1. anon(5876743)'s Avatar
    I like to keep my icons and wallpaper high contrast and high visibility, so I noticed that if you simply change your wallpaper to solid black, it hides the black tabs underneath the icons giving a similar appearance to rumored 10.3

    Posted via CB10
    04-22-14 06:33 AM
  2. abdalla889's Avatar
    great idea!!
    04-22-14 07:09 AM
  3. tufcustomer's Avatar
    Hate to burst your bubble but people have been doing this for some time now.

    Posted via CB10
    joejuck, nquyen, all3n7 and 11 others like this.
    04-22-14 07:21 AM
  4. deezy87's Avatar
    I've been doing it since I first got the Q10 lol


    It's a sleek look, I like it.




    Get BlackBerry 10.3 icon look on 10.2.1 using a black wallpaper.-img_20140422_082237.png

    Posted via CB10
    04-22-14 07:23 AM
  5. squashthatfly's Avatar
    Sorry about asking this dumb question,,where do I get a black wallpaper?? Thanks!

    Posted via CB10
    04-22-14 07:48 AM
  6. moegh's Avatar
    Sorry about asking this dumb question,,where do I get a black wallpaper?? Thanks!

    Posted via CB10

    Get BlackBerry 10.3 icon look on 10.2.1 using a black wallpaper.-img_20140408_194658.jpg

    Posted via CB10 - Q5
    all3n7 and Anilu7 like this.
    04-22-14 08:02 AM
  7. eulexis bjorn's Avatar
    Sorry about asking this dumb question,,where do I get a black wallpaper?? Thanks!

    Posted via CB10
    Google it! Keywords would be, "Q10 wallpaper black" cheers!

    Posted with my Q10 via CB10
    04-22-14 08:06 AM
  8. vagos2006's Avatar
    Sorry about asking this dumb question,,where do I get a black wallpaper?? Thanks!

    Posted via CB10
    Very easy. Put your phone down on a piece of paper on a desk camera side down and take a picture. The result is black picture. Set it as your wallpaper. That's what I did.

    Posted via CB10
    shupor, skxj and Anilu7 like this.
    04-22-14 08:11 AM
  9. squashthatfly's Avatar
    Nice,took the pix and saved as wallpaper..so simple,why did I not think of that??lol homepage looks awesome.. had the z30 now for 2 months,best phone I ever had,coming for a bold 9900,the fear factor of not having the qwerty board was so unfounded
    .cheers!


    Posted via CB10
    mk2234 likes this.
    04-22-14 08:24 AM
  10. mzway's Avatar
    Hahahahaha as u said "dump" lol

    But yeah, i've always preferred my background black too lol

    Posted via a sexy QTEN
    04-22-14 08:35 AM
  11. Afriberry's Avatar
    How do you manage to put your icons in this order. I love it.

    BB4 Life - Z30
    04-22-14 08:37 AM
  12. Afriberry's Avatar
    Deezy87, I love your screen. How did you do it?


    BB4 Life - Z30
    04-22-14 08:40 AM
  13. rangus's Avatar
    Simple. Cover camera lens. Take pic. Save pic as wallpaper. Voila, black wallpaper.

    From my Dirty 30
    04-22-14 08:47 AM
  14. niss63's Avatar
    How do you manage to put your icons in this order. I love it.

    BB4 Life - Z30
    Deezy87, I love your screen. How did you do it?


    BB4 Life - Z30
    Long press on an icon to move it around to rearrange the order in which they appear.

    After a long press, you can drag an icon onto another icon, which will create a folder. A pop up will allow you to name the folder whatever your wish.

    Once folders have been created, they can be long pressed and drug around just like an icon.

    Don't press the trash can symbol while the screen is pulsating, or that app will be deleted.

    I've been using this black screen picture wall paper since my 9900 days.
    deezy87 likes this.
    04-22-14 08:54 AM
  15. gallopiton's Avatar
    Once folders have been created, they can be long pressed and drug around just like an icon.
    and "drug around"? well, maybe this wall paper is not suitable for kids... or non-show business people...
    shupor likes this.
    04-22-14 09:59 AM
  16. adamlau's Avatar
    Please do not use a blocked cam shot as a substitute for black wallpaper. This 1 x 1 pixel PNG crafted in grayscale within GIMP (by me) and then passed through TinyPNG is the way to go. Only 67 bytes in size with a minimal memory footprint, this is about as light and fast as #000000 wallpaper gets...

