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[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] dsf3g:
All electronics have a limited lifecyle. The problem with the Flyer and View isn't that they reached EOL so soon, but rather that:

1) The tablets were priced too high, and so sales weren't as robust as HTC would have liked

2) HTC was too slow in porting Honeycomb. In fact, the Honeycomb upgrade pretty much coincided with the tablets being discontinued. Contrast that with the ASUS Transformer Prime, that was released only a few weeks ago (and is still scarce) and already has an ICS upgrade.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Snow_fox:
EOL doesn't mean much to me. Heck, it might even be a good thing it they release the complete source code.

I mean my captivate is not only EOL, it isn't even sold anymore at all... I still have ICS on it the Galaxy Nexus even hit retail.

Biggest tragedy imho is if something happened to my flyer I wouldn't be able to get another one..
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] soundimpressions:
I think it has more to do with the fact that sprint is moving to LTE and they will stop selling all wimax products this year. They will only have their wimax networks online until 2015. Maybe that's why they gave me mine for $0.99. And no activation fee.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] x51:
It only means sprint wont sell or support it any longer.. (No updates, patches, etc..)

For all those who scooped up the 1saleaday deal (in early December or the one last week ). This is why you got a great deal (I got 3 of em). Sprint wanted to dump them before they had to sell them for $100. Even if you use sprint.. this means nothing. It will still work and (I'm pretty sure) you can still activate it.

If you plan to use it as wifi only (like me).. then this means less than nothing.

XDA Devs offer WAY better support and upgrades than any carrier.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] spartan1987:
Don't worry. My team (CypherTeam) will be working on an ICS port as soon as we get a final HC build finished. The view will live on and as others stated, reaching EOL just means that we'll get the source faster and be able to do whatever we want. :-)

It really doesn't come as a surprise to me that it came so quickly bc the specs on the View/Flyer are not up there with the majority of tablets. That being said, with the source we should be able to get this thing running close to 2ghz with no issues.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] soundimpressions:
I didn't pay $99, I paid $0.99 or 99 cents. I couldn't believe it was that cheap. I had to have a plan to get it that cheap, but I have 6 business lines now, so the 15% discount makes the tablet plan end up being free, and I use it pretty much exclusively wifi anyway.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Paul22000:
Wait what? You got the Evo View for 99 cents?? :confused::confused:

Is that with a 2 year contract??
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] HoolliGun:
Does that mean view hopefully can be used on LTE NET ?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] legend221:
Yea HTC definitely dropped to ball with the pricing of it.

Our tablet is still awesome, single core but comparative in speed to dual core tablets out there in the market.

I'm really happy with my purchase.. now I wish we had more dev interest around for our devices
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Cor-master:
Yeah they were priced as high as a dual core 10 inch honeycomb tablet yet only had a single core, gingerbread, and a 7 inch screen. Don't get me wrong I prefer the 7 inch size, but not for the same price as a bigger tablet. I mean honestly with its high clock speed and 1 gig of ram, it feels as fast as any dual core tablet and I think it could of been a hit had htc priced it at say $300 at launch.

Imo I think they shouldn't be so quick to give up on them. I think they should update them to ics and sell them new for $200. I guarantee it would be a hit especially over the craptastic kindle fire!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Snow_fox:
In all fairness to HTC the tablet out right feels like a 500$ tablet.. which is what made the 300$ price tag so sweet.

My girlfriend ordered one off of ebay just yesterday because her Nook Color just doesn't compare. She uses it too much like a tablet and even after loading CM7 and what not on it, is just tired of constantly fixing issues..

The tablet has a premium feel and if they could make profit at 200$ I would think they would have already priced it at 200$..

The acer A100 is an alternative to the flyer at 250$ and as cheap as 200$.. It sure as hell doesn't feel like the flyer and lacks a lot of the refinement. The problem is now, even at 200$ people would look at the specs and never even try it out before looking down on it.

