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how do I get rid of the T-Mobile Branding on MDA Pro?

I have bought the MDA Pro from T-Mobile. They have changed the phone-interface to a pretty ugly pink-gray branded t-mobile interface.
is there a chance to get rid of this without unlocking the phone?
does it vanisch by unlocking it?
any clue?
thanks!

dont know tmobile but if it's a today theme then you can just change it in system->today
and not the only thing unlock does is make it possible for people to use any sim in their phone unlocking dont change installed programs or settings

i have tried that already, but it seems as if the phone skin is locked by t-mobile somehow. i have already tried to upload different skins, but it always remains the same.
I suggest the phone skin is part of the t-mobile branding an can only be removed by unlocking the phone...
or by replacing it manually, but i have no clue how to do that.

if it's only the phone skin and not the pda skin then use the skin chooser here
http://www.yorch.net/apps.htm
if it's the whole pda then you can
1 remove the today items from tmobile
in the 2th tab in system today items
2 remove any tmobile ref from the \windows\startup dir

Hi !
Can you please tell me if the size of the "Z" key is the same as the "Y" key. I want a german version but i want to switch the letters afterwards.
Thanks.

to decebal:
yes the buttons have the same size.
to Rudegar:
I have already tried to change the skin with skin chooser 7 and
some other programs (have forgotten their names) but as i I "activate" or "applie" the new skin it always shows the phone with its old t-mobile skin. Nothing happens....
It is also impossible to remove the today theme, because the delete button is not clickable and i cannot finde the *.tsk file anywhere.
there is also no startup.dir or any file/folder that sounds like im on the right way.
At least I have now found (i think so) some of the *.pngs containig the button grafics. i will try to replace them with my own buttons...
They are in the windows folder called indialer_xxx
(e.g.: indialer_ps.png)
If there are any better suggestions i am very happy, otherwise i will have to change each button by hand (sounds a bit cheesy)
we will see if that may work.

hehe...should have thought about that before....the phone images are *.bmps, so i was able to change them manually with photoshop, but i can't upload them because the files are protected (or still in use by the phone in background). so now I have very cool buttons, but the only thing I can do with them is pin them on my wall
so there must be another more professional way, but I have no idea wich.
maybe you have some suggestions...

sometimes you need to softreset your phone after having used the skinchooser program maybe that helps
odd if you dont have a dir in the windows dir called startup
all pocketpc's i've seen have that
guess you could also unlock and unhide the external rom and remove the tmobile stuff you dont want
i've used that skin chooser device on both 2002 and 2003 but non of the later versions...

i would load another rom in it

I would if I could find out how this works on the new windows mobile 5.0...
if you know where I could find some reference for it it I would be greatful.
maybe its just to early to ask for such things, in a few month there will be lots of stuff in the net.
patience was never my strong side though.

how what works on 2005 ?
phone skin choosing ?
buzzdev.net is a good place to check out if you want 2005
if you install 2005 you will not see special odd tmobile colouring anymore

MDA III / Windows Mobile 2005 / Taskbar

Hi All,
I hate to start with questions on my first topic but I'm n00b on PPC :lol:
Well, I've MDA III with freshly installed WM5. As almost everyone knows there are 2 taskbars. The one that include start button is fine. I need to change the one that is down and which shows currently "Phone Contacts"
I want to have normal with qlaunch and icons taskbar, not that phone/contacts shortcuts which I do not even use because I do not use the GSM, only GPRS.
I would be thankfull for a good explanation :wink:
Thanks beforehand!

Actually those are soft buttons, and they're originally meant to work together with hard buttons just below them. And you're not gonna like this, but I'm pretty sure you can't do anything about them. They change according to what program's active at the moment.

Help with Today screen

Hi all, im new here, i got a problem..but i dont really know if its a problem lol i got o2 Exec with a 'personal install type' and im a sucker for that o2 active plugin..the problem is when i install a new today theme and select it, the o2 plugin doesnt work, the o2 plugin only works for the three themes that the fone came with..which are..o2 theme, windows default theme, guvava bubble. anybody know how to fix this? this really sounds dumb coz i dont even know if this is a problem. any help will be much appreciated. thanks in advance.

