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S2U2 by A_C, customized to work with our smartphones

I believe S2U2 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412418) is an awesome application and it's a shame A_C isn't actively trying to make it work better with smartphones, as well. So, I decided to take the last version that still works okay (for us) and prepackage all the required settings to make it work right and look like the screenshots below.
You'll notice the weather icon at the bottom. It's updated from my miniweather application and the next release of miniweather (very soon) will have builtin support to update the weather information on S2U2's display. Keep in mind that this application has be launched manually in order to lock your phone, so it's best to use with SmartToolkit where you can assign a hotkey to launch s2u2.exe (I personally use the Spacebar with a 200ms delay).
Another way to launch is to reassign a different key, such as the tzones key, by editing the appropriate shortcut in the \windows directory, to launch s2u2.exe.
Anyway, enough blabber, here's the cab.... Please test and let me know how it works

seems to take high memory resource, so i have to kill the app after unlocking...anyway great works...

Yeah you're right... it takes about 6 megs the way I set it up. Which is a lot for an Excalibur, but not really an issue on my Blackjack with 128Mb of RAM, hehe.
Anyway, if you remove the wallpaper.gif from the gfx\ folder and maybe either use a static wallpaper or NO wallpaper, the memory usage should go down A LOT.

NRGZ28 said:
Yeah you're right... it takes about 6 megs the way I set it up. Which is a lot for an Excalibur, but not really an issue on my Blackjack with 128Mb of RAM, hehe.
Anyway, if you remove the wallpaper.gif from the gfx\ folder and maybe either use a static wallpaper or NO wallpaper, the memory usage should go down A LOT.
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Haha yah well thanks for putting this together for us man...

Also if I would like to remove the weather from showing up how do I do that because I think that is eating a lot of memory too...

Also, sorry about all these questions but is there any way to have this autostart when you restart the phone, like have it autostart like a process?

You have to edit the registry to do that, but trust me, it doesnt eat up RAM at all. Anyway, go to HKCU\Software\A_C\S2u2\ and find ShowWeather and set it to 00. If you want it off the screen, just delete the "UserWeather" key.

How can we get this app to show weather for other user weather apps? lets say showaco's or outerdepth's weather apps? I have the ShowWeather key set to "5" and i have the UserWeather key as well, but theres no values in the UserWeather key and i dont see anything on my S2U2 screen with the weather on it

You talk to showaco or outderdepth and have them add one or two lines to their weather script, to update the "Userweather" key in the registry

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You talk to showaco or outderdepth and have them add one or two lines to their weather script, to update the "Userweather" key in the registry
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Ahhh .. i see....thats not too hard....but what about the weather icon...can that be done as well or just the actual weather temp?

The weather icon gets updated to the current conditions, of course. The string below it can be whatever you want it to be

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The weather icon gets updated to the current conditions, of course. The string below it can be whatever you want it to be
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well i see that there's a gfx/weather folder, but i don't see how or where it's linked in the s2u2 registry . i mean i see from your .cab that the user weather shows C|34|Fair 57F ...so your saying that since it says "Fair" it know what icon to use? and secondly i saw in your pics where it has your city "Las Vegas", yet i dont see that anywhere in the reg entries in the S2U2 keys....

Hmm I love the clean look. I just don't know if I want another screen to access my homescreen? I will have to do some more research on slide to unlock 2.
I kinda of want to read some feedback.

pudgedaddy said:
well i see that there's a gfx/weather folder, but i don't see how or where it's linked in the s2u2 registry . i mean i see from your .cab that the user weather shows C|34|Fair 57F ...so your saying that since it says "Fair" it know what icon to use? and secondly i saw in your pics where it has your city "Las Vegas", yet i dont see that anywhere in the reg entries in the S2U2 keys....
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If your read the FAQ in the original S2U2 thread, you will understand how it works. "C" means "custom icons". The 34 is the file it will display "34.png" and Fair 57 is just... that.... Mine says Vegas because I'm in Vegas. I removed the Las Vegas wording from the cab, as it's irrelevant

pfunkside said:
Hmm I love the clean look. I just don't know if I want another screen to access my homescreen? I will have to do some more research on slide to unlock 2.
I kinda of want to read some feedback.
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Well it's more like a replacement lock screen for the usual lock screen of the smartphone. With this you just push the right directional key to unlock, instead of turning the phone one, pushing the unlock softkey and then the "*" key, which is a major PITA and it always annoyed me about smartphone. PLUS you get a cool info screen that you can look at without unlocking the phone!

its working great, i cant change any of the settings tho...
would it be possible to control the slide with the joggr?

nice have to check this out when i get the wife's blackjack II

this is great tht you took the time to get this to work in d dash. i have a question ,my appoinments are not showing, the weather icon is not updating and have no idea how to activate the locking and unlocking sound.

