With WM6 Magic Button draws its region with color different from that of remaining taskbar area (Magic Button area is of the same color, but much brighter).
Maybe it is because of new Microsoft color schemes with gradient filling.
Except for this, program works good.
Power meter works, no hangups after soft-reset.
Tested with Midget ROM (Got it from ed2k network, hehe).
Bill Gates said:
With WM6 Magic Button draws its region with color different from that of remaining taskbar area (Magic Button area is of the same color, but much brighter).
Maybe it is because of new Microsoft color schemes with gradient filling.
Except for this, program works good.
Power meter works, no hangups after soft-reset.
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Yes, this is one of the things that will probably make me prefer a good AKU3.5 ROM (e.g. Helmi's 1.3.1) over a WM6 ROM. I think the battery meter in Magic Button is excellent, as is the general task management functionality.
The problem is that Trancreative look as though they might have disappeared off the face of the planet, so a version that allows for skinning in WM6 looks unlikely :-(
Cheers,
Steve
Yes, I sent them bugreport, and server replied that message could not be delivered.
I see three solutions:
1) Do not use WM6. But I dont think that it is issue of Windows, so MS or ROM makers will never fix it.
2) Do not use Magic Button. Then question is a good replacement for Magic Button.
3) Maybe it can be fixed with other "theme"?
very sad that the developement stopped... im also searching an alternative to this great tool which has "a skin bug" because it doesnt support the new WM6 skins... well.. *cry*
How about WISBAR? Does it work well with WM6?
I use Magic Button mainly to show an icon of what is running in the background. Is there an alternative app that does this?
I've dumped Magic Button and cLaunch in favour of iLauncher, which seems a great little program. No task list option across the top bar (yet), but a nice drop down task manager if you click and hold the [X], and I have it set up to display when I press the backlight button too.
Works fine with WM6, and I have re-skinned it to look exactly like the battery meter in Magic Button.
Cheers,
Steve.
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Windows Mobile VI - BLACK EDITION v1.1
................welcome to the dark side of the force
ROM VERSION: 3.22.200.4
CE Version: 5.2.968
Build: 17217.0.0.0
The Kitchen: ROM Koch by DUTTY
Contents:
Memory Cache Patch
HSDPA Icon Enable
SD Card Disappear Reg Hack
Bigger Screen (vjtoggletoday)
Brighter Screen (vjlumosIII)
Flashlight (vjCandella)
HTTweakC 2.1
MagicSS (Screen Capture)
PHM Registry Editor
New Windows Mobile VI Dark Edition splash Screen
WMBE.tsk (with black bars) set as default
SMS Backup
Task Manager
Batti (battery meter visible in all windows) - the standard wm6 on the tray was removed
Connection Manager Icon tray removed
Task Manager set to "close" when hitting X by default
ATImageOn Performance Patch
No EXTROM - simply unhide your current one with HTTweakC and use it as storage space
Video Call was not included, therefore leaving it open for user install choice
Known Issues to date
1.Turn OFF Wifi option missing in popup bubble
2. Today background does not appear initially on the dark theme. You must reselect it in Settings\Today and then will show up properly.
Note: This is an OS only upgrade, IPL/SPL/EXTROM/RADIO will not be touched.
To install, run the RUU (.exe). This will automatically push Des's SSPL to your phone although if you have security enabled then you will need to answer "Yes" to the dialogue when it appears on your phone.
Disclaimer: NO warranties are given on this product. Use at your own risk!!! If you do not know what you are doing then dont bother flashing this ROM (or read the wiki first)
Version 1.1 (boot issue fixed that was present in 1.0)
DOWNLOAD (feel free to mirror)
(as patches, fixes are released, they will be attached to this post)
Thanks to walshieau for his input and various source files....This is a team Melbournian effort. Welcome to the land down under where we drink like animals and the women are like thunder!
Enjoy, some screen shots.
Will check it out
Ahh... variety truly is the spice of life. This looks like a nice package. I'll try it and post my thoughts on it. Thanks Jas!
couple of little things for next version...
embed Voice Commaner (Full Version) from Dopod... not the generic version from HTC....
GSM Changer Application
and a couple more reg tweaks... stay tuned for more details...
