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Are there any better screens for SX66? Because i have awful screen, it's not contrast
Better screen? im clueless...
LCD(physical) Screen? or Home/Today Screen?
what do you mean by it's awful? and it's not contrast? the colors?
please explain your problem in detail, you might get some pointers.
i mean LCD
>>and it's not contrast? the colors?
YES YES!
hmm... if that's the case.
havent found anything yet about changing the LCD from QVGA to VGA yet.
i think one suggested if we can change LCD to OLED.
i also want to change it. but that remains to be seen and proven.
i'd like to take apart my BA but i can wait till it runs a lifetime in me.
i love my BA so much that i wont touch it or open it up until it's "sick"
But i will try to find something.
Hi Guyz, this is my first Thread.. I Change My BA O2 unto WM6 n then i'm facing the 4 stripes color boot screen..
Does anyone know to change this damn thing unto any picture I like?
It's cool to have WM6 Crossbow boot screens after that thing, but it's so uncool if I must face that 4 stripes colour boot screen everytime I Restart my PDA..
Hope u all can Help me to change that 4 colours BS into orginal O2 boot screens..!!
Thanks B4 Bro!!
Sheichiro said:
It's cool to have WM6 Crossbow boot screens after that thing, but it's so uncool if I must face that 4 stripes colour boot screen everytime I Restart my PDA..
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I don't believe you can.
As I understand the situation:
Win Mobile 5 on the BA came about when someone managed to get a dump of a development WM5 for the angel and used that as a start for the porting process. I believe the the same boot loader is used for Mobile 6. Since it is development code, I don't think the bits that deal with a boot screen are in the code base.
I'm sure that someone will have more details that I, or will correct me if I'm wrong.
I have seen some free boot screens for the ba on a site but not sure if they work with the wm 5 or 6 upgrade. I shall try one and post results
mooze said:
I have seen some free boot screens for the ba on a site but not sure if they work with the wm 5 or 6 upgrade. I shall try one and post results
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Well, one must remember there are two boot screens:
The first one is the four colour screen that shows the radio, rom and extended ROM versions.
The second one is the windows boot screen.
IIRC, the hermes boot loader requires a flash to change the boot screen. I would imagine the angel (and most, if not all HTC devices) would need the same thing.
But what you are looking at is worth a shot.
mooze said:
I have seen some free boot screens for the ba on a site but not sure if they work with the wm 5 or 6 upgrade. I shall try one and post results
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they will work only if u hv wm2003 they will not work on wm5 or 6.
Well..
krishan2207 said:
they will work only if u hv wm2003 they will not work on wm5 or 6.
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well is that realy only works in wm 2003?
why? i don't have any experience on this.. but i think the 4 colored bs is an image too.. if we can manage to change the image maybe it can changed(I'm Just wandering)
Yo!
jdc said:
Well, one must remember there are two boot screens:
The first one is the four colour screen that shows the radio, rom and extended ROM versions.
The second one is the windows boot screen.
IIRC, the hermes boot loader requires a flash to change the boot screen. I would imagine the angel (and most, if not all HTC devices) would need the same thing.
But what you are looking at is worth a shot.
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u right that's what looking for..
yet there's 2 boot screens when we ugrading to WM6..
after we pres the soft reset button there is 2 boot screens:
1. first 4 colored boot screen
2. a cool WM crossbow welcome screen(I've managed to changes it on my own, please ask me if u want to know too..)
nah, i want the ugly 4 colored boot screen to be changed into any nice pictrure.. that woulde be nice if i can choose any picture i want..
I'm really wishing that the 4 colored boot screen can be changed at least like the original O2 boot screen it's realy cool..
Is there anyone will help me?
Sheichiro said:
Is there anyone will help me?
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It's not a case of no one will help you, it's a case of there is no one who can help you.
Unless someone knows how to change the code in the bootloader, there is no way this can be done at this time.
You may not have meant to come across this way, but that's how I parsed it, and I'm sure there are others who will do the same.
Long overdue... I give you: pureblack3
It's not supposed to be fancy, just black. Based on the latest (as of 10/2/09) theme files (Build 23060). For (W)VGA and (W)QVGA devices.
Changelog:
10-3-09 1:04am: (W)QVGA Added
10-2-09 6:29pm: Initial Release
waiting for a qvga version..thx..
the font is neosans?
Wonderful 3rd installment. thanks for the hard work.
Perfect works indeed,waiting for your QVGA release for this theme
m.carroll said:
Long overdue... I give you: pureblack3
It's not supposed to be fancy, just black. Based on the latest (as of 10/2/09) theme files (Build 23060). Only for (W)VGA devices at the moment.
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as requested: first post updated with (w)qvga theme installer. please test and report back that everything works, i don't have a qvga device to test on.
it's good to be back
i liked your older ones - so nice to see you did work on it and now it's supporting the new theming of wm65
great job - thumbs up
Great work M.Carroll
was waiting for this one since i dont know when.
