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[Q] [CM7] Best way to get all black backgrounds ??

So, what is the best way to get black backgrounds for pages and apps, instead of white backgrounds in NC using CM7 ?
For three reasons:
* Uses less battery
* Easier on the eyes
* Better suited to night reading
Thanks !

go download HD black wallpapers from the market

animatechnica said:
go download HD black wallpapers from the market
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I assume that only is for the Home Screen - not for apps like Browser, Firefox, etc. ?

The Nook Color has a traditional LCD screen, not AMOLED. This means that the backlight is a CCFL, and thus uses the same amount of power, no matter what the image being shown is.
If you want a black background, open up MSPaint and make an image 1024x1200, all black. Save it as a PNG. Copy it to the SD card, and then change your background image to that.
For black apps, well, I haven't a clue. Try surfing websites that have a dark palette.

animatechnica said:
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Way to read.
No solution that I know of, unfortunately.

There's an option to invert the colors on the stock CM browser. As for anything else, it depends what you want?
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EugeneKay said:
The Nook Color has a traditional LCD screen, not AMOLED. This means that the backlight is a CCFL, and thus uses the same amount of power, no matter what the image being shown is.
If you want a black background, open up MSPaint and make an image 1024x1200, all black. Save it as a PNG. Copy it to the SD card, and then change your background image to that.
For black apps, well, I haven't a clue. Try surfing websites that have a dark palette.
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This.
Nook Color via Xda App

EugeneKay said:
The Nook Color has a traditional LCD screen, not AMOLED. This means that the backlight is a CCFL, and thus uses the same amount of power, no matter what the image being shown is.
If you want a black background, open up MSPaint and make an image 1024x1200, all black. Save it as a PNG. Copy it to the SD card, and then change your background image to that.
For black apps, well, I haven't a clue. Try surfing websites that have a dark palette.
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WHERE? Where do I copy it to the SD card on Cyanogen to get it to see the images and use them as wallpapers?

FractalSphere said:
WHERE? Where do I copy it to the SD card on Cyanogen to get it to see the images and use them as wallpapers?
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here...just download this with your nook....and also set as wallpaper...it will show in your gallery under downloads...(I had a couple black PNG files laying around from when I couldn't get screenshots to work at first..I'm surprised everyone doesn't..lol...=) http://db.tt/BmPu9Xu
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mazook98 said:
here...just download this with your nook....and also set as wallpaper...it will show in your gallery under downloads...(I had a couple black PNG files laying around from when I couldn't get screenshots to work at first..I'm surprised everyone doesn't..lol...=) http://db.tt/BmPu9Xu
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk
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Oh sweet. Gallery either wasn't giving me that option to set as (or I was wiped out after 3 hours of hacking my Nook and didn't see it) before.
Thanks! Again - XDA folks rock! ;-)

What DPI do you use with CM7 on the Nook Color?

I just flashed CM7 on my Nook Color last night. While it looks and works great on the 7" screen I did notice some things were a bit too small and hard to read. You can always increase font sizes in specific applications but that's not a consistent solution to the problem. After experimenting with different DPIs, I found 187 to be okay but still a bit too small in some areas, 240 to be too large, and 204 to be just about perfect, allowing me to keep font sizes set to normal in applications and the handle on the notification tray remains in the center. Blurriness hasn't bothered me too much yet. I'm curious what values other people are using.
As an aside, why does increasing the DPI make elements larger and not the reverse? Thinking of it as "dots per inch," I would think more dots within an inch means a rendered element would fit into a smaller space...

Honestly, I've found the default 161 quite usable so I haven't played with it for quite some time.
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hololight said:
Honestly, I've found the default 161 quite usable so I haven't played with it for quite some time.
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Ditto. 240 (and such) just create icons wayyyy to big for me. I have a high res screen, i want to use it as such.

I personally like 140, however you lose "My Apps" ability in the market at this DPI.

The default 161 with a different font applied works for me. (The font is mentone, in case you were wondering.)
I tried 180 for awhile but that screwed up the formatting on a lot of apps.

Default for me. Tried many others and they either made the icons look big and stupid or really screwed up formatting in some apps.

I've been using 187 for about a month now. I think it looks nice, and really helps with the close-to-edge unresponsiveness by having slightly bigger objects to poke. I enjoy spending unreasonable amounts of time crafting custom UI's, and certain setups really pop with higher LCD density settings. I ran 210 for a while combined with a really sleek super simple interface. Ended up scraping it because it required an insane amount of widgets and 500 megs of RAM just wasn't enough.
Play around with the popular settings. Personal preference trumps what ever you'll read here.
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I just stick with 161.
Still rocking the Incredible with the XDA Premium App.

