did google actually put energy into choosing this puke horrid blinding green color for the dialer, it shows their idiocy
any way to change the color WITHOUT a new dialer. and no not upgrading past 7.0. why?
dont want it. just want my white dialer back. not green. dafuq were they thinking. at least give options to customize something simple.
I absolutely hate when people decide for the masses but dont give simple customizing options to suit that person. we do have to look at the screen, you know that right DF google.
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With a Samsung you use a different theme to change that.
With a Pixel no clue... may be no easy way?
Google still thinks people like the puke pastel crap... us deplorables don't.
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So a common trend (which I welcome really) in AOSP builds is the addition of a dark mode. If you aren't aware of what this is, it changes the backgrounds of certain apps to black, so things like the increasingly bright google apps have a black background now to make it easy on the eyes. However there seems to be a problem I'm constantly running into, and its intriguing that I haven't seen 1 post about it, try as I might to find a solution.
There are certain apps that I guess make calls to the same resources as some of androids ui, to get their rules about what to do with color, except those apps were not made with black backgrounds in mind, as shown by the lack of white or colored text to let you see what the hell you are doing. I guess I would even understand if I just had to turn off the dark mode as thats not that big of a deal. The problem is that these apps STAY THAT WAY. I'm not sure if this happens on TW roms, since they dont have much theming options. I thought maybe it had something to do with my backups, maybe they were carrying something over from other roms, but new apps entirely were suffering the same fate. I've changed the theme with theme changer and that seemed to be sort of solution, except I dont want to have to switch themes just to be able to read an app. The other problem there is that dark themes I've used do the same damned thing in the opposite direction making text and check boxes, unreadable or undetectable, because the devs haven't thought that "hey making things dark probably wont work for every app". Does anyone else experience this issue, and does anyone have some suggestions? Its extremely frustrating.
I've seen numerous people ask about this but it's always either ignored or put down. I just want to understand once and for all, since I constantly see screenshots of folks running Omnirom that have the white accents as opposed to blue throughout the system theme. I'm pretty sure some screenshots from the Omnirom developers themselves I've seen even have this. Though all nightlies I've downloaded have had the blue so I'm incredibly confused. I prefer the consistent white. Can someone clear this up for me?
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I've seen numerous people ask about this but it's always either ignored or put down. I just want to understand once and for all, since I constantly see screenshots of folks running Omnirom that have the white accents as opposed to blue throughout the system theme. I'm pretty sure some screenshots from the Omnirom developers themselves I've seen even have this. Though all nightlies I've downloaded have had the blue so I'm incredibly confused. I prefer the consistent white. Can someone clear this up for me?
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Statusbar and such are white. Things that use the "default" Holo themes (Settings is a good example of this) will still be blue. This is by design from Google - same as their own official firmwares.
Changing these aspects will also impact any app running on the system, and as a result, we will *not* be changing the default configuration Google implemented here.
At some point we'll bring back theme engine support (not necessarily the classic T-Mobile theme engine, we're considering the ChameleonOS theme engine as an alternative) that allows the defaults to be overridden, but until then, we can't risk that changing the defaults will have unintended consequences (such as the app breakage that resulted from Samsung mucking with the system themes on some of their devices.)
@gkassee37 -- I really, really dislike that blue. Always have, for some reason.
I wish it was as easy as just globally replacing one hex code with another. It's pretty much a "one-liner" to do -- just one command typed at a terminal. Arguably not a trivial command line to craft, but still not a complex task.
While I'm an "in the code" kind of guy, I totally respect the work of the better "themers" out there as there are so many things they need to check and make sure all are still usable, not just looking good.
Let's say that you did just replace all the ugly blue codes with shiny, bright white.
What happens if you have an element on a white background?
How do you tell that it is "on" or "active" or what have you? All of a sudden, it just disappears.
What if it isn't even in the "system" or a system app? You've got some third-party app that is depending on a core widget of some sort and is rendering it on a white background...
