I have an old MDK S4 and quite enjoy it but she's starting to die. I really like having a transparent theme and I know the S7 will probably never have the theme engine I currently use ever.
Is there anything like the hologlass theme on Play on the Samsung Theme store/possible to make it myself using theme creator?
I need a little help. Im using nova on the s7 edge. There is this ugly black shadow ontop of my homescreen. It looks terrible whenever im using a colorful wallpaper. You can even notice it when using a darker wallpaper if you look close enough. Is there anyway to remove it? or is that build into samsung? i know it's not nova doing. thanks
You sure it's not Nova? Go to Nova Settings>Desktop>Advanced>Shadow (shows shadow on top of homescreen)
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chubbypanda said:
I need a little help. Im using nova on the s7 edge. There is this ugly black shadow ontop of my homescreen. It looks terrible whenever im using a colorful wallpaper. You can even notice it when using a darker wallpaper if you look close enough. Is there anyway to remove it? or is that build into samsung? i know it's not nova doing. thanks
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Nova Settings >> Look & Fell >> Transparent notification bar [emoji6]
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chanchan05 said:
You sure it's not Nova? Go to Nova Settings>Desktop>Advanced>Shadow (shows shadow on top of homescreen)
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Xode said:
Nova Settings >> Look & Fell >> Transparent notification bar [emoji6]
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Im positive. I have been using nova for a few months now and I have the notification bar turned off for awhile now.
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Im positive. I have been using nova for a few months now and I have the notification bar turned off for awhile now.
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Hmm..If so, then there is something wrong on your device .... if "notification bar is turned off" then you should not have it on desktop, but you still have ......
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Hmm..If so, then there is something wrong on your device .... if "notification bar is turned off" then you should not have it on desktop, but you still have ......
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yeah i turned it on just to test it and see if there is still a shadow . Also, in the gallery wallpaper setteting...it shows there too.
chubbypanda said:
yeah i turned it on just to test it and see if there is still a shadow . Also, in the gallery wallpaper setteting...it shows there too.
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Have you tried on Touchwiz ??
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Have you tried on Touchwiz ??
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Yup, it's there too....
chubbypanda said:
Yup, it's there too....
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Then I have no idea what it might be, I'm on Nougat already .... I see you're on AT & T .... maybe some hidden feature ....try to delete/install Nova Launcher again....
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Then I have no idea what it might be, I'm on Nougat already .... I see you're on AT & T .... maybe some hidden feature ....try to delete/install Nova Launcher again....
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Wish I was on Nougat already -_- I might just uninstall and reset the phone see if it helps. That shadow is getting on my last nerve.
Have you seen any problem like this before? or is something wrong with the phone?
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Wish I was on Nougat already -_- I might just uninstall and reset the phone see if it helps. That shadow is getting on my last nerve.
Have you seen any problem like this before? or is something wrong with the phone?
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Yea .... good luck [emoji6]
...... the last time i had such a problem with S4 on KitKat....never on S7 edge.....
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Yea .... good luck [emoji6]
...... the last time i had such a problem with S4 on KitKat....never on S7 edge.....
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resetting didnt help. time to trade in :crying:
Xode said:
Nova Settings >> Look & Fell >> Transparent notification bar [emoji6]
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Sorry to go OT, but how do you give your Nova settings that dark theme?
B3311 said:
Sorry to go OT, but how do you give your Nova settings that dark theme?
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...... very easy... [emoji6]
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The gallery part is normal. The shadow appears on mine when I bring up the options, then disappear when the options disappear.
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chanchan05 said:
The gallery part is normal. The shadow appears on mine when I bring up the options, then disappear when the options disappear.
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what option are you talking about?
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what option are you talking about?
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The buttons like 'More', 'Edit', etc.
Same image options hidden and options shown.
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chanchan05 said:
The buttons like 'More', 'Edit', etc.
Same image options hidden and options shown.
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yeah it shows it when im on the " more option screen " too but when in the preview wallpaper screen..is not there. but once the wallpaper is applied...the shadow shows up.
I have exactly the same issue. Dark gray rectangle appears on top of my homescreen wallpaper in low light conditions. In normal daylight the rectangle disappears. It's not a hardware issue because other windows like settings and lockscreen dont have this problem. Its the homescreen wallpaper only.
Tried Nova and Smart launcher and even Touchwiz, same thing.
I have Android 6.0.1 stock samsung rom. I think its a software problem. Nougat is not available for my phone yet.
Any ideas?
I opened Theme Store app and applied original theme and the wallpaper which comes with the theme doesn't have this issue. As soon as I set a new wallpaper picked from my gallery the shadow is back on top of the screen.
I download a few other themes and applied them and all the wallpapers which came with them didn't have the shadow problem and were covering full screen perfectly. But as soon as I set a new wallpaper the problem reoccurs.
So this is definitely a software problem.
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
ShrekOpher said:
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.
When I got my s7 with marshmallow, I loved that the homescreen icons were essentially the material design style in their full glory.
But when I took the ota for nougat, all my icons changed to the new theme style. It shrinks the original icon, puts it in a square box with rounded corners and a random solid colored background. I hated it. But none of the reviews about the nougat update even mentioned it.
I bring it up here because I see that the s8 is the same style. What did everyone else think about it?
I hate the fact that the icons are modified and the result is not what the original designers of those icons intended. To me they look tacky.
Buy a theme
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Are we really talking about icons?
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aptalca said:
But when I took the ota for nougat, all my icons changed to the new theme style. It shrinks the original icon, puts it in a square box with rounded corners and a random solid colored background. I hated it. But none of the reviews about the nougat update even mentioned it.
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You can change back to normal icons in Settings, under Display.
You can have any icons you like, Nova launcher for example can be customised in a crazy number of ways. With Samsung's theme store, you have even more choices if you want to use the stock launcher for some reason. The stock icons have no relevance, you don't have to see them.
Sevael said:
You can change back to normal icons in Settings, under Display.
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I feel really embarrassed. I thought I had looked all over but apparently I missed that one setting called "icon framing". Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
I was previously using an icon pack downloaded from the Samsung theme store
Just got a s7 edge and looking to go completely black by theming. Is this possible without root even for play store etc. Any help would be kindly appreciated.
Here's a black theme from Galaxy Themes no root needed.
Tmzdroid said:
Here's a black theme from Galaxy Themes no root needed.
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Is the play store black by Amy chance as most of my apps have a dark mode.
No just the regular Google Play.