Finding it hard getting effective instructions how to change skins on SPB Mobile Shell 2.1
I've downloaded files and been instructed "to replace files in the SPB folder on the device and then perform hard reset"
This has the effect of producing a kind of hybrid between the default and what I'm trying to install.
I presume this is because some files are left over from the previous skin.
If anybody knows of any good tutorials or can help I'd appreciate it. I know I might get bombarded with "use the search" and such like but I've spent what seems like most of my life since I got my Touch Diamond on this forum.
I really need to stay away.....customising this machine is addictive.
Try this one and let me know.
http://www.imarche.net/omnia/kyro.php?page=1
Regards
Sid
Thanks for the reply but no good unfortunately. Generally buggy, skins installed result in overlaps (clock over calendar, calendar under sms/mms etc)
Poor quality icons, no preview of what you are selecting in the numerous customisation options.Bit of a mess really.
I can't help you with a tutorial, but I know there is a dedicated thread in the "General" section of this forum. Also, the SPB Cub forum has very much covered about this topic.
You just import the .dat into the SPB Mobile Shell directory, and that's all you have to do. Also, make sure the theme is for VGA device and not QVGA device, that would cause your theme to overlap and all kind of mess.
Here's mine screen and everything look just fine.
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Related
on the picture below (from the manual at the website for phoneext)
http://phonext.oabsoftware.nl/
what is the name of the today plugin for launching applications?
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I am looking for a launcher plugin with large icons
cLaunch
try this:
http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~welic/claunch.html
is there any application which is "simpler" no needs for the tabs and pages...
just a quick launch plugin with large icons (thumb pressable) to quickly open some applications
tdLaunch
You may try this one:
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/?...ptools/&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2&wb_co=excitejapan
but Claunch is really good, once you gey used to it
What is the GUI Skining application you are using that "!STILL!" shows the phone signal icon. Most GUI Skinning apps cover this info up! Please let me know I can't wait, so excited! :shock:
GUI skin
The picture is not a screen capture of hops's XDA but taken from oabsoftware. And you are right, I didn't notice this. We have to ask them what were they using when they took this picture.
yes please do! I see sometime people doctoring the display to make their product look nice but, it really gets a lot of people excited about something that does not exist I have seached long and hard and nothing seems to be able to do it without cover the signal bars :evil: so I thought it might be pocket blinds a new version but they still have the old one out from years ago no update, and it doesn't work. So needless to say my hopes are high here. So keep us posted I'm sure I'm not the only one wanting this 8)
Well my dialer looks like this
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I think that looks bad and I'd rather have somethig that looks like one of the pics in the thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13515
I've installed the files from that thread but they don't seem to make a difference to the "Phone" application.
That's my experience too, the phone skin seems to be stuck. I've got the standard QTEK phone skin, which looks okay, but the buttons are the wrong shape which you can see when you press them and see the real button behind.
Did you try to install the IntelliDialer from a QTEK extended ROM ? It might solve the button problem.
check out these dialer skins http://www.ppc-club.com/categ.php?id=18
pntzamaras said:
check out these dialer skins http://www.ppc-club.com/categ.php?id=18
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kewl link....was able to insall the phone skins but could'nt install skins for windows media player the format uploaded there is .msk any idea how to install these skins over windows media player....
thanks
regards
jeetz
The dialler skins are easy to use. You need to install a psk file installer to your device and then choose the skin you want to use.
The media player msk files need a different program to be installed, I can't remember the name and the company is offline at the moment.
Meanwhile, feel welcome to grab some more phone skins from my site. Bear in mind, these do not work in landscape mode.
Cheers
ugghhhh anyone else who know how to install .msk ???
Hello Everyone, I hope you all are fine.
I saw a photo of an imate jam (the one I have) who's taskbar was on the bottom of the screen. Here is the photo:
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
May be its just me, but I cannot find any way of bringing it down. I want my phone to look more like real windows and the taskbar on the top doesn't look very good. Also, as you can see in the picture, the address bar of the PIE is also on the top, just like the real IE. Somehow everything in the above phone is setup to look more like real windows. It would be so great if I somebody could suggest a way to do this.
Is this possible? Of course its possible when someone has already done that. But the question is 'how.'
I expected a better response here on XDA-Developers. I posted the same question in another forum but people there didn't seem to be too intelligent. But I'm surprised that even among people who are programmers, I can't see something that could be encouraging.
If you're a programmer reading my post, you could perhaps take a hint about this from Pocket Notepad. When I run this program on WM5 (on HTC Wizard) it does the same effect: Brings the taskbar to the bottom, exactly as I am wanting. It looks very beautiful. But as soon as I close or minimize pocket notepad, everything goes back to its normal position.
actually i wanted to see how to do that too, because to me the bar on the bottom just seems more "normal"...
Found it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346256&page=2
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Please post all PointUI Home2 Applets here
PointUI Home2 Themes Thread is Here
Appointments: (VGA)
Battery: (VGA)
Skin file attached. To install just unzip the files and replace the jif files under the AppletRibbon/Battery folder.
Is this VGA only ? Installing it on the HTC touch seems to be a little messed up. Could you please the QVGA version as well.
Thanks a bunch
please keep these coming!!! i really like point ui but its limited on applets. has anyone tried to port the bell ui applets to this version of home2? the seperate files are there in folders but im not a programmer so i wouldnt know how to make them work on our version...
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please keep these coming!!! i really like point ui but its limited on applets. has anyone tried to port the bell ui applets to this version of home2? the seperate files are there in folders but im not a programmer so i wouldnt know how to make them work on our version...
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Apparently Bell UI applets don't work.
Would love a light (keyword= light, i.e. not a RAM eater) music applet. This is, imo, one of the things most lacking at the moment. I really don't know why PUI didn't release this. Maybe in the paid version? If a light version isn't possible, then heavy it is .
Messaging applet with new functionnalities
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
copy\paste into the Messaging applet folder.
hi found a app in this forum for pointui 2 ....
threat ..... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=482442
First and foremost, hello to all the Opal community!
I have been around this forum since maybe January, when my brother gave me his VIVA.
I've already tried pretty much every ROM out there, and have ventured into the world of cooking myself.
So, after reading a lot of tutorials and customizing a lot of settings I have made a working 6.1 ROM, real simple and lightweight, after this one I'll try a 6.5 ROM.
The issues I'm currently facing are:
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
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I would like this folder to not be created upon boot, but this is the simplest of my problems.
This one is pretty self-explanatory, maybe an issue with the SDK Certs? But I can't find the cab file!
And the last one, these shortcuts on Manila don't work.
I would really like to be helped on these problems if it isn't too much of a hassle, after this step I will go on customizing the ROM and possibly publish it in here of there is interest.
Thank you!
dear friend i think anybody needs a little bit more than what you've said. which folder you mean? and if you mean the shortcuts in operator tab in manila you need to mention!
The 'Games' folder, as I don't have the standard WM games in the ROM.
About the shorcuts, what happens is that nothing happens when I press those buttons.
about the second problem (camera) you have missed some package, I don't remember which, may be one of these:
Camera v6.7.32367.1 False
D Show v2.00.080904.0
HTC Gesture v1.0.32356.0 False
Picture Enhancement v1.50.18141822.c2
Share DLL v2.0.070522.0000
try with adding all these packages and tell me if now camera works. If you fix it try to remove the packages once at time and you should see which package is essential for camera...
Hey there, thank you for your help, it seems the problem was in the 'm Hub VO' package, whatever that is :s