HELP! i've searched the internet and back and haven't found an answer... Is there only a certain image format which can be made transparent? if so what is it?... also i've tried setting an image as background though file explorer... the image is set, but you can hardly see the image, plus it tiles the image. I've also tried through the today plug in where you browse, but the same thing happens no option for transparency. This is my second Xperia, due to a fault in my last and i remember have a transparency option on a few select images on the device. please help i've been trying to fix this for ages!
Regards,
Joel
blink182_joel said:
HELP! i've searched the internet and back and haven't found an answer... Is there only a certain image format which can be made transparent? if so what is it?... also i've tried setting an image as background though file explorer... the image is set, but you can hardly see the image, plus it tiles the image. I've also tried through the today plug in where you browse, but the same thing happens no option for transparency. This is my second Xperia, due to a fault in my last and i remember have a transparency option on a few select images on the device. please help i've been trying to fix this for ages!
Regards,
Joel
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pictures and videos> set this pic etc.. adjust transparency
fards said:
pictures and videos> set this pic etc.. adjust transparency
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hahaha! legend! I never thought to use pictures and videos.
much appreciated!
best regards,
Joel
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I have a lovely photo as my today wallpaper but it is faded out so much it's spoilt. Is there a way I can make it display without any transparency. I have searched these forums and gone through all the option I could find on the phone and didn't find anything.
Thanks
PDA Paul said:
I have a lovely photo as my today wallpaper but it is faded out so much it's spoilt. Is there a way I can make it display without any transparency. I have searched these forums and gone through all the option I could find on the phone and didn't find anything.
Thanks
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Trying viewing the photo through pictures & Videos in start menu programs. Then choose photo and go to menu, you will see set as today background, then you can adjust transparency!
Hope this helps
Great, thank you. I would never have found that. GF is looking good on the phone now.
Thanks again.
How about is it possible to make the start menu background opaque so that I can actually read what is in the start menu??
I would rather use a registry setting than a tweak tool, thanks.
I really don't want to start threads, I searched for this but only found a today plugin, or flash backgrounds. Please if someone knows such thing tell me. There should be such a thing. I will love 2 hav it.
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If you have a themes player to animate on the Today screen, you can download full screen and other size animated GIFs free at funformobile.com
oh Thanks for ur reply. I was getting so disappointed
well wat themes player i should use. Any good, light one ?
jawwad_shaukat said:
well wat themes player i should use. Any good, light one ?
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As far as I know, and after searching for a themes player myself, I discovered there are no free or free to try players. $15 and up. If my memory serves me correctly, the company who provides theme player programs is "wasp". Google to find more.
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Well i searched a lot on google, but unfortunately couldn't find the required thing (mayb im too bad, but not that much). All i find relative was "Wasp Barcode Technologies Wasp Mobile Asset Desktop" , "wasptech.com" but they make something else or mayb im missing something. Are u sure this one is the thing i want, i mean which plays gif as a background. Moreover could u tell anything which can set html page as background. Kindly please guide me.
aaah i get something its netwasp. U know wen i searched for wasp themes player....etc i got nothing but wen i searched 4 exactly "theme player programs" then i got that
very close to wat i want, as the theme generator can import gif, ive once saw them b4 but left as they may b heavy. Well a simple standalone gif only background animator would b the best 4 me
try "animated today"
no one is exactly understanding me . Animated today and FlashTheme Player are same and FlashDash and FlashThemes Pro are same. Both use Flash Player which is much resource taking and even wen it uses gif u need a theme generator for it and its so unreal. Wat i need is just as u simply set a jpeg as background u could set an animated gif.
well as i understang it, you cannot set a jpeg to animate. you need a series of jpegs and then convert it to a .gif file, there are programs to do this, then you can use todaygif to set it on your screen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=295976&highlight=todaygif
I know that, not a stupid . U didn't actually understood me. I ve searched every where and i dont need any today PLUGIN or any Flash based themes, thats what my topic clearly states. What i was saying, meant that a program that enables u to set animated gif just like the way we usually use to set jpeg, bmp... pictures by default as background in the ppc.
jawwad_shaukat said:
I know that, not a stupid . U didn't actually understood me. I ve searched every where and i dont need any today PLUGIN or any Flash based themes, thats what my topic clearly states. What i was saying, meant that a program that enables u to set animated gif just like the way we usually use to set jpeg, bmp... pictures by default as background in the ppc.
