Anybody try this yet? http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...um-theming-unrooted-android-8-0-oreo-devices/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.andromeda&hl=en
mademan420 said:
Anybody try this yet? http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...store/apps/details?id=projekt.andromeda&hl=en
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Yeah but Andromeda is an add-on to make substratum work. I have to stay plugged into my comp for it to work though. Once I set theme I'm good to go though.
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Yeah but Andromeda is an add-on to make substratum work. I have to stay plugged into my comp for it to work though. Once I set theme I'm good to go though.
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Well I guess having to plug in to set the theme isnt so bad...
I ran into this problem yesterday and all I did was just ran the Andromeda script two times in a row and waited about 10 seconds and it was fine. Both Substratum and Andromeda have been updated since then so it may have just been a bug. The substratum app works great although there are some themes that apparently still require root to use (status bar changes like moving the clock to center). Over all im very happy with the results. Using Sai's Oreo black/teal theme and love it. Big thanks to those who made this possible
Yeah, it's still on the XDA Portal front page.
Is this just for unrooted? Substratum works fine rooted
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Is this just for unrooted? Substratum works fine rooted
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yeah, this is for unrooted devices.
Yeah been using it since release, works like a dream for me. Don't have to stay plugged in myself either, only a reboot requires a re-run of the andromeda desktop client.
I started using it today but having the same issue with it only working while plugged to the PC. I tried it at least 5-6 times and ran it back to back, still goes to not authorized once I unplugged. But I like the theme so far and everything seems ok for now after I rebooted.
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I've been trying it out.
Which black theme hasn't the fewest unintended UI issues? Black themes are nice, but it bugs me when I get white on white text, or my Keep note colors are messed up. I haven't yet tried Swift Black as everyone seems to love it, but I want one that just works. I don't have a ton of time for experimentation.
I'm also not interested in changing the look too much outside of coloring, like Substratum DAN does with all it's fonts and ugly (imo) color themes.
Swift black is the best black theme I found so far. Pitch black seems to be actively worked on but Google now home had black on black issue. Only issue with Swift black was inbox shows a white background once opening an email but it might not be the app's fault.
IIIIkoolaidIIII said:
Yeah been using it since release, works like a dream for me. Don't have to stay plugged in myself either, only a reboot requires a re-run of the andromeda desktop client.
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Hey how did you achieve this theme where the notifications shade are even blacked out. Please help . Been searching on how to achieve this
luch4galaxy said:
Hey how did you achieve this theme where the notifications shade are even blacked out. Please help . Been searching on how to achieve this
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That's themed using Compound theme in the Play Store from Daniel Schott.
Do they have it working for Chromebooks? Where I can plug my Pixel XL to my Chromebook?
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I've been trying it out.
Which black theme hasn't the fewest unintended UI issues? Black themes are nice, but it bugs me when I get white on white text, or my Keep note colors are messed up. I haven't yet tried Swift Black as everyone seems to love it, but I want one that just works. I don't have a ton of time for experimentation.
I'm also not interested in changing the look too much outside of coloring, like Substratum DAN does with all it's fonts and ugly (imo) color themes.
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I've been using Swift black ever since nugget now I'm using it on Oreo I really like it
Edit Swift dark I mean
mac796 said:
I've been using Swift black ever since nugget now I'm using it on Oreo I really like it
Edit Swift dark I mean
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I went ahead and bit the bullet on Swift Black, and it's fantastic. Worth every penny. Really well thought out and few text coloration bugs
rockingondrums said:
I went ahead and bit the bullet on Swift Black, and it's fantastic. Worth every penny. Really well thought out and few text coloration bugs
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That's funny I just tried to buy it. damn Play Store force closes on me everytime I try to buy an app so I guess I got a reflash the factory image. Some bug I guess some of us have
Nice Write-up/review about it!
https://www.androidcentral.com/week-substratumandromeda-theming
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That's funny I just tried to buy it. damn Play Store force closes on me everytime I try to buy an app so I guess I got a reflash the factory image. Some bug I guess some of us have
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Just try wiping the data of the play store app, should solve those sort of issues with it.