Guys, in order to set any of the settings you need to either get SOTI Pocket controller or MyMobiler. Or, edit the registry directly with the help of FAQ shown in the main application thread

yeah, i have mymobiler and follow all the proper procedure in faq but still not showing the updated weather icon or appoinments so on

Program Launcher with multiple pages

Hi folks,
I'm looking for an programm launcher like the programs tab in TF3D, but I'd like to have multiple pages, as the 24 places in the tab are way to few.
Else I want to assign it to an hardware key, so I need an application, that is not integrated in TF3D.
Does anyone know a good app for this purpose ?
I guess someone already made something like that, but google and the forum search didn't bring it up.

Sounds like a job for Wisbar Advanced Desktop, I have 8 tabs on the main screen, 20 more fading in with one finger gesture, or configure a mainscreen tab to directly open a launcher page with 20 tabs per page, where tabs can also be a Inbox, URL or shortcut to opening a program with a given file. Then switch between unlimited launcher pages with one finger gesture per page.

^^ can you please tell me what part of wishbar advance i have to activate to make my screen look like that??

Look at MortScript and Mort Buttons You can add the buttons to start menu, Today screen or to the TF3D Programs page. each button has a full page or even multi-pages you can add apps, commands or scripts to. Really handy!

Psygnosis84 said:
^^ can you please tell me what part of wishbar advance i have to activate to make my screen look like that??
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Its not Wisbar Advance (Task), but Wisbar Advance Desktop
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
Then you need to install Sergej's free Blackberry Theme to the themes folder of WAD, and activate it as your default portrait mode theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=93399&postcount=11
The earth background pic is attached here

that looks really nice ... but how does is look in landscape mode? does it support landscape? if yes, i'll give it a try

Dont use landscape, but the program differentiates between those two modes, so you could just re-arrange the dock and tabs to fit your landscape preferences. For me the key feature was to be able to show unlimited appointments on my main screen.

already tried yota center?

Me I use UltimateLaunch that I looove with Yota
See Screen Caps

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Sounds like a job for Wisbar Advanced Desktop, I have 8 tabs on the main screen, 20 more fading in with one finger gesture, or configure a mainscreen tab to directly open a launcher page with 20 tabs per page, where tabs can also be a Inbox, URL or shortcut to opening a program with a given file. Then switch between unlimited launcher pages with one finger gesture per page.
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hi Lucas,
the first image you attached is your today screen? we can set wisbar advanced dekstop as our today screen?

Yes indeed, but as a today screen where you have full control of what to put on it!

Lucas0511 said:
Yes indeed, but as a today screen where you have full control of what to put on it!
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how to set the WAD as today screen? by disable the TF3D only?
last time i did try WAD, but, i didn't set it as today screen, i need to launch it as other program to get WAD work.
so, everytime you soft reset or wake up your HD, you will see WAD in your today screen?

Just disabled TF3D, started WAD installation, and WAD came up as today screen automatically. Yes, WAD is full today screen, but you can choose if you want to keep the Start and taskbar on the top of the screen, or have it disappear. Most standard Today plugins work from inside the WAD today screen, too.

Lucas0511 said:
Just disabled TF3D, started WAD installation, and WAD came up as today screen automatically. Yes, WAD is full today screen, but you can choose if you want to keep the Start and taskbar on the top of the screen, or have it disappear. Most standard Today plugins work from inside the WAD today screen, too.
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thanks a lot Lucas, i will try.

Thanks for the ideas.
I'm already using Yota Center and its a nice program.
The only thing is that I'd like to have more pages, cause 24 places is too few.
I'll try Mort Buttons, looks interesting though.

have you tried launchmanager ? it's not free though ...
http://www.fantasticbytes.com/products/launchmanager

Lucas0511 said:
Its not Wisbar Advance (Task), but Wisbar Advance Desktop
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
Then you need to install Sergej's free Blackberry Theme to the themes folder of WAD, and activate it as your default portrait mode theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=93399&postcount=11
The earth background pic is attached here
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Thanks just one more question. When launching the Music player or Photo Viewer etc, are they the normal HTC ones or are they customized now?
Are they still easy to use?
Also does all your programs work normally? And if you don't like the WAD, you can easily delete it?

Psygnosis84 said:
Thanks just one more question. When launching the Music player or Photo Viewer etc, are they the normal HTC ones or are they customized now?
Are they still easy to use?
Also does all your programs work normally? And if you don't like the WAD, you can easily delete it?
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No, they will not be the HTC apps embedded in TF3D. You will set up each icon to open up your own apps. I haven't heard of anyone being able to use the HTC player or album yet as stand alone apps.
Yes they are very easy to use!
WAD will not affect the way your programs run. It is simply a launcher program (one of the best that I've seen yet).
Yes, you can easily uninstall WAD by going to remove programs and uninstalling it from there...although I have a feeling you won't want to after you get the feel for what it can do to your today screen!

