Hi all, when using stock email application and viewing the list of emails, it is black on white text. I'd like to reverse it to white on black text. Anyone have any idea how to do that?
My phone is rooted if that makes a difference.
hi can anyone help w/ this?
I'd really like to know this as well. I saw that you can change the background color for messaging and the GMail background is white but can you do the same thing for the stock email client?
ochowie said:
I'd really like to know this as well. I saw that you can change the background color for messaging and the GMail background is white but can you do the same thing for the stock email client?
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hi everybody
is there any possibility to change background colors on stock email???????
black is not good enough...
thanks!!!!!!!!!
I would like to know too.
As for now. I have to change text color to gray. If not, some mail will came in with white background and white text.
Means, shown as blank. But they do have text. ^_^
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I'm wondering the same thing. I know for a fact that it started off White background/Black text. But since rooting the device, this color scheme has reversed. I'd like to get it back.
alextn99 said:
Hi all, when using stock email application and viewing the list of emails, it is black on white text. I'd like to reverse it to white on black text. Anyone have any idea how to do that?
My phone is rooted if that makes a difference.
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I had this same problem just yesterday. My S3 email app has always been white background with black text until I rooted my phone and installed a custom rom a few days ago, my email app was then black background with white text, very aggravating.
There are a few things you can do first that many suggest but for me these did absolutely nothing. This was to first see if there were any settings in the email app itself (which there isn't), then to try inverting your colors somewhere in your android settings (not a solution obviousely), and last was unchecking the option under power saving mode settings that allows the phone to change background color to save battery which actually worked for some, but not for me.
:good: I did fixed the problem however and I think this may help those who tried everthing else above. The problem is simple and lies in a short CSC line of code.
If your phone is rooted and have superuser you can use a program like "ES File Explorer" with superuser permission to browse the files on your phone. Simply navagate to the root of your phone then go to "system" folder, then to "csc" folder, then open the "feature.xml" file using a text editor with superuser access. (ROOT/SYSTEM/CSC/feature.xml)
Down close to the bottom of text in the "feature.xml" file you will see this:
<!-- Email -->
<CscFeature_Email_UseFixedBgColorAsWhite>false
</CscFeature_Email_UseFixedBgColorAsWhite>
If this is the case you found out why your email app is black. Simply change the text "false" to "true". Save the file, and your done.
I actually closed my email app, cleared cache, cleared data, then I edited the text and saved. So I would recomend doing that first but you would have to re enter your email account info so it may work without clearing the data of your email app.
Hope this helps those who tried other means like changing settings.
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A little thing but annoys me... When i get a notification from CNN for example the text is black and you cannot read it in the notification center... Is there a way to change the text color?
The system has global light and dark colors. If the app writer forces a specific color, like black, it can cause problems like that. If the app writer refers back to system colors, they will automatically present in a readable format. Unfortunately, in this case, its a poorly written app reference forcing black text, and your only choice to be able yo read it is to try a theme with a light color background in the notification shade. Serendipity 8 has a white background in there, so that would make it readable.
Long story short, no, you cannot change the text color.
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I get the same problem with Facebook notifications
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Pandora and Power AMP also do this. It really drives me nuts.
monkey28rb said:
A little thing but annoys me... When i get a notification from CNN for example the text is black and you cannot read it in the notification center... Is there a way to change the text color?
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That's an issues with the theming of certain roms. installing a third party launcher such as go launcher EX or one of the others may help.
Alucardis666 said:
That's an issues with the theming of certain roms. installing a third party launcher such as go launcher EX or one of the others may help.
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I don't think so. I have the stock ROM w/ root. It's an issue with the stock firmware
Anyone else using GO SMS with the Razr? If so the theme you have selected for the app, is your background being cut off below your list of text messages? I have tried several themes and compared side by side with my old Galaxy S phone and can not for the life of me figure out why its doing it. Here are a couple of pictures showing it.
I am really liking GO better than Handcent, but the breaking of the theme although minor is still driving me crazy since its destroys the theme lol.
Thanks for anything! Looking forward to trying out some Roms in the future!
Just tried adding a custom background to check whether the same would happen, and no I didn't notice any oddity. Displays full screen as normal
Thats odd....I've got two brand new Razr's. Only thing I've done was to root them so I could restore other apps. Both of them do it as you can see in the pics. Guess I'll try clearing data and uninstalling and re-install and see what happens lol.
