Is there a way, on my Samsung S4 Stock ROM 4.3, to change, under settings, the colour for the background from white on black to black on white?
Thank you
Saulo
Using Settings > Accessiility > Negative Colors would in theorysolve my problem...but then this new settings applies to everywhere, to each screen, NOT ONLY to settings...this makes making pictures and movies horrible (pics have reversed colors)...
Any idea?
I have vision issues, so having a black blackground and white characters causes me not to clearly see...
Thanks for any suggestions
I would easily switch to a cooked ROM which has the background colour for settings inverted...By the way, it seems that HTC, iPhone and most major provider choose black characters on white background.. Why then Samsung has choose the oppostite?
saulo866 said:
I would easily switch to a cooked ROM which has the background colour for settings inverted...By the way, it seems that HTC, iPhone and most major provider choose black characters on white background.. Why then Samsung has choose the oppostite?
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Probably because of the s4 screen type... Its amoled, so when it shows black, it actually has the pixel off, thus saving power.
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bennyboy78 said:
Probably because of the s4 screen type... Its amoled, so when it shows black, it actually has the pixel off, thus saving power.
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Dear Benny
Yes, probably,. However how is it possible in the world nobody else has the glaring problem that I do experience? I do not want to give up Samsung and return to iPhone just because the apple device have white background, right? there must be a workout...
Thank you
S
saulo866 said:
Dear Benny
Yes, probably,. However how is it possible in the world nobody else has the glaring problem that I do experience? I do not want to give up Samsung and return to iPhone just because the apple device have white background, right? there must be a workout...
Thank you
S
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You can blame samsung all you want but in actuality its the carrier you bought the device from, AT&T uses white background setting in most of their roms while Rogers uses Black.
Don't like the background colour, switch to a custom rom/different carriers rom and get white settings.
You can easily find out what colour the settings menus are in various roms by looking at screen shots of the rom prior to installing it.
Thank you so much for your info...
Unfortunately I use a S4: it is UNLOCKED, but it is i9502 (dual SIM), and there is ONLY one cooked ROM available (from SVA, ROM 5.5). Which is excellent by the way.
It has black background.
I am very happy about the ROM. I would not want to change to another cooked ROM. And even if I want, there it NO alternative English ROM to support dual SIM i9502 Samsung S4.
Is there a way that a NON-Tech-sawy like me can accomplish the change of background from black to white or clear? Yes, I cannot do programming, but I am able to fully implement rooting procedures and I know basic Unix commands and terminal operations..
thanks
Saulo
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Anyone figure out how to change the color of the Dialer and contact app? Sprint got pure white background and I know the AMOLED gobble power when its so bright white, I want to get a darker grey or pure black if possible.
I'm in the same boat, I prefer the black dialer/contact list like on the S3.
Me 3 on this someone please figure something out
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Me 4,god help us
I agree as well.
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I have a feeling this is going to be a popluar request. I have been scouring the settings trying to figure out if there is a way to change it. Now that I'm rooted maybe I can figure out where the images for it are.
I am having the same "problem", although all the above comments do not mention that with the White background, you cannot see the name of the last callers. It is WHITE text and WHITE background, which is absolutely annoying.
I have this on my S4 by T-mobile aswell, not sure if i'm doing anything wrong, both Sprint L720 and the T-mobile S4 are on stock 4.4.2 Rooted, both have a white dialer and contact list, weird.
This is a major problem for me, and i'd like to kindly ask for a fix, there are S4 devices with Black dialer, can anyone help extract the black dialer and somehow import it into the Sprint S4 device??
Thanks!
In the S4 Themes and Apps board here there's a post called Blacked out Dialer/digit color options.
Pretty sure that's what I use, it's been awhile. I don't use phone stuff like call recording or stuff like that so I can't comment if it's even part of it. Looks like it may not work on nae roms by the comments. I'm on mf9 bootloader, mk2 modem, triforce rom and flashed with twrp. It also blacks out the contacts background. So make a backup and try if your on mk2. Hope it's some help to someone.
Hi,
I've installed Nova Launcher and it pretty much does the job converting the phone's look to KitKat on the Stock LG 4.2.2 ROM.
The only things Nova Launcher doesn't replace are the Notification Bar and the System Dialogs (like the Dialog that does Power Off). System Dialogs are an ugly white and grey, and they look surprisingly similar to Samsung's ugly ass UI, at least early versions of it.
So, does anyone know how to make the System Dialogs look more like KitKat, or at least, turn them dark from white?
Thanks in advance.
PS: I've used the Xpload framework and it really messed over my battery life, I'd like to do this using root if possible.
autom8r said:
Hi,
I've installed Nova Launcher and it pretty much does the job converting the phone's look to KitKat on the Stock LG 4.2.2 ROM.
The only things Nova Launcher doesn't replace are the Notification Bar and the System Dialogs (like the Dialog that does Power Off). System Dialogs are an ugly white and grey, and they look surprisingly similar to Samsung's ugly ass UI, at least early versions of it.
So, does anyone know how to make the System Dialogs look more like KitKat, or at least, turn them dark from white?
Thanks in advance.
PS: I've used the Xpload framework and it really messed over my battery life, I'd like to do this using root if possible.
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Decompile the framework invert all the toast images and a bunch more then find the XML that controls the text color you want and walla.. All done.
