I've been looking for ways to boost my battery life. After getting some Tasker profiles set up to do this, one thing I've been focusing on is the screen since the AMOLEDs don't use any energy for black areas of the display. I use LP with a solid black background, and very minimal clock on my homescreen, widgets are on a screen to the left, apps I frequently use are on a screen the right, but my homescreen is almost entirely black. I also have Bionix 1.3 which has a nice, mostly black theme, and the new JAC kernel, so it's hard to say what the respective gain in battery for each change I've made is, but my battery has only dropped 30% after been unplugged for 13 hours, and which included a fair amount of use.
I was looking around for a way to invert the browser colors, so that text within the browser would be white on a black background (low energy cost) instead of black text on a white background (high energy cost). It turns out this is a feature in CM6 (browser invert color), so I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of where I'd have to look to try to do the exact same thing, while I wait patiently for CM6.1 to be released for the Vibrant. I know there was black theme for the Droid which even modded the Gmail app to be white on black, but given how much more I use the browser, I'd just be happy if I just got that.
If there's another way to go about doing this, by all means, let me know. I looked around for a theme for Dolphin HD but I couldn't find a way to do it with that either. I'm fairly comfortable with the command line, and if it's just a manner of editing a XML file or something, I'm sure I could manage that, I just don't know where to look, and I kind of just don't want to start editing config files on my phone without really knowing what I'm doing. Thanks.
My understanding is colors displayed on websites are property of the website and not the browser. I am sure you have seen black themed websites in the existing browser. I can be wrong though.
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I'm interested to know too. But just like what the guy above said, it's probably on the server side.
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I want third ability so bad. White chews the battery and I hate having white on my screen which is all the time when I am web browsing. And frankly that sucks
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If you're looking to increase your battery I highly recommend Juice Defender (ultimate), increased by batter life 1.8x.
juice defender its worthless as you lose functionality to gain battery that's not acceptable when having a browser with invert colors loses no functionality for the same our close battery life gain
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My understanding is colors displayed on websites are property of the website and not the browser. I am sure you have seen black themed websites in the existing browser. I can be wrong though.
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You might be right, I'm not really sure. I do know that there is a common function for inverting the browser colors in the existing CM 6.0 releases. And if it can be done across the board in CM6, maybe there's a way to get working on the Vibrant. That's all I'm trying to figure out...well, that or another way to accomplish the same thing. I could understand if the way it is implemented in CM6 is a FroYo only thing, but if it isn't, we should be able to do that on the vibrant.
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If you're looking to increase your battery I highly recommend Juice Defender (ultimate), increased by batter life 1.8x.
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You can accomplish pretty much anything juice defender does with tasker instead.
No Steel had this option for like one version, night mode i believe it was called. It inverted text and bc color.
Vibrant vibrating nicely now,Kthx!
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... I use LP with a solid black background, and very minimal clock on my homescreen, widgets are on a screen to the left, apps I frequently use are on a screen the right, but my homescreen is almost entirely black.
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Funny, I have the same setup
There must be a way to get the websites inverted, I had the Samsung Wave for a week and it HAD that option. I am also desperately looking for some solution for the Galaxy S (same as Vibrant?).
It drives me nuts that for example applications like the GMAIL one, do use black text on white background! WTF? We want to use the amoled properties!
Looking for a solution...
Cheers
I got in touch with the DolphinHD team, and feedback looks promising. Probably I will write the add-on myself so stay tuned!
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Hey guys. I'm running Aloysius V12 and have been using Beautiful Widgets. Love the look and it's fairly reliable as far as the time/date/weather go, but whenever I plug my phone into the computer, the style reverts to stock. I am very particular about the way it looks, because the way I have it now looks quite good with my wallpaper, but when it reverts, it doesn't match up well. Not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things since I just have to restart the widget, but curious to see if anyone knows why the USB plug-in would make any difference. I have had this issue on BW 2.998 and 2.999. As a side note, does anyone know how to change the date font? Changing the clock font has no bearing on it, and neither do weather skins. Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys. I'm running Aloysius V12 and have been using Beautiful Widgets. Love the look and it's fairly reliable as far as the time/date/weather go, but whenever I plug my phone into the computer, the style reverts to stock. I am very particular about the way it looks, because the way I have it now looks quite good with my wallpaper, but when it reverts, it doesn't match up well. Not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things since I just have to restart the widget, but curious to see if anyone knows why the USB plug-in would make any difference. I have had this issue on BW 2.998 and 2.999. As a side note, does anyone know how to change the date font? Changing the clock font has no bearing on it, and neither do weather skins. Thanks in advance.
