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adiboy101
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Hi!

This is my first post in WP so yeah.....




PREREQUISITES:
  1. Windows Phone
  2. WP Root Tools
  3. Need to know color in HEX (eg. #FF9900)

INSTRUCTIONS:
  1. In Root Tools, swipe to Registry, then Navigate to \Local Machine\ControlPanel\Themes
  2. Now be careful! If you want to edit the LIGHT theme, press 0. If you want to edit the DARK theme, press 1.
  3. Click on BaseThemeColor, then change the value data to your HEX code
  4. Scroll down and do the same to PageBackgroundColor and TextHighContrast.
  5. Go to settings, chose your theme, and VIOLA!

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Welcome to the future...are u kidding us? Apps, guides, intuition has already told us everything U wrote...the only diff is the images to better guide who is not practical...bah..
and is VOILA, not VIOLA...
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Welcome to the future...are u kidding us? Apps, guides, intuition has already told us everything U wrote...the only diff is the images to better guide who is not practical...bah..
and is VOILA, not VIOLA...
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Yeah, you make a good point but it took me like a month to figure out how to do this. Also, your tone makes you look like kind of a douche.

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*you *difference

I don't mean to sound angry, but you should really think before talking.

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Search before posting. It's right there in the forum rules. You may call him "kind of a douche" if you like, but from our perspective this is spam.

At most, this is worthy of yet another reference to it in the Registry Tweaks thread. I could understand creating a new thread if you'd released a new app to automate it (because there totally aren't enough theming apps yet...) but even if this were a brand new tweak, it should have gone in the existing registry tweaking thread.

That said, I do appreciate your desire to help explain the exact steps. Just, please consider the most apropriate avenue for doing so.
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Try Theme_Install http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1667410
 
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Sorry adiboy but I'm not native English and I have not a complete control over the language:P anyway, we already know it...

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Yeah, you make a good point but it took me like a month to figure out how to do this.
ha ha ha...a month?
it took me 30 seconds using the forum search function (that was about a year ago)...u should really search before thinking :]
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Wow, cut the guy some slack.
 
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Yeah, you make a good point but it took me like a month to figure out how to do this.
Looks like you are a really smart boy
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I don't think you guys understand. I was just trying to make a clear step by step guide to doing what i thought was a pretty cool tweak.

As you can see, I just recently migrated from android, and I'm loving windows phone so far. I guess the WP dev community is a bit different, and that's just something i'll have to learn to get used to.

That said, what do you think i should do next? Delete the thread? post it in a different forum?

Thanks for helping a WP noob out!

PS: the "for like a month" part was a bit exagerated. I only got my WP device 2 weeks ago

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