[APP] Nook Color Tweaks - Nook Color Themes and Apps

Want to try to overclock to 1.3ghz+?
Tired of the speaker not being loud enough?
Tired of hiss and noise with your high sensitivity headphones?​
What is this?
I have made a free app in the Android market to tweak a few things I've added to the Nook Color kernel. I hope to add more features to this app later. For now you can adjust:
*CPU speed per stepping. Allows you to overclock as much or as little as you want.
*CPU voltage control. Undervolt for better battery life and/or overvolt for better overclocking.
*Headphone analog gain
*External speaker analog gain
*DAC gain
*USB Host control(requires OC kernel 06/18/11+)
*U-Boot control(courtesy of FatTire)​
What can I do with this?
The CPU settings allow you to customize the CPU clock rate. With my overclock kernel the OMAP CPU has 5 OPPs(steppings) available. This app allows you to change the clock rate for each of those OPPs at runtime. Want to try to overclock to 1.3ghz? This app allows you to set the clock rate of your choosing.​
You can also use this app to help get rid of hiss and noise on your headphones. I have sensitive headphones and I find the hiss and noise to be downright abnoxious on the Nook Color. With B&N default settings, I can only turn up the "Android media" volume to 25-35% before its too loud. This means the volume difference between the noise floor and the audio is very small which makes the noise noticiable. To partially fix this issue you can either turn down the DAC volume in this app or turn down the headphone analog gain. I prefer to just turn down the headphone analog gain until I can increase the "Android media" volume to 85-90% for comfortable listening levels.
If the external speaker is too quiet you may need to increase the DAC gain. Note that this will also increase the headphone volume so you may need to subsequently decrease the headphone analog gain.​
Why use this app and not the other apps in the market?
The primary advantage to using this app versus other more generic apps you might find in the market is that this app makes low level changes in the driver to increase volume. Other apps must make these changes in software to be hardware agnostic. This leads to reduced audio quality versus hardware level changes.​
Note: This app requires kernel support. For audio settings you will need a newer 2.6.32 kernel found in CM7 Nightly 88+ or my(Dalingrin) overclock kernel for B&N Froyo 1.2 and CM7.
For CPU settings you will need a 2.6.32 overclocked kernel from 06/09/11 or later.​
Download:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dalingrin.nookcolortweaks​

I love it! It works great so far for external speaker, really helps when in the car with music and in a case watching netflix. Thanks again!

Awesome app Dal, just what I was looking for! Thanks for all your awesome work on the NC.
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I am running CM7 5252011 #87 nightly & this app notifies me that the kernel is not compatible & I need a later ver of CM7. What am I doing wrong. BTW thanks for this app. It is a big deal!!!!
Thanks,
kev

Just tried messing with the settings for the headphones, and wow, its so much clearer now! Awesome app, really makes the NC that much better.
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two good things happen with this apps:
first, it really reduces hiss in the headphones to levels i cannot hear
second, finally it has a link to donate to the person who contributed the most in making the nook the great device it is now

don_ernesto said:
two good things happen with this apps:
first, it really reduces hiss in the headphones to levels i cannot hear
second, finally it has a link to donate to the person who contributed the most in making the nook the great device it is now
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I think people should get the app just to donate to Dal
EDIT: Ah ha! A direct link. DONATE PEOPLE!
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=S8ZMTYR2J2JFu

ace7196 said:
I think people should get the app just to donate to Dal
EDIT: Ah ha! A direct link. DONATE PEOPLE!
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=S8ZMTYR2J2JFu
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Absolutely!
Thanks Ace.
. . .
Man volume fixes, and usb host coming in at the same time.. you know somthings are brewing when the devs go quite for a while.

I am actually having some problems with this app. I can increase the DAC a little bit, but if I even touch the external speakers option the sound goes out which requires a reboot. I am running nightly 87, with the oc kernal of 5/23. Any ideas? Great app by the way, I can tell from increasing the DAC that it helps a lot.

5 stars for you on the market
of course!

thefamousmoe said:
I am actually having some problems with this app. I can increase the DAC a little bit, but if I even touch the external speakers option the sound goes out which requires a reboot. I am running nightly 87, with the oc kernal of 5/23. Any ideas? Great app by the way, I can tell from increasing the DAC that it helps a lot.
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Lol. I thought I was the only one!
So, increase the DAC, then if you open the speaker or headset, the sliders go mute by default. So open it and just slide the sliders over
A bit confusing. I even did a restart because I thought I broke something...

