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I am running the original T-Mobile Windows mobile 5.0 rom and have installed the htc home application so the weather function works on my MBW-150 watch. But the display is cropped on the top and bottom,I have tried different vertions but still no luck. Any help or pointers would be great
Have you tried removing Today plugins one at a time to
see which is crowding the display?
no even if there is only the htc plugin on the today screen its the same,If too many items are displayed a scroll bar is shown.
search for vga htc home plug in
What DPI setting are you using?
I am running the vga version, and the dpi is at what ever the standard WM 5 is (unless I am missing somthing and I can alter the DPI on WM5 ?
just got a XT7501 and facing the same problem. does anyone know the solution?
That version of the HTC home, which was an earlier version hacked to work on the Athena, only displays correctly at 96dpi.
If you want that to display properly, you need to install RealVGA, which can be found very quickly by searching these here forums, or try the new one in the AP4 addons cab.
Amazing what searching can do!!
**sarcastic rant over**
Well, I'm somewhat confortable with the standart resolution which brings me large buttons to touch on the go. Since I had HTCHome on my TyTNII, I was supposing they will work with standart resolution also. Guess I'm totally wrong and will need to read more about VGA, RealVGA, etc.
rcf2 said:
Well, I'm somewhat confortable with the standart resolution which brings me large buttons to touch on the go. Since I had HTCHome on my TyTNII, I was supposing they will work with standart resolution also. Guess I'm totally wrong and will need to read more about VGA, RealVGA, etc.
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I will suggesto to go in the athena wm6 section, AP4 thread, download AP4 addons.rar, extract HTC HOME all DPI and test it!
sergiopi said:
I will suggesto to go in the athena wm6 section, AP4 thread, download AP4 addons.rar, extract HTC HOME all DPI and test it!
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As Sergiopi suggests that version of the HTC home will work in all DPI's, but you will not be able to use the HTC home Customizer application to change the icons, fonts, etc
There is also another HTC_HOME_VGA.cab that works in all DPI's and also allows you to use the customizer app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2150361&postcount=219
Cab in above post
Hey everyone, i created this thread for mobile shell themes that will work on the 800w. just recently i myself started working on Helu wm7 theme that will work on the treo 800w. below i have posted a picture of what i have gotten so far. granted its all messed up still but its a start. i will keep you all posted to how it goes. in the meantime if anyone else has modded a theme for the 800w, please post! thanks, Ervin
Good Start
As a test (if you want to do so) I´m attaching modified WM7 HELU files (Separator.bmp, Separator1.bmp and Separator2.bmp and its respective mask files) from 240 to 320 width. It will look wierd, but it will fill your screen.
Replace your existent files in ms_bkg_now,.dat with this, don´t forget to rencrypt before changing back to .dat
luiggi said:
As a test (if you want to do so) I´m attaching modified WM7 HELU files (Separator.bmp, Separator1.bmp and Separator2.bmp and its respective mask files) from 240 to 320 width. It will look wierd, but it will fill your screen.
Replace your existent files in ms_bkg_now,.dat with this, don´t forget to rencrypt before changing back to .dat
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Well i switched the existing files and it turned out really well. thanks. the home screen looks much better. also, nothing at all is displayed on the programs page, the second one. and the contacts look ok, im not quite sure how there supposed to look but i have posted pictures below of how everything looks right now.
ervman1 said:
Well i switched the existing files and it turned out really well. thanks. the home screen looks much better. also, nothing at all is displayed on the programs page, the second one. and the contacts look ok, im not quite sure how there supposed to look but i have posted pictures below of how everything looks right now.
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This means that Launcher.xml, SpeedDial.xml, Contacts.xml, Weather.xml need some work as far the background, try to follow the HELU original scripts.
a diamond theme like the one already floating around would be awesome
nitty917 said:
a diamond theme like the one already floating around would be awesome
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the 360x360 diamond theme works on the 800w if you run realvga at 96dpi.
All the mobile shell 2.1 themes that were made for the samsung i780 at 360x360 work as well.
it would probably be easier to start from those?
i've seen a few themes scattered throughout the forum. maybe we could consolidate in this thread?
Treo 800w SPb mobile shell themes.
Thanks for all the work guys. I was a big fan of the spb mobile shell theme on the 700wx. It worked very well with the 700wx. I tried the spbmobile shell, realVGA, 96dpi and it worked well and appeared about the same. However on the 800w after a few minutes I would have gliches where certain app buttons would not work or I would not be able to simply hit OK and get back to the WM6.1 stock today screen on the 800. It would be very usefull to try and get all the scatered posts on here. Additionaly it would be great if we could get our own treo 800w forum here.
Treo 800w SPB mobile shell Themes
Any head way. The Diamond theme worked well on the surface but I had a few glitches. For example I would not be able to hold the OK button and go back to the WM today screen after a few minutes or a soft reset or once the phone shut off. Also after a few minutes or the phone shutting off I would not be able to access most applications through the menue of SPB mobile shell Diamond theme. So I went back to using the WM stock theme. I like the spb mobile shell/Diamond theme better.
