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[Q] White or Black background?

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?

MantisBoy said:
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.

digime said:
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..

pr0ph said:
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.

prjkthack said:
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.

MantisBoy said:
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

pr0ph said:
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.

Help creating a pure white theme

My idea is to create a high contrast white theme, with pure white notification bar and pure white menu popup, and all pure black icons. (i got inspired by HerrKuk's screenshot)
The reason for this is that we're on an lcd device (and black doesn't get black).
When being on the amoled nexus one, there was a strong urge to get everything as black as possible, where as on the O2x, white would be the most battery friendly..
Stock android 2.2 is leaning towards that, but i just do not like the greyishness of stock.
Try SiMi clock with black text and white background and you'll get an idea of the final look that I'm after..
But, the framework needs black text on notification bar to get this theme on stock or paul's rom. I do not know how to do that.
I guess from vanilla rom it would be a walk in the park because it would only need the gray png's tweaked to white, but the handy power widget control for the notification area is not in vanilla android, and I cannot live without it.
Can anybody help me out by either porting power control to vanilla rom, or by changing the framework text on paul's rom to black?

That would be awesome
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Eddiemc said:
My idea is to create a high contrast white theme, with pure white notification bar and pure white menu popup, and all pure black icons. (i got inspired by HerrKuk's screenshot)
The reason for this is that we're on an lcd device (and black doesn't get black).
When being on the amoled nexus one, there was a strong urge to get everything as black as possible, where as on the O2x, white would be the most battery friendly..
Stock android 2.2 is leaning towards that, but i just do not like the greyishness of stock.
Try SiMi clock with black text and white background and you'll get an idea of the final look that I'm after..
But, the framework needs black text on notification bar to get this theme on stock or paul's rom. I do not know how to do that.
I guess from vanilla rom it would be a walk in the park because it would only need the gray png's tweaked to white, but the handy power widget control for the notification area is not in vanilla android, and I cannot live without it.
Can anybody help me out by either porting power control to vanilla rom, or by changing the framework text on paul's rom to black?
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lol, 18 months ago we were working out how to change the text to white to use with black notification bars on stock Android...
It can be done, you need to make changes in framework-res.apk xml and services.jar code.
Know how to use apktool (here and here) and smali/baksmali (here)? That's where you need to start.
Once you've got that I can show you where... you'll need these skills if you want to do deep theming anyway.

Sounds great!
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djmcnz said:
It can be done, you need to make changes in framework-res.apk xml and services.jar code.... you'll need these skills if you want to do deep theming anyway.
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Cheers mate, I'll look into it and see if I can get my head around it..
I would like those skills, I just need the time to learn them..
Since I'm impatient I will do up an simple version based off the vanilla rom to start with, and then see if I can do the xml and jar edits for the black bar later

[Q] All Black Everything

So i have been trying to get a black background that is truly black.
everything i have tried has left a slight hue on the background. back 2 black is not supported or i would have tried that.
is there any way to get background to remain off completely and only light the pixels for the icons, clock, notification etc etc. i notice the info bar at the top is darker than my black background and no matter what i cant get the background to go completely black.
my reasoning is if i make the icons into line art, and keep as much of the screen off wherever i can i can stretch battery life even further. it worked wonders on my gs2. But having a slightly glowing background ruins all that.

I'm not sure whether it's supported, but you can try making a monochrome bitmap-file (.bmp) in MsPaint. At least you are sure this way that the black is truly black.
Have you tried using different launchers? Are you sure the hue is not just your icons giving some 'bleeding'?

thanks, i will give that a try.
its the same with go launcher and touchwiz. its actually magnified on the lockscreen showing lots of banding.

Try this pic. I use it on mine and looks black
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bundles said:
thanks, i will give that a try.
its the same with go launcher and touchwiz. its actually magnified on the lockscreen showing lots of banding.
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My first Note did this so I sent it back. My new one does not do it.

still no luck, apps with black backgrounds look fine.
i tried an all black bitmap and that didnt work either.
is there any way to turn background off and just leave it blank? would that give me a pure black background?
like i said i dont think its a hardware problem since the app backgrounds look deep black unlike the wallpaper. i did see something about the note only being 16 bit and that was causing weird display issues due to scaling or something, blah blah.

its using 24bits

thats right, the note is 24 bit and the os operates in 16 bit currently, right? either way i need to find a way to fix it.

I used a plain black GIF. Works fine for the home screen background, but on lock screen it has barely noticeable dark gray lines in it until you touch it and the unlock symbol appears.

here is the one i made
this black is one color 24 bit png on my note it is completely black at any brightness. let me know if it works. 800 x 1280 black correct dpi blackground
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?gcufvpft3yawf6p

or download "no wallpaper" from the market - simple app that just adds a wallpaper that is totally black. Works a treat.