FYI, CM7 nightly 87 does not have kernel support for this app yet. You will need to wait for the next nightly or you can use the OC kernel now.

ace7196 said:
Lol. I thought I was the only one!
So, increase the DAC, then if you open the speaker or headset, the sliders go mute by default. So open it and just slide the sliders over
A bit confusing. I even did a restart because I thought I broke something...
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I am probably missing something really simple, but for the life of me can't figure out how to fix this without a reboot.
I increased the dac slightly, then I increased the external analog gain slightly, and it stopped playing... or i thought it did.
I checked my speaker volume through the main settings and it was all the way up. I checked it in the cm7 settings and it was all the way up. Then i went back into this app and increased the dac about halfway and could hear what was playing, but barely. And when I increased the gain more it did get a bit louder, but not loud enough to listen to from more than a couple inches away.
Story for the trouble, i know I'm just missing something. Thanks for any help
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ansleyj44 said:
I am probably missing something really simple, but for the life of me can't figure out how to fix this without a reboot.
I increased the dac slightly, then I increased the external analog gain slightly, and it stopped playing... or i thought it did.
I checked my speaker volume through the main settings and it was all the way up. I checked it in the cm7 settings and it was all the way up. Then i went back into this app and increased the dac about halfway and could hear what was playing, but barely. And when I increased the gain more it did get a bit louder, but not loud enough to listen to from more than a couple inches away.
Story for the trouble, i know I'm just missing something. Thanks for any help
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This issue is fixed and the app is updated.
The problem was that the gain settings were defaulting to 0 on first run. This should not require a reboot to fix. All you need to do is turn up the speaker analog gain. I would turn it all the way up. You should have no problem hearing the speaker at this point and it will no longer default to 0 once you adjust the gain.

dalingrin said:
This issue is fixed and the app is updated.
The problem was that the gain settings were defaulting to 0 on first run. This should not require a reboot to fix. All you need to do is turn up the speaker analog gain. I would turn it all the way up. You should have no problem hearing the speaker at this point and it will no longer default to 0 once you adjust the gain.
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Perfect! Thanks, this is great!
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Excellent program, thanks for putting this together!

Nightly86 + 5/23 kernel = kernel not compatible

mr_fosi said:
Nightly86 + 5/23 kernel = kernel not compatible
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Same combo working fine for me...?

mr_fosi said:
Nightly86 + 5/23 kernel = kernel not compatible
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I would reflash the latest OC kernel.

yeah, im going to download this as soon as i get home tonight, this is awesome, thanks.
hay, dalingrin, do you think this will be merge with cm in the near future? this with cyanogens DSP Equalizer would be a great combo.

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[Q] Awful sound quality on any ICS Rom

Hello everyone. Just to let you know, I posted this on the i9000 forums as well as it seems to be non device specific.
Basically, any ICS ROM (I primarily use CM9 and MIUIv4) I use has really awful sound. CM7.2 sounds superb!
How do I describe the sound? Well, it's like there's a tiny thumping mono aural sound when you listen to your music. And when a song hits a high note, everything just goes muffled/crumpled.
Any ideas anyone?
(even on the i9000, with Voodoo sound, does the same effect)
I noticed the same as well with custom ics roms, it must be due to lack of some stuff left behind in gb roms or some compability problems. Hopefully it will be fixed with the official ics.
Cheers for that! I thought i was the only one!
Change the sound setting
The.Opethian said:
Cheers for that! I thought i was the only one!
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If you go to settings>sound in ics there is something called 'Audio effects'. Disable that for your wired earphones and internal speaker and sound would get back to the way it is in gingerbread.
cheers!
pankajxdx said:
If you go to settings>sound in ics there is something called 'Audio effects'. Disable that for your wired earphones and internal speaker and sound would get back to the way it is in gingerbread.
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Thank for your reply, but alas, I cannot find any setting like you said. There's the DSP effects, but changing any of the settings there (enable/disable) does not help in any way.

