The latest update for Messages now has the option for Dark Mode, and also the Messages For Web has a Dark Mode as well!
Awesome, just got version 3.5 with dark mode enabled
Very nice. Now just add auto mode so it's white during day and black at night.
It's awesome! But they took away the widget... That might be a deal-breaker for me. Giving it a couple days.
They also removed the option to customize conversation color bubbles. The blue on blue looks hideous.
Mr Patchy Patch said:
They also removed the option to customize conversation color bubbles. The blue on blue looks hideous.
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To be fair, about 80% of the color choices were terrible.. Like, 5 year old kid crayon colors. The do need to bring back the widget and color customizing though. Just a little more, grown up for the latter
Soooo, I changed my wallpaper, and now the new look is gone. Seriously. I've force closed, cleared cache, rebooted, nothing will bring it back. What. The. Eff... Maybe it wasn't turned on correctly on the server side with this update? Anyone else have this problem? I really miss it, but I went back one version and have my widget back. Not sure which I want more...
It must be server side because now it is back to the old way
Aaaand it's gone.
Damn. I came here to see if anyone else had it switch back on them. Stupid server side sh*t. Put the changes in the apk and leave my phone alone Google ?
Same here as well. The new material design simply disappeared and reverted back to the previous layout
Yep looks like Google removed the Dark Mode on the back end.
They removed the entire new look actually. I bet they didn't mean to push out the new look with version 3.5. It would make sense as to why we had to force close to get it to show, and why it's back to the old design. Either way, dumb.
Chasing your tail Google!
It will be back, some tweaking to do apparently. That looked so good, maybe the most visually appealing change I've ever seen made to an app.
lwps said:
Awesome, just got version 3.5 with dark mode enabled
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Well, here's something ugly.
The new version that previously had dark mode as an option has been changed directly from Google. It's gone.
No more dark mode.
Hey so I pretty much Installed an apk that gave me the dark mode option.
But I can confirm that It was swiftly taken away magically.
(Rooting my device could solve this . . ?)
Really upset about this actually.
It was turned off on the server side. Just have to wait for it to be enabled again.
SoakedCardinal said:
Hey so I pretty much Installed an apk that gave me the dark mode option.
But I can confirm that It was swiftly taken away magically.
(Rooting my device could solve this . . ?)
Really upset about this actually.
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It was turned off on the server side. Just have to wait for it to be enabled again.
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I just now installed reinstalled textra so I'm good.
But in the grand scheme of things how to sway hireups to set black theme option default.
And its back with the latest update...for now.
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I have always used android except for the past 1.5 years. Obviously alot has changed and now I am back with the nexus 4. I have to admit it seems much more polished since the htc evo days.
So I need some advice and pointers..
I received the phone last night, I spent the rest of the evening rooting it. I am now running faux's kernel
as well AOKP's Rom
Here is what I am missing imo..
When I put the phone in silent mode, it does not vibrate, to overcome it I installed Silent Mode Jammer from the app store. Just hoping I am missing a setting though.
On the iphone, it was jailbroken and I installed this app called f.lux which at a certain time, would alter the screen so I could view it in the dark without it lighting up an entire room. Also gave it a different colour hue.
Finally, the lockscreen. I would love to have more than a clock on the screen. Ideally, the weather, 5day maybe... my calendar and then any alerts.
Any advice or pointers? Thanks and glad to be back..
Welcome back to the droids
For your lockscreen questionslide from left to right in the lock screen until a "plus" appears push it and you can choose from 5 Stock widgets aviable (at least in stock rom but i dont think aokp removed this fetuare)
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Welcome back to the droids
For your lockscreen questionslide from left to right in the lock screen until a "plus" appears push it and you can choose from 5 Stock widgets aviable (at least in stock rom but i dont think aokp removed this fetuare)
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lol, that helped. Now I just need to find the right widgets again thanks for this one..
joey3002 said:
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Here is what I am missing imo..
