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Hi All
Since getting a Touch HD iv'e been trying to make some of my favourite programs look ok with the WVGA Resolution.
Here are 3 skins i have either made or modified that work well all keeping the Touchflo 3D Theme.
The first is an S2u2 theme (just copy the gfx folder to the s2u2 dir) and use the clock dir
Second is a quick basic Launch manager theme (copy the defaultwvga dir into the skins dir of lm
last is a Pocketcm theme , This is not my theme but i adapted to work on WVGA , The theme was created by Oumpahpah called Dark Diamond II - 2, I just resized some graphics and made the buttons work on the contact details page, I also edited the ini file to resize some of the screen placings.
There i 1 small glitch which i have yet to iron out on the sms page but it does not interfere with the working of the sms page it just bugs me its there (a white line around the SMS box)
you need to extract both the zip and the dir into the pocketcm dir and choose the
Modified Dark Diamond II 0.25c VGA theme
Also check here for a nice TF3d calendar mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=423647
It works great and ive also managed to move the tab using the diamond TF3D editor
also from a diamond thread ive managed to change the calendar link from the homepage to thumbcal and the all people shortcut on the contacs page to pocketcm
I just wish HTC would allow us to show more Appointments on the home screen it seems a waste of the lovely screen not to fill it up
Hope these help
Edit Fixed the SMS glitch Ver2 uploaded of teh PocketCM Theme
Edit Added Thumbcal Skin (skin.diamond_WVGA.zip) just put the zip into the Thumbcal Dir
the other skins work ok but i noticed that the lines were not even on the vga Skin so this fixes that along with the images are now the correct size
New Calculator SKin
Found a great VGA Calc Skin by L.Sylvain but i admended it for WVGA
Install the L.Sylvain cab file then extract the SpbCalc_P_VGA.png file from the SpbCalc_P_VGA.zip and copy it into the windows dir
Edit 20-11 Resized the Landscape too - copy both files into the Windows Dir
Edit 21-11 Small update to the Calc Skin - Changed the pressed keys to Green which is more in line with the Touch HD Theme
08-12 removed the original calc skin as there are better versions now
The final skins are later in this thread
Calc with Grey Pressed buttons SpbCalc_P_WVGA_grey_Final.zip
calc with Green Pressed Buttons SpbCalc_P_WVGAgreen_Final.zip
Both have a condensed but i think easier layout on portrait
and a full layout on landscape
Wow, the calendar and it's tab looks VERY nice! It's late now, but I'll definitely give this a try tomorrow..thanks!
hi machmandp
do i get it right?
I can get the calendar tab in tf3d on the touch hd following the instructions given on the link you supplied?
Do I loose any other tab of the original tabs by performing thid modification?
Thanks in advance for your replies!
Ascenca
Hi
I can just give my experience and i lost no tabs when i added it
I dont use the stock tab which is why it's missing from my setup but it's available (i tried it)
Machmandp - you are an absolute star! I piddled around with the dark diamond skin when I got my HD and got so far with it but then got stuck. I've been hoping someone would sort this out as it is a very appropriate theme for the HD. Limited testing so far and although I can see your (very minor) issue on the SMS screen, everything else looks very good...so many, many thanks. I'd be interested in any further tweaks you make to this skin.
I might pick your brains on linking to different calendar/contact apps, but I'll try searching again first.
Thanks again
I put it on and took it off again because I did lose a tab - programs. I don't have time to play with it right now. It also seems to be static - in other words you get a tab displaying a calendar page but you can't actually do much more than look at the dates. You can't open and interact with the calendar for example.
Mind you that's on a very limited try and I'm happy to be corrected.
machmandp - did you by any chance slot your version into where the stock tab would have been? Also, what do you do with the locale file - I was getting IDS_Calendar_... in front of everything. Can you do more with the calendar than just look at it?
If you get a second, can you point me in the right direction for the diamond tweaks for calendar and contacts - I'm drawing a blank so far
Cheers
Hi
the link for the editor i used for the contacts and calendar links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407777
make sure you read the whole thread as it has info for the touch HD later in the thread
I did put the calendar where the stock tab used to be but i have enabled the stock tab and it still shows so i have lost no tabs at all.