IIIIkoolaidIIII said:
Just try wiping the data of the play store app, should solve those sort of issues with it.
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No that doesn't fix it. I guess others have the same problem. There's a lot of us
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I just got my Pixel 2 XL yesterday from Google, I immediately rooted the phone, and set it up my way. Installed Substratum, and go to my favorite themer Swift Dark or Swift Black. I installed Swift Dark, and everything looks good, but the Phone app remains stock white. So I totally removed Substratum, and wiped from system files. Restarted phone. I installed it again, and this time installed Swift Black, again everything looks super cool, deep black, but the Phone app is still the stock white.
So my question what's up with the Phone app not getting themed ?
as it was just updated, the theme will most likely need an update as well.
patience.
Zorachus said:
I just got my Pixel 2 XL yesterday from Google, I immediately rooted the phone, and set it up my way. Installed Substratum, and go to my favorite themer Swift Dark or Swift Black. I installed Swift Dark, and everything looks good, but the Phone app remains stock white. So I totally removed Substratum, and wiped from system files. Restarted phone. I installed it again, and this time installed Swift Black, again everything looks super cool, deep black, but the Phone app is still the stock white.
So my question what's up with the Phone app not getting themed ?
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Bet you have version 14.x like I did. I emailed them last night and this morning they replied that I need 15.x version. Get it here"
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...-phone-15-0-179075669-2-android-apk-download/
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Bet you have version 14.x like I did. I emailed them last night and this morning they replied that I need 15.x version. Get it here"
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...-phone-15-0-179075669-2-android-apk-download/
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That did the trick, THANK YOU
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Bet you have version 14.x like I did. I emailed them last night and this morning they replied that I need 15.x version. Get it here"
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...-phone-15-0-179075669-2-android-apk-download/
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Will Google update their own app? Kinda funny, that's about the first time the themers are ahead of Google :good:
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Will Google update their own app? Kinda funny, that's about the first time the themers are ahead of Google :good:
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Yeah, that is why I did not expect that I had an older phone version on a two week old P2XL. And the Swift Black theme that update yesterday morning themed phone and changes to last nights version stated that one needed the new YouTube, no mention of phone app. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Bet you have version 14.x like I did. I emailed them last night and this morning they replied that I need 15.x version. Get it here"
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...-phone-15-0-179075669-2-android-apk-download/
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Thank you for this. Worked for me as well
Pkt_Lnt said:
Bet you have version 14.x like I did. I emailed them last night and this morning they replied that I need 15.x version. Get it here"
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...-phone-15-0-179075669-2-android-apk-download/
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Man I'm glad I stumbled across this I was trying to figure out why I couldn't theme my phone app I was on 14.0. Thanks ?
This has been going on for the past couple days. Clearing all the apps data, or reinstalling it, solves it. But only for the next viewing session. The second time you open it, it's right back to the same thing. WTF! This is killing me.
roll back to an earlier version.
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This has been going on for the past couple days. Clearing all the apps data, or reinstalling it, solves it. But only for the next viewing session. The second time you open it, it's right back to the same thing. WTF! This is killing me.
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You didn't say how you typically update every month, but I would now re-flash the full image (removing -w from the script). You'll lose TWRP and root if you have those, but if these files are on your phone before you start (TWRP, kernel, magisk) it only takes 5 minutes even taking your time. To speed things up be sure to catch the reboot at the end of the image flash, holding down the vol-dn button. That will take you back to fastboot mode instead of waiting for it to boot up and then having to reboot. Flash or boot to TWRP and then queue up kernel and magisk, then let her rip.
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This has been going on for the past couple days. Clearing all the apps data, or reinstalling it, solves it. But only for the next viewing session. The second time you open it, it's right back to the same thing. WTF! This is killing me.
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had the same
but now it works
chevycam94 said:
This has been going on for the past couple days. Clearing all the apps data, or reinstalling it, solves it. But only for the next viewing session. The second time you open it, it's right back to the same thing. WTF! This is killing me.
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It's the dark theme. If you switch to a light wallpaper and refresh the Google Feed, the text will come back!
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It's the dark theme. If you switch to a light wallpaper and refresh the Google Feed, the text will come back!
