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I dont know if this is in the right section...never ventured into this part of the forum
but does anyone know of a lock program(with a password) that has a more appealing look the wm default on is really ugly. or if anyone knows how to skin that one can you tell me where the files are
thank you
try throttlelock!
it's a android lock kinda clone...
you define a pathway, and that pathway is your password.
way better looking... way nicer!
you'll find it in the dev section
i saw that dont like it much
i want something with numbers
No one has any recommendation? I would kill for an application like this!
Since there are a lot of topics about this in the various phone-specific forums, lets just keep the discussion here
I found this thread in the XPeria forums. It is mentioned that by changing the windows today screen theme, you can change the colors of the buttons:
maedox said:
The colour of the buttons follow the Today screen theme. (At least it did when I changed the theme in Spb Mobile Shell (not the panel one).)
I chose blue theme, and the buttons are now dark blue. That's all I know.
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I checked this and it works! Unfortunately, on my Touch Diamond, this means that the top and bottom bar of my screens aren't stylish black anymore
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i know you can change the colors in registry, refer to http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=WindowsMobile5Colors, the value number that you may need to change is 8..dont know about changing the pictures on them. Hope that helps
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This is, however, for WM5. And in [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Color] in the registry, there isn't a value '8'.
I don't know that much about the registry, but I made one (binary). The values seem to be the HEX codes for colors, but with spaces between them and ending with 00. Black would thus be '00 00 00 00'. This didn't change the background color, but the color of the keys itself (behind the text), without changing the top and bottom bar of my TF3D screen Changing the value to 'FF 00 00 00' will change it to red, for example.
So does anyone know how to change the background? I'll mess around with other numbers a bit to see if it works in the meantime. To be able to skin the unlock screen with custom images would be even better ofcourse
Personally, I don't want to install a seperate lock-program, which drains the battery.
I wouldn't use a password program without a backup, I didn't backup, was locked out and had to flash a new rom which let to my radio stack being corrupt.
Just a warning
No longer will be posted here due to XDA finding it acceptable to harass someone for saying "Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior" but allowing their mods and xda tv hosts to be racist and post slurs (@ashasaur and @azrienoch). I wish for XDA to delete all of my threads and posts.
Amazing. HUUUUUGE read-through coming later! Thanks
Brilliant. Been hoping for something like this so I could try my hand at Theming
jairomeo's you are my heroo. great write up. easy to following. lovin it. finally half of android makes sense to me. lol
MODs please sticky this. please please. I've been looking for all of this info for weeks now.
Thanks
Thanks, manup and sirmez and a few others are going to be looking at it to add to it, I've just been to busy with my designs at work that I just can't focus enough to finish this.
Once I get time I am going to dig into things and continue to find more things we can change.
If you have something to share, let me know so we can add it also.
Maybe you can add link to AXMLprinterGUI based on AXMLprinter2 but with gui created by bigbear at modaco. Here is the link. http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile-pulse-pulse-modaco-com/304547/android-xml-decompiler/#entry1217176
That's what i use and it works great.
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Maybe you can add link to AXMLprinterGUI based on AXMLprinter2 but with gui created by bigbear at modaco. Here is the link. http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile-pulse-pulse-modaco-com/304547/android-xml-decompiler/#entry1217176
That's what i use and it works great.
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Cool, I didn't even know about that, I'll have to tak ea look at it and add it too, thanks for the tip.
I see in the write up about how to change the statusbar.xml for music to white. What about changing to another color?
thebowers said:
I see in the write up about how to change the statusbar.xml for music to white. What about changing to another color?
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As far as I know, and I haven't seen it stated anywhere else, the ranges are for black or white, and the increment is size.
That doesn't mean it isn't possible to edit it somewhere else, like smali or something. Which is one of my hopes, is give enough information for people to be dangerous and find some new things.
