PreferenceActivity and theme not applying

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Published on 2010-04-11T00:05:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 0:13 UTC
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Hi all I have set the theme in the manifest file like this:

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Light"

But I have a problem in the Preferences Activity, in the main preferences the theme shows ok, but if I get to a sub preference, the theme gets messy, it is not white as it should, it is all dark, and the font is black so you can't see much, and when I start clicking on any items they will get sometimes white as they should but revert to black soon after. This is only happens on 2.1, in both the real device and emulator. Tested on the emulator running 1.6 and it was working correctly. Here is part of the code of the preferences xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <PreferenceScreen
        android:title="@string/account">
        <CheckBoxPreference
            android:key="enable_account"
            android:title="@string/account_use"
            android:summary="@string/account_summ" />
        <EditTextPreference
            android:key="username"
            android:title="@string/login"
            android:dependency="enable_account"
            android:summary="@string/login_summ" />
        <EditTextPreference
            android:key="password"
            android:title="@string/password"
            android:dependency="enable_account"
            android:summary="@string/password_summ"
            android:password="true" />
    </PreferenceScreen>

And here is a screenshot:

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Any workarounds?

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