Customizing the Lock Screen - Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking

I would like to learn how to customize the lock-screen for the HD2 I am looking for a tutorial but have not found much.
I don't really want to mess with the rest of the phone just the lock screen for now.
s2u2 is okaaay and the CHT 1.7.1 lockscreens whilst looking nice behave like crap on my phone getting stuck all the time and even though it's disabled the HTC lock cames back every now and then, it's a lot of butthurt and I'd like to have a play.
So yeah, is there a tutorial for working on just the lock-screen of the default manila 2.5 lock screen?

What about these type of customizations?
http://pocketshield.net/skins

pckshd said:
What about these type of customizations?
http://pocketshield.net/skins
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Commercial advice ...

In fact the most customizable you will find, but yes not free.

haha thats what i thought xD
a user named pckshd (=pocketshield) will of course advice pocketshield ...
but dont think that pocketshield is crap, its very good with many options...
if youre lookin for a free alternative, take a look at the lockscreens in cookies home tab editor, there you can for example set the HD mini Lockscreen =)
cheers,
sallal

I'm a big fan

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Today Screen Fiddling!!

Hi all
Have now virtually achievd my perfect TODAY screen, but for ONE problem. It is just SLIGHTLY too large, thus bringing up a scroll bar on the right hand side- with around 1mm of scroll!!
I have done all I can to shrink and move things, and I believe I now have 2 options left- neither of which I know how to do......
1) Slightly reduce font size on owner information (which I want to keep), AND?OR get the phone no. oto the same line as my name.
2) I wish to keep the screen lock option that appears on today by default (the padlock that stops any screen activations in your pocket). Am wondering if I can add this to one of my SPB PocketPlus tabs as a shortcut- but have no idea where the .exe file is to point to.
Any help much appreciated,
Justin
Why dont you post screenshots. More great suggestions will come in for sure.
Yer tiz.......
Don't laugh- but I love the colouration of the guava theme with the black of the orbit! - just don't like black with black
You can just.... see the tip of the "device unlock" padlock at the bottom of the screen. All is adjusted to optimum (as far as I can tell)- apart from the 2 points I mentioned at the start of the thread- owner info, and device lock shortcut.
Thanks again
Justin
Rainbow-Lentil said:
Yer tiz.......
Don't laugh- but I love the colouration of the guava theme with the black of the orbit! - just don't like black with black
You can just.... see the tip of the "device unlock" padlock at the bottom of the screen. All is adjusted to optimum (as far as I can tell)- apart from the 2 points I mentioned at the start of the thread- owner info, and device lock shortcut.
Thanks again
Justin
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Hi bro,
If you made some search through the net you would find the solution. I've made search, I've found the souliton.
Just try the attached file, I think that's exactly what you need...
Cheers,
B.
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cant you make the size of pocketbreeze plugin a little smaller?
Or just reduce the size of SPB Diary... in worst case there appears a scroll bar in the Diary window...
SPB diary, and pocket plus have been made as small as possible. The scroll bar to the right is what I am trying to get rid of, ans the today screen extends down too far.
zsitvayb- thanks mate- that zip file has allowed me to shortcut the device lock onto the spb tabs. This has reduced the info at the bottom, and lost me the scroll bar. Can now see 5 days of wether- not 4!!
Would still be interested though in any way of tinkering with the owner info appearance on the today screen....
Remove your soft keys
I use wisbar advanced3, it has the option of removing the soft keys from the today screen, then using AEButton plus I made the soft key buttons have the same function as they originally did, soft key/1 press, contacts/long press, and I have lost no functionallity at all with a bit more real estate. Hope that makes sense. Also the features of WA3 are great and your today screen would look even better with some nice WA3 icons on the taskbar. If only it was free.
Thanks unique boy (tempted to call you uniqua- but unless you have young kids, or are a student you may not know the "backyardigans"!!).
Understand what you are saying- interesting idea. Does the wisbar affect speed at all??
Rainbow-Lentil said:
SPB diary, and pocket plus have been made as small as possible.
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That's not quite true. Remove one of the tabs (in Diary settings). After that you can decrease the height by another 20 picsels or so.
But this would then lose the fuctionality that I built up???
Use this cab to remove soft keys
fazwarts said:
That's not quite true. Remove one of the tabs (in Diary settings). After that you can decrease the height by another 20 picsels or so.
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If you are using SPB 2.5.5 you can make the tabs horizontal and then add a custom tab and inside the custom TAB move the weather or any other today plugin...!
Like what I have done on my screen...
cheers
Have you tried using slide to unlock.
I find this great and you wouldnt need the lock icon on the screen.
Just a though and help you need pm me
WA3
As far as I can tell WA3 does not slow down my artemis. The skin I use is called "reflections" it can be found on lakeridge's forum. Nice new wait cursor, lovely cascading menus, float window. I like it.
Thanks to all- certainly a few ideas there to try.
Keep up the good work- invaluable resource!!!!!!

