So I just managed to upgrade to 5.0 and everything went fine except for one thing, a problem I did not expect. I did not expect Touchwiz to have completely changed into a disgusting light theme. I hate it so much that I would rather downgrade to 4.4.2 again than keep using it. Is there a way for me to get the old dark Touchwiz theme back or do I have to grab some custom launcher with a dark theme built in?
EDIT: I know Nova Launcher is very popular, it would give me the dark theme I want right?
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I have tried jewes 5.2 ROM and it was incredible fast and amazing. But i didnt Like the BLACK/WHITE Design of The gui. I tried to use skins, but the Most of the Icons and menus still stay in depressing B/W.
Is there a solution? Maybe another ROM with that incredible speed optimizations?
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Yeah I feel the same about the icons. But the change is made in the apps themselves, which makes it a real pain to return to the original icons, as you would have to install everything over.
I like black themes but the icons should keep their differentiation, just because it's easier to find what you're looking for that way.
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I tried it. Everything worked very well but I also disliked the theme.
the black theme for me seems so depressing, though the rom was very quick. i installed the stock sgs2 icons theme so there would be a little bit more colour.
sole reason why i stayed on 5.0, unfortunately
hi guys i downloaded the jews 5.2 and when i flash the rom the First boot logo is appear and it hangs and then i flash the other version through the odin...can you tell me how tto install jews 5.2 edition......plzzzzzzzzz
Will there Be more google edition roms with more features? I love having aosp's smooth quick feel while keeping samsungs watchon. if multi window or air gestures came by that would be incredible. as well as being able to customize the lock screen and perhaps a remove all button on the recent app menu
When source is released all aosp ROMs will merge the new changes.
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Will there Be more google edition roms with more features? I love having aosp's smooth quick feel while keeping samsungs watchon. if multi window or air gestures came by that would be incredible. as well as being able to customize the lock screen and perhaps a remove all button on the recent app menu
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perhaps you may prefer a custokm launcher on the stock s4 firmware? something like apex, nova, or holo will give you the aosp / GE look and feel, but all the stock ROM goodies.
Yes. I hate that its 4.3 I just seriously want 5.0 already haha cmon Google. Although 4.3 seems fast very fast
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perhaps you may prefer a custokm launcher on the stock s4 firmware? something like apex, nova, or holo will give you the aosp / GE look and feel, but all the stock ROM goodies.
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yeah ive enjoyed GO Launcher alot. but it just feels much much smoother on something like Liquid Smooth or Task's Rom than trying to theme touchwiz, ill still give it another ago. Nonetheless, the future has some goodies in store for us it looks like
Does anyone know if there are any themes or mods out there to revert the all white KitKat motif adopted by CM (and most other current ROMS) to the holo-blue stock look as still used by PA / AOSPAL?
I don't mean the statusbar icons or quicksettings tiles, but the other areas of the general interface. I much prefer the blue check marks and switches (in settings for example), progress bars, etc. to the all white theme that's now in heavy use on most custom ROMs.
I've searched at length here and on the play store and am not finding what i'm looking for.
Hi I know this is an old post however I agree with you completely. I can't stand the black/white/gray look of the "modern" UI's. Have you looked at "bring back holo blue". its an apk here. have you loked at "Tickle my ROM", its a themeing app available on xda which changes the icons in framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk.
Unfortunately I dont think the apk for "Bring back Holo blue" will work on 5.x.x roms...but I do not know for sure.
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Hi I know this is an old post however I agree with you completely. I can't stand the black/white/gray look of the "modern" UI's. Have you looked at "bring back holo blue". its an apk here. have you loked at "Tickle my ROM", its a themeing app available on xda which changes the icons in framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk.
Unfortunately I dont think the apk for "Bring back Holo blue" will work on 5.x.x roms...but I do not know for sure.
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Bruh.. That was a 2 years old thread
I've been enjoying my Shield since I got it 2 months ago, and like the original Kitkat look to it, the background and the colors. Well after upgrading to Lollipop I was horrified to see that the color theme is completely opposite. The app drawer is white!!!! How awful is that? Anyway, I've never needed to get a launcher in the past on my phones because the roms I used were customizable enough to get a theme or color set I liked. But with the Shield Tablet... I'm just not fond of the roms available.
So whats the popular launchers and are there any cool themes? I'm looking for something to make my Shield Tablet look like a "Shield Tablet" again and not some bright white lollipop stick in the mud...
You can always just flash back to KitKat.
