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Here's Some New Pngs for Your Screen

I am posting a zip that contains some of the pngs I use for my screen. In it contains a new image for the iconbar bluetooth.
Try them out. Just rename them for what you are replacing, or edit your registry to accomodate for your new pics. If you have any questions, please post them. (and No, I won't make a cab, because I am still not 100% on how to do it, but if someone knows how and wants to share the knowledge, let me know, I'm no dummy, I can learn quick, or make the cab yourself.)
Anyways, here they are.

outerdepth said:
I am posting a zip that contains some of the pngs I use for my screen. In it contains a new image for the iconbar bluetooth.
Try them out. Just rename them for what you are replacing, or edit your registry to accomodate for your new pics. If you have any questions, please post them. (and No, I won't make a cab, because I am still not 100% on how to do it, but if someone knows how and wants to share the knowledge, let me know, I'm no dummy, I can learn quick, or make the cab yourself.)
Anyways, here they are.
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These look good. My main concern is the Bluetooth icon. Which reg key should I edit to use the new one (for the Rinku Iconbar)?

I just copied this one over the original. I already have it name the same. I kept a copy of the original on my pc, just in case....
Rip Syntaxx said:
These look good. My main concern is the Bluetooth icon. Which reg key should I edit to use the new one (for the Rinku Iconbar)?
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outerdepth said:
I just copied this one over the original. I already have it name the same. I kept a copy of the original on my pc, just in case....
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Yeah...but what's the registry address??? (ex. HKLM/Software/Microsoft/CHome)

I looked around earlier for that. I couldn't find it. I'm sure it's there, but I didn't want to spend the time going through every single reg entry until I found it.
As it stands right now, there is NO need to change you reg entry. Just take the bluetooth pic and rename it to whatever your CHome iconbar pic is called. Mine should be the same as yours, I'd imagine. It's:
CHome_Iconbar_Bluetooth.png
Just drop this pic into your \Windows folder on your smartphone and reboot it. You'll see the updated picture. No need to edit the registry.

outerdepth said:
I looked around earlier for that. I couldn't find it. I'm sure it's there, but I didn't want to spend the time going through every single reg entry until I found it.
As it stands right now, there is NO need to change you reg entry. Just take the bluetooth pic and rename it to whatever your CHome iconbar pic is called. Mine should be the same as yours, I'd imagine. It's:
CHome_Iconbar_Bluetooth.png
Just drop this pic into your \Windows folder on your smartphone and reboot it. You'll see the updated picture. No need to edit the registry.
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OHHH!!! I thought you replaced a certain reg key in your registry. That's why I was asking you about it, I thought you had a certain key you changed right off the bat. Thanks.

outerdepth said:
I am posting a zip that contains some of the pngs I use for my screen. In it contains a new image for the iconbar bluetooth.
Try them out. Just rename them for what you are replacing, or edit your registry to accomodate for your new pics. If you have any questions, please post them. (and No, I won't make a cab, because I am still not 100% on how to do it, but if someone knows how and wants to share the knowledge, let me know, I'm no dummy, I can learn quick, or make the cab yourself.)
Anyways, here they are.
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here's a couple more alternates i created.
a screenshot of them in action.

I like these, NICE.
Those are sweet. I really like the image of the phone, I think I'll try that one on for size. Thanks!!
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here's a couple more alternates i created.
a screenshot of them in action.
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Change internal images (call-background, menu-background)

Made a New Background For Call In Progress Screen
Check this out. I made this adaptation of an old homescreen background. Just drop this file in your Windows directory, if you like it.

Looks very lcd screen friendly, will try out later today. Do you have the original wallpaper too? Did someone else on here draw it, or did it come from one of the original ROMs?

The pic I posted when clicked on is the actual size of the picture. I have been making homescreen xml's for a while and this was one of the old backgrounds for a homescreen with Fizz weather and Facade. I just altered the image so that it would fit nicely on the Call In Progress Screen. So, no one here drew the picture, and no it did not come from a ROM. It's just simply a pic for 320x213 screen that is altered for the CIPS picture.
Profezza said:
Looks very lcd screen friendly, will try out later today. Do you have the original wallpaper too? Did someone else on here draw it, or did it come from one of the original ROMs?
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outerdepth said:
Check this out. I made this adaptation of an old homescreen background. Just drop this file in your Windows directory, if you like it.
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You should warn people that the file you posted is really a RAR archive and not a ZIP archive. When trying to open it as a zip, XP complains that it's corrupted...

Thanks, will remember to say that next time. I totally spaced. Appreciate the heads up.

outerdepth said:
Check this out. I made this adaptation of an old homescreen background. Just drop this file in your Windows directory, if you like it.
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this is awesome! any more???

