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VGA and True VGA?

I am not too sure on which device comes with what? Obviously True VGA is better but how do you get it and why isnt it already in my device or is it?

I'm not 100% sure of your questions but I'll tell you what I know.. You're right, an XDA Exec does not come with software to make it full VGA out of the box.
I never understood why it ran in QVGA until I tried ozVGA (came pre-installed with a custom AKU 3.3 ROM) but now I know -- in VGA mode the title/softkey bars, and almost everything is VERY small. I have pretty good eyesight, and I expected everything to be small, but it's seriously small!
I've attached some screenies, but XDA-Dev resized them. You can find the native solution screenshots here:
http://www.calcaria.net/files/xdavga/ScreenShot1.png
http://www.calcaria.net/files/xdavga/ScreenShot2.png
http://www.calcaria.net/files/xdavga/ScreenShot3.png

So how do you go about making the Universal use True VGA?

it depends what rom you have.

Midget_1990 said:
it depends what rom you have.
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Is it something you can install with a cab file?

SPB Mobile Shell 2.1 and VGA?

Friends,
I've looked through hundreds of pages and can't find much that notes it is VGA compatible. Can any of you post links to shells that work with VGA? I'd love a WM7 or Diamond theme, or anything dark and attractive. A simple one with calendar and no tabs for lots of room.
Anyone?

There is less people use VGA device rite now thats why skin for VGA is only a little I just can find VGA skin at http://mobileshell.ppc-theme.com
Please if anyone have the info where I can find VGA skin for mobileshell , please share also thanks

I'm having no luck at all...
theme freak said:
There is less people use VGA device rite now thats why skin for VGA is only a little I just can find VGA skin at http://mobileshell.ppc-theme.com
Please if anyone have the info where I can find VGA skin for mobileshell , please share also thanks
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DrewVS said:
Friends,
I've looked through hundreds of pages and can't find much that notes it is VGA compatible. Can any of you post links to shells that work with VGA? I'd love a WM7 or Diamond theme, or anything dark and attractive. A simple one with calendar and no tabs for lots of room.
Anyone?
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+1111111111111

VGA users are being discriminated..so sad

theme freak said:
VGA users are being discriminated..so sad
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don't worry that will change in a few months when the touch diamond comes out.. you will see much more support and themes for vga, i guarantee

tft said:
don't worry that will change in a few months when the touch diamond comes out.. you will see much more support and themes for vga, i guarantee
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what a supportive words hehe thanks really hope that will happen

tft said:
don't worry that will change in a few months when the touch diamond comes out.. you will see much more support and themes for vga, i guarantee
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You are very positive. I am not.
Athena is about a year on the market. Universal, I guess about 2 years. Bouth support VGA. Didn't help.

Er.. you could try to edit your own theme. I own a I780 but in RealVGA mode at 96 dpi, all the layouts are messed. I did a lot of editing and came up with the basic theme running at 96dpi mode. I had also done a Diamond theme and did some modification work as well.
You could try to do it.

Tadeusz said:
You are very positive. I am not.
Athena is about a year on the market. Universal, I guess about 2 years. Bouth support VGA. Didn't help.
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But HTC Touch Diamond is different you can see if anyone made a thread about "Touch Diamond" the views will be thousands so its different..hope this Diamond will really made all VGA users becomes diamond hehe

If I had a VGA Device to test with, I would support it on my themes, but unfortunately I only have qvga devices.
A friend is going to loan me his 240x240 for a couple days so I can port to that though.

need VGA

I for one very much miss VGA. I had a Dell x50v back in the day and the screen was AWESOME!
I WILL be getting the Diamond Pro (with keyboard) when it comes out in the US.

NiteStalker said:
If I had a VGA Device to test with, I would support it on my themes, but unfortunately I only have qvga devices.
A friend is going to loan me his 240x240 for a couple days so I can port to that though.
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WM6.1 VGA emulator?

Hey buddy....Check this link out....http://mobileshell.ppc-theme.com/ maybe it can help you find the VGA theme

DrewVS said:
Friends,
I've looked through hundreds of pages and can't find much that notes it is VGA compatible. Can any of you post links to shells that work with VGA? I'd love a WM7 or Diamond theme, or anything dark and attractive. A simple one with calendar and no tabs for lots of room.
Anyone?
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From what (little...) I understand Your main question is if Mobile Shell is VGA compatible and not about themes.
Yes, it is. I've been running it smoothly on my Eten X500+ for months now together with SPB Weather, Time and Diary. It is IMO fast and reliable and lacks almost nothing I want from a shell. I will try iContact again when someone makes it truly VGA-compatible (larger icons, buttons and text) but Mobile Shells contacts is also quick and easy to use.
Just FYI
Benny Lloyd Willner
Sweden

iPhkali Theme for ThumbCal 1.0.7+

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thanks you for you beautifull thème ;D

qvga or vga?