As regards to the local file you just need to download the lacales.zip from the thread and put the correct locale file into the windows dir (mine was en-us)
yep it's very static at the moment but as the page evolves i figure that it's a good thing to have it working and then i'll just have to replce the actual manila files without having to edit any again, also it's still pretty good as a quick veiw calendar
I am working on the Pocketcm skin so hopefully i'll get rid of that glitch soon
Thanks
Fixed the SMS glitch in PocketCM Theme
Version 2 uploaded in the main post
and better more detailed instructions on changing the links can be found in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=444297
machmandp said:
Hi All
Since getting a Touch HD iv'e been trying to make some of my favourite programs look ok with the WVGA Resolution.
Here are 3 skins i have either made or modified that work well all keeping the Touchflo 3D Theme.
The first is an S2u2 theme (just copy the gfx folder to the s2u2 dir) and use the clock dir
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Hi, in anticipation of getting hold of my Touch HD (when mobiles.co.uk eventually ships it on O2!) I'm been tinkering around with my Hermes.
I love the look of your S2U2 skin. I've tried to replicate it on my Hermes back down to 320x240 screen.
All seems to have worked ok except I can't get rid of the coloured overlay that S2U2 puts behind the clock. I've changed the background picture to be the one that I use across all devices (the nice blue sunray looking one from Windows 7) but it ends up with this semi-translucent bar with the clock figures and date in across the top half.
Which image file do I need to make transparent to make that go away?
Hope my post made sense.
I'll try and get some screen shots up to show what I mean.
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Fixed the SMS glitch in PocketCM Theme
Version 2 uploaded in the main post
and better more detailed instructions on changing the links can be found in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=444297
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You are an absolute toff sir!
Owe you one, many thanks.
dom_mitchell1 said:
Hi, in anticipation of getting hold of my Touch HD (when mobiles.co.uk eventually ships it on O2!) I'm been tinkering around with my Hermes.
I love the look of your S2U2 skin. I've tried to replicate it on my Hermes back down to 320x240 screen.
All seems to have worked ok except I can't get rid of the coloured overlay that S2U2 puts behind the clock. I've changed the background picture to be the one that I use across all devices (the nice blue sunray looking one from Windows 7) but it ends up with this semi-translucent bar with the clock figures and date in across the top half.
Which image file do I need to make transparent to make that go away?
Hope my post made sense.
I'll try and get some screen shots up to show what I mean.
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try this one, its the one i used on my Kaiser
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try this one, its the one i used on my Kaiser
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Thanks for that; after a bit f hacking around in photoshop I've got the look I wanted.
I've attached a .rar of my modified gfx folder along with a screenshot if anyone wants to use it.
Many thanks to both who helped me in this thread. Just got to do it to my HD when it arrives now!
gfx.rar available from my Skydrive:
http://cid-b6b1a627fbae21e5.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/gfx.rar
More Daft Questions...Sorry!
@machmandp - I have a little more time now so I'm going to have a play.
First off, I'm going to follow the Calendar hack to set up PI. Seems simple enough from the links you provided.
Then I'm going to look at linking PCM Contacts to the People Tab. How does that work for you? When you tap the contact picture does it link to the correct contact in PCM Contacts? Do the links to call or send SMS under the picture still function?
Lastly, I might give the Calendar Tab hack a go again. I followed the instructions quite carefully and am bothered that managed to lose my Programs tab. Did you copy the XML straight out of the original post? Did you mess around with the Page Order at all? Were you able to use the built in tab configurator to manipulate the tabs including the new calendar tab?
Hugely appreciate all your help so far - you've already made my day today with the fix for the PCM Contacts skin - and I'd immensely grateful for any more guidance you can offer.
Hi
Yes i copied the xml from the page but with the HD having an extra tab i put the number of the calendar page as 11 not 10
As regards to moving the tabs i had to use the diamond TF3d Configurator from the diamond forum, This works fine.
The link to Pocketcm is only for the All people softkey and not for any of the contacts but i find this works well
Hope that helps
machmandp said:
Hi
Yes i copied the xml from the page but with the HD having an extra tab i put the number of the calendar page as 11 not 10
As regards to moving the tabs i had to use the diamond TF3d Configurator from the diamond forum, This works fine.
The link to Pocketcm is only for the All people softkey and not for any of the contacts but i find this works well
Hope that helps
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Yes thanks, all begins to make sense now and I have the PI hack working nicely now. Did you remap the All People Softkey through SSMaPa too? Replacing POutlook.exe?
Where did you guys get that slide to unlock application with the HTC colours? is it in the skin imbeded?