[Q] [MOD REQUEST] Lower Minimum Brightness/Volume

At night even at 0% brightness I find the phone too bright and would like a way to lower it. I also think the minimum volume level is too loud to be comfortable in a quiet room and would like a method to lower that as well. My last request is a technique to seperate ringtone and notification volume levels. If any of these are actually possible through MODs without hobbled fixes by apps in the Play Store, I would love it! I'm running a modded stock non-deodexed ROM with unlocked bootloader and ROOT. Please help and thanks!
techwynn said:
At night even at 0% brightness I find the phone too bright and would like a way to lower it. I also think the minimum volume level is too loud to be comfortable in a quiet room and would like a method to lower that as well. My last request is a technique to seperate ringtone and notification volume levels. If any of these are actually possible through MODs without hobbled fixes by apps in the Play Store, I would love it! I'm running a modded stock non-deodexed ROM with unlocked bootloader and ROOT. Please help and thanks!
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to lower the autobrightness values, everything is in /system/framework/framework-res.apk - res/values/arrays.xml
reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904691
andybones said:
to lower the autobrightness values, everything is in /system/framework/framework-res.apk - res/values/arrays.xml
reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904691
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Thanks for the reply! Will modifying these values enable the phone to go lower than the stock 0% brightness? I don't use auto brightness and keep my DNA at 0% brightness most of the time, only going higher in sunlight.
techwynn said:
At night even at 0% brightness I find the phone too bright and would like a way to lower it. I also think the minimum volume level is too loud to be comfortable in a quiet room and would like a method to lower that as well. My last request is a technique to seperate ringtone and notification volume levels. If any of these are actually possible through MODs without hobbled fixes by apps in the Play Store, I would love it! I'm running a modded stock non-deodexed ROM with unlocked bootloader and ROOT. Please help and thanks!
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I don't know if you'll consider this a "hobbled app" fix, but I've been using Power Toggles to substitute for my CM habit.
You can adjust notification and ringtone volumes from the notification drawer that way.
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androidxen said:
I don't know if you'll consider this a "hobbled app" fix, but I've been using Power Toggles to substitute for my CM habit.
You can adjust notification and ringtone volumes from the notification drawer that way.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it out and while it does have separate sliders for the two volumes, it does NOT actually work. The two volumes are still tied together in practice. After ICS I think I've read its linked at a system or kernel level and I was hoping someone might work on a fix to address this. Also, referring to "hobbled" app fixes, I saw an app that used a workaround by switching to a custom ringtone to adjust that volume separately but was hoping for a streamlined system built in mod so that I don't have any extraneous apps or screens to delve into to adjust settings. I like minimalistic and debloat anything I dont use. Thanks again for the feedback.
i agree 100% with the sound being too loud, which has been an issue since ICS on even the Rezound...so i think their whole upgrade of the newer OS's made the volume louder. the rezound, on lowest sound level, was 20%..that's ridiculous, it should be half that, or around like 5%. even changing volume steps never worked because there was no lower volume.

[Q] Is there a way to adjust the m7's vibration intensity?

I just switched to ARHD 31.0 from CM 10.2 (had terrible battery life, but I loved the light vibration notification) and I forgot how intense the vibration is on the Sense ROMs. I turn my phone on vibrate only at work to be respectful of others, but honestly this phone's vibration is just as loud as having a ringtone. It's way too much. Does anyone know of a way to reduce the vibration intensity? I've looked all over the forums and haven't found much info other than taking apart the phone....
I know that you can adjust the length and pattern of the vibration, but I really need a way to turn this down significantly. Thanks.
This isn't quite what you asked for, but is my solution to the same problem.
It seems like most of the volume associated with the vibrate function is due to being placed directly on a hard surface that will transmit and intensify the noise. If you place something that doesn't transmit the vibrations well it drastically reduces the volume while still letting you hear the phone when at your desk. I use a small carpet sample (about 8"x6") as a coaster on my desk and when I put my phone down I place it on that as well. It really cuts down on the noise, but not enough that you won't notice it when at your desk. If the carpet is in use, I just place my phone on a pad of post-its or a note pad, which doesn't work quite as well, but close enough for my situation.
Try using the Trickster mod from the playstore
Ktan188 said:
Try using the Trickster mod from the playstore
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This worked beautifully for me! Thanks Ktan! Had been searching google for an hour, then facepalmed myself for not even checking xda. Lol
Ktan188 said:
Try using the Trickster mod from the playstore
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I've been searching this for a while now. Tx for helping..
***Easier method***
If you want to get rid of vibration completely, but without putting your phone on silent, just use App Ops! You need something to launch the activity, there are App-ops launchers in Play Store or you could just use a Tasker task. Once you're in, just go through all your apps and untick the "Vibration" permission!
No root required!!!
<<< Please say thanks if I was of help!
Ktan188 said:
Try using the Trickster mod from the playstore
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many thanks, i was even considering turn to CM before seeing that