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I think Ive got what you're asking for below in the attached cab files. Install both, preferrably to main memory. The HTC gif player is what actually animates the gifs. The other cab is a gif to get started.If your today screen is cluttered ie: battery status, launches, etc., only smaller gifs can be played...80x80 or under. On the other hand, if nothing is on your today screen, you can animate gifs 128x128 and up to 240x320. You can go to www.funformobile.com and download any size animation you want for your background. After the cabs have been installed, go to your Today settings, click "items", and check the box by GIF Today, click o.k., the gif should appear. After you've downloaded animations from the above website, click the right side of the animation on the today screen, a box pops up, click "confg", tap on the parameter boxes to put your larger animation in its place. I created a folder in my SD memory, named it Today GIFs, and the animations I downloaded were saved to that folder. Sure hope I'm understanding your wants, and this helps!
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hotdog, i appreciate ur efforts and thank u for ur help. I ve said that i didn't need a TODAY PLUGIN (its useless), i need a thing that can animate e.g this .gif person on today's background (see pic1) like this (see pic2) or any other gif. Sorry if im bothering too much
I think this could be done if there is u can set an HTML page as today background (not plugin), is there any prog for that ?
jawwad_shaukat said:
hotdog, i appreciate ur efforts and thank u for ur help. I ve said that i didn't need a TODAY PLUGIN (its useless), i need a thing that can animate e.g this .gif person on today's background (see pic1) like this (see pic2) or any other gif. Sorry if im bothering too much
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The GIF on my today screen is the gif taken from your attached zip file. It is actually animated on my today screen by the HTC Gif player whose download file I've attached in this thread. The player will animate pictures when you tap on them anywhere in the directory..not just the Today screen.
hotdog53 said:
The GIF on my today screen is the gif taken from your attached zip file. It is actually animated on my today screen by the HTC Gif player whose download file I've attached in this thread. The player will animate pictures when you tap on them anywhere in the directory..not just the Today screen.
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Here's an app that lets you see all your pictures and photos as a slideshow on the Today screen. After installation, go to Today settings, items, checkmark the box by PHM pictures, highlight name, options, set to your choosing.
hotdog53 said:
Here's an app that lets you see all your pictures and photos as a slideshow on the Today screen. After installation, go to Today settings, items, checkmark the box by PHM pictures, highlight name, options, set to your choosing.
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One more from Mad Dr. Jekyll.....
I just uninstalled cLaunch, a couple of Zombienexus themes and dialer skins, iContacts and Slide2Unlock. (Gonna reinstall and start fresh)
I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with it but as I am choosing a wallpaper/BG from Settings>Today >"Use this picture as the background"; It is no longer giving me a preview of the wallpaper with the slider for the opacity.
Did I delete it?
Does anybody know what I can do to fix this as all my backgrounds are washed out.
Thanks.
Anyone have anything on this? I'm having a similar problem. I tried to install HTC Home on mine and it locked it up. Had to do a hard-reset, then reinstalled the WM 6.1 ROM and it still doesn't give me the slider or the preview.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This was the first thread to pop up in a Google search of the site. After some further investigation, let me answer my own question...
Hi guys,
When I put a picture as the today's wallpaper, the picture is lighter than normal.
Is there anyway to fix it and get the real picture colors ?
Thx
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If you set the image under settings/today, thats what you will get. For some reason it uses a transparency value (nowhere to change this here).
The best and easiest solution I have found, is to open the Camera, and view the Album. Browse to the image you want, click it and keep it pressed so that the context menu comes up, select "Set as Today Background...". This will show you the image, and allow you to set the transparency level. Set it to zero, and the image in the Today Background will look exactly as it should.
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From: http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-346530.html
Is it possible to change only wallpaper (not today wallpaper) or I have to make new panel with my wallpaper?
GuzioR said:
Is it possible to change only wallpaper (not today wallpaper) or I have to make new panel with my wallpaper?
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huh
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I downloaded wallpaper from some website and now I would like to have this wallpaper in my phone. In panels I can change COLOR (yellow, red, Maroon, XPERIA etc.).
I want to change this color for wallpaper/some photo from camera. Is it possible? I didn't find any option which is responsible for it.
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I downloaded wallpaper from some website and now I would like to have this wallpaper in my phone. In panels I can change COLOR (yellow, red, Maroon, XPERIA etc.).
I want to change this color for wallpaper/some photo from camera. Is it possible? I didn't find any option which is responsible for it.
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Of course, just navigate to Programs\panels\sonyericssonpanel\images and exchange the images there. Every color sheme has a number (e.g.09 for brown) and a portrait image (09v) and a landscape image (09h). When you save the new images over the existing, you can chose your images from the panel's options (e.g. color sheme "brown" is your image files).
Folder 'images' is empty...
Are you in the right folder on the phone's memory? Have you tried accessing this folder via Active Sync?
The folder can't be empty otherwise you would have no background in the SonyEricsson-Panel.
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Of course, just navigate to Programs\panels\sonyericssonpanel\images and exchange the images there. Every color sheme has a number (e.g.09 for brown) and a portrait image (09v) and a landscape image (09h). When you save the new images over the existing, you can chose your images from the panel's options (e.g. color sheme "brown" is your image files).
