Month: December 2010

Fixing Firefox's colors

Posted in Uncategorized - December 31, 2010 - 0 Comment

If you are running Ubuntu with a dark theme and Firefox, you may have noticed that some text entry areas are too light to read. This is because a web developer only set the background and not the foreground color of the text area. When this happens, Firefox picks up the webpage’s background (likely white or something light), and the window manager theme’s text color (likely also white or something light in a dark theme). This means you get stuck reading light grey on white text. The fix is to put:

input{background-color:white;color:black;}
textarea{background-color:white;color:black;}
select{background-color:white;color:black;}

in your userContent.css file. That file may not exist yet, but you can create it in:

~/.mozilla/firefox//chrome/

And the next time Firefox starts up, it will use this code to color all inputs, textareas, and select boxes as white with black text.

I still don’t have a fix for all the buttons getting dark text on dark backgrounds.

Sprint cell phone codes

Posted in Uncategorized - December 28, 2010 - 0 Comment

These are codes for doing a lot of random things to Sprint phones. I have an LG Lotus, and have been poking around in these service menus a bit. Unfortunately, I don’t have any way to get the MSL of a phone. I only have my MSL because I got my phone online, and they give you the MSL to register it.

I got the codes from this very useful thread.

##2342# (##CDG2#) CDG2 Menu (NAI setting here). Requires MSL.
##2539# (##AKEY#) AKey Menu. Requires MSL to Edit.
##2739# (##BREW#) BREW Software Menu. Requires MSL.
##2769737# (##BROWSER#) Browser Settings, also available under ##DATA#
##3282# (##DATA#) Power Vision Program. Requires MSL to Edit.
##33284# (##DEBUG#) Debugging Menu. Requires MSL.
##7738# (##PREV#) MOB_P_PREV (P_REV Prefs). Requires MSL.
##786# (##RTM#) Life Timers & Memory Reset. Requires MSL.
##8626337# (##VOCODER#) Vocoder Settings. Requires MSL to Edit.
##889# (##TTY#) TTY Menu (Same as Menu > Settings > More > Accessibility > TTY)
##XXXXXX# (MSL Code) Replace the 6 X with your MSL, offers SVC menu to change NAM and MSID