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Beautiful widgets says, in its own documentation, that it doesn't work with SenseUI.
This is partially true. It works, sometimes, and for a while. my buddy has a small widget on his home screen that he has no troubles with, but I've used the brightness widget, a home screen one, and others.
I've had Sense randomly force close on me (MANY MANY times), when tapping the widget (or sometimes for seemingly no reason at all - presumably when the widget updates), and so on and so forth.
They 'Work', but they aren't reliable, that I've seen. I haven't used them since like 2.7 or so.
That's odd that the font changes when plugging it in.
I've been to their site a couple of times, but guess I didn't run across that. I asked this same question on android forums and the response had to deal with BW skins are saved on the sd card and once it is plugged in, then it doesn't have access to them anymore. I'm not sure if this is the exact reason, but makes as much sense as anything else I've thought of. Too bad it's not more reliable because the only competition that I have seen is Weather Widget donate. I don't have anything particularly against that one, but just can't customize it get the look I am going for...
OK,
I think we all realize us X2 are owners are few.
As such, we have less themes and less ROMs to choose from. Since we dont have 50 people making themes for 26 different ROMS, I figured it best to hone in on what people would want to see.
I am not saying I am going to make one (I just might though) but, one of the three of us.. there are three themers right? Me, Funkencool and MuffStuff? Just might.
So, now is you chance to say what you would like to see in a theme.
Colors, backgrounds, apps themed, whats included, etc..
I'll give you an example.... (although this is not a request by me)
Transparent backgrounds, Neon blue images. Blue matching text colors, maybe change the lock slider on the lockscreen. I use the internet, xda app, music and calendar the most so those would be cool to be themed as well.
Now toss out some ideas so the few of us that do it can make something a lot of people can enjoy!
As a sidenote, dont know about anyone else but, if I make it, it will be for the Eclipse ROM.
PORT OF THAT FIRE THEME THAT I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT IS OUT FOR THE DROID 1 PROJECT ELITE ROM. YESPLZ KTHNXBYE
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I know what your talking about. By yankindasouth
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This one; http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...heme-gingercomb-dx-2-3-595-deodexed-only.html
I want it looking like my Xoom again!
Guys, I cant just grab someone elses work. Yo would need the author to port it over for you.
I don't know what else Funk or Muff has done for other phones. Me personally, for the D1 I have made themes in the color of... Chrome, Blue, Red, Orange and Pink.
What the main thing was here was to make a new theme based off the ideas from you guys.
Choose a color, choose icons, choose details, etc... Be as specific as possible. solid color, glow, fade, etc.. it can be as simple or as complicated as the two images I am about to post up.
I also just learned something new trying to make that funky looking image.. im stoked!
Something with just the basic necessities in it, with an orange theme..
Orange would be the easiest since I have it about 90% done...lol
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Orange would be the easiest since I have it about 90% done...lol
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Awesome! That would be great..
I want an old west cowboy theme
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OK,
I'll give you an example.... (although this is not a request by me)
Transparent backgrounds, Neon blue images. Blue matching text colors, maybe change the lock slider on the lockscreen. I use the internet, xda app, music and calendar the most so those would be cool to be themed as well.
Now toss out some ideas so the few of us that do it can make something a lot of people can enjoy!
As a sidenote, dont know about anyone else but, if I make it, it will be for the Eclipse ROM.
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I'm on board and I like you example(as an example) it would be nice if we could just get a good clear view of what you guys want in a theme. Especially apps because I've been wanting to get started on some.. just not sure what exactly.
