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Is it hypothetically possible for something (a ROM, or something more simple) to force the Vibrant to run in monochrome? With absolutely no colors?
Yeah I think it would be possible. CyanogenMod has a feature to only render certain colors (or something to that effect) for potential battery savings.
Is that why you were asking? Or is there another reason you would use this?
I know there use to be a ROM that was all B&W.. It was one of the earilier versions of Loki..
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I second this motion, I love the blackout theme for bionix but it would be way better to have a comepletely black and white phone with no colored icons
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Yeah I think it would be possible. CyanogenMod has a feature to only render certain colors (or something to that effect) for potential battery savings.
Is that why you were asking? Or is there another reason you would use this?
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Battery savings would be nice, but I'm more in agreement with what streeghtrider nick said.. at times I just feel like the colors are too much and want to revert to something that is simpler (and, personally, classier).
Washed-out, or grayed, tones would be even nicer.
I did a search for "cyanogen mod render color" and some interesting/promising links showed up. I'll look into them more and post an update.. hopefully.
I was just curious, because, yeah as a theme it would be great. For media consumption (anything more than reading an e-book), not so much. There are more than a few black and white themes here. You can also download icon packs to complete the look.
But to only render in black and white, watching movies/videos wouldnt be too great. Not to mention the number of apps/games that use color cues as part of the UI.
Thankfully, with CM's implementation, these can be toggled without rebooting, with an app or widget on your homescreen. If you really want to give it a go, theres a CM beta in the development section. Keep in mind, the GPS is currently broken. So if you're like me, and use GPS all the time, you'll want to stay away.
Are there any themes or other way to make Chrome browser background a dark color? Even just a little bit. I've perused this, and other, forums looking for a way to make the main "results" page of Chrome toned down. I use dark themes because they are easy on the eyes, and would like the same thing in Chrome.*
I have a rooted device with a custom ROM and would even be willing to change ROMs to make this happen.*
Thanks much in advance
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Well, I have no experience with chrome but in case addons are workin with the mobile version, I would search for night mode. A quick google search brought me to night mode pro. Maybe thats something you are looking for. Otherwise there are other browsers which support night mode like RBrowser. I use this one and it's pretty great. The only downside is that it does not support multiwindow mode.
Take a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283828
I've used a few of their blacked out apps without any problems.
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Well, I have no experience with chrome but in case addons are workin with the mobile version, I would search for night mode. A quick google search brought me to night mode pro. Maybe thats something you are looking for. Otherwise there are other browsers which support night mode like RBrowser. I use this one and it's pretty great. The only downside is that it does not support multiwindow mode.
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Thanks. I'll check it out.
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nutley said:
Take a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283828
I've used a few of their blacked out apps without any problems.
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Yeah, I just happened to have installed one of their themes and it, alas, did not do the trick for Chrome. I'll keep looking.
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OberstGrausam said:
Well, I have no experience with chrome but in case addons are workin with the mobile version, I would search for night mode. A quick google search brought me to night mode pro. Maybe thats something you are looking for. Otherwise there are other browsers which support night mode like RBrowser. I use this one and it's pretty great. The only downside is that it does not support multiwindow mode.
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Chrome for android does not, and never will, support extensions.
The RBrowser night mode works for me! I'll see if the rest of it does.
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I know this is kind of a necro post, but here is my suggestion. Use color changer pro with the reversed BW setting. It will make the white background of most webpages black. The app is developed by the same person that made Galactic Night, an old color changing app that I used in the Note 2 days, but it only worked with certain older Samsung devices. This app works with everything (that I've tested.) You can create widgets on your home screen to change to certain colors, and you can have a notification that allows you to change between up to 6 predefined color setups. Also good if you need an all red screen to preserve your night fishing. I use that when night fishing. The pro version is a paid app, however you can get a free one with a 5 day pro feature trial. It also requires root. Second link is a photo of the app in action. Can't SS because it is a filter.