Yeah, I'll see if I can come up with some others. Maybe I'll get with Profezza about some. I'd hate to come off like I'm stepping on some toes, since Profezza's Alphanuma is pretty similar.
Do you have any requests or ideas? Any ideas are always appreciated.
Holla!

well, i found the images already, but i haven't found the referring registry-keys yet. (i know in SP2003, it was possible to change the Windows-Start-Logo by just modifying the registry and not changing any rom-files. is this possible for these two images (the green background, when someone is calling and the plain-white one in the startmenu-background.) I'd rather like just changing registry-keys instead of replacing those files. Can someone tell me, if these 2 images are given in the registry, and where these keys are?

Take a look in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai
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well, thanks, at least i found the start-menu/menu background, so i can change from plain white to some other color or gradient.

I was actually going to make a .cab which replaces all of your volume, alert, question, low battery, and inbound/outbound/in call splash screens... .Maybe i'll do that now. If enough people want it.

pudgedaddy said:
I was actually going to make a .cab which replaces all of your volume, alert, question, low battery, and inbound/outbound/in call splash screens... .Maybe i'll do that now. If enough people want it.
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Will the cab let us insert our own images? If so, I'm in.

showaco said:
Will the cab let us insert our own images? If so, I'm in.
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no it wont. But im sure you can create a script to accomplish that.
All the .cab would do is basically overwrite the files .png, .bmp that are located in the windows directory. i mean i have posted the files b-4 on this forum with the original file names that mirror the ones you would be replacing in the windows directory. lemme see if i can find that post.

Here' they are. I take no credit for these. Guys over at moto forums created these. Just drop these in the \windows directory and overwrite the originals (make sure your backup the originals if you want to revert back)
In-Call Screen
Info Screen
Question Screen
Error Screen

Volume Screen
Here's the files:

yay pudge
Thanks for these (I know they're not yours BUT you did let us know they were available)!
I was never really able to overwrite files in the \Windows directory on my phone before flashing to Kavana's. I haven't tried yet. The phone was app unlocked before the flash as well. I've also never been able to see \Windows via active sync on my pc. The same is true even after flashing to Kavana's.
Here's hoping this goes well!

l0lcats said:
yay pudge
Thanks for these (I know they're not yours BUT you did let us know they were available)!
I was never really able to overwrite files in the \Windows directory on my phone before flashing to Kavana's. I haven't tried yet. The phone was app unlocked before the flash as well. I've also never been able to see \Windows via active sync on my pc. The same is true even after flashing to Kavana's.
Here's hoping this goes well!
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the \windows directory on your phone is a hidden folder.
You need to go to your manubar and click on tools-->folder options-->click on "view" tab and select, " show hidden files & folders" lick apply or ok.... you should then be able to see the /windows directory on your phone with exploring your directory via activesync

pudgedaddy said:
the \windows directory on your phone is a hidden folder.
You need to go to your manubar and click on tools-->folder options-->click on "view" tab and select, " show hidden files & folders" lick apply or ok.... you should then be able to see the /windows directory on your phone with exploring your directory via activesync
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I hate so much to be negative but I've tried that. It still doesn't show up.

so you mean to tell me that "show hidden files and folders IS selected" and when you connect your phone to your PC or laptop via activesync and then press explore in the activesync application. and then click on "windows mobile device" . and it shows you the list of files and folders, that the \windows folder is not there?

pudgedaddy said:
so you mean to tell me that "show hidden files and folders IS selected" and when you connect your phone to your PC or laptop via activesync and then press explore in the activesync application. and then click on "windows mobile device" . and it shows you the list of files and folders, that the \windows folder is not there?
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Yup! It's something that's been bugging me for awhile now! Even after a flash of the ROM it's not accessible. My girlfriends laptop as XP on it and it's the same story there too! I can use resco though to move the files and I've already placed the ones you posted on my phone. They look great. I'll try to create some of my own and see how it goes. Say, is ActiveSync running randomly for no reason when your phone is not connected to your pc normal?

Woohoo!

I successfully edited my first .png and ported it as a theme!
Colored Vibrating Phone!!
I want to appologize for being impatient to all the current theme developers specifically Manup. After spending an hour how to get the .png to save in the archive file, I can see that editing each individual icon could take hours and hours if you want it to look right.
Time for me to try at some more difficult stuff.
Hope to be posting my first theme within the next few months.

um..what did you do that took so long?

well....
Remember that this is my first self attempt at this.
I was having trouble getting it to save to the archive. The pop up was behind other applications I was running, so I didn't see it prompting me to save to the archive.
Next is just the editing of the .png itself. If I was just copying and pasting it wouldn't have taken any time. I had to find the icon I wanted to put there, then change the colors just right. It isn't really hard, just time consuming, but you already know that. This is why I was apologizing. Its my first time, give me a break.