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So just adding new won't work??
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Are you in the right folder on the phone's memory? Have you tried accessing this folder via Active Sync?
The folder can't be empty otherwise you would have no background in the SonyEricsson-Panel.
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Yeah, I'm right. I try it via Active Sync but it's still empty. My phone is new. I own it from 2 days. Look at screen. Maybe "sep1p" "sep1pl" etc. are images which you are talking about?
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Yeah, I'm right. I try it via Active Sync but it's still empty. My phone is new. I own it from 2 days. Look at screen. Maybe "sep1p" "sep1pl" etc. are images which you are talking about?
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Look from the phone level! Use TotalCommander.
doministry said:
So just adding new won't work??
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I think not. The options menu in the panel only shows the preinstalled color themes. Don't have an idea how to connect new images to new themes -mabye there is a config file somewhere in the panel's folder.
Yeah, I'm right. I try it via Active Sync but it's still empty. My phone is new. I own it from 2 days. Look at screen. Maybe "sep1p" "sep1pl" etc. are images which you are talking about?
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You are in the wrong folder: These files are in the panel's root-folder. Just open the next folder "IMAGES".
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You are in the wrong folder: These files are in the panel's root-folder. Just open the next folder "IMAGES".
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Look, below 1st screen there is pasted next which shows EMPTY FOLDER "IMAGES".
EDIT: There are images but I opened it via File Manager. Should I exchange 2 images? Portrait and landscape?
GuzioR said:
Look, below 1st screen there is pasted next which shows EMPTY FOLDER "IMAGES".
EDIT: There are images but I opened it via File Manager. Should I exchange 2 images? Portrait and landscape?
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Yeah, 2 images, h for your desired landscape pic and v for the portrait pic.
Just look at the pic's properties what resolution you need -should be 7xx x 480p (because you need to cut the taskbar from the 800pixels height)
Ok. Thank you for help.
Now there is nothing to do than trying
I have WM 6.1 and have recently changed my background to something that has some white in it. Now because of this and the fact that the start menu is transparent I can't read some of the text in the menu.
Before anyone suggests it, yes I'm aware of how to change the text color using the registry. I am not interested in doing this, I tried it and didn't really like it.
I am looking to do one of two things:
1. Remove the transparency.
2. Add a thin black stroke to make it readable.
Any suggestion that works is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Does anyone have any knowledge of what I can do here? This is really pretty obnoxious and I don't know how to fix it.
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I have WM 6.1 and have recently changed my background to something that has some white in it. Now because of this and the fact that the start menu is transparent I can't read some of the text in the menu.
Before anyone suggests it, yes I'm aware of how to change the text color using the registry. I am not interested in doing this, I tried it and didn't really like it.
I am looking to do one of two things:
1. Remove the transparency.
2. Add a thin black stroke to make it readable.
Any suggestion that works is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Actually, the start menu is not transparent, but rather it uses a piece of the picture in your background to make it look as if it was transparent. Changing system fonts might solve your issue. There are a few programs that will allow you to do that in Dev&Hacking. Also, I believe that mrMakk has a tutorial on how to do this.
Alternatively, you can try to change the menu picture by using something like Theme Creator v2 or Theme Generator v2 (I can't remember the correct name for the program).
Thanks man, I'll give the theme generator a try when I get home.
Theme generator only works on 2002. The themes it generates could not be applied to WinMo 6.1...
Anyone got another suggestion? Surely there is a way to change the start menu picture in WinMo 6.1...
When I select a picture and set it as a Today Background, it brings up a screen so that I could select a Transparency Level.
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When I select a picture and set it as a Today Background, it brings up a screen so that I could select a Transparency Level.
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I don't believe that this is what the user is asking for.
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I don't believe that this is what the user is asking for.
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He is asking about the transparency of the Start Menu isn't he? When you click on Start it drops down a menu correct?
On my phone, when I go to save a picture as my wallpaper, I am able to change the transparency of the Start menu. I'm not saying that's the only way, that's the only way I know and it worked for me.
If I'm wrong, I apologize.
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I have WM 6.1 and have recently changed my background to something that has some white in it. Now because of this and the fact that the start menu is transparent I can't read some of the text in the menu.
Before anyone suggests it, yes I'm aware of how to change the text color using the registry. I am not interested in doing this, I tried it and didn't really like it.
I am looking to do one of two things:
1. Remove the transparency.
2. Add a thin black stroke to make it readable.
Any suggestion that works is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I want to get transparent to startmenu (WM6.1). I try some ways as registry othe sotf but didn't
How can u do it, pls help me.?
i was able to have separate pictures for my today screen and start menu, i used themegence, my advice is MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CORRECT RESOLUTION SET or it will scale the images incorrectly i uploaded a picture of the the theme i made for my phone to show what im talking about