Hi friends,
I regularly check the new apps & threads to upgrade my HTC HD2. Im very fond of black background in sms text & other settings with white text. Can anybody help me in how to do it by tweaks or by an application. Attaching screen shot for everyones reference.
Regards.
Mahesh
i swear i have seen a black version...but can't locate it right now.
if you want to torture yourself (which i have many times) you can start digging:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773076
if you find the right files, i am more than willing to edit them for you...just not too interested in digging around. if i find the thread i am thinking about i will post it here.
cheers and good luck.
grrr pesky thanks button....
anyway, I might have an idea of where to find the files but how can the text color be changed?
ha. yeah. text color. have no clue. in some file i probably have no idea how to edit. hmm.
Please try something great. Im really in need for the black background. Guys.........Help me OUT.
jsmccabe78 said:
i swear i have seen a black version...but can't locate it right now.
if you want to torture yourself (which i have many times) you can start digging:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773076
if you find the right files, i am more than willing to edit them for you...just not too interested in digging around. if i find the thread i am thinking about i will post it here.
cheers and good luck.
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Hello,
Have u found something for me??
I once installed HD2 Mini's black theme and it has black back ground for everything, sorry i dont have the link or file now, you can search it and try.
Thanks
why dont you try cht 2.0 and widget for sms (with color text and background)
Use CHT2.0
Hello all, I would like to ask a question on dialer streakdroid 1.9. are
managed to make my Contacts.apk transparent by simply adding
theme.wallpaper styles.xml in the background of my dialer but continues to be increasingly
gray. how can I do to make it transparent?. thanks
custom dialer background
Ive been searching everywhere building and testing contacts.apk, Can someone with some more code knowledge have a peek at this please?
Ive dug through all the .xml's, the Manifest .xml, the .smali (even though I dont understand very much at all), there are only a few .png's the rest are .9.png, so Im sure the grey comes from code. in colors .xml there are a couple which match this dark gray perfectly, I changed those to black as well as styles Theme to Theme.Black, and Theme.Wallpaper(which will change the other 3 backgrounds but not dialer), ive tried changing background only in styles, no luck.
I saw on Dell website where it says Streak has Customized Dialer, which obviously we know, but I think ours is a unique situation
chrisrotolo said:
Ive been searching everywhere building and testing contacts.apk, Can someone with some more code knowledge have a peek at this please?
Ive dug through all the .xml's, the Manifest .xml, the .smali (even though I dont understand very much at all), there are only a few .png's the rest are .9.png, so Im sure the grey comes from code. in colors .xml there are a couple which match this dark gray perfectly, I changed those to black as well as styles Theme to Theme.Black, and Theme.Wallpaper(which will change the other 3 backgrounds but not dialer), ive tried changing background only in styles, no luck.
I saw on Dell website where it says Streak has Customized Dialer, which obviously we know, but I think ours is a unique situation
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"Customized" is not a word I'd choose to use when describing the horrible dialer. Hope someday we can improve it. I really think the dialer is the worst part of the UI.
if I find it I will gladly make a guide to theme it.
I may even send Dell developer an Email... oh yeah too late not supported..
chrisrotolo said:
if I find it I will gladly make a guide to theme it.
I may even send Dell developer an Email... oh yeah too late not supported..
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+1
I think the EOL is only USA. But I don't think the dell dev team cares too much about us
Brainstorming: Reference for anyone else trying to find this..
the dialer background is not a .png, most images are .9's I pretty sure the background is not a .9.png. There is only one .png close to the color and Ive already tried changing that one.
It could be a color in color.xml, they could have coded it as android:color, but if they did that it would likely be a solid color such as black or transparent, and would have to rely on framework-res. More than likely they would have made their own color in colors.xml, since there is only a dozen or so, at least 2 of which are almost identical greys, I have tried changing these colors to black with no luck.
Ive tried changing almost every .xml refernce I could find to a drawable window/background, etc. to android:color"black" , Theme.Black or 000000,
It could be in .smali, Is where I will dig next, I have tried checking a few of the codes I found in there, they seem to be based on a deep purple?
this is just reference use to help others who may search, wish me luck!!
spelling error found DialtactsActivity.smali line 205 says: const-string v3, "Dailtacts" ,yeah wonder if this why dialtacts theme doesnt theme completly.
some progress!