People are more concerned with specs than actual experiences these days.. (well in the phone world at least.. in the desktop world specs mean a bit more).. It really is sad that because of marketing techniques and the way devices are sold that the flyer gets over looked..
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] TekkenLaw:
I finally bought my Flyer yesterday. Though there were many choices in the same price range (including iPad 2), I had made up my mind due to the no-nonsense spec.s, solid build & of course, the pen! And I must say, I am thoroughly impressed by this baby..looking forward to being a part of the XDA Flyer community..
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] legend221:
I also started with the nook color as my first tablet.

Quickly sold it though because I got a hell of a deal with the HTC flyer.

I recommend flashing the CM7 ROM directly to the emmc/hard disk on the NC. Don't rely on the microSD card.

I had issues too until I did this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pasc5:
Hello, i flash stock 4.0.2 on my nexus through fastboot.

Today booted cwm (fastboot boot ....) to create nandroid backup and then have rooted.

I have installed root browser lite but if i go in /system i don't find recovery-from-boot.p

It's normal?

Stock 4.0.2 have downloaded by Google's site.

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pasc5:
anyone tell me something?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
It's normal. If you flashed the stock image, it won't be there. If you flash an earlier stock image and upgraded via OTA, it will be there. No need to worry about it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lxkarthi:
doubt

How important is this file ?? ("recovery-from-boot.p")

i have update.zip from manufacturer. Inside zip file, there is folder "recovery" containing "recovery-from-boot.p" and folder "etc" containing "install-recovery.sh"

If i delete recovery folder & sign the file again & update it, will it work?

What difference does it make?

is recovery anyway related to rooting the mobile?

(I am an amateur & i am trying to learn Android ROM modding, & development, please help me out)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Those two files do nothing except yo reflash the stock recovery every time you boot android. They don't exist on stock roms, but rather are put there by ota update files. They are safe to delete.

P.s. no need to resign the zip if you are using CWM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lxkarthi:
Thanks for Replying soon.

The mobile that i am trying to root is Karbonn A9. CWM does not support that mobile yet.

I need to learn about rooting and other stuffs. Can you help me.

What are all the files related to rooting?

To unroot, what are the files i should restore?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Not sure what that device is, but:

Root is just two files place on your system:

/system/bin/su

/system/app/Superuser.apk

You will need to find a way to place them there, either by using an exploit to give you write access to /system, or by booting an insecure boot image if you can. Don't think I can help you any more than that without knowing the device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lxkarthi:
The device trying to root is Karbonn A9. We have rooted the phone by replacing it with another recovery.img. To unroot, we used update.zip given by Service centre. Inside that, there is ""recovery-from-boot.p"" inside recovery folder. After updating using the update.zip, we are unable to root again. If delete recovery folder in update.zip, & update the phone again, will it delete the "recovery-from-boot.p" & will it possible allow us to root again?

Other doubts:

Does replacing recovery.img via fastboot change IMEI number? One of our developer got his phone bricked. he took his phone to service center. They said, they don't have their IMEI number in their database.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
As I had mentioned earlier, those files do nothing else aside from re-flashing the stock recovery on every boot. If you delete the folder and re-apply the update, chances are the update will not work -- not because you deleted the folder, but because you already applied the update.

If you want to root again, you have to follow the procedure you used the first time you rooted.

No, the recovery does not contain the IMEI, so flashing a new recovery will not affect the IMEI.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Logie:
Noticed in the new version of the ROM (which is excellent as always) has removed the 2 tabs which could allow separate sections for Notifications and Toggles.

Just wondering, anyway to get this type of display back? Became quite accustomed to it!

Ta.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roughavoc:
Setting > Toggle Settings > Page :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Logie:
Thanks mate! Now I can jump to 2.1.20 :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Custom status bar:

>>>Click Here<<<

Transparent status bar:

>>>Click Here<<<

Difficulty:1/5

Time:5mins

Bug Reporting:

If your going to post bugs send the following-

*The rom you are running

*What launcher you use

*What mod you have flashed

If you do not include this information I will not reply!!!