The app is s2u2 by A_C (brilliant by the way)
the skin is from the first post of this thread for s2u2
iain.fraser said:
Yes thanks, all begins to make sense now and I have the PI hack working nicely now. Did you remap the All People Softkey through SSMaPa too? Replacing POutlook.exe?
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Yep poutlook.exe exactly the same way
Small update in the first post
Thumbcal WVGA Skin
Updated first post
calculator Skin
Hi Guys
Well I've stuck SPB MS 3 on my device and I have to say that it's quite nice to configure and I especially like the wide background with scrolling....
One thing I'd like to know is if any other Widgets will come out from modders/devs or whether we have to be happy with our lot in terms of stock Widgets.
Aldso, to address the battery drain issue....I have a strong feeling that this is related to anothe3r piece of software....as I have had SPB MS3 on my Touch HD (Stock ROM) for the last couple of hours, received a couple of calls and some MMS messages (with constant data connection live) and I am only on 95%.
Comments on either points welcome?
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saw last full video review of Spb mobile shell V3.... very disapointed with some feactures....
not completely finger friend as iphone or new manila from Topaz (Diamond2)...
continuos to use
Windows Sms menu ,
Windows alarm,
windows calendar apointments,
no photo viewer like tf3d,
no decent Video , audio player...
-»please make some new menus or plug-in
for mobile shell V3 same problems V2
NEW Programs/Menus sugestion
-»please make Sms program or menu
like Vito Sms chat or iphone Sms ,PC msn
-» please make fingerfriend Alarm for M.shell 3
-» please decent Mp3 video player and photo viewer
....
Spb weather is excelent in m.shell2
many thanks
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Please, you have posted this almost word for word in every damn thread on the site that mentions SPBMS3, often more than once.
You are entitled to your opinion and what you say may even be entirely valid, but for the love of pete, STOP! We get it, thanks.
And not only in xda !!!
But he's got a point though..!!
OK - he has a point but he's destroying the merit of that point by being a bit of a fool....anyway, do we know if it's going to be easy to create widgets ourselves?
That was really the reason for my post
is mobile shell 3 out already then????
SPB Mobile Shell 3
Hi Guy's
I have taken a look over at Infosyncworld and watched this video http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/9030.html it reminds me a little of the SPB mobile shell 3's carousel.
Comments from page above: "Pros: Brilliant interface, among the best we've seen for a mobile phone. Smooth animation, great colors, sparkling effects".
Cons: "Nobody is building this into a phone . . . yet."
No correlation but striking nonetheless.
I've just posted my thoughts over on the SPB forum,
it is good...but there are also a few things that aren't
1) I do like the ability to change widgets, size of widgets etc, but I'm missing the battery indicator on the professional now screen
2) The call log has already been mentioned, but it's certainly not the best so I wont go there again
3) The now screen calendar, I can only get 1 week to display on either of the now screens. That means that today (sunday), I can't see anything for next week. Also, as pointed out for MS2, the bold to indicate a day with appointment still isn't clear enough..another colour would have been better
4) The phone doesn't automatically return to the Now screen when turned off. it returns to the last screen you were looking at
5) the option to change to two softkeys on the today screen (Touch HD) has gone. On MS2 these defaulted to SBP menu and Calendar I think. I changed mine to SPB menu and Now. The SBP menu still works, but the now gives an error that the "nowscreen file cannot be opened"...and no way to change this
6) I still use my today screen because of the PhoneAlarm plug in. MS3 takes two clicks to get to the today screen, MS2 required only one.
7) the facebook integration only works for contacts in your favourites list
8) the ability to email a contact has been added though, which had been requested so that's a good thing
so..to sum up....I'm undecided on whether to upgrade when the full version is released, or go back to MS2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UayDOO_0gII
i like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??
htckaiseruser said:
i like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??
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This is not a problem for me when I'm running MS3. The notifications appear as they should. I've read some people are having issues with the CAB install (although I haven't had any issues with it), have you tried the .exe install?
htckaiseruser said:
i like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??
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Also for me is the same...
Pandemoniumone said:
This is not a problem for me when I'm running MS3. The notifications appear as they should. I've read some people are having issues with the CAB install (although I haven't had any issues with it), have you tried the .exe install?
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Where to find the exe file?
Kal-El said:
Where to find the exe file?
