It as been a struggle to tune my Note 10+ to the way I like my phones and one of the preferences is a universally dark (preferably black) theme. I used Substratum on my previous, rooted, phones.
Hex was a godsend and didn't seem to need nearly the babysitting that Substratum did with constant updates to overlays.
Until today.
Yesterday or the day before I had clicked on app updates from the Play Store and nothing had happened but I brished it off as I was busy. Today I had the same and got a crash report. Familiar with these from SubStra I set about regenerating the theme in Hex. Initially it fixed Google Play Store but was the stock grey night theme, not the full black so after everything updated I tried again.
Galaxy themes crashed. On a new reboot changes had reverted and I was seeing white background notifications.There was no going back as to remove the theme/overlays that were crashing Galaxy Themes I needed Galaxy Themes. Various Hex troubleshooting and app data/cache resets were no help.
So.. Safe mode. OK, in safe mode you cannot change the theme but that does not matter because, to my dismay, I found that safe mode doesn't just reset absolutely everything in safe mode, when you come out of it those resets stick to non-safe. Wallpaper gone, default keybboard reset, default launcher reset, theme default (OK, that I wanted).
Anyway. I could have just dropped in and out of safe I think to reset the theme and with Galaxy Themes working again I was able to successfully reapply my Hex theme and then start stitching my preferred environment back together in a visually comfortable theme.
Pretty certain I did somethign wrong in the initial re-apply to get Play Store working and picked the wrong High_contrast, or missed a reboot. I had a nagging feel in the back of my head throughout the repair.
Highlights the importance of not missing any steps in a Hex theme install but also a way out, albeit an annoying one, if follks do end up in a catch 22 with G Themes.
Hex was a godsend and didn't seem to need nearly the babysitting that Substratum did with constant updates to overlays.
Until today.
Yesterday or the day before I had clicked on app updates from the Play Store and nothing had happened but I brished it off as I was busy. Today I had the same and got a crash report. Familiar with these from SubStra I set about regenerating the theme in Hex. Initially it fixed Google Play Store but was the stock grey night theme, not the full black so after everything updated I tried again.
Galaxy themes crashed. On a new reboot changes had reverted and I was seeing white background notifications.There was no going back as to remove the theme/overlays that were crashing Galaxy Themes I needed Galaxy Themes. Various Hex troubleshooting and app data/cache resets were no help.
So.. Safe mode. OK, in safe mode you cannot change the theme but that does not matter because, to my dismay, I found that safe mode doesn't just reset absolutely everything in safe mode, when you come out of it those resets stick to non-safe. Wallpaper gone, default keybboard reset, default launcher reset, theme default (OK, that I wanted).
Anyway. I could have just dropped in and out of safe I think to reset the theme and with Galaxy Themes working again I was able to successfully reapply my Hex theme and then start stitching my preferred environment back together in a visually comfortable theme.
Pretty certain I did somethign wrong in the initial re-apply to get Play Store working and picked the wrong High_contrast, or missed a reboot. I had a nagging feel in the back of my head throughout the repair.
Highlights the importance of not missing any steps in a Hex theme install but also a way out, albeit an annoying one, if follks do end up in a catch 22 with G Themes.