When I put the phone in silent mode, it does not vibrate, to overcome it I installed Silent Mode Jammer from the app store. Just hoping I am missing a setting though.
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Welcome back. I also jumped ship from Android to the iPhone 5 for a couple weeks, then back to the N4. The N4 is my favorite phone by far.
You need to make sure you have "always vibrate" checked under settings for phone, messaging, and email. Then, when the phone is in vibrate mode it will actually vibrate when you get a call, text, or email.
as for the lockscreen, each widget goes on its own page, can you combine them so that they look like:
Clock
Weather
Agenda
Alerts
thanks
Hey everybody,
unfortunately I can't use night mode since the latest update. I know it's a 7.1.1 thing and Google has deactivated this function, but has anyone managed to get it working again? I really miss this feature but downgrading is not an option and apps like twilight can't provide the same functionality.
Best regards
you can always change white balance, it's been there since day 1 !
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you can always change white balance, it's been there since day 1 !
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Thanks :good: That's a good advice! Not as convinient as an automatic function, but still.
For everyone who got the same problem: RGB 255,100,0 is pretty good.
joern_x said:
Thanks :good: That's a good advice! Not as convinient as an automatic function, but still.
For everyone who got the same problem: RGB 255,100,0 is pretty good.
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True! But it works with Netflix.
I use 255,110,0 because it's not so reddish.
If you have root, I use cf.lumen
Twilight and other screen filter overlays cannot compare (for me) to real cf.lumen/night mode, the color is just not the same. (the blacks!!)
Thanks for the white balance tip though.
qvmuhuuxz said:
If you have root, I use cf.lumen
Twilight and other screen filter overlays cannot compare (for me) to real cf.lumen/night mode, the color is just not the same. (the blacks!!)
Thanks for the white balance tip though.
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I also use CF.Lumen. Amazing, and way better (and customizable) than built-in night mode. You can set Daylight, Twilight, and Night color modes (I use normal color, 2200K, and Red-only for mine), and you can switch between them based on time, ambient light, or both.
What Android night mode needs to do, is actually switch to a night/dark/black theme during night mode. I understand some developer releases of MM and N sometimes did this, but I don't think it carried over to any release version. If I'm wrong, then I'm jelly
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I also use CF.Lumen. Amazing, and way better (and customizable) than built-in night mode. You can set Daylight, Twilight, and Night color modes (I use normal color, 2200K, and Red-only for mine), and you can switch between them based on time, ambient light, or both.
What Android night mode needs to do, is actually switch to a night/dark/black theme during night mode. I understand some developer releases of MM and N sometimes did this, but I don't think it carried over to any release version. If I'm wrong, then I'm jelly
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I agree, and talking about themes... is it possible to change the system ui from light to dark?
I looked at the black theme the phone comes with, but (for example) the system settings page is still light.
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I agree, and talking about themes... is it possible to change the system ui from light to dark?
I looked at the black theme the phone comes with, but (for example) the system settings page is still light.
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That's the part I wish night mode did. I completely agree.
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That's the part I wish night mode did. I completely agree.
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But no mod/app exists for our phone that we can install that gives us a dark theme?
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But no mod/app exists for our phone that we can install that gives us a dark theme?
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Not that I've found yet, but I've only had the device a few weeks.
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Not that I've found yet, but I've only had the device a few weeks.
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Try this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/x-compact/help/dark-theme-tested-7-1-1-t3639291
Night Mode is working again with the March update \o/
You have to follow a few steps though (no root required):
http://www.xperiablog.net/2018/03/2...youre-running-the-march-2018-security-update/
PS: I had to follow the procedure three times until it worked. So be patient
Hi all crazy people dishing out enough to buy a used car for a shiny new phone!!!
So...this thread is for ideas on how to improve (make as it should be) your Pixel 2XL...I'll start.
I enabled Developer options and set animations to 0.5X.
I enabled systemui tuner to turn off some icons in that cluttered status bar.