Personally(and this isn't an example) I most often use ShapeWriter and the stock moto keyboard, dolphin mini, forum apps(xda, rootz), gapps (especially voice and gmail), stock messaging(eclipse's), and Mort player for my music. those are at least the ones I like to look good the most, but really most of mine are themed or themeable.
PS i also would rather just do something original than port an already existing one.
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I also just learned something new trying to make that funky looking image.. im stoked!
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That's my favorite part.. seems like when i theme I spend just as much time learning or trying new things as I do actually working on what I started
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I am interesred in themes that match. I am currently running eclipse 4 with blue blur 1.3. This has probably been my lobgest running setup. I use adw ex with i2 theme icons (mostly because there are over 1000 themed and its free). I also use widget locker as well, so lock screen isnt important to me. I use most of the basic apps but almost no widgets anymore cuz they dont match or burn battery faster. I really just want it all to look the same. I love tapatalk app cuz it will use system colors to match. Wish all apps have this ability. Would make changing themes so much faster and easier for you guys. As for colors i like blue, black, grey, and green. Not all together but not all one either. Two tone cars look great right? I think two tone droids are sweet as well. I have all the tools to get the job done just need more practice with them. I have only ever been successful with the droid 1, was so much easier with no bootloader so if i messed it up. Starting over was quick.
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rusty.. that.. is a detailed post. thank you!
Theming the X2 is almost exactly like the D1. You just have to get the basics down with the dependencies and such. I just bought this phone 2 weeks ago (I think) so, you can see, its just a quick bit of getting the feel for it down. THe only real thing I dont like is that I have to plug my phone into the wall charger to get into recovery. I liked being able to just do that on the fly with the D1.
It looks to me though, from what you said, you really like the Blue Ice Cream theme but wish there were more widgets. You would also like to see some of that blue two-toned. You mean like a fade I am assuming?
So I decided to try tablet mode just out of curiousity. I read that it makes non-sense launchers smoother. Well it does. For sure. Maybe not much but its enough to make go launcher Buttery smooth. So another thing I noticed is battery life? It increased? It could just be me but I find it odd that it was such a notocable difference. I'm sitting at 73% after a full days work in a building that barely gets reception. Usually by this point I have 50% left. So this left me wondering, could systemui have been poorly coded by HTC to the point where it drains a lot of battery? I know it seems ridiculous but I implore some one to try it before they say I'm crazy. Only because I may well be. Haha. So my question is, is there a way to get tablet mode to run on ics without forcing 192 dpi. Honestly the whole phone seems more usable and the quick settings I need are already in the stock ics notification bar. And whatever was missing I have in there using power controls a free app on the market. There must be some kind of edit to force tablet without going to 192 dpi.
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So I decided to try tablet mode just out of curiousity. I read that it makes non-sense launchers smoother. Well it does. For sure. Maybe not much but its enough to make go launcher Buttery smooth. So another thing I noticed is battery life? It increased? It could just be me but I find it odd that it was such a notocable difference. I'm sitting at 73% after a full days work in a building that barely gets reception. Usually by this point I have 50% left. So this left me wondering, could systemui have been poorly coded by HTC to the point where it drains a lot of battery? I know it seems ridiculous but I implore some one to try it before they say I'm crazy. Only because I may well be. Haha. So my question is, is there a way to get tablet mode to run on ics without forcing 192 dpi. Honestly the whole phone seems more usable and the quick settings I need are already in the stock ics notification bar. And whatever was missing I have in there using power controls a free app on the market. There must be some kind of edit to force tablet without going to 192 dpi.
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That's what I'm talking about! Tablet mode has been my daily for the longest time and I agree that it definitly helps out with battery life and with smoothness of launchers (especially Apex!). Sadly there is no way just yet of getting the phone to run Tablet mode without forcing the DPI to 192. I know that the Galaxy nexus has their ways of doing it, I tried getting it to go myself and no luck so far. One thing I want to get working is the Pop-up screen when you connect to the PC.
