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Home Screen Snapshots

I want to see what other peoples home screens look like, how do I take a screenshot of mine? Is there an application for that somewhere. I am working on compiling information for my website so I can easily get to it all. If people can point me to the best reference areas I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Please share your home screen with me

I use MagicSS.
Home screen simple and clean like I like it:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And my S2U2 screen:

GldRush98 said:
I use MagicSS.
Home screen simple and clean like I like it:
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What are those two little red hands?
GldRush98 said:
And my S2U2 screen:
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This makes me feel nostalgic...

Tom Tom Gps S/w

What do I need to do to get my clock large like your second picture.

These are a few variations I've used.

I'd love to see everyons home screens as well.. I have attached a program that takes them for all the people out there not knowing how to do it

Mine are also fairly simple & maybe a bit dark?

Won't show mine. Ohhh well

Here is my home screen, very simple and effective

Here is my Home Screen
Pretty basic, home plug, and the HTC Customizer, plus a wm6 theme I found online. My ode to the Florida Gators.
Let me know what you think......
I would like to see more too.
And thanks for the Screen capture program works like a charm.

HEre is mine
Let me know what you think. Its my ode to the Florida Gators. I use the standard HTC home plug and home customizer...

ivanmmj said:
What are those two little red hands?
This makes me feel nostalgic...
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Would you mind supplying the super mario image?

This is mine most of the time.
EDIT: I just noticed that I took these back in December, and I still have the same setup. Must be working good for me, I usually change it VERY often.

JudgeDredd67 said:
This is mine most of the time.
EDIT: I just noticed that I took these back in December, and I still have the same setup. Must be working good for me, I usually change it VERY often.
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I like that calender
can u tell me where or how u got it
Please

JudgeDredd67:
I dig the whole setup, would you be willing to elaborate what and how you came to this?

ilordvader said:
I like that calender
can u tell me where or how u got it
Please
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i would like to know that too. also, could you please list the used apps on your today screen

No problem, I have Spb PocketPlus installed with the bare minimum components for the today screen plug-in. Then on my first "Home" Page I have unlocked HTC Home (you have to do this to place it on a tabbed page of Spb) then under it is the meters that come with PocketPlus. Then on the next page I have rlToday with a skin I made and will attach to this post for any that would like to use it. Then the next tab is SBSH PocketWeather 2.0.5 that I slightly modified from the PhatPhinger skin you can find one there site. Then the next page is just a app launcher page that zips me to any of the apps that I use a lot. I have sense added a 5th page that has Windows Live and Windows Live Search plug-ins on it. The good thing is that even with all this loaded and running CRC's v12r6 6.1 ROM, I still have 42.58M Storage and 22.46M Program mem left. And I have a lot of other stuff installed as well.
Thanks for asking about my screens and if I can be of any other help just let me know.

thanks a lot!
one more question: how do you unlock HTC Home? i apologize if it's a stupid question, but i really don't know...

There is a CAB file on this forum somewhere that is HTC Home Customizer that lets you unlock it.

Dock-N-Play Animated Today Background [Beta - 0.8 Beta Cab Available]

Beta Cab (0.8) available here: http://rapidshare.com/files/198951161/DNP_0_8_Beta.cab
All,
Dock-N-Play (DnP) is a "Craddleware" application that detects when your phone is craddled and on external power. If so it launches a "animated" today screen that provides a clock, email, current weather and appointments along with... wait for it... an animated background! This is one of those - "WOW that's neat... can I get that for my phone?" impress your co-workers applications. I have posted a few screen shots. My hope is a small community will help create animations to share with others. After the initial release in WVGA I will create a VGA version for others (likely not QVGA though - sorry)
The next release (after this one) will include some more options to:
- go full screen,
- assign quick-launch programs to front icons,
- change clock to completely transparent, semi transparent or fully non-transparent
A later release will add assignable quick launch icons to the middle of the screen for things like GPS navigation, Phone, Locking etc
Here are a few preview screens:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Blessing one and all
Andy
Video here: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4422400/11856834
Beta Cab available here: http://rapidshare.com/files/198951161/DNP_0_8_Beta.cab
Some known issues! {beta}
I believe this will only work on English ROMs... the next release will fix this. Setting location for weather requires "blind" typing or use of something like My Mobiler... also will be fixed. Please feel free to create your own animation skins but be forwarned that I will be making minor changes to the config.ini and txt files to accomodate needed internationalization changes. The next major release will include a PDF guide for creating skins but I'm guessing many will be able to just look and edit existing sample files. Also current CAb does not allow/display option to load to storage card... as soon as I figure out why I will fix this too
Please enjoy and know that fixes/enhancements will be forthcoming

