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SMS Bubble Color

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ribbonthecat

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Is there a way to change the color of the SMS bubbles on my end? I'm not partial to the sickly green.
 
ribbonthecat said:
Is there a way to change the color of the SMS bubbles on my end? I'm not partial to the sickly green.
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Yea jailbreak and download the app called winterboard. Then download themes that customize SMS bubbles.

There's a slight risk with the whole process of jailbreaking, but usually its reversible.
 
mrrish said:
Yea jailbreak and download the app called winterboard. Then download themes that customize SMS bubbles.

There's a slight risk with the whole process of jailbreaking, but usually its reversible.
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There is no risk from what I have experienced. You can always do a restore.
 
How long until apple gives us this functionality? I seriously don't understand why they're so afraid of customization with the iphone.

I can change the color of the bubbles in iChat on my Mac, why not on my iPhone?

I can change my wallpaper on my Mac, why not on my iPhone?

I can change my icons on my Mac, why not my iPhone?

Its just such a basic thing to implement, there's no reason it shouldn't have been by now.
 
Super Intendo said:
How long until apple gives us this functionality? I seriously don't understand why they're so afraid of customization with the iphone.

I can change the color of the bubbles in iChat on my Mac, why not on my iPhone?

I can change my wallpaper on my Mac, why not on my iPhone?

I can change my icons on my Mac, why not my iPhone?

Its just such a basic thing to implement, there's no reason it shouldn't have been by now.
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Such is the main reason I JB my phone. It is dumb imo that you can't customize jack all on the phone aside from the lockscreen wallpaper.
 
cwwilson said:
Such is the main reason I JB my phone. It is dumb imo that you can't customize jack all on the phone aside from the lockscreen wallpaper.
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I agree.... This is one of the only reasons I j/b my phone. I want the custom icon's, colors and springboard screen. 🙁

I have asked in a couple of the threads about this along with other custom features. So far it is a no go.
 
Yeah some added colors would be nice... I always like a lot of options... though I tend never to use the options once I have them available 🙄
 
Yeah, the green is getting really old. Let's hope we get some ability to customize in a future update.
 
I was able to change my sms bubbles on 2.2.1 using SSH. I basically changed the balloon_1.png and 2 files into my mobilesms application.

I just tried this on 3.0 and it's not working. Anyone get it to work successfully?
 
Just downloaded one of the sms apps in cydia and it doesn't seem to take effect when I make it active in winterboard. WTF?
 
rarity said:
Just downloaded one of the sms apps in cydia and it doesn't seem to take effect when I make it active in winterboard. WTF?
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Google "sms themes" or something like that, I saw a thread somewhere that someone had a few steps how to fix it (for 3.0) via SSH.
 
It would be nice to be able to change the colors for certain applications, maybe using some sort of theme-based system across all the entire phone which I would imagine wouldn’t be that hard to implement.
 
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