Am I the only one who wants my color display to be in color?

[over2land]

Now please don't misconstrue this post.

I truly do appreciate the ROM bakers we have here, and they have put out some truly awesome stuff. Dutty and Q, I've already used both your ROMs, cause for some reason I just can't leave it alone. I've actually tried 3 of Dutty's and the 1.2 of Q's.

I've had cell phones since it was regular black numbers on a grey screen (like a digital watch), then to the green LED, then, finally to a colored LED, and then to a full color screen. I really don't want to go back 20 (or whatever) years.

Anyway, my dilema is the black design of the ROMs. I'm no ROM chef, I barely have the patience to reconfigure my device after flashing. But am I the only one who wants my color device to have a colored theme? I came from the Hermes, and tweaked the hell out of alll the black ROMs for that to get some more color into them. On this one, I'm a little more hesitant to tweak them back to color.

Is there a quick way to get the black out of the cooked ROMs? I'm back on the ATT ROM for now, and I'm hating it again (after only a day). Again, nothing but the utmost respect for the chefs with more patience and skills than me, and a big thanks to you guys again.

But, anyone else want their color device to remain in color?

[gabriel31337]

On black background the white text is perfectly readable. On ultra-mega-cool-supa-dupa coloured babe-magnet screen you will see LSD effect.

My 2 cents :D

[donatom3]

On black background the white text is perfectly readable. On ultra-mega-cool-supa-dupa coloured babe-magnet screen you will see LSD effect.

My 2 cents :D

Hmm ultra-mega-cool-supa-dupa coloured babe-magnet screen with LSD effect? Makes you wonder why aren't we doing this with more roms. :D

[DarkDvr]

I like my black WM6 theme. It's... I dunno... it's only emphasizing the potential of the device, I think. It's a psychological thing. It's if you have a ferrari you'd drive calm, respectable. Not like all those civics that scoop around like crazy kids..
Same idea here - if it'd be a cheap ass cellphone for $25, I'd have it pimped out. Since it's a $400 business machine - it has to look solid and calm.

Just my opinion.

[Jozer99]

You can pretty easily add your own backgrounds and menubar themes. You can also get skinning software to give even more possibilities. Search for the homescreen screenshot thread to see various themes and skins people use. The most popular theme is a sedate black, but there are plenty of other colors out there.

[nbviper]

If you want an easy way to add color, check out: Wisbar Advance 3
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/

I love it! Easy to change themes with as much color as you want.
http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda1.bmp http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda2.bmp http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda3.bmp http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda4.bmp

[over2land]

If you want an easy way to add color, check out: Wisbar Advance 3
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/

I love it! Easy to change themes with as much color as you want.
http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda1.bmp http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda2.bmp http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda3.bmp http://www.rcdatabase.com/pics/pda4.bmp

I thought I saw problems with wisbar and some other apps. But, yeah that does look cool. Thanks for the idea.

[etijburg]

I like my black WM6 theme. It's... I dunno... it's only emphasizing the potential of the device, I think. It's a psychological thing. It's if you have a ferrari you'd drive calm, respectable. Not like all those civics that scoop around like crazy kids..
Same idea here - if it'd be a cheap ass cellphone for $25, I'd have it pimped out. Since it's a $400 business machine - it has to look solid and calm.

Just my opinion.

I agree. The Kaiser is about function and performance not flash. If your looking for eye candy then get an iPhone. If you want a business class multiple use device then the Kaiser is for you. I love the black themes. You can put any theme you want on these ROMs. The ROM is just the OS. Just like windows it is up to you to make look the way you like to use it. It just happen to be the most popular look for the cooks.

[dolbe]

there are literly thousands of themes for pocket pc's bpth cooked roms and standard roms. they use the same themes and you can install them as easy as downloading them to your root directory and selecting them through your today/theme settings, have a look here http://www.pocketpcthemes.com/new.aspx for free themes

[over2land]

I agree. The Kaiser is about function and performance not flash. If your looking for eye candy then get an iPhone. If you want a business class multiple use device then the Kaiser is for you. I love the black themes. You can put any theme you want on these ROMs. The ROM is just the OS. Just like windows it is up to you to make look the way you like to use it. It just happen to be the most popular look for the cooks.

Jeez did I ever strike a chord, or what?

Why can't it have function AND form? If I wanted an Iflop, I'd have gotten one. I'd be first in line to buy those anti apple stickers, beleive me.

I'm not talking about roller coasters or flowers or hot chicks. All those things are great (some greater than others). I just want some color without having to hack like 200 items to a color to get it. Like make the black- blue, or red or whatever.

I understand I can put whatever theme I want on it. My thing was, with flashing once or twice a day, I'm tired of messing with color settings, and just wondering why people like turning the color display monochrome. Is your home computer colorless too? Do you watch movies exclusively in black and white?

[over2land]

I like my black WM6 theme. It's... I dunno... it's only emphasizing the potential of the device, I think. It's a psychological thing. It's if you have a ferrari you'd drive calm, respectable. Not like all those civics that scoop around like crazy kids..
Same idea here - if it'd be a cheap ass cellphone for $25, I'd have it pimped out. Since it's a $400 business machine - it has to look solid and calm.

Just my opinion.

If you always drove the ferrari like my grandma, you'd be wasting the car.

Just sayin is all.

[dolbe]

Jeez did I ever strike a chord, or what?

Is your home computer colorless too? Do you watch movies exclusively in black and white?

heh funny that you say that... my pc http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n218/dolbe666/desktop101.jpg

I prefer black and glossy really over bright and shiny

[over2land]

Wow.

That is pretty ironic, isn't it? LOL.

Still got some color in it, but largely comparable to the ROMs we are talking about, huh?

I can't really talk, I guess. I don't even have wallpaper, just a plain black screen. But still, I don't look at that screen all the dang time. I guess that is what gets me... every time I look at the phone it is black and dull. The plain screen on my home computer is so I don't have added clutter.

[dolbe]

if you want colour use SPB mobile shell its got plenty of options for colour themes, while your at it tweaks2K2.net has a color editor for your device colors thats quick and simple. no need to do any major changes and it can be changed regualarly in a matter of seconds. also SPB pocket plus have extended themes that are quite nice. or you can use a them editor to make your own themes however you want them. the choices are endless as to how you setup your Kaisers color settings

[over2land]

if you want colour use SPB mobile shell its got plenty of options for colour themes, while your at it tweaks2K2.net has a color editor for your device colors thats quick and simple. no need to do any major changes and it can be changed regualarly in a matter of seconds. also SPB pocket plus have extended themes that are quite nice. or you can use a them editor to make your own themes however you want them. the choices are endless as to how you setup your Kaisers color settings

I was using SPB when I first got the Hermes... but got away from it with the advent of the HTC home plug in... it did what I wanted and took less space, also I thought it slowed the device down less. I was running the Mobile Shell, Pocket Plus, and Weather apps. Do they slow the Kaiser down too?

I'll check the tweaks2K2 thing, thanks.

[dolbe]

they dont slow it down at all really. the newer SPB plus4 is less memory intensive and has a smaller footprint than the SPB plus v3. I use both the mobile shell and spb plus4 and pocket weather and dont experience any slow down. on my old wizard it slowed it down a bit but not that bad. the Kaiser doesnt suffer much from memory intensive apps like the old wm5/wm6 TYTN did. that extra ram and rom really makes a difference and the cpu is better also