Why put an LED capable of so many colors on a phone and only have it blink green occasionally? Madness Google!!!
Light Manager went on first so I could have a charging and charged light as well as different colors for different apps.
Ooo...Google added a hidden trick that if you have black wallpaper (edges at least) then the app drawer background will also black out....what about all the other system apps Google?!!! And what? We have to add photos to black borders if we want them as wallpaper? I say thee NAY!
Rootless substratum - Andromeda to the rescue! Most themes work well on Oreo and you can have your dark UI back on everything...which as a side note blue tint does not show up on!
Once you get that up and running, I put Pitch Black theme on and also grabbed a center clock mod that works great!
Looking around for a circle battery mod that works and some way to mod the colors of the status bar icons. Oreo is being a pain for some themers.
A little more work and who needs root?
Anyone find a good mod to fix the color saturation? Or at least make Vivid Color switch do something?
So...what have you done? :highfive:
Great idea for a thread.
I had Nova Prime on mine with the Google Companion plug in to enable the Google swipe and it worked great to hide the dock at the bottom. Hopefully I will get nice one from Google tomorrow that's defect free.
How do you get rid of the notification for light manager?
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How do you get rid of the notification for light manager?
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Like any notification, just long press (hold on notification) and then choose block all notifications from this app.
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Like any notification, just long press (hold on notification) and then choose block all notifications from this app.
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Cool. In the past that would kill the LED as well if I remember. Guess that got that figured out.
Cool thread. And the light manager idea is great. I don't understand why Google doesn't have a charging LED.
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Nova Prime.
Substratum and a dark theme
Changed the navbar icons to hollow ones to help with burn in
icon pack
light manager
super thin case with my metal plate for my magnet mount in the car
Anyone having memory management issues? And has done something to improve it? Frequently getting redraws with only 6-10 apps open. :|
I originally had andromeda and substratum setup, naptime x (via adb), was using sprite to get center clock and colour options for the status and nav bars. Of course opted for nova launcher over pixel launcher!
OK, had the Oreo colorizer installed to improve the colors but then seen it using 2% battery after a full day...saw there was an update and after mashing update phone a 100 times finally sideloaded it! The saturated option is what I am used to and I think are great! I see some prefer just boosted...a compromise between boosted and saturated would be great.
Have gotten 3 days without charging the phone whereas at best I could make it 2 on the 6P! I may just stay unrooted if Substratum Andromeda would work a little better...takes like 10 tries sometimes to connect the ADB Andromeda script. And Pitch Black seems to update the theme almost everyday!
Loving this phone now!
Magisk 14.4
Substratum - Swift Black
Nova Prime
Tapet - Black Wallpaper
Removed Nav Bar - Using Swift Navigation instead.
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I say thee NAY! Rootless substratum - Andromeda to the rescue! Most themes work well on Oreo and you can have your dark UI back on everything...which as a side note blue tint does not show up on!
Once you get that up and running, I put Pitch Black theme on and also grabbed a center clock mod that works great!
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That's great to hear!
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Looking around for a circle battery mod that works and some way to mod the colors of the status bar icons. Oreo is being a pain for some themers.
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As far as I know, the battery is completely drawn in Java so overlays are mods won't work, unless you do rooted mods
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A little more work and who needs root?
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I've been running rootless for nearly a whole year and it's been great!
KennyG123 said:
I may just stay unrooted if Substratum Andromeda would work a little better...takes like 10 tries sometimes to connect the ADB Andromeda script. And Pitch Black seems to update the theme almost everyday!
Loving this phone now!
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Usually we don't like telling people this but the connection of the phone to their Oreo device is based on the computer they used, for example, some of the Macs I tried kept disconnecting the ADB shell/disabling USB debugging and thus, disables the app - which gets understandably annoying.
I usually test on my main rig regarding Andromeda, and it's been running great with 5 devices attached at all times, including when they are disconnected.
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That's great to hear!