Wow...very nice indeed.
One request, can this app have a lock feature?

Sounds Great, Hope It Goes Well, And Keep Us Updated

Incredibly nice idea, I'll definately test this out once you release the beta. Cheers!

try to make it run in fullscreen and take advantake of the hd's resolution.
thanks, and great project.

Great job...
Looks very good.. keep up the good work looking forward to test it

Can we have a youtube preview ? 'cause the picture previews doesn't really give us an idea of what it is like to have an animated background

I'm rebuilding my dev box with Windows 7 and watching the Superbowl... I'll put a video on my blog tomorrow and add a link to the first page.

Looks like a really great idea! Looking forward to testing it out, keep it up!

an Idea
abeery, what about an option to turn Touch HD into a picture frame ?
i.e full screen picture slideshow.
Good Luck to you and all Developers!

Some quick comments and answers
Added video to first link
Animations can be created by end users so picture frame possible
Full screen an option I will add but not use myself because I need full notication task bar icons for work

i love the idea!
what i would like to see in this app is a three mode function(or more).. for use in the car, home and office..
lets say i get in my car and i dock the phone on its holder, a screen will pop up with 3 big buttons that say "Car" "Home" "Office"
i click the button Car and the car menu shows in screen.. maybe it has a big clock a big "Call" button a Button to launch my GPS app etc..
when i receive a phone call in Car mode a screen should pop up with some nice buttons to answer or reject the call.. maybe a photo of the caller etc!
Now for the "Home" and "Office" modes what you already developed seem to fit
cheers!

I love this idea... Let me play with it and see what I can come up with... may end up being a version 1.5 release but I will do it.

abeery said:
I love this idea... Let me play with it and see what I can come up with... may end up being a version 1.5 release but I will do it.
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no rush no rush..

UNmexed, fantastic ideas to add to an already fantastic idea. This is exaclty what I've been looking for, hopefully this will lead to us being able to use our WM devices as Windows Sideshow type desktop extensions........definitely going to be loading the beta~!

abeery said:
I love this idea... Let me play with it and see what I can come up with... may end up being a version 1.5 release but I will do it.
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Brilliant work can't wait finally something to show off to the iphone boys.

Will we be able to get rid of the bottom "curtain" and make the clock smaller in order to see more of the background?

Maybe make the clock background transparent instead of white so that more of the beautiful animation background can be seen.

Beta Cab now available

Wow thanks will give it a try
Thanks a lot for your idea and work
I like a lot the idea of umexed +1