Well Done Jai I have been living and dying by this write up!!!!
this is bgill55 btw
Great work man, will help a lot of ppl to create nice themes!
bga7x said:
Well Done Jai I have been living and dying by this write up!!!!
this is bgill55 btw
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Yeah you were one of the lucky one's to see it early lol. I'm glad it has been helping you though.
When porting to a new version of cm what are the usual changes that have to be made to properly port it over?
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When porting to a new version of cm what are the usual changes that have to be made to properly port it over?
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The services.jar changes in most updates, so safe practice would be to redo that. Same goes for the framework-res.apk.
In apk's the thing you have to redo if you edited when an apk has been updated, is any xml in /layout.
For example, in framework-res.apk there are 4 ( 5 if you want to change the battery % color)
Locations:
/drawable/progress_horizonal.xml (this hasn't changed, it's safe to keep reusing the same on over and over)
Update all of these:
/layout/status_bar.xml
/layout/status_bar_expanded.xml
/layout/status_bar_icon.xml (this isn't in the guide yet, this is the battery %)
/layout/status_bar_latest_content.xml
Same would go for the xml's in the layout of:
DownloadProvider
Music
Phone
If you are trying to get around redoing all the apps, you need to ensure that the apps haven't been updated since the last copy. There is a utility that will do a compare, something that I need to bookmark so I can add it to be able to use as a reference.
Examples are like going from the 5.0.5's to the 5.0.6, when the ability to move apps back and forth between internal and sd-ext, this option was not in Settings, it's in MediaProvider, so if you had themed it before, you need to replace it with the new copy and put the images back in again.
ROM to ROM these things are different also (for services, framework-res; most apps are the same minus the ones carrying options like Settings, MediaProvider and SpareParts). So you want to redo them for that.
Edit: This may be a good question to add to an appendix of the doc as a reference only thing, I'll give that some thought.
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If you are trying to get around redoing all the apps, you need to ensure that the apps haven't been updated since the last copy. There is a utility that will do a compare, something that I need to bookmark so I can add it to be able to use as a reference.
Examples are like going from the 5.0.5's to the 5.0.6, when the ability to move apps back and forth between internal and sd-ext, this option was not in Settings, it's in MediaProvider, so if you had themed it before, you need to replace it with the new copy and put the images back in again.
ROM to ROM these things are different also (for services, framework-res; most apps are the same minus the ones carrying options like Settings, MediaProvider and SpareParts). So you want to redo them for that.
Edit: This may be a good question to add to an appendix of the doc as a reference only thing, I'll give that some thought.
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I use beyond compare great program!!!
bga7x said:
I use beyond compare great program!!!
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Never used to do that lol, dunno why I never thought to, thanks.
Mods, is there a chance of making this a Sticky?
My thoughts are:
Once the guide is done, Iĺl leave the link up, but will attach it to the thread also.
For questions that give information to add, Iĺl add it to the document.
To help keep good questions organized, I will make a second document, a Q&A, and Ill pull them so it can be used as a reference
Looks great and thanx i hate having to dig thru 7 million bookmarks for different theming posts. Thought i'd throw this out there you might know this already and it may be too detailed but google changed the color code line in the blue_button.xml in Calculator.apk/res/drawable to 08 00 00 1D instead of ending with a C. I haven't seen any other xmls with that change but it's something to keep an eye out for in the future if a search for 08 00 00 1C doesn't get any results and dunno if this will help but here http://markcarson.com/markcarson/ColorCalc.html is a color calculator that i use to get my xml hex colors. It has some presets and you can adjust the lightness and sat to your liking, so all you have to do is reverse it and add the aa after you find the color your looking for.
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Looks great and thanx i hate having to dig thru 7 million bookmarks for different theming posts. Thought i'd throw this out there you might know this already and it may be too detailed but google changed the color code line in the blue_button.xml in Calculator.apk/res/drawable to 08 00 00 1D instead of ending with a C. I haven't seen any other xmls with that change but it's something to keep an eye out for in the future if a search for 08 00 00 1C doesn't get any results and dunno if this will help but here http://markcarson.com/markcarson/ColorCalc.html is a color calculator that i use to get my xml hex colors. It has some presets and you can adjust the lightness and sat to your liking, so all you have to do is reverse it and add the aa after you find the color your looking for.
