I am waiting to receive my N6 and doing some research. Is there a built in Dark theme for material design or just that color inversion setting?
For once I don't want to mod the phone other than getting the tether for free.
Would like the dark theme for better battery though.
Only color inversion.
There is a dark material keyboard but that is about it.
You will most likely need to root to tether properly.. or at least with tmobile that is the case.
If you go that route, you might as well install the black theme that is floating in the themes and apps section.
Definitely no dark theme in stock
Thanks guys. Looks like I need to mod then.
I suggest blisspop comes with deep darkness theme
Just so you know, having a dark background doesn't conserve battery. It only conserves battery if it has a black background. "Dark" doesn't preserve battery
zephiK said:
Just so you know, having a dark background doesn't conserve battery. It only conserves battery if it has a black background. "Dark" doesn't preserve battery
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I am interested in anything promoting unlit pixels instead of the heavily lit lollipop theme.
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I am interested in anything promoting unlit pixels instead of the heavily lit lollipop theme.
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Unlit would have to be 100.00% black. Gray doesn't count towards as "unlit" pixels.
There is a dark theme in stock BUT it has not been fully "activated" by google yet. The best theming options in my opinion, is to install an AOSP ROM with RRO enabled. This exposes and uses the native theme switching capabilities that google hasn't activated. You can install theme apks that theme different apps and components using teh Layers app. It's in it's infancy but very imtersting so far..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/official-layers-bitsyko-apps-rro-t3012172
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/0-themes-official-mega-rro-themes-t3011075
zephiK said:
Just so you know, having a dark background doesn't conserve battery. It only conserves battery if it has a black background. "Dark" doesn't preserve battery
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If that were the case, then turning down the brightness would have no impact at all on battery life.
Fact is, the DARKER the pixel is set for, the lower the power consumption. And while the step from "off" to "minimum" may be a big one, it is still much less than the step from "off" to "maximum". The subpixels also can activate individually, which means that if you have a pixel that is all green, only the green subpixels will come on, the red and blue will remain off and saving power.
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If that were the case, then turning down the brightness would have no impact at all on battery life.
Fact is, the DARKER the pixel is set for, the lower the power consumption. And while the step from "off" to "minimum" may be a big one, it is still much less than the step from "off" to "maximum". The subpixels also can activate individually, which means that if you have a pixel that is all green, only the green subpixels will come on, the red and blue will remain off and saving power.
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Interesting stuff
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Ok so been hard at work making a nice blue theme. 90% done and looking real nice. Dug alot of xml files and change alot of major system text colors, still got few more to find. Some screen shots are located here:
http://www.tigerznet.com/xoom
Things to notice
Icons are standard blue
The shadows and outlines are blue
Big clocks are standard blue/dark blue
Major system texts light blue
Descriptions a turquoise color
Running on hammerhead but suggested to use morays battery icons.
This is based on wifi model, still gotta dig up the 3g models.
Disabled text/buttons/icons still gray, left these as is for sakes of easily seeing they disabled.
Thing up coming:
Removal of Redundant battery level in quick panel.
Notification text still gray/white
Apps word still white (did change xml didnt work some reason)
Adjust icons for 3g models.
Any other suggestions from you.
Let me know what you think and any suggestions welcomed.
looks good so far
So i have been trying to get a black background that is truly black.
everything i have tried has left a slight hue on the background. back 2 black is not supported or i would have tried that.
is there any way to get background to remain off completely and only light the pixels for the icons, clock, notification etc etc. i notice the info bar at the top is darker than my black background and no matter what i cant get the background to go completely black.
my reasoning is if i make the icons into line art, and keep as much of the screen off wherever i can i can stretch battery life even further. it worked wonders on my gs2. But having a slightly glowing background ruins all that.
I'm not sure whether it's supported, but you can try making a monochrome bitmap-file (.bmp) in MsPaint. At least you are sure this way that the black is truly black.
Have you tried using different launchers? Are you sure the hue is not just your icons giving some 'bleeding'?
thanks, i will give that a try.
its the same with go launcher and touchwiz. its actually magnified on the lockscreen showing lots of banding.
Try this pic. I use it on mine and looks black
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bundles said:
thanks, i will give that a try.
its the same with go launcher and touchwiz. its actually magnified on the lockscreen showing lots of banding.
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My first Note did this so I sent it back. My new one does not do it.
still no luck, apps with black backgrounds look fine.
i tried an all black bitmap and that didnt work either.
is there any way to turn background off and just leave it blank? would that give me a pure black background?
like i said i dont think its a hardware problem since the app backgrounds look deep black unlike the wallpaper. i did see something about the note only being 16 bit and that was causing weird display issues due to scaling or something, blah blah.
its using 24bits
thats right, the note is 24 bit and the os operates in 16 bit currently, right? either way i need to find a way to fix it.