[Wallpapers] Free Wallpapers for WP7 - Regular and Transparent Galleries

I cooked up some wallpapers for WP7 and WP8+ lock screen and wanted to share them.
There are two sections now to choose from. Regular and Transparent. Each have their own instructions so I have included it all.
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Regular Wallpapers: http://www.animevortex.net/blog/thesaint/windows-phone-7-wallpaper-gallery
Instructions: Simply save them to your phone by viewing the page from your phone or from your PC using zune sync or email, as you would do any other normal wallpapers.
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Transparent Wallpapers: http://www.animevortex.net/blog/thesaint/general/free-transparent-wallpapers-for-windows-phone-7-wp7 (WP7 only!)
Instructions: To set one as your wallpaper you must save the image to your PC. Send your an email from your PC to your cellphone with the image attached. Once the email/attachment has been loaded, click to open the attachment. Touch and hold the screen until the menu pops up. Set as your wallpaper and your ready to go!
Note: Mango update and newer (including WP8+) do(es) not support transparent wallpapers.
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I can't always guarantee that I can come through with every request but I will try when I can Most of the wallpapers were actually sponsored by donations so it helped. The rest I have to dabble with on my free time.
Update 04/22/2011 - Ok guys, biggest update yet! Collection had more than doubled with the additional of about 32 new anime-based wallpapers as well as more video game related.
Update 04/27/2011 - Thanks to the feature suggestion made by Big D5 (wpcentral), I have reworked it so that you can share straight to your phone from the gallery (once you click on an image and it pops up, you can press and hold the mid-section of the image and choose "share"). Now you view the gallery from your phone and even email to yourself as an attachment while your at it. Note: obviously you don't want to choose "save image" as doing this will convert it causing it to lose it's transparent properties.
Update 05/07/2011 - I added a regular gallery of non-transparent images, as well as added more images in both galleries.
Update 09/09/2011 - Added the new collection of Conan Wallpapers (non-trans), also available in their own gallery here with collection zip: Conan Wallpaper Collection for WP7

Waiting for them to send to my phone now! Will report back how they do!
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Interesting. I usually use a password lock, and with the password, the effect is all but lost.
However upon turning it off, it's there sure as day. Snakeeyes now guards my phone. Awesome stuff OP!!

I also updated the post as the special forces (Battlefield) wallpaper wasn't showing. It's there now. I'll try to add more in the future if work allows and will probably add it to this post.

These are amazing! thanks alot! Snake is definitely the best one so far, Flash is a close second, the Halo and Assassins Creed seem a little off...maybe just too big I don't know, thats just me being picky. But great job none the less keep it up

Thanks for the make.
I have a question, after I applied, the tranparent part is black. Only when I start to slide it shows the tile home. Is this normal?

not transparent for me either.

jayr04 said:
not transparent for me either.
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nvm i got it. thanks

jayr04 said:
not transparent for me either.
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Remove the password, and then push the power button twice, use the finger and touch the screen.

nice
Thnx works fine!
here is one from me (bagground have transparency, theres a white glow around her, only visible on the phones black background)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Very nice, thanks a bunch

these are super impressive and the quality is top notch HD. Keep the pics/wallpapers coming!

If I could make a suggestion for possible wallpapers....I would say go old-school games like mario, yoshi or pokemon! Those would be awesome!

Thank you too much

amtrakcn said:
Thanks for the make.
I have a question, after I applied, the tranparent part is black. Only when I start to slide it shows the tile home. Is this normal?
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Yes it only works when you start to move your finger on the slide because WP7 blacks out the home screen when the lock screen is fully dropped. The second you start to slide up or down the home screen should appear in the BG.

Bradbereal said:
If I could make a suggestion for possible wallpapers....I would say go old-school games like mario, yoshi or pokemon! Those would be awesome!
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So true, and it shall be done. The 1st post has been updated with 5 new wallpapers.

These are amazing.
Need one of emma stone though

hamzie said:
These are amazing.
Need one of emma stone though
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Hmmm, Emma Stone? Well I didn't like how she looked...she needs more modeling to find a good source pic...how about a little Emma Watson }

any of these
http://thechive.com/2011/01/17/you-asked-for-it-you-got-it-emma-stone-in-hq-22-photos/
PLEASE!!!
But if its too much work then i understand
these ones are just mind blowing as it is
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oh just saw the emma watson one
Stone > Watson wouldnt you say

Hi,
Could any of you please let me know how to make a picture transparent like this.
Do you requires some specific software for this.

master chief is still alive! thanks for the great pictures!

