Hi,
I have the XT1625 (G4) rooted and running stock. All the action appears to be in the G4 Plus forums, so I'm posting here. Anyway, I'm not a fan of the MM theme (white bg with the putrid green accent/settings icons). I would love to change to a dark theme/background and change the accent color to something aesthetically pleasing. I've tried using both Layers and Substratum, but have only had varying degrees of success. Using Deity in both Layers & Substratum is a fail. I select red for my accent and/or primary colors but still get a blue theme. Inversion works for the most part but notifications are not readable due to black on black...plus it retains the purtrid green accents. I believe both themes also have problems in Contacts with black on black. I'm currently using Pigment in Layers. It kind of does what I want but not totally.
I have decompiled apps for other phones and been able to change some themes/colors, but am not sure which xml/value(s) to modify for the G4. My priorities are to change the green accent, and then, if possible, invert the white to black. I've looked into creating a Substratum theme but feel over-whelmed by the process atm. If I can do this simply by modding system apps that would be great!
Thanks,
I have learned the putrid green color I do not like is actually "Teal"...silly me.
I attempted to create a Substratum theme following this guide, but it is too complex (for me, at least). However, I have decompiled my framework, settings, and SystemUI and attempted to theme them according to this guide. I have successfully changed the putrid "teal" to a nicer red. Unfortunately, my background is still white although I have edited the apps to have a dark background. For some reason the change is not taking effect. Also, my expanded header color is not changing either.
Any suggestions?
mn1968 said:
Hi,
I have the XT1625 (G4) rooted and running stock. All the action appears to be in the G4 Plus forums, so I'm posting here. Anyway, I'm not a fan of the MM theme (white bg with the putrid green accent/settings icons). I would love to change to a dark theme/background and change the accent color to something aesthetically pleasing. I've tried using both Layers and Substratum, but have only had varying degrees of success. Using Deity in both Layers & Substratum is a fail. I select red for my accent and/or primary colors but still get a blue theme. Inversion works for the most part but notifications are not readable due to black on black...plus it retains the purtrid green accents. I believe both themes also have problems in Contacts with black on black. I'm currently using Pigment in Layers. It kind of does what I want but not totally.
I have decompiled apps for other phones and been able to change some themes/colors, but am not sure which xml/value(s) to modify for the G4. My priorities are to change the green accent, and then, if possible, invert the white to black. I've looked into creating a Substratum theme but feel over-whelmed by the process atm. If I can do this simply by modding system apps that would be great!
Thanks
hi. which android api ? only themes built for oms work for me at 7.1.1 . the themes i can use usually have 7.1.1 in bottom right corner of app icon. also there are somtimes options that very from between apis in one app and u have to manually select your api (a swift black e.g) usually first option below toggle.i also cannot compile with the stable aapt compiler i have to use aopt and disable legacy fallback.
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mojoswagger1980 said:
mn1968 said:
Hi,
I have the XT1625 (G4) rooted and running stock. All the action appears to be in the G4 Plus forums, so I'm posting here. Anyway, I'm not a fan of the MM theme (white bg with the putrid green accent/settings icons). I would love to change to a dark theme/background and change the accent color to something aesthetically pleasing. I've tried using both Layers and Substratum, but have only had varying degrees of success. Using Deity in both Layers & Substratum is a fail. I select red for my accent and/or primary colors but still get a blue theme. Inversion works for the most part but notifications are not readable due to black on black...plus it retains the purtrid green accents. I believe both themes also have problems in Contacts with black on black. I'm currently using Pigment in Layers. It kind of does what I want but not totally.
I have decompiled apps for other phones and been able to change some themes/colors, but am not sure which xml/value(s) to modify for the G4. My priorities are to change the green accent, and then, if possible, invert the white to black. I've looked into creating a Substratum theme but feel over-whelmed by the process atm. If I can do this simply by modding system apps that would be great!
Thanks
hi. which android api ? only themes built for oms work for me at 7.1.1 . the themes i can use usually have 7.1.1 in bottom right corner of app icon. also there are somtimes options that very from between apis in one app and u have to manually select your api (a swift black e.g) usually first option below toggle.i also cannot compile with the stable aapt compiler i have to use aopt and disable legacy fallback.
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U need to run a ROM compatible for substratum as stock currently is not. Thus the reason why you are not getting what u want
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Thanks for the (late) replies everyone. Since I originally posted in December I have already learned the limitations of stock ROMs and Substratum.
I have also moved on to Lineage OMS 14.1 and am able to theme to my heart's content...I'm good to go!
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Hi All,
I have been maing new themes for my system using Themegence. I seem to be experiencing some problems. I searched for answers and only found one or 2 work arounds. My exact questions have not been asked:
1) What is the standard DPI to use for the theme?