Lets mod the new 5.1 update

There are a lot of things I want/need to do with the new update. No one is really talking about it, I know a lot of people probably haven't even updated yet. But I figured it would be nice to have a thread where these things can be addressed and updated as we get them done.
Xposed - The big one. Currently gets stuck in bootloop with the Unofficial version of Xposed for 5.1. Bootloop is easily fixed by running xposed-uninstaller in TWRP.
Change Phone DPI - currently working - *Requires Root* Change it how you usually do. Edit build.prop, or use an app like RomToolBox. I find that 264 works well and looks good. @xordos has a comprehensive guide here.
Apps don't auto-start after reboot - Partially fixed - *Requires Root*use a program like TitaniumBackup to install the apps you want to start at boot as a "system app". This will allow them to start after a reboot, but you will need to reconfigure them after you convert them. Do this for apps like Viper, over-clocking apps, and Tasker. Credit to @Iguanadon
3rd Party Launchers not sticking after reboot - Fixed - *Requires Root* All you have to do is freeze the stock launcher. Use a program like TitaniumBackup, find "Huawei Home" and freeze it. Make sure you have Nova or another Launcher installed first!
Battery Percentage in status bar - Until xposed is working there is a neat little app that allows you to have an overlay on your battery icon like this. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done. The app can be found here. Might want to leave accessibility access off, because it pops up a window everytime you plug or unplug the charger. Doesn't seem to start at boot. Could be annoying to launch the app every time you reboot...depends how often you do it.
Lockscreen - Stock one is horrible compared to stock lollipop. It is kind of pretty, but it takes multiple swipes to unlock sometimes, it doesn't show any notifications, its basically wasted space. I would like the stock Lollipop lockscreen. Anyone have any ideas besides the not so great one in the Playstore? I would rather have an official system lockscreen. On jellybean you just had to freeze the Huawei lockscreen. Now if you freeze Huawei Keyguard, the there is no lockscreen at all. Just the screen turns on and you're on your launcher home-screen. I tried finding the lockscreen app on a cm12 device, but it looks like it's built into the systemUI. I am currently using CM Locker. It's pretty nice, has notifications, and doesn't seem to have a delay like most 3rd party lockscreens.
Multitask screen - Again, I would like the stock Lollipop one, also built into the SystemUI. Once we have xposed, there is a pretty nice app here. Then you can assign the multitask button on your nav bar to open that instead. Worked well for me on jellybean.
The carrier text in the status bar - Fixed - Disabled in settings>display>display carrier name (thanks @xordos)
Boost speaker volume and possibly fix audio cut out bug - somewhat fixed - *Requires root* It's really quiet for some reason, considerably quieter than it was on Jellybean....I have had success with Viper4. Make sure you have BusyBox installed, and run it it at least once to install the framework. Then launch Viper4 and do all the stuff it tells you....Install driver, disable LPA, etc. Enable speaker master switch, enable "eXtra-loud" setting at the bottom, and change "Effect Strength" to Extreme. I noticed about a 20-30% volume increase from this. Might need to be launched again after a reboot, or install as system app. As a bonus, this app/driver also seems to fix the terrible audio bug where audio cuts out, and the phone starts lagging. Only 99% sure, but it hasn't happened to me while its active.
Change boot animation - Pretty standard guide I made here. This post includes the stock Lollipop animation.
If anyone has another thing or two they want fixed, I can add it here. If I find any answers I will update as well.
Carrier text, this can be disabled in settings - Display.
xordos said:
Carrier text, this can be disabled in settings - Display.
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Nice, I was hoping something's would be easy.
Only launcher I have found with transparent navbar is Holo Launcher HD
Code:
[URL="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobint.hololauncher.hd"]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobint.hololauncher.hd[/URL]
The app "Browser" doesn't work at screen dpi 264 & 268. I've tried other higher values, however the soft menus at the bottom of the screen are not properly centered.
Is there a way to change app dpi without using xposed?
medwatt said:
The app "Browser" doesn't work at screen dpi 264 & 268. I've tried other higher values, however the soft menus at the bottom of the screen are not properly centered.
Is there a way to change app dpi without using xposed?
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Nope. You can either keep upping the whole phone DPI little by little, or maybe use a different browser. I haven't noticed any discrepancies yet in my apps with 264.
ArkAngel06 said:
Nope. You can either keep upping the whole phone DPI little by little, or maybe use a different browser. I haven't noticed any discrepancies yet in my apps with 264.
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Is the "browser" app launching in your phone?
medwatt said:
Is the "browser" app launching in your phone?
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I'm at 240 dpi and it doesn't open for me.
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tdamocles said:
I'm at 240 dpi and it doesn't open for me.
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It opens at dpi 270+ but the soft buttons at the buttom of the screen are not centered!
medwatt said:
Is the "browser" app launching in your phone?
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No, I just checked, it just crashes. I always freeze that app though.
Added a way to put the percentage in your battery icon in the status bar in the original post.
me 2, i never open the 'browser' till see above post, so I just tried it crash at my 240 dpi. Personally, I am using boat browser.