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It was posted in this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505365
Read through the thread to find some useful tips with customizing as well!
i have installed both the exe and the cab version. same problem. on startup notifications works, but after i been in startmenu or a other menu the notifications fail to come in notifications of ms3
life style background
i have found that if you use a ratio of 1.6 to 1 shows the background image the best. the size does not seem to matter as long as it has this ratio.
edit: sorry I posted this in the wront thread, I ment to post it in the diamond themes, applications and software as this ratio is for vga. again sorry for the mistake.
decided after some testing to go back to TF3D - I dislike the use of WM to preview the texts and emails - TF3D has a better mechanism for me in that respect...nice UI though.
Kal-El said:
Also for me is the same...
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Here too...
After trying the SPB 3.0 shell i decided to buy it. I love the way it is customized and the diferent views it provides, but yes i concurr the sms and mail preview of the TouchFlo 3D is way better.
Power off and softreset button from pocketplus?(icon)
does anybody know how to get the shortcuts power-off and the green reset icon function from pocketplus4 into Mobile shell3?
i am so used to switch off by tapping that icon on my homescreen,
but i cant find it in ms3.
OR do you have a better solution for tapping off my HD?
thanx bros.
like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??
Today Customize the appearance and the information to be displayed on the Home screen.
Check out the new Sense UI for SPB MS3 done by the great folks at Mobile Custom:
http://www.mobilecustom.fr/forum/index.php/topic,2398.0.html
There are quite a bit of new widgets..
The theme rocks!!
How to install this?
it's great
it's looks very beautiful, but the linked wesite is in French and i don't know how to download and install the theme. Anybody can post it and give some instruction?thanks a lot~~
delight_11 said:
it's looks very beautiful, but the linked wesite is in French and i don't know how to download and install the theme. Anybody can post it and give some instruction?thanks a lot~~
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This skin is only usable in portrait.
Resolution support: VGA, WVGA, QVGA, WQVGA
the 240 * 240 is not supported but little walk
New:
- 7 new analog clock
- 5 new digital clock
- 6 new Battery
- 3 calendar widget calendar
- 1 widget Alarm
- 1 alarm widget background
- 1 widget media player
- 2 bottomless date widget
- 2 bottom widget application
2 Weather widget
) - 1 false Weather widget on page 7 (not removable)
- Page 7 lifestyle with the opportunity to change the animated transition between the page
- Plus all the widgets of the V1
Installation:
- To prevent any display problem and the problem of a facility subject to later ask you to completely uninstall SPB Mobile Shell 3 and reinstall
- Install Mortscript 4.2
Installing the Message2Reg.cab
- Install the cab file for your resolution.
And restart your mobile
: Uninstall:
. After uninstalling the theme, you need to reinstall spb Mobile Shell 3.
Note:
If the change in the substance of the homepage does not work, delete the file in the folder Background.bmp mobile shell with Total Commander or Resco Explorer
You can also change the background by replacing the file Background.bmp by a BMP file save in 16 bit R5V6B5 of the size of your screen that you rename background.dat
. - After installation does not restore a configuration file, it can have bugs.
lol
i have it now on my touch hd
it's verry cool.. looks nice
thnks mahn
Great theme and I have it, too, but if you never tried it note that you loose the carousel with this theme - just for the record. And some of the widgets have French titles.
delight_11 said:
it's looks very beautiful, but the linked wesite is in French and i don't know how to download and install the theme. Anybody can post it and give some instruction?thanks a lot~~
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I used google toolbar translate. You have to register with the website and then you can download.
As for the fact that it removes the carosel, it's well worth it.
I recommend it warmly.
RustyJoe said:
Check out the new Sense UI for SPB MS3 done by the great folks at Mobile Custom:
http://www.mobilecustom.fr/forum/index.php/topic,2398.0.html
There are quite a bit of new widgets..
The theme rocks!!
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Oddly enough it looks similar to the new Leo build for wm6.5 manila 2.6
Hi, I'm using this theme for the first time and I'm having problems with opening sms messages. I get signs for recieving the texts but when I go into the messages page I can't open them at all.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to recify this,
O
I really want to use this theme but still not work after installing everything..
How to remove some pages/screens, Dont need all 7?
I have a question regarding the number of screens, Can i change it? I dont need that menu menues, and over half of them are left empty. Can I remove the empty ones?
I also miss favorite contacts buttun/window, How can i get that?
Thaks alot for any tips!
Favourite contacts buttos is still present: Add Widget -> Diver Sence -> ContactsFav.
And AFAIK there is no possibility to change number of screens...
i dont get any word at this site.
Could anyone upload it to rapidshare and post here link?
btw there is english support for this?
My PC died
Hey everyone,
My PC died and I wanna download this via mobile...
