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That crappy wm5 'wait' thingy

Please if any of the rocket scientists on this forum know of some way to change that 'simon says' looking wait animation for wm5 then let us know.
I cant stand the way MS makes their interfaces look like a frikkin Fisher Price gadget and each time that thing loads and makes me watch it cycle red, green, blue, yellow the more angered I get.

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Never gave this much thought, but if it bothers you that much:
1) Get a coreres.dll.0409.mui file. (should be in any good ROM dump, or use TestWM5.exe by mamiac)
2) Change the bitmaps using ResourceHaker or any other res editor.
3)Check Asukal's posts for how to re-sign the file, then put it in windows directory.
Good luck.

This is the thread on changing for WM2003. The info might be helpful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=37733&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
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sorry, just gotta laugh at the prospect of having a hamster on my screen now...
though i'd take that over the spinning thing too...

I loved the little hamster!
Although a few frames of VirtualGirl might not go amiss!
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vijay555 said:
I loved the little hamster!
Although a few frames of VirtualGirl might not go amiss!
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lol, indeed sir, indeed.
so...anyone want to try this on WM5? I know it should work but still....

Very cute idea, I will try this my self soon with a custom graphics.
Just one problem I am not anxious to combat:
In WM5 system MUI's will not load without a signature. This means creating a certificate, provisioning device then signing DLL. I know it can be done, but still, a lot of extra hassle.

Exactly. I don't think it worked when I tried it way back when, but I don't think I signed it...
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Flashing addict to skinning addict.

Well haven't had anything to flash since flashing wm6 black 1.2. So started skinning my today screen. Here it is.
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All thats left is to find some good meter replacements for ilauncher(any one know were to find some send me a msg) and I'm good to go.
Edit: The weather panel icons are animated. Gives it a little spice my son like to watch the lightning.

How do you do it?
Hi Chrisryn
How did you manage to make ur phone skin to look so cool? Could you tell me what program you are using? If you have some time, maybe you give a simple 123 tutorial for a NOOB like me.
Thanks in Advance. Cool Skin

There are 5 programs that you see in that ss.
1. Wisbar advance with Vistabetatwo skin
2. Weatherpanel with Finis2 skin
3. Ilauncher with icons by lokutos
4. Phone alarm with [email protected] skin
5. I also have wisbar advance desktop thats were 2-4 are shown.
If anyone knows an easy way to skin the dial pad or a good place to get dial pads that will work with wm6 drop me a line also a good skinable calc would be nice.

chrisryn said:
....Edit: The weather panel icons are animated. Gives it a little spice my son like to watch the lightning.
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And, coming from Oklahoma City, I bet those animated tornado icons look pretty cool too eh?
Here in WI, all I can animate is cows....

pretty nice, maybe we can do a gallery with today screens from people, and share skills in tunning today...

yeah luckly haven't had to spend much time in the tornado shelters in the last couple of years but they said that will change this year. Looking foward to the icons.
sinmae: I was thinking a site dedicated to skinning the today screen with skins for different apps. Kinda like wincustomize. But I am only a cnc programer not a web desinger. So I don't have the skill.

[May 15] Pureblack Phonecanvas Skin (preview)

Hi,
Didn't do anything on xda for a while, except reading.
I want to do