Hi guys,
I'm not very active on here as I can almost always find the answer I need by some extensive searching but I seem stumped on this one so I'm hoping someone can help me fix this or at least give me a definitive answer one way or another...
So a little context:
I've recently been customising a new phone (one plus 6) and I've decided to go the dark themed route as I've always loved how it looks.
All my wallpapers are mostly black, I'm using the dark theme in whatever apps and settings give the option and I've got a lovely looking outlined set of icons which really pop on the dark backgrounds.
I've also been trying out nova launcher but I don't have prime yet and this one issue is pretty much the last thing holding me back from upgrading...
In case it matters, I'm not rooted but I think I probably will at some point.
The problem:
So I really like the app search popup from nova but the issue is that it uses the light theme despite having night mode 'always' enabled in the settings. This is a bigger problem than just looks as a lot of my icons are white line based meaning they're actually practically invisible on the search bar.
Now, the toggles for 'search bar', 'drawer icon' and 'folders' in the night mode settings don't seem to change anything as far as I can see (I would've thought it was search bar but maybe it's referring to one elsewhere).
The 'Drawer' toggle DOES change the search bar to dark which is great but that unfortunately also means it overrides my transparency on the app drawer which I really want to keep as all my backgrounds are dark anyway and I love seeing my wallpapers through the drawer.
TL;DR:
Can anyone point me to a way to make the app search bar dark (or even transparent) but without overriding the opacity settings of my app drawer?
I can understand the two being coupled as they kind of do the same thing but a separate night mode toggle for each would be amazing.
Apologies for the somewhat verbose description of a pretty simple problem... I even seem to have had to split the post up as I guess it was too long and thanks in advance to anyone who's willing to help!
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Hello all,
my first post on XDA
First, thanks for this forum, as I found plenty on info on the phone already, and got the itch to immediately start flashing it
I own an XPS as I bricked my Galaxy S after much playing: till now, the XPS is a fantastic phone.
My only complaint about it (besides the difficult to activate home/menu/back buttons) is the absence of widgets in the drawer!
I see Sony has put a home widget to substitute, but hate it.
I love to have Screen Rotation & Brightness, and other widgets in the drawer, as I can access them without exiting the current app (CM was amazing with this, allowing configuration of widgets to be displayed).
Is there a way to add them? I tried a search, but (me noob?) didn't find it.
Thanks for your help,
Azoele
I think you mean in the pulldown area and not the drawer. If so Then this is what you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594947
yes!
Yes, it looks like that, thanks!
I will head there immediately and try to install.
Feeling very happy now
Azoele
So far I love the phone. This is the only phone I've had in a long time where I haven't wanted to load a custom rom the day I got it. There's just one thing I don't know if there's an option for, and something else I'd like to change that I hope it easy being rooted.
1. Is there a way to make the vibrate patterns apply to text messages? So far they only seem to apply to incoming calls.
2. The little dots on the bottom that show what page I'm on. Can I get rid of those or move them to the top of the screen?
ok, there's a 3rd I guess. The green phone icon, is there an EASY way to change that? Not thrilled about a couple others either like the contacts one. Don't know if there's a simple way to go in and swap out the image file for a different one or not. On my Galaxy tablet I was able to go in and create custom icons on the computer and use a program on the tab to select what program I wanted it to open, but that was a long time ago and I forgot how to do it, or what programs I used. If that's what it comes down too though, guess that's what I'll have to do. Just wanted to know if there was an easier way. I don't mind the icons themselves, just the colors. Not a fan of green or orange. Blue would be nice.
Thanks in advance for any help on these. Besides this stuff, absolutely LOVE the phone...
hope this helps...
1. I don't see any place in the touchwiz messaging app's settings to customize the vibrate pattern for texts... some possible solutions would be a custom ROM with the stock google messaging app rather than the touchwiz app, or somewhat less extreme would be to install a 3rd party texting client from the play store and see if that setting is present in that app.