Thanx dude.
Love ur work
....very nice work, indeed. Works very fine on my AtomLife. Thanks so much. Will include this on my next ROM, if you will permit...
Thanks a lot, just what I was waiting for!! And it definately looks fancy to me .
bajok! said:
....very nice work, indeed. Works very fine on my AtomLife. Thanks so much. Will include this on my next ROM, if you will permit...
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no problem on cooking it in your rom. let me know if you need help putting it into a package
really liking this but i got 2 small probs
the text at the top is not there
also the buttons at the bottom are wrong
nice work, will you be doing a gloss v3 as well?
i use it all the time as it goes so well with EVERY rom
Drury said:
really liking this but i got 2 small probs
the text at the top is not there
also the buttons at the bottom are wrong
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it would appear that you're using the (W)VGA version with a WQVGA device. Try the (W)QVGA version in the first post.
GutsyTripod said:
nice work, will you be doing a gloss v3 as well?
i use it all the time as it goes so well with EVERY rom
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i think i might be able to swing it. I'm looking for the files i used... gotta be around here somewhere...
that is the one im using
researching.
Thanks m. carroll. I was hoping you'd put this out. So far, it's working great on build 23420.
Thank-U!!! I love your themes they rock; I will publish in my kitchen when released, with all due credit
All the best - DA
PureBlack?
With all due respect (and genuinely mean that, cause I sure as hell haven't been able to create anything of the sorts... although I'm still trying) But for "PureBlack3" There sure is a lot of white and faded shades of gray rather than black. if it's call pure black, then make all the backgrounds in the menu's, and GUI in general, that are usually white... make those black, invert the font colors, and you'll be amazed just at how much batter life alone you will be saving people. The handset expends little to no power to display a black pixel, because there is simply nothing to display. Displaying a white pixel uses the most battery power. It's also really helpfull when usign the handset in a night time vehicular setting because you have less light distracting your vision.
Could maybe it be possible if you were so inclined, when creating PureBlack4, or perhaps a PureBlack3a, truly make it as pure black as possible.
I apologize if in anyway this post is insulting or derrogatory, for that was not my intention. Keep up the good work.
Blu
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With all due respect (and genuinely mean that, cause I sure as hell haven't been able to create anything of the sorts... although I'm still trying) But for "PureBlack3" There sure is a lot of white and faded shades of gray rather than black. if it's call pure black, then make all the backgrounds in the menu's, and GUI in general, that are usually white... make those black, invert the font colors, and you'll be amazed just at how much batter life alone you will be saving people. The handset expends little to no power to display a black pixel, because there is simply nothing to display. Displaying a white pixel uses the most battery power. It's also really helpfull when usign the handset in a night time vehicular setting because you have less light distracting your vision.
Could maybe it be possible if you were so inclined, when creating PureBlack4, or perhaps a PureBlack3a, truly make it as pure black as possible.
I apologize if in anyway this post is insulting or derrogatory, for that was not my intention. Keep up the good work.
Blu
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With respect, I disagree.
As an electrical engineer, I can confidently assure you that the color of a pixel has an unnoticeable effect on battery life. Black backgrounds would have no effect on battery life. The backlight is the battery-drainer, and the theme has nothing to do with that. Other than that, the way that WM is written, it's almost impossible to do what you're suggesting. My aim was to give a "mostly black" theme that the Microsoft set of themes were missing. I suppose your argument on the semantics of the theme name is correct, but I guess that's why I'm not an english major
Thanks for the suggestion!
I searched the forums and did not find anything for the nexus s.
I was wondering if you guys have heard or tried Decalgirl skins?
http://www.decalgirl.com/category.view/Samsung-Google-Nexus-S-Skins
I'm tempted to try out the white skin, since I would like a white Nexus S. There are a lot of choices to choose from though.
woah, they look pretty cool! I wonder if they're available in Italy! I'll try to get one of those
looks quite nice!
Drike19 said:
I searched the forums and did not find anything for the nexus s.
I was wondering if you guys have heard or tried Decalgirl skins?
http://www.decalgirl.com/category.view/Samsung-Google-Nexus-S-Skins
I'm tempted to try out the white skin, since I would like a white Nexus S. There are a lot of choices to choose from though.
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I am also tempted to try it. However the black menu buttons would irritate me........ If you get it post a pic man. You can also try Gelaskins and make a custom wallpaper. You can make it fully white (without the menu buttons too) in theory. That's what I want to do. If I do I'll post a pic of that. I have my menu buttons backlights off anyways lol. I'm worried the sides of the front screen will remain black... That would piss me off so much LOL. Right well tell me how it goes.
I just ordered my white skin, I'll post pictures when I receive and install the skin.
Drike19 said:
I just ordered my white skin, I'll post pictures when I receive and install the skin.