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Nope, nothing is too detailed I figure anything that dives into a lot of detail, like when I add in the meanings in the xml that Stericson wrote, I'm going to add it as an appendix to the document.
Thats good to know and I'll make sure to put that in. I have seen 08 00 00 1D in a few places, but I never messed with it to see what it changed, I guess with that tip, it's time to start playing more.
I would like to slowly come up with a list of xml's we know to edit and where they are.
I've thought about adding links in for hex sites, and since you are the 2nd person to mention it, I will add it in.
Thanks amac for the inputs
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Nope, nothing is too detailed I figure anything that dives into a lot of detail, like when I add in the meanings in the xml that Stericson wrote, I'm going to add it as an appendix to the document.
Thats good to know and I'll make sure to put that in. I have seen 08 00 00 1D in a few places, but I never messed with it to see what it changed, I guess with that tip, it's time to start playing more.
I would like to slowly come up with a list of xml's we know to edit and where they are.
I've thought about adding links in for hex sites, and since you are the 2nd person to mention it, I will add it in.
Thanks amac for the inputs
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No problem wish i had more to add then a color code and a link but you did a great job putting it together already, can't wait to see the finished product!
After searching a while, and partly thanks to poyensa who pointed me to maxtf3d tool, I compared the whole HKCU and HKLM reg trees before and after using that to change the softkey colours, and here's the summary:
Go into the following reg folder
Code:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today
and create (if not already present) a string key named
Code:
Skin
in which you insert any name (example "myskin") and then create a folder in the same path with the same name of the skin and go in there.
In case the key "skin" already exists you have to go into the folder which goes by that name.
The key
Code:
Color_CommandBarText
is the one you want, if already present in the preset theme you need to change it, if instead you created the skin reference, or the key was not present in the preset theme, create a BINARY key by that name, and insert a 4bytes value inside.
For the black value it would be
Code:
00 00 00 00
Restart, the softkeys text colour will have changed.
To change the application name in the taskbar, you have to go into
Code:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\
and add a BINARY key (if not already present) named
Code:
9
in which you set the text colour in the same manner you did for the softkeys. Restart, served.
The colour for the start menu icons text should be situated in that same folder, in the BINARY key named 39, yet adding that key and restarting doesn't work.
Absolutely noone knows?
Yes, this is a bump
Hellooww
I know as a fact that it's possible, as GTX sports black text softkeys... noone actually cares to share the info?
Have a look HERE my friend...I suppose it could help you !
try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493011
for me HD2 it works but only the tab for color>commandbar text, active enable box and once you have choose your favourite color in RGBA code press activate, TRefresh and softeresset afterwards
Method posted by poyensa worked, I could finally change the text colour of the softkeys using his instructions... thank you
Yet I am prone to tin2404 approach, as I need to know *how* to change that, I mean registry wise or manila wise, which are the things that I manually need to change, otherwise after each flash I will need to use max tf3d utility
Updated thread with working method.
Thankyou ephestione, i have changed the color blue (08 08 8A) using your instructions and it works!
Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
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Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
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Yes, I have read about that also in MS KB, yet I had no entry whatsoever for any skin under that registry folder, I had to create one specifically for that purpose...
@poyensa, karma going back and forth, you pointed me to max tf3d utility, and only then I could "reverse engineer" it to devise a method
Hi all,
newbie questions,
how to add a new binary key using the PHM registry editor?
How to change the color of the taskbar clock's number?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
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Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
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Hi ephestione,
You made my day! Thank u very much!
I installed totalcommander and followed all your instructions and I did it successfully.
Any idea on how to change the color of the taskbar clock?
Thanks in advance.
ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
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ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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What conflict is there? Do the Stripes occupy the same space? If yes, just make them empty in BattClock or put them in another place or show other information.
