• Dark Mode

    From sticks@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 17 19:34:32 2023
    Iphone XR
    16.3.1

    Unfortunately, it appears I have the problem many seem to have where
    dark mode randomly inserts itself on my homepages. the individual apps
    are ok, just the homepages. Started today after some funny business in
    the gym where bluetooth disconnected from my headphones. Had to do a
    restart to get it to work again.
    After the workout, it had dark mode. Settings show it off, but homepage
    was dark. Restarted and it was fine. Happened two more times today.
    Last time I tried a hard restart. That also worked. but have to see if
    it sticks. The other recommended option is to do a reset. Don't really
    want to do that because of losing all the passwords. Will have to see.

    I'm wondering if I do a reset and then do a backup restore would work.
    Am I missing any good ideas?

    sticks

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  • From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to sticks on Sat Mar 18 01:12:59 2023
    sticks wrote:

    Am I missing any good ideas?

    My Samsung has dark mode settings which can be set to turn on folowing
    a schedule, where I wonder if maybe you have it set by accident to on?

    Android 12 Settings > Display > Dark mode settings
    Note there is a "Turn on as scheduled" option which "may" be your issue???

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Mar 17 21:44:35 2023
    In article <tv30uo$26hhv$[email protected]>, sticks
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Unfortunately, it appears I have the problem many seem to have where
    dark mode randomly inserts itself on my homepages. the individual apps
    are ok, just the homepages.

    some webpages check for dark mode and display accordingly.

    unfortunately, not all do.

    fortunately, there are third party extensions to mitigate the problem.

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  • From sticks@21:1/5 to nospam on Fri Mar 17 21:47:15 2023
    On 3/17/2023 8:44 PM, nospam wrote:
    In article <tv30uo$26hhv$[email protected]>, sticks
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Unfortunately, it appears I have the problem many seem to have where
    dark mode randomly inserts itself on my homepages. the individual apps
    are ok, just the homepages.

    some webpages check for dark mode and display accordingly.

    unfortunately, not all do.

    fortunately, there are third party extensions to mitigate the problem.

    OK, I used the wrong word. I meant to say home SCREEN, and not
    homepage. The phone unlocks in dark mode. Once in anything, it's fine.
    I Tried all the suggested fixes, about 7 of them, and none work. None
    were needed according to the settings. Phone shows it is in Dark Mode Off.
    Did the hard restart, and it worked to restore to dark mode off, but
    didn't stick. About an hour later it was back to dark, even though no
    settings were changed and are still set as off.
    Only option I've seen left to try is a reset. That sucks.
    From what I've read, this happens to a lot of people, for some time
    now. Apple obviously knows about it and you would think they could fix
    it. For now I'll wait until the next update to see if that cures it.
    If not, I guess I'll have to do a reset. Crap.

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  • From sticks@21:1/5 to sticks on Mon Mar 20 08:47:19 2023
    On 3/17/2023 9:47 PM, sticks wrote:
    On 3/17/2023 8:44 PM, nospam wrote:
    In article <tv30uo$26hhv$[email protected]>, sticks
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Unfortunately, it appears I have the problem many seem to have where
    dark mode randomly inserts itself on my homepages.  the individual apps >>> are ok, just the homepages.

    some webpages check for dark mode and display accordingly.

    unfortunately, not all do.

    fortunately, there are third party extensions to mitigate the problem.

    OK, I used the wrong word.  I meant to say home SCREEN, and not
    homepage.  The phone unlocks in dark mode.  Once in anything, it's fine.
     I Tried all the suggested fixes, about 7 of them, and none work.  None were needed according to the settings.  Phone shows it is in Dark Mode Off. Did the hard restart, and it worked to restore to dark mode off, but
    didn't stick.  About an hour later it was back to dark, even though no settings were changed and are still set as off.
    Only option I've seen left to try is a reset.  That sucks.
    From what I've read, this happens to a lot of people, for some time
    now.  Apple obviously knows about it and you would think they could fix it.  For now I'll wait until the next update to see if that cures it. If not, I guess I'll have to do a reset.  Crap.

    In the end, I went ahead and did a reset. First time I had ever needed
    to do one on any phone I had. Always had plenty of backups, but never a problem that required using it. Takes a little bit of time, but not all
    that difficult. It did fix the switching to dark mod problem, and that
    is put to bed.

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  • From sticks@21:1/5 to sticks on Mon Mar 27 16:48:15 2023
    On 3/20/2023 8:47 AM, sticks wrote:

    In the end, I went ahead and did a reset.  First time I had ever needed
    to do one on any phone I had.  Always had plenty of backups, but never a problem that required using it.  Takes a little bit of time, but not all that difficult.  It did fix the switching to dark mod problem, and that
    is put to bed.

    Well that sucks. Had to delete and reinstall an app today (myQ) that
    was giving double notices for the last couple days for some reason.
    Only thing I saw to fix it was delete app and reinstall. Did that and
    asked updates to do it's thing for 7 apps needing it. Clicked done and
    I'll be damned the dark mode was back on the homescreen. It's obviously
    a software issue and something you'd think they could figure out what
    the cause was. Since I never use dark mode at all, and don't like it, I
    wish there was a solid way to eliminate it from available options.

    For now, the phone is updating, (16.4.1 I think) and we'll see if that
    fixes it or I have to do another reset. Really annoying problem.

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  • From sticks@21:1/5 to sticks on Mon Mar 27 20:30:38 2023
    On 3/27/2023 4:48 PM, sticks wrote:
    On 3/20/2023 8:47 AM, sticks wrote:

    In the end, I went ahead and did a reset.  First time I had ever
    needed to do one on any phone I had.  Always had plenty of backups,
    but never a problem that required using it.  Takes a little bit of
    time, but not all that difficult.  It did fix the switching to dark
    mod problem, and that is put to bed.

    Well that sucks.  Had to delete and reinstall an app today (myQ) that
    was giving double notices for the last couple days for some reason. Only thing I saw to fix it was delete app and reinstall.  Did that and asked updates to do it's thing for 7 apps needing it.  Clicked done and I'll
    be damned the dark mode was back on the homescreen.  It's obviously a software issue and something you'd think they could figure out what the
    cause was.  Since I never use dark mode at all, and don't like it, I
    wish there was a solid way to eliminate it from available options.

    For now, the phone is updating, (16.4.1 I think) and we'll see if that
    fixes it or I have to do another reset.  Really annoying problem.

    After the update, it is back to normal.....for now at least.
    Gonna go look at the release notes and see if this problem is mentioned.

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