Info:

Tired of looking at that boring old black status/notification bar??:mad:

Here is a mod that should give you a custom status/notification bar on any Gingerbread Touchwiz Rom.

I have flashed this countless times in the past week or so and it works perfect for me on GingerMod v0.8

I dont know if this will work on other bases without looking at MIUI and cyanogenmod SystemUI.apks but feel free to try or post them for me to look at.

Also if you want transparency adding to your status bar (depending on the launcher used) post your UNTHEMED systemUI.apk.

What does the mod do??

It basically changes your status_bar.xml from displaying a colour-

ARGB-00(alpha)00(red)00(green)00(blue), thats black to us lot, to a png image instead-"statusbar_background.9.png" or "statusbar_background.png".

The image can be standard .png or .9.png(compiled!!), ideally .9.png if you use your device in landscape.

Preview:

All you have to do is follow these simple steps:

* Download 7zip and install on your P.C.(Its free just google search it).

* Find the status bar you like/want and download. You can find them on their own, inside themes or inside Roms.

* (A) Download the "Custom Status Bar.zip" from the link below, then open it up and navigate to "MORPH>system>app>SystemUI.apk>res>drawable-hdpi>". Basically open the zip then double click your way through.

* (B) Find the status bar that you just downloaded. If its within a rom/theme then open it up with 7zip and navigate to system>app>SystemUI.apk>res>drawable-hdpi>. In here you want "statusbar_background.9.png" or "statusbar_background.png".

* Now select "statusbar_background.9.png"or "statusbar_background.png" in the (B) window and drag and drop into the (A) window and click yes to confirm.

* Now close both windows and put "Custom Status Bar.zip" on your SDcard and install it from CWM.

* Reboot.

>>>CLICK ME TO DOWNLOAD "Custom Status Bar.zip"<<<

Please note the universal theme zip used will create a backup on your sdcard in "universal themes", simply flash the backup from CWM to restore your previous state prior to flashing.

I am not responsible for any actions you take!!.

I have included my status bars from my Phone Candy theme in the "Custom Status Bar.zip", they are attached also.

Please post any status bars and ill create a gallery for them.

Credits:

UNIVERSAL FLASHER TOOL v.3.2

by JRsoft & Intronauta

*Villain Team for the concept

*Stericson for "Metamorph" system

*Core Utilities for the tar binary

*Blades" for the 7z binary and libs

*All testers, especially to SuperCocoV6.5 and lexullde

*doctorcete for helping with the translations
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
How does this work??

The transparent status bar is only enabled by making changes to "StatusBarService.smali" inside "SystemUI.apk\smali\com\android\systemui\statusbar\"

Most SystemUI.apk's are different in build so unfortunately it's not a case of "one mod fits all"

Taking a transparent status bar png and adding it to the mod from post 1 WILL NOT give you transparency, it needs to be enabled, as does using a launcher which supports transparent status bars. A list can be found below detailing which launchers work.

If you do not see your rom listed below then post your SystemUI.apk and i will make the necessary changes to enable transparency.

Links for working transparency enabled SystemUI.apk

GingerMod v0.8

HyperDroid Androidmeda v6.0.8

Simple and Clean 2.4.3

Verts ICS

VillainRom v3.0.0

Links contain only the necessary files for the mod to work including full transparent status_bar.png. This means you should not lose any of the your theme.

Install:

*Download appropriate zip

*Install from CWM recovery

*Reboot.

KNOWN ISSUES:

If you are using JKays mod then the date will appear in the status/notification bar when pulled down.

I have disabled the date in SystemUI and it works fine on roms not using his tool, But JKays mod is displaying the date from framework-res (i think) which is also connected to the notification text disaplayed on the status bar. So until i figure out how to split the date and notifications you have a choice:

*No date and notification text

or

*Display date and notification text

If want to remove the date and notification text post your framework-res.apk and ill make appropriate changes.

Here is a zip containg 7 simple transparency enabled status bars:

>>>CLICK ME<<<

Preview of the contents aginst a transparency checker background:

Contains

1x 0%

2x 25% (white and black)

2x 50% (white and black)

2x 75% (white and black)

If you have any requests feel free to ask.:).

