[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] lickarock:
Its the first image view I had posted. Second line of the code I have up. I have gone into public and given it a declaration, added that declaration into the smali r$drawable, and added it into the ids xml... still no dice.

New logcat -

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835): FATAL EXCEPTION: main

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create service com.android.systemui.SystemUIService: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #32: Error inflating class <unknown>

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:2414)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:140)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1309)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1008)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:775)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #32: Error inflating class <unknown>

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:613)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:660)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:685)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:746)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:749)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:749)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:749)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:749)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:749)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.parseInclude(LayoutInflater.java:830)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:736)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.View.inflate(View.java:16434)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBar.makeStatusBarView(PhoneStatusBar.java:539)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBar.addStatusBarWindow(PhoneStatusBar.java:3098)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBar.createAndAddWindows(PhoneStatusBar.java:3067)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.systemui.statusbar.BaseStatusBar.start(BaseStatusBar.java:456)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBar.start(PhoneStatusBar.java:488)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at com.android.systemui.SystemUIService.onCreate(SystemUIService.java:94)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:2404)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	... 10 more

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:587)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	... 32 more

[COLOR="Red"]E/AndroidRuntime( 5835): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a Drawable (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x1/d=0x7f020229 a=-1 r=0x7f020229}[/COLOR]

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1925)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.widget.ImageView.<init>(ImageView.java:120)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	at android.widget.ImageView.<init>(ImageView.java:110)

E/AndroidRuntime( 5835):	... 35 more

E/android.os.Debug( 2422): !@Dumpstate > dumpstate -k -t -z -d -o /data/log/dumpstate_app_error

W/ActivityManager( 2422): Process com.android.systemui has crashed too many times: killing!

The bit in red is new. Time to do some digging. And that is the resource ID I used to declare that drawable.

EDIT:

I found the issue. I needed to declare it as an id and not a drawable. Thank you very much for your assistance.

Its still all kinds of broken, like the image isn't displaying, but its no longer force closing on me.

EDIT AGAIN:

Yeah, no, you can't display an image that way. so now I am back where I started today, but furious now. I have mirrored exactly another image file that displays correctly. Tracked down every single declaration... but mine is not working.