I'm seeing a dark frame around my screen, especially on a blue background. Somebody mentioned that there might be a theme applied to this ROM that would create that effect...can anyone confirm or deny? If there's no theme, then my screen is starting to go and I need to get it replaced.
If that's the case...can I un-root it and go back to the original Canadian ROM before I try to take it bac to BestBuy?
Thanks.
Tiamat Moray does not include any theme elements which would result in a dark frame. To find out whether or not this is a physical screen defect or an android settings issue, take a screenshot with one of the many apps from the market and view it on a computer. (or if you are so inclined, use ddms from the android sdk)
Great idea - thanks!
It is a hardware problem...
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Many of the default Android menus are white text on a black background. Not only do I find these visually unappealing, they are actually counter productive given how poorly dark themes read in sunlight.
Can these be changed to black text on a white background (or light background) instead? Does anyone have a theme they can share to accomplish this? Thank you.
OK, I guess this is not possible. It's a shame because I find Android's list based menus awfully plain and unaesthetic. White text on a black background with little visual art...it really looks like a plain vanilla terminal of yesteryear. While I love Android's openness, customization, and tweaker-friendly platform, it really needs a major overhaul in terms of looks and user friendliness. In short, the GUI needs some polish and consistency.
It would appear that Android has built-in "themes" for apps to use. If none is specified, then the dark or black theme is used. I wonder if there is a way to force apps to use the "light" theme even if specified otherwise. Perhaps a custom ROM could be created to always use the light theme.
http://www.anddev.org/tutorial_ui_themes-t4367.html
i know this thread is old enogh, but i'm searching for a answer to this question too.
Same here, I´m looking for a solution to this problem
For me is near impossible to read white letters on black background, and i have a new ZTE Blade that can´t use because this
If someone have a solution, please !!!
Thanks!
Recently this has been bugging me as well. I wish there was a very simple way to perhaps tweak the framework and systemui so that black on white can become a reality...
This is totally feasible. You would have to do a bunch of XML edits in your framework-res.apk and declare everything correctly.
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Changing the theme style in styles.xml should work I guess... if I have little to do I can take a look
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Okay, I've done it, just gotta see if I've caused any bugs and write a how to
Edit: Bah, it's hard, the whole system and lots of apps are based on how it is now, changing it causes lots of trouble. Don't know if I'll make it :/
Btw, I did it in my cm7 theme. You can see it in my signature
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AWESOME. There are some issues though, such as black text on dark backgrounds in the music app, which I'm guessing would take more than some xml editing to fix. But other than that it's GREAT!
EnMod said:
AWESOME. There are some issues though, such as black text on dark backgrounds in the music app, which I'm guessing would take more than some xml editing to fix. But other than that it's GREAT!
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Thanks I have fixed most of these issues I think, but one of the issues was kind of tricky, cause when I fix them, I create others :/ and I don't have the stock music app installed atm, I will install it and see the issue myeself
Habarug said:
Thanks I have fixed most of these issues I think, but one of the issues was kind of tricky, cause when I fix them, I create others :/ and I don't have the stock music app installed atm, I will install it and see the issue myeself
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I don't see that theme anymore in your signature. Would it be possible for you to share it? I'm still in search of a way to get Android to be a bit lighter (outside of going with MIUI), which I find far more visually appealing.
So i am trying to customize a few elements to the theme i am currently using (crysis v4), i have been able to successfully locate and replace the graphics in question and flash it back to my phone however it is coming out a very dull grey color when it is on the phone instead of the bright glowing white that is on my computer. does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? i am using an update zip packager i found here on xda which creates an amend script then i use amend2edify that i found on the xperia forum also here on xda. it doens't make sense that the update script could affect the way the graphics are displayed but could it be a result of having to convert from amend to edify? i would love to figure this out, and any help would be greatly appreciated
p.s i suppose i should mention that it is lock screen graphics that i am changing in case that makes a difference.
So I'm running DJ-Steve's latest Honeycomb on my DS7 and I have an app for fiddling with the density. At the resolution I really prefer (don't recall which one). Whenever I download and install apps they appear JUST off the edge of the screen with no way to retreive or move them short of changing the density, moving them, changing back, etc..... PITA. is there some way I can make these stupid things not do that? OR does android have some sort of "auto arrange desktop" option or something like that?