How did you get that nice looking quick settings on the Notification Bar? I never tried to change it from the regular pop up selections
I've had nothing but problems trying to change my dpi. Anytime I go below 270 I have nothing but force closes. How did you get it working
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I've had nothing but problems trying to change my dpi. Anytime I go below 270 I have nothing but force closes. How did you get it working
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Usually it depends on the App that you use to change the dpi, plus you need a launcher other than sense installed (you can have sense and something else like Go, ADW, or Apex.) I use the App call LCD Density Modder (Icon is a Monitor with a blue screen). Also It depends on the Rom that you are using as well. Some Rom's do not have the Icons in the SystemUI.APK to support Tablet Mode (Especially Sense 4 ROMS). As long as you meet all those steps you should be able to get it working with minimal problems. As stated above the only problem I run into is getting a force close when connecting phone to PC, the Pop-up that lets you select your connection mode doesnt work, you have to set your default connection type to whatever your going to use before connecting, and set it so it doesnt ask you what you want when connecting.
PM me if you need more help buddy
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Usually it depends on the App that you use to change the dpi, plus you need a launcher other than sense installed (you can have sense and something else like Go, ADW, or Apex.) I use the App call LCD Density Modder (Icon is a Monitor with a blue screen). Also It depends on the Rom that you are using as well. Some Rom's do not have the Icons in the SystemUI.APK to support Tablet Mode (Especially Sense 4 ROMS). As long as you meet all those steps you should be able to get it working with minimal problems. As stated above the only problem I run into is getting a force close when connecting phone to PC, the Pop-up that lets you select your connection mode doesnt work, you have to set your default connection type to whatever your going to use before connecting, and set it so it doesnt ask you what you want when connecting.
PM me if you need more help buddy
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That's probably my problem. Trying it on sense 4... I'll boot up tonked Rom and see how it likes it. I'm actually using build prop editor and manually making the change
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I love having the on screen navigation in tablet mode, but that tiny text.. MY EYES. I wish we could dig around and get the on screen navigation ICS has by default on a Gnex. I know we lose screen real estate that way, but capacitive buttons suck.
Ummmmm, how do you get to tablet mode? I'm running team venoms latest release
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Ummmmm, how do you get to tablet mode? I'm running team venoms latest release
From me to you with this Snake bitten cellular thing
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Change the dpi to 192. Careful though it doesn't play nice with sense
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Ummmmm, how do you get to tablet mode? I'm running team venoms latest release
From me to you with this Snake bitten cellular thing
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You cannot do this on any sense 4 based Rom. You need an ics sense 3.6 to be able to do it. Plus you MUST have a different launcher other than sense.
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Change the dpi to 192. Careful though it doesn't play nice with sense
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Correct lol, especially sense 4. Apex runs the best fyi
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That's what I'm talking about! Tablet mode has been my daily for the longest time and I agree that it definitly helps out with battery life and with smoothness of launchers (especially Apex!). Sadly there is no way just yet of getting the phone to run Tablet mode without forcing the DPI to 192. I know that the Galaxy nexus has their ways of doing it, I tried getting it to go myself and no luck so far. One thing I want to get working is the Pop-up screen when you connect to the PC.
How did you get that nice looking quick settings on the Notification Bar? I never tried to change it from the regular pop up selections
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Hey man sorry for the delay, So the notifications quick keys is an app called "power controls" it is free and it's honestly pretty great. if you check the settings of the app there is an option to have the power controls stay in your notification bar. go into the app from your launcher and put a check mark in the box for notification widget. then click the pin. then click the slider looking button and you can check off which buttons to add. Closest I've come to CM7 settings in drop down.
it uses the built in accessibility features of ics to do it. this and SlimRom or any variant is the closest I have been able to get to AOSP. throw that in with tablet mode and GO-SMS stripped of all their special features except themeing and you're pretty much there. I may try GoContacts as well but the last time I did (with my evo shift) it was laggy so I haven't bothered yet. Especially since this device as a whole is waaaay more laggy then my shift in every regard. I can't imagine it would play well.
