Dear god I forgot how ugly samsung made their ROMS.
The settings menu makes my eyes bleed and i'm wondering if anyone knows of anyway of getting back to google stock settings menu?
I've looked around the forums and there's not much on these (guess that's why Sky were giving them away with their broadband offer).
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Just thought I would give a quick tip here for those that have not tried it...
You can change the background of the home screen by going to setting (system>advanced) and selecting Display then Wallpaper and hit live wallpaper.
There are some of the basic android live wallpapers on it by default. So we don not have to look at the less then attractive default background now.
Also a quick tip. May be brought up before but hitting the Center button on the controller is the same as hitting the menu button on any android device. Useful if you find yourself trying out some side loaded apks.
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Changed after update?
This doesn't seem to be working after this last update. Has anyone found a workaround? Thanks.
I noticed that as well. Sad they knocked that out in the update. I liked the live wallpapers.
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Hi there! My name is Ben and im owning this nexus 4 phone for a month more or less. Since I bought it this forum has been an awesome place to look for answers as my last phone ran android 2.1. A genius friend of mine installed the paranoid android ROM on my phone for me and I'm very happy with all the tweaks. One thing that keeps bothering me though is that ever since I got the phone, when I try to set a new wallpaper, despite the nice sketch of how it's going to look horizontally an vertically on the phone's screen, it crops only the left side of the picture as a wallpaper, it comes out pixelated and swiping home screens doesn't scroll the wallpaper image. I've tried looking it up online, tried to mess with the phone settings, PA settings, launcher settings, but I just couldn't find a way to solve this. Ive tried the image 2 wallpaper app but it still doesn't put the wallpaper the way I set it and just crops only the left side, just less pixelated. I assume this isn't normal? as I said the problem existed even before the PA ROM was installed and that only confuses me more. Thanks in advance if you can help me! B
p.s. I'm running stock PA launcher, only used it to reduce the amount of home screen pages (now i have 3)
jellybean 4.3 with PA 3.99.
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HI all,
So I'm at a loss and hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Installed Alliance ROM onto my Verizon Note 3. So far I'm quite impressed with the ability to customize so many aspects of the interface. But my noob status working with android is causing me to get confused. I'm encountering a UI element that is used in popup menus that currently is displaying white text on a light grey background (as seen in the attached images) Could someone show me where to find the adjustment to change that UI element is?
Also I was a fan of the ability to swipe and launch the camera on the Stock ROM, but I was able to set my preferred app on stock. Don't see anything listed under Default Applications, also when I look at the stock camera's App Info, the Clear defaults button is greyed out. I'm unable to choose which app I want to launch since installing this ROM. I found a workaround by setting Shortcuts to Custom and selecting my app that way, but I liked the Stock ROM's grey button as opposed to using the apps actual icon.
Thanks for any help you can send my way,
Josh
Anyone have any ideas about the grey background. I'd appreciate any help, thanks
irJosh said:
Anyone have any ideas about the grey background. I'd appreciate any help, thanks
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In AllianceRom Custom Settings under Colors, go to Background -> System and you can change the background of most system apps/menus, it is a universal change but you can enable/disable apps effected in the Whitelist menu.
Thanks for the idea! I'm trying but still can't seem to get that gray background to change. Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
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Thanks for the idea! I'm trying but still can't seem to get that gray background to change. Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
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You could try wiping cache/davlik in SS, or try flashing a theme like All Backs Black. Other than that the only other thing I can think of is wiping/flashing the rom and starting over but that seems like overkill.
From what I know, I asked the same question in the ROM thread and the answer was this is a bug they are gonna have fixed in Build 2.
Thank you so much guys for the ideas and info. I was going crazy trying different combos of settings to get it to change. I'll look into trying a theme. I was already flirting with the idea of having to try doing a full reinstallation. But if its a known bug I can deal with it, the benefits of using this ROM so outweigh the annoyance of the grey menus. Thanks again!
