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i am sooo confused how to changer the dialer skins whihc i came across when i was playing around my XDA2! i found there are two skins 1 from o2 and the other the microsoft one, how can i change the skins of the phone dialer?! any help will be appericated
Dialer Skins
From the O2 Active screen, go Tools>View>Dialer Skin. I use the Windows 'original skin' because the buttons are easier to see in the car (none of those infernal bubbles...!)
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where is the O2 Active screen?
DAMN u lot are the best!!!! u no everything! thanks u very much most aperciated! and the o2 active screen is the screen when u tap the o2 on the top of the pda
how do i change it without goin to o2 active as 1 one of them i uninstalled all o2 stuff!...this may b pushing my luck but how do i 1) chnage the alarm volume and/or change it 2) change the rintone to play and mp3 rather than having to use a inferior wav file?!
i'm sorry, i can't find O2 on top of the PDA. where exactly is this?
okay go to start and it should be on the list of programs but it will be called o2 active
When you get bored with the default skins, I have some you can have for free. All details etc on my site.
Cheerio
Howard
I used the free program that creates your own dialer skin for free. You can change the opacity of the buttons or no buttons at all, just the numbers. It's very customizeable.
Dialpad Maker by Bong, search on Pocketgear. That's what I used.
Have you ever taken a look at the gallery section over on www.origamiproject.com ? It's filled with a bunch of pretty nice-looking wallpapers for UMPCs, but UMPCs aren't available until much later, rendering these small wallpapers useless... until now. I've picked ten different images from that gallery and customized themes for each of them (creating eleven themes total). I also enhanced the themes to fit in with a somewhat universal layout for the today screen.
Keep in mind that these themes are designed for Wizard users with the latest Qtek ROM (2.17 or higher) installed! The reason I say this is because the date on the today screen takes up two lines in the newer ROM, and the today screen background reflects the position of the date bar. If you're confused, take a look at the previews below, you'll see what I mean.
Anyway, as I was saying before, each theme has carefully selected colors to best match their backgrounds, and all of them work in both portrait and landscape mode. I tried my hardest to smooth out the gradients that sometimes give problems on PPC screens. Oh, and I also thought of a cheezy name for each one. :wink: The previews along with a ZIP of all the themes are attached to this post, so go crazy. And if you haven't updated to the latest ROM yet, shame on you. Go do it, you won't regret it.
P.S. - If anybody knows how to skin the Phone screen (where you dial the number and everything), PLEASE let me know. It really, really clashes with a lot of these themes...
AND... if anybody knows how to make the date take up only one line, move the clock to the top, and put the battery back at the bottom, that would be amazing. That way I could re-make all these themes so that they could work with EVERYBODY that has a WM5 device!
very nice. just applied the first theme on my exec :lol:
Great job with the themes! I hope you are able to find out about skinning the phone screen and reducing the Date Bar to one line.
Beautiful yanathin! Thanks for putting the effort into these great themes.
very clean look you have going on there.
Are those icons along the bottom just regular shortcuts? If so I'm gonna have to look into how to do that myself.
great work!
Thanks for the compliments everybody! Yes, the bottom basically acts like SBSH iLauncher or SPB Pocket Plus's launcher. It's a single part of the PHM PowerToys ( http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/PowerToys/ ) called "TrayLaunch." You'd be utterly amazed at how fast this device runs WITHOUT SPB Pocket Plus installed, even without a "real" close button.
Amazing themes and even better work yanathin!!
Yes great work !
Thanks
Really nice ones, allready installed, thx !
change background dialpad
I haven't found a way to change the keys of the dialpad yet but i have a simple way to change the background of your dialpad in combination with plain darkgrey keys:
Download the attached file and run it on your mobile to get the darkgrey "keys" from Vodafone, these keys match best with whatever background you want to use:
(file is also at: ftp://xda:[email protected]/Wizard/Misc/Vodafone_dialpad.zip)
Next you create in MS Paint / Photoshop or whatever program you like, two BMP image files with the following properties, you can use any file as background.
- name: "Bkgnd_Port.bmp" / resolution: 240x268 pixels (portrait)
- name: "Bkgnd_Land.bmp" / resolution: 320x188 pixels (landscape)
Copy these files to the \windows folder on your mobile and overwrite the existing vodafone skin.
After a soft-reset your dialpad has changed!
I changed mine to plain gray:
I love those themes!
for dialpad skins, take a look at http://www.zombienexus.net/
thanks for sharing. here's a link to some of my simple themes.
http://www.modaco.com/wizard_themes-t238175.html
Thanks for sharing )
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very clean look you have going on there.
Are those icons along the bottom just regular shortcuts? If so I'm gonna have to look into how to do that myself.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=42913&highlight=
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Hi,
Anyone know where to get a copy of PHM TrayLaunch? as the main site seems to be down
Cheers
Shaiboy_UK
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Hi,
Anyone know where to get a copy of PHM TrayLaunch? as the main site seems to be down
Cheers
Shaiboy_UK
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it's right there on page 1, post 1 at the bottom!
Re: change background dialpad
1-2tje said:
I haven't found a way to change the keys of the dialpad yet but i have a simple way to change the background of your dialpad in combination with plain darkgrey keys:
Download the attached file and run it on your mobile to get the darkgrey "keys" from Vodafone, these keys match best with whatever background you want to use:
(file is also at: ftp://xda:[email protected]/Wizard/Misc/Vodafone_dialpad.zip)
Next you create in MS Paint / Photoshop or whatever program you like, two BMP image files with the following properties, you can use any file as background.
- name: "Bkgnd_Port.bmp" / resolution: 240x268 pixels (portrait)
- name: "Bkgnd_Land.bmp" / resolution: 320x188 pixels (landscape)
Copy these files to the \windows folder on your mobile and overwrite the existing vodafone skin.
After a soft-reset your dialpad has changed!
I changed mine to plain gray:
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please direct me to an english cab
Re: change background dialpad
lpasq said:
please direct me to an english cab
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As far as i know it's a cab from German Vodafone. It works perfectly with my Dutch NL ROM, therefor i think it should also work with a WWE ROM because it just gets the language of the ROM-version.
I have been staring at the WiKi pages etc.. trying to understand it all.
I have a Vario 2 and would like to change the menu layout, especially the front sceen e.g having shortcuts on it.
Can someone tell me is it a case of just changing the ROM to a different make i.e HTC or O2.
Sorry if this seems a silly question, but I don't wanna brick my device doing the wrong thing
Thanks
In order to change the layout of your today screen, you need various 3rd party apps and today plugins (what you need depends on what you want to do) ...
YOU DO NOT NEED TO CHANGE YOUR ROM TO DO IT
Thanks for the quick reply, I am not sure if you are familiar with the T-mobile layout, but I would like shortcuts to frequently used applications as icons on the desktop, I have looked into the setting of the Vario2 but all you can do is change the launch buttons in the start menu, also other things for example wireless strength etc..
Looks like TMo Vario II is the TyTN/Hermes .. You can use SPB Pocket Plus or iLauncher to put shortcuts to apps on your today screen ..
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Thanks for the quick reply, I am not sure if you are familiar with the T-mobile layout, but I would like shortcuts to frequently used applications as icons on the desktop, I have looked into the setting of the Vario2 but all you can do is change the launch buttons in the start menu, also other things for example wireless strength etc..
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You should take a look at spb pocket plus. Good for making shortcuts on your today screen.
I have a Vario II and got rid of the t-mobile today plug-in, that's just annoying.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/pocketplus/?en
Dear Blobstrom
You can do all kinds of weird and wonderful things with your today screen to make it better for you to use.
I can recommend 2 main applications spb pocket plus, and sbsh ilauncher.
they are quite similar in many ways, and both have things to recommend them.
both offer free trials so you can see which one you get on best with, both offer support forums, so if you get stuck you can get help both from other users and from their software teams.
I'm sure there are other apps out there too, but I have used both of these and think they are both really good.
Thanks for ya help folks
Bob
Might need more though,
I had a quick go with SPB pocket plus and Wisbar.
But!
Iwant something to get rid of the other parts of the desktop, that is
Date
Owner
Tasks
etc..
I would like a kind off blank canvas or at least just icons instead of all the writing,
Thats why I think I may have to go the route of changing the ROM
Blobstrom said:
Might need more though,
I had a quick go with SPB pocket plus and Wisbar.
But!
Iwant something to get rid of the other parts of the desktop, that is
Date
Owner
Tasks
etc..
I would like a kind off blank canvas or at least just icons instead of all the writing,
Thats why I think I may have to go the route of changing the ROM
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If you wish to disable the other plug-ins:
Start> Settings> Personal> Today> Items> deselect the items that you do not wish to appear on the today screen.
Oh for crying out loud
Pillock of the century here
OK with that gone and SPB I maybe sorted
Hi, with some spare time over today I used my almost non-existing programming skills to make a small, basic registry tweaking application for the Sony Ericsson X1.
It can be downloaded from this site:
www.cliffords.nu
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Features at the moment:
Fix for CE Star-users:
http://www.freewebs.com/henkenelson/CEStarFix.reg
Version 2.0 - New!
+ The ability to choose default panel to load after restart (this is in beta-testing at the moment - contact me for feedback regarding this)
(It will go to the normal today screen first - then switch automatically)
+ The ability to prevent the screen from lighting up after an incoming message is recieved
+ Improved error management - If you recieve an error upon startup, contact me with the specific error message. and I'll try to guide you through a fix!
Version 1.9
+ Some LED illumination tweaks (the ability to change LED patterns for some of the most common notifications) - See screenshot below.
Version 1.6
+ "Improved" font-management (Hey, it's only a bug if you call it a bug )
Version 1.5
+ The ability to change the default system browser
+ Built-in application for changing the sort order of contacts from "Lastname, Firstname" to "Firstname Lastname"
+ Built-in application for changing the phones overall font (except startmenu, programs/settings-menu and some applications)
+ New and improved(?!) GUI
Version 1.1
- Added Performance Tweaks-menu (Glyphe-cache and FileSystem cache)
-Added possibility to change font size of Pop-up menus to make phone more one hand-friendly. See screenshots.
Version 1.0
- Enable/Disable conversation-style SMS/MMS
- Enable/Disable Security warning @ installations
- Enable/Disable screen turning off during call
- Show/Don’t show SIM-contacts in Contact list
- Enable/Disable "Message sent" notification
Known issues: The font management isn't tested fully, use at your own risk! Seems to work for me though.. Please mail me if you find anything problematic, my E-mail is stated here below!
Questions, feedback and suggestions can be PM:d to me, or E-mailed to me at [email protected]
Well Thank You
I especially like the:
Enable/Disable screen turning off during call
Conky said:
Well Thank You
I especially like the:
Enable/Disable screen turning off during call
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Looks like a really nice tweak, also the disable conversation .... if my darn Xperia would get here I could try them out ..
Thanks nelshh for this litle app.
Nice, just add the performance tweaks and popup menu font size for bigger and more fingerfriendly menues and I can stop using advanced config
easycure1974 said:
Nice, just add the performance tweaks and popup menu font size for bigger and more fingerfriendly menues and I can stop using advanced config
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Nice! What specific performance tweaks are you talking about? I´ll get right on the popup menu font size!
nelshh said:
Nice! What specific performance tweaks are you talking about? I´ll get right on the popup menu font size!
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The different cache settings like the glyph cache and so on
wow nice app! thanks a lot!!
Really nice app!
I just thought of a nice thing to add to this app.
How about an option to load a specific panel on startup? number 1-9
I only use spb mobile shell panel now and it would be cool if it actually started automatically on reboot.
emwdava said:
Really nice app!
I just thought of a nice thing to add to this app.
How about an option to load a specific panel on startup? number 1-9
I only use spb mobile shell panel now and it would be cool if it actually started automatically on reboot.
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Hmms, I'll look in to it to see if it's possible! Great idea btw!
^ wow holy ****, it's not doable by default?
nap007 said:
^ wow holy ****, it's not doable by default?
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Nopes!
Hopefully it's just a matter of throwing a specific cmd-line parameter to the PanelManager.exe (a link to this app is in the phones autostart-folder)..Right now the link has the parameter /Boot. I'm trying to figure something out, maybe it's possible, maybe it's not!
emwdava said:
Really nice app!
I just thought of a nice thing to add to this app.
How about an option to load a specific panel on startup? number 1-9
I only use spb mobile shell panel now and it would be cool if it actually started automatically on reboot.
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Really good idea, hope somebody fix it =)
Just wanted to say thank you for this app got my X1 yesterday and this was one of 1st things i installed on it
Just uploaded a new version with some performance tweaks and the ability to choose popup menu fontsize! See first post!
nelshh said:
Just uploaded a new version with some performance tweaks and the ability to choose popup menu fontsize! See first post!
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Is an uninstall of a previous version required?
Not required, but it's recommended if you don't want duplicate posts in the uninstall programs menu
Have a look at the Diamond Tweak prog. I installed this to have a play with, and there's a setting to change the volume level. It works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=409540
music through the headphones is now painfully loud
volume level it`s only a registry key. its the same on all devices.
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but thx to the author for this nice tool, spezially for xperia.
nice and ultra fast work
*THUMBS UP*
Excellent tool, thanks!
Appreciate your efforts and look forward to any possible future versions.
Keep up the good work!
To be honest, I tried the touch flo 3d, the home 2, but the only thing I like is the normal, clean windows mobile today screen i like it, its neat , organized, and the xperia wallpaper gives it an elegant look. I alos modified the left menu key to initiate a new sms
what do u think?
I like it's neat clean look, but I prefer using the SE Today Panel.
trezegol87 said:
To be honest, I tried the touch flo 3d, the home 2, but the only thing I like is the normal, clean windows mobile today screen i like it, its neat , organized, and the xperia wallpaper gives it an elegant look.
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Same here, a big fan of Winmo Today screen. When I jumped ship from Palm OS to Winmo, the Today screen really makes me forget I ever had a Palm OS device... Although the fond memories of rock hard stability creeps out now and then.
Currently Using itje's incredible Touch-IT v4.5 ROM. The Touchflo is nice, but more of a gimmick then anything else... Give me plain old Today screen anytime.
It just seems easier on the Today screen, that's why I have a lite rom installed, along with TF3d and panels.
I tend to always end up back at the default today screen. Something just nice about it.
Yeah I use it all the time now as it seems to be the most customisable without being fiddley and does all I want it too... I would like a today that is a combination of several of the panels but so far have found nothing that I like more than the normal today...
i use the today screen as my default screen when at work as i like to be in control of how many appointments are displayed, reminders, etc. it's nice to be able to switch to another panel for the weekends though ...
i'm a bit concerned about some of the screenshots for wm 6.5. does the today screen still exist ?
The standard Today just works. Give you access to what a PDA is for, PIM. There is a plugin called TodayAgenda which makes it perfect though.
glad you guys think the same way
btw, any idea how to make a shortcut for the start button? I downloaded a program, H button, that enables me to long press a key and a program comes up... but i want to access the start menu that way
trezegol87 said:
glad you guys think the same way
btw, any idea how to make a shortcut for the start button? I downloaded a program, H button, that enables me to long press a key and a program comes up... but i want to access the start menu that way
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Are you trying to assign a hardware key to Start Menu? If so, go to Start>Settings>Buttons
All this talk is making me want to use the Today panel more! I just tweaked it a little bit and I'm going to give it a try next week.
Does anybody know of a way to get more programs on it? Skype is on the list, and I think TomTom is, but I'd like a couple others.
I need to use the today screen to see the G-Alarm plugin, how much Internet traffic I had this month (SPB Wireless). Also I find it very convenient to use Elecont Dialer (a scrollable row of contacts to call or sms) and Elecont Launcher (a scrollable row of apps).
So I usually end up using it, even if SPB Shell is more touch-friendly. It just doesn't display all the information I need in one screen.
I always seem to go back to the spb panel as my default. its simple and looks clean i think compared with tf3d and point ui. im hopeing that when the new 3.0 shell comes out that it wont replace the spb x1 panel (although i know it will).
I've tried all the panels, shells etc. You name them, I've tried them. As said before, the Touch-IT v4.5 ROM is nice, but gimmicky. I admit I've installed it, but only to get GPS tagging of photos. I untick it in Start -> Settings -> Today -> Items immediately after it's installed.
I appreciate all the work that's gone into developing it, but its way too busy for me
My preferred interface is iFonz 2. The interface can be as simple or as 'busy' as you like. I prefer to have just a few icons of the programs I use regularly on screen as well as icons for the frequently called contacts. Also its very finger friendly.
For the programs that I use infrequently, it's no hassle to find them in Start -> Programs, and contacts are easy to find in iContacts
Caps
Hart and soul of my machine.
without it, I had never changed to a winmo device.
Maby it's time to start a thread : "show of your real todayscreen"
talbas said:
Hart and soul of my machine.
without it, I had never changed to a winmo device.
Maby it's time to start a thread : "show of your real todayscreen"
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Can you post your skin and the programs used ?
Thx alot !
fotoingo said:
Can you post your skin and the programs used ?
Thx alot !
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ArielBattery2.1http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
PDC_clock http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-pocket-digital-clock.html
SpbWeather2 http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/weather/
ElecontLauncherhttp://www.elecont.com/launcher-for-pocket-pc.aspx
Inesoft Phonehttp://www.inesoft.com/eng/index.php?in=phone.html
PDAStatusFull http://corner-a.com/page.php?3---http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3289885
good place to say thank you to the developers
some questions........
sorry made this post in the wrong damn thread!!!!
on the subject of todays screen check out
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
wisebar desktop is really amazing if you want to pimp out your today screen!!! (hit there fourms for free and custom skins!!!)
example of skins
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15113
Hey friends, I'm with you. I think the today screen is one of the best inventions of Microsoft and is really underrated. It just makes sense to have active plugins share the most precious place on a mobile - the information screen after switching the device on. I think the iPhone is ridiculous in this regardö - just showing icons of the programs that can be launched is lame. Also, there are really powerful plugins available for Windows Mobile. I'm personally using the built in date/time and messages plugin together with PocketBreeze for all the organizer stuff and PocketPlus for system status (battery, memory), finger friendly app launcher and additional plugins as tab (spb weather actuall). Then I use the system tray as quicklaunch and for showing the currently selected phone profile from PhoneWeaver and my softkeys start Contacts and WM5NewMenu, with which I can very quickly place a new appointment, SMS, Email, Note and so on. With this setup, I can really use the device, not only play. Everything is just one or two clicks/actions away and I always have a good overview of what's going on.
I really don't understand why so many people want a better iPhone instead of a good Windows Mobile device. Windows Mobile has drawbacks but also strong points, of which the today screen is one of the strongest I think.
I am also a big fan of the Windows today page. I think it's the only one that can be entirely adapted to everyone's need, all other software are nice graphically, but not as effective as a well prepared today page.