Also for standard DPI the GoKeyboard is quite nice and responsive, much more so than AOSP. These are of course my personal feelings so it may just be perceived and not reality. I used to hate GODev stuff... but since getting this phone it's the only way to get what I want out of the UI. Even their launcher is shockingly smooth with 5 screens and APW scrolling widgets on 4.
I've been dealing with the small fonts. it's irritating but what can you do. Every view even down to the Gmail app is more useful to me in tab mode.
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Hey man sorry for the delay, So the notifications quick keys is an app called "power controls" it is free and it's honestly pretty great. if you check the settings of the app there is an option to have the power controls stay in your notification bar. go into the app from your launcher and put a check mark in the box for notification widget. then click the pin. then click the slider looking button and you can check off which buttons to add. Closest I've come to CM7 settings in drop down.
it uses the built in accessibility features of ics to do it. this and SlimRom or any variant is the closest I have been able to get to AOSP. throw that in with tablet mode and GO-SMS stripped of all their special features except themeing and you're pretty much there. I may try GoContacts as well but the last time I did (with my evo shift) it was laggy so I haven't bothered yet. Especially since this device as a whole is waaaay more laggy then my shift in every regard. I can't imagine it would play well.
Also for standard DPI the GoKeyboard is quite nice and responsive, much more so than AOSP. These are of course my personal feelings so it may just be perceived and not reality. I used to hate GODev stuff... but since getting this phone it's the only way to get what I want out of the UI. Even their launcher is shockingly smooth with 5 screens and APW scrolling widgets on 4.
I've been dealing with the small fonts. it's irritating but what can you do. Every view even down to the Gmail app is more useful to me in tab mode.
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Thats amazing, i'm going to have to check out that app for myseslf. Thanks for the heads up though on that! Small fonts are easy to evercome, but only if the
Rom you are running Tablet Mode on has the Font Size in the Display settings. What does your app Drawer look like with Go Launcher? Is it regular size or does it put like 30 apps on 1 screen?
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Thats amazing, i'm going to have to check out that app for myseslf. Thanks for the heads up though on that! Small fonts are easy to evercome, but only if the
Rom you are running Tablet Mode on has the Font Size in the Display settings. What does your app Drawer look like with Go Launcher? Is it regular size or does it put like 30 apps on 1 screen?
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you have to set the launcher to have larger icons. Not "large" mind you. A custom larger amount. depends on your preference.... then change the icon spacing to a larger amount. I think I did 7 columns and 8 rows. For the record I couldn't find go sms in the app store so I downloaded it online somewhere just google gosms.apk it's a free app so this is not stealing. honestly I can't wait for AOSP. I would probably take it in it's unfinished form even (just 1x and wifi.)
Just wondering was jellybean worth updating to I have yet to update because I cannot see loosing foxfi, plus I have thoughts of rooting but really don't care to root because I am still on ice and foxfi is alive and well.
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If you want any new roms to work, i guess yes.
My opinion is YES, i am on euRETAIL jellybean unrooted stock (couse i lost root), but it is better than ics stock.
Battery is about the same as ics hard to say (i think on idle battery is same and on use it drains little faster but its becouse stock settings 1.2ghz cpu and project butter)
Perfomance is superb becouse of project butter mainly.
The only bad thing as always is software and things like programs and new stuff that not all will like and ofcourse some old stuff got removes like usb mass storage (dont know why ), but is a pain in the ass.
It's like night and day. ICS on the RAZR was a disaster and the JB OTA makes up for it entirely.
I wouldn't say night and day, but for sure the interface is smoother, and much more polished. Battery ... Can't say yet ... Updated yesterday and I keep waking the screen up every few minutes just to make sure that the new font is still looking good
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I wouldn't say night and day, but for sure the interface is smoother, and much more polished. Battery ... Can't say yet ... Updated yesterday and I keep waking the screen up every few minutes just to make sure that the new font is still looking good
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LOL the font part cracked me up for 5 mins laugh.
Yes I am sure jb is better then ics but it will not run foxfi thats the only thing keeping me on ics, and besides I am trying hard not to root until I am forced to. :beer:
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Well if you are on ics plus supercharger script, no need to go jb i think, because jb still lags here and there, only less. But with moto's ics quite a fluid experience, only memory tweak needed to be added.
