My notification panel turns black on its own. Then it stays black for some time and then return to its original white color. Although it is not much of a concern to me, but i would like to know whether this is normal, and what causes the color of the notification panel to change?
Yup .. Noticed that too. My notification panel turns dark when I put dark wallpaper, and when I change to light wallpaper, itu turns white .
MosheHC said:
Yup .. Noticed that too. My notification panel turns dark when I put dark wallpaper, and when I change to light wallpaper, itu turns white .
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Thanks for the reply. I tried it and it is as you said. Never thought of that. I mostly use dark wallpaper so never noticed that. Now i wonder whether this happens with other phones or it is just limited to this phone. Overall, i think it is a great feature.
siwi09 said:
Thanks for the reply. I tried it and it is as you said. Never thought of that. I mostly use dark wallpaper so never noticed that. Now i wonder whether this happens with other phones or it is just limited to this phone. Overall, i think it is a great feature.
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Material dark theme cannot be implemented system-wide without root changes / third party app. This is default optimization by Google for Android (not their best work for sure), will probably be corrected in Pie.
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Hey! Can someone with a note set a pre black background a the lock screen background and report whether it looks normal? Someone had reported a problem with the gallery background with a black image, but I couldn't find a mention of lock screen there. Just google image search "black" and download and set it as lock screen. Seems to be giving me pinkish hues... same image works fine as a desktop background...
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Hey! Can someone with a note set a pre black background a the lock screen background and report whether it looks normal? Someone had reported a problem with the gallery background with a black image, but I couldn't find a mention of lock screen there. Just google image search "black" and download and set it as lock screen. Seems to be giving me pinkish hues... same image works fine as a desktop background...
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Most lockscreen wallpapers look horrible on my Note, not sure if my 240dpi is causing this. I use another lockscreen app set to transparent, so I don't care.
The Note's screen is 24 bit, so a picture with 16 or 8 bit depth might not be rendered properly.
Best to find a 24 bit image to test, try Google search.
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Hey! Can someone with a note set a pre black background a the lock screen background and report whether it looks normal? Someone had reported a problem with the gallery background with a black image, but I couldn't find a mention of lock screen there. Just google image search "black" and download and set it as lock screen. Seems to be giving me pinkish hues... same image works fine as a desktop background...
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Something weird is going on with the background on the lockscreen when i use a black picture.
Its greyish with stripes and stuff... realy strange... the same pic works fine as a homescreen background.
robertsydbrink said:
Something weird is going on with the background on the lockscreen when i use a black picture.
Its greyish with stripes and stuff... realy strange... the same pic works fine as a homescreen background.
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Same here.
Good to know that I'm not alone. Every other background seems fine. Same thing happens with the gallery background when the only image in the folder is a pitch black one, right?
Bigmille said:
The Note's screen is 24 bit, so a picture with 16 or 8 bit depth might not be rendered properly.
Best to find a 24 bit image to test, try Google search.
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Well all those images render fine in other applications on the phone so its the lockscreen wallpaper 'setter' wich messes it up I think.
Ya, I'm pretty sure too that that is the case...
I have a black lockscreen and it looks great.
I have noticed that when I have 'screen filter' app running, it dims the foreground but causes the background to do the 'grey' thing.
I have most of the auto display stuff turned off (auto brightness, auto adjust screen power)
- Frank
Looks like the same problem as with the video playback:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344714
MartijnMM said:
Looks like the same problem as with the video playback:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344714
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That guy mentions that his blacks aren't completely black. Our problem here is that setting a completely black image as the lockscreen leads to a messed pattern with greyish/pinkish stripes...
edit ; same thing occurs on mine. I even created two black background non compressed, 24 bit, one even with 285 dpi.. both show the wierd little gray stripes on lock screen. only notice it in very dim light by the way and even then if i look very close.
this is what i use. both screens look black as night.
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bedspringlex said:
this is what i use. both screens look black as night.
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So no lock screen issue with your phone?
wonderwout said:
Most lockscreen wallpapers look horrible on my Note, not sure if my 240dpi is causing this. I use another lockscreen app set to transparent, so I don't care.
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Use the darker red "sun" wallpaper gallery image - awesome on mine!
I have the same problem...
Has anyone tried restoring?
I set a black image and got the very dark grey bars others have described. However, I reset it to the original wallpaper and noticed that the white-ish parts of my background has bars as well! Just not as noticeable, and its only on the lock screen.