Thanks that was a great explanation
just one more question for example do you mean it won't have a built mp3 player or something like that but you have to download a 3rd party one and assign it?
EDIT: I just bought it and installed the Blueberry theme but doesn't show up properly, i wonder why. I'm missing the clock, the calender and whenever i press the box on the right side, a empty grey box opens.. weird.
EDIT: Fixed it up by selecting Wishbar Desktop rather than HD BlueBerry, weird. some parts are still German even after applying eng buttons.

Psygnosis84 said:
Thanks that was a great explanation
just one more question for example do you mean it won't have a built mp3 player or something like that but you have to download a 3rd party one and assign it?
EDIT: I just bought it and installed the Blueberry theme but doesn't show up properly, i wonder why. I'm missing the clock, the calender and whenever i press the box on the right side, a empty grey box opens.. weird.
EDIT: Fixed it up by selecting Wishbar Desktop rather than HD BlueBerry, weird. some parts are still German even after applying eng buttons.
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You can set it up to use Windows Media player if you want to, otherwise a third party app is what you will need. CorePlayer or PocketPlayer are a couple to check out.
I haven't installed the Blackberry theme for WAD yet but I do no if you don't have the icons installed in the correct places the theme will not show properly. I ran into this same problem when installing Mallmans Vista theme. As soon as I went back and followed his instructions perfectly, the theme was correctly displayed.
I'm not familiar with setting up different languages so I'm afraid I won't be of any help to you there. You may check out the Lakeridge WAD forum for that.
Here is how I have my WAD looking right now, a tweaked version of Mallmans Vista theme!

Cant change Today's picture from the folders on HD

Hey,
having a little prolem with the blackstone.
cant change the "Today" wallpaper if i try to do that from the folders that are on the SD, why is that?
i have the option of "use as todays wallpaper" but when i press on it nothing happens...
i can only change the wallpaper if im trying to do that from the TF3D tab option..
any ideas?
happened after i installed Blackmagic...
i tried to uninstall it, and still the same..
also, when i choose to put the Default Wallpaper it used a totally black wallpaper, not the original one that came with the HD.
i guess the default wallpaper file was changed somehow?

The "Today" screen you are referring to is the Windows Mobile one. However, if you are using TF3D, then that is a different "Today" screen. We'll call it the HTC Home screen. If you were to disable TF3D you would see your changes on the Today screen. But to change the picture on the TF3D Home screen, you have to do it through the settings tab.
I don't know why it is using an all black default picture. On mine it uses the one that came with the HD.

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The "Today" screen you are referring to is the Windows Mobile one. However, if you are using TF3D, then that is a different "Today" screen. We'll call it the HTC Home screen. If you were to disable TF3D you would see your changes on the Today screen. But to change the picture on the TF3D Home screen, you have to do it through the settings tab.
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Great. I've been looking for this answer for quite some time.
many thanks

I`m having the exact problem. Any solutions? Thank you!

transparent screenlock for WM6.5?

After changing my original ROM to Topix 3.4/WM6.5 the thing I am really missing is the old screenlock which kept showing the regular screen (possibly with an application running) and just saying "Unlock" at the bottom right corner. The new one with slider is cool and it has the clock but I am often using apps that I want to be able watching while the HD is securely locked so that I can put in my pocket for the most of the time. One of examples is hiking with OziExplorer. Checking the map/position now requires unlocking every time I get the phone from the pocket, then locking it back. Annoying. Unfortunately Ozi's native display lock does not block the bottom buttons so is useless for HD.
Is there any "transparent" screenlock app available for WM6.5?

This is really easy:
Open some registry editor on your device and find this key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\LockScreen\Enable and change value to 0.
And new WM 6.5 slide lockscreen is gone.

Original WM6 Lockscreen - how to on/off it?

Hello.
After uninstaling CHT2 (where i made changes with lockscreen) my Manila interface load some original lockscreen (on screen attached).
I was suprised becouse its look pretty well. Only arrange of slider and clock is not comfortable but idea is great.
My question is:
How to switch between new-manila and windows-original lockscreens?
How to find display files to modify place of those graphics/fonts?

Hello
This mode is possible only with registry editor
Recipe:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\shell\lockscreen\oem
CustomUIDLL
value:\windows\CustomLockScreen.dll (for HTC sense lock screen)
value:\windows\LockScreen.dll (for default windows lock screen)
* delete custom word in value

Thanks kio4961.. For this wonderful Registry Tweak for LOCK SCREEN.. That has just made my Lock Screen more Beautiful.. Thank You.!!

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\shell\lockscreen\oem
CustomUIDLL
value:\windows\CustomLockScreen.dll (for HTC sense lock screen)
value:\windows\LockScreen.dll (for default windows lock screen)
* delete custom word in value
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Funny. I got set ...\CustomLockScreen.dll and like we see - lockscreen is windows default.