Hi guys. i'm searching an app that disables the lock of screen and displays a black screen to reduce battery burning. it could be awesome if this app could implements a light alert for messages and calls lost. could someone developes it? pleeeease
that's a good idea!!
hope someone does it
But for now I use lockwidgets and they are awesome!!
Sweetol said:
Hi guys. i'm searching an app that disables the lock of screen and displays a black screen to reduce battery burning. it could be awesome if this app could implements a light alert for messages and calls lost. could someone developes it? pleeeease
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y dont u just set a black image as wallpaper??
yup, you just need a black wallpaper do a photo with your camera lense covered and use it. simple as that
Search the WP7 forum for Wallpapers. You could find many nice black background wallpapers. Right now I couldn't provide you the exact link.
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Hello ,
I find the Kaiser screen in sunlight very difficult to read (brightness compared to my MDA II which is I guess somehow related to the transflexive display discussion).
But to optimize the Screen now to best usability I find neither the HTC nor WM themes quite usefull. Does anybody has a suggestion or link to a WM6 theme optimzed to kontrast and with no shades or art elements ? I guess simple black and white would be the best .. with background white and all text black.
But seems I can't find such a simple theme .. any tips ?
Thx freecall
freecall said:
Hello ,
I find the Kaiser screen in sunlight very difficult to read (brightness compared to my MDA II which is I guess somehow related to the transflexive display discussion).
But to optimize the Screen now to best usability I find neither the HTC nor WM themes quite usefull. Does anybody has a suggestion or link to a WM6 theme optimzed to kontrast and with no shades or art elements ? I guess simple black and white would be the best .. with background white and all text black.
But seems I can't find such a simple theme .. any tips ?
Thx freecall
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I have attached the one I use - white backround, black letters and grey bars....with brightness turned up I can see it in the sun - took me a while to find it but I got it from pocketpcthemes.com - hopefully I am not offending the author by posing it here
Regards - John
Here you go.
I made these for my XV6700 ... still using them on the Tilt.
I'm using HTC Home Customizer/HTC home plugin. I want just a pure black background on my today screen. I tried selecting a pure black jpg using the today screen setting "Use this picture as the background." The background ended up just being light gray. Anyone know how to do this? I think I'm just being dumb.
greydh said:
I'm using HTC Home Customizer/HTC home plugin. I want just a pure black background on my today screen. I tried selecting a pure black jpg using the today screen setting "Use this picture as the background." The background ended up just being light gray. Anyone know how to do this? I think I'm just being dumb.
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Here is a completely black theme for u.
EDIT: Instruction - copy the unzipped theme into your windows directory, then go to settings/personal/today and the black theme should be there as a option. Select it and click ok.
thanks!
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thanks!
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you are welcome
on a related note, I've been trying to make a black theme with the attached pic for a b/g, but using a theme creator and making the top and bottom bars black, also causing it to be a light grey.
I would use your theme, Mikulec, but i believe you would have white writing?
I've attached my theme as well.
Any chance of helping a newbie? Thanks!
edit: Checked yours, Mikulec, and you do have white writing that won't show up on mine, plus the bottom bar is still light grey? Or did I do something wrong?
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on a related note, I've been trying to make a black theme with the attached pic for a b/g, but using a theme creator and making the top and bottom bars black, also causing it to be a light grey.
I would use your theme, Mikulec, but i believe you would have white writing?
I've attached my theme as well.
Any chance of helping a newbie? Thanks!
edit: Checked yours, Mikulec, and you do have white writing that won't show up on mine, plus the bottom bar is still light grey? Or did I do something wrong?
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anyone? Many thanks
RC bar can change the bar color too, its really useful. Black is #160 I think.
RC Bar 2.1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=325323
thanks! I'll have a loo at that tonight
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on a related note, I've been trying to make a black theme with the attached pic for a b/g, but using a theme creator and making the top and bottom bars black, also causing it to be a light grey.
I would use your theme, Mikulec, but i believe you would have white writing?
I've attached my theme as well.