Thanks
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So I'm running DJ-Steve's latest Honeycomb on my DS7 and I have an app for fiddling with the density. At the resolution I really prefer (don't recall which one). Whenever I download and install apps they appear JUST off the edge of the screen with no way to retreive or move them short of changing the density, moving them, changing back, etc..... PITA. is there some way I can make these stupid things not do that? OR does android have some sort of "auto arrange desktop" option or something like that?
Thanks
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This is because this was based on Honeycomb for a 10inch - the grid is larger than our screen.
Untill someone rips a build from one of the 7 inch Honeycomb tablets, or the source is released, this will be a problem.
If you don't need 3.2, you can DL 3.1 RC3, and use the 160 image. DJ_Steve was somehow able to edit the launcher from one of the 10 inch builds to fit our screen perfectly in that build. It's by far my favorite Honeycomb build. I check all the Honeycomb updates to try them out, but always find myself back on Froyo or 3.1 RC3.
I sorta figured thank you. Just seems like if the system could keep the little google voice search widget and the apps tray framed properly it should be able to keep everything else in check.
Thanks
During the last days, i tried to create a general 'light framework' which changes color from white on black to black on white (like in MIUI or IOS) in System Settings and all Apps which use the standard framework. By 'general' i mean, that the idea is, that this framework could be used in themes or standalone. Anyway, couldn't get it to work until now. As templates i tried to use files from this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228922
Don't get me wrong, i don't want to have an IOS framework, but a general template for a black on white layout.
I know that this question has been asked before, but obviously there is no solution yet. But maybe there's a new chance with the files from the ROM mentioned above.
Any ideas from a more experienced themer than me ?
thanx, lagloose
i am not sure if this means anything to you but there is something like that
http://www.anddev.org/tutorial_ui_themes-t4367.html
and i am really bored from white on black menus, looking for black on white other than miui.
Installed OTA yesterday. Anyone else not able to change dialer keypad from the mental hospital white? I would prefer a dark dialer keypad, which was available in Sense 6. The only option under personalize is default (white). Initially the same was true with the keyboard, but after changing themes in the new theme settings, I got other options for the keyboard that were part of those themes. Still only default for dialer keypad, and no theme change would change it either, so regardless of theme chosen I still only get white.
I looked around the forums and saw that some had the same problem with sense 7 ROMs running on M8 and M9. There was a workaround by uninstalling the dialer app, and then updating it or simply reverting back to sense 6 dialer, but I've no option to do that under the app (just force stop, no uninstall).
Kind of at a dead end in figuring it out. Don't care for the bloat of 3rd party dialer/phone/messaging apps, but might have to try one. I'm not into rooting or mods on my main communication device, and so this phone has never been anything but stock (except for apps available in the store, naturally). I did have Apex launcher as my app launcher at the time of OTA, but that should not have thrown a wrench into the update (at least I don't think it should have). My next step is to factory reset to see if that resolves it...which I'm not eager to do.
Any thoughts?
Use the themes app and download a new keyboard theme.
Not all themes come with keyboard recolouring...
EVOuser94 said:
Use the themes app and download a new keyboard theme.
Not all themes come with keyboard recolouring...
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Thanks for the reply. I tried that. None of the themes had any affect on the dialer keypad -- still just white --, even the ones that showed in the preview to do so. The keyboard was changeable with via applying themes.
Hmmmm, if it is a Sense 7 based Sense 6 ROM , it won't work, AFAIK the only official Sense 7 ROM is Stock Rooted, soon will also have Bad Boyz 4.0.
Try the stock rooted, then report back please!
I'm not running a ROM, I'm newly OTA updated with Marshmallow, so I'm stoock Sense 7. I guess I'm wondering if what I described (only white phone dialer keypad) is normal behavior for Sense 7. Like I said, I can't change the color of the phone dialer keypad from white, either in settings or themes. If this is correct behavior for stock sense 7, that's OK, and I'll explore other options by way of a phone app.
Again, thanks.
It doesn't seem like normal behavior, I'm on Stock rooted MM...that is literally just changing the theme for me.
EVOuser94 said:
It doesn't seem like normal behavior, I'm on Stock rooted MM...that is literally just changing the theme for me.
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Got it to work. Don't know what the problem is. Some themes that show a change to the dialer in the preview do change it when applied, some do not. Now to find a way to edit the theme and retain the change to the dialer.
Thanks for the help.
Same problem same solution. I've only got one theme that was actually able to change the dialer colour to black "darkside" but I hate everything else about it. Could you suggest any other