This is my background picture by the way:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2754/yellow_autumn.html
There seems to be some kind of gradient over the image on the lock screen - I'm just using the default for now, but if you set the default as your normal background as well as lock background, there's quite a difference. Could it be this gradient which is causing the issue with pure black backgrounds?
I'm using widget locker and here is my lockscreen with the homescreen wall paper which uses solid black background color
I am having the same issue. I just noticed it yesterday. I really thought it had something to do with the phone going below the minimum brightness it was designed for, but if you look at the notification bar it's still a clean black.
My guess is the phone is compressing the lockscreen wallpaper to save memory.
ph00ny said:
I'm using widget locker and here is my lockscreen with the homescreen wall paper which uses solid black background color
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Can people try WL (If you've purchased it) and see if it does the job?
I was looking at Google Map when I noticed the colours changing. It was as if the contrast was suddenly being reduced making the colours look washed out. When I went to my Home screen my windmill live wallpaper is also looking washed out because the grass no longer looks very green. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I attach some screen captured to show what it looks like.
Gaugerer said:
I was looking at Google Map when I noticed the colours changing. It was as if the contrast was suddenly being reduced making the colours look washed out. When I went to my Home screen my windmill live wallpaper is also looking washed out because the grass no longer looks very green. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I attach some screen captured to show what it looks like.
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Go to settings>display>screen mode you have changed the color management. And see if you have enabled auto adjust screen power. Maybe on of those are responsible.
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Do you use Custom Power saving?
Could be your battery running out, so its reducing your display to save power.
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Go to settings>display>screen mode you have changed the color management. And see if you have enabled auto adjust screen power. Maybe on of those are responsible.
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I've tried various settings but nothing solves the problem.
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Do you use Custom Power saving?
Could be your battery running out, so its reducing your display to save power.
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I'm not using power management and I have the phone on charge.
I've discovered why there's a difference in my Google Maps screens. It seems that sometimes the map is overlaid with a white circle which makes it look washed out. I attach a screen shot so you can see what it looks like. I think the circle is highlighting an area around my satnv location.
But I'm still not happy with my windmill which still looks washed out.
The colours on my windmill home screen have mysteriously returned to normal
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The colours on my windmill home screen have mysteriously returned to normal
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wow man there is a huge difference.... no way my gnote is not doing this for sure... try to upgrade to 2.3.6 and see if that fixes it
you're sure it's not a 'feature' of the windmill LIVE wallpaper?
On the second image you have good weather, the sun is shining. On the first image however, it seems as if you have bad weather, no sun, only clouds, thus the gray layer.
So maybe it's nothing the Note is responsible for, but the weather dependend Live Wallpaper.
I know is not the same problem but maybe related,my device have some brightness change in the display,many times i'm reading and see the screen do some dimming the screen lower down the brightness and go back after like 30 seconds to the normal bright,I have enable the Auto screen power but i try desable and the result are the same.
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you're sure it's not a 'feature' of the windmill LIVE wallpaper?
On the second image you have good weather, the sun is shining. On the first image however, it seems as if you have bad weather, no sun, only clouds, thus the gray layer.
So maybe it's nothing the Note is responsible for, but the weather dependend Live Wallpaper.
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I think you are probably right for nothing has changed except the weather.
I just have updated the new software today. The good news is that we can hide the navigation bar. The bad news is we only have 7 colors for the navigation bar to choose from, and there is no dark color. I use to have the black navigation bar so I found this update terrible
Is anyone share the same opinion??
This is probably to stop people from using a black background which will cause uneven wear of the display.
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I just have updated the new software today. The good news is that we can hide the navigation bar. The bad news is we only have 7 colors for the navigation bar to choose from, and there is no dark color. I use to have the black navigation bar so I found this update terrible
Is anyone share the same opinion??
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Maybe not the answer everyone wants but this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaouan.skinnednavbar&hl=en works great for bringing back the black navbar. And you can use this without any of the emoji's on it; just plain black navbar.
I don't see that hide nav bar feature...
gc180 said:
This is probably to stop people from using a black background which will cause uneven wear of the display.
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I'm a little confused, black pixels are costly?
keemyb said:
I'm a little confused, black pixels are costly?
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Google it. It's not difficult.
Black nav bar will result in uneven screen wear. I didn't say cost, I said screen wear.
I have a black navbar. I have always had a black navbar. It actually helps preserve battery life. A black navbar has never caused me issues.
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Maybe not the answer everyone wants but this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaouan.skinnednavbar&hl=en works great for bringing back the black navbar. And you can use this without any of the emoji's on it; just plain black navbar.