I flashed Alliance yesterday and love it there's only one problem ive came across my text in Twitter are black and I've went through the customize rom settings and cannot for my life find where to change it also my check boxes are black also
I would post pics but it won't let me
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I flashed Alliance yesterday and love it there's only one problem ive came across my text in Twitter are black and I've went through the customize rom settings and cannot for my life find where to change it also my check boxes are black also
I would post pics but it won't let me
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Try this setting....Settings > Custom Settings > General Mods > Check Dialog Pop Ups User Selected after checking it hit Dialog Pop up type and change to TW Light and see if that gets you to something you can see.
Thanks for the help, sadly it didn't work I've done a little more digging and found out that the bars and sides of Instagram app is black, twitter still is and my contacts are all solid black.. If there's a way I can post screen shots without exceeding limit please let me know
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Thanks for the help, sadly it didn't work I've done a little more digging and found out that the bars and sides of Instagram app is black, twitter still is and my contacts are all solid black.. If there's a way I can post screen shots without exceeding limit please let me know
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Try this and see if we can get text color back. Go to settings > custom settings > colors > unlinked colors and try manually changing the text color to white and then hit restart ui and see if that at least gets your text back to where you can see it.
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I got it back to white I'm not completely sure how but it's back, but now when my home screen settings pop up when I press the button left button it brings up ( add apps, edit, Creat folder, set wallpaper and set theme, all of those bars are black now lol
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I got it back to white I'm not completely sure how but it's back, but now when my home screen settings pop up when I press the button left button it brings up ( add apps, edit, Creat folder, set wallpaper and set theme, all of those bars are black now lol
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I'm not quite sure how to get you back as I didn't play with the color schemes extensively, just enough for me. Are you opposed to reflashing the ROM? Alliance is so vast with changing the colors it should be part of the OP that after initial flash you should back up that theme in Alliance manager that way if you have a color bork you can just install that and restart. The colors are alot of trial and error. You haven't broken anything, there's a lot to play with and sometimes you have unpleasant results.
That's what I don't get I didn't edit the colors to get this way I just came across it, but I'll keep trying until I find a solution just trial and error
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That's what I don't get I didn't edit the colors to get this way I just came across it, but I'll keep trying until I find a solution just trial and error
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Wow, that really has me there.
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That's what I don't get I didn't edit the colors to get this way I just came across it, but I'll keep trying until I find a solution just trial and error
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Have you tried setting your theme to one of the presets? I had a similar problem (but it was because I did mess with everything right away) and setting to a different theme and back to the stock theme saved me a lot of headache. It's a good practice to backup your theme before you stray from what works though.
Hi,
I've owned my s7 edge for approx 4 months now and have been customising it. No rooting.
My question is on Themes.
My understanding these Themes in the Theme Store are by Delelopers ?
I believe Samsung Limit the Developers on what a Theme can change ?
Are these Themes vetted by Samsung ?
I was using the SB - Simply Basic Theme which is a Dark Theme for a while.
Yesterday some of the features on my phone froze.
I.e.
Double tap of home button wouldn't launch camera. Setting to allow this was On. Even turned it off, rebooted phone and back On but point blank refused to work.
Two finger swipe down from top of screen wouldn't work. One finger action did but then wouldn't let me bring the section section down.
The settings cog wheel in the top right hand corner would not launch. The down ^ would not work.
The steps I tried were...
Clear System Cache = No change.
I then considered a Factory Reset but before going through that I deleted my last apps = No change.
Toggled off the Theme and rebooted and it unfroze.
Now this may have been just a glitch and not the Theme.
Before I contact the developer I just wanted to put it out here to see if anyone else has had any issues using Themes in general.
Are there Pro's and Con's.
I wanted a Dark Theme as its suggested these can reduce battery drain as they are then turned off pixels using less than the white Ui Marshmallow uses.
Is this true ?
Is the saving minimal?
Thank you for reading and any personal experience and insight is welcomed.