i updated to android 8.0 today and the first thing i noticed after reboot is that some of my icons have white boxes around them. so i thought i would just change the icons to fix it. that did not work some of the icons did change but the white boxes remain. i then thought it was time for a theme change so i went and found a springy like puppy theme to use. that went badly also. None of the icons on the screen are from the new theme. in the screenie provided the green arrow shows the white box and the one icon that changed. the red arrow is the original themes icon set. the blue icon is the original theme icon with the white box around it. i have tried changing wallpapers and icons and themes but the icons do not change anymore.
Usul420 said:
i updated to android 8.0 today and the first thing i noticed after reboot is that some of my icons have white boxes around them. so i thought i would just change the icons to fix it. that did not work some of the icons did change but the white boxes remain. i then thought it was time for a theme change so i went and found a springy like puppy theme to use. that went badly also. None of the icons on the screen are from the new theme. in the screenie provided the green arrow shows the white box and the one icon that changed. the red arrow is the original themes icon set. the blue icon is the original theme icon with the white box around it. i have tried changing wallpapers and icons and themes but the icons do not change anymore.
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Try to apply the theme again
And in settings there is an option to turn off icon backgrounds.
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that did not work
only the home screen being affected made me thing.i had forgotten that i had installed the pixel 2 launcher in android 7. i went and turned it off and went back to defaults it all is working. so i uninstalled it and re downloaded it and reinstalled and it is working so it looks like the app did not like the upgrade.
looks like the theme hasn't been updated to make it compatible with Oreo.
it isn't the theme that has the issue as i tried 5-6 themes all having the same issue. it was the pixel launcher did not like being installed in android 7 then upgraded to 8. once i uninstalled the launcher and then reinstalled it all is working as expected.
i thought only i had that problem i use apex launcher on note 8 and after i apply theme or icon pack it is not changing
I just use the "vanilla" Samsung launcher, and I have this issue, even with a setting reset. I really don't want to do a factory.
I am having same issue but I have no launcher installed. Just using it theme. What I found is that the setting under
Settings - - > display - - > frame icons
is on and grayed out. Can't figure out how to ungray it
Flukster said:
I am having same issue but I have no launcher installed. Just using it theme. What I found is that the setting under
Settings - - > display - - > frame icons
is on and grayed out. Can't figure out how to ungray it
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Are you using an other launcher then the original one ? That could be the problem.
Flukster said:
I am having same issue but I have no launcher installed.
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It looks like Oreo has brought new feature called Adaptive Icons.
Apparently until developers would have enabled their stuff to support it you still be watching white area surrounding the legacy icons.
This is why I've switched to Nova, but unfortunately loosing numeric notification badges
mikewilc said:
It looks like Oreo has brought new feature called Adaptive Icons.
Apparently until developers would have enabled their stuff to support it you still be watching white area surrounding the legacy icons.
This is why I've switched to Nova, but unfortunately loosing numeric notification badges
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You need to install TeslaUnread for Nova Launcher
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I think I did this back when I first got my G2, but I've forgotten how...
If you have one theme installed, how can you select specific icons from another theme?
In the theme I have installed, certain apps that happen to have icons defined by the theme naturally default to those theme styles. But the some of the stock icons are actually better, IMO. So, while I remain in this theme, can I select some stock icon styles?
Sorry if this has been explained too many times before.
-bk
Try pressing and holding the icon you want to change and then click the purple brush that appears.
Edit: by pressing and holding I mean long pressing
Thanks! Got that, but the icons that are offered are only from my selected theme - not from the stock LG theme.
I seem to recall that there is some other way - or an extension of this - that provides access to other icons outside of the selected theme.
Ah, sorry then. Been a while since I was completely stock. So I'm working off my memory. I was sure that you could still pick an icon somehow.
I used unicon for my themes until I just ended up using a different launcher. I'm not sure if it's any help.
No worries. I appreciate your input.
Hi,
I have done this but can't remember the app I used. It was called icon extractor or something and allowed you to extract icons from themes into your gallery.
Then when you long press the icon on your homescreen to get the purple indicator you can choose the icon from your gallery.
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Just got the S7 edge yesterday, everything is going fine except one thing.
I set a black wallpaper to take advantage of this beautiful AMOLED screen.
But when I set it, I get very faint white horizontal bars on top of the screen. It's not that my screen is broken, it's completely black when I see that image in the gallery, but when I set it as a wallpaper, I get the faint white bars. I tried it on the stock launcher as well as Nova & Apex. It's persistent in all the launchers.
I thought it might be because of the "shadow effect" many browsers have, but I turned the shadow off & yet it was there.
Anyone else have this issue? How do I fix it?
Thank you.
Edit:
I'm including 2 screenshots of the home screen. One of them is edited to make the bars more prominent.
http://m.imgur.com/cSEOdlS,Vgd0guf
It's normal and part of the stock framework and would need editing to remove. Doesn't bother me.
You could use a launcher like Nova and work on the transparency of the notification bar, or use a gesture to hide it entirely. I believe it's done so that you can see the notification bar in a black on black situation.
A_N_D_R_E said:
You could use a launcher like Nova and work on the transparency of the notification bar, or use a gesture to hide it entirely. I believe it's done so that you can see the notification bar in a black on black situation.
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Won't make a difference, it's not part of the status bar.
I had same issue I tried the material black theme and gone now. Nice theme too
Beefheart said:
It's normal and part of the stock framework and would need editing to remove. Doesn't bother me.
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Huh... Weird. That's a bummer. Anyway, hopefully I'll get used to it & not notice it as much.
Thanks.
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You could use a launcher like Nova and work on the transparency of the notification bar, or use a gesture to hide it entirely. I believe it's done so that you can see the notification bar in a black on black situation.