But Mobilecustom doesnt work right with mobile downloads...
I asked the maker and he said that i could see if someone else could upload it to their 4Shared or megaupload or something and grab it from them, it would be okay.
It is not okay to post a download, but someone could email me link...so the mass public wouldnt get it...
please PM me if u can help!
For those having problems installing it, make sure that:
1) You are using SPB Mobile Shell 3.x.x
2) You have installed the Message2Reg.cab so that you can use the SMS widget
3) All else fails, reinstall SPB MS3
Personally, I think this theme is fantastic, although I would like to somehow link every page back to the home page with a button somehow...since you sometimes have to swipe three or four times before you get back to the home page.
Other complaints are:
1) No carousel...i miss the eye-candy =P
2) Some widgets are in french, although that's easy to live with and also makes you seem more sophisticated to your friends
3) You cannot change the Professional page...it is now a redundant page that only shows the time and battery meter - I would prefer to have my agenda or calendar there
4) You cannot use the widgets unless you use the full theme...unless there is some "widget capture" program that I have missed
Otherwise, it's a fantastic theme! Definitely worth it and it is good for novelty if nothing else. Somebody actually asked me if I thought that the Android OS was good!...until I told him it was WinMo and he was like " no way!"
Any idea of how to change the launcher button to fav-contacts?
How do i change the "launcher" button to a contacts button? Saw a screenshot in this forum on page 17 that someone had done it.
Dont se the point of having a big button for luncher menu on every screen?
I cant seem to make it fullscreen.. i would like to have the ugly top bar gone?? is this possible?
I could definitely do with a list of widgets, and images to go with them. There's about 20 clocks, and dozens of message widgets. It's really hard to customise it not knowing what's what.
[hint hint, if anyone wants to do this they would be being very useful]
pretty nice theme thnks
Sence Revolution
Great theme running on my Raphael alongside Blue Eye TF3D theme. Just need to change background of Sence: I know how to delete background file etc, but do not understand 16bit bmp. files?? Photoshop offers me a choice of 8bit or 32 bit. Can anyone help me choose the correct res ?
Hi, this is my first post/question and before I ask my noob question I'd just like to say thanks for everyone who's made this place such a mine of information! Searching through posts has answered many of my questions but I can't find an answer to this one:-
I want my TouchFlo 2.1 Homescreen to show ALL of my appointments for that day.
I've found lots one post that had a CAB that promised to increase them but it didn't work. I've found posts about shrinking the clock to make more room and various other ideas but nothing about simply showing all the current day's appointments. Had a look around in the registry and found some parts referring to appointments in HKCU/system/state/appointments/list but changing the number didn't do anything.
Any ideas?
Not one single reply or idea?
Have you tried Advance Config cab? it works well for me with all my appt on my homescreen. it has diffrent setting you can tell it to show.
Hi,
I tried that but I got a config error when I went into the TouchFLO settings of Advanced Config. What version of TouchFLO and Advanced Config do you use?
Thanks.
Hi everybody,
I have updated the ROM of my HTC Touch Pro 2 with the HTC official update in order to have Windows Mobile 6.5. However i had some bad surprises :
- we can not anymore set the LED blinking for more than 5 minutes when we have missed a call or a sms (the option is grayed).
- the clock is changing for GMT time during a very short time each time that we lock/unlock the screen or that we click on the windows bar on the top of the scream.
Is there any solutions to these problems ?
Thank you for your help,
Benoit
- the clock is changing for GMT time during a very short time each time that we lock/unlock the screen or that we click on the windows bar on the top of the scream.
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It's not changing for GMT as such, it's just going back 1 hr 2mins in order to show off the fancy "flip" of the clock. There is a CAB lying around these forums to disable the flip, just do a search for "1:02 flip" and you'll find it easily.
EDIT: You'll find a fix for the LED as well if you do a quick search.
Thanks for your answer mhurg, now at least i know that a solution exists!
I have searched on the forum but I'm am not very used of it and I didn't find these CAB files.
Is there anybody who has these CAB files or who has a link to where we can get them ?
Here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4844447&postcount=5580
Just extract to your windows directory
When i try to copy the file to the windows folder i get a message telling me that i don't have the rights to do this operation. How should i do ?
Otherwise, for those who could also be interested to modify the LED settings the solution is here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=580048&highlight=Light+HTC+limit
Use total commander, not file explorer
Nice!! Thanks a lot!
I prefer my phone much better with these 2 things fixed