Is there anyway i can get this white status bar with the clock in black (not in white) instead of blue status bar or black status bar. thanks
dk2000zx said:
Is there anyway i can get this white status bar with the clock in black (not in white) instead of blue status bar or black status bar. thanks
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I think you have to root and install custom themes....I could be wrong, but I have a feeling Im not. I wish they would change the status bar to either white or black in 2.1,,,but thats not the case
yeah i have custom theme already, in fact my status bar is black... and im rooted but i want it white. idk where i can find it
Changing the colour of the bar is the easy part, not sure on the font though.
lol dont care about the font, all i want is the color to be black so that ill be able to see the clock in the white status bar
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Changing the colour of the bar is the easy part, not sure on the font though.
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I wish it was that easy for me....I have no clue lol. I would like it to be transparent if I could.
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You can do that by pulling service.jar editing it, deodexing a bunch of files and pushing them back. You are on your own because no one has done that before on X10.
I gave up after re-flashing 10-15 times.
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wow serious? damn that sucks maybe a little donation will get people motivated?
dk2000zx said:
lol dont care about the font
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That's clearly not true.
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I wish it was that easy for me....I have no clue lol.
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Oh come on, root your phone, install the Android SDK, run ADB (see sig), pull and edit your framework-res, push it back, job done. Not sure about transparent, will give it a go next time I reflash unless someone wants to try it out beforehand.
OK after reading this thread I gave it another try ( this time without messing around ) changed few of the codes in classout\com\android\server\status\StatusBarIcon.smali but it didn't change the color. Maybe i am missing something but hey i didn't have to re-flash this time. I just need to know what to change now and we will be done
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Maybe i am missing something but hey i didn't have to re-flash this time. I just need to know what to change now and we will be done
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I would have thought it would be a colour code, like in PS black is 000000 and white is ffffff with somewhere in between being 747474, I dunno.
XperiaX10iUser said:
I would have thought it would be a colour code, like in PS black is 000000 and white is ffffff with somewhere in between being 747474, I dunno.
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well not quite as simple as that. Spending some time with google i found that i have to edit this line after deodexing services.jar . What i also found out we need to deodex the entire /system/app and /system/framework to change the clock color. It may be possible but i just re-flashed again and don't want to try this again now. Maybe you can try ?
Code:
const/4 v6, -0x2
const/4 v7, -0x1
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Maybe you can try ?
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My expertise doesn't stretch as far as yours otherwise I'd be happy to.
Wow we are one step closer in getting white bar!
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XperiaX10iUser said:
My expertise doesn't stretch as far as yours otherwise I'd be happy to.
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lol no. We all are on the same boat i.e learning n00bs.just download jerpelea's deodexer and follow third tutorial from hacks and mods... and we are on same page. Oh and google i used that too.
Haven't tried this myself yet...
as per Bazza from his Frankendroid thread.
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Here is how i did it:
1. Right click on framework-res.apk, and go to 7-zip, open archive.
2. Navigate to /res/layout . There are three files we looking for in here (status_bar.xml , status_bar_expanded.xml , and status_bar_latest_event_content.xml).
3. Move these three files to the desktop.
4. Open HxD and the go to the file menu and then open. Navigate to the desktop and open all three files.
5. Start with status_bar.xml first. Do Ctrl+F to bring up the search window. Type 08 00 00 1C and change Data type to be Hex-string. Click ok.
6. In the file you will see that 08 00 00 1C is now hightlighted. The next string next to it is a color code for text. An example would be FF FF FF FF. In the example this would be for white with alpha. First thing to remember here is that the Hex codes are backwards. They follow the pattern of BGRA instead of ARGB like we did in the command prompt. Also within the BGR values they are backwards also. So I am going to give an example to help clarify. The color orange has a Hex code of FF6600 from the web color chart. In HxD it needs to be 0066FF and then FF will follow that. The last FF is for alpha, leave it alone.
