[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] sparkdroid:
So far all my searches on how to remove the carrier from the drop down notification bar focus on changing the string value to something else or blanking it out. I would like to remove that whole section. I am on Rogers and my carrier is not listed in eri.xml, so that is not an option anyway.

I found some interesting info on this site:

http://www.absolutelyandroid.com/ui-tweaks-on-cm6-a-tutorial/

which explained some bits inside status_bar_expanded.xml from the framework-res.apk. I am not that familiar with the code (yet) but wondered what would happen if I removed the chunk that refers to "plmnLabel" and "spnLabel"? Could I safely remove that wasted space that tells me what I already know (that I'm on Rogers network).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<com.android.server.status.ExpandedView android:orientation="vertical" android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants" android:directionality="leftToRight"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:background="@drawable/status_bar_header_background" android:paddingTop="3.0dip" android:paddingRight="3.0dip" android:paddingBottom="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">

[COLOR="Red"]<LinearLayout android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingBottom="1.0dip" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_marginTop="1.0dip" android:layout_weight="1.0">

<TextView android:textAppearance="?textAppearanceLarge" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/plmnLabel" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<TextView android:textAppearance="?textAppearanceLarge" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/spnLabel" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>[/COLOR]
<TextView android:textSize="14.0sp" android:textColor="#ff000000" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/clear_all_button" android:background="@drawable/btn_default_small" android:paddingLeft="15.0dip" android:paddingRight="15.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginTop="4.0dip" android:layout_marginBottom="1.0dip" android:text="@string/status_bar_clear_all_button" style="\?android:attr/buttonStyle" />

</LinearLayout>

<FrameLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">

<ScrollView android:id="@id/scroll" android:fadingEdge="none" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0">

<com.android.server.status.NotificationLinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/notificationLinearLayout" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0">

<TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBarTitle" android:id="@id/noNotificationsTitle" android:background="@drawable/title_bar_portrait" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/status_bar_no_notifications_title" />

<TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBarTitle" android:id="@id/ongoingTitle" android:background="@drawable/title_bar_portrait" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/status_bar_ongoing_events_title" />

<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/ongoingItems" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBarTitle" android:id="@id/latestTitle" android:background="@drawable/title_bar_portrait" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/status_bar_latest_events_title" />

<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/latestItems" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</com.android.server.status.NotificationLinearLayout>

</ScrollView>

<ImageView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/title_bar_shadow" android:scaleType="fitXY" />

</FrameLayout>

</com.android.server.status.ExpandedView>

The only reason I don't intend to remove the next level of nested FrameLayout tags is because the Clear button appears in it. I'm not sure what to do about that.

Eventually, I would like to figure out how to add power control toggles to this are (much like some other themes/roms have done).

Any thoughts?