You can always use Nova Launcher (my choice)
A lot of people swear by Nova.
I still like ADW Launcher Ex (runs fine on my Shield with Lollipop) - just hope to see an update since it's been hinted...
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Thanks for the responses, I'll give those two a look. I know I could go back to kitkat, but for how long will I be sticking to Kitkat while the OS is updated throughout the years... Eventually I'd have to move on, so trying to now. Oh, and why the hell is there no auto brightness like kitkat had? I have t manually set the brightness now...
There is still auto-brightness in Lollipop, it's just implemented a bit differently. It's the "Adaptive Brightness" option that's found in your display settings. Juts like normal auto-brightness, it adjusts your screen brightness automatically based on your surrounding. Adjusting the brightness slider with adaptive brightness on changes how aggressively the screen up-clocks its brightness. So if you have adaptive brightness on and you pull the slider to the max value, the display will work like normal auto-brightness but will tend to favor higher brightness more of the time. (and vice versa). It's like normal auto-brightness but with the ability to customize how aggressive the setting is.
And as for a launcher, I've been very happy with Nova for years.
I've been trying Nova and Go launcher. I like how simple Nova is, but I like how many themes and styles Go has. It doesn't look like Nova has themes, other than icons...
No, Nova doesn't have an integrated theme engine like Go does. I just like Nova's little tweaks and adjustments.
Hope you can find one you like. One of the first things I do when I get a new device is add a custom launcher.
Buzz launcher.. Awesome themes.. And you can basically setup custom themes yourself if you know what to do. I've gone buzz and never looked back.
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I've been enjoying my Shield since I got it 2 months ago, and like the original Kitkat look to it, the background and the colors. Well after upgrading to Lollipop I was horrified to see that the color theme is completely opposite. The app drawer is white!!!! How awful is that? Anyway, I've never needed to get a launcher in the past on my phones because the roms I used were customizable enough to get a theme or color set I liked. But with the Shield Tablet... I'm just not fond of the roms available.
So whats the popular launchers and are there any cool themes? I'm looking for something to make my Shield Tablet look like a "Shield Tablet" again and not some bright white lollipop stick in the mud...
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Nova definitely.. plenty of icon sets etc for it although there's no overall theme engine, lots of adjustment though.
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DFA1 said:
I've been enjoying my Shield since I got it 2 months ago, and like the original Kitkat look to it, the background and the colors. Well after upgrading to Lollipop I was horrified to see that the color theme is completely opposite. The app drawer is white!!!! How awful is that? Anyway, I've never needed to get a launcher in the past on my phones because the roms I used were customizable enough to get a theme or color set I liked. But with the Shield Tablet... I'm just not fond of the roms available.
So whats the popular launchers and are there any cool themes? I'm looking for something to make my Shield Tablet look like a "Shield Tablet" again and not some bright white lollipop stick in the mud...
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I've been using Action Launcher since the shield came out, and I like it alot. Version 3 hasn't been out all that long, but its got a nice material theme to match the rest of the OS, but you can theme it to a fixed color (Material Dark is what I do), or let it adapt to to colors of your wallpaper. Give it a shot?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionlauncher.playstore&hl=en
No matter what theme I'm on, I always have white notifications. I just like darker themes and have always used them back in my AOSP days because they just look better and less iPhone-y when I use my phone. In some cases saves more battery life on amoled screens.
Anyone know how to can find my needs wants? lol.
Nougat 7.0 S7E
I have a few black themes was really hoping the Nougat update was going to extend more of that area into the theme setup, but it hasn't.
Right now there is no way to make notifications black.
BTW wear is your favorite black theme?
Good Lock app by Samsung allowed for the notification cards to have dark backgrounds. There is no Nougat-compatible version thus far. Samsung said they would have a new version for the 7.0 software, but I'm not very confident that will actually happen.
I have a hacker theme and tjay dkes the job for me. Almost nothing white except the msg app
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I have a few black themes was really hoping the Nougat update was going to extend more of that area into the theme setup, but it hasn't.
Right now there is no way to make notifications black.
BTW wear is your favorite black theme?
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On MM I liked one called something like Touchwiz Dark, it was basically the way some Samsung models used to have dark menus and dark dialer/messaging instead of light. Doesn't seem to be there on Nougat tho, at least I can't find it. There are some other decent ones on Nougat but there is always at least 1 thing I don't like in each one lol. How bout you?
I use Material Black on both MM and Nougat. Definitely would like to darken the notifications.