Here are a list of launchers that i have personally tried with the transparent status bar and how to enable it:

* 360 Launcher

* ADW. Launcher Uncheck wall paper hack.

* Balancer Launcher

* Gingerbread Launcher

* Go Launcher Enable high quality wall paper.

* ICS 4.0 Launcher

* Launcher 7

* Launcher Pro

* MX Launcher

* QQ Launcher Pro

* Regina Launcher

* SPB Shell 3D

* TW Launcher

* Zeam Launcher

Credits:

UNIVERSAL FLASHER TOOL v.3.2

by JRsoft & Intronauta

*Villain Team for the concept

*Stericson for "Metamorph" system

*Core Utilities for the tar binary

*Blades" for the 7z binary and libs

*All testers, especially to SuperCocoV6.5 and lexullde

*doctorcete for helping with the translations
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
More space
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] pSyCh¤_O_O:
Thanks for this mate! Im gonna try it straight away ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
I luv the thread title, LOL.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Rixsta:
Find the status bar you want and download may not be clear to some people...

As in....where to look in the rom/theme and how to extract it out ...

Just a thought mate
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Your welcome.

Thanks.:)

Yes mate, I've just tried to take the donkey work out and simplify it.

I'm going to add some screens when I get more time.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] morg01:
Hi mate.. . .

Why does the systemUI.apk have to be an unthemed one? . . .
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
It doesn't, but there's less chance of stumbling across problems when decompiling and recompiling.:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kingofjail:
& i got error ...i choose to create my own .png file with transparant image..
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Your going to have to give more information.

Also have you modified the smali to enable transparent status bar??

This mod alone doesn't enable transparency, just the ability to use a custom status bar.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Mirko ddd:
trasparency in status bar is possible, but the result is awful due to text crossing of notification. This may need (it does) several work on it, on SystemUI.apk and maybe in other ones.

Sorry 4 my bad english, I hope you understand what I mean
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Yes I'm aware of this, it has been discussed in another thread.

I haven't had time to try a fix as I've been busy with countless requests and PMS, but ill try and look tonight.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
PROGRESS!!

Hello,

So i've just had a look and modified the "status_bar.xml" to try and fix the date/notification clash and this is the result:

As you can see i have made the date disappear resulting in no more clash!!:)

There is also no 2nd status bar image overlap from the pulldown as ive changed the code from:

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

To

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

All in all a job well done for a first attempt from an xml novice and thanks sileshnair for your support in the other thread.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Siberian Tiger:
I suppose you wanted the latest Hyper systemui :)

Goodnight
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Many, many thanks mate. It's just for a request I got to add transparency. I didn't want to download the whole rom using 3g, my broadband is off.:(

Thanks again.:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Mirko ddd:
easier than I thought :D gotta try it out sooner as possible!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] morg01:
Greeting, thanks for this . . . any chance you could have a bash at the following?

View attachment 874910

Transparency please?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
No probs mate, I've just gotten in from work so give me a hour as I've got a couple of requests to do and I'll have it up for you.

Also do you want it fully transparent, 25%, 50%, 75%, black or white??

And what Rom is it from?

It needs to be de-odexed.:(
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] morg01:
Ahh scuppered! KL1... Odexed :(

Oh well cheers for the offer

Edit:

Will it work if i delete the odex file associated with systemui. Apk

Sent via courier pigeon
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Update.

Transparent enabled SystemUI added to first post for the following Rom's:

* VillainRom v3.0.0

* HyperDroid Androidmeda v6.0.8

Details also in first post.