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Added a way to put the percentage in your battery icon in the status bar in the original post.
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Just in case you missed, the builtin percentage (settings - battery - show %) is there. But it is not inside the icon though.
xordos said:
Just in case you missed, the builtin percentage (settings - battery - show %) is there. But it is not inside the icon though.
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Yeah, thanks. A little too big and bulky for me.
Volume Increase
Any way to increase the volume steps so that the audio is louder? I have the volume all the way up and sometimes I can't really hear what I'm listening to unless I hold the speaker to my ear or wear headphones. I was using an xposed module to do this, but until xposed becomes available is there anything that works to increase the volume so its louder? The xposed mod I was using is called Volumesteps+ and can be found at http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.p1ngu1n.volumesteps . any help would be appreciated.
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Any way to increase the volume steps so that the audio is louder? I have the volume all the way up and sometimes I can't really hear what I'm listening to unless I hold the speaker to my ear or wear headphones. I was using an xposed module to do this, but until xposed becomes available is there anything that works to increase the volume so its louder? The xposed mod I was using is called Volumesteps+ and can be found at http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.p1ngu1n.volumesteps . any help would be appreciated.
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I'm not sure how to install it on our new update, but I was using Viper4Android before the update. It is capable of making the volume even louder/quieter.
ScoobSTi said:
I'm not sure how to install it on our new update, but I was using Viper4Android before the update. It is capable of making the volume even louder/quieter.
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I tried it when I had 4.3 and couldn't really tell any difference. I tried it again this morning with not much luck either. It just doesn't seem louder than what normal volume would be. I know its not going to be extremely loud. I just want something that I don't have to hold the phone to my ear to hear what they're saying. Also with viper it hasn't been setup for 5.1 yet only 5.0.
robertbarber said:
Any way to increase the volume steps so that the audio is louder? I have the volume all the way up and sometimes I can't really hear what I'm listening to unless I hold the speaker to my ear or wear headphones. I was using an xposed module to do this, but until xposed becomes available is there anything that works to increase the volume so its louder? The xposed mod I was using is called Volumesteps+ and can be found at http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.p1ngu1n.volumesteps . any help would be appreciated.
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robertbarber said:
I tried it when I had 4.3 and couldn't really tell any difference. I tried it again this morning with not much luck either. It just doesn't seem louder than what normal volume would be. I know its not going to be extremely loud. I just want something that I don't have to hold the phone to my ear to hear what they're saying. Also with viper it hasn't been setup for 5.1 yet only 5.0.
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On my nexus 5(which also had a horrible speaker), you could edit the mixer_paths.xml to boost the volume. I tried it on my Mate2, and couldn't really notice a difference.
After installing busybox, the viper4 driver, and disabling the LPA setting it recommends to, I can say Viper makes a noticeable difference for me. Probably about 25-30% louder.
Make sure you Enable the master switch at the top for speaker, and the "eXtra loud" setting at the bottom, and put Effect strength on Extreme.
Edit: Added my method to original post, with links.
Added boot animation guide.
ArcAngel, I have been trying mate 7 themes that were posted in the mate 7 xda forums. They are emui themes. They seem to work except that the fonts don't seem to load. In fact, I haven't been able to detect any font in the sdcard.
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ArcAngel, I have been trying mate 7 themes that were posted in the mate 7 xda forums. They are emui themes. They seem to work except that the fonts don't seem to load. In fact, I haven't been able to detect any font in the sdcard.
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Do you have a link? I only see one Theme over there for 3.0, but it does look pretty nice.
Also updated original post with all the 3rd party launchers I have found with transparent nav/status bars. There's a lot, but none of the ones I would really like to use. Here's looking at you Nova/Apex. :crying:

[FIX] How to get rid of white noise through mini-jack

I know many of you've experienced bad audio on Xperia Z5 Compact, as there's quite a lot of white noise when watching videos and on some music apps.
But I found a way to fix that problem . You do have to pay a few dollars for the app FauxSound if u want it to work though, and it's not 100% perfect, but makes the white noise inaudible in ALL apps for me. Note that there are some minor bugs, which I've described below.
What you'll need to do is install a kernel that supports FauxSound (for example Zach's Kernel Playground) and the FauxSound app from Google Play. In the app you want to tap Link Headphones Gain Controls, then drag the sliders down to -20, more or less depending on how much volume you need. Personally I'm running -30, cause why not.
NOTE: Some times while idleing the app will bug out and the sound will go up and down and be louder on one side etc. What you'll need to do then is simply open the FauxSound app and drag the "PowerAmp" slider up or down. Also, unless toggled, the app will reset when phone is rebooted. Also, when scrolling through the menus in the FauxSound app it might reset the sliders for some reason :/
I hope someone will find this helpful

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