Changing the Start Bar Color

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Easy Way

  • Download Basehue Express, unzip and place the .exe on your Shadow (not your PC.) Run the .exe on your phone. Very intuitive program!

More Technical Way

  • Attach your phone, open it using windows explorer or activesync and navigate to "application data > home" on the phone.
  • Copy all the xml files from your phone to your computer. If you have never looked at an xml file, check out the xml guide for more information.
  • Note: it is always a good idea to have an extra copy of original files that are untouched stashed somewhere on your computer.
  • Next, remove the "read only" and "hidden attributes" of the files.
  • To do this, select the xml files, right click and select properties. UNCHECK READONLY and UNCHECK HIDDEN if you can.
  • You are going to want to edit cmhome.home.xml and find the following code.

Code: Select all 

      <scheme>
         <color name="COLOR_TRAYGRADLEFT" value="#372C0F" />
         <color name="COLOR_TRAYGRADRIGHT" value="#372C0F" />
         <color name="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT" value="#D5B867"/>
    
         <color name="COLOR_TRAYBKGND" value="#372C0F" />
      </scheme>
  • Definitions of the above:
    • traygradleft and traygradright should be the 2 colors of the start bar gradient.
    • homehighlight is the color you see in menus when you scroll through a list.
    • traybkgnd should be the start bar main background color.
  • Simply change the traygradleft, traygradright, homehighlight and traybkgnd hex color value on your desired xml file (which will change your specific theme). Save.
  • Replace this edited xml file for the one on your phone.
  • Reboot. Select the "Home Screen Layout" that corresponds to the xml you edited and your changes should be seen!
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