As far as I know, the battery is completely drawn in Java so overlays are mods won't work, unless you do rooted mods
I've been running rootless for nearly a whole year and it's been great!
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Usually we don't like telling people this but the connection of the phone to their Oreo device is based on the computer they used, for example, some of the Macs I tried kept disconnecting the ADB shell/disabling USB debugging and thus, disables the app - which gets understandably annoying.
I usually test on my main rig regarding Andromeda, and it's been running great with 5 devices attached at all times, including when they are disconnected.
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Thanks Nicholas for all you do!!! I am sure Andromeda will only get better and it has been a blessing!!!
Thanks for the tip about the connection. My desktop is ancient...maybe I will try my new laptop and see how it works.
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OK, had the Oreo colorizer installed to improve the colors but then seen it using 2% battery after a full day...saw there was an update and after mashing update phone a 100 times finally sideloaded it! The saturated option is what I am used to and I think are great! I see some prefer just boosted...a compromise between boosted and saturated would be great.
Have gotten 3 days without charging the phone whereas at best I could make it 2 on the 6P! I may just stay unrooted if Substratum Andromeda would work a little better...takes like 10 tries sometimes to connect the ADB Andromeda script. And Pitch Black seems to update the theme almost everyday!
Loving this phone now!
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How are you getting 3 days on a charge? I'm getting just under 2. Not that I'm complaining, but 3 would be badass.
Awesome thread idea -- was tired seeing so many negative threads concerning this phone. This phone has been nothing but great to me.
Here's what I did!
- Global full immersive mode (did this AS SOON as i unboxed it, after unlocking bootloader)
- Completely disabled the nav bar (never pops up)
- LMT Pie Controls
- Dropped down the animations to .5x
- Nova Prime
- Light Flow/Manager
- Substratum (pitch black theme)
- Disabled apps I dont use (uninstalled the ones i could)
After applying Nov. update, I decided to Root for a few reasons:
- Complete removal of the nav bar (editing the build.prompt)
- Got tired of seeing ads in Chrome Beta
- Completely removed apps within the system I dont use instead of just disabling them (nice and slim)
This phone has been absolutely incredible - insanely smooth with zero lag. No burn-in (obviously due to my set up) or anything negative about this phone that has been reported.
More than likely going to be on the Nov. build until ROMs start come rolling in -- until then, im completely satisfied.
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How are you getting 3 days on a charge? I'm getting just under 2. Not that I'm complaining, but 3 would be badass.
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Nothing special at all! I am using it the same as I did my 6P. I do clear all recents 2 or 3 times a day to make sure nothing is running in the background. Have brightness about 40% with adaptive brightness on. Am on Google Fi so make sure to be on wifi most of the day....from experience poor signal is a big drain. I keep location on battery saving which really helps Google Fit and my smartwatch be more accurate. Probably could get even more out of it if I did not play a battery hog called Dice with Buddies.
Dumped the Oreo Colorizer app for sideloading the November update...Saturated is my lobster!!!!
Anyone find a circle battery mod that works yet?
Loving my 2xl so far, aside from not being able to find a glass screen protector that lasts more than 2 days without dust under it!
Running sideloaded Nov. update,
Magisk 14.4 rooted
light manager is a must! (different color leds for work/personal app notifications)
substratum swift black
and good ol adaway to keep the ads at bay.
Would love a circle clock mod
and would KILL for a volume adjustment mod (set notification and ringtone to separate levels)
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Magisk 14.4
Substratum - Swift Black
Nova Prime
Tapet - Black Wallpaper
Removed Nav Bar - Using Swift Navigation instead.
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what is swift navigation?
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what is swift navigation?
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Think he meant Swipe Navigation : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suphi.swipenavigation&hl=en
Ok,
This is driving me nuts. Overnight my contacts and phone colors changed by themselves. The colored tiles for each contact etc changed and they are very light colored. Almost screwed up looking. I could not find any settings to fix this. In an attempt to fix it, I updated my Essential Phone to 9.0 via OTA and the weird colors followed the update and are still there.
