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Phone Skin

Hi all,
It's freezing in London, UK! Anyways...
I hate the o2 phone skin I am stuck with, I noticed once before after a hard reset there was a much nicer skin - im guessing it was the default WM5 skin...I know it was blue... Well - I want it back ..
So today's question from me..
How do I change my phone skin.. WITHOUT HARD RESET..
Ta

lol..its bloody freezin!..
here u go...speeded up my exec..and actually prefer the simple default skin anyway..use resco or any other registry editor
To set or remove the operator phone skin
The setting is at 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin'
The 'Enabled' DWORD value can be set to '1' to show the operator skin or '0' to show the default skin

wow that is so much faster! Thanks!
Although - I was talking about a completely different skin? Unusual!
Ahh well this one is just what I need - a phone.
Ta!

The problem with method is that you lose the button for video calls. Is there a way around it?
Thanks

redjupiter said:
The problem with method is that you lose the button for video calls. Is there a way around it?
Thanks
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the button on the keyboard? Does that work?

look for the post called "a collection of hacks" or something on those lines. I remember seeing a cab to change the phone skin...
cheerio
San

Riceburner said:
redjupiter said:
The problem with method is that you lose the button for video calls. Is there a way around it?
Thanks
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the button on the keyboard? Does that work?
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HI,
I tried the buttons and I cannot get video calls with the default phone skin (as explained above).
Thanks.

the most interesting about it actually is that it will give you 10 Megs of RAM...if you can live without the videocalling.

My videocalling button appears to work. :?

AndyME said:
the most interesting about it actually is that it will give you 10 Megs of RAM...if you can live without the videocalling.
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How exactly do you get that extra space?? Does it require a hard reset or can you delete the extra files? If the latter which are the correct files to delete?

Caller photo size

Hi there, I have a "problem" with the photo that appears when someone is calling. To be more specific, the size is very small. Is there an app that makes it bigger, like iphone for example?

You can use S2U2 and enable S2A (slide to answer).
Then you get full-screen photo and you need to use a Iphone-like slider to answer. Bonus is you won't answer accidentally anymore.
Hope this helps.
Search to find the app (is in the general software section, I think)

You need to enable Caller ID to Full Screen to get S2U2 to work with the Caller ID It's working really well on the Diamond. Might have a slight increase in speed if you disable the Diamond Dialer. But that's personal of course..

Yes S2U2 is the solution to your problem. Very handy application.
For you guys that use S2U2 do you have the weather info on S2U2 screen?
It worked for me once but not anymore

it works! thank you for the help...

After a day of tests, I found that with S2U2 installed, when someone calls me I cannot hang up. By pressing the hard button (or even the soft button when enables) it only mutes. Any idea?

U can use Inesoft Address Book (not free) to get big Picture
and u get better contact with photo too..

arix said:
U can use Inesoft Address Book (not free) to get big Picture
and u get better contact with photo too..
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I've already tried it but I didn't like tha fact that it changes my phone keyboard and the whole contact layout...

S2U2
I find that after S2U2 it drains my battery much more faster. anybody else notice this...

xenos3 said:
After a day of tests, I found that with S2U2 installed, when someone calls me I cannot hang up. By pressing the hard button (or even the soft button when enables) it only mutes. Any idea?
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You can find an answer in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2783558&postcount=2405
Ciao, Andrea

mccune said:
You need to enable Caller ID to Full Screen to get S2U2 to work with the Caller ID It's working really well on the Diamond. Might have a slight increase in speed if you disable the Diamond Dialer. But that's personal of course..
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How can I disable this Diamond Dialer?Please explain step by step.It rings with delay.

revizoro said:
How can I disable this Diamond Dialer?Please explain step by step.It rings with delay.
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Use Diamond Tweak to disable it. Just changehone Pad Style, from Diamond to Windows Mobile Standard.
One setting above this you can disable the Ring Time delay.

xenos3 said:
I've already tried it but I didn't like tha fact that it changes my phone keyboard and the whole contact layout...
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U can disable the Dialer keyboard and use system defalt,
About the contact layout, it's much more better with photo
while looking for caontact, and 100% compatible to outlook..

S2A 480x640 picture
it would be great if S2A can use pictures from its own folder, because the standard pictures are very poor quality, what i mean is if i can prepare jpg pictures in 480x640 resolution of people from phone book, name these pictures like contacts in phone book or numbers and S2A will use them instead standard ones. anyone know is it possible?