[Mango] Making Transparent Lockscreens

As i am sure many of you know you can force Windows Phone 7 to use transparent lock screens.
How you do it is you send the image to yourself in a email, open the image and tap "use as Wallpaper". You can not send it over Zune because Zune does not currently see .png files.
But since Mango people have been having trouble with transparent lock screens, it glitches, it loops.
The main thing is that these glitches are predictable and with a bit of thought you can still make some pretty decent transparent lock screens. Now im sure more creative people then i will make better use of this but there are two main set ups i have found to make good Mango transparent lock screens.
Note: All images shown are mock ups, it is faster for me this way then it is to load them and take pictures off the phone or emulator. Your results may very, and your final result maybe different for i did not test this with Zune cover art, or anything that used the top of the lock screen like media players.
One is the vertical loop, best used with logos or vertical repeating text or whatever you don't mind repeating vertically. Since the Rangers are going to the World Series(and will win) and i am a big Texas guy i will show you using the Texas Rangers logo, what you do is generally block off and fade out the top third of the screen and the bottom 8th or so.
Here you see the transparent image, the white is the transparency to save space:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
You do not make it white, you use png transparency, it is white for illustration purposes.
Left is when locked :: Right is when tapped
Keep in mind this of course is not the only way to do it. By covering all the way across the top forces the loop to repeat down. By covering the top 1/3 helps keep it from looping the date and time, and if i remember the bottom section keeps it from looping the notifications and battery at the top.
Now that's all fine and good but logos and repeating it like that can be boring, so what else can you do? Well with a bit of thought and creativity (or lack of) there are more designs you can do.
Basically you take this looping idea and view it as the back ground and take a focus image to the left side. You use the left side to cover the time and data messages. I have done some where it creates the mirror look as above, also where i tried to make it create an illusion, or where i separated the side to make it loop like it was snowing.
These follow this outline where you still take block out the top and bottom but now the left as well:
This is a outline so your sizes will change.
Here are a bunch of them, these are ideas so nothing is finished. So in other words dont email me if these specific ones don't work for you, use them as ideas, make them your self and make them your own. Though if you make any cool ones let me know.
Sorry, but not really, that all but like two of these are anime based.
Rangers:
Windows Phone:
Asuka:
Rei:
Portal 2:
Portal:
This one i tried to make like a sword has cut it when tapped:
This one i tried to use her arm to look like its her other arm, even though i know its kind of backwards:
This one i lined it up to where the snow would loop:
Perfect Blue:
Evangelion Logo:
Nerv logo:
Laughing Man:
Rena:
See transparency is not so hard, and i am sure with more creativity then i have some one will come up with some awesome designs.
Oh if you want to get the images i listed here you can find them here: http://www.rklenka.com/software/winphone7/transparent/
Or i can post individual links, or zip them all up, the point is to get your creative juices going

thanks, works great. Using your Portal example now.

testing it now..
UPDATE : works , video below

Actualy does not work properly.

mrdaco said:
Actualy does not work properly.
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you have to send the png to yourself

If you Download one of the photos mentioned above and follow his instruction you will find it works brilliantly.
You send the image to yourself in a email, open the image and tap "use as Wallpaper". You can not send it over Zune because Zune does not currently see .png files.

I am glad you guys like it, i have lurked around here for years so its nice to be able to contribute. In fact i had to go around and make 8 random posts just so i could make this one with images.
I know with my lock screens i made above are not %100 perfect, especially when you start using the Zune player with the lock screen or with notifications. But im sure the more creative ones here will take the idea and run with it.
Thanks for the feature on your blog theOne

Nice, good job

Sweet, think you could make one with the wp logo?

That that i am doing requests but here you go

If your open to requests ide love a Phoenix coyotes transparent wallpaper with their logo.
Sent from my HD7 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Hello,don´t know wether this thread is in any actuality but i wanted to send them to me and save as wallpaper,seems that it won´t work after all,yes i´ve send it to me,and tapped save as backscreen ,the next problem i´m having is to create new ones,so how did you done them,i have paint,but i don´t know how to create a working one

[Q] How did he do this? Homescreen help!