For those who are using Treo 800w, what resolution does it comes with? I know it is 320x320 but would like to know what dpi it is, 96dpi or 128dpi?
Any help would be appreciated.
Sorry to post on an old thread. Is there a link that I can download the 320x320 diamond theme for the treo 800w. I have been trying a lot of them and none of them seem to work like advertised.
Hi folks,
Is there a way to have exactly this bar permanently on today screen? The pic was taken from an Ifonz screenshot.
I have a Gsmart VGA WM6.0 pro.
I tried Wisbar and other stuff but no way..too heavy and not user friendly at all. The best would be a kinda tsk file or whatever... any help?
Thanx for the great forum..Bye.
The only way to have it permanently there is to use PointUI which has the top bar. Its not quite like the iphone bar, but it has what you need and acts as a task switcher as well as a way to get back to the pointui home screen.
I have asked the developer of the today life program (xml config tool with themes) he is making if he was planning on making a permanent top bar. But he didn't seem to care... such a shame too since it is useful.
Wisbar is the easiest way.
You won't get that without additional software.
Are you sure that PointUi is VGA compatible? I tried it before but it didn't work.
Which version? I believe the latest one is (it may be a seperate cab).
perseus75 said:
Are you sure that PointUi is VGA compatible? I tried it before but it didn't work.
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Well, they did a test version in the old 1.02 version. I don't think they ever did anything for their new 1.5 version in vga.
http://forums.pointui.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=862&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
There are some other vga programs listed in that thread that may interest you.
- problem is that this tasbar is much smaler than the original wm6-one.
- also the icons, text, everything is completly different. windows can´t handle this.
- so the only way to get exactly this taskbar is a net application that runnes over windows mobile.
- why should the programmer of todaylife make a new taskbar when he created a complete Gui thats above windows mobile ? funny !
- if you look at my thread (bluephone) you find a todaylife skin with a original iphone taskbar.
I will try PointUi 1.02 alpha and post feedback.
Thanx guys.
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- problem is that this tasbar is much smaler than the original wm6-one.
- also the icons, text, everything is completly different. windows can´t handle this.
- so the only way to get exactly this taskbar is a net application that runnes over windows mobile.
- why should the programmer of todaylife make a new taskbar when he created a complete Gui thats above windows mobile ? funny !
- if you look at my thread (bluephone) you find a todaylife skin with a original iphone taskbar.
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Why? He created a complete gui thats above WM, great! But it loses its functionality the moment you open a program and it goes back to the WM interface, top taskbar. I thought it was supposed to be "above" WM? How do you get back to the today life screen?
You even created a skin for today life and I tried it. Sadly, it doesn't feel like a gui replacement for WM when the taskbar changes to the ugly, non functional WM bar.
I don't know anything about programming. But there must be a way to keep that bar at the top. *sigh*
all apps are programmed for the big wm taskbar, even if someone could manage to let a new small iphone tasbar stay on top and hide the original bar, you would have a ugly free space between taskbar and any application. So you want nothing more than programm every available software for windows mobile new
so i can tell you just this two words: Not possible ! believe it or not.
perseus75 said:
Hi folks,
Is there a way to have exactly this bar permanently on today screen? The pic was taken from an Ifonz screenshot.
I have a Gsmart VGA WM6.0 pro.
I tried Wisbar and other stuff but no way..too heavy and not user friendly at all. The best would be a kinda tsk file or whatever... any help?
Thanx for the great forum..Bye.
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Wisbar. It's pretty easy to make a skin like that, and it's not as heavy as you mention. Give it a second try!
perseus75 said:
I will try PointUi 1.02 alpha and post feedback.
Thanx guys.
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PointUi alpha 1.02:
seems quite fine and fluid on my Gsmart WM6. I only hope it will be developped for VGA devices.
Wisbar:
I'm still not satisfied with Wisbar 3. It eats my ram and freezes the ppc. Not worth keeping it installed.
I'll keep the original WM interface as it is. Only some spb plugins will be kept in wait of some new advice or suggestion from the forum.
Thanx guys for all the enriching posts.
Ciao ciao.
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Wisbar:
I'm still not satisfied with Wisbar 3. It eats my ram and freezes the ppc. Not worth keeping it installed.
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It 'eats' about 300K on my device. I don't find that very much. Many plugins are more hungry.
as Syd159 said. It does not eat too much and I never had freez caused by Wisbar. It is normal app in combination with Ultimate launch (or SBP Pocket plus) you got total "new phone"
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It 'eats' about 300K on my device. I don't find that very much. Many plugins are more hungry.
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yes wisbar do consume lot of RAM and slow down my phone so I did't use it anymore
Imho I think that a today plugin like Gsmart glass can be worth trying. I like the gui and it belongs to Gigabyte (like my device ).