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Really? I have a dark wallpaper and see my Google Feed text fine.
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Really? I have a dark wallpaper and see my Google Feed text fine.
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Here's a screenshot of dark theme but still have text showing.
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Here's a screenshot of dark theme but still have text showing.View attachment 4500372
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I think this is only happening to the Google App beta
EeZeEpEe said:
Here's a screenshot of dark theme but still have text showing.View attachment 4500372
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whats interesting about your screenshot though is, that the feed is showing a light background, with a dark theme, it should be dark. (it should actually be your wallpaper)
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whats interesting about your screenshot though is, that the feed is showing a light background, with a dark theme, it should be dark. (it should actually be your wallpaper)
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Might be because I'm running Nova Launcher with Nova Google Companion.
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Removed myself from the beta, and updated to stable. So far so good. Going to try a few more things to make sure that was it.
While I'm here. I'm still having lockscreen swipe unlock issues. STILL takes 50 tries.
I have the feeling that rooting is part of the problem.
I do remember someone found an "anti-falsing" setting in SystemUI, but that required more work than it should.
Did Google really NOT fix this basic issue yet?
I'm having the same issue, text doesn't show in dark background but shows with a white background.
I'm also part of the beta but I would rather not deactivate it, any other solution? I like my dark background ?
Trameur said:
I'm having the same issue, text doesn't show in dark background but shows with a white background.
I'm also part of the beta but I would rather not deactivate it, any other solution? I like my dark background ?
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No other solution that I can tell. I tried looking through every option I could find and nothing was helpful.
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No other solution that I can tell. I tried looking through every option I could find and nothing was helpful.
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It works again, I didn't touch anything, Google and Google news updated themselves yesterday and since then it works.
I have a Le Max 2 with a Google Pixel OS so I'm not sure if it works on a Google Pixel but I'm guessing that it probably does
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It works again, I didn't touch anything, Google and Google news updated themselves yesterday and since then it works.
I have a Le Max 2 with a Google Pixel OS so I'm not sure if it works on a Google Pixel but I'm guessing that it probably does
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Can confirm the the Google beta update yesterday did fix the issue on the Pixel 2 XL.
hey guys i have a verzion pixel 2 xl bought it second hand, i can live with stock but rly need theming.
i understand that there is andromeda plugin that goes with substratum, but is it working ?
id like to know that before buying from playstore.
also i am on the latest version (pie).
i hope it works..
leondestiny said:
hey guys i have a verzion pixel 2 xl bought it second hand, i can live with stock but rly need theming.
i understand that there is andromeda plugin that goes with substratum, but is it working ?
id like to know that before buying from playstore.
also i am on the latest version (pie).
i hope it works..
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Unfortunately, no. You need to be rooted to use substratum to theme 9.0. Why it was changed from 8.1 by google is hard to say. Guess they just like blinding white UI's
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Unfortunately, no. You need to be rooted to use substratum to theme 9.0. Why it was changed from 8.1 by google is hard to say. Guess they just like blinding white UI's
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cant the substratum/andromeda devs do something about it .. ?
seriously not even the dark theme within the settings makes the ui dark, it only themes the qs section.
scre* google..
leondestiny said:
cant the substratum/andromeda devs do something about it .. ?
seriously not even the dark theme within the settings makes the ui dark, it only themes the qs section.
scre* google..
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I understand your frustration my friend. Don't take my word for it. Here's what one of the best theme makers has to say on the matter.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ap...p-clients-release-notes-t3668682/post77704639
Can anyone confirm that Substratum themes work on this phone?
Substratum wont work on this phone until we have root. Android Pie only allows Substratum to work on rooted phones due to Google's deletion of the overlay management service.
Cool, thank you. It's working on other rooted devices running Pie right? So it's a pretty good shot it'll just work once we have root?
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Cool, thank you. It's working on other rooted devices running Pie right? So it's a pretty good shot it'll just work once we have root?
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It's working with Pie on the rooted Pixel 2XL...
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Substratum wont work on this phone until we have root. Android Pie only allows Substratum to work on rooted phones due to Google's deletion of the overlay management service.
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did they say why they deleted the overlay management system? That was a great addition to the Oreo version.