To do it right, you really have to look at each element in the UI and make sure that you have done something reasonable. I'll let the Google folks do that if it means that the OmniROM team can focus on a stable, fast, and usable ROM for my phone.
as much as I hate that blue.
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@gkassee37 -- I really, really dislike that blue. Always have, for some reason.
I wish it was as easy as just globally replacing one hex code with another. It's pretty much a "one-liner" to do -- just one command typed at a terminal. Arguably not a trivial command line to craft, but still not a complex task.
While I'm an "in the code" kind of guy, I totally respect the work of the better "themers" out there as there are so many things they need to check and make sure all are still usable, not just looking good.
Let's say that you did just replace all the ugly blue codes with shiny, bright white.
What happens if you have an element on a white background?
How do you tell that it is "on" or "active" or what have you? All of a sudden, it just disappears.
What if it isn't even in the "system" or a system app? You've got some third-party app that is depending on a core widget of some sort and is rendering it on a white background...
To do it right, you really have to look at each element in the UI and make sure that you have done something reasonable. I'll let the Google folks do that if it means that the OmniROM team can focus on a stable, fast, and usable ROM for my phone.
as much as I hate that blue.
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Yup. That's pretty much it. A number of those blue items are highly likely to get rendered against white by an app. End result could be really nasty. (Many of the themes out there break horribly with some apps... And from memory, the "all white" themes have a bad habit of being the most likely to break.)
During a call the notification/status bar at the top really wants to let you know you're on a call. It turns a ridiculous color green with an animated wave running through it.
Were they serious with this? It has got to be the worst choice ever. It conflicts with everything - except - maybe what they did to the Hobbit's Shire on Blu-ray. 1983 called and wants their CGA color scheme back.
Can this be changed? How can I express my... concern to Sony?
And the lock screen clock. Ugh. What the heck Sony?
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During a call the notification/status bar at the top really wants to let you know you're on a call. It turns a ridiculous color green with an animated wave running through it.
Were they serious with this? It has got to be the worst choice ever. It conflicts with everything - except - maybe what they did to the Hobbit's Shire on Blu-ray. 1983 called and wants their CGA color scheme back.
Can this be changed? How can I express my... concern to Sony?
And the lock screen clock. Ugh. What the heck Sony?
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Almost every phone out there has a Green Bar during a call.
Im not a big fan of the clock but its something different.
haydonxda said:
During a call the notification/status bar at the top really wants to let you know you're on a call. It turns a ridiculous color green with an animated wave running through it.
Were they serious with this? It has got to be the worst choice ever. It conflicts with everything - except - maybe what they did to the Hobbit's Shire on Blu-ray. 1983 called and wants their CGA color scheme back.
Can this be changed? How can I express my... concern to Sony?
And the lock screen clock. Ugh. What the heck Sony?
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Don't like it - make your own rom....
It could be Fluro Pink for all I care regarding the ongoing call colour of the status bar, and the clock? Change it if you don't like it. Jeez...
hyelton said:
Almost every phone out there has a Green Bar during a call.
Im not a big fan of the clock but its something different.
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Green can be okay but what they've selected is horrid.
The clock is something very similar that appeared in an earlier version of 4.x and then quickly disappeared. Probably because people found it ugly. They should have known better. Replacing the lock screen is easy if I want to give yet another company personal info but... recommending to someone to unlock their bootloader, create a new ROM and install is insane to take care of the flourescent green.
does this bar random my appear? I don't see it for all calls.
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does this bar random my appear? I don't see it for all calls.
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It is active when you go to another app while calling.
I LIKE IT!!
It's absolutely unbelievable that Sony don't want to listen every single one of us...can you believe that?
Green colour is used because you have exactly the same (check with hex colour codes) colour of call button.
That's the feature you'll see few times only, can it be you are having problems with it?!
It can be changed without any problems.
Extract apk to your PC decompile it and change 9.pngs and xml/smali (java) code.
Recompile and sign it and you'll have your own colour...
If I built another theme I'll theme that as well..
Hey folks!
