I dont know if it is just me being colorblind or what, but does anyone else have a hard time (in setting for example) telling if boxes are CHECKED or UNCHECKED on the settings screen??
I believe there are a green or red check to signify the difference but I have a very difficult time distinguishing between the two.
Is anyone else having this problem and are there any ways to make it more apparent for me (like a check for check, and NO check for unchecked)???
Thanks in advance!!
I am also color blind (red/green) and I am having the same problem. Any help on changing this would be helpfull.
Glad to hear there is a least ONE other person Ron. I was afraid I was going nuts!! lol
I am finding it very difficult to know if I have various settings checked or not. Quite aggravating actually.
I wonder if there is a way to change the Background to WHITE (instead of Black) and maybe that will help a little.
I am not colorblind and if I'm not paying close attention I have to double check.
I found that changing the theme made the checkboxes easier to see (and I am not colorblind!) I am using the "Ruby" theme.
The theme that I am using, the one with the background of white squares called Carrera, uses black check marks for things in settings. However if you change your theme it will also change the check mark color. I know that with my particular theme the volume level is in grey, which isn't very smart since the background for it is also like a grey but a little darker. This will also change when you change the theme.
I am colorblind and also have the same issue. Highly annoying.
Thanks everyone. Changing themes did help a little. I changed to the "white" theme. Makes it a little easier to see, STILL ridiculously difficult to see sometimes though. I think they could have done a better job on this part of the OS.
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Hey guys I downloaded a theme to my phone but i do not like the portrait picture. How do i just change that picture to something else? Thanks!
SEARCH/READ THE USER'S MANUAL!!!! But, if you hold your stylus down on the picture you want as a background, you'll see the little circle things, then a list of options, like right clicking on a mouse, select set as desktop background. Then select how washed out you want it, and select ok. There, that was your freebie. Use Wiki and search the forum from now on.
no i want to change just the portrait picture. only when i slide my slider. i know how to do that. i remember seeing a deal about that now i cant find it.
I'm pretty sure there's no way to change JUST the portait picture. You mean like having 2 seperate desktop pitures with one to display in landscape, and the other in portrait, right?
Yeah. But I found a way of doing. Just a little more work than I intended. Thanks!
HEY! this is give and take here... So spill the beans, how did you do it?
Yeah! this I gotta know about. You may have found a secret no one knows. The other question is: how can you re-size a pic so that when it is used as a desktop background, it only uses a portion of the screen and doesn't obscure say the whole "black theme" in use?
I'll let you guys know as soon as i get it done. Haven't even tried yet. Been playing around with different ROMs to see which I like better. So far I'm diggin the Touch-It Light.
--slLy-Dee
if you want to change picure ionly in portrait mode, bud not landscape, you must force edit the Theme you want.... or, ... maybe if it is multiple images theme, just replace one of them, but most are 1 file, .... in that case you have no chance without any program..
Google search for ThemeGenCE. It works like a charm and allows one to change the portrait (slide closed) and landscape (slide open) to different pics. it will also change almost all of the colors. I'll try to post a screen shot of the Halo3 theme I built with it. I've built about 12 different .tsk files with it so far and all of them turned out pretty well. It will also let you import an existing theme and modify it. I used the black touch skin and applied my own pics.
It automatically resizes pics to fit the screen...
Yeah. That's what I was gonna play with but never had the chance. I forgot what the prog was that's why I never bothered. Thanks!!
the gloss from WM6 doesn't show up when you make a theme using ThemeGenCE?
The gloss???
wow thats nice....this will work with the wing correct???
Yes... I'm currently running it on a wing. I'm having some issues getting the color fades on the start bar to work. It has to do with the WM5 tab but the descriptions are a bit cryptic as to what fields they actually represent. So I built one with a LOT of really out there colors to see what field effects what part of the screen. If you don't use the stuff on the WM5 tab then it will just be solid colors. The Halo3 one wound up just being green instead of the orange/green fade at the top. That screenshot is from the previewer in the program not what actually wound up on the phone.
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Yes... I'm currently running it on a wing. I'm having some issues getting the color fades on the start bar to work. It has to do with the WM5 tab but the descriptions are a bit cryptic as to what fields they actually represent. So I built one with a LOT of really out there colors to see what field effects what part of the screen. If you don't use the stuff on the WM5 tab then it will just be solid colors. The Halo3 one wound up just being green instead of the orange/green fade at the top. That screenshot is from the previewer in the program not what actually wound up on the phone.
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Probably a stupid question but what were the size image options you put in? In the options it asks about the size of the screen & the size of the start menu
Hi all... First of all, gotta say this is an amazing forum. Lots very good information and smart people!
Now for my problems. Being the noob I am, I'm sure the answer is somewhere on this site, but I'm not able to find it. Basically there are two issues on the attached screenshot.
1) Obvious, but still... black background color in the top part of the Launch program screen of TF3D (and other similar screens).
2) Bottom Bar (that normally holds "Phone" and "Programs" link, or in this screen "Back") has gone grey on me. Now this is not TF3D related. Still there if I disable it, and it seems the color changes slightly if i change the windows theme, so I think its not actually grey, but transparent. At some point i got it to look the way I wanted, but after a soft-reset it's back to being transparent. Thinking maybe I have managed to overwrite a file in the rom?