Ok I went to edit the first android boot screen.
and of course it hung on boot screen in a loop. My file went from around 3k to 31k so obviously the file is too big. I can't seem to find an option to compress or deflate the file using 7zip.
Can any give me some suggestions?

You don't the .png images with 7zip you do it with Photoshop or whatever graphic design program. There is a post some where explaining how to compress the .png images i just don't know it of hand.

Yeah you want to save the file in photoshop using the save for web & devices...or the pngout program. read thru this here. has my way and the pngout way in the posts.
Ill give ya a tip, this is how i do it at least. i extract the update.zip then extract all the apks that i am going to change. I start editing all the files in framework-res, then move to Launcher, contacts and phone. After these are done i normally import them into the update.zip, sign it and test it.
When i import the images i just open the update.zip in WinRar, then double click the apk i need to import images into. It opens the apk in a new WinRar window, i browse tot he folder i need then just drag the images into it. Do that for each apk then sign it and test it.
Hope this helps.

I was using 7zip for extraction and paintshop pro for editing
I was doing fine. I was just excited to get that far. One of the problems I ran into was when I edited an image file it went from 3k to 30k when. I even used png crush and it only compressed to 24k. Not sure if it is even important yet.
I was only:
A) apologizing for expecting so much when it is so much work.
B) proud that I figured it out and am on my way to editing/creating my own theme.
I only ask one thing of some of the more senior devs. Please don't be so critical. All of us are at several different levels. What may seem juvenile to you might be a huge hurdle to others. This is why we are dependant on you for themes.

Brutal-Force said:
I was doing fine. I was just excited to get that far. One of the problems I ran into was when I edited an image file it went from 3k to 30k when. I even used png crush and it only compressed to 24k. Not sure if it is even important yet.
I was only:
A) apologizing for expecting so much when it is so much work.
B) proud that I figured it out and am on my way to editing/creating my own theme.
I only ask one thing of some of the more senior devs. Please don't be so critical. All of us are at several different levels. What may seem juvenile to you might be a huge hurdle to others. This is why we are dependant on you for themes.
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Good job on getting going, im getting ready to make a go of it as well. I dont think they are criticizing you just being helpful. Have you seen how critical people are in the theme makers posts, cant believe half the theme makers still do it lol.

Brutal-Force said:
I was doing fine. I was just excited to get that far. One of the problems I ran into was when I edited an image file it went from 3k to 30k when. I even used png crush and it only compressed to 24k. Not sure if it is even important yet.
I was only:
A) apologizing for expecting so much when it is so much work.
B) proud that I figured it out and am on my way to editing/creating my own theme.
I only ask one thing of some of the more senior devs. Please don't be so critical. All of us are at several different levels. What may seem juvenile to you might be a huge hurdle to others. This is why we are dependant on you for themes.
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Hope i didn't come off that way...i was just trying to help. no ill intenet in that post at all =)

Thank you.
It always helps with reassuring words while trying something this complicated.

Thank you damnitpud.
I have been following the forums very closely since October. I have even followed your posts and tutorials. I am just trying to ride the wave crest and not fall in, because getting out is a *****. I have had to not only pick up the 'ol writing computer

Read through my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3339701&postcount=6
It tells you how to edit the update.zip without extracting anything but the drawables folder. After a lot of time and effort I have streamlined the process as much as possible so maybe you can pick up a few tricks with that walkthrough. And I use gimp, I dont mess wtih compression or saving file for web. I take big images, save them as a png, resize them to 48x48 using the XP power toys resizing tool and drag-and-drop them into my update.zip. I dont know what is happening but everyone keeps thinking its way harder than it really is.
Then when I swap themes from ADP to RC33 or vice versa I open up my theme in 7zip and a blank theme in the version I want to convert too. I got to each apk and drag-and-drop the drawables folder straight into the other update.zip replacing the existing drawables folder. If you do it my way you can convert a theme in minutes or if you have all the artwork you can turn it into a theme in about 15-20 mins TOPS.
My biggest suggestion is to experiment with trial and error, use your nandroid backup and make mistakes, its the best way to learn and there is nothing that compares to hands on experience, that way you know what works and you can tell people from experience instead of hearsay.

7Zip is the best tip you gave B, I tried using WinRar but it wasnt as user friendly for this stuff. Especially as 7Zip saves as you swap and move up the file tree.

I am using your tutorial B.
I don't have photoshop, so I am using Paintshop pro PhotoX2 which works fine for me.
I was using 7zip, but I am used to using Winzip. I am currently using Winzip12 so thats serving my needs nicely.
What I was referring too isn't so much difficult in moving files around, it is more or less knowing WHICH files you can mess with. I have seen posted that don't mess with .9.png files at them moment as that can cause problems. I also do not know what size a theme is aloud to be in the update.zip. I also wanted to know If i have to include ever single file or if it is just neccessary to do just the things you want to change.
It isn't hard to actually do the file changing and such, the "HARD" part is more Time consuming then hard, and thats the artwork required to actually change the look of the component.
More questions will pop-up I am sure, but I am in the Trial and Error Stage right now.
Another question if anyone reads this, Where is the Clock Widget located? I see that every theme maker edits this, and lets be honest, If you use this widget, it is the center focal point of every theme. Just changing this gives the whole desktop another feel.

