Default background Colour

[brian566]

I have posted before about the default white background colour on this phone which only lets you have a white background in Main applications Text / Dailer / Contacts / E-mail and Calendar with no ablity to change it even in themes

I have tried some third party apps overcome this on Dialer and text but you should not have to do this

I have just checked out the Z2 and even the Z3 Mini and its just the same .

Samsung and others give you the light or dark option.

So it looks like my only way is down the custom Rom
Unless any ideas and will custom rom do this

So come on Sony !!!!!!

 

[SXUsr]

See Here.

 

[brian566]

Themes

See Here.

Thanks just had a quick look seems a very comprehensive guide I did not realise that changing background colours was so complicated

 

[Pakman123]

Thanks just had a quick look seems a very comprehensive guide I did not realise that changing background colours was so complicated

For sony apps

open framework-res.apk with winrar (do not extract it) click on res look for drawable-xhdpi and extract it once the folder is on your pc open it and search for semc_bg_light.png edit the .png and then reopen framework-re.apk and go to res/drawable-xhdpi and drag semc_bg_light in to framework-res.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi

For android based apps you would need to decompile your framework-res.apk with bdfreaks apktool and navigate to res/drawable and edit background_holo_light.xml with notepad++ then recompile it

change the red to your color ( ffffff in both areas will make a white background )

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<gradient android:startColor="#ffe8e8e8" android:endColor="#ffffffff" android:angle="270.0" />
</shape>

i changed my background too look like this