Ugly Orange Messages in Lollipop - How do you change it?

[Ryu Matsuo]

What the hell after update my setting and messege all is white how to change color to black my eyes hurt pls help me. Sorry my english not perfect

 

[M3Stang]

I use textra.

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[tsells]

In my opinion, if you haven't used GoSMS yet, fry it for a few days....it will **** you off enough so that a color on your screen is miniscule in comparison.

I actually like GoSMS!

 

[troshs]

There are those that do....I'm not one of them.

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[Kelly Kearns]

The Verizon Message Plus app, that is free and works with any carrier, is still put there and you can change all colors of it.

 

[sandra211]

orange is THE 1 color I cannot stand! There has to be a way! Just updated, it's awful!

 

[anon(8413510)]

It's a very popular colour in Nederland, can't please everyone eh

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[Steve Wells4]

I found the answer. It isn't great but gets rid of the orange.
The Touchwiz Lollipop skin has a limited number of color schemes available to use that can be accessed through Developer Options. I am not entirely sure what the purpose for them really is since they merely drain away colors and mute everything. Anyway, the new way to access Developer Options is to go to the About Device under the More tab in your settings and scroll down to Build Number. Keep tapping Build Number until the Developer Options are turned on (you will see a message below where you are tapping). In the Developer Options now under the More tab, scroll way down to Simulate color space. You'll 4 options including grayscale/monochromatic.

Sadly the greyscale makes everything black and white and the other options make my phone look likes it's been to a barbi acid party.

What on earth possed them to do this.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Sadly the greyscale makes everything black and white and the other options make my phone look likes it's been to a barbi acid party.

What on earth possed them to do this.

Have you tried the Verizon Message Plus app?

 

[troshs]

Yeah at this point it's either an extra app or a rooty-toot-toot with some sort of mod. And there are some people who can't even do that (I'm looking at you AT&T).

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[Kelly Kearns]

Yeah at this point it's either an extra app or a rooty-toot-toot with some sort of mod. And there are some people who can't even do that (I'm looking at you AT&T).

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You disable the stock message app and just install the Verizon one, it isn't a large app. My backup and sync from the stock app on AT&T still works.

 

[troshs]

Yep. Basically.

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[wetermommy]

Been using the Verizon & app with my at&t note 4 for about 4 weeks now and gotta say I'm really happy with it!

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[rsnepo]

Textra is not working well in Samsung devices...b4 my s4 and now my s5 same thing...you can send and received messages but no notification sound...that's so stupid apps

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Textra is not working well in Samsung devices...b4 my s4 and now my s5 same thing...you can send and received messages but no notification sound...that's so stupid apps

You should try the Verizon app. It works and you can modify every color and you get notifications when the convo is open also.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...d=com.verizon.messaging.vzmsgs&token=ErgAsYR2

 

[Andrew Harvey1]

When you are texting with someone > top right 3 dots menu > people & options > "People in this conversation" has a color pallette to the right of it > select the color.

I just registered to solve this issue.

 

[jordyd]

I think you're on about the Google Messaging app? There's no option to change colour in stock Messaging app.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4

 

[Neo_ii_Droid]

Here's another thing I found out about the VzW Messages, one can choose the message notification LED Color. ������

Maybe orange?

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[Bbeelzebub]

For those of you using Messages+ by Verizon, do you get bubble notifications in the dock?

I'm thinking of trying it out, but before I go through all the trouble, wondering if it has those. It's a deal breaker for me without.

 

[sweetypie31]

For those of you using Messages+ by Verizon, do you get bubble notifications in the dock?

I'm thinking of trying it out, but before I go through all the trouble, wondering if it has those. It's a deal breaker for me without.

Do you mean the notification at the top?