I've noticed too that s2u2 caller pics look kind of blurry. Is there any solution?

xenos3 said:
I've noticed too that s2u2 caller pics look kind of blurry. Is there any solution?
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Use Slide to View (S2V) to set as outlook contact picture.
You can download from A_C site (http://www.ac-s2.com/)
Ciao, Andrea

_wizo_ said:
For you guys that use S2U2 do you have the weather info on S2U2 screen?
It worked for me once but not anymore
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hey Wizzo,
Did you try to have it on manila 3 weather?
mine works fine, I kept changing it till it appeared

[WIKI] Tweaks Tips and Tricks

New camera modes:
Burst
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P6
set "Enable" on "1"
Sports
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P8
set "Enable" on "1"
Video Share
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P9
set "Enable" on "1"
GPS Photo
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P10
set "Enable" on "1"

Wesome dude Keep the tips coming pls

Forgive my lack of basic knowledge but how do you edit the registry on the wm phone?

aha never mind, I figured it out, you need to get a registry editor and install it.

Very useful topic.

Nice, thank you!
Why do they keep them hidden like that??

Insaneboy said:
Nice, thank you!
Why do they keep them hidden like that??
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I was wondering the exact same thing

maybe for using it only straight from apps?

does anyone know the register change for not chowing the sim-contacts in the contact list
does not work whit advanced config
thanks

alfa said:
does anyone know the register change for not chowing the sim-contacts in the contact list
does not work whit advanced config
thanks
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\HKey_CU\ControlPanel\Phone\ShowSim
Set it to 0 if you do not want to show it, and 1 to show it.

hehe some more tipps and tricks you can find on pocketpc.ch
German Version (Original): http://www.pocketpc.ch/htc-touch-hd/44641-htc-touch-hd-tipps-tricks-tweaks.html
English Version (Google Translate): http://translate.google.com/transla...icks-tweaks.html&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en

nice but what does it do
What does Video Share mode do? Seems like a 4:3 video capture mode.
What I would like to see is a way to capture bigger vids with better quality, even if it meant much bigger file sizes... because i can just pull them off and encode them on pc...
Ideas?
Also whats GPS photo...

juelu said:
hehe some more tipps and tricks you can find on pocketpc.ch
German Version (Original): http://www.pocketpc.ch/htc-touch-hd/44641-htc-touch-hd-tipps-tricks-tweaks.html
English Version (Google Translate): http://translate.google.com/transla...icks-tweaks.html&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en
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Nice thread

Philio25 said:
Nice thread
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tnx
i'll constantly update the thread but thanks to my english skills only in german

I have created a tweaks seection in the Blackstone wiki with these tips in.
Thanks.

nice
Using a similar method are we able to change to landscape in pocket word. I don't know if I have missed something but landscape word is an absolute must for me as it reduces scrolling etc.
If you can help I would appreciate it.
H

I'm having a small problem with the screen responses on my phone. I just went into the registry and made some changes to enable clear type in Landscape mode....and well...for some reason now....the 'ok' or 'x' tht appears on the top right hand side of the screen in landscape (right handed landscape mode) is unresponsive. It wont acknowledge any taps with the stylus or finger. I tried a soft reset and nothing. So now my phone is stuck in landscape mode...and it wont budge. Any ideas?

Sim reappear?
eaglesteve said:
\HKey_CU\ControlPanel\Phone\ShowSim
Set it to 0 if you do not want to show it, and 1 to show it.
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Works great till you have to reset. Then its show sim contacts as usual

wfhowell said:
Works great till you have to reset. Then its show sim contacts as usual
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After that change, you off course need to reset to take effect. Once done, it would stay the way you want it.
Cheers.

I logged into the Windows live (MSN) program that comes with the phone as standard.
When logged out, i looked in my contacts phonebook and all my Windows live contacts were there! And when i took them away and logged into Windows live again, they were gone, probably for taking them away from the contacts phonebook in the phone..
Very irritating!
Now, is there some setting so i can make them not to show in the contacts phonebook?
I mean, as you can do with the SIM contacts?