Oh yeah any other device running Pie that is rooted Substratum should work fine depending on the theme. Once we get root we should be good to go.
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Cool, thank you. It's working on other rooted devices running Pie right? So it's a pretty good shot it'll just work once we have root?
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They probably wont ever say but they dont like us tinkering around with their apps. There was a petition to keep OMS in Pie but they just ignored it and decided, as they usually do, to do what they want. Its the same thing with the Old style navbar,,,the code was there like OMS, just leave it in there for users to use it if they want. I have been with Android since it started and the "freedoms" we once enjoyed are being slowly eroded and choices taken away. Pretty soon we will be Apple and everything will be proprietary.
Annnnd yet another feature taken away from us! I mean really,,,I use this feature just about everyday and now its gone probably like this Pixel 3 will be when I send it back to Google!
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/19/pixel-3-drops-support-voice-match-unlocking/
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did they say why they deleted the overlay management system? That was a great addition to the Oreo version.
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Substratum wont work on this phone until we have root. Android Pie only allows Substratum to work on rooted phones due to Google's deletion of the overlay management service.
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I think they just blocked 3rd party overlays, not dropped OMS completely. IF there was no OMS, then Substratum wouldn't work properly, right? A ROM would need the necessary commits from Subs team (frameworks, etc), like we had to do with Nougat. Yet, you can run it on stock AOSPie, as long as you're rooted.
I may have it wrong, lol, I know I'm just ready to get my P3XL
Root is hopefully right around the corner and then Substratum can work,,,cant wait!
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I think they just blocked 3rd party overlays, not dropped OMS completely. IF there was no OMS, then Substratum wouldn't work properly, right? A ROM would need the necessary commits from Subs team (frameworks, etc), like we had to do with Nougat. Yet, you can run it on stock AOSPie, as long as you're rooted.
I may have it wrong, lol, I know I'm just ready to get my P3XL
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Root is hopefully right around the corner and then Substratum can work,,,cant wait!
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I saw a few posts that indicated that subs not working after rooting
Oh no I rooted as easy as any other phone and my themes applied fine. Some people may not be applying the themes right on Pie. I was even able to get rid of that God awful gesture navbar and get the old one back so I can flash my navbar theme.
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I saw a few posts that indicated that subs not working after rooting
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Oh no I rooted as easy as any other phone and my themes applied fine. Some people may not be applying the themes right on Pie. I was even able to get rid of that God awful gesture navbar and get the old one back so I can flash my navbar theme.
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Good to know
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Oh no I rooted as easy as any other phone and my themes applied fine. Some people may not be applying the themes right on Pie. I was even able to get rid of that God awful gesture navbar and get the old one back so I can flash my navbar theme.
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Not sure why I didn't try it. I just assumed it wouldn't work. Not only does it work, everything is themed.
Thanks for saying something. That white ui was painful.
Swift Black on the 3 XL is a God send
Now in all the System and Google apps, you can't even tell there's a notch. Everything has a beautiful silky black look, and you just see the time in upper left and network info in upper right, and no idea there's even a notch in the middle as everything is black which totally hides the notch completely, but it's nice to see that info in the upper corners, makes the screen look like it goes all the way to the edge.
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Oh no I rooted as easy as any other phone and my themes applied fine. Some people may not be applying the themes right on Pie. I was even able to get rid of that God awful gesture navbar and get the old one back so I can flash my navbar theme.
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Can you please share the right way to apply themes on Pie?
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Can you please share the right way to apply themes on Pie?
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Unless the procedure is different on the P3XL as compared to my P2XL on Pie, the procedure is as follows.
Install the latest substratum from the play store, and grant it root and storage permissions.
Download a quality theme, and there are several.
Open substratum and tick the theme you want to apply.
Select "build and update" to create the overlays you want. Once done, reboot the phone, then go to substratum again, open the manager, then check your overlays, and select enable.
That should do it :good:
I think someone already answered but most forget to go back into Substratum and click enable on all the overlays that you built previously then rebooted. Its not like Oreo where all you had to do was just build and enable. Now, you have to build and enable then reboot and go back into manager and enable the built overlays again.