Huey85 said:
qvga or vga?
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Designed for qvga, but ThumbCal will upscale to vga I think.
Want to donate some hardware for me to make sure ?

snachez said:
Designed for qvga, but ThumbCal will upscale to vga I think.
Want to donate some hardware for me to make sure ?
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Nice work again, but you're wrong. TC won't upscale it correctly. Upscale your skin to VGA and then compare it to the diamond VGA skin. You'll see differences.

Nice one!!! Really appreciate it!! thanks, m8
Olioaglio

Lycox said:
Nice work again, but you're wrong. TC won't upscale it correctly. Upscale your skin to VGA and then compare it to the diamond VGA skin. You'll see differences.
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Ah cool. Thanks for the clarification. I'll try doing a vga version if there's enough interest.

Nice skin dude. Thanks.

i use this too and want to say thank you. but i think for a iphone skin it uses too dark colors ? isnt the Calendar more white than grey?

oi. now i'm torn between this and the original one.

I'm quite interested on a VGA version. I do hope you can provide it.
Cheers

bluemetalaxe said:
i use this too and want to say thank you. but i think for a iphone skin it uses too dark colors ? isnt the Calendar more white than grey?
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Yer it is quite dark, its not meant to be an actual iPhone clone, just heavily inspired from it. I have a dark theme throughout my whole phone (which Im prepping to launch soon) so it fits in with what I need. I might make a brighter version if your can convince me
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I'm quite interested on a VGA version. I do hope you can provide it.
Cheers
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Unfortunately I dont have VGA hardware to test on, nor the time at the moment to give it a shot. I can't promise anything immediately but when I do get a bit of free time I will maybe try (don't hold your breath though )
@nir36; cheers.

@snachez: i understand that you want it to fit to your other apps, and it really looks good. But if you find time i would be really happy for a brighter official look
if not, i´ll use it anyway.
this is my calendar for todaylife, maybe this inspires you

snachez said:
Yer it is quite dark, its not meant to be an actual iPhone clone, just heavily inspired from it. I have a dark theme throughout my whole phone (which Im prepping to launch soon) so it fits in with what I need. I might make a brighter version if your can convince me
Unfortunately I dont have VGA hardware to test on, nor the time at the moment to give it a shot. I can't promise anything immediately but when I do get a bit of free time I will maybe try (don't hold your breath though )
@nir36; cheers.
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Snachez I'm a fan of your work.... there's only one problem.....I use burt's icontact version.....ok so now you probaly know what I want to ask you for ...could you make an iPhkali skin for Burt version? please

Can't Install
...for some reason, I can't installed this. I opened the cab, went to the settings menu..and nothing.. Any ideas?

Krebel said:
...for some reason, I can't installed this. I opened the cab, went to the settings menu..and nothing.. Any ideas?
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Yeah the new version of thumbcal has a different path rogram files\thumbcal
and iPhkali skin installs to programfiles\thumbapps\thumbcal(or something like that). Just move the iphkali file from programfiles\thumbapps\thumbcal folder into program files\thumbcal folder and it should do the trick.

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Yeah the new version of thumbcal has a different path rogram files\thumbcal
and iPhkali skin installs to programfiles\thumbapps\thumbcal(or something like that). Just move the iphkali file from programfiles\thumbapps\thumbcal folder into program files\thumbcal folder and it should do the trick.
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Heres an updated version which puts it in the new correct path. Skin should still work fine as before.

i'll use this on my wiz... thats it

nir36 said:
i'll use this on my wiz... thats it
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Thanks nir36, I'm in the last stages of getting my full UL theme ready for release - nice darkish feel to it all. Props to s.l.i. for the awesome calendar

Xperia panels interface to qvga

I know everyone's been working really hard on the HTC Diamond interface to get it qvga, I was wondering if anyone's interested in trying to get the xperia's panel interface into QVGA.