Enable Windows STD Screen Rotation

Not sure where to post this so I created a thread.
Forgive me if this is not correct.
Playing wiht the registry I found the key HLM->System->GDI->Rotation which has a HideOrientationUI attribute. Set it to 0 and the standard screen rotation option will appear in the control panel

great find !!!
thats great news findinf that..is it possible to set soft key to rotate when required ?
thanks again for that !!
chiccusmaximus said:
Not sure where to post this so I created a thread.
Forgive me if this is not correct.
Playing wiht the registry I found the key HLM->System->GDI->Rotation which has a HideOrientationUI attribute. Set it to 0 and the standard screen rotation option will appear in the control panel
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So now hd can autamaticly rotate screen in windows view ? (like omnia ?)

Nice find! Thanks.
maziboss said:
So now hd can autamaticly rotate screen in windows view ? (like omnia ?)
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It gives you an extra option in Control Panel that lets you select if the display is Landscape or Portrait.

maziboss said:
So now hd can autamaticly rotate screen in windows view ? (like omnia ?)
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You can use Gyrator or GSen to do that

Yes, this is not automatic it just re-enable the standard screen panel to manually select orientation.

apd said:
You can use Gyrator or GSen to do that
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please advise, how, would love to be able to work on documents etc in landscape (auto switch) mode if possible.
Peter.

As apd said for the automatic rotation you can use Gyrator or GSen. Otherwise with this you can start your app and then manually rotate the screen from the control panel.

just tried this and it says "access denied" when i edit the value data and change the 1 to 0
am i missing something?
Steve

used resco regedit ... works!

wow. This is really nice. Thanks! now I don't need the gyrator!

I can find nothing new after manipulating the registry.
Where can i exactly find the option in control panel?

In the Screen menu. If you still can't see the option, try a soft reset.

excellent find. thnx for sharing!

any program to change that or a cab file ??
thanks

Ill try this on the diamond to see if it works.
I wish I could try it with the demo phone @ the store (touch HD) before buying it.

I tried the registry edit on the demo Touch HD at the store.
The problem is that it keeps reverting back to portrait mode after accessing the phone menu.
So it will remain perfectly in landscape mode till I try to enter a phone number.
The phone menu is vertical, then it remains vertical.
Any info?
thanks.

Steve_HD said:
just tried this and it says "access denied" when i edit the value data and change the 1 to 0
am i missing something?
Steve
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Try this http://www.all-at-hand.com/softwaresmspc.php?id=64

htc rotation screen
hi wher i can finde soft for rotation screen for htc hd like nokia n95 black edition hav ???

Windows STD

[THE] Make a Rhodium/HTCTouchPro2 MyMobiler Skin

Hi all
(Excuse me for my very bad english, I'm french )
I would like to have a skin for MyMobiler, which looks like Rhodium devices.
I have tried the Diamond skin, but it didn't match for the screen, because the resolution is different (640x480 for the Diamond and 800x480 for Rhodiums)
The Diamond skin is available here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=466565
I think you can easily adapt this Diamond skin for Rhodium resolution values (400x800px).
I don't know how to do this, so if someone would be able to make one, it will be a very good thing for all MyMobiler users who have a Rhodium !
Thanks !
Sam

salucsam said:
Hi all
(Excuse me for my very bad english, I'm french )
I would like to have a skin for MyMobiler, which looks like Rhodium devices.
I have tried the Diamond skin, but it didn't match for the screen, because the resolution is different (640x480 for the Diamond and 800x480 for Rhodiums)
I think you can easily adapt this Diamond skin for Rhodium resolution values (400x800px).
I don't know how to do this, so if someone would be able to make one, it will be a very good thing for all MyMobiler users who have a Rhodium !
Thanks !
Sam
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Hi salucsam,
give me a little bit time and it is reday for the TP2. I never know that it is possible for the TP2. But i have changed some things in MyMobiler. I have a very nice grafic for that (link).

Waouw Nice skin indeed ! I've download it immediately.
Well, I think you know MyMobiler software, so if you can do a skin for MyMobiler as beautiful as the skin you made for Manila, its gona be perfect ^^ Take all the time you need !
Sam.

salucsam said:
Waouw Nice skin indeed ! I've download it immediately.
Well, I think you know MyMobiler software, so if you can do a skin for MyMobiler as beautiful as the skin you made for Manila, its gona be perfect ^^ Take all the time you need !
Sam.
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Hi salucsam,
it is ready for 80%. But i have one problem. About the grafic is
a BMP file the background i have is white and i cant make it
transparent. Ok i have one more idea but i must test it.
At least the 4 little control button. But this i a case of time .
I love the hacking and modding stuff.
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Edit:
It is ready. A little bit quick and dirty. At this time only the background
and the zoom factor to 70%. You can change the factor in the xml file.
So be my guest and test it please....