Calculator???

Hi,
I have the T-mobile MDA Compact III, the Dutch version, with wifi and stuff. I also have a Qtek S200 and the first thing i noticed is that the Compact III has no calculator! This may seem like a small thing, but it bugs me as i got used to using it alot with the S200...
Any plugin or whatever to get a calculator??
Oh and while i'm asking, is there a way to change those freaky pink white colors of the phone pad? I can change theme in the notmal menus but the phone pad always stays with the T-mobile color scheme... any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks,
Rudy

Hmm... interesting. Anyway, there are tons of better calculator out there. I think the.. Omega(?) has a free calculator software.. and if you do a search on www.freewareppc.com, they ought to have a few .. much advance ones too.
Tons of phonepad available in this forum with iPhone wannabe to.. Vista look-alike. Easiest way to get rid of T-mobile stuff is to go Wiki (under WM5 tweak) to get rid of it and use the default.

Had the same problem.
There IS an calculator, only theres no shortcut made by TM
In the folder WINDOWS\calc.exe
there u got to be. ive made an shortcut to it with SPB Pocket plus.
and for the ugly t-mobile color, just install an skin for it. and do a soft reset.
excuse my bad english

Try tapping Start/ Organiser a new window will open desplaying icons for Claculator, Calendar, Notes and Tasks - Strange place to bury the calculator but it is there - Mike

when installing a skin for the phone pad, does it need to be unlocked first or something... and kindof a noob question, but will i lose my warranty?? Where can I download like legal themes for the PDA??
BTW, i found the calc just where you said it would be mike, And i linked it to my right software button!

Forget the CALC from Windows. Try searching for eval. Nice and free Calculator...

You will find it here
http://home.comcast.net/~jonsachs/#Eval 1.0
.. and some other nice and usefull programs

HD highlight issue.

Hi guys,
I seem to have a small issue with my hd...
In the start menu you get the green highlight or so i've seen in clips anyway but on my hd its Grey!
I've noticed that its green like it should be when i disable tf3d but goes back to grey when its enabled,the clips i've seen of everyone else's show it works either way so whats up with my hd?
I'm not sure if this was the correct place to post but its theme related so...i hope it is.
Thanks in advance.
Lee.
EDIT: In case more info is needed.....
The handset is a week old today
Standard Orange UK Rom
Standard TF3D Skin
Standard Top and Bottom bars (HTC Black)
Changes from Stock:
Installed CF 3.5 (set as default)
Installed HDTweak
Installed HideSim Contacts
Installed Diamong Hologram (and ati driver)
Installed Google Maps
Installed CorePlayer
I don't know if any of the above could of affected it,i can't remember if it was like that to begin with.
Really don't wanna do a hard reset.

Wow,80+ views and no 1 has any idea or even advice on where to start looking?
I think i may of bought the wrong phone as people in the hermes thread couldn't wait to help when i had an issue with that.
Oh well Hard Reset time,thanks anyway.

in HD tweak item 1.11 (in category call) there is highlight color option..change that and see if it helps
let us know

try this....my went gray the other day and I changed it back. It is a lot like HD Tweak, but also has some things that it doesn't. Between the two you should be set.

Thanks guys but still no luck.
The setting in HDTweak doesn't seem to be related and i see nothing relating to the highlight colour in Advanced Config.
Its just really wierd that it works ok when touchflow isn't loaded.

Mine is also grey, and it is an Orange one as well

So it is probably a modification directly from Orange...
i remember friend bought a MDA compact IV which actually is HTC Diamond but slightly modified and it is a TMobile...and all of the settings were different...
Whole touchflo was pink n stuff - tmobile theme...
So it has got something to do with it being an Orange ROM...with by Orange modified TouchFlo...
this was not much of help...but try to google something like changing manila highlight color (+ maybe Orange ROM or sumthing like that)
let us know