Tried it...
The aspect ratio really screws things up...
(might work on the omnia better, but I don't have one to test it on, and it needs lots of little tweaks to get it to work...)

can you share the application? even for VGA i am getting an HTC Touch Diamond and i'd really like to have this feature if it can be used on it?

the dpi is 192, omnia uses 92...if someone just guide me, how to manage the OEM files, i can make a ROM for Omnia...well it is posssible to make a custom ROM for Omnia

that would be awesome.
tf3d is getting on the overrated side

guys just search for Dynamo v2.0
its a task manager available since 2002 and working great on my X500 right now animated and fully skinable
http://www.aspecto-software.com/rw/applications/dynamo/

vodovodo said:
guys just search for Dynamo v2.0
its a task manager available since 2002 and working great on my X500 right now animated and fully skinable
http://www.aspecto-software.com/rw/applications/dynamo/
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The source code is also available here, if someone wants to take a crack at updating it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417214

I currently only have a pre release build from a pre-release ROM.
The DPI is fixed, as in, there are no image DLLs, and the dimensions are fixed in the applications.
It won't work on a Diamond, as the ratio is all wrong (the "W" in WVGA does - surprisingly - stand for something).

w means wvga.
wvga was 800 by 400 px while vga has 600 by 400
youre gonna have a tough time but its not impossible.
try narrowing the panels

[email protected] said:
w means wvga.
wvga was 800 by 400 px while vga has 600 by 400
youre gonna have a tough time but its not impossible.
try narrowing the panels
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Umm... Do you want to try narrowing the panels?
I know it's difficult, and that is why I have yet to post anything!
W means "Wide", hence the Omnia has WQVGA, or wide QVGA. Also, WVGA is 800x480, VGA is 640x480.

If we find any skins that work on the xperia for spb shell, should we post it on this thread to keep track of them?

I think a thread in the X1 forum may be a better place...

l3v5y said:
Umm... Do you want to try narrowing the panels?
I know it's difficult, and that is why I have yet to post anything!
W means "Wide", hence the Omnia has WQVGA, or wide QVGA. Also, WVGA is 800x480, VGA is 640x480.
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i wish i could.
dont know where to get the panel files tho.

[email protected] said:
i wish i could.
dont know where to get the panel files tho.
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I shall upload them tomorrow.
The biggest difficulty so far is that the today plugin aspect of panels dislikes QVGA...

well works come along way on the diamond interface, and the omnia interface which is wqva is coming along way too. So maybe we could get this going. Can someone post the cab or files and we'll see what we can do.

Updates
Hey folks,
was jus wondering if there was any updates on the panels.
Btw, Omnia or X1???

No updates as of yet.
The Omnia/X1 are completely different devices, with completely different aims. If you need a keyboard, get the X1, if you don't get the Omnia!

l3v5y said:
No updates as of yet.
The Omnia/X1 are completely different devices, with completely different aims. If you need a keyboard, get the X1, if you don't get the Omnia!
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or HTC Touch Pro verus HTC Touc HD etc etc,.. get the Xperia cabs up allready, its the Xperia softs were after the phones are almost the same.. (read almost, and that dont include screensize, hardkeyboard, blinking leds, touching touchscreens, rubbery backcovers, flashing flashy flashlights.)
Panels for everyone! who dont want the fishpanel? i know i do..

Just use the VisualTask switcher. Link in my signature...

I think that, like most ppl, he is in on for the fishes... ;D

WM 6.5 Build 21202 Wallpaper

Hi guys!
Can someone please extract some of these beautifull wallpapers for us from a WM 6.5 ROM... i wanna build some smartphone themes with it....
Thanks in advance

here you go
these are QVGA portrait and landscape

sheennick123456 said:
here you go
these are QVGA portrait and landscape
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You are the man!!
Thanks alot! Its appreciated

oh yeah
these backgrounds are really cool (and fit perfectly on my standard sliding panels)
i love isaac mizhrai wallpaper (i love pink/purple display a lot)
thank you very much

What about the default (black) one? I don't know where to look for it .

sheennick123456 said:
here you go
these are QVGA portrait and landscape
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you have wvga too? i really like those..
tnx in advance..
marcel

Display
They are displaying in tile form. How can I get them fit to screen?
Thank you!!!
Xperia running wm6.5

i think you all should look at this if u want to develop
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501506
and if u are looking for a all black theme... u should look at m.carroll pureblack he has one of the best, there are three different versions so u have to pick.

marcelvanblankers said:
you have wvga too? i really like those..
tnx in advance..
marcel
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You can find the original WVGA wallpapers on my website: http://www.tomlenferink.nl/wm-65-wallpapers.html.
Rightclick and choose: Save as, to save in 800x480 or 480x800 pixels.