Any chance of helping a newbie? Thanks!
edit: Checked yours, Mikulec, and you do have white writing that won't show up on mine, plus the bottom bar is still light grey? Or did I do something wrong?
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I am using program called ThemeGenCE. There u can do almost everything. The problem was that this program is making the bottom and uper bars in another caller(when u set the bars black, the color is in reality black-grey). I used another program to make the bars completely black.
I dont know how can I help you, cause I dont know how u want the theme to look like. The problem is that your pic is white and black so u cant use black or white text.
I will gladly help if u need me. U can try the ThemeGenCE.
ThemeGenCE
See this post for Black bars with my program ThemeGenCE : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1814458#post1814458
Black.zip didn't work
I just followed your instructions to create an all black background, but it didn't work. It only made the task and soft-key bars black.
I just want a simple black background.
Please advise.
Thanks.
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I'm using HTC Home Customizer/HTC home plugin. I want just a pure black background on my today screen. I tried selecting a pure black jpg using the today screen setting "Use this picture as the background." The background ended up just being light gray. Anyone know how to do this? I think I'm just being dumb.
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No offense, but yes, you're being dumb.
Goto the "pictures and videos" application. select the photo you want, Menu > Set as Today Background, and set Transparency to 0%.
l3it3r said:
No offense, but yes, you're being dumb.
Goto the "pictures and videos" application. select the photo you want, Menu > Set as Today Background, and set Transparency to 0%.
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What ???????
If you read the post , it was not how do I set the background, it was please give me a black background that does not wash out to grey when set.
Which Mikulec did, 6 months ago.
No offense, but yes, you're being dumb.
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?????????????
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What ???????
If you read the post , it was not how do I set the background, it was please give me a black background that does not wash out to grey when set.
Which Mikulec did, 6 months ago.
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Re-Read the original post. He says he's trying to set the today screen's picture and it's being greyed out when he sets it in the today (under settings) screen. In order to get a non-greyed out photo on your today screen, do what I wrote above. Also, learn to read sarcasm.
Black.zip solution response please
Could someone with a solution respond to my question about the use of the black.zip download to create an solid-black background in all windows (I recently installed hergs flip clock and landscape mode)?
I followed Mikulec's instructions and installed the black file, saw it listed in the Today screen, selected it, had auto reset, but the Today background didn't go to black.
Thanks.
I was just wondering if a white background would consume more power than a black background for the theme settings.. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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I was just wondering if a white background would consume more power than a black background for the theme settings.. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Depends on what phone you are using. The samsung and dell with their samoled screen consume more power with a white background. The htc phones are using s-lcd which means it doesn't matter if it is white or black. I prefer the white background on my HD7 it looks nicer.
Oh cool.. Im using a HD7.. Was using black in thinking that it will prolong battery life.. Now that you mention that, i'm switching to white =) Thanks =)
Black looks best.
I like black but it annoys me that the fonts on black look horrible. For instance, in settings, the small fonts distort when scrolling up and down. This doesn't occur on white. Nor does it occur on the Omnia 7 even when on black. So perhaps this is a HD7 issue, or perhaps it is just my HD7. Am interested to know if others have noticed it.
I hadn't noticed that. Now I'm bugged by it. Thanks.
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I hadn't noticed that. Now I'm bugged by it. Thanks.
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LOL.. Infectious thoughts.. =)
On side note does anyone have their notification LED on when there's a text message? I only have the LED on when i have missed calls..
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I like black but it annoys me that the fonts on black look horrible. For instance, in settings, the small fonts distort when scrolling up and down. This doesn't occur on white. Nor does it occur on the Omnia 7 even when on black. So perhaps this is a HD7 issue, or perhaps it is just my HD7. Am interested to know if others have noticed it.
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Could you elaborate on this distorting text? I haven't noticed anything on my HD7 with black background. Text looks wonderful on this screen and Windows Phone 7.
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Could you elaborate on this distorting text? I haven't noticed anything on my HD7 with black background. Text looks wonderful on this screen and Windows Phone 7.