2) When I make a theme using the standard theme option (first choice on the options tab) My theme seems to generate fine. All my color tweaks seem to take. But when I use the option for qvga portrait and landscape than the theme won't take my changes to the system colors. (ie, the navigation bar and system tray). It displays my theme but with the standard windows blue colors....yuck
3) What ever I do, in the program, I can't get the theme to change the color of the text for those 2 areas (nav bar and sys tray)
4) I want to change the base hue to a different grey scale value. But the program won't take may change for base hue either. (actually even tweaking the registry directly I can't get a different grey scale base hue. Although I can make it a different color all together)
I know that some of these colors can be changed in the registry, and that there are work arounds for some of the other issues. But I am not looking for work arounds. I want my theme to do everything that it should. In case I ever have to re start the theme, from a system reset, or just changing themes...I don't want to muck around to make it work...know what I mean.
Thanks
hi, i just downloaded the classicblack.tsk theme from these boards and love it!
when i highlight on things, tho, it remains blue. any way to make the highlight something else, like silver? (also, the close button "X" remains blue as well, if there is also a fix...)
thanks so much!
http://rapidshare.com/files/82515668/HTC_Themes.rar
Try this one
those themes are grey, not the deep black that is the classic black theme i downloaded here. i just want a way to enhance that theme by making the highlights and the X/Close box not the default blue... thanks anyway, tho!
here is something really weird. now that i switched back to classicblack from the htc ones, my highlight color is now grey. as tho, the classicblack theme always takes the highlight color from the last theme used. (my last theme was blue originally, so that is probably why it was using blue). so, does that mean that after a hard reset, i will have to use the htc theme (or some grey or silver theme) first before using classicblack.tsk in order to get that kind of highlight?
try UI Tweaker,don't ask me where is the right option though
Hi, I like everyone in the android community is anxiously waiting for kit Kat to arrive and like many are also hoping for a lighter UI (holo light). I want my system to match the rest of the Google Apps and am asking if anyone knows of any good UI or framework themes that are Google UI themed (holo light). I have been looking for awhile and come across a couple decent ones which include holo light theme for aokp / cm and cm holoWhite theme. If anyone knows of any others please post or if are looking for the same thing and I've helped you press the thanks button.
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Sadly, there aren't. Partly because Google designed Android in such a way that apps use either system colors, or a mix of system colors and app colors. If you change the system colors, then apps that use both suddenly end up with invisible text and such. While this is gotten around in many cases with the Theme Engine, the status bar and notification shade are two of the worst offenders. Thus, even cm9/cm10 themes don't change the background color on the status to white or other very light colors. To do so would render a LOT of notification text and status bar icons invisible.
About the only way to fix this would be to make it such that any text displayed outside an app's own UI (ie, in the status bar or notification shade) would be forced to comply to system colors. That is not currently done.
MIUI achieves this, but only through very heavy modification of the system framework - and a few apps are still balky and require a "compatibility mode".
I've noticed there isn't any mods to replace the status bar icons with custom png's as has been done with other custom roms. How would one go about to accomplish this. Really don't like the bland icons in Marshmallows ui. The only xposed module available is for Samsung touchwiz phones. Did a search to see if there was a guide online and at Xda, but could not locate one for Android 6.0.
There are CM themes and Layers mods that offer different status bar icons.
amaury48 said:
I've noticed there isn't any mods to replace the status bar icons with custom png's as has been done with other custom roms. How would one go about to accomplish this. Really don't like the bland icons in Marshmallows ui. The only xposed module available is for Samsung touchwiz phones. Did a search to see if there was a guide online and at Xda, but could not locate one for Android 6.0.
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RRO layers overlays provide a pretty easy way to theme your phone on MM. Here's a collection that might be worth a look for what you're after.
If you start using layers be sure to make a backup before applying any, or learn how to delete overlays manually from the TWRP file manager. I've rendered my UI unusable a few times with layers. Like most things, you need a bail out plan in case things go wrong.
Flat Style Bar, check it out.
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Aside from flashing a CM rom which actually has colorful icons in their themes, there's a lot of different white versions of icons for stock based Android roms. Was looking for more colorful icons like the previous Real Icons Theme use to provide.
Yes you can change the color to all blue or some other color, but you can't get different "colorful" icons.
spotmark said:
There are CM themes and Layers mods that offer different status bar icons.
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Which theme are those in your post?
amaury48 said:
Which theme are those in your post?
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It's Blue Hydra. I did tweak the blue a little bit with Xposed. The hex code I use is ff222cff.
Forgive me if this has already been asked.
Is there a way to change the green in-call background color to another color?
The stock green isn't appealing. All I really want is black.
I ended up using Google dialler. The green is horrible
How to disable stock green dialer and use Google instead?
I have tried everything in the user interface. Does not seem to work. I choose different themes - the platinum and the black one, but then these have wrapped icons which are horrible as well. Any solution welcome.
Windforce0511 said:
How to disable stock green dialer and use Google instead?
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Settings-Pograms-setup-dafaults-set google dialer as default
you can find a good amount of themes on the Play Store by searching LG G6 theme, many of them have different dialer colors.
Famousfive8 said:
I have tried everything in the user interface. Does not seem to work. I choose different themes - the platinum and the black one, but then these have wrapped icons which are horrible as well. Any solution welcome.
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I use the black theme. I didn't like the borders around the icons either. I read that is an option in the display settings but I don't have it on mine -- maybe it is dependent on the theme. At any rate I installed Nova so I can be rid of those icon borders.
So if your main objection to the other themes is the icon borders, try an alternative launcher.