2. I'm not sure if the touchwiz launcher allows you to hide or remove those little indicator dots, but you can open up a million options for homescreen launcher settings by installing a 3rd party launcher from the play store like Nova Launcher or Apex Launcher. Currently I'm using Apex and it is great (still rocking the stock experience until CM9 gets a stable release).
3. As for changing icons like the phone, calendar, calculator, etc. This is another thing that can be customized using a launcher like Apex.
ShawnDobie said:
So far I love the phone. This is the only phone I've had in a long time where I haven't wanted to load a custom rom the day I got it. There's just one thing I don't know if there's an option for, and something else I'd like to change that I hope it easy being rooted.
1. Is there a way to make the vibrate patterns apply to text messages? So far they only seem to apply to incoming calls.
2. The little dots on the bottom that show what page I'm on. Can I get rid of those or move them to the top of the screen?
ok, there's a 3rd I guess. The green phone icon, is there an EASY way to change that? Not thrilled about a couple others either like the contacts one. Don't know if there's a simple way to go in and swap out the image file for a different one or not. On my Galaxy tablet I was able to go in and create custom icons on the computer and use a program on the tab to select what program I wanted it to open, but that was a long time ago and I forgot how to do it, or what programs I used. If that's what it comes down too though, guess that's what I'll have to do. Just wanted to know if there was an easier way. I don't mind the icons themselves, just the colors. Not a fan of green or orange. Blue would be nice.
Thanks in advance for any help on these. Besides this stuff, absolutely LOVE the phone...
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1. Have heard others complain of this issue, so I don't believe that there a way to do it. Don't use that feature myself so...
2. Again, I'm not sure, but I think you're stuck with them. You could use a launcher that allows more customization. I like apex.
3. Download an app called "icon changer" and a icon pack or theme with the icons you would like to use. You can then open the application and select the app you want to change the icon of and pick a new icon. It will create a shortcut of the app with the custom icon on your home screen. Great for changing icons on your home screen if you want to remain using TW. If you decide to use an alternate launcher like apex this feature is already integrated and you have the ability to switch the icons within the app drawer as well.
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Thanks for the quick replies. Trying to stay away from a custom rom on this phone. There's just nothing I'm really unhappy with that much. There's always something that goes wrong when I load one. Not saying there's ANYTHING wrong with the roms themselves, there's just not that much on this phone I'm not happy with, unlike phones I've had in the past. I'm coming from a Desire.
Thanks for the Icon Changer app also. Changing them on my tablet was a pain in the butt, this was nice and simple. Any way you know the dimensions of the icons though so I can create some of my own?
Hello, as the title states the One is my first HTC phone, I technically had the HTC One X+, but only for about 12 hours before my son accidentally dropped it down the stairs. Other than that I have had all Samsung phones. I am loving the One and its working great so far, however there are two things that I am trying to change and have had no luck so far. First off I have tried multiple ROMs but I am currently running Android Revolution 10.1 with no mods other than what comes with the ROM. The two issue I am having are
1) The stock status bar transition from the solid grey to transparent, there is a noticeable delay when exiting an application and returning to the home screen where it takes a few seconds for the status bar to change from the solid grey to the transparent of the home/lock screen, also when unlocking the phone the status bar blinks from transparent to grey and then back, I was wondering if there was a way to make this change instant, or at least make it the solid grey all the time. I have done extensive searching in both the AT&T forums and the international ones, the only threads I could find are http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297043 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291078 and I tried them both but with no luck, the first one just makes it black when it would normally be transparent and the second one I couldn't get to do anything. If someone could point me in the right direction here I would greatly appreciate it.