Links:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.omegacentauri.red_pro
https://goo.gl/photos/Z3fzWQ5sRy2cPZWJ8
So the new Pixel 3 Live wallpapers are out. Everything about the phone is out so this is not a surprise anymore. What I find interesting is that the new wallpapers make us of the AOD too. particularly the Pixie wallpaper has a tiny person on AOD for some time.
Apparently it requires Android P upgrade and the Pixel Wallpapers app installed for this apk to work correctly. Works without issues on my P2XL with Pie not rooted.
Link to article:
https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/google-pixel-3/
I was skeptical but this really does work, the live wallpapers show on AoD for a short time before going to just clock. Very nice find.
How safe is that APK you reckon?
The Pixel 3 LWPs seem to be working on my unrooted Pixel 2XL, but don't show the cool screen unlock animations that they show on my OnePlus 6 (running official Pie). The wallpapers all seem to work fine otherwise, but rarely with the unlocking animations on the Pixel - at least my device that is.
If it's not clear what I mean, basically on the OP6, these Pixel 3 LWPs each perform a different animation when I unlock the phone. All the 'drop in the ocean's WPs briefly shift from dark to light with a kinda electric wave effect; the bubble up WPs shift right to left from dark to light and the globe on the screen zooms out. The Bloom WPs also begin dark, followed by points of light glowing in thedark on the tips of each of the 'spikes' before the whole screen shifts to its light shade. On my Pixel 2XL, I simply go straight to the full LWP nearly event time I unlock it. Am I the only one with this issue? If not, I'm guessing the OP6's faster unlock may be what allows it to show the unlock animations.
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How safe is that APK you reckon?
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I cannot absolutely guarantee the safety, I can only say that I have not experienced anything negative since I installed this.
But I doubt there would be anything malicious about this.
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How safe is that APK you reckon?
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The Pixel 3 LWPs seem to be working on my unrooted Pixel 2XL, but don't show the cool screen unlock animations that they show on my OnePlus 6 (running official Pie). The wallpapers all seem to work fine otherwise, but rarely with the unlocking animations on the Pixel - at least my device that is.
If it's not clear what I mean, basically on the OP6, these Pixel 3 LWPs each perform a different animation when I unlock the phone. All the 'drop in the ocean's WPs briefly shift from dark to light with a kinda electric wave effect; the bubble up WPs shift right to left from dark to light and the globe on the screen zooms out. The Bloom WPs also begin dark, followed by points of light glowing in thedark on the tips of each of the 'spikes' before the whole screen shifts to its light shade. On my Pixel 2XL, I simply go straight to the full LWP nearly event time I unlock it. Am I the only one with this issue? If not, I'm guessing the OP6's faster unlock may be what allows it to show the unlock animations.
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Wow that sounds quite interesting. I have observed that the Groove wallpaper does not react to music too on the P2XL.
Although I have noticed that the wallpapers behave differently if the phone is charging. You can see the wallpapers moving on the AOD when plugged in and just static when not charging.
Also the SF and NY wallpapers have a cool light effect on the AOD when charging!
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I cannot absolutely guarantee the safety, I can only say that I have not experienced anything negative since I installed this.
But I doubt there would be anything malicious about this.
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Hum, OK, I was wondering if someone ever heard of that website before this leak.
I have installed the live wallpapers and they work fine with the screen on. But the big issue that the majority of them flicker when in AoD, it is specially noticeable with the Earth, Moon and New Horizons wallpapers. I don't see the unlock animations either.
If we downloaded the apk and aren't yet getting the full notifications, is it likely they'll be fully updated ota at some point - or is that likely to happen only with the preloaded Pixel 3?
What is the best version to install on the pixel 2xls?
The official APK seems to flicker and does not have the animations.
One of the ports or do they all have the same issues?
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What is the best version to install on the pixel 2xls?
The official APK seems to flicker and does not have the animations.
One of the ports or do they all have the same issues?
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Any news on this?
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Any news on this?
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I did not try the OP6 version yet. But for on P2XL the official APK seems to not cause flicker at least for the moonshot wallpaper.
Also the animations are moody as in they work sometimes but not always.