Very good ! But.. Not perfect, as you will see on the screenshot I have take :
http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=842663screenshot01.jpg
Now, you just have to find a solution to have a background which is at 800x400px and not 640x480 like it is on this first skin you made (the white you see under. The screen is not complete)
And to find a solution for the white corners that you can see around the application. Look on my screenshot..
I really don't know xml code, so I can't help you for this -_-
Thanks, and good luck
Sam

Hi salucsam,
look at my screenshot. It is perfect.
And here the code from the XML file:
<form
position="0 0 480 800"
backgroundimage="tp2d.bmp"
clipcolor="FF00FF">
<control
id="200"
text="MobileView"
position="44 130 480 800"
zoom="70">
</control>
</form>
As you see it is 480x800 portrait mode.
I don't know whats happend on yor system.
Please check the xml file. You can open it
with the notepad or gvim.

Ok, its good for me now, for the HTC screen.
But for corners, I really don't know how to clear it...
Look at this new screenshot :
http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=575298screenshot2.png
As you see, the problem is those 4 black corners around the picture...I can only color them in black or white.
Do you know how to clear it ? I want them transparent, invisible.
Sam.

salucsam said:
Ok, its good for me now
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Hi Sam, good to hear that it is working now.
As you see, the problem is those 4 black corners around the picture...I can only color them in black or white.
Do you know how to clear it ? I want them transparent, invisible.
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The grafic is a BMP file. So there is no transparence possible. I can't change it to a PNG format because MyMobiler doesn't knows the format yet. Possible you can ask the author on http://www.mymobiler.com/.

Hi salucsam,
you found out more about your issues?

Did you guys get the hard buttons to work?

Awesome, I love this app, nice job!! still need some improvements.
I think MyMobilier need to be updated, with more skins and more functionality, but its great like is, specially WIFI

mike2nl said:
Hi salucsam,
you found out more about your issues?
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Guys,
How do you install this to work on the tp2?
Thanks for the tip.

mike2nl said:
Hi Sam, good to hear that it is working now.
The grafic is a BMP file. So there is no transparence possible. I can't change it to a PNG format because MyMobiler doesn't knows the format yet. Possible you can ask the author on http://www.mymobiler.com/.
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I think there is a way to get transparencies with a bmp file using an added Alpha layer to the original .bmp.
Ive been trying to get this skin to work but i can't even get it to show, any pointers?, as i can't work on the transparency if i cant test it!!
There is also a thread over on HD2 skinning my mobiler
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=618050
EDIT got it to show! working on tranparency with Gimp!

I've only just noticed this thread!
I made a TP2 skin myself for MyMobiler a few weeks ago and I can tell you that MyMobiler has a bug that means the corners show when you use any other zoom level than 100% - the 'magic BMP colour' doesn't work at different levels. But, at 100% zoom, the bottom of the phone is cut off
I've tried e-mailing the MyMobiler author about these bugs a couple of times but he's never bothered to reply

iridium21 said:
I've only just noticed this thread!
I made a TP2 skin myself for MyMobiler a few weeks ago and I can tell you that MyMobiler has a bug that means the corners show when you use any other zoom level than 100% - the 'magic BMP colour' doesn't work at different levels. But, at 100% zoom, the bottom of the phone is cut off
I've tried e-mailing the MyMobiler author about these bugs a couple of times but he's never bothered to reply
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Hi iridium, i was tried what i said above both in ginp and photoshop and although i can get the bmp to show transparent i can't get it to work on mymobiler, i have studied the HD2 thread on this and the touch pro and diamond threads, all the phone images seem to use this pinkish colour..what is this "magic colour" you speak of??! i have read what you have said about the bug and zoom etc, i am just interested to know as i spent a whole evening trying to work this one out!!!