Brutal-Force said:
...Where is the Clock Widget located? I see that every theme maker edits this, and lets be honest, If you use this widget, it is the center focal point of every theme. Just changing this gives the whole desktop another feel.
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It's in the Launcher.apk.

All your questions are in the tutorials, if you drag the drawable folder onto your desktop you can see the pics when you doubleclick the folder.
Just my thought,
The clock is something that most people change, but I dont use the clock, that is why the time is in the corner constantly. I feel the clock just eats up space on my desktop. Of course I like it with as few icons as possible.

Thanx for the replies.
I had also found the clock in the Launcher.apk file, but for some reason, when I try and edit it and put it back into the folder it causes my phone stop at the boot screen. I just wanted to make sure I was trying to edit the right file.
I somehow expected it to be in a completely different place.
Yes a lot of my questions may seem to be repeats, but I had initially started this thread as just a Eureka thread. But as long as people who are in the know are reading it, I am glad to ask questions. Sometimes the Main threads and stickies are 150 pages deep and after not reading them for two days you kind of get behind.

well if we are asking questions....then can someone help me
when I go to update my phone with the update zip i get
E:Wrong digest
system/app/Launcher.apk
E:Verification failed
and yes I am new at this...

Have you rooted with RC29 yet?
Looks like what happens before you root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
Read this first.

I had the exact same "wohoo" feeling when I made my first theme mod and it was a success.

change sms styling

hey all, ive known how to do this for a while and just thought id post it, but i know how to change the stiling of the SMS window
1. go to a registry editor and search "iframe_style.css"
2. the value should be /windows/iframe_style.css
3. change it to /iframe_style.css
4. to go total commander or file explorer and go to the windows directory (enable hidden files in file explore, and its gonna take a while to loadr) and look for iframe_style.css
5. copy it to the main directory /
6. now navigate to the iframe_style.css in / and change it to iframe_style.txt and it should open in word
7. you have to have knowlege in css and html to be able to read the file, but its fun, you can change fonts and colors and etc.
8. save the file, but press no so it saves in .txt again.
9. now change the iframe_style.txt to iframe_style.css and restart the device
post any questions or discoveries below. ill upload some of the files ive made so you guys can try em out

nice! Definately gonna have to try it.. if my tp2 works ok tommorow. lol
That's why I love windows mobile, forget apple.

agreed! did you check out my post on your thread?

Try this one!
Heya guys, I have a different styling for SMS too, been using it for a while now and it is way better than the original style ^^
Just unzip the attachment and copy the 3 files to /Windows, restart the SMS App and you're ready to go! Have fun with it
I have not created this idea by meself, but copied it from the TAEL ROM for Touch Pro 1, and edited it o that the images look nicer and blend in with the design!

nice link, got any screenshots, wanna be sure I like it before I put it on right away
EDIT: Never mind lol, installed it, and its great, i'll try to get one done in school today, Im trying to make a black themed one, but changing the background color isnt working, so im just gonna try making new divs

thesyntax said:
nice link, got any screenshots, wanna be sure I like it before I put it on right away
EDIT: Never mind lol, installed it, and its great, i'll try to get one done in school today, Im trying to make a black themed one, but changing the background color isnt working, so im just gonna try making new divs
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Yeah, I added a ScreenShot now ^^
Okay well I'm curious to what the results will be! Be sure to post it when you have finished it!

That's awesome, man, thanks for sharing!

[Q] Need help htc tilt 2

i downloaded a program from xda market called pocket artist didnt like it so i deleted it now i cant view my pictures through file explore. I have a custum rom from energy dinkie is the rom please help

sounds like it may have also remove some files. You can try to maybe do a hard reset to revert to teh stock setting or reflash the rom.

jas40 said:
i downloaded a program from xda market called pocket artist didnt like it so i deleted it now i cant view my pictures through file explore. I have a custum rom from energy dinkie is the rom please help
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I had the same problem a few months ago. Check the thread for pocket artist on this site.
I dont remember the exact registry values, but I wrote them in that thread.
If you have a registry editor installed you have to alter the values from "pocket artist" to .jpg under the corresponding pic file branch, like .jpg etc.......
I did that to a few of the values and my phone was back to viewing pics normally. I had many problems with pocket artist so I went to DynaInk. Way better. Simple, but it works very well. Hope this helps.
Found it! Its the XDA Market thread here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=707988&page=15