Try an app called COLOURS by Tim Clark

[OnePlus 5] [ROOT] Save Power Using Substratum {AMOLED DISPLAY}

Guys Almost Everyone of You Know That Our Lovely OnePlus 5 Uses AMOLED Display. But Do You Know How AMOLED Display Works? Let Me Explain :
LCDs like the ones you find on the*LG G3*or*HTC One (M8)*produces light with an LED backlight. The light shines through the pixels and into your eyeballs. In this case, a black pixel is simply one in which the pixel has turned opaque—it blocks all the light streaming in from the backlight. The backlight is still on just the same.
An AMOLED doesn't have a backlight at all. Instead, each little sub-pixel is like a tiny red, blue, or green colored light. If the screen is instructed to display black, it doesn't need to block any light, it simply doesn't light up any of the little colored sub-pixels.
So, If U See A Part of Screen That Is Showing Pure Black Colour, It Means It Isn't Showing Any Colour Resulting In The Best Black You Can Experience.
So, Now How To Save Power Using This?
First of All You Can Use The Stock Theme Option Inside Display Settings To Set The Theme To Dark. It'll Save Power During Stock Apps Screen.
In Third Party Apps, Use Substratum Theme Engine With Swift Black Theme (Most Preferred For Pure Black)
Here is Full Guide: (For Rooted Users Only)
1. Download Substratum Theme Engine (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.substratum)
2. Download Swift Black Theme (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brit.swiftblack.layers)
3. Run Substratum, Go To Swift Black Tab & Choose OOS 4 From The Top List.
4. Select Third Party Apps Only (Chrome, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Gmail, Drive, etc)
WARNING : I Don't Recommend Theming System Apps Like Settings, SystemUI Because They're Already Dark Themed, But You Can Always Try On Your Own Risk, If Stuck On Bootloop, Just Flash Rescue.zip Inside Substratum Folder In Main Directory
5. Click On Install Overlays Button And Wait For It To Complete.
6. Reboot
Now Enjoy The Extra Juice Saved By AMOLED Display.

Reserved

Did you know the difference between Swift black and Swift dark? Because i already own it. Is there much difference in darkness?

Grey vs Black?
Kallmeidroppe said:
Did you know the difference between Swift black and Swift dark? Because i already own it. Is there much difference in darkness?
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I'm pretty sure Swift Dark is grey as opposed to Swift Black being true black.

Swift Black does not work properly on OnePlus 5. For example Youtube when trying to play playlist it crashes. Also some apps crash when swift black is turned on. So I just removed it.

That Sounds right. I also looked again in PlayStore.... So i think i buy also the dark one.

Kallmeidroppe said:
That Sounds right. I also looked again in PlayStore.... So i think i buy also the dark one.
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Doesn't that defeat the purpose because swift dark isn't actually black?

Sorry i meant the black one. The dark i already own.

alukarulz said:
Swift Black does not work properly on OnePlus 5. For example Youtube when trying to play playlist it crashes. Also some apps crash when swift black is turned on. So I just removed it.
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Playlist Working Properly, Not A Single Crash Since Yesterday With Any App

Kallmeidroppe said:
Did you know the difference between Swift black and Swift dark? Because i already own it. Is there much difference in darkness?
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Dark Is Grey/Gray & Black is True Black (The One Which Works On AMOLED).

Krsambhav16 said:
Playlist Working Properly, Not A Single Crash Since Yesterday With Any App
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Nice! What's the name of that font and how can I install it?

ddaharu said:
Nice! What's the name of that font and how can I install it?
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StRyde Font Applied Via iFont App From Play Store Using Root.

Krsambhav16 said:
StRyde Font Applied Via iFont App From Play Store Using Root.
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Thanks mate!

This was working fine but not anymore

Screen Off Memo Yellow Ink vs White Ink

Hey my fellow Note9ners,
I realized that if we use the yellow ink for screen off memo and save it, inside samsung notes the white background makes the yellow memo super hard to view.
But if we use white ink for screen off memo, the memo auto invert to black color when inside samsung notes.
I think this makes yellow ink looks like a gimmick
Is there a way to make samsung notes in black background as default?

Not that I've found.
I personally don't care for the yellow anyways, would still love to trade the ugly pen for a black or silver one, but at first I tried to do like you asked and make it so Notes had a black background when saved from screen off memo. No luck. So I just use the white pen color, no biggie since this is how it worked in the past and I usually just jot my note real quick and turn the phone back off.
Think Samsung would have figured this out themselves while making the phone since they went through the trouble of having the pen color match the writing.

try1231 said:
Hey my fellow Note9ners,
I realized that if we use the yellow ink for screen off memo and save it, inside samsung notes the white background makes the yellow memo super hard to view.
But if we use white ink for screen off memo, the memo auto invert to black color when inside samsung notes.
I think this makes yellow ink looks like a gimmick
Is there a way to make samsung notes in black background as default?
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Um... but you can also set Notes to save Off Screen notes in black "ink" instead of yellow. So you write yellow on the screen, but it saves as black.

RGardner said:
Um... but you can also set Notes to save Off Screen notes in black "ink" instead of yellow. So you write yellow on the screen, but it saves as black.
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Where do you set that? I've looked in Notes and the S Pen settings, but can't find it.

mojoehand said:
Where do you set that? I've looked in Notes and the S Pen settings, but can't find it.
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I don't have that option. I have the T-Mo phone, and I am on the latest update.

mojoehand said:
I don't have that option. I have the T-Mo phone, and I am on the latest update.
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I have it. One of the first things I changed.

mojoehand said:
I don't have that option. I have the T-Mo phone, and I am on the latest update.
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As you can see above, the option is there for someone else on t-mobile.
Im on Verizon, btw
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OK, it's a Duh! If you turn off the signature color in the S Pen settings, the option to save in black disappears in the Samsung Note settings.

Settings/advanced features/s pen/screen off memo.

You can always make it blue!

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This solves my question! At least I can use yellow ink during screen off, and the written notes still visible in Samsung Notes.
Thanks a lot!!

I grabbed the purple one cause I didn't like the clashing colors of the blue and yellow.
The lavender purple color is easy to read on the white memos.
However, my daughter loves the fact that my phone has a drawing utensil and we both wish Samsung just added a color picker and thickness and other brushes.