2) Is there any way to add app closing animations to a ROM? It seems with Sense when exiting an application it just closes back to the home screen with no animation at all, and that kind of kills the smoothness of the phone for me.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
try trickdroid it has a tweaks and themes package. one of the options is to choose animations
skinsfanbdh said:
try trickdroid it has a tweaks and themes package. one of the options is to choose animations
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I tried that one and flashed the mods package and couldn't find the option anywhere, from what I understand from reading the forum, since v6 and the update to 4.2.2 a lot of the mods are not compatible and have been removed from the mods package until they are.
zacharyt86 said:
I tried that one and flashed the mods package and couldn't find the option anywhere, from what I understand from reading the forum, since v6 and the update to 4.2.2 a lot of the mods are not compatible and have been removed from the mods package until they are.
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yes but themes and tweaks have been updated. idk how much has been implemented but i was running 7.0 and it had the animations
The status bar is like that because of the transparency feature, it did it on some of the aosp Roms I used on my old gs2sr. And I would like some good transitions to/from apps. I agree that it makes opening and closing apps seem smoother.
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spitfire2425 said:
The status bar is like that because of the transparency feature, it did it on some of the aosp Roms I used on my old gs2sr. And I would like some good transitions to/from apps. I agree that it makes opening and closing apps seem smoother.
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trickdroid does have some cool animations but one of them mix i believe isnt as smooth as it could be
skinsfanbdh said:
yes but themes and tweaks have been updated. idk how much has been implemented but i was running 7.0 and it had the animations
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I flashed 7.0 along with the tweaks and themes packages, but my app open/close animations do not change, I have tried all the animations in the installer, but not matter what I choose the animations stay the same.
One way to get a solid notification bar is to install a 3rd party launcher like Nova/Apex/etc. That will make it solid at all times (the lockscreen will remain transparent unless you use something like Widgetlocker or holo locker), plus give you more customization options (like editing icons, text labels, animations, etc.). Seems like that's what you're looking for to answer your concerns.
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One way to get a solid notification bar is to install a 3rd party launcher like Nova/Apex/etc. That will make it solid at all times (the lockscreen will remain transparent unless you use something like Widgetlocker or holo locker), plus give you more customization options (like editing icons, text labels, animations, etc.). Seems like that's what you're looking for to answer your concerns.
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Yeah that's a great suggestion, I just tried it and not only does it make the status bar solid but also adds animations to the closing of apps. Only issue I can see is none of the third party launchers allow the adding of the stock widgets yet, but I'm sure that will be sorted out in time. Thank you so much!
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HI, folks!
For last week I've been googling around how to get rid of ugly icon background and frames on my new Droid device.
The trouble is that all app icons at the app screen and at desktop screen has that really ugly background color, that seems to be randomly choosed and a transparent frame (see the attached picture). You can see that on Opera, Skype and Navitel icons. In that case background is blue, but for DrWeb icon it's light gray. That makes my crazy! Moreover, it seems to resize icons to fit in this square frames and that makes it looks even more ugly.
After some search I came up for that it moor looks like an Launcher issue/settings. My devise is an OEM Chinese protected phone (more commonly known as Batl S09) and it seem to have Samsung TouchWiz, at least I have SamsungLauncher4.apk at /system/app/ folder and it's marked as Launcher 4.2.2-eng.wsl in Applicatin section in Settings.
Soo, as I'm very noob in Android hacking, I need help there.
same problem...
Hi Guys,
Very odd but seems like this problem doesn't occur many times. It is happening to me too and this thread is the only thing I found on the web on this topic.
Can anybody help as this is really a pain in the a**.
Thanks a lot!
i got the same problem, any solution so far?
First of all, I'm new to the forum, and this is my first post, tho I've been browsing through it many times before, whenever I needed something for my android, and now I got a question I can't really find the answer to, and you seem like the best people to ask, so;
I bought Huawei P20 Lite just recently, and it's a great device, it looks nice and it's running OREO (8.0), but what I found a little bit frustrating is that my stock color of the notification/quick setting bar is black, with settings turning green when ON (instead of semi-transparent whitish color) and that's a stock version of it, I didn't change themes or anything, just a launcher and a wallpaper, so I was wondering if there was a way to somehow recolor it? Thanks in advance.