I've recently updated to Oreo and realized that if I change the icons through the samsung theme store the preinstalled apps(maps,chrome,drive,playstore..) has that same rounded cornered touchwiz crap look and arent changing. On nougat this wasnt a problem,I changed to another icon pack and if the app wasnt themed it would go back to app's default icon. I cant even force the app's default icon(like youtube staying in an ugly white bubble).
Also, I tried turning off icon frames,without luck.The mentioned apps stayed the same
Any advice?
Apperently google apps don't change the frame
That are the beautiful "Adaptive Icons", another great idea of Google. All developers have to include different shapes of icons now, and Google itself is lazy af and just puts a white border around them to match the shape of the other icons. Can only be changed in custom launchers with icon packs unfortunatly...
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That are the beautiful "Adaptive Icons", another great idea of Google. All developers have to include different shapes of icons now, and Google itself is lazy af and just puts a white border around them to match the shape of the other icons. Can only be changed in custom launchers with icon packs unfortunatly...
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Thanks for the explanation.
Hopefuly Google will provide the correct icon pack (same for LinkedIn I've noticed). Those white frames look very bad
I was having the same issue. In past used "Icon Changer". This also stopped working. Strongly recommend using "Adapticon" play store. Can add widgets that act as app shortcuts. On home screen and in dock. I think it will do the trick.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.damianpiwowarski.adapticons[/URL]
Wait, you mean it doesn't just work like it used to? That feels like a step backwards.
mskvsk said:
Wait, you mean it doesn't just work like it used to? That feels like a step backwards.
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Technically adaptive icons are supposed to come with built in functionality for notification badges too (vs the add ons that Nova could do if you let it, this would be native to the OS) and that was going to be "their advantage" but yeah, they're so ugly.
Everyone I've seen likes the unique shapes that Android app icons could have. It gave them personality AND it was easier to find an app by sight then it is now. Before you could quickly pick out a well-known app just from its outline. Now we've lost that ability with the loss of icon shapes.
Stupid move on Google's part.
anybody knows how to bring back icons without frame feature for pie on galaxy s9,s9+ or note 9 without launcher? These circle icons with white background are driving me crazy
White Frames and OneUI Icons in general
youngtg said:
anybody knows how to bring back icons without frame feature for pie on galaxy s9,s9+ or note 9 without launcher? These circle icons with white background are driving me crazy
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Totally agree. What's even worse is if you have CONTACTS icons on your home screen (e.g. using contact shortcut widget). They all get a white frame, when the contact pictures were already round framed. The contact faces now get shrunk to a minimum, and they look small, sad and terrible in the frame.
**** What were they thinking? ****
The option to remove the frame has been dropped from the UI. The only option is to load a custom icons set from Themes... I did that and it sort of fixes the issue. Only problem then is I don't really like any of the icons set I've seen in half hour (can't spend more time on this), and after switching icons I now see Icon badges don't show when they should.
Pretty mad altogether. Why, oh why must Samsung always do something to spoil an otherwise very good update?
Also (off topic, but I need screaming about this...) - In my entirely personal opinion, the new PIE icons are ***** to begin with. They have nothing to do with the style of the device and are just goofy. I wasn't a particular fan of the OREO icons, but, in the end, they were WAY better for this device than the new ones.
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Also (off topic, but I need screaming about this...) - In my entirely personal opinion, the new PIE icons are ***** to begin with. They have nothing to do with the style of the device and are just goofy. I wasn't a particular fan of the OREO icons, but, in the end, they were WAY better for this device than the new ones.
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I'm using this icon set, looks pretty Oreo-like to me:
http://apps.samsung.com/theme/ProductDetail.as?appId=minuhome.Zero_icon.appiconpack&SITE_CODE=fr
Mwyann said:
I'm using this icon set, looks pretty Oreo-like to me:
http://apps.samsung.com/theme/ProductDetail.as?appId=minuhome.Zero_icon.appiconpack&SITE_CODE=fr
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Man, you made my day Literally HATE those Pie icons
Very good and nice for me:
http://apps.samsung.com/theme/Produ...ideadesigns.Monolith.appiconpack&SITE_CODE=ro