I used a plain black GIF. Works fine for the home screen background, but on lock screen it has barely noticeable dark gray lines in it until you touch it and the unlock symbol appears.
here is the one i made
this black is one color 24 bit png on my note it is completely black at any brightness. let me know if it works. 800 x 1280 black correct dpi blackground
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?gcufvpft3yawf6p
or download "no wallpaper" from the market - simple app that just adds a wallpaper that is totally black. Works a treat.
Try an app called COLOURS by Tim Clark
So I opened up the framework-res.apk and noticed in the colors.xml file that both material light and material dark hex codes are already present. What is telling android to use the light theme? Shouldn't there be a way to toggle between light and dark? I am thinking there should be an easier way than tricking the system by swapping hexcodes out. This is really my first experience with theming so maybe im missing something
I just don't think they've implemented it fully yet is all. That said, there's always been holo light and dark built in since ICS too
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I just don't think they've implemented it fully yet is all. That said, there's always been holo light and dark built in since ICS too
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oh ok. it seems holo light and dark are still present as well.
I've seen several threads talking about how prone the Note 9's AMOLED screen is to burn-in. I wish to use the default light theme for once as it complements my phone's new background and style. Since the day I updated to Android 9 I have used the dark theme and have some concerns about burn-in, especially in the navbar area. Has anybody here who has used light theme regularly noticed any form of burn-in?
Burn-in only happens if you have a bright picture displayed on your device's display constantly for a prolong period of time. However if you use a dark theme, it will preserve your battery.
Just a pet peeve of mine; the UI on Pixel 7 in dark mode isn't actually black, it's more like a grey or brown depending on what style you choose. Makes it look like an LCD not an OLED. I've attached 2 screenshots of app drawers to illustrate. One is from my Pixel 7 which isn't exactly black, and the other is of my Galaxy A53 which is pure black. Just looking to change that if possible.
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Just a pet peeve of mine; the UI on Pixel 7 in dark mode isn't actually black, it's more like a grey or brown depending on what style you choose. Makes it look like an LCD not an OLED. I've attached 2 screenshots of app drawers to illustrate. One is from my Pixel 7 which isn't exactly black, and the other is of my Galaxy A53 which is pure black. Just looking to change that if possible.
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the only solution is to use a third party launcher
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the only solution is to use a third party launcher
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I bought Nova Launcher Prime a couple years ago, may as well use it. But for what it's worth this option should come stock.
mewcatchew said:
I bought Nova Launcher Prime a couple years ago, may as well use it. But for what it's worth this option should come stock.
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You are welcome to try this if you are stock-rooted. Flash in magisk app.
The drawback is that upon rebooting your phone, your phone relocks itself (not reboot). When you unlock it the second time, the mod takes affect. Without that post script, the phone would bootloop. This happens everytime you reboot your phone. Because of this, this mod is incompatible with the magisk module that is a "bootloop protector" as it sees this mod as bootlooping instead of relocking and disables the mod. This mod is using cool_modules installer from here:
GitHub - jairaj08/SystemUI-Patcher: A systemUI patcher mod use for injecting Xmls to SystemUI on All roms and android versions, Systemlessly.
A systemUI patcher mod use for injecting Xmls to SystemUI on All roms and android versions, Systemlessly. - GitHub - jairaj08/SystemUI-Patcher: A systemUI patcher mod use for injecting Xmls to Sys...
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I tweaked it to use with Pixel Launcher.
To get your settings background black, you go to settings/ display/display theme and choose stock-black.
Might be worth a shot.
Also repainter app has this feature.
The reason why the color of the dark theme is not black but something similar to gray is because when you move white text on a completely black background, an annoying color plot is perceived due to the delay that the screen pixels have. OLED to go from completely off to on, and it is precisely here where the grays fulfill a very important task, since they generate a contrast that "hides" the phenomenon described above.
more info:
Into the Dark
Explore new color palettes, revamped contrast, and increased legibility as four Google products adopt Material’s dark theme
design.google
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The reason why the color of the dark theme is not black but something similar to gray is because when you move white text on a completely black background, an annoying color plot is perceived due to the delay that the screen pixels have. OLED to go from completely off to on, and it is precisely here where the grays fulfill a very important task, since they generate a contrast that "hides" the phenomenon described above.
more info:
Into the Dark
Explore new color palettes, revamped contrast, and increased legibility as four Google products adopt Material’s dark theme
design.google
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So Google is using inferior OLED panels? I find my A53 has a much nicer screen & no issues with text in black background scrolling.
I mean, look at the fingerprint. I don't understand how this is a "Flagship" UI. My A53 is slower for sure, but the UI has nice blur effects, pure black backgrounds, the fingerprint isn't an icon; it's a pure white translucent fingerprint. I just expected better. I don't feel like rooting it and bending over backwards to get it to look decent. I put it up for sale and no one wants it. Will trade it in at Best buy for a discount on a Samsung. The pixel 7 takes great pictures, it's fast, but the battery life is mediocre and The UI is too bland for me; it's washed out.