I need to use 160 for some apps to go fullscreen (Google Reader & FieldRunners). But this kills My Apps in the market. Does anyone know a DPI that will scale these apps correctly and keep the market working 100%?

JonMayer said:
I need to use 160 for some apps to go fullscreen (Google Reader & FieldRunners). But this kills My Apps in the market. Does anyone know a DPI that will scale these apps correctly and keep the market working 100%?
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Fieldrunners works at any DPI if you turn off compatibility mode. The only fix for GoogleReader is to use a different program
Market works fine at 161+

Thanks for the info on the game. I'm going to reboot and try that out now. I used to love that game on my iPod Touch.
I figured the Reader app just hasn't been updated in forever is why. I'll stick with my 161 then. I like the size of everything on the screen and it's still comfortable for me to read.

I use the default setting..

If you have the new Market, I would recommend using 160.
160 will be the new default as soon as more folks get the update Market.

dalingrin said:
If you have the new Market, I would recommend using 160.
160 will be the new default as soon as more folks get the update Market.
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My first thought when the new Market appeared was, "OMG I hope it works at 160 so I can have both my Market and Google Reader working at the same time!"
And.... so far so good! Woooooooooooooot!

dalingrin said:
If you have the new Market, I would recommend using 160.
160 will be the new default as soon as more folks get the update Market.
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SiMi clock doesn't display correctly at 160.
It doesn't display correctly at 161, either, but it's worse at 160.
161 leaves a column of pixels unused on the right side in portrait, where the wallpaper shows through the clock's background.
160 makes the clock's background very thick, and overlaps my power button widget in landscape mode.
I've been using 169. This creates the least bit of widget overlap between the clock and power bar, and also makes the clock cover the entire row in portrait. It makes desktop icons a tad blurry, though. Everything else displays fine.

gadzooks64 said:
My first thought when the new Market appeared was, "OMG I hope it works at 160 so I can have both my Market and Google Reader working at the same time!"
And.... so far so good! Woooooooooooooot!
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Sorry to burst your balloon. After a couple of reboots, My apps disappears (just like before).

Apps that work on Nook Touch

Hi, After rooting my Nook Touch I've been trying to find apps that work. It made sense to me if there was a sticky making it easier to play with our new toys so hopefully a mod will stickie this.
I haven't tried any of these yet but Aruangra said they work with Nook Touch:
Opera Mini (There are zoom buttons !. But it cannot access the local host (192.168.x.x))
Opera Mobile (It can access the local host)
Dictionary.com
NewsRob
Kindle
Documents to Go
Dropbox
InstaFetch
Aldiko
ASTRO file manager
SpeedTest.net
PG Calculator
BuzzBox RSS
Evernote
Moon+ Reader (The physical buttons can also change pages !!! and every page is refreshed. No more ghosting issue)
ADW Launcher (Maybe the only launcher that can change background color of Drawer)
Advanced Task Killer (a Must have)
Button Savior (a Must have)
NookColor Tools (a Must have)
Superuser (a Must have)
Rev01 says these work:
working (on restore)
Titanium Backup
Read it later (Pro)
ElectroDroid
RootExplorer
Terminal Emulator
Wifi Analyzer
Permissions Denied
Samba Filesharing
ShoppingList Plus
Wuala
Autostarts
XDA (Premium) (some threads are empty)
Tebra says these games work:
Crimson Fields
Andoku
Four in a Row HD
apeine:
Tried some, but most of them has some level of ghosting:
Working so far:
- Klondike
- Reversi free
- Nemo picross
- GObandroid (to play Go! - very good)
- Super Sudoku
- Klondike free
- Dark nova (used to love Space Trader on my old Treo)
- Repligo and ezPDF. Both allows annotation and bookmarking. Give it a try!

Repligo doesn't work, or at least it didn't work for me. It installed, but every time I tried to open a .pdf it would flash the menu to accept the license and then disappear.
ezPDF reader seemed to work just fine.

Sync with Google calendar
One of the major reasons for getting my Nook Touch was to be able to sync with google calendar. I was very upset when I learned the ability to sync the calendar was random until now...
synker allows you to manually sync your calendar and mail.
I also have found that Jorte is a much nicer calendar/planner than stock. Both of these apps are free and available on Android market.

The greyscale screen on this takes me back to my old M105 palm pilot days! Just for nostolgia, it would be pretty interesting to see some of these old applications revived either through a palm pilot emulator, which does not exist, or developer-made applications inspired from palm applications. There use to be a whole ecosystem of palm pilot applications built for greyscale touch screens (in super-low resolution) with a poor refresh-rate in mind.

