :)

Hi all.

I was fiddling about with this device the other day thinking, how am i gonna get rid of those annoying soft buttons that take up

screen space, so i experimented, and this is so far the best i have come up with.

**Also, please remember that I am not responsible if anything goes wrong, I am just sharing how I done it, do this at your own risk**

OK, here goes:

You will need to have Uruk Droid Installed 1.0 on your device, not only because it is rooted, but because of the useful

'UrukConfig' which we will need. link to Uruk Droid: Click Here

OK, first you will need Button Savior installed, this is because if you are in a game or a full screen app, you will have no convenient

way of getting out of it.

So go to the market and get it, install it and set it up. when you have set this up, you should have a tiny little button on the right

hand side. When you click this button, you will have a set of soft buttons to replace the archos's horrible ones.

Now that is done, go into your app drawer and open UrukConfig and accept superuser permission.

Once you are in the UrukConfig app, go to Options tab, click on Hide Soft Buttons, when this is done, it will ask you to reboot,

go for it.

Once back into Android you will notice in the notification bar that you will have Home and Search on the left and Back and Menu on

the right. Only thing is, the notification bar is twice the size...no problem...read on.

How to modify the notification bar to stay the correct size of 160 density -Thanks to sibere

First you will want to download the modified framework-res.apk by clicking here, this will let you have the default density of

160 while leaving the notification bar the correct size. After this is downloaded, go to THIS link and follow the instructions of the first post on how to install it.

Now you have successfully removed the Archos's soft buttons and got you full screen back :)

I also recommend using a different launcher from standard one, I highly recommend you use LauncherPro as this seems to cope with the changes very well.

Just make sure in the launcher, increase the amount of rows and columns on home screen and app drawer to make up for the density change.

The density change is an advantage anyway, give you more screen space for widgets and stuff, and i like it :)

FIX missbehaving Button Savior: Thanks to marcusmarcus

If you get a problem with Button Savior not working properly, follow the fix in this link: Click Here and it should work fine after this.

there are a couple of little problems i will try to find out how to fix:

-why the icons in the notification bar are tiny?,

-Why cant i use a screen density of standard 160 without the huge notification bar?, -FIX FOUND

-want to find out how to set the screen density permanently on the Archos 70. Normally this is done in /system/build.prop but with

this device it does not seem the case. -FIX FOUND

-Button Savior Back and Menu button dont work most of the time, finding a fix -FIX FOUND

If anyone can help with the above problems, please let me know, thanks :)

Anyone needs help with this, just ask :)

THANKS:

Thanks to marcusmarcus for discovering a fix for Button Savior

Thanks to sibere for linking me to notification bar fix

Screenshots:)

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