I have loved the Material Black theme for awhile now. Unfortunately Samsung has broken it piece by piece.
First was the email update. Once updated it went back to being white. I tried reapplying the theme but it does not work. Then I tried other themes and still cannot get it to work.
Then came the PIE update, blah. Night mode seems to be the only thing I can use to make it somewhat close to what it used to be with the Material Black theme.
Can anyone recommend a theme from the store that will do what Material Black used to do?
rosedog said:
I have loved the Material Black theme for awhile now. Unfortunately Samsung has broken it piece by piece.
First was the email update. Once updated it went back to being white. I tried reapplying the theme but it does not work. Then I tried other themes and still cannot get it to work.
Then came the PIE update, blah. Night mode seems to be the only thing I can use to make it somewhat close to what it used to be with the Material Black theme.
Can anyone recommend a theme from the store that will do what Material Black used to do?
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The theme creator just needs the update the theme for the new changes. I'm using Oreo Black for now.
Try this one, updated to Pie -
http://apps.samsung.com/theme/ProductDetail.as?appId=minuhome.Modern_Black
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Good day guys,
I am a noob.. sorry if i could not explain my problem well.
I have Note 4 (N910C)
I rooted my phone.. and followed these steps to get Galaxy S6 themes, check the link below
http://getgoogles.blogspot.in/2015/03/how-to-install-galaxy-s6-themes-on.html?m=1
Everything worked perfectly.. however, after applying the theme, when i go to ( settings, call log, and messages) they are still touchwiz shape.. they did not change to the theme shape..
In galaxy s6, when i apply the iron man theme for example, every tiny part of the phone changes to the theme shape including the call log and settings and messages.. but in my Note 4, these did not change.. they stayed on their touchwiz shape
Is there anything i can do to fix this??
Thank you so much
I have a similar problem. My phone just updated to the Marshmallow version, which introduced the new Marshmallow default theme, but left some of the previous 'Pisces' theme icons unchanged! I then installed a new theme, which did NOT change the icons (which were still part Marshmallow default, part 'Pisces'), and, on top of it, resulted in a big black space down one side of the screen (as if that theme was not correctly sized). Restarting the phone or deleting any/all themes did not help. I'm livid as the display is now a complete mess. Can anyone help with this please?
I've tried ModernUI for substratum (it's free) and it's great except the notifications are missing text because the background is black and some of the text is black.
Is there any theme that makes everything (settings, notifications, etc) dark but preserves the text properly? Don't want to buy, refund, repeat for all the themes on the play store. May get banned? lol.
strifej said:
I've tried ModernUI for substratum (it's free) and it's great except the notifications are missing text because the background is black and some of the text is black.
Is there any theme that makes everything (settings, notifications, etc) dark but preserves the text properly? Don't want to buy, refund, repeat for all the themes on the play store. May get banned? lol.
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Try swiftblack, it works tremendously well.
nfsmw_gr said:
Try swiftblack, it works tremendously well.
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Amen to this.
nfsmw_gr said:
Try swiftblack, it works tremendously well.
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On stock? I think that's what OP is asking about
tylerlawhon said:
On stock? I think that's what OP is asking about
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Substratum doesn't work on stock so I barely think op means stock rom.
Nuclear rom has full support for it though.
The stock rom has issues with substratum, but any third party rom that uses OMS will work with substratum. I use Dark DNA theme.
Also look out for Compound. It's paid but looks very clean and professional. You can also get dark or pitch black paired with a horde of other colors. It is the best dark theme I have used so far.
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Substratum doesn't work on stock so I barely think op means stock rom.
Nuclear rom has full support for it though.
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Unless something has changed (maybe they have), Substratum _does_ work on stock, in legacy mode.
Best if used to theme third party apps. It's generally not advisable to try and theme the Android System, SystemUI, or ROM/brand/carrier-specific apps and Settings on stock ROMs.
Plus it's a bummer that on some ROMs the notifications text is hardcoded black. Trying to darken the notifications doesn't work out too well.
LG G3 D851, PAC-MAN LP ROM, MultiROM, Tapatalk 4.9.5
Dark DNA is a good free dark theme, but I've found one spot with unreadable text - the prompt that asks you which browser to use when clicking a link has white-on-white text.
Drackyen said:
Dark DNA is a good free dark theme, but I've found one spot with unreadable text - the prompt that asks you which browser to use when clicking a link has white-on-white text.
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The theme compilation fails always, using RR
Hi guys,
So I've just installed the latest S8 update, which killed the color picker for the navbar and essentially gives you all white colors (Screenshot attached). Even if I use "Apply current theme", it's still white in some apps (e.g. Play Store, Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp many more). So I've downloaded "Navbar Apps" and it does the job of getting my navbar to a full black, but only sometimes. Im using a dark theme and have been using black navbars since they existed (why does Samsung even have white ones lolol) and navbar apps doesn't work 50% of the time and doesn't have the "ripple" animation when pressed, so I would really like a stable, solid black navbar. Any ideas? Thanks!
Same thing here...
The best thing would be to make it translucent IMO.
exxeHR said:
Same thing here...
The best thing would be to make it translucent IMO.
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Lol, thanks that actually worked (although I had to sacrifice the ripple animation). Still looking for a more seamless way to fix this though. To anyone interested: here's how I set it up (Screenshot attached). Can't really notice the translucency, but it looks black and that's what I'm going for.
Cheers!
AQG2 update just arrived on my unlocked us model G950U1. Installation went smooth and July security patch is present.