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Please do
I've already posted pics in my thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447778). It looks nice overall
Hi all,
I'm coming from and SGSII and I'm in the process of trying to setup my One how I like it. There's a few things troubling me though.
-The blacks of the screen don't seem especially black and it seems there's no way to adjust the contrast. The whole screen seems a bit flat/grey
-The menus are black text on white, I much prefer the white on black of the SII
-The scroll 'brakes' too quickly as your finger comes off the screen, it's like sliding something on sandpaper as opposed to ice. There's no 'mega scroll' flick
-I've had to download a task manager killer but I cannot end google+, gmail and googlemaps. I don't want them.
-The icons on my SII are a lot better
-I'd like the notification bar to be black
-On the SII I have gps switched off but weather apps still work, with the HTC gps has to be on.
-I'm going to have to root this phone to get adfree aren't?
I'm using nova launcher so a lot of things are similar but those things above are really bugging me. I've googled all of them and had no luck so let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks.
I didn't read your whole post but to get white text on black you are going to have to go with an inverted Rom, like d3rp or 42One I am sure there are others but those two come to mind.
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Konfuzion said:
I didn't read your whole post but to get white text on black you are going to have to go with an inverted Rom, like d3rp or 42One I am sure there are others but those two come to mind.
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Thanks, I might hold off on rooting for a while.
The main thing I wanted to check was that I wasn't missing an obvious settings and that the screen was working properly, it's VERY flat and grey compared to my SII.
Overall it's doing a good job but the screen is going to have to take some getting used to.
SGSII_LEDnotify said:
Hi all,
I'm coming from and SGSII and I'm in the process of trying to setup my One how I like it. There's a few things troubling me though.
-The blacks of the screen don't seem especially black and it seems there's no way to adjust the contrast. The whole screen seems a bit flat/grey
This is the difference between AMOLED and LCD. The contrast on the One is pretty much the best available on a phone LCD, but it is still an LCD, and cannot match the black levels of AMOLED.
-The menus are black text on white, I much prefer the white on black of the SII
The menus on the SII are white on black because white is a very expensive color to display, battery-wise, on an AMOLED screen. Inverted roms, or themes, will fix this for you.
-The scroll 'brakes' too quickly as your finger comes off the screen, it's like sliding something on sandpaper as opposed to ice. There's no 'mega scroll' flick
Depends on the app you're using. If you're speaking about within Sense (settings, app drawer, etc) then yeah I guess, but I'm not sure why you would need the long scrolling in such short lists.
-I've had to download a task manager killer but I cannot end google+, gmail and googlemaps. I don't want them.
Uninstall/disable them via settings>apps or kill them with an app.
-The icons on my SII are a lot better
rofl
-I'd like the notification bar to be black
Theme
-On the SII I have gps switched off but weather apps still work, with the HTC gps has to be on.
-I'm going to have to root this phone to get adfree aren't?
You had to root your S2 to get that too.
I'm using nova launcher so a lot of things are similar but those things above are really bugging me. I've googled all of them and had no luck so let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks.
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Answered within quote.
Felnarion said:
Answered within quote.
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Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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babymatteo said:
You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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The HTC logo doesn't have a capacitive sensor, the "logo button" feature actually uses the first row of pixels immediately above the logo as a button.
Not trying to attack anyone here, just want to make sure that the information is explained a bit more.
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SGSII_LEDnotify said:
Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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Yep, it's the tradeoff you made when you picked LCD.
If its any consolation, displaying white on your S2 actually caused the display consumption to go up drastically (sometimes double the power required) while on LCD the screen uses a much more consistent amount of power. The whites on your One -should- appear as truer whites, while yes, the black will be more washed out.
babymatteo said:
You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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Useful to know, thanks!
Thanks for the input, being brand new to HTC I'm still learning what's available.
Ideally I like Nova so I'd like to keep that. I'd like the general menus to be white text on black BG, I can clean things out with Titanium and stop ads with adfree.
From what I can tell I'm going to need to root the phone and then install a rom.
Are there 'pre-optimized' roms? Are there any Roms which are basically stock except for the colour flip? Can I get 4.3 in there as well? That middle button would be great too. My SII came with swype, I miss that.
I've found instructions on rooting but a little unsure which rom to go for, konfuzion's suggestion of 42One looks ok but I don't know what's out there, supported and up to date.
If you have any more thoughts they're always welcome
I'm gonna need some help on this guys.
I'm in the UK on the EE network, can I download any rom or do I need a specific 'EE' one?
Do I need a rom if I just want superuser privileges and a reversed/inverted menu? (also be able to install titanium backup and adfree)
I think I can handle the rest of it.
Thanks.
Well you most likely have a gsm one so you wouldn't want to flash anything in the sprint one section. And seeing as your gsm i believe there are a few roms over there that are 4.3
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