I've cleared all data related to GO SMS and uninstalled both it and the theme. Reinstalled and still it will not show a background on the message list within GO SMS. If you scroll left or right within GO SMS to the Application Center or the GO Chat screens the background is there.
Not sure what else to really do here....
Recent updates still haven't cleared this up. Anyone else have this issue on their razr's??
Seems odd I have two of them that are doing this. Its not a big deal, just kinda disappointing since I've purchased some themes that now don't display right.
When looking at the screen where it lists different text messages mine looks the same as yours, theme color on the people and grey under but it's full screen theme color when I click on individual txt conversations.
Ford_Tech said:
When looking at the screen where it lists different text messages mine looks the same as yours, theme color on the people and grey under but it's full screen theme color when I click on individual txt conversations.
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Well I guess I'm glad I'm not the only one then. I've tried to email the developer but emails seem to go unanswered. Not sure what is different from this phone and my old Galaxy S, but it looks fine on my old phone.
Must just be the Razr, I checked my wifes LG Revo and her screen is theme background all the way down.
Ford_Tech said:
Must just be the Razr, I checked my wifes LG Revo and her screen is theme background all the way down.
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Maybe after some new roms or ICS comes out this will be changed. Just wonder if its something with GO SMS or something with the Blur on the Razr.
I have a black back background, calls, sms settings etc. I have seen people suggesting XML changes, but i really dont understand how to star that.
Is there anyway i can change this ?
Are you saying your wallpaper is missing?
If so, did you happen to set a very large image as your background?
Otherwise, disregard.
Black background
This is the black background i need to change
Maybe you can say a little more details? Your phone, ROM etc? what does it mean black, black background? Where, in whitch situation?
I`m sorry , i forgot to add the details.
Samsung Galaxy i9100, recently rooted and moved from Gingerbread to ICS. SO, iam now trying to customise one by one.
Some of the problems I face is, when the pop-up comes the background colour and the font colour is the same, and both black !
When i type an email, iam unable to do a copy, paste, selection of text etc., has anyone come across these ?
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I`m sorry , i forgot to add the details.
Samsung Galaxy i9100, recently rooted and moved from Gingerbread to ICS. SO, iam now trying to customise one by one.
Some of the problems I face is, when the pop-up comes the background colour and the font colour is the same, and both black !
When i type an email, iam unable to do a copy, paste, selection of text etc., has anyone come across these ?
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You need to decompile the apk and edit the XML files.
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Is there any way to change the email program to have white text on black background?
The rest of the phone is great with the dark look (also easy on the battery) but for some reason, the email program colours are inverted!
Can this be changed?
Not using the built in available options. There may be apps out there that will let you apply custom themes, but I haven't tried this
Thanks. I'm just trying to make the battery stretch - it's pretty bad at the moment even though I've not actually made any phone calls on it! I thought that this might be a good place to start
you can't write your email somewhere else like office note,and paste it to email.......
Perhaps you can with editing the registry values.
I am currently running a 4.0.4 rom based off of the at&t official 4.0.4. I recently compared phones with my friends samsung galaxy note 2 also running 4.0.4 but the core samsung version, and i love their messaging appearance so much better. its the same, but the background is black, and their speech bubbles are blue and yellow. mine is white with blue and grey bubbles.
anyway to download this version for my messaging app? i am otherwise happy with the way my stock one works.
anyone got anything at all??
Pawprints1986 said:
anyone got anything at all??
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maybe just grab the copy from your friends?
Pawprints1986 said:
anyone got anything at all??
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You should be able to change the appearance of the messaging app's speech bubbles and background, by going to the settings section in the messaging app and then under the display options section should be the options for changing background and speech bubble appearance.
shimp208 said:
You should be able to change the appearance of the messaging app's speech bubbles and background, by going to the settings section in the messaging app and then under the display options section should be the options for changing background and speech bubble appearance.
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I dont have any display settings within my messaging app at all besides font size. and the general display settings, nothing applies to messaging except the font style will change in messaging as well.
i dont think i can take it from my friends since its not rooted.
Pawprints1986 said:
I dont have any display settings within my messaging app at all besides font size. and the general display settings, nothing applies to messaging except the font style will change in messaging as well.
i dont think i can take it from my friends since its not rooted.
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What I would recommend doing is using ADB on your friends device and using the adb pull command pull the messaging application from his device to your computer, and then install it on your device. The command adb pull /system/app/AppName.apk should get you the app you want.