Have you guys tried it? If so is it that good?
can someone please help me! im trying to find a tiny today plugin that shows u ur GSM carrier name/logo ...mine is ROGERS ...just so i know that i have my GSM activated on my today screen!
builtin 'wireless' today item takes up too much space ,plus it displays wifi and bluetooth icons which i don't have a need for
cheers
for example in this pic, where it says Phone Off, i wud b nice if had a rogers logo or some type of Green icon so i know my gsm carrier is ONLINE
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can someone please help me! im trying to find a tiny today plugin that shows u ur GSM carrier name/logo ...mine is ROGERS ...just so i know that i have my GSM activated on my today screen!
builtin 'wireless' today item takes up too much space ,plus it displays wifi and bluetooth icons which i don't have a need for
cheers
for example in this pic, where it says Phone Off, i wud b nice if had a rogers logo or some type of Green icon so i know my gsm carrier is ONLINE
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I'd suggest something like BatteryStatus (although it has a new name which I have forgotten!) with a skin with just GSM Status.
Also, whilst it's good not having another thread, you're more likely to get an answer in the Questions and Answers sticky.
any developement in this taskbar?
Has anyone tried to install the omnia interface on their Diamond? And did it work?
Mine didn't..
More info: http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/08/29/samsung-omnia-user-interface-on-your-device-plus-more.html
mmm sort of and sort of not effed up my phone a bit.
Would be good if someone could mod the app so it would work on the td.
It looks pretty good and i`ll try ought on ma phone!
Would love to use it with the second today
Omnia interface...
I know this isn't the real thing, but it looks pretty good. If you've got spb Mobile Shell v2.0, you can install this Omnia interface skin for it.
Scroll down the programs to find the entry
The site linked above also has loads of other great free apps.
spb shell theme for omnia : http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/09/18/omnia-spb-mobile-shell-212-theme.html
Omnia on VGA devices : http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/11/17/install-samsung-omnia-user-interface-on-your-vga-device.html
Intrestingly enough I found both these application here on xda dev
by me the screen size of the omnia today doesn't fit to the complete diamond screen... any ideas?
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by me the screen size of the omnia today doesn't fit to the complete diamond screen... any ideas?
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i have the same problem !
Im also having this problem. Has anyone found a way to change it to VGA mode somehow?
Same problem here.
In my case, the diamond dosn't show all the picture. If VGA has a higher resolution than QVGA, it should apear a picture smaller than the screen... no?¿
Any trick to sove this?¿
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428463&highlight=omnia&page=74
post 739
OMG I have posted this so many times in the last few days lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417825&page=76
Well this doesn't help a singe bit for me ...
After installing the cab and the 3 files and activating Samsung Today2
(Samsung Today1 will not work and you have to do a hardreset) I can
see a couple of Samsung ?widgets? - there is no Samsung Widgets to
select for me as stated somewhere.
Anyway the dialer is still not shown on the screen completely.
mst
I have the same problem...no "samsung widgets" in elements of today screen
Just curious if you can use normal Windows Mobile Themes and backgrounds on the Elf?
Yes you can.
Yes you can. Assuming by normal Windows mobile themes you mean standard themes on QVGA resolution. You can also just use plain background images as well, just look for files with the .tsk extension. These can automatically be applied through your today screen.
alright, I was just curious, I was told you cant use the normal tsk files anymore, and that the Elf did not support a Home Screen anymore since the home screen has the custom HTC style....pretty much I am still able to use any tsk file, as long as it is QVGA correct?
Thanks for the clarification and quick reply....
Also has there been any problems on record with TomTom...When I get mine I am hoping to get TomTom on, but not sure if it is compatible with the new TouchFlo interface.
Thanks!
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alright, I was just curious, I was told you cant use the normal tsk files anymore, and that the Elf did not support a Home Screen anymore since the home screen has the custom HTC style....pretty much I am still able to use any tsk file, as long as it is QVGA correct?
Thanks for the clarification and quick reply....
Also has there been any problems on record with TomTom...When I get mine I am hoping to get TomTom on, but not sure if it is compatible with the new TouchFlo interface.
Thanks!
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lol....yes the home screen can still be changed. The tsk file changes the background and the color theme of your phone. You can choose to toggle the default HTC home screen on or off through your today screen settings under start-->settings-->personal-->today-->Items. Either ways it doesn't have any impact whatsoever on the functionality of the tsk file. You can customize it to your hearts content Infact, you can even customize the default HTC home sceen using this app
ahh...very nice I have been debating this or a Wing....
Tom Tom has no issues either?
Last thing I need is to buy a phone and have TomTom software I spent money on be useless
vlcano57 said:
ahh...very nice I have been debating this or a Wing....
Tom Tom has no issues either?
Last thing I need is to buy a phone and have TomTom software I spent money on be useless
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Not sure about tom tom. I don't use it.....not aware. Check somewhere on the forums....I'm sure I remember seeing the name tom tom come up pretty often though. For reasons good or bad....I dont know