Anyways... The Noob gives up in hope of some professional answers
Thanks in advance!
-JonB
Are there any tweaks to change the colour of the font displaying Missed Calls/Calendar/Date/Alarm etc on the Home Screen (or even better, to have an opaque box behind the text)?
I have some nice photos I want to use as backgrounds, but they are mostly white so I cant see any text!
Cheers,
Doc
same for me... i wanna use a more lighter background picture. But with the white letters its not really useful.
Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.
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Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.
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thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!
Hey nickaat,
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thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!
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could you please tell me if this tool works for you and your HD? I want to change my home screen font color too but i still didn`t found a way...
Thanks,
Brad
I've look also for the exactly same thing and I've reached to the following conclusion: you can't do anything about it.
I've tried tons of programs, registry editing, hexa editing etc. Spend days on the issue. Nada, nothing. I even some some experienced users saying that it can be changed almost any colors on tabs, exept the ones above.
LE: I think the most closest possibility for us to obtain this effect is to manually edit the wallpaper and place some dark boxes where the text is written, but this means that the dark boxes will apear on every other tab also.
hello...I have tried this UItweaker on my touch hd...
I tried the one to change the today screen font color...
and spinning wheel of death occured...
so I killed the UITweaker but the font color indeed changed
I soft reseted and changed it back - again spinning wheel of death - and after having back to nromal I removed it because it seems like not the program I want to my mess my phone...since it seems the device does not like it....
and anyway..i think that after having this program my google mpas started to be stupid - I dont know if it really is because of this - but now the google maps show My Location as a venezuela...that is not true, I am in middle europe...WTF I want it work again normally...
this sucks
so if you want try it, it changes the color, but it is not working flawleslly and I hate that...
The UI Tweaker only messed up my other colors, but doesen't changed the color I wanted.
Take care using it.
I also had issues with UI Tweaker, I somehow changed the background of the buttons on the home page (Phone, Programs, x button etc) to pink and couldnt change it back!
I remember seeing a Russian Rom that had black text on the home screen, so I do think its possible.
My workaround for the moment is to edit the background pic and draw an opaque box where the info is displayed.
I think it looks quite cool! It does take a bit of messing around (trial and error) to get it in the right place, and I still have to add a few more (date/alarm)... work is quite busy atm so I dont really have the time!
If I do find another way, I will post it here.
As I said, the only problem for this workaround is that in all other tabs, the background will apear with the boxes from the HOME tab.
I wonder if it is a way of having different wallpapers for each tab.
Must search that.
LE: Found that: Change wallpapers. It gives a solution how to have a different background picture for the rest of the tabs.
so simple
go to settings > home screne > scroll to color scheme & select > scroll to : text: black" then select done
Hey, I was wonderin if there is a way to change the colour of the top and bottom windows bars (the ones with the soft keys and battery, signal & start) i would really like to make them transparent if it's possible.
I know with the older versions of WM it was possible to play around with these using theme makers but it was pretty much to change the colour not make em see through.
So if anyone knows how or is upto the task of doing it or even telling me how to do it id be a very happy chappy!
Thanks
you can change the colours just by changing the theme in the today option in settings, and theres some cabs floating about to make them "glossy black" like the basic theme in vista! i dont think is possible to make them transparant tho
I looked at changin the colours but because i use the Background changer none of them really matched the pic i was using,
Oh well with any luck some bright spark will figure it out sooner or later!
Thanks for the imput
i tend to find the themes just change the top and bottom bars.is there a way to change the white background when you access the windows mobile part of the device?
I guess this is not possible then? Everyone must be content with the plain dull White windows mobile b/g?..MODS can you transfer this article over to the themes and apps please might get some hope over there
I doubt most of us delve into WinMo enough to care.
Not only that, would you be able to read the text with a darker colour or pattern?
Thanks, Possibly most users aint interested but it's really bugging me. If only i could change it because it looks so bland!
short version: try "ui tweaker" (lets you adjust windows theme related colors, look, and feel)
long version: there are some TSK files available that give the effect you desire. however most of these work well with WM6.1 and earlier. same goes for "ui tweaker", but these same approaches don't work well with WM6.5 and later. this is largely because WM6.5 has newer, different, bigger GUI control elements.
if you choose the ui tweaker approach, rp-x1 is correct because you would indeed have to play with a whole bunch of colors on a whole bunch of GUI elements before you'll be able to get the contrast right.
hey thanks man, it sounds difficult but il give it a go..have you tried it yourself?
i have used ui tweaker many times to change the selection highlight colors and what not when i was using WM6.1 ROMs on my kaiser. i even once tried exactly what you are looking for
i found the WM6.5 themes to be a much more improved bunch, so never felt the need to customize them further, though i wouldn't mind a white-on-black theme some time, like a "negative" of the GTX themes, that would be stellar!
i tried uitweaker but it doesnt give the option to change the white background!! i tried another app called settings+ that didnt also -but they are quite handy to tweak windows side of things
forgot to add..the white background remains but i managed to add some colour to tabs at the bottom and every box is highlighted i've also changed the font it makes a massive difference to me thanks
!! the white background is no more!!! haha i've managed to change it with uitweaker...thanks again
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!! the white background is no more!!! haha i've managed to change it with uitweaker...thanks again
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how did you do it?