I myself is using jb though, and because my wifi tethering is working fine, no need for foxfi though, and if you're into the camera mode, the panorama one is fantastic in jb.
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Lost a couple things
Where is my increase volume alarm setting? Also, I lost my sleep mode. Anyone else lose this? Maybe even care that they are gone?
In my opinion Jb is laggier.
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For me it was really worth it!! (I was using D-wiz 3.0.2, and ICS EU Stock both laggy as hell)
Now I'm on Eu leak (retail)
I've managed to restore root after update. I've noticed I'm one of the few lucky ones.
I'm quite impatient person.
Laggy phones fly against the wall. ]:->
For me JB is blessing. It's fast as hell,
Especially camera app now starts a lot faster, Overall responsiveness of the UI is much better.
Performance is higher, but not by much. I've got above 75MFLOPS in Linpack, and 7700+ points in AnTuTu. (stock JB vs. stock ICS)
I've noticed no battery life improvement (but I think it needs few days to settle)
First charge was 21h30min with 3h10min screen usage.
Much better GPS fix and sattelites are now visible!
What's more: I'm quite sure that the sound quality both in calls and music is much better now! (I have good earphones and my ears are quite discriminating too)
I've checked what version of Radio is used: it almost identical to the "old" and "new" U.04.10.00R, and completely differrent to U_04.12.00R and U_04.11.01P. (i've compared them with WinMerge).
So I'd call it U.04.10.00R ver.3.0 ;P
Now I need only 1% battery mod (wich won;t disable my root) and I'll be perfectly happy with my RAZR
What's pissing me off:
*ugly Contacts (Thank God I'm using Go Contacts!)
*laggy start of IM+ (might by connected to some FB problem, because Facebook app also starts VERY long (like 30seconds?).
*screen rotation speed also leaves a lot to be desired.
No more sleep mode, mp3's gone from alarm clock. Anyone know how to fix?
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about sleep mode I can't tell you,
but alarms you can put in /sdcard/media/audio/alarms/ folder (or /ext_card/... if you wish)...
I'm on the Vodafone EU leak now (from Germany) and it's way more usable then the ME Retail ICS ROM I had before, but the battery life isn't the same, it's a little worse. Then again, the ICS ROM was ****ty, it had a lot of bugs and sometimes I would get frustrated because of them. But I would immediately remember how long the battery lasted and everything was fine
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Yes I am sure jb is better then ics but it will not run foxfi thats the only thing keeping me on ics, and besides I am trying hard not to root until I am forced to. :beer:
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Doesn't the Bluetooth tethering still work on FoxFi?
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geske001 said:
Where is my increase volume alarm setting? Also, I lost my sleep mode. Anyone else lose this? Maybe even care that they are gone?
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Both features were removed in 4.1.2. I did use the increasing volume alarm setting.
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Both features were removed in 4.1.2. I did use the increasing volume alarm setting.
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I got Alarm Clock Extreme on the Amazon App Store as one of their free featured apps. It has a feature you can turn on to enable the crescendoing alarm (increasing volume). Highly recommend the app!
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How about main things?
BAD: The contacts "people app", is WHITE (UGLY) backgroud, while in ICS it was in black (NICE), as everything else in RAZR. Now when you switch between "people" and "dialer" menus it looks UGLY, because its day ant night. Impression is that "people" is ripped from another phone with white theme, and thrown into RAZR - I dont understand how they let it slip through?? Especialy when You are in your bed at night, its so cool to have black themes, and now Your eyes are blinded, because EVERYTHING in RAZR is BLACK, except people app. WTF? SOOO BAD. And "Dialer's" favourites does not populate with all contacts - SOO STUPID, because I used to use only "Dialer" as it contained everything (recent calls,favourites, and all contacts), now I have to use both apps all the time, and as I said, its even more furstrating, because they use different themes, and its impossible to change them. Also messages app is now UGLY compared to ICS. Toggle widgets removed - if I want to switch data, I have to go into data usage menus - SOOO stupid. When I hit "Switch off phone" it asks if I reaaly want to do that - ANNOYING/STUPID. When I want to tur on gps, it also asks again - ANNOYING/STUPID.