I would suggest go for the official apk as it is most likely to cause least issues elsewhere in the system.
It only flicker's when always display is ON for the PIXEL 2 XL you need to turn it off and switch to tap to wake and or lift to wake and you won't have those flickering issues
It looks like November security patch finally fixed flickering! I don't remember what exactly version of the app I'm using, but it works.
And still no animation.
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freekiller201020 said:
It looks like November security patch finally fixed flickering! I don't remember what exactly version of the app I'm using, but it works.
And still no animation.
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Holy crap, I'm wrong. It started flickering again. But I'm sure that the first time I've tried the empire State building today morning it wasn't flickering!
It doesn't look like these threat is interested for everyone but still looking forward for something to find a proper solution for animation and note freaking Life wallpaper...
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Holy crap, I'm wrong. It started flickering again. But I'm sure that the first time I've tried the empire State building today morning it wasn't flickering!
It doesn't look like these threat is interested for everyone but still looking forward for something to find a proper solution for animation and note freaking Life wallpaper...
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I think it's likely the screen brightness- the flickering is easier to reproduce in dark.
When we disable the always on display, the animation works amazingly well and it is quite pleasant, on the other hand, if the ambient display is on, it starts flickering.
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I did not try the OP6 version yet. But for on P2XL the official APK seems to not cause flicker at least for the moonshot wallpaper.
Also the animations are moody as in they work sometimes but not always.
I would suggest go for the official apk as it is most likely to cause least issues elsewhere in the system.
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Where can I get the official apk?
You can activate it with the nova launcher activities, the path is settings / optimizer video. As standard it does not appear in the Samsung soft, also once you have achieved the shortcut you must activate it. All multimedia apps appear, Netflix, HBO, Amazon prime video, Mx player, Samsung video and some more like Youtube, Vanced etc. The improvement is remarkable, now it is seen with very rich colors, more contrast and brightness, It also corrects the excess of overexposed images that in my opinion detracted from the screen, now it is incredible to watch series and movies! For those of you who don't use nova launcher, I suppose that with an app like create shortcurts from the playstore it will also be possible to get it. Yeahhhhhh !!!!!
Thanks for this.
The name for this toggle is: hdreffectsettingsactivity
After using it takes you to your system settings with an on/off toggle. For unknown reason Samsung removed it from device settings, so we have to fiddle with 3rd party tools to reenable it. Please fix Samsung.
For whats its worth i think Mx player has this enabled by default everytime you watch hdr 10bit encoded video. Not 100% correct but when watching with mx player that nice and sharp image is still there.
Got the latest nova launcher(7)... don't see anything like this under settings, any thoughts, thanks
louvass said:
Got the latest nova launcher(7)... don't see anything like this under settings, any thoughts, thanks
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You must access the widgets section and select the nova launcher activity, then you will see that another section opens with all your apps and also those of the system, go to settings and follow the instructions of my first message
Thanks I found it though I don't see much of a difference. Now if I Uninstall nova does this option stick or does nova need to be running, thanks again
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Thanks I found it though I don't see much of a difference. Now if I Uninstall nova does this option stick or does nova need to be running, thanks again
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Once you activate it you can delete nova launcher if you want, it will be fixed or it should. I do notice a clear improvement, the screen has more contrast and the colors are much more intense with the naked eye. Now we see 100% of what our amoled can give. If you do not perceive a change it is strange. My tablet is still on android 9 ... yours on android 10? Maybe that's the reason!
I'm on 10 but yes you're right I do see some improvement, it doesn't effect all apps only a few. Thanks again for the tip.
Thanks, a real improvement !
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Thanks, a real improvement !
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Yes
This method also works for Action Launcher
im having hard time finding the option im on android 10 btw.
craig198 said:
im having hard time finding the option im on android 10 btw.
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Me too. Nova and Action launcher does not show me the option. Running Lineage 18.1 Android 11.
I enabled it and tested it. It works by crancing up your screen brightness up a really really lot.
You should worry about screen burn in since the tablet is oled.
Hence I disabled it again.
