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Contact pictures in Dialer

hello all
anybody here know how to make the contact picture's in dialer look bigger? currently its so small and not nice looking. anybody know how to tweak this in registry?
thanks.

no magical fix yet. pocketx's photo contacts pro is a common suggestion. not cheap, but you get per-contact ringtones too

creating icons for dialling direct from today screen using I Launcher

Hi there,
Just put the excellent phone dialer from Vijay555 on my i Launcher (on a K jam), which works just fine - but being a computer duffer I can't work out how to change the phone dial icon to mini - pictures of my family who I'm calling - even though they have been successfully pinned to their slots in Contacts - (they live in My Pictures).
I guess I should shrink them down to icon size - but how do you do that??? !!! aagghhh!!
Can you help??
Thanks!

You'll need a photoshop type program and shrin your icons down then save them as TGA files. Theres instructions on sbsh.nets forums for creating your own icons as well.

I've posted about this here and there - I use claunch as my launcher, but the photoshopping is the same either way.
Find a nice portrait photo, use the crop tool and crop in as close as you can around the face/boobs etc, and make it squarish.
Crop that.
Then resize your nice square crop to 32x32 pixels. That's very small, so there'll be hardly any detail, but it should do the job.
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Brilliant - I'm very grateful
Thanks so much - even a knuckle head like me managed to do it - I'm very grateful!

Touch Themed Calculator

Hey guys,
Was wondering if anyone knew of a big button calculator that's skinnable, preferrably one that's already touch themed? I've tried gcalc but I'd prefer something more finger friendly and doesn't require me to switch views to do % or clear.
Thanks!

i created a touch skin for gCalc using photoshop, but when i use it on ppc it looks horrible - like it can only render in 256 colours... any ideas?

i just found out that you can actually skin the default calculator that came with windows mobile... there is a black skin that looks nice for touch
you can get it here (but you have to sign-up 1st)
http://www.spbclub.com/program_skins.php?program=Calculator

amanakbar said:
i created a touch skin for gCalc using photoshop, but when i use it on ppc it looks horrible - like it can only render in 256 colours... any ideas?
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that is because the display/WM6 only has 16 bit color depth, which makes the shading effect look awful.
Try to save it as dithered gif. Although it is only 8 bit color it should look much better.
Maybe you can use Adobe Photoshop to save it as dithered 16bit .bmp
Or simply take the (dithered) background from the Touch Home plugin. You find that as .png in the \windows folder

thanks for the tip...
anyway anyone knows how to create a skin for the default calculator? mind telling me how? the black one looks good but i want to try my hands on creating a more touch theme one

Thanks for the great skin, however I would also like to know how to make these skins, so if someone knows, please share! =D

Here's my try ...
Install the SPB Black Skin and the copy the SpbCalc_P.gif in the Touch "Windows" directory (replace the old one). Start calc.exe ... that's all
View attachment SpbCalc_P.zip
I only made the Portrait skin since I don't use the landscape mode
Here's a screenshot :
Enjoy ...

it works n looks great... thanks

Jayz2K said:
Here's my try ...
Install the SPB Black Skin and the copy the SpbCalc_P.gif in the Touch "Windows" directory (replace the old one). Start calc.exe ... that's all
View attachment 51735
I only made the Portrait skin since I don't use the landscape mode
Here's a screenshot :
View attachment 51736
Enjoy ...
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just replace the SpbCalc_P.gif inside the my device >>Windows file...
(only replace the file that i supost need to have in my Windows file)
this is gona replace the default calculator skin of my htc touch... and after just come to programs and launch the calculator... nothing else????

If you installed the Spb skin first and replaced the gif file in the windows directory ... nope ... nothing else to do ... just launch calc .exe
Spb skin here : http://www.spbclub.com/skin.php?skin_id=57

thanks nice skin...

here a calculator I made (thanx Jayz2k for your work) :
http://www.planete-htc.com/index.php?mod=forum&ac=voir&cat=72&id=9220&debut=0#post69042
there is a second one but if the calculs are correct the skin doesn t work...
i don t know how to put the images on xda-dev but you ll see them following the link above...

