background color change for settings - Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]

I would like to change the background and text color for the settings menu in 2.1. by default it's white on black and I want the opposite. I know it has to do with changing a certain xml. I'm just not sure which program will do it as well as possible work on compiling and permissions. I prefer to flash it opposed to pushing files. any help is greatly appreciated
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It's part of the theme, so change the theme.
do you know how to change just that one color? i got the other parts of rom colors i want , and would like it gray
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Use a program to alter the theme. I forget the name of it, just Google it. Open the theme with the app and make the adjustment.
you can use ui tweaker: http://freewareppc.com/utilities/uitweaker.shtml
fantastic freeware app that works well. i'm using wm6.1 and it's flawless. there are 4 tabs to choose from for changing the colors. for your needs, i would think that the tab "system colors" or something like that will change the color of the bar you want. just remember that except for the today colors, you would have to peform a soft reset to enable the changes. also, you would need to practice a little to find out that the bar you're tweaking / changing colors is indeed the one you want. i often made mistakes in changing the notification bars and ended up changing the color of other areas.
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Change notification font color music.apk

hey, someone can tell me how to change it? its for Milestone, I wanna change it to white.
I think it uses global resources, meaning that while it can be changed you might change all of the notification colors. Unless you want to re-write music.apk that is...
someone more familiar with the music might be able to provide a better answer, but I'm sure it's sharing resources including notification color with the rest of the system.
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[Q] Ongoing event, Dropdown text color problems

I've installed/customized a theme exactly as I want with Black status bar, and black pulldown background with white text. I properly Deodexed and used the compatible services.jar, however, the following events still show up with black text in the dropdown list:
-In-Call timer status
-Download Progress
-Any item that is an event in progress
I've tried 4 different services.jar and all of them had the same problem, I tried editing the status bar XML files, only to have the phone refuse to load.
I notice 90% of themes leave the dropdown tabs gray, and I assume this is the reason, but does anyone have the files necessary to make all text in the dropdown white?
If you want to attach your framework-res.apk I can give this a go. I'm pretty sure this is in the /res/layout/status_bar_latest_notification.xml file or something titled similiarly.
Anyways.... I can give you some help if wanted...
I've attached my framework-res.apk, let me know what you can do. Thank You!
No problem. I will give this a go after work.
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Guyinlaca said:
I've attached my framework-res.apk, let me know what you can do. Thank You!
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In looking at your framework...is this the current framework that you thought SHOULD have the white text? Or a unmodified framework. In looking at it...it looks like the text should be white... At least from what theming I have done... You have white (ffffff) set in the correct places for the dropdown notification bar in /res/layout/status_bar_latest_event_content.
What ROM/theme are you using? Also are you on the 2.3.34 update? i'm still on 2.3.15... So I don't want to throw a framework on my phone that may cause issues =?
If you can give me some more info... I was digging through it tonight.
Thanks
I am using the 2.3.340 firmware, standard rom but rooted and deodexed.
I used that exact framework with 2.3.15 with the same issue. My theme is nearly perfect except for that, so it's kind of annoying.
Hm... I'll keep looking over it. So this current framework SHOULD have white text but didn't?
Try also looking at the styles.xml and colors.xml in the /res/layout folder. I.m winning if things need to match up and something in one of those files is overwriting your white color
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Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the services.jar hold the information to change the colors in the drop down events?
trebz said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the services.jar hold the information to change the colors in the drop down events?
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I'm pretty sure it just controls color for the clock, ticker, and the "titles" for the sections in the drop-down such as "latest" or "ongoing". It doesn't actually change the text color of notifications in the drop down.
Can u help me too
I had this issue with derezzed too, a lot of ongoing event text colors are controlled by each individual application (something I saw with dropbox and facebook uploads) so the options are to either customize each application as you get it, ignore the unreadable text, or simply change the .png to a different color that provides a similar feel while being able to read black text... or another artsy thing would be to use rounded corners to make each notification look like an individual bubble instead of a continuous pane
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I am new to theming. I extracted some apks from the ICS OTA and tried to change the gray colors in options menu (gri.png attachment) and calculator background. However, I couldn't find which png to change or if I need to change something else.
Can you please explain how to change these colors? Thanks! I really need this before getting crazier

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I've tried lots of custom roms for the HD7 and nearly all have issues with text and the light theme.. Change your theme to "light" then open up Registry Editor and if you're met with white text and a white background then you have the same problem.. I know messing with theme settings in the registry is kinda dangerous if you dont know what you're doing, so I'm asking if anyone knows how to fix this problem? What registry values need changed and what color codes used?
thanks in advance..
Well, that's usually the dev that didn't cared about the light theme during development: As a dev, you can either set a static color (that's what a lot of do; here it's white) or use a dynamic foreground value that's changed according to the theme (eg. white for dark, black for light theme)
As far as I know, you can't do anything to fix it... but you can ask the dev to fix it, it's usually easily done...

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