I fixed the spelling mistake in DialtactsActivity.smali, though i dont /think/ this is what we see. I did change call_background.xml and secondary_call background.xml all parameters to android:color/black, I will keep experimenting, funny how in vertical only the right side of keypad is black,
Once we find the right string , we should then be able to create a custom style instead of just a solid color and use a custom background.png
edit: FOUND IT!, cant post screenie, out right now, should release something later and info. Sit tight everyone.
found it
right where its "should" be, contacts\res\layout-long-finger and res\layout-long-land-finger. the first is portrait, second is landscape. the file for both is twelve_key_dialer.xml. The first line:
LinearLayout androidrientation="vertical" android:id="@id/top" android:background="#ff000000"
just change the android:background="ffRRGGBB" to whatever 6 digit RGB/hex value you desire.
working on this now to call out a custom.png will likely get scaled like cr4p, but will give it a go.
If you dont have any .9.png errors decompiling, then you can recompile and flash it straight away.
If you use my phone&contacts theme, it wont compile because some of my .9.pngs must not be patched. So use stock to change, then after compiling extract the new .apk. If youre using my theme or whatever, then change my contacts.apk to contacts.zip, open my contacts.zip as an archive with 7zip, copy the 2 twelve_key_dialer.xml's, and close. Then in your stock framework where you changed the .xml's go to resources.arsc and right click use 7zip to add to archive... browse and select your contacts.zip with new .xml's. Its important that archive method is .zip and compression must be set to store. make sure update mode is: add and replace files. Then rename back to contacts.apk and place in your update.zip and flash!
I plan on making a guide and probably a stock framework with a custom.png for everyone to use.
i rooted my note and installed saurom custom rom, and i love it. there's just one problem...
i'm trying to find out how to change the background of my notification area with this rom. i love the rom, but can't read news flashes when it's black text on the dark background of the notification area.
i've read the forums looking for answers, and tried using ninjamorph to modify the png's in the framework-res, but they didn't seem to take with this rom. after rebooting the phone, it still looks the same.
any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
hey everyone...
figured out how to edit the notification area.
used ninjamorph to edit system/framework/framework-res.apk
once this was opened, i found the two images i needed to edit in res/drawable-xhdpi
the entries were:
status_bar_item_app_background_normal.9.png
status_bar_item_background_normal.9.png
long press on each of these and choose edit. pick a high contrast color so that white and black text can be easily read. (i chose a bright blue)
thanks for all the help...
Hi guys.
I'm working on my Theme called Superwolf_Style for Goatrip ROM 4.5.4 in the moment.
It's nearly finished, but I have one big problem.
I've changed the input buttons to a deep glossy blue and when pressed a lighter glossy blue.
Now we can't find every XML-files where the code for textcolor is defined.
We could only change some button textcolors, there are the buttons for PIN-input and some buttons for example in the settings (USB-connection). These colors we where able to change unpressed white and pressed black.
But now is the problem when I open for example ES explorer or other apps, there are coming up the same blue themed buttons from my theme, but with a wrong textcolor (black/black).
Therefore I have to find the XML where I can change the black color for unpressed button, because it's difficult to read.
Has anybody an idea where I can find this?
No problem, I can wait.
Please give me a hint where I can find textcolors in XML's of framework-res.apk when someone finds time for it.
Or is there another XML in another APK perhaps?
Bumping in a short time space is against the rules .
jje
Thanks for NO help.
I've changed everything now in another way.
If anyone reads this you can close this thread or not, it's your decision.
I have created some colored themes for Empty Galaxy ROM. You can see them here.
The main problem I have is when I try to change the color of the pop-up/toast notifications. Although I am only changing the colors of the png files, the end result is completely wrong. See here.
This page explains how to do what I want by editing/creating a xml file...but I just don't understand it, or where to even find and place the xml file. I know just enough to be dangerous
If anyone can help explain this to me, it'd be much appreciated.
Thanks,