FragmentedTabHost cannot change unselected background

I have been trying to edit a FragmentedTabHost's background colors to mess around with it a bit and I am quite clueless as to why I can changed the "unselected" state but not the "selected" state.

So what I have is a main drawable called "tabs" and inside I have references to two others "tab_selected" and "tab_unselected". I applied this background pretty much everywhere I could find to see if it worked but I got to the point where I think the best place to put it is in the TabWidget tag.

The selected state remains with the grayish color of the normal tab but the other one actually changes.

I don't know if I should be changing code elsewhere, as I already changed in the code it self by saying:

mTabHost.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.tabs);

And still no progress...

Below is the code:

tabs.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://ift.tt/nIICcg">
<item android:state_selected="true"
    android:drawable="@drawable/tab_selected" />
<item android:state_selected="false"
    android:drawable="@drawable/tab_unselected" />
</selector>

tab_selected.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://ift.tt/nIICcg">
<item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#7fff00" />
    </shape>
</item>
<item android:top="20dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#7fff00" />
    </shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="2dp">
    <shape  android:shape="rectangle">
        <gradient android:startColor="#7fff00"
            android:endColor="#7fff00"
            android:angle="270" />
        <corners android:topLeftRadius="10dp" android:topRightRadius="10dp"/>
    </shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

tab_unselected.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://ift.tt/nIICcg">
<item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#86B4CF" />
    </shape>
</item>
<item android:top="20dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#86B4CF" />
    </shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="2dp">
    <shape  android:shape="rectangle">
        <gradient android:startColor="#86B4CF"
            android:endColor="#6792AB"
            android:angle="270" />
        <corners android:topLeftRadius="10dp" android:topRightRadius="10dp"/>
    </shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

And finally the FragmentedHost:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://ift.tt/nIICcg"
xmlns:tools="http://ift.tt/LrGmb4"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".Home"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="@drawable/global_background">

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_date"
        style="@style/header"/>

</LinearLayout>

<android.support.v4.app.FragmentTabHost
    android:id="@android:id/tabhost"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <TabWidget
            android:id="@android:id/tabs"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0"
            android:background="@drawable/tabs"/>

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="0"/>

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@+id/realtabcontent"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"/>

    </LinearLayout>
</android.support.v4.app.FragmentTabHost>

</LinearLayout>