I tried enabling developer mode and manually putting the phone into the "dark" theme, and that still doesn't seem to fix it. What happened? Has anyone had this happen?
I can't find anything about it on google, but it looks terrible and its driving me crazy.
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material2 update, get used to it i guess, every google app and lots of mainstream 3rd party going that route
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This is driving me nuts. Overnight my contacts and phone colors changed by themselves. The colored tiles for each contact etc changed and they are very light colored. Almost screwed up looking. I could not find any settings to fix this. In an attempt to fix it, I updated my Essential Phone to 9.0 via OTA and the weird colors followed the update and are still there.
I tried enabling developer mode and manually putting the phone into the "dark" theme, and that still doesn't seem to fix it. What happened? Has anyone had this happen?
I can't find anything about it on google, but it looks terrible and its driving me crazy.
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*****tard ?
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*****tard
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Haha :laugh:
I have the same issue - it looks like a Google update (without asking for a permission), but I did not find any fix for it so far
The only way how to get rid of those strange colors seems to be to add a picture to the contact, but do you want to do it for ALL contacts...?
Could you, please let me know if/when you will find a better solution?
Thanks,
Maros
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Google ask permission,lol they are updating material design. They can and do change things you know.
Turns out they can enable this server side these days, so you could have installed the requisite update a week ago.
Use substratum
There is this https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/08/27/google-teases-dark-mode-phone-app-play-store-update-notes/ but who knows when it will be available and what it will look like with the dark mode applied.
Am I the only one who likes those new colors better ?
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Am I the only one who likes those new colors better ?
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it looks a bit "girly"
it seems that we will have to wait for dark mode to change it...
Is there a way to enable dark mode for Facebook?
I found a trick for messenger but nothing for Facebook
lol just the opposite...
https://www.xda-developers.com/facebook-is-testing-a-whiter-ui-design-in-the-android-app/
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lol just the opposite...
https://www.xda-developers.com/facebook-is-testing-a-whiter-ui-design-in-the-android-app/
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lol im sure they are prepping this for dark mode (fully white and toggle so everything goes FULLY black)
as Messenger already has dark mode and im using it
Dark mode
Here's hoping we get a true dark mode because that white is really battery draining
Wanna know what I´m doing? Using the facebook in the Samsung Browser. It´s that easy. The Samsung Browser offers a native dark mode as well - just set yourself a bookmark on your homescreen and you are done. And the good thing is: It´s even better in terms of performance and WAY less data sniffing as well
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Wanna know what I´m doing? Using the facebook in the Samsung Browser. It´s that easy. The Samsung Browser offers a native dark mode as well - just set yourself a bookmark on your homescreen and you are done. And the good thing is: It´s even better in terms of performance and WAY less data sniffing as well
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I've been doing the same since disabling Facebook app and its related bloat on my phone for a few months.
Works ok, but fb intentionally makes it not work as well as their app suprise suprise! Example, when you get notification and click it , it doesn't always take you to the post.
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I like
please update latest facebook dark mode..
Not sure if y'all are aware but you can actually "force dark mode" on basically all apps on your device in the developer options.
Spacebook lol
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Not sure if y'all are aware but you can actually "force dark mode" on basically all apps on your device in the developer options.
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"force dark mode" mode makes everything look worse. you cant even read the black text on black background here and there.
Best solution for this is wait for FB to update their official dark mode to everybody. Ive heard that they are testing dark mode on some chosen people's accounts.
Guess that's just an issue for you. I haven't had any issues. My text shows white over the black background *
I've seen a few sites that Facebook and Messenger get blackened and put to download, search google or send me a private message to send you.
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"force dark mode" mode makes everything look worse. you cant even read the black text on black background here and there.
Best solution for this is wait for FB to update their official dark mode to everybody. Ive heard that they are testing dark mode on some chosen people's accounts.
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Dark mode from developers look nice. Facebook looks ok.
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