osrix25 said:
Hi iridium, i was tried what i said above both in ginp and photoshop and although i can get the bmp to show transparent i can't get it to work on mymobiler, i have studied the HD2 thread on this and the touch pro and diamond threads, all the phone images seem to use this pinkish colour..what is this "magic colour" you speak of??! i have read what you have said about the bug and zoom etc, i am just interested to know as i spent a whole evening trying to work this one out!!!
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Yeah, I spent a while on this too
If you have a look at defaultskin.xml, you'll see
Code:
clipcolor="FF00FF"
which is a kind of pink colour - this is the BMP colour that is treated as transparent and that's why the phone skins have that colour background in the corners. The only problem is, is that MyMobiler only shows the FF00FF colour code as transparent when it's at 100% zoom Drop down to 75% or 50% and the corners show.
Hope this explains what I've found out, please let me know if you find any more info?

iridium21 said:
Yeah, I spent a while on this too
If you have a look at defaultskin.xml, you'll see
Code:
clipcolor="FF00FF"
which is a kind of pink colour - this is the BMP colour that is treated as transparent and that's why the phone skins have that colour background in the corners. The only problem is, is that MyMobiler only shows the FF00FF colour code as transparent when it's at 100% zoom Drop down to 75% or 50% and the corners show.
Hope this explains what I've found out, please let me know if you find any more info?
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Thanks for bringing me up to speed! ive just been testing the other skins as well and i now understand the same problem is for all, so unless you have a very tall screen it will always be the case.
I don't know about Xml but is there not a work around that we can trick the program into thinking it is displaying at 100% when it is displaying at 70? i'm guessing that would be 2 easy!!

My TP2/Rhodium Skin
I played around with this to get a skin to work. I am still having trouble with the start menu hard key, but the other buttons seem to work.
To get this skin to work, follow these steps:
1) Unzip the attached file to "\Program Files\My Mobile\MyMobiler\Skin\" directory. (It will extract to its own folder)
2) Edit the "\Program Files\My Mobile\MyMobiler\mymobiler.ini" and change the line for
Code:
SkinFile=Skin\DefaultSkin.xml
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Code:
SkinFile=Skin\TP2\skin.xml

slimcane said:
I played around with this to get a skin to work. I am still having trouble with the start menu hard key, but the other buttons seem to work.
To get this skin to work, follow these steps:
1) Unzip the attached file to "\Program Files\My Mobile\MyMobiler\Skin\" directory. (It will extract to its own folder)
2) Edit the "\Program Files\My Mobile\MyMobiler\mymobiler.ini" and change the line for
Code:
SkinFile=Skin\DefaultSkin.xml
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SkinFile=Skin\TP2\skin.xml
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Thanks man! I just tried it out, and it works almost perfect
First, I also had to change the line below that in the options:
"Showskin=0" to "Showskin=1"...Once I did that, the skin loaded fine.
There's just one small glitch, as it looks like the image has shifted "up" in the frame...it's cut off a bit at the top, and leaves a band showing down at the bottom (I'm including a screenshot to demonstrate). Hiding the toolbar improves it a bit obviously, but there's still a bit cutoff at the top.
Zoom works great though, no "squares" in any of the ratios I've tried
The "call" and "end" hardware buttons work just fine too...but the "home" and "back" buttons don't seem to respond.
I don't know if any of the issues are related to the fact I'm running a T-mobile TP2 instead of an unbranded or AT&T model like in this skin.
Anyway, thanks again for the effort, just wanted to give you some feedback from the field

sirphunkee said:
Thanks man! I just tried it out, and it works almost perfect
First, I also had to change the line below that in the options:
"Showskin=0" to "Showskin=1"...Once I did that, the skin loaded fine.
There's just one small glitch, as it looks like the image has shifted "up" in the frame...it's cut off a bit at the top, and leaves a band showing down at the bottom (I'm including a screenshot to demonstrate). Hiding the toolbar improves it a bit obviously, but there's still a bit cutoff at the top.
Zoom works great though, no "squares" in any of the ratios I've tried
The "call" and "end" hardware buttons work just fine too...but the "home" and "back" buttons don't seem to respond.
I don't know if any of the issues are related to the fact I'm running a T-mobile TP2 instead of an unbranded or AT&T model like in this skin.
Anyway, thanks again for the effort, just wanted to give you some feedback from the field
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Two questions really quick:
1) Which version of MyMobiler are you using? (mine is 1.25 Build 00122.0205.46)
2) Have you tried activating the skin through "View" -> "Show Skin"? Doing it this way turns off the toolbar completely leaving just the skin.
Thanks for the feedback!