Hi Guys,
I recently saw a homescreen posted in the homescreen forum for the HTC One M8 that I really just loved. I tried contacting the person who created it, but he hasn't quite replied and Im unsure if he will.
I don't mean to intentionally rip him off, but I just love the way it looks and how clean it is that I wish to have it on my phone. However I have no clue how to do this. I figured the best and easiest way was to ask him about it directly, or even ask in the forum itself. But it seems as though its been skimmed over and no one has replied, so I hope you don't mind me creating a new thread just for it.
He gives the zooper widgets for the top and bottom bars, which i downloaded, he gives the list of apps used. But me being a fairly new techy, I have no idea what to do. I can get all these apps, its just a matter of using them correctly.
I figured that maybe some of you guys knew what to do? Maybe help me on my way?
djkinetic said:
Here is my setup taken from my n5 and ported over to my m8: dpi at 400 and onscreen buttons hidden. double tapping the home screen turns off screen and locks phone.
nova launcher, zooper widget, popup widget, apw, folder organizer, simple calendar, simple rss, media utilities, eye in the sky.
all this in one clean home screen:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
clicking appropriate shortcuts brings up the following popup widgets:
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Cheers,

0mnom said:
Hi Guys,
I recently saw a homescreen posted in the homescreen forum for the HTC One M8 that I really just loved. I tried contacting the person who created it, but he hasn't quite replied and Im unsure if he will.
I don't mean to intentionally rip him off, but I just love the way it looks and how clean it is that I wish to have it on my phone. However I have no clue how to do this. I figured the best and easiest way was to ask him about it directly, or even ask in the forum itself. But it seems as though its been skimmed over and no one has replied, so I hope you don't mind me creating a new thread just for it.
He gives the zooper widgets for the top and bottom bars, which i downloaded, he gives the list of apps used. But me being a fairly new techy, I have no idea what to do. I can get all these apps, its just a matter of using them correctly.
I figured that maybe some of you guys knew what to do? Maybe help me on my way?
Cheers,
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Do you wanna recheck the pictures? They cannot be seen...

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Demonaire said:
Do you wanna recheck the pictures? They cannot be seen...
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Sorry, its coming up on my screen for some reason, i re-tried quoting his post and just copy+pasting it here, but not sure if thats worked...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2689192&page=3
heres the link to that thread, the homescreen I'm talking about is the very first one by 'djkinetic'
Cheers,

Also is a root required? As I currently havent got mine rooted, and I'm not sure if I should!
Cheers,

Get all the apps he listed. He's also using custom icons, looks like they're Cyrcle (in the store). Then, simply add widgets. Honestly, that set up looks like it took him a while. I'd download the launcher called Buzz Launcher, since there are many ones just like that in the community downloads

As it's fun to find out about and doing these changes all by yourself I'll give you only some additional information for success:
'Coming from N5' implements, he is running the GPE version for this device (any AOSP/AOKP rom should do as well - as a sense rom might behave different under some circumstances)
To change screen density you have to edit /system/build.prop by finding the line ro.sf.lcd_density=480 and change its value to 400. Reboot...
This set of icons always has to do sth with the word circles - a proper search might bring you here.
Remove everything from screen, check nova settings and now start playing around initially with zooper widgets and the rest of his tools.
The result should be this screen. Have fun! :laugh:
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Oooops - forgot the wallpaper. TinyEye reverse search will bring you here.
One more thing: Without root you won't be able to edit build prop. Remember: No root - no fun.

Looks to me like he's using themer.

Looks like a lot of work done using UCCW and a custom launcher such as ssLauncher to open up the whole screen

Anybody knows the white icon pack being used here?

Just download Themer from Google Play, there's dozens of themes many like this too.
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