Thanks for the release!...it is based on vanilla rom or...? If someone test it on SPL-1.10Oli post results...if boots into OS or not...pls
Regards,
Primoz
Theme
Hey Folks!
Would someone be so nice to post the dark Theme (TSK FILE). The Theme is such as beautiful! I'm bored of installing every WindowsMobile6 Image to test it.
Thank's so far.
Nice pakage.
A couple of things:
1. There is a line of pixels at the very top of my screen that contrast with the rest.
2. The "Black" Today screen does not look like the one on your post.
Still a very snappy rom and a nice combo of apps.
Thank you
Allan
Ok, that line of pixels at the top, 1 pixel wide and blue in colour is the battery meter. Tap the meter with your stylus for the option menu. You can configure the meter how you want as well as customize the colours for various battery % levels.
In regards to the theme, just reselect it in the TODAY option in settings. for some reason the background image does not show up when freshly hard resetted.
RabanJr said:
Nice pakage.
A couple of things:
1. There is a line of pixels at the very top of my screen that contrast with the rest.
2. The "Black" Today screen does not look like the one on your post.
Still a very snappy rom and a nice combo of apps.
Thank you
Allan
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Ohhhhh, so many choices!!!
...And then my head exploded...
Anyway, I am downloading now. Sweet.
jasjamming said:
Ok, that line of pixels at the top, 1 pixel wide and blue in colour is the battery meter. Tap the meter with your stylus for the option menu. You can configure the meter how you want as well as customize the colours for various battery % levels.
In regards to the theme, just reselect it in the TODAY option in settings. for some reason the background image does not show up when freshly hard resetted.
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Quick Fix. Looks good
Allan
...so Vanilla based or LVSW based ROM?
Regards,
Primoz
partially LVSW based,
LVSW is better than vanilla but needed some fine tuning as it was slower as compared to wmxl0.2
many customization were removed/optimized from LVSW fas well as many reg hacks were applied for performance (currently undocumented)
Congrats on your first bake that I know of. loading right now. new I woke up in the middle of the night for something. But seriously I am thinking we need one day a week which ROMS can be released to prevent people from having to flash everyday of the week.
wiki updated If someone could kindly update the info on there that would be swell
mrvanx said:
wiki updated If someone could kindly update the info on there that would be swell
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info updated in wiki
Anobody noticed a strange behavior of the volume control? I have put in OFF about 3 times but after a while it turns back ON...tried even in PhoneAlarm...same thing...
Regards,
Primoz
Ewwww. Do your profile volumes stick? Cause I would hate at the office when I get an email for my phone to shout "mail motha&^#@"
Pc78 said:
Anobody noticed a strange behavior of the volume control? I have put in OFF about 3 times but after a while it turns back ON...tried even in PhoneAlarm...same thing...
Regards,
Primoz
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after how long do they revert back?
try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1170366&postcount=5
I just applied this patch and i put mine profile to OFF 5 minutes ago and they are sticking.
jasjamming said:
after how long do they revert back?
try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1170366&postcount=5
I just applied this patch and i put mine profile to OFF 5 minutes ago and they are sticking.
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About 2-3 minutes...will try thx a lot
Regards,
Primoz
Closed?
Hello,
Why is the subject called [CLOSED BETA]? I can't download the file anymore. Is it removed? Is there a problem?
Hi all,
I've searched both here and google for a plugin to meet my requirements. I'm after a small footprint battery monitor which will sit either in the today screen section of my Orbit or ideally in the same bar as the start button. I've seen a lot that will work but they either seem to be large footprint or just downright ugly. Is there an elegant solution to this problem?
Cheers in advance,
Ben
*edit* I know the stock O2 software comes with a mini battery icon but I stopped the Orbit from installing all of the O2 software because I found it made the device really slow and unresponsive, so i'm running WM6 stock with the HTC settings for O2 MMS/GPRS installed. *edit*
Battery Monitor
Try Batti - nice little app that sits on top of the Start bar and can be customised to different colours etc.
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/batti/
Thank you! Thats exactly what I'm after, the version notes for the most recent version only specify compatibility up to WM5 though, but i'll give it a go and if it works i'll post back.
Thanks again,
Ben
I can confirm that Batti v2.1 works for WM6 even though it's not listed as being compatible on the Batti site.
One comment, it seems if you have the battery info pane turned on for when you tap the battery indicator icon, the calendar button on the bottom left of your today screen is replaced with a notification button that when you press brings up the battery info pane.
I've not experimented to see if turning of the info pane on icon tap will remove the notification button and restore the calendar button.
Ben
Try this one:
Should work also on WM6.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
I very much like this.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
Hi all
Have now virtually achievd my perfect TODAY screen, but for ONE problem. It is just SLIGHTLY too large, thus bringing up a scroll bar on the right hand side- with around 1mm of scroll!!
I have done all I can to shrink and move things, and I believe I now have 2 options left- neither of which I know how to do......
1) Slightly reduce font size on owner information (which I want to keep), AND?OR get the phone no. oto the same line as my name.
2) I wish to keep the screen lock option that appears on today by default (the padlock that stops any screen activations in your pocket). Am wondering if I can add this to one of my SPB PocketPlus tabs as a shortcut- but have no idea where the .exe file is to point to.
Any help much appreciated,
Justin
Why dont you post screenshots. More great suggestions will come in for sure.
Yer tiz.......
Don't laugh- but I love the colouration of the guava theme with the black of the orbit! - just don't like black with black
You can just.... see the tip of the "device unlock" padlock at the bottom of the screen. All is adjusted to optimum (as far as I can tell)- apart from the 2 points I mentioned at the start of the thread- owner info, and device lock shortcut.
Thanks again
Justin
Rainbow-Lentil said:
Yer tiz.......
Don't laugh- but I love the colouration of the guava theme with the black of the orbit! - just don't like black with black
You can just.... see the tip of the "device unlock" padlock at the bottom of the screen. All is adjusted to optimum (as far as I can tell)- apart from the 2 points I mentioned at the start of the thread- owner info, and device lock shortcut.
Thanks again
Justin
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Hi bro,
If you made some search through the net you would find the solution. I've made search, I've found the souliton.
Just try the attached file, I think that's exactly what you need...
Cheers,
B.
View attachment 53852
cant you make the size of pocketbreeze plugin a little smaller?
Or just reduce the size of SPB Diary... in worst case there appears a scroll bar in the Diary window...
SPB diary, and pocket plus have been made as small as possible. The scroll bar to the right is what I am trying to get rid of, ans the today screen extends down too far.
zsitvayb- thanks mate- that zip file has allowed me to shortcut the device lock onto the spb tabs. This has reduced the info at the bottom, and lost me the scroll bar. Can now see 5 days of wether- not 4!!
Would still be interested though in any way of tinkering with the owner info appearance on the today screen....
Remove your soft keys
I use wisbar advanced3, it has the option of removing the soft keys from the today screen, then using AEButton plus I made the soft key buttons have the same function as they originally did, soft key/1 press, contacts/long press, and I have lost no functionallity at all with a bit more real estate. Hope that makes sense. Also the features of WA3 are great and your today screen would look even better with some nice WA3 icons on the taskbar. If only it was free.
Thanks unique boy (tempted to call you uniqua- but unless you have young kids, or are a student you may not know the "backyardigans"!!).
Understand what you are saying- interesting idea. Does the wisbar affect speed at all??
Rainbow-Lentil said:
SPB diary, and pocket plus have been made as small as possible.
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That's not quite true. Remove one of the tabs (in Diary settings). After that you can decrease the height by another 20 picsels or so.
But this would then lose the fuctionality that I built up???
Use this cab to remove soft keys
fazwarts said:
That's not quite true. Remove one of the tabs (in Diary settings). After that you can decrease the height by another 20 picsels or so.
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If you are using SPB 2.5.5 you can make the tabs horizontal and then add a custom tab and inside the custom TAB move the weather or any other today plugin...!
Like what I have done on my screen...
cheers
Have you tried using slide to unlock.
I find this great and you wouldnt need the lock icon on the screen.
Just a though and help you need pm me
WA3
As far as I can tell WA3 does not slow down my artemis. The skin I use is called "reflections" it can be found on lakeridge's forum. Nice new wait cursor, lovely cascading menus, float window. I like it.
Thanks to all- certainly a few ideas there to try.
Keep up the good work- invaluable resource!!!!!!
Can anyone here please help.
On my previous ROM, when I tap on the Radio Signal icon, I had the option to turn OFF/ON the Radio (FlightMode), now I only have option of opening CommManager, this is quit USELESS as there is amongst others already a CommManager icon* on the bottom of the screen AND a DEDICATED CommManager hardbutton on my TyTN and after using CommManager I have to use X-Button to close the damn thing...
Can someone please tell me the Registry key where I can change this back to Radio OFF/ON... Or at least a shortcut icon I can put in HTC HOME plug. to switch Flight Mode ON/OFF without opening CommManager each time.
I flashed my TyTN (Hermes) with WM6 and I am very happy with it. Most of the little annoyances I had with it has been sorted out. Installed the HTC Home Plug, Slither200?s Cube, other 3G dialer, etc, etc...
*Any hack to get rid of this and the battery icon (I use Batty) at the bottom of the Home Screen???
good question. i had the same request a couple of months ago. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340567)
nobody had a clue.
maybe this time?
DexterH said:
*Any hack to get rid of this and the battery icon (I use Batty) at the bottom of the Home Screen???
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Yes, here are the keys (from the wiki):
Remove the Battery Icon:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Power]
"ShowIcon"=dword:00000000
Remove the Wireless Manager Icon:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\WirelessMgr]
"Keep"=dword:00000000
You can also use Schaps Adv Config, which automates most common registry hacks for you.
The problem is, if you hide one or both some roms can hang when booting up, so i recommend only hiding one.
Thanx
mcorrie1121 said:
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The problem is, if you hide one or both some roms can hang when booting up, so i recommend only hiding one.
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Thanx for the Re. My TyTN is very stable at the moment, so maybe I leave this icons alone (...for now...)
Someone on the first part of my Q??
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Anyone ???
hi guys i'm a newbie here keen on knowing if any masters out here have successfully got rid of the 6.5.3 bottom bar for 6.5 styled. personally i really hate the big n ugly 6.5.3 bottom bar -- my phone has got 4 hardware buttons so there's really no need to upsize them on screen the only thing i might find upsizing useful is keyboard show/hide, which btw i find is exactly what wm7 is doing.
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/18/windows-mobile-7-ui-confirmed-by-microsoft
Um, the entire point of 6.5.3 is that bottom bar... That makes it far more finger friendly along with some other small tweaks to some drop downs and check boxes. Otherwise it is essentially the same as 6.5.
taoist said:
hi guys i'm a newbie here keen on knowing if any masters out here have successfully got rid of the 6.5.3 bottom bar for 6.5 styled. personally i really hate the big n ugly 6.5.3 bottom bar -- my phone has got 4 hardware buttons so there's really no need to upsize them on screen the only thing i might find upsizing useful is keyboard show/hide, which btw i find is exactly what wm7 is doing.
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/18/windows-mobile-7-ui-confirmed-by-microsoft
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you can search for 218xx series 6.5 rom. These are old style 6.5 roms.
Nagrom Nniuq said:
Um, the entire point of 6.5.3 is that bottom bar... That makes it far more finger friendly along with some other small tweaks to some drop downs and check boxes. Otherwise it is essentially the same as 6.5.
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I think a better way to say it is: When one goes to a 6.5.3 ROM, how does he get rid of the retarded oversized buttons at the bottom of the screen?
Nagrom Nniuq said:
Um, the entire point of 6.5.3 is that bottom bar... That makes it far more finger friendly along with some other small tweaks to some drop downs and check boxes. Otherwise it is essentially the same as 6.5.
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But I dont really think it's practical. They' could've simply made a larger top bar, with regular buttons at the bottoms.
So there is no way to make the bottom bar thinner/ return to the WM6.5 setup in 6.5.3?
Nagrom Nniuq said:
Um, the entire point of 6.5.3 is that bottom bar... That makes it far more finger friendly along with some other small tweaks to some drop downs and check boxes. Otherwise it is essentially the same as 6.5.
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seems like there's no way around this...my point is that i don't need the bottom bar to be finger friendly, i just need it to show labels for my left/right soft buttons, which are hardware buttons i can happily press with my finger.
the only ui improvement i see in 6.5.3 is the tabs being replaced by pivots, which sadly do not feature kinetic scrolling...think i'll still stick to 6.5 for the time being and wait to see what com5 will be like...
Or try my theme with the Plain Toolbar. Perhaps this is what you want?
Nagrom Nniuq said:
Um, the entire point of 6.5.3 is that bottom bar...
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ENTIRE POINT, lol...
WM6.5.3 has a big bottom bar. Period. Why make a bigger top bar where your thumb can't easily reach one handed. The idea is to make everything within reach of your THUMB, which is the fattest digit on your hand, thus needs a bigger area.
Stop using a WM6.5.x OS as a standard Wm6.5 device. Sure if you use your phone with your 1 hand while tapping the screen with your index finger of your other hand, then bigger buttons are a waste. But start using your phone with one hand, like we used to, and you'll appricieate the bigger buttons.
The whole new layout style is built from the ground up. Themes, Graphics, UI settings, image height, everything is revamped to allow the new style. You can't simply flip a switch and flip flop. It is what it is. If you don't like the new style, then use an build based off of the old style. It's that simple.
bottom bar is the best thing that has happened to WM
mxl180 said:
bottom bar is the best thing that has happened to WM
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Seriously? Does it still look like this? Because this is the fugliest interface I've seen in a LONG time.
player911 said:
The whole new layout style is built from the ground up. Themes, Graphics, UI settings, image height, everything is revamped to allow the new style. You can't simply flip a switch and flip flop. It is what it is. If you don't like the new style, then use an build based off of the old style. It's that simple.
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I don't know any fix or tweak for the soft button bar, but you can tweak sizes of a lot of other features, such as the pop-up menu items which are way too big for my tastes, and the spacing in file explorer and and regedit. The main 6.5.x-specific registry keys are all in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today (menu and listview), and they are imported with the .tsk files. I've got a thread on it here.
I'll add, there are also registry keys that sound from their name that they might tweak the size of the soft key bar (like the group under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Softkeybar, lol), but I haven't played with them at all. I like the large size, even though I thought it was fugly as hell before I actually tried it out. The problem is that I think you may need to tweak other things, like the \RadioButton or \PushButton keys, so it may take some effort to shrink the thing down and to shrink the soft keys.
However the release date of WM7 has been delayed. Microsoft may still find WM7 has something that should be improved.
Farmer Ted: tks for the advice...i'll play around with the reg and see what happens
i think different ppl have different ideas about a big bottom bar, which boils down to dif usage habits and handsets. that's why i think ms should give an option for 'classic' bottom bar like they do with vista/7. i prefer operating my handset with thumb only as well, but as said my diamond2 has got 4 buttons so i don't actually have to press the bottom bar buttons on screen.
astart: i find wm7 bottom bar better from the screen shots, though the battery/signal indicators are just a dumb waste of real estate...
I was sceptical at first too. Didn't see the point of losing any screen space.
But I have to say that having the buttons below, although I have HW-buttons, is much easier to use. Just touch, not press.
At to that your skin of choice and you are all set
I do however find the topbar still something to work on.
Maybe an app to hide and unhide the top/bottom bars would do the trick..
If there is an need.
The bottom bar is not wasted screen space because it grew by the same amount the top bar shrunk. It is better in every way. There was a whole lot of extra room down there (two softkeys and the SIP button) while the top was crowded.
With the new way, there bottom now has 5 buttons, everything fits just perfectly, but now the top can have both clock and battery at the same time, a bunch of status indicators, and still hold the full program name on the left. No more screen space was used, yet more was fit on and start and OK are easier to hit with your fingers now (though those buttons have been on most recent devices making them a bit redundant, though keeping them is better than not having them at all).
khaytsus said:
Seriously? Does it still look like this? Because this is the fugliest interface I've seen in a LONG time.
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Lumic said:
You removed the fugliness. 6.5.x is an enjoyable experience now.
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Yeah, man !
Anyway, I don't understand why MS didn't remove the Start and close buttons altogether - after all, all (?) devices have these as hardware buttons. This way, apps would have 4 softkeys...