Good Morning,
I've just tried to skin my whole phone with metro/wp7. So far I managed to skin pretty much everything but the Messaging App and Active Sync background. It should be black like the background when composing a message.
Here the screen-shots of both (changing the font is no problem, thanks to UItweek):
Screenshot 1 and 2 in the attachment
And thats the way the "composing a message" windows looks like and the inbox should look as well:
Screenshot 3 in the attachment
Thanks for the help
PS: My ROM is Energy.BLACKSTONE.23678.Sense2.5.Cookie.DinikGlass.Aug.18.
Looks great! Good Job!
What would the threaded messages window look like , like pic 2 or 3?
I really like the threaded messages window so I'll post it too. It looks like it should with black background...
Any ideas?
how to change the threaded messages window background color?
That was pretty simple. Either you use UItweak http://www.freewareppc.com/download/utilities/uitweaker.shtml or look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=603905 if you want a picture as background.
The problem: Both won't change the Inbox window background and that's what I want.
i download the ui tweaker but having dificulties on which options to change outlook/sms thread background color, can you point me? thanks
that's exactly my problem, i can't change the inbox background just the background for viewing and typing messages.
If you want to change the "viewing and typing" background just go to "SysColor Changer". Change there the color to black (I don't know which one exactly you have to change for this effect. I changed pretty much every background to black and the font to a light blue. With white font you won't be able to see the text in the inbox window)
In the attachment you'll find my sys file. I tried to style my phone a bit wp7/metro like. just rename it to blue-black.sys (xda won't let me upload a *.sys file) and import it.
thanks, i'll play a little with it
if you have a solution for my problem, plz post it
Is there anyone with a solution or is it posted in the wrong section?
I think its better to close this thread now. Maybe there is simply no answer to that question.
OP, did you ever figure out how to change the background?
I have a theme that has the text input section black, but the chat log section is grey. I want to change the background to black but I can't figure out how.
Can someone please tell me how I can edit a .tsk file to make a black background for threaded sms? I've been searching everywhere and I can find which specific edit I need to make to change the background SMS window colour. Also the font colour for that window will need to be changed to white.
I'm trying to edit this theme I have attached.
Here is a screen shot of how it looks now. and the other screen shot is roughly how I want it to look (with black background).
bobzero said:
OP, did you ever figure out how to change the background?
I have a theme that has the text input section black, but the chat log section is grey. I want to change the background to black but I can't figure out how.
Can someone please tell me how I can edit a .tsk file to make a black background for threaded sms? I've been searching everywhere and I can find which specific edit I need to make to change the background SMS window colour. Also the font colour for that window will need to be changed to white.
I'm trying to edit this theme I have attached.
Here is a screen shot of how it looks now. and the other screen shot is roughly how I want it to look (with black background).
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Hi bobzero
I'm sorry but I never worked out how to get this done. I have skinned the "message writing window" by using UITweak. Maybe yours is not skinned because I've used an Energy ROM and there HTC Messaging is disabled.
At the moment I'm using Sense again with a very good looking X-mas theme. Maybe after Christmas I'll "return" to WP7.
The pocket outlook and contacts background is definied by the "gradient" color values under the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Color]
There are four keys named 15, 16, 36, 37 which are the alternating left to right gradient colours. You could set all of them to a single value to get a solid background color.
I find these through a Japanese customisation software called "PocketHand"
http://smart-pda.net/isourou/pockethand/
Is there any app/kernel out there that can invert colors on the screen? I do a lot of reading, and nice bright screen of the Captivate is really giving me a tan Is there anyway to invert colors like the way you can on the iphone? I have found individual applications that do white text on black support for stuff like RSS and email, but nothing at a system level. For eg, I am reading a book in the pdf format, but none of the ebook readers or pdf readers gives me the option of inverting colors. Would be great if I could just invert colors system wide and not have to worry about applications
Any suggestions? I have paragon rc6 running on Captivate.
bradb123 said:
Is there any app/kernel out there that can invert colors on the screen? I do a lot of reading, and nice bright screen of the Captivate is really giving me a tan Is there anyway to invert colors like the way you can on the iphone? I have found individual applications that do white text on black support for stuff like RSS and email, but nothing at a system level. For eg, I am reading a book in the pdf format, but none of the ebook readers or pdf readers gives me the option of inverting colors. Would be great if I could just invert colors system wide and not have to worry about applications
Any suggestions? I have paragon rc6 running on Captivate.
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I would recommend trying the 'screen filter' app. It helps reduces the glare, esp in dark. Plus the level u want can be customized.
You could turn brightness all the way down too
sent from my rooted captivate
Super!! This is a useful app. Thanks for the recommendation!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Top of the day to you all,
Shortly after rooting my Nook I had to install weatherbug and over all the program works as expected except for one small problem. When I go to read a weather alert the screen appears as black and I am able to see the alert title, however the actual text underneath I can't read. I tried to change the text color but still can't read it. Any suggestions?
I found My-Cast weather lite works better than wb
Hi
Since going to ICS CM9 I noticed that a lot of the OS is white instead of black, particularly the contact list and text message screens which we use a lot. This surely must be draining the battery a lot. Is there a way to change it back to black ie invert it?
Also the 2nd screen which comes up when reading a long SMS message is not present in ICS (the large white font on black background). I miss that. HAs anyone tried getting that back?
I don't want to go back to gingerbread but its looking like I might have to!
Inverted google apps, search for it, or you can get a theme like blue infinitum.
After flashing custom roms such as L-droid and AOSB 1.3.7 , everything works fine except for messenger apps which now shows hyperlinked text (typed phone numbers/weblinks/emails) in white. This is problematic as the white text becomes hard to be seen with the green and white chat bubble of whatsapp.
Other apps experiencing this problem includes facebook messenger.
This problem is not found in Gapps such as gmail and hangouts where phone numbers and hyperlinks are still displayed in blue.
Its a very peculiar problem which i can't find solutions anywhere. my hunch is that system font style needs to be changed.
Tried changing style using themes from CM theme showcase, problem persists.
Can anyone point me to the file that needs editing or any solutions available?