GOOD: Works way more smoother, gallery app now is normal - not lagging when zooming, browser (not chrome) works better, smoother. Some more transition effects between all menus. Camera shutter is a tiny bit faster.
ISG182 said:
How about main things?
BAD: The contacts "people app", is WHITE (UGLY) backgroud, while in ICS it was in black (NICE), as everything else in RAZR. Now when you switch between "people" and "dialer" menus it looks UGLY, because its day ant night. Impression is that "people" is ripped from another phone with white theme, and thrown into RAZR - I dont understand how they let it slip through?? Especialy when You are in your bed at night, its so cool to have black themes, and now Your eyes are blinded, because EVERYTHING in RAZR is BLACK, except people app. WTF? SOOO BAD. And "Dialer's" favourites does not populate with all contacts - SOO STUPID, because I used to use only "Dialer" as it contained everything (recent calls,favourites, and all contacts), now I have to use both apps all the time, and as I said, its even more furstrating, because they use different themes, and its impossible to change them. Also messages app is now UGLY compared to ICS. Toggle widgets removed - if I want to switch data, I have to go into data usage menus - SOOO stupid. When I hit "Switch off phone" it asks if I reaaly want to do that - ANNOYING/STUPID. When I want to tur on gps, it also asks again - ANNOYING/STUPID.
GOOD: Works way more smoother, gallery app now is normal - not lagging when zooming, browser (not chrome) works better, smoother. Some more transition effects between all menus. Camera shutter is a tiny bit faster.
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About the White, if you use the Verizon one, it is black. so it's different between ROMs. actually just Contacts.apk styling if you're willing to mod
hansip87 said:
About the White, if you use the Verizon one, it is black. so it's different between ROMs. actually just Contacts.apk styling if you're willing to mod
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Hi, thanks for answer. So, when the root will be available (I lost root), will it be possible to just copy in the Verizon's black "people" and "dialer" in to the system? Or maybe now it would be possible to disable existing contacts app, and install Verizons contacts.apk from storage? In that case maybe someone could be so kind and rip that verizons .apk for me to download, would be veeery nice.
Thanks!
Hi guys,
I'm not very active on here as I can almost always find the answer I need by some extensive searching but I seem stumped on this one so I'm hoping someone can help me fix this or at least give me a definitive answer one way or another...
So a little context:
I've recently been customising a new phone (one plus 6) and I've decided to go the dark themed route as I've always loved how it looks.
All my wallpapers are mostly black, I'm using the dark theme in whatever apps and settings give the option and I've got a lovely looking outlined set of icons which really pop on the dark backgrounds.
I've also been trying out nova launcher but I don't have prime yet and this one issue is pretty much the last thing holding me back from upgrading...
In case it matters, I'm not rooted but I think I probably will at some point.
The problem:
So I really like the app search popup from nova but the issue is that it uses the light theme despite having night mode 'always' enabled in the settings. This is a bigger problem than just looks as a lot of my icons are white line based meaning they're actually practically invisible on the search bar.
Now, the toggles for 'search bar', 'drawer icon' and 'folders' in the night mode settings don't seem to change anything as far as I can see (I would've thought it was search bar but maybe it's referring to one elsewhere).
The 'Drawer' toggle DOES change the search bar to dark which is great but that unfortunately also means it overrides my transparency on the app drawer which I really want to keep as all my backgrounds are dark anyway and I love seeing my wallpapers through the drawer.
TL;DR:
Can anyone point me to a way to make the app search bar dark (or even transparent) but without overriding the opacity settings of my app drawer?
I can understand the two being coupled as they kind of do the same thing but a separate night mode toggle for each would be amazing.
Apologies for the somewhat verbose description of a pretty simple problem... I even seem to have had to split the post up as I guess it was too long and thanks in advance to anyone who's willing to help!