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A launcher can only affect itself (Homescreen and app drawer) and is pretty limited in what it can do even with root :thumbup:
 
I'm pretty much settled on my homescreen layout for now. I don't change it that much anymore. Maybe occasionally I would reorganise things due to new widgets and apps or I delete apps I no longer need.

Regarding the clock, I do still use a clock widget on my secondary screens. The reason is that I sometimes want to know the time to the exact second. The lock screen clock doesn't show seconds. I get a clock widget that has a second hand for that.

Nova is awesome. I use it to customise my home screens to get rid of the dock at the bottom and to add extra rows. I just don't understand the purpose of the dock. My home screen grid is 4 x 6, infinite scroll with the glass transition.
 
I think the idea of a dock is that it stays at the bottom while you scroll through home screens. Im the same as you though, i dont really need it
 
I have a gesture to hide the dock, but normally keep it visible.

But I don't put app icons on my homescreens (the music launcher on the one above is the only one on any of my screens, and that's the first in years). So I keep my apps in thematic folders in a rotating dock, so I can access any of my regular apps from any home screen. The screens themselves have information widgets on them.

Different approaches - that's the good thing about having the flexibility :)
 
yeah thats why i am a hardcore android fan. You can do much more customization with android than with apple, and windows. Android forever :)
 
Hadron said:
Customising the status bar requires root.

Some ROMs include options for customising it. Otherwise you can do it by replacing images in the systemUI and framework-res apps (both system apps). There's a website (the "UOT kitchen") which can be used to make these modifications from a menu of options, or for full control you can do it by hand yourself. I've done all three ways, but all of them require root, either to flash a custom ROM or to modify system apps (and you should always take a full system backup before messing system apps, in case you do something wrong).
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Mate is it fairly simple to completely remove the battery icon?
All the jellybean roms had the "none" option for the icon but none of the kitkat roms ive used have it yet :beer:
(My statusbar is usually hidden but its one of them things that just annoys me when i see it lol. Android-OCD)
 
i have kitkat so i just hid the status bar from the main screen using the nova launcher. that fixs of pickiness lol
 
funkylogik said:
Mate is it fairly simple to completely remove the battery icon?
All the jellybean roms had the "none" option for the icon but none of the kitkat roms ive used have it yet :beer:
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My KK ROM has it as an option, but of course that's not compatible with your phone.

The icons themselves are in framework-res.apk, and if you can edit a zip you can edit an apk. I just had a peek in one from my old Desire and they were in res/drawable-hdpi inside the apk. So I guess if you replaced every icon with "battery" in the name with a single transparent pixel image or something, that would have the desired effect. I don't know what just removing them would do - might cause problems if you didn't remove the code that wanted to use them. Probably there's a cleaner way (editing the code not to use them), but that's the most obvious.

This assumes you're de-odexed (fair bet if theming) and took a nandroid first ;)
 
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