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Can you please share the right way to apply themes on Pie?
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I am themed on the Swift series, but I did not know about this rebooting and enabling again. I was wondering why it wasn't working at first I would reboot go back into it and then an able again just out of frustration that knowing that was the right way to do it but seems weird to have to do that extra stuff now
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Oh no I rooted as easy as any other phone and my themes applied fine. Some people may not be applying the themes right on Pie. I was even able to get rid of that God awful gesture navbar and get the old one back so I can flash my navbar theme.
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Can confirm themes work just have to reboot after applying them and re enable them after reboot.
If I may ask how did you change the navbar ? And put those icons ?
I made a Google doc and posted the link below for my themes to help people that may run into problems,,,if you scroll down the last page there is a guide to enable the old style navbar. The icons are part of my Substratum theme Amazed Navbars.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LqNd7pltj3G0rPopgW11PybpcCQCNufMblvl6lUb2Tk/edit?usp=sharing
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Can confirm themes work just have to reboot after applying them and re enable them after reboot.
If I may ask how did you change the navbar ? And put those icons ?
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Oh no I rooted as easy as any other phone and my themes applied fine. Some people may not be applying the themes right on Pie. I was even able to get rid of that God awful gesture navbar and get the old one back so I can flash my navbar theme.
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How did you get the Nav Bar back? I hate the way it is now and would prefer doing something similar to what you did - ? if you can share that would be awesome - thanks
Never mind - I found the guide for changing back to the old Navigaiton menu - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/heres-how-to-revert-to-the-old-three-button-navigation-system-on-google-pixel-3-5418351.html Thanks
So now that Substratum is working with Android 10 what themes are you guys using? I've tried Spectrum and Swift Black, but they still seem to have some quirks. To be expected at this stage of the game but I was wondering if any of you have found others that work better.
See attached screenshot, swift black is not compatible with Android 10 framework but a lot of the 3rd party apps are. I use it to fill in the gaps from Ethereal theme. Outline X is an extension to Ethereal.
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So now that Substratum is working with Android 10 what themes are you guys using? I've tried Spectrum and Swift Black, but they still seem to have some quirks. To be expected at this stage of the game but I was wondering if any of you have found others that work better.
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Like mentioned above.. Swift black works well for all apps, but it hasn't been updated to theme the system UI.
Pitch Black just updated recently and supports Android 10 framework!! so i got that going again! my favorite theme.
Now just waiting for Sprite to get updated for Android 10.
spotmark said:
So now that Substratum is working with Android 10 what themes are you guys using? I've tried Spectrum and Swift Black, but they still seem to have some quirks. To be expected at this stage of the game but I was wondering if any of you have found others that work better.
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Hi,
I don't use it as much as I used to on previous Android versions, but if you want a black theme with regular updates, try "Domination" from @davidwilson83 ?
Q stock is supported. But if errors occur, David usually answer emails pretty fast by the way.
Here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.annihilation.dominationdonate
#WhiteUIMustDie
Cheers...
Sébastien.
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Hi,
I don't use it as much as I used to on previous Android versions, but if you want a black theme with regular updates, try "Domination" from @davidwilson83
Q stock is supported. But if errors occur, David usually answer emails pretty fast by the way.
Here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.annihilation.dominationdonate
#WhiteUIMustDie
Cheers...
Sébastien.
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Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for. Something that made everything BLACK and not Google's grayish black.
spotmark said:
Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for. Something that made everything BLACK and not Google's grayish black.
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Hey,
Glad to help.
I'm quite happy with this theme. My only concern was that it colors the settings icon in a single color. And Boom, Q came out and settings are black! Problem solved! ?
Cheers...
Sébastien.
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So now that Substratum is working with Android 10 what themes are you guys using? I've tried Spectrum and Swift Black, but they still seem to have some quirks. To be expected at this stage of the game but I was wondering if any of you have found others that work better.
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Try Swift Installer instead of Swift Black with Substratum Lite. Works perfectly fine on Android 10.
EVR_PR said:
Try Swift Installer instead of Swift Black with Substratum Lite. Works perfectly fine on Android 10.
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Right,everything works within......All black :laugh: