This may be a stupid question but how can I make my "Today Background" image appear in its normal colours and brightness. It seems whenever I make an image my background, it becomes very faint with a white or transparent filter being applied. I just want my background to be the same as the original picture. Any help is appreciated.
P.S. I'm running WM5, HELMI ROM AKU3.2
read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1116854&posted=1#post1116854
Thanks, it worked. It's a bit odd that you have to open the picture in the "Pictures & Videos" program and set it as the today background from within there in order to get transparency options, especially since the "Album" program is the default handler for pictures. Even more odd that the transparency option is not available under "Settings" -> "Today"
Must just be the ROM, I'm assuming other WM2005 PDA's would have the option under Settings somewhere...
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Hi,
Currently i've got a white background on my Blackstone. The problem is that the forecolor of the appointments are also white so I can't see the text anymore. Is there a way to change this somewhere in the registry?
Grtz,
Annihil8
No... not a registry entry!
But... you can change the colour in the _manila file for the home page.
Open the file "1c684cd8_manila" in m9editor, and look for the sections that relates to things like "Carrier Network", "HomeZone", "MissedCallText", "VoiceMailText", "Appointment0_Time", "Appointment0_Subject", etc., etc.' (there are quite a few).
Change the colour value if it appears.
Add a colour value if it's not there (default is white if no colour value exists).
thank you, that worked for me!
I ran into this "problem". I changed my background to a picture and used the bg 4 all utility to have the same background on all manila tabs, but now my backgrounds are also changed in the SMS reading panel 'threaded sms), the contacts screen and maybe some others screens too. Because this text is in black, my changed background makes the text very hard to read and it should be changed to white if possible. Does anyone know if and how you can change the text color?
I searched the forum, but didn't find answers.
same problem
i have also this problem.
i deleted this app.but i love it
help help help
is there anyway to make this problem
Would also like to know if there is any update on this, the other alternative I have posted a thread for is how to have a little more customization over where the background goes, e.g. select to leave default background on contact edit window etc etc.
Hopefully someone can help?
Jody
Update on this, found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=479112&highlight=curtain
The stocklite CAB allows what we were after, only the manilla tabs get the background, the ones with the white background remain.
I am running it successfully on Dutty V3
I haven't personally tried the background for ALL tabs and apps yet, but this does sound intriguing. I have spent ages playing around with an APP that changes ALL the text, pop-up, bars, scrollbars, title, background etc etc colours, in an attempt to have a completely black background and crisp white text (ie. like TF3D). However... there are limitations to this, and it is VERY hard to achieve a consistant and fuinctional look (since many colours are shared, and quite often you come across a pop-up or menu items that are the same colour).
But... if the APP you mention underlays a black background image in PocketOutlook without actually changing the preset windows colour... this may actually work.
Here's the freeware to tweak colours (UI Tweaker): -
http://mobile-sg.com/software/?p=UITweaker&platform=ppc
I'm definitely interested to see if anyone else gets somewhere with this?
Hello
I just got my new Blackstone (moved from Cruise) and tried to freshen up its looks a little bit. But when I try to change the wallpaper in the windows today screen (settings-today) the wallpaper (the size is ok) looks washed out and has like a bluish layer over it. Does anybody else have this problem or knows a solution for it?
Thanks
i would say transparency setting...
it seems to me your transparency setting is set to high and needs to be adjusted down....you can set the transpancency from 0% to 100%..if it is higher, you wallpaper will look ,off colour and seem to have a layer over picture ( sort of just as you descibed..)that is the transparency layer if i can call it such..
i had similar incident about month back ,with my wallpaper..and whilst browsing device, saw how to adjust setting ..adjusted it down and background picture.. perfect...!
only way to access setting( as far as i know ) is as follows ..................
..you have to go to....start.... programs...select ....pictures & videos file .....
.....select any photo or relevant one you prefer ,view picture ,while viewing picture then select from.. menu below ... choose "set as background...."
a page will open.. with heading..."SET as TODAY BACKGROUND... " note . ."transparency level " halfway down page ....set transparency with relevant up /down arrows. .select o.k., close application..
hope it solves your problem,
good luck
That did the trick Now I can enjoy all those nice wallpapers!
Thanks a lot for your help
Is there any way to change the background in TF3D from AT&Ts logo to anything else? I can change the home page, and the lock screen without TF3D enabled, but as soon as I enable it again and go to any tab in TF3D the AT&T logo is there. What can I do about this, without changing ROMs?
Search for TF3D or manila 3D themes, download the one you like and install it on your T2
Cjaiceman said:
Is there any way to change the background in TF3D from AT&Ts logo to anything else? I can change the home page, and the lock screen without TF3D enabled, but as soon as I enable it again and go to any tab in TF3D the AT&T logo is there. What can I do about this, without changing ROMs?
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The following files in \Windows are the TF3D background images (Top/Buttom Portrait & Left/Right landscape).
Code:
29cff4fe_manila
058acf31_manila
77feee1d_manila
70083a29_manila
These are 3D Polygon Textures. You need a program such as CFC GUI to edit those images. Under the "TF3dv2" menu select "Create background". Choice either Portrait or Landscape WVGA from the drop down & click "Load". Choose the image you want (Must be a PNG, It helps to create the Image you want & crop it to the correct size ahead of time, WVGA Portrait = 480 Wide x 696 Tall in Pixels/Landscape = 804 Wide x 377 Tall). Uncheck the "CFC" Check Box & Click Save. It'll save the files in the folder you choose during the initial setup. It'll create 2 _manila files for each Portrait or Landscape. Copy these to your SD Card & then use Total Commander or Rosco Explorer to copy them into \Windows overwriting the originals. Restart TF3D to see the change.
EDIT: There's a scrollbar on the right side of the BG creation window. Use this to adjust brightness. You'll notice the images are a lot brighter then the BG's I made. I darkened it so the text would show better. In my first attempt, the BG was too bright & the white text became hard to read in certain places.
Search for HDWall, it works good and does what you want I think. I also had to run one of the Manila cabs (HQWallpaper patch or something) that was included in one of the folders with HDWall.
Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions.
Can anyone tell me how to change the highlight colours on winmo 6.5?
The ones for things like contacts, sms, email, even the load bar etc.
I would have thought there would be a simple application for custom themes but apparently not, Microsoft seem to have moved theirs or taken it down too.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Semi solution
I found this
UI Tweeker
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Tweaks/UI-Tweaker-16493.shtml
It claims to work only for winmo 5 but it does work up to 6.5
You can use a regedit too to get most colours changed;-
HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\SYSCOLOR is where the main "highlight bar" is held, the horrible green crap..
A lot of the "Today Screen" colours are held here;-
HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\COLOR
39 = Start Menu Text
4 = Today Colour - If you only used the default M$ Today and not TouchFlo.
34 = The Green used in highlights, but the GWE overrides this setting afaik.
I use Win6.1 rather than 6.5 but I'd say the basics stay the same'ish tbh, if your after changing colours while using Manila then you'll need to alter the correct files to change their colour schemes.