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iPod 4g Mono Charging problems

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pixelma:

--- Quote from: yapper on June 26, 2010, 09:56:28 AM ---The themes get selected based on screen size, not colour depth so you also get the non-monochrome themes. Some are usable, some aren't, depending on the colours that were used and how they map on to the limited number of greys the mono screen supports.

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It's a bit off-topic but I just want to give a bit more accurate information:

Themes get selected based on whether they pass a run through the checkwps tool or not. Some colour themes made for targets with the same sized screen pass it if they either don't use viewports in their WPS at all or - if they do use them - don't set colours there - they are technically "correct".

The problem comes with themes that set the colours globally in the configuration file to white or something bright and use a dark backdrop image. On greyscale screens such as the original poster's 4th gen Ipod, the dark backdrop is used but greyscale screens don't know the foreground colour setting and just use black text for it so it gets mostly unreadable. On a monochrome screen these themes are no problem by the way because these can not show the backdrop.

Just a note while at it: the colour themes you see were not made for the 4th gen Ipod Colour because its screen size is bigger but for the Iaudio X5, the big H10 and some other which also have a 160x128 sized screen but have colour displays.

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