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Hide notification bar in Android

Hiding the Notification bar would give a little more screen real estate, but the big deal here is that newer phones have AMOLED screens which can suffer from burn-in, and the notification bar in Android with the screen turned way up while navigating for hours is surely going to cause this. Can we PLEASE hide the notification bar so it doesn't damage our screens? Nexus One, Desire, Incredible, likely others will all be possibly impacted by this.

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khaytsus shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
Not right now  ·  krankyd responded  · 

this will not solve the issue with these screens, as waze has its own bar (right below the notifications bar) which will not be removed. So we need to think of a better solution that will prevent the burn-in, but hiding the notifications bar will not help.

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  • James M commented  ·   ·  Report

    BEEN USING WAZE FOR TWO DAYS, THE INABLILITY TO TURN OFF THIS BAR OR HAVE IT TRANSPERANT IS WHY IM ABOUT TO STOP.

  • khaytsus commented  ·   ·  Report

    Oh well.. Notification bar would help, especially those with a WHITE notification bar like stock Android 2.1/2.2..

  • Jaime Visser commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's already possible to hide waze's own bar & controls, hiding the android bar too would give more screen estate regardless of what it does or doesn't do for burn-in.

  • Martin Tlustos commented  ·   ·  Report

    if it is an option, you can turn it off, of course - for those who want to stay informed (by the way - when you're driving, you can't attend to the information anyway... ;-)

  • Martin Tlustos commented  ·   ·  Report

    if it is an option, you can turn it off, of course - for those who want to stay informed (by the way - when you're driving, you can't attend to the information anyway... ;-)

  • Martin Tlustos commented  ·   ·  Report

    if it is an option, you can turn it off, of course - for those who want to stay informed (by the way - when you're driving, you can't attend to the information anyway... ;-)

  • Stefan Sarzio commented  ·   ·  Report

    No no no! Android is a multitasking OS - I absolutely want to be informed about incoming notifications.

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