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Tried that already. Doesn't work.
marcgear said:
I had same issue I tried the material black theme and gone now. Nice theme too
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I downloaded the trial for that theme. Agreed it's a beautiful theme, but it doesn't solve the problem for me.
Yeah, I noticed that too as I actually have the same exact wallpaper haha.
sanjay228 said:
Yeah, I noticed that too as I actually have the same exact wallpaper haha.
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Found a temporary fix.
Setting the wallpaper using KLWP.
It falls under the "live wallpapers", even if you just set a static wallpaper & the white bars don't show up on a live wallpaper.
Is there any chance to change lockscreen icons look?
As I see icons are always default one from theme which is used. If I change app icon in drawer or on home screen, icon for that(same) app is still default on lockscreen.
Is it somehow possible to set your own icons? Maybe with root? But still don't know how ...
Root, Xposed (not sure about lg compatibility though?) or maybe via Substratum.
There are a few options available I guess
Thanks for advice. Xposed, good option.
But, yeah, I'm guessing too, because there's not much about that (connected with G6) on google.
akulp said:
Thanks for advice. Xposed, good option.
But, yeah, I'm guessing too, because there's not much about that (connected with G6) on google.
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If the icons were themed then they should stay themed on the lock screen? If you dont mind, which theme are you using? maybe there is another resolution of icon that needs to be added for this to be shown.
And which icons are they??
What launcher are you using??
I can say that i have found on my themes that even though i themed my icons, that when i press the home screen to change wallpapers that the original gallery icon shows up. So i may need to add different sizes and get those the right size.
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If the icons were themed then they should stay themed on the lock screen? If you dont mind, which theme are you using? maybe there is another resolution of icon that needs to be added for this to be shown.
And which icons are they??
What launcher are you using??
I can say that i have found on my themes that even though i themed my icons, that when i press the home screen to change wallpapers that the original gallery icon shows up. So i may need to add different sizes and get those the right size.
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Yup, I saw that theme also changes icons. I know that. You can also DL icon packages (MIUI) which also change icons, but they're not quit the same as original icon form package ...
The only problem is, that there's hard to found theme with all the icons. For example, non of original LG theme don't have exDialer icon.
So, a little playing with themes help somehow.
akulp said:
Yup, I saw that theme also changes icons. I know that. You can also DL icon packages (MIUI) which also change icons, but they're not quit the same as original icon form package ...
The only problem is, that there's hard to found theme with all the icons. For example, non of original LG theme don't have exDialer icon.
So, a little playing with themes help somehow.
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No sadly we cant theme non system applications with this theme engine. And what can do is still limited. We cant touch everything.
So yea you will need to find an icon pack that works. Sorry
The Settings for the icon frame is GRAYED OUT as per photo attached.
any help?
Oh man. Hope that can be changed. Hate those frames
Go back to stock theme and then turn it off.
it's grayed out cause its not the default theme, set the default theme back, turn it off then change theme
ahh i see. got i and fixed. thanks xD
I have the same problem, some icons kept the frame after upgrading to oreo, any ideas?
(it's the default theme by the way, and some icons doesn't have the backgound)
ourSalaheddine said:
I have the same problem, some icons kept the frame after upgrading to oreo, any ideas?
(it's the default theme by the way, and some icons doesn't have the backgound)
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Samsung updated a lot (not all) Google's apps icon to fit their icon frame design.
What that means is, instead they make their frames completely opaque white (it is still transparent), they changed Google's apps icon at system level.
If you install a new launcher, you will still see the 'frame' on Google's apps.
This is stupid imo, they should have simply made their frames opaque white.
Hi guys,
Some of my icons (like all google apps) have an ugly white boarder around them. When I go into home screen settings I can change the shape of the icons to "original" or "rounded" etc. but that doesn't change the shape for some of the icons. It's apps like playstore, gmail, whatsapp. Things like that.
Is this the same for you guys?
[e] temp fix: NovaLauncher+Icon Pack...
clouds5 said:
Hi guys,
Some of my icons (like all google apps) have an ugly white boarder around them. When I go into home screen settings I can change the shape of the icons to "original" or "rounded" etc. but that doesn't change the shape for some of the icons. It's apps like playstore, gmail, whatsapp. Things like that.
Is this the same for you guys?
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Unfortunately it is also on mine.
Just found out that it's actually an Android Oreo feature called "adaptive icons". It's built in on a system level and apparently can't be disabled
So the only option is to use a custom launcher with icon packs.
cheers guys.
clouds5 said:
Just found out that it's actually an Android Oreo feature called "adaptive icons". It's built in on a system level and apparently can't be disabled
So the only option is to use a custom launcher with icon packs.
cheers guys.
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But you can apparently change the shape to circles or whatever, and I'm not sure where the menu to do this is. Anyone have any ideas?
MDW 100 said:
But you can apparently change the shape to circles or whatever, and I'm not sure where the menu to do this is. Anyone have any ideas?
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The menu is in display/home screen/
(if you use you use stock launcher)
clouds5 said:
The menu is in display/home screen/
(if you use you use stock launcher)
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The icon change option appears only on stock themes.. !! But not for downloaded themes
clouds5 said:
Hi guys,
Some of my icons (like all google apps) have an ugly white boarder around them. When I go into home screen settings I can change the shape of the icons to "original" or "rounded" etc. but that doesn't change the shape for some of the icons. It's apps like playstore, gmail, whatsapp. Things like that.
Is this the same for you guys?
[e] temp fix: NovaLauncher+Icon Pack...
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In nova launcher settings just hold for few seconds volume down, that will activate labs, then go in to icon shape menu in nova and activate legacy icons.