If you open for example youtube app with this enabled the only thing it seems to do is putting whole screen including comment section into maximum brightness.
I understand Samsung why they don't give this option available to customers not understanding oled burn in.
I recommend you to disable it. In the future you might think back if you got burnin oled display.
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I enabled it and tested it. It works by crancing up your screen brightness up a really really lot.
You should worry about screen burn in since the tablet is oled.
Hence I disabled it again.
If you open for example youtube app with this enabled the only thing it seems to do is putting whole screen including comment section into maximum brightness.
I understand Samsung why they don't give this option available to customers not understanding oled burn in.
I recommend you to disable it. In the future you might think back if you got burnin oled display.
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Excuse me, but I must be very clear, you don't know what you're talking about. The video optimizer in our Tab S 5e is hidden in the software because Samsung did it thinking of offering us a worse screen and thus favor the Amoled Tab S 7+. Listening to you is stepping on eggs in a chicken coop xD. Activate the optimizer and enjoy the excellent amoled and calm screen, you will not get burned by using the optimizer (all the tabs have it, their phones also) By the way, my Tab S 8.4 from 2014 still has the screen in perfect condition review using high brightness as I like to watch series or movies ...
I found this option while running Android 10 but now since the 11 update, I can't find this option in action launcher or nova launcher... what am I missing? Thanks
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I found this option while running Android 10 but now since the 11 update, I can't find this option in action launcher or nova launcher... what am I missing? Thanks
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Its only for stock rom
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Its only for stock rom
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I'm on stock android 11.
Stock Android 11 here, I found the "hdreffectsettingsactivity" using this Nova Launcher method. Problem is that there isn't any buttons to toggle or options to select. It just displays a sentence about using Normal Screen brightness or something. Is this a dead end for Android 11? I could care less about 11. I was watching a series on Netflix with a lot of night/dark scenes and those scenes were straight up unwatchable.
(for anyone looking for this, it wasn't under "Optimizer Video," it was further down listed as one of the "Settings," read the fine print.)
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Stock Android 11 here, I found the "hdreffectsettingsactivity" using this Nova Launcher method. Problem is that there isn't any buttons to toggle or options to select. It just displays a sentence about using Normal Screen brightness or something. Is this a dead end for Android 11? I could care less about 11. I was watching a series on Netflix with a lot of night/dark scenes and those scenes were straight up unwatchable.
(for anyone looking for this, it wasn't under "Optimizer Video," it was further down listed as one of the "Settings," read the fine print.)
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Can you try YouTube app, search at YouTube for:
Real 4K HDR Dolby Test ultrahd movie for 4k
oled tv
Then when it starts playing go full screen. Does HDR automatically turn on?
It does on my galaxy s8 but only in full screen. The user interface is very bright too but when leaving full screen video in YouTube automatically disables again.
If it works than other applications can do the same.
I want to disable HDR since I didabled video optimizer, I still can't block YouTube going HDR in HDR movies.
So actually we have the opposite problem.
In your current situation normal video is not HDR.
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Stock Android 11 here, I found the "hdreffectsettingsactivity" using this Nova Launcher method. Problem is that there isn't any buttons to toggle or options to select. It just displays a sentence about using Normal Screen brightness or something. Is this a dead end for Android 11? I could care less about 11. I was watching a series on Netflix with a lot of night/dark scenes and those scenes were straight up unwatchable.
(for anyone looking for this, it wasn't under "Optimizer Video," it was further down listed as one of the "Settings," read the fine print.)
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So android 11 is rubbish because you can't use the video optimizer and Netflix looks so bad? Have you managed to find a solution?
Hi, as the title suggests and I think most of us know who have a S7. The default BLF is dog shait. I was wondering if there's a fix for this mess that might not require root (as I'm using it as a work device). I've seen that there is a android native 'night mode' that's implemented in play books. Back in the days, toggling that would toggle the night mode globally.
Is there maybe a way to exploit this? just wondering.
Thanks a lot!
Curious too
Yeah, the built in one is really ****ty. I'm using the twilight app. It's highly customizable and I've been using it for years on a few other phones.