Hey nice going there Jayz2K. I acutually liked this one so good that I shaved down the original SPB Black Skin (from 372kb to 57kb) and created a cab for your image. Thumbs Up
File removed:
ELF_CalculatorSkin.cab (56.5 KB, 111 views)
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The ELF Calculator Skin is now perfected.
I have redone all the graphics from scratch and polished off the design.
This in my opinion has led to a more clean and true ELF like look.
A big thanks still goes out to Jayz2K for the inspiration.
The file size have increased a bit but I'm sure you will agree that it is worth it.

mate thats excellent. love it
thank u n Jayz2k so much
just what i've been looking for

@theincredibledede ... nice skins
Great work btw, I really dislike the standard one.

very nice calc, thx very much

realy nice skin, thx very much.
is it possible to change the blue into a grey?

mmm
Copied to the windows Dir... started Calc... still the same nasty one..

Thanks for the easy cab cersion nanoflower, it looks super nice.

nice.... very good theme....
as should be default theme made for htc...

Full Screen Picture for Caller ID

How to get a Bigger or Full Screen picture for Caller ID? The Default one is pretty small.

There is no application? pls rep something

Have you tried some of the other Panels? Maybe spb or even the touchflo3d could have bigger caller pictures..

They do, but the resolution stinks...TF3D just blows up the little tiny picture bigger which is crap...

S2U2 has an option for enabling full-screen caller ID, but it stretches the tiny Windows Contact pic so it looks awful.

Oh god! This is so bad. There is not a single software? Shame on WM

There are several alternatives;
S2u2 as mentioned above, (set the contact pic using S2V btw, scales properly that way). Available in the Dev & Hacking section of this very forum.
As is iCaller http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450187
Commercially theres
Phonex and Photo contacts pro both are really nice apps.
The manilla dialer is my favourite, and one reason why I tend to install it on most devices.. The blackstone one doesn't do fullscreen but it is much better than stock, and a nice slidey answer button.
There's probably more, but as you don't seem to want to search for them I won't either..
But the first find in GOOGLE comes up with these..
http://www.pocketpccentral.net/software/contact_cid.htm

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S2U2 has an option for enabling full-screen caller ID, but it stretches the tiny Windows Contact pic so it looks awful.
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Not if you use S2v to assign picture to contact. It looks great on my X1.
Home of S2U2, S2P and S2V

Okay,i m messed up with too many. What you guys are using?

emwdava said:
Not if you use S2v to assign picture to contact. It looks great on my X1.
Home of S2U2, S2P and S2V
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Ahhhh! Did not know that, good idea
Though I'm using "Fonebook" to sync Facebook pictures down to my Outlook contacts... I guess I have to pick one, huh.

I`m just testing out Photo Contacts Pro. The Photos are still crapped..to far to much compression noise...yes i reasigned them from the orignal source imagaes.
Ist Phonex looking better?
Ok found the settings to increase photo quality. 400 x 400 pixel and still a lot of compression artefacts...it has to be better...

Photo Contacts Pro is having a problem sending SMS...i get the message "this sms message cant be sent" anyone any idea what to do about it?
I like the SMS editor from photocontacts..larger buttons and all that stuff...

HTC Icons in Task Manager

Hello everybody
Does somebody knows why in my Task Manager :
- HTC Calendar icon,
- HTC Footprints icon,
- HTC Music icon,
- HTC People icon
are all the same & with such a boring graphic ?
Have you a solution to change them knowing that I'm a beginner ?
Thank you in advance for help.
PS : I did not find a way to include a screen shot as I do not have an URL.

There is an addon that does it, I had exactly the same. There is an icon pack you cause use to put it back to default, but after my last hard reset I can't seem to locate it for love nor money, sooo I have used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567080 and just Googled the images and resized and used them instead.
It's a bit long winded, but it's better than looking at those bloody white boxes.

Thank you Kalavere,
I will have a look at this thread