PS.. Odds are when you do this your going to inadvertently cause white on white or black on black. Best of luck
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zathus said:
Decompile the framework invert all the toast images and a bunch more then find the XML that controls the text color you want and walla.. All done.
PS.. Odds are when you do this your going to inadvertently cause white on white or black on black. Best of luck
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Not sure about the last statement in the PS, white and black are easily distinguishable colors #FFFFFF vs #000000...
Anyway, is there any root level app that does this type of asset replacement?
Thanks!
autom8r said:
Not sure about the last statement in the PS, white and black are easily distinguishable colors #FFFFFF vs #000000...
Anyway, is there any root level app that does this type of asset replacement?
Thanks!
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No what I ment was sometimes there tied to something else. Like you change the text for the toast popups to white, and in settings the text is also white. So, in settings its white on white. Just an example, and I don't think there is an app however I'd imagine there could be. Xposed or something. Toss in a request on the g2 xposed threads.
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No what I ment was sometimes there tied to something else. Like you change the text for the toast popups to white, and in settings the text is also white. So, in settings its white on white. Just an example, and I don't think there is an app however I'd imagine there could be. Xposed or something. Toss in a request on the g2 xposed threads.
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Ah yes, I see what you're saying. Luckily though, I think this won't be the case because LG literally uses white on black and there's absolutely no dark backgrounds I could find in their UI whatsoever. The dialer is a dark grey, but I don't need to change the dialer, just system dialogs.
I am going down this road now, I am ripping apart the assets in the backend trying to find the key files to tweak and replace. Fun, I love this.
I'm sorry if this has been ask before..
I do work with the note 3 and was hoping that maybe I might be able to help with the T mobile Note 4.
Can someone please verify that the international variant of the note 4 has either a white contacts (dialer), phone (in call ui), mms or a dark version?
Thank you for any help.
It has a white theme.
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It has a white theme.
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Thank you.
how can we make it dark again?
boodies said:
how can we make it dark again?
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A lot of work.. I was gonna try to invert them, but then I found that not only has samsung gone with their way of qmgs, but they also decided to screw everyone over with some type of file called astc that can't be decompiled
I found a workaround, but it's really up to you on how you use it, but...
You can set your home button to invert the colours with a triple tap. The setting is in accessibility. This is really handy when browsing the web, but not so much with "in and out" app use. I'm almost certain you can get tasker to invert apps using this method for specific apps you need inverted, and then return to normal when you exit those apps.
Hi, coming from the note 3. I prefered the white letters on the black background which was standard in the contacts view and the settings view. I also found it easier on the eye (and I assumed it would use less battery as well.)
Is it possible to change note 4 to these settings without rooting.
Thanks
Me too
magichoward said:
Hi, coming from the note 3. I prefered the white letters on the black background which was standard in the contacts view and the settings view. I also found it easier on the eye (and I assumed it would use less battery as well.)
Is it possible to change note 4 to these settings without rooting.
Thanks
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I'm wondering the exact same thing. The white screens on everything make it too bright, and the negative colors option changes everything, not just screens.
I can't stand the white theme - kills battery and it's hard on the eyes.
I'm also wondering if black background possible. That's the only thing stopping me getting the N4.
Yes please dark theme for Note 4 to our note 4's are too bright to white
I'm one of those lucky people who gets chronic migraines. The primary trigger for me is bright light... especially looking at bright, white screens with black text. Consequently, I've spent quite a bit of time trying to invert screen color... which is fine unless you are looking at pictures or video.
I know that I can change my Note 4 settings to invert the colors, but that simply isn't practical. I've been able to get some of the modifications I need by swapping out applications. For instance, I use Chomp SMS and have found a great plug-in for firefox that inverts the color without inverting the images. I've also been able to make some system mods through Xposed using Wanam's module. But these are only bandaids. I'm really looking for something that will work system-wide, for light text and dark background.
My phone is a Sprint Galaxy Note 4 running Lollipop 5.1.1. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would upgrading to Marshmallow help? Or how about changing out the ROM?
If nothing that would work systemwide, does anyone have a suggestion for an email app that will invert the text color? The stock Samsung email app is really tough for me.
Any help will be much appreciated.
jmalmberg said:
I'm one of those lucky people who gets chronic migraines. The primary trigger for me is bright light... especially looking at bright, white screens with black text. Consequently, I've spent quite a bit of time trying to invert screen color... which is fine unless you are looking at pictures or video.
I know that I can change my Note 4 settings to invert the colors, but that simply isn't practical. I've been able to get some of the modifications I need by swapping out applications. For instance, I use Chomp SMS and have found a great plug-in for firefox that inverts the color without inverting the images. I've also been able to make some system mods through Xposed using Wanam's module. But these are only bandaids. I'm really looking for something that will work system-wide, for light text and dark background.
My phone is a Sprint Galaxy Note 4 running Lollipop 5.1.1. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would upgrading to Marshmallow help? Or how about changing out the ROM?
If nothing that would work systemwide, does anyone have a suggestion for an email app that will invert the text color? The stock Samsung email app is really tough for me.
Any help will be much appreciated.
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Try infamous rom or bobcat rom from N910T thread this roms is fully dark black themed with all built-in apps it will work on n910p but not sure LTE/WIFI CALLING will work on N910P.
I believe bobcat rom is available for N910P too.
Watch rom review.infamous rom
https://youtu.be/JNVtlr84d3g
Bobcat rom
https://youtu.be/hU8sJvb9H2k.