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This app does bring back the black bar but it keeps the phone awake. So the lock screen doesn't time out in the normal way. It times out after the same amount of time you set the system time out to. This has caused major battery drain when it turns on in my pocket from the virtual home button being so easy to push (even at the least sensitive setting) has anyone else found an alternative app that solves the problem in the same way but doesn't keep the phone from sleeping?
Hi guys,
So I've just installed the latest S8 update, which killed the color picker for the navbar and essentially gives you all white colors (Screenshot attached). Even if I use "Apply current theme", it's still white in some apps (e.g. Play Store, Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp many more). So I've downloaded "Navbar Apps" and it does the job of getting my navbar to a full black, but only sometimes. Im using a dark theme and have been using black navbars since they existed (why does Samsung even have white ones lolol) and navbar apps doesn't work 50% of the time and doesn't have the "ripple" animation when pressed, so I would really like a stable, solid black navbar. Any ideas? Thanks!
Same thing here...
The best thing would be to make it translucent IMO.
exxeHR said:
Same thing here...
The best thing would be to make it translucent IMO.
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Lol, thanks that actually worked (although I had to sacrifice the ripple animation). Still looking for a more seamless way to fix this though. To anyone interested: here's how I set it up (Screenshot attached). Can't really notice the translucency, but it looks black and that's what I'm going for.
Cheers!
I have my phone set to dark mode but nothing happens on the new pie update as it still stays light. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks so much
stu5797 said:
I have my phone set to dark mode but nothing happens on the new pie update as it still stays light. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks so much
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I have also tried this and it doesn't work. Anyone have ideas why?
I found the fix! Flip the theme to dark theme in the settings and then install this all black wallpaper below. That will turn everything to the dark theme. Once everything is dark you can switch the wallpaper to any other wallpaper and it should stay in the dark theme. Hope this helps!
I'm seeing the same thing on Pie...
@stu5797 why did you make the image 2560x1440? Because the phone resolution I thought for images is 1312x2560?
Actually all u need to do is switch to any of the essential wallpapers that are dark and the dark theme will kick in
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Actually all u need to do is switch to any of the essential wallpapers that are dark and the dark theme will kick in
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Well don't you think we tried that already?
Nope, only changes the App Drawer dark for me, and I assumed all the UI was going to be dark too?
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Well don't you think we tried that already?
Nope, only changes the App Drawer dark for me, and I assumed all the UI was going to be dark too?
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Nope, just what you see. I wish it did though. It would be nice.
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Well don't you think we tried that already?
Nope, only changes the App Drawer dark for me, and I assumed all the UI was going to be dark too?
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The only themed elements as as I can see are the app drawer and the notification shade everything else stays white.
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The only themed elements as as I can see are the app drawer and the notification shade everything else stays white.
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What the Notifications appeared dark? Mine where still white.
The only change I saw was a dark app drawer and the Power button menu in dark color...
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What the Notifications appeared dark? Mine where still white.
The only change I saw was a dark app drawer and the Power button menu in dark color...
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Yep
Why you need to root and run substratum 998 beta along with sais oreo dark.
stu5797 said:
I found the fix! Flip the theme to dark theme in the settings and then install this all black wallpaper below. That will turn everything to the dark theme. Once everything is dark you can switch the wallpaper to any other wallpaper and it should stay in the dark theme. Hope this helps!
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I can confirm this does not work on the final release of PIE
I can confirm that this does work on the final version of Pie
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I can confirm that this does work on the final version of Pie
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Only thing for me is I have to keep the wall paper , can't change to live one has to be a device wallpaper
Bro how did you get it to work? I have 998 version and the theme but it won't work.
@gorm ahh ok, my bad, notification panel on mine dark too...
You would think the 'Settings' UI would also be Dark? Hmm
Guys - To take a step back to the basics on these conversations, where are you guys seeing the "Dark" theme option, any way? Unless you guys are talking about Rooted or Unrooted Substratum themes with Andromeda (Unrooted)?As far as I can tell, there is no dark option in the stock firmware, is there? Other than inverted colors?
As for my experience, installing a dark wallpaper on the final Pie release, I am in fact able to successfully get the dark notification tiles, NOT the notifications themselves, which are still white.
Sorry for the request for obvious clarity, thanks!
No need to select a dark wallpaper in order to get dark quick settings toggles..that's the only thing goes dark,alongside with the slider of the audio level and the menu when pressing the power button...
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No need to select a dark wallpaper in order to get dark quick settings toggles..that's the only thing goes dark,alongside with the slider of the audio level and the menu when pressing the power button...
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Ah, see it now! Thank you!