7. After changing the Hex code to the color you want hit Ctrl+F. 08 00 00 1C should still be in there with Hex-string for data type. Just hit ok and it will take you to the next text color code. Change to the desired color like before. You will have to do this one more time within this file, making a total of 3 color codes to change. One may already be changed due to running the colorChangev3.jar. Save the file and head onto status_bar_expanded.xml .
8. Do the same as in the first file by doing Ctrl+F for 08 00 00 1C. There are three that can be changed in here. The last one is for the "clear" text that shows in the button on the notification drop down. I usually leave this one to 00 00 00 for black, since it is on a white background. Save after making changes.
9. Open status_bar_latest_event_content.xml. There are three changes to be done in here as well. Once done making the changes save the file.
10. Now right click on framework-res.apk again. Go to 7-zip in the menu and open archive. From here open /res/layout and drag the three xml files from the desktop into this folder. It will ask if you want to over the existing files, go ahead and do so.
11. Now push the framework-res.apk back to the phone.
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lol no. We all are on the same boat i.e learning n00bs.just download jerpelea's deodexer and follow third tutorial from hacks and mods... and we are on same page. Oh and google i used that too.
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Might have a go at it then....
urs74 said:
Haven't tried this myself yet...
as per Bazza from his Frankendroid thread.
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....and thanks to this might be a little easier to change. I thought it had something to do with the colour codes but if they are backwards no wonder it's confusing.
The one's i posted are for the pull down bar iam working on the services.jar and odex now for my black theme.
As have to change a few other xml's in other apk's as well to get all visible.
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The one's i posted are for the pull down bar iam working on the services.jar and odex now for my black theme.
As have to change a few other xml's in other apk's as well to get all visible.
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Thanks for clearing that up, will save me some time.
Please check out my forum on abstract se wallpapers, it has everything you need
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Hi Folks,
I'm new to Windows Mobile. Sorry if it has already been asked. I search it but haven't find it though. I wonder is there any way to change in Back ground. I'm using Ansar WM 7.5. In option there is only light and dark. Is there any way to put a picture there or change the color to blue of orange.
Its Windows Phone, and no that's not possible!
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read in the developers section , you cant change to a picture background that I know of but you can change the color , it is in registry but you'll have to look for it ,theres several posts on it use the search button!
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read in the developers section , you cant change to a picture background that I know of but you can change the color , it is in registry but you'll have to look for it ,theres several posts on it use the search button!
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if you have ansars ROM i think it has an registry editor, you can edit the registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > ControlPanel > Themes > 0 White theme or > 1 Black theme. select lets say 0 > tap on BaseThemeColor (thats the background behind the tiles)> and change "Value data" from #FFFFFF to #FF**** (any hex color code you want) just search on the internet an hex color code table or use the colors free app in the marketplace where you can select an color in an RGB spectrum and then see the hex code, it is only 6 letters long like 7a3b32 but DONT forget to enter the first two FF before the #. because if you dont enter the first two FF the device will don display anything and you can not revert it back if you change your accents for example to EE7a3b32 < that doesnt work and you must then hard reset you device to get it back but you loose all your data, FF7a3b32 is right. and if the color dont change after you exit the registry app restart your device then it should display!
i have tried to edit the accent color without the two FF before the hex code, because FF means full saturation, no opacity, AA is something like 100% opacity, i tried to enter DD something like 60-70% opacity but my device has nothing to display and i coulndt enter anymore my settings, i can not change the accent, because the registry for colors here work only with FF. the only exception is the one code at the bottom in the themes folder it is for the transparent tab in the people hub, and there you can only add something like AA
Yes a feature that MS apperantly thinks we don't need anymore on Windows Phone nor Windows 8, well at least on Windows 8 you can choose some cheesy pre-installed crapy ones but the opption in Windows Phone is gone especially with the Large tilels in WP8 comming
Maybe they will bring it back in Windows Phone 9 or something. (hopefully).