[REQUEST] Eclair Lockscreen

Any chance we can just take the new eclair lockscreen and use it standalone? without the theme with it?
bbuchacher said:
Any chance we can just take the new eclair lockscreen and use it standalone? without the theme with it?
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Wait, we have the eclair lockscreen working on 1.5/1.6?
AdrianK said:
Wait, we have the eclair lockscreen working on 1.5/1.6?
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I dont think its exactly the same but
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=577651
Same request here.. I already posted here and Q&A as well as the theme section... let's see whos gonna save us.
the link which is an eclair lockscreen theme (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=577651) is just the wallpaper of the lockscreen on the droid. I thought to unlock it you spin the dial but insted you press Menu. i guess we have to wait until 2.0 comes out and cyanogen ports it and hopefully it has the dial motion unlock screen
I use LockBot free, you can find it on the market. Just install it then open it and tap on mytheme, then delete Iphone and Hero lockscrenn... now you have Eclair lockscreen full working!!!
P.S. sorry for bad english
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lockbot pro is not stable.
not at all!
fc's all the time and gives my eris a 5 sec delay. de-installed ASAP!
Been using LockBot Free for almost 2 months now. myTouch with Dwang's latest. So far so good, needs to force kill it sometime because it disabled my notification bar. Worked fine after reloading the app.
lockbot is very stable for my htc magic 32A. maybe the additional ram helps. no lag and doesnt do any weird stuff. recently they just udpated it with the "flan" lock screen. so now there's hero, iphone, eclair, and flan. very nice. it also has the correct animation for each lock screen. so for eclair, it can actually rotate one way for unlock, the other way for silent/vibrate. and unlike Lock2.0, you cannot bypass the lockscreen by pressing the menu key or long pressing the home button.
LockBot has a problem with notification bar, but I think it's only if you put it in full screen. Also it messes the time of my Home Widget that stays behind the real time.
LockBot Pro...working great!!
after some updates...LockBot Pro is working great for me. No FC at all, the dev is really good responding to issues. It has the Lock screen from Adroid 2.0.1. Waiting for it to be integrated in with the dialer so it will show incoming call with lock screen. don't know if that will ever happen. using dwang 1.17.1..fast and stable...its become "old faithful".
I also recommend lockbot free or pro. The ratings are too low because the c*nts don't know how to read and use an app before rating it.
lockbot always goes to the homescreen though
Thanks for the lockbot tip. Awesome little tool!

How do you change the Lockscreen Wallpaper?

Although it says in Settings > Personalize "Choose... lock screen wallpaper", there is no way to actually change the image. On earlier versions of HTC Sense for Android you could have a different picture on the lock screen and as a wallpaper, but not now. Another backward step or am I missing something?
I saw it also, the information is still in the user manual by the way, but not possible.
Is there a way to have the weather widget on lockscreen?
Thanks for your help
Nothing on my menus for lock screen...would be nice but tbh I'm not that fussed
I want to be able to change it too. I rather liked that feature on my Hero
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solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6078392&postcount=22
irkan said:
solution:...forum.xda-developers.com/show...2&postcount=22
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I downloaded LockBotPro... its a good app an there's a decent amount of customization you can do to the lock screen... add your own wallpaper, lock slider & sound effect but shame its not compatibile with the AndWobble app, that would of made it a thousand times better
Is it possible to have live/animated lock screen themes with LockBotPro?
irkan said:
solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6078392&postcount=22
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great app, but how can I upgrade to pro, when the market is not opened for paid apps?
EDIT: Sorry, I see now I can't...until it's rooted at least...
Cyborgz said:
I downloaded LockBotPro... its a good app an there's a decent amount of customization you can do to the lock screen... add your own wallpaper, lock slider & sound effect but shame its not compatibile with the AndWobble app, that would of made it a thousand times better
Is it possible to have live/animated lock screen themes with LockBotPro?
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Not sure, but i would hardly imagine anyone having a go at it, people are trying to run away from live wallpapers to save up some battery life
This feature worked for me, and was present in the settings menu. ALthough I noticed at some point that my lockscreen image was not what I set it to, and the menu option was not there anymore......
I went back expecting the menu option to be there but it wasn't. Wonder whats going on. The feature was there and it worked for me...

New widget - Sand Timer

Update your widget list (add to home>>widget>>get more htc widgets>>press menu and "update") and you should see it, it's not something terrific though .
Interesting. But I agree, it's not anything groundbreaking. Thanks for the heads up though!
(I wish HTC would release the Tasks widget for the Desire. It's available on the Legend and it's something I would actually use.)
A nice little addition. What I like most about it is the fact that it is not fullscreen.
Many of HTC widgets are taking up the whole screen even though there is plenty of free space around the widget.
Thanks for the heads up.
mmm I thought I would see a cute animation of an hour glass... it's just a shortcut to the countdown clock...
have coin flip and dice always been there ?
They were " new " a while a go ... HUGE files... so be careful !!..
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mmm I thought I would see a cute animation of an hour glass... it's just a shortcut to the countdown clock...
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It does animate, the sand does move down after certain intervals.
I agree, it should take up the screen like the others do thanks for the heads up though!
anyone have the apk my rooted rvo doesnt seem to dl it or install it.
Thanks. Liked it.. Love to have something that's small and fits in
hey is it possible to download more widgets from external sources? I find that the htc list of widgets don't consist of alot...
kalfou said:
hey is it possible to download more widgets from external sources? I find that the htc list of widgets don't consist of alot...
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How about the Android Market..? Here's a bunch of good widgets that are all free:
Top Free Android Widgets

Fullscreen HTC Sense

Fullscreen HTC Sense. Does a tweak/mod to get this exist? Is it possible?
Sometimes when stuff goes bugged this happens, but it looks so much better.
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Fullscreen HTC Sense. Does a tweak/mod to get this exist? Is it possible?
Sometimes when stuff goes bugged this happens, but it looks so much better.
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If you want to go fullscreen, why not try the Max sense edition(energy roms). I know it has its restrictions, but still.. Its pretty awesome!
SaturnusDJ said:
Fullscreen HTC Sense. Does a tweak/mod to get this exist? Is it possible?
Sometimes when stuff goes bugged this happens, but it looks so much better.
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There is the possibility to have the home page in fullscreen. You have to have CHT and CHT Editor installed if not already in the rom you are using.
[I guess that it is helpful when one asks for help to be more specific with device and rom so as to get more specific answers]
You have to enable the CHT Softkeys in softkeys under CHT Editor. That will make Home Screen and only Home Screen appear in fullscreen. The other tabs though will remain as are.
Hope that this will cover you if you haven't still found out an answer. Take care.
This is probably the closest thing to what you are asking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=553529

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