I had an M100 too, and the way that Palm soft was integrated is nowhere to be seen nowadays (not on standard IOS, Android, etc), maybe only on WebOS. If there was such a family of apps as in Pam, the nook would rock. I'll second Starbux on his request.

I'd be the third for a Palmish app. I loved my Treo PDAs. I had some programs to this day I'm unable to find a good replacement for.

Zeam Launcher 2.8.8 with N2E text color fix (and russian language).

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Zeam Launcher 2.8.8 with N2E text color fix (and russian language).
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Hi kaznelson,
could you explain what's the "N2E text color fix" in this version?
Thanks

White text on a white background is corrected (in preferences - seekbars).
Before and after photo:

ryanpl said:
Tebra says these games work:
Crimson Fields
Andoku
Four in a Row HD
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Hi! I've found this post looking for references to my apps, I'm the developer of Four in a Row HD (it has its own thread here at XDA).
I didn't know about the Nook Touch till now, that's e-ink screen, isn't it? I wonder how it looks there. I suppose choosing the "Plastic" skin (no textures, just vector graphics) and disabling animations in the options menu would fit fine.
I'm really curious to know how it looks in e-ink, could anyone send me or upload a picture or screenshot? Thanks, and enjoy the game!

google Talk and words with friends
anyone try to use either of these apps? Talk loads but only part of keyboard is shown, so you cannot send messages. my contact list shows up and i can send single words to people as long as the words dont include the letters that are missing.
i loaded words with friends and when i try to load a game or invite someone to play, it says there is a network error. maybe there is an easy fix to this?
other apps that seem to work.
sense analog clock widget
crossword light
google maps

mocelet2000 said:
Hi! I've found this post looking for references to my apps, I'm the developer of Four in a Row HD (it has its own thread here at XDA).
I didn't know about the Nook Touch till now, that's e-ink screen, isn't it? I wonder how it looks there. I suppose choosing the "Plastic" skin (no textures, just vector graphics) and disabling animations in the options menu would fit fine.
I'm really curious to know how it looks in e-ink, could anyone send me or upload a picture or screenshot? Thanks, and enjoy the game!
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Here is a screenshot of your game on the nook touch.
As you can see, it's a lite difficult to see difference between black player and the not used places on the 16 gray level of the e-ink display.

Thanks! It looks playable, but I'll look into adding a high contrast theme, not just with colors but with textures/patterns. 16 gray levels, OK xD

Thanks, Mocelet2000. I know that B&W tablets are not a "growing" market for Android apps, but your concern shows that maybe it is viable.

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Thanks, Mocelet2000. I know that B&W tablets are not a "growing" market for Android apps, but your concern shows that maybe it is viable.
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No problem, fortunately my game is not about fancy animations, so fixing the contrast in red pieces (haha, sorry, that's black for you) might be easy.
I have a 10" Honeycomb tablet, it is heavy and has too much brightness at night (even at minimum settings). The capacitive screen makes it impossible to write notes or have some precission when drawing. Of course, it's great for all the other things.
A lightweight tablet, with high contrast screen of about 7 inches, easy on the eyes like e-ink (a bit more refresh rate wouldn't hurt...), with resistive stylus, may be even cheap to make and would be the ultimate notepad on the go.
EDIT: a sneak peak of the new theme "Naughts and crosses" designed for black and white screens It will appear in the next update of the game in the Market. Since I don't have a Nook Touch, the following screenshot is actually a screenshot from my mobile phone displayed in my ebook reader (quite weird testbed, haha, but it's closer to reality than photoshop).

Four in a Row HD with enhanced grayscale screens support in the Market now, make sure you're installing version 3.3 at least.
Recommended preferences for the Nook Touch in options menu:
- Choose the "Naughts and crosses" skin.
- Disable animations.
- Check "solid black background" box in case the new gray stripes looks bad.
Other skins might look better now also, specially the default metal skin which has textured face. Moreover, the striped default background helps differentiating holes and chips.
If you've found this update useful, please rate and comment in the Market and/or the official thread at XDA, thanks so much!

Mocelet2000, Thanks for helping us out with the new skins. It's great to see developers supporting such an atypical device such as our Nooks. Ryan

mocelet2000 said:
Four in a Row HD with enhanced grayscale screens support in the Market now, make sure you're installing version 3.3 at least.
Recommended preferences for the Nook Touch in options menu:
- Choose the "Naughts and crosses" skin.
- Disable animations.
- Check "solid black background" box in case the new gray stripes looks bad.
Other skins might look better now also, specially the default metal skin which has textured face. Moreover, the striped default background helps differentiating holes and chips.
If you've found this update useful, please rate and comment in the Market and/or the official thread at XDA, thanks so much!
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I tried your last version with your recommended preferences on my Nook but there are some graphical bug on top of the screen.
See picture

tebra said:
I tried your last version with your recommended preferences on my Nook but there are some graphical bug on top of the screen.
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Thanks for the report! It seems the Nook does not clear the canvas as it's supposed to do before each call to the drawing routine.
Anyway, now I paint a big black solid rectangle before anything else, should do the trick. Version 3.3b in the Market now ^^

Overdrive (public library ebooks) works
Friends,
Just wanted to let you know that Overdrive works for reading public library ebooks.