    Dropbox Direct Download: https://db.tt/UFKVdFoK
    7-Zip ZIP: Ultra Minimal Black Wallpaper for All BB10 Devices

    Code:
    $ ls -gGh
    -rw-r--r-- 1 67 Apr 23 18:30 wallpaper-bb.png
    $ md5sum wallpaper-bb.png
    e97e6bdc972e783ccb5b12d80cbdaa06  wallpaper-bb.png

    Get BlackBerry 10.3 icon look on 10.2.1 using a black wallpaper.-wallpaper-info.png

    SQN100-1 10.2.1.2947 | STA100-3 10.2.1.2947
    Last edited by adamlau; 04-24-14 at 04:28 AM. Reason: Added File Size and MD5 Verifications
    04-22-14 10:48 AM
  17. niss63's Avatar
    and "drug around"? well, maybe this wall paper is not suitable for kids... or non-show business people...
    The use of drug as a past participle of drag is a dialect common in the southern U.S.

    No one was stoned in the making of this post.
    ChrisHewer1 likes this.
    04-22-14 11:06 AM
  18. anon(5818411)'s Avatar
    have been suing it since launch, just to hide those ugly boxes :P
    04-22-14 03:50 PM
  19. deezy87's Avatar
    Long press on an icon to move it around to rearrange the order in which they appear.

    After a long press, you can drag an icon onto another icon, which will create a folder. A pop up will allow you to name the folder whatever your wish.

    Once folders have been created, they can be long pressed and drug around just like an icon.

    Don't press the trash can symbol while the screen is pulsating, or that app will be deleted.

    I've been using this black screen picture wall paper since my 9900 days.
    Thanks for pulling through with the help! I just got tied up with real life lol.
    niss63 likes this.
    04-22-14 03:54 PM
  20. DaedalusIcarusHelios's Avatar
    Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose? I thought people hated the rounded blocks behind the icons because it obscured the wallpaper. This just does away with wallpaper altogether. It reminds me of the iPhone back when they didn't support wallpaper. I'm not knocking the look as that is a personal preference - I'm just saying it's not exactly the same as what 10.3 does.
    mjdimer likes this.
    04-22-14 04:16 PM
  21. niss63's Avatar
    Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose? I thought people hated the rounded blocks behind the icons because it obscured the wallpaper. This just does away with wallpaper altogether. It reminds me of the iPhone back when they didn't support wallpaper. I'm not knocking the look as that is a personal preference - I'm just saying it's not exactly the same as what 10.3 does.
    True, but I'm not big on wall paper, other than a solid color. Black happens to be my favorite. (It's also the wall paper of choice on my computers.)
    04-22-14 05:59 PM
  22. tjseaman's Avatar
    Or simply find some cool backgrounds. I like the one I have for now.
    Get BlackBerry 10.3 icon look on 10.2.1 using a black wallpaper.-img_20140422_203914.png

    Posted via CB10 - Z10 'Powered by BlackBerry'
    niss63 and cyblitz like this.
    04-22-14 07:40 PM
  23. Dunt Dunt Dunt's Avatar
    Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose? I thought people hated the rounded blocks behind the icons because it obscured the wallpaper. This just does away with wallpaper altogether. It reminds me of the iPhone back when they didn't support wallpaper. I'm not knocking the look as that is a personal preference - I'm just saying it's not exactly the same as what 10.3 does.
    That's the thing, we should be able to personalize our device. How hard would it be to have the "option" to remove the shadow boxes? Or make those boxes able to match a color scheme? How hard would it be to have a homescreen with NO icons on it? How hard would it be to change the size of the icons or the active window/box/tile?

    I know functionality is probable a lot higher on BlackBerry list of things to do for BB10.... just would be nice to not have people excited about having a black screen so they can hide some shadow boxes that are making any background impossible to see.
    04-23-14 11:05 AM
  24. wolfee48's Avatar
    Anyone care to share their wallpapers?

    Feeding my CrackBerry addiction on my Z10STL100-4/10.2.1.2947 via CB10
    04-23-14 12:00 PM
  25. all3n7's Avatar
    yes, Indeed. actually I 've been using dark wallpaper on my Q10, if you don't like all black. Just simply use one of the default ( blue, purple, green, etc ) adjust the contrast higher and low the brightness to the lowest. your set for amazing battery saver mode.. Blaze cover this on his old post ( ei. brightness ) but he forgot to mention to adjust the contrast as well..
    04-23-14 03:31 PM
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