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just open the Settings page and scroll up and down slowly. Notice how the small subtext is a lot tougher to read while scrolling. That's what he is referring to I believe.
The text issue is called "ghosting" and is due to the low quality LCD panel on the HD7, which has a very low pixel response time.
It bugged me a lot on a black background. It's not noticeable on white.
Yep, as the other guys say. A better description than my original one is that the text has a "shimmer" when scrolling. It sort of fades out.
Rather than it being a panel issue, I think is might be a cleartype or font smoothing type of issue. Later on I'll do up a bitmap image with some text on it, and see if the problem occurs. If yes then it's a crap panel and if no then maybe fonts/cleartype/software and hope.
Another problem with the black background is you do see the backlight ever so slightly. Yes, I knew this, when I (now somewhat regretfully) chose it over the Omnia 7. Be good if Microsoft gave us more colour options, I'd probably use a very dark grey if available. My £99 ZTE Blade has far nicer blacks than my HD7 Sorry to rant. No need to flame. I think the HD7 will be the great WP7 hacker/modder device and this alone is enough for me.
I created a bitmap and emailed it to myself. The shimmering effect did occur when moving around. So it does seem like a screen or a screen driver problem, and nothing to do with fonts and the like.
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I was just wondering if a white background would consume more power than a black background for the theme settings.. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Here's your answer. Enjoy whatever color you want.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Google-Israel-Goes-Black-to-Support-Earth-Hour
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I created a bitmap and emailed it to myself. The shimmering effect did occur when moving around. So it does seem like a screen or a screen driver problem, and nothing to do with fonts and the like.
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I thought it was because grey on black has less contrast than grey on white. Could you do the same but instead of grey use white.
I have just again compared the scrolling of the settings page on my HD7 with my Trophy and there is a huge difference!!
On the Trophy's SLCD screen there is no ghosting and everything just flows and stays readable all the time.
Everything is just so much more vivid and vibrant on the Trophy !
It is indeed a shame that HTC have not used a SLCD screen for their flagship model
I've stayed with white I tried black for a bit but it did not look as contrasty as hoped.
Sorry tbk21, I can't try it as I sold the phone. Got loads of interest on Gumtree. HD7 is not the one for me. The speakers, the screen and the slow loading of sdcards. Sticking with my clunky Android for now. Maybe I'll be back for the second wave of WP7 phones.
I was able to change the notification's to black which is create but the apk for it makes the text grey and hard to see without maxing out the brightness. if anyone has an apk to change this color please let me know!
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I was able to change the notification's to black which is create but the apk for it makes the text grey and hard to see without maxing out the brightness. if anyone has an apk to change this color please let me know!
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AFAIK the only way to get white text with bark notification is to use COFFEE. I'm not much into custom theme's so I'll just stick with the grey text.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/themes/theme-c-o-f-f-e-e-t3678720
Xda has a good search engine !
Thousands before you asked the same question !
Sent from my Galaxy Note8 using XDA Labs
WestwardAmoeba said:
I was able to change the notification's to black which is create but the apk for it makes the text grey and hard to see without maxing out the brightness. if anyone has an apk to change this color please let me know!
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Use this app
Material Notofication shade
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treydev.mns
Looks good.
ey folks! , i recently changed to a oppo phone from a Samsung, somebody can tell me if there is a way to set everything in black like hex for Samsung devices? appreciate in advance!
you mean dark mode?
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you mean dark mode?
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haha but instead of greys background in the apps with the regular dark mode of the phone ,set everything black like substratum app pal!
In dark mode options you have 3 "dark" settings, the first seems what you want.
i guess you talking about this man, i know that English-speaking it's not my first lenguaje but hell i am talking about have everything with black background like settings NO Grey like my whatsapp or Google play as the photos, because i am not talking very well in English search hex for Samsung in the Google play or black theme substratum app i would like to set everything with black backgrounds all the apps, appreciate for the help but nobody know what is talking about just say turn on the default black mode of the phone, come on fellas i didn't made a user in this forum for somebody tell me that