About coloring theme

I use non root note 8, and I like to know if there is any way to color the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data and so on) and the apps color something like this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/themes/wings-root-substratum-theme-launch-10-t3693952.
Thank you.

soilentgreen said:
I use non root note 8, and I like to know if there is any way to color the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data and so on) and the apps color something like this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/themes/wings-root-substratum-theme-launch-10-t3693952.
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You know you don't have to be rooted to use substratum, right?

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You know you don't have to be rooted to use substratum, right?
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Yes I Know. but I can't find how to change the color of the icons of the status/notification bar.

I believe that since lollipop, the Android OS only allows white icons in the UI . From what I understand you should be able to tweak the alpha value to allow degrees of grayscale, but no color. Maybe hide the status bar and use third party app?

soilentgreen said:
I use non root note 8, and I like to know if there is any way to color the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data and so on) and the apps color something like this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/themes/wings-root-substratum-theme-launch-10-t3693952.
Thank you.
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You know you don't have to be rooted to use substratum, right?
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No, you don't have to be rooted to use substratum! You just need an add on to use it with Samsung.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.substratum&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.sungstratum&hl=en

are there more themes out now that work on a non rooted note 8 with substratum?
i was using it when the phone first came out, and there were only a couple of themes that worked properly on the note 8..

There is swift Dark,Samsung wings,and I use a sub theme called onyx from play store. You can basically pick and choose what colors you want and if you want dark apps or transparent apps. I'm using venom tron theme mixed with some from the onyx theme and Samsung wings theme. You can mix and match

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There is swift Dark,Samsung wings,and I use a sub theme called onyx from play store. You can basically pick and choose what colors you want and if you want dark apps or transparent apps. I'm using venom tron theme mixed with some from the onyx theme and Samsung wings theme. You can mix and match
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Thank you, but I must ask how do you use Samsung wings theme? There is no link for download the app?
I try to change the green color in the play store app to red. how can I do it?
I use swift dark. I'll check the others you offer.
By the way I found great app to change the color of the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data) and change some Icons (which not work with the batery icon-too small ) -without root: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.james.status.
I tried to check onyx but there's afew apps with the same name. Can you share the links of venom and onyx links?
Thank you.

[THEME] Best Dark theme for EMUI 9

for all want black themes for emui9 i found one working good and themes all items
just install themes manager for huawei from playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deishelon.lab.huaweithememanager
and search for samsung one ui dark download it and apply it from the theme manager
it works very well

Unfortunatelly not. Try to get to any settings that requires second level user interaction (e.g. the fast mode choice when you connect the USB cable, or the choice whether the wallpaper applies to homescreen or lockscreen or both, and many others). You see the white text on white background in many cases. Quite anoying for regular usage in many situation.
Already reported in other similar topic as this yours.

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Unfortunatelly not. Try to get to any settings that requires second level user interaction (e.g. the fast mode choice when you connect the USB cable, or the choice whether the wallpaper applies to homescreen or lockscreen or both, and many others). You see the white text on white background in many cases. Quite anoying for regular usage in many situation.
Already reported in other similar topic as this yours.
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no mate it is not mine i just share it here because i found it with less bugs and almost everything themed not all

looks like S417, dont waste your time people

kuljit55 said:
looks like S417, dont waste your time people
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:laugh:
yes but you can change icones and fonts

pudil said:
Unfortunatelly not. Try to get to any settings that requires second level user interaction (e.g. the fast mode choice when you connect the USB cable, or the choice whether the wallpaper applies to homescreen or lockscreen or both, and many others). You see the white text on white background in many cases. Quite anoying for regular usage in many situation.
Already reported in other similar topic as this yours.
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Is there any way to make those changes in HV10. Every theme that I have tried has the same white on white pop up. Couldn't find code to edit it.. If any one knows how or where to find that option to make change please advise.

I found BLACK EMUI theme here:
https://theme.page.link/GAcELqio2oPMVZMT8
It looks very good for now. All is visible, no white text on white background. The only thing I didn't like is the font style, but you can change it manually.

After the 178 update, all the dark themes are working fine with white text on black background. Honor solved it.

I use Huawei Themes from google store, it's free. Thru it you can dl Porshe Style Dark theme which is compatible with Emui9 and it works perfectly for me.