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2012 Nexus 7 Discussion Forums (1st Generation) => Nexus 7 Help => Topic started by: engineer on May 19, 2013, 01:09:44 PM

Title: Date in notification bar?
Post by: engineer on May 19, 2013, 01:09:44 PM
Currently my notification bar shows on the right the Wifi icon, battery icon, and the time. On the left I have icons from the installed notification toggle app.

How do I make the notification bar show *both* date and time? Is there a built in android setting to do that?

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: JayJ on May 20, 2013, 12:16:51 AM
Simply put, there isn't a way to do this on stock Android. Your options are either flash a custom ROM like AOKP or an app from the Play store...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wagwan.datestatusbarlite

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: engineer on May 20, 2013, 06:29:58 AM
That explains why I couldn't find a setting for it.

Thank you very much.

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: JayJ on May 20, 2013, 09:54:24 AM
No worries mate...

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: engineer on May 20, 2013, 05:00:55 PM
Found a way to do it and it might help someone else.

As I said, I use "Notification Toggle" - an excellent app. Among its many features, it has 2 'status Icons' on the bar. Either one can be set for day of month, battery level, or battery temperature.

So that solves my problem.

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: JayJ on May 21, 2013, 01:48:32 PM
If that works for you then great...

Your device so your entitled to use what you want but can I ask why you use Notification Toggles in the first place when 4.2 has Quick Settings?

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: engineer on May 21, 2013, 03:24:00 PM
Simple: I don't know what quick settings are. Could you amplify?

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: engineer on May 21, 2013, 06:33:49 PM
Or, I should say, I know how to "open" the quick settings by dragging down on it, but is there a way to *add* anything to it other than what is already there by default?
Notification toggle let's me add things.

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Title: Re: Date in notification bar?
Post by: JayJ on May 21, 2013, 07:00:09 PM
No there's no way to add anything... again unless your using a custom ROM...

I was just wondering... I use to use a similar app until 4.2 brought us Quick Settings but I don't fell the need now...

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