I've never tried editing an odexed apk so im not sure what to do bu tif you post the SystemUI odex ill have a go.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] morg01:
See my attachment a couple of posts back :)

Edit:

Oh sorry you actually want the odex file... Hold on a sec

http://db.tt/pI96iA2v

Try that (bit hard doing it from the phone)

Sent via courier pigeon
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
@Morg,

Ok mate after having a read about editing .odex files it seems there is quite a bit of work involved.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1208320

Basically:

*deodex .apk + .odex

*Make edits

*odex .apk

Unfortunately too much work for such a little task.:(

If you were deodexed i could decompile, make edits and upload within 5 minutes.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] morg01:
Thanks, yeah you're right, i took a look at the link.... Its a bit of a task and a half indeed!

I think I'll just have to be patient and wait for a stable cm9..

I also didn't have any luck with that mdpi dialer mod...

Cheers for potentially having a go :)

Sent via courier pigeon
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
No probs mate.

Our of curiosity is your contacts odexed?

If so then that is probably your problem.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] morg01:
Yep,

Although i thought i read somewhere just deleting the odex file then forces android to deodex the associated odexed apk?

Sent via courier pigeon
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
I imagine the smali:

Classes.dex (deodexed)

Contacts.odex (odexed)

needs to be modified also.

Nitroz is the man to speak to as his rom is multi dpi, or just post a thread asking.:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Added a zip to OP containg 7 simple transparency enabled status/notification bars.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] squall458:
Can you make a simple and clean rom transparent status bar? Thanks so much!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
If it's deodexed yes, post your systemui.apk
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hussainmushahid:
I tried the transparency mod for hyperdroid in the 1st post but it didn't work, should I post my own systemui ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
What rom are you running?

Why do you think it didn't work?

There are certain launchers that don't support transparency.

Did you try adw launcher with the wall paper hack enabled?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hussainmushahid:
I was running the latest hyperdroid with touchwiz launcher, will try again and with adw.

Edit: So here's the thing, the status bar isn't transparent at anytime except for when pulling the notifications down:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Did you use the hack in adw settings?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hussainmushahid:
oh wow, disabling that works.Damn I feel like a fool now :D

thanks!

btw will this version work with the latest hyperdroid 6.0.15 ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
If they haven't changed anything in the SystemUI then yes.

You can try anyway as when you flash it will create a backup for you to restore.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Ok, so judging by the download/feedback ratio (lots off downloads/no feedback) I guess the custom status bar mod is 100% effective on deodexed roms.

And the same goes for the transparency mod with launchers that support it.

I think I'll download a **** load of launchers and test transparency and let you know which ones work.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Added transparent status bar supported launcher info and updated transparent enabled zips in OP.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Borfas:
plz please posted other link zip containg 7 simple transparency. thank you and sorry for bad english
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Ten 10 ten
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Borfas:
This is not 38.480 pixel :( make pls 38.480 pixel! this is 38.38 pixel.

GRATIAZ. :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
You don't need 38x480 as the one provided is 9 patched so it will stretch to suit.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hussainmushahid:
Transparency works with go launcher ex if you enable system persistence.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Borfas:
d`not work :( is bad status bar. status bar remains locked, and is black.

well please do this for me 480.38
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
If it's black then that's because your launcher isn't supporting it.

What launcher are you running?

There is a list in the OP of launchers that do support it.

This doesn't work for me mate, did you mean enable high quality wall paper? That works.:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Borfas:
I`AM USING GO LAUNCHER AND ROM Illusion-xT !!! do not work this icon transparency! this 480.38 work .
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Have you enabled high quality wallpaper in settings??

Also what have you flashed to enable the transparent status bar??

How do you know that will work??

The size of the status bar doesnt make the slightest difference, if your so intent on a status bar with them dimensions then go and make one, you dont need me to do that.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Fir3blade:
Is it just me, or is the download link broken (7 different statusbars)?

Thx dully ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] android8:
doesn't work on my phone. i use miuitheme and flash transparent statusbar 75% black.

(sorry for my poor english)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Obviously you did not read the OP......

Or the thread title!!!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] can_kat:
Thank You, Perfect Work.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
Thank you. Your very welcome.:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
New link

Added a link in second post for enablling transparent status bar on Vert's ICS.

Thanks Vert.:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] freakyd9984:
Thank you for all of your help .. View attachment 886008