[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] viniciusrsouza:
Guys, just a report after a full wipe and clean install of 12.4 build.

I gave a try to BaNkS latest package (from May, 27th) and during initial system setup, even before entering my Google Account, I got a Google Play Services force close. This is not happening when using latest TK GApps (May, 30th)! At least not at the initial setup or after entering system itself on the first minutes.

I actually don't think these random force closes is in fact affecting something, so probably it's like those random AOSP Keyboard force closes (that also occur at the very start after completing initial setup or even inside setup itself, by the way). But, anyway, I prefer to stick with TK GApps for the moment, also because the Calendar notifications force closes I was getting are gone (I hope forever).

The shadow I refer was the white one (not the black buggy that appeared for those who didn't flash 12.3 fix). I wasn't facing it also because I found out that just opening color selection and touching them just to confirm was sufficient to get rid of that and get back the beautiful dark heads up default background. I think those "white shadows" I refer is a bug created by the existence of color options. Let's see if it will appear again now when Tema bring these options back! If they come back, I hope the color confirmation workaround still works! :p

I'm here, although sleepy, because it's around 3 AM here in Rio! hahaha While I'm fighting against my body (drinking some coffee) testing some settings here after full wiping, I'm glad because differently from you guys I still have my whole Sunday to enjoy my full wiped device! :D (And to watch Brazil x Mexico and Canadian Formula 1 GP also... :p)

About shadows, like I said, there are two references. The first is the buggy one that some people got due to not flashing 12.3 fix. The second one is the (ugly) white and bright above and underneath heads up, but this one can be killed by just confirming or changing colors. So, yes, this is why you never noticed it. But on previous builds it was possible to notice that just after a full wipe flash when any Google Now notification appeared (like weather).

I remember there is an option about this under Settings > OTA to use this folder to be able to have automatically flashed any files you want. It's useful for putting boot animations there, for example.

By the way, I would really appreciate the existence of any ZIP file that could be flashed to edit those two capacitive keys related files to completely disable them. I hate to always having to edit them again after every dirty flash, for example. And if we don't disable keys through these files, they are really annoying, because when touched together with navigation bar buttons it avoids these to work. (Yes, turning capacitive keys through settings does not completely turn them off, but just disabled their functions. It's pretty recommended to edit keylayout and gp-something files under root directory.)

That's the point. Probably you don't get this white shadow because you manually edit or confirm colors, or even the theme used does that for you.

As long as this workaround can still be used to have the default dark heads up background, I don't have any objection about colors! :D