Is it possible to add a pic to the strat screen backgroud? I know we can add colors of our choice.....so lets try and figure out how to replace a pic or othey types of screen picture
You're far from the first to ask. It's going to be very difficult if not impossible on the stock ROMs. Changing the color is already part of the phone's theme code, even though it only ships with two themes (light, which species the background be 0xFFFFFFFF, and dark, which specifies that it be 0xFF000000). Changing those colors is just a matter of changing theme values in the registry and such. There's nowhere to specify an image, though.
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Hi.
I don't think this is an easy one, but I'll ask anyway.
When you use "Pictures & Videos" to select an image to use as your Today background, you are given the option of "Transparency Level". I just wondered if there's a way to select what colour is 'behind' the image when you do this. At the moment, it's white (or close enough), so the image gets lighter with more transparency. I would like it black, so that the image gets darker with more transparency. Realistically, you should be able to assign any colour, so you can almost colourize an image by altering its transparency.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks.
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Hi.
I don't think this is an easy one, but I'll ask anyway.
When you use "Pictures & Videos" to select an image to use as your Today background, you are given the option of "Transparency Level". I just wondered if there's a way to select what colour is 'behind' the image when you do this. At the moment, it's white (or close enough), so the image gets lighter with more transparency. I would like it black, so that the image gets darker with more transparency. Realistically, you should be able to assign any colour, so you can almost colourize an image by altering its transparency.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks.
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It is not a " white colored " background. It is a " lack of color " background, no image.
You cannot overlap two today background images.
denco7 said:
You cannot overlap two today background images.
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I don't want to "overlap" two today background images. If you read the question, you'll see that I've explained the background colour is white, which it is.
Set the background image to 100% transparent and you'll see white. A background with a "lack of colour" would actually be black (see transparency, 0 value colour etc. for both windows & web development.)
Something, somewhere, defines that white is used as the background colour (it may actually be an overlay for the image, with inverse transparency, as opposed to a transparent image over a solid colour.) This may be a registry entry, but it's just as likely hard-coded into the OS. Either way, that is my question.
Thanks for trying to help.
There are so many beautiful themes to make the home screen and wall paper beautiful, but I just don't understand why is there apparently no way to modify the lame white over black background in some of the things like Settings, the apps tab, etc., or at least I haven't been able to find it out.
Does anyone know of any possible way to do that? A simple change of background/foreground color would be nice.
I have been recently messing around with the color accents on my phone. So far I have managed to make a nice Black, Red, Silver theme. However I am stuck with one key I cannot seem to find.
I have successfully managed to change almost all the text to red using these keys:
HKLM\ControlPanel\themes\1\
ProgressBarBackground
TextNeutralColor80
TextNeutralColor75
TextNeutralColor60
TextNeutralColor30
TextNeutralColor20
TextNeutralColor
ContrastColor
However I cannot seem to find the White text that displays on Tiles nor can I find the color that represents the actualy TILE in the call log or textmessaging. I know they are two separate registry settings because using an OLD advanced config I can easily change the tile color to say Dark Blue however the actual text color in the call log and text message area will still be the normal blue. Which is because the old one did not know where the other keys were. So does anyone know of the entire full list of Registry Keys for editing text colors?
Would be cool to see screen shots of your customizations
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Have you looked into the XAML files in \windows. There's a thread where someone mentioned these files are related to the themes/accents. The first 2 digits refer to the theme 00 & 01. The second 2 digits refers to the accent color. They somehow work with the registry values.
For more info, see this post.
Ok excellent. I will poke around in that particular file and see what changes what.
Being on an HTC I can easily overwrite in the windows directory so this should not be a problem.
As to a screen shot I will take a look at the new build of WDM and see if I can screenshot it.
Laquox said:
As to a screen shot I will take a look at the new build of WDM and see if I can screenshot it.
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Yes, WPDM lets you take screenshots. You must have the multitasking/dehydrate hack enabled though so it'll stay connected with TouchXperience running in the background when you change screens.
Unfortunately the values for what I am looking for is not in those XAML files. Apparently editing those only changes how apps read the accent colors and does not actually change the colors I am looking for.
The only colors I have left to change is one single value somewhere but I have done searches of the registry and through those Xaml files and they seem to not be there. :-/ It looks great right now, but would blend completely if I could just fix these last few.
I attached a few screens. You can see exactly where I still have a silver/grey text even though it should be red.
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Unfortunately the values for what I am looking for is not in those XAML files. Apparently editing those only changes how apps read the accent colors and does not actually change the colors I am looking for.
The only colors I have left to change is one single value somewhere but I have done searches of the registry and through those Xaml files and they seem to not be there. :-/ It looks great right now, but would blend completely if I could just fix these last few.
I attached a few screens. You can see exactly where I still have a silver/grey text even though it should be red.
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If I'm not mistaken some of the fonts are semi transparent, white with the black bg showing through. The first 2 digits are the alpha transparency value. I believe FF is solid where 00 is fully transparent. Another thought, is they look to be the same color of the button icon bar. Either way, looks nice.
Hi folks.
I have looked everywhere for help with my omnia 7's background accent colour and one other minor issue with no results.
I have the dft custom rom on it and when i choose dark accent it goes green!
Also i cannot email a picture right away after taking it because when i go to options after taking pic there are no options listed.
Thanks in advance
you can look here or here
maybe you had installed advanced config, then you can change directly the accent colors!
Thanks for reply.
I have tried that with no success.
See attached for pics....one pic shows the background accent and it is already set to dark but showing a kind of green..and the other is me trying to send a picture directly to an email contact where there are no options showing up.
Thanks again
Got it by installing metro theme
Cheers anyway
the only problem with changing the background color, the system dont support it now. if you look in to the email. or me hub or sometimes on other places like apps that only have black and white as "standard" in theyre xml files, the colors are messed up and are disturbing you from reading. it look good on the start screen but far from usable state right now. i whish we could manage to define all colors in the whole UI, not only a few things.
try to flash another custom rom or change your radio rom version
It really isn't necessary to have a full theme support in these AOSP/AOKP/CM ROMs because most of the skins made for them suck major ass anyway.
All you need is one single option that will change the holo blue color across the system into another color. This includes all the status icons, the separator line as well as the dark background tint.
but instead, we have these skins that change some of these colors but not others, or they also apply a stupid tint to icons and stuff. So necessary!
See the attached image? That is ALL I need, I just opened it in Photoshop and adjusted its HUE. But instead, there are all these custom options to change the color of this, change the color of that... You can't just change the color of one element and not the others because then they won't match!