LOL. Of course. Just yesterday I flashed the T-Mo software on my 955U1 because I was tired if being a software version behind.
What are the changes? Does it introduce the hide navbar option?
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LOL. Of course. Just yesterday I flashed the T-Mo software on my 955U1 because I was tired if being a software version behind.
What are the changes? Does it introduce the hide navbar option?
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http://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G950U1/ATT/doc.html
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I got it installed. Gone is the Blue color I was using in the Nav Bar. Not really liking the selection. Ended up going with the 2nd color (an off-white).
What a joke Samsung is with these updates. They give T-Mobile an update first with the S7 and S8 before the unlocked device. Now, my phone its stuck in a possible boot loop while trying to update it.
Yeah update went smooth, not digging the fact they turned all the nav bar colors to different whites but my black theme keeps it black so w/e, the hide option is there and everything seems a bit snappier now.
Mr. Orange 645 said:
LOL. Of course. Just yesterday I flashed the T-Mo software on my 955U1 because I was tired if being a software version behind.
What are the changes? Does it introduce the hide navbar option?
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Yes, you can hide the nav bar, but I turned it off completely - don't like the dot in the lower left. Other than that I personally didn't see anything else.
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Yeah update went smooth, not digging the fact they turned all the nav bar colors to different whites but my black theme keeps it black so w/e, the hide option is there and everything seems a bit snappier now.
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After the update was installed, it felt snappier, but after some short time it started to feel the same.
Mirror of the firmware for odin purposes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3x0VW7b32-Wamp0dFA2X2tXWnM/view?usp=drivesdk
Can you post download link for (S8+) G955U1?
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Yeah update went smooth, not digging the fact they turned all the nav bar colors to different whites but my black theme keeps it black so w/e, the hide option is there and everything seems a bit snappier now.
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What theme are you using that keeps the navigation bar black?
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What theme are you using that keeps the navigation bar black?
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So it turns out some apps kept the black theme and some did not, however I did the adb commands in the post down a ways about changing the nav bar color and that seems to have worked well.
One odd thing I have noticed is that sound in games does not seem to be able to be turned down all of the way now, is anyone else having this issue? Like there is always some sound even after I turn it down completely. (Or a white noise sound if you mute the app.)
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So it turns out some apps kept the black theme and some did not, however I did the adb commands in the post down a ways about changing the nav bar color and that seems to have worked well.
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Thanks for the tip, I hadn't realized there was a way to do it with adb. This article gives all the information necessary to make the change. At an adb shell I ran
Code:
settings put global navigationbar_color -16777216
and now I have a nice black navigation bar.
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Thanks for the tip, I hadn't realized there was a way to do it with adb. This article gives all the information necessary to make the change. At an adb shell I ran
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settings put global navigationbar_color -16777216
and now I have a nice black navigation bar.
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Not sure why, but when doing a black nav bar, the white icons aren't a pure white...but a bit white-gray.
I ended up using a blue color -8922375
The latest update for Messages now has the option for Dark Mode, and also the Messages For Web has a Dark Mode as well!
Awesome, just got version 3.5 with dark mode enabled
Very nice. Now just add auto mode so it's white during day and black at night.
It's awesome! But they took away the widget... That might be a deal-breaker for me. Giving it a couple days.
They also removed the option to customize conversation color bubbles. The blue on blue looks hideous.
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They also removed the option to customize conversation color bubbles. The blue on blue looks hideous.
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To be fair, about 80% of the color choices were terrible.. Like, 5 year old kid crayon colors. The do need to bring back the widget and color customizing though. Just a little more, grown up for the latter
Soooo, I changed my wallpaper, and now the new look is gone. Seriously. I've force closed, cleared cache, rebooted, nothing will bring it back. What. The. Eff... Maybe it wasn't turned on correctly on the server side with this update? Anyone else have this problem? I really miss it, but I went back one version and have my widget back. Not sure which I want more...
It must be server side because now it is back to the old way
Aaaand it's gone.
Damn. I came here to see if anyone else had it switch back on them. Stupid server side sh*t. Put the changes in the apk and leave my phone alone Google ?
Same here as well. The new material design simply disappeared and reverted back to the previous layout
Yep looks like Google removed the Dark Mode on the back end.
They removed the entire new look actually. I bet they didn't mean to push out the new look with version 3.5. It would make sense as to why we had to force close to get it to show, and why it's back to the old design. Either way, dumb.
Chasing your tail Google!
It will be back, some tweaking to do apparently. That looked so good, maybe the most visually appealing change I've ever seen made to an app.
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Awesome, just got version 3.5 with dark mode enabled
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Well, here's something ugly.
The new version that previously had dark mode as an option has been changed directly from Google. It's gone.
No more dark mode.
Hey so I pretty much Installed an apk that gave me the dark mode option.
But I can confirm that It was swiftly taken away magically.
(Rooting my device could solve this . . ?)
Really upset about this actually.
It was turned off on the server side. Just have to wait for it to be enabled again.
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Hey so I pretty much Installed an apk that gave me the dark mode option.
But I can confirm that It was swiftly taken away magically.
(Rooting my device could solve this . . ?)
Really upset about this actually.
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EeZeEpEe said:
It was turned off on the server side. Just have to wait for it to be enabled again.
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I just now installed reinstalled textra so I'm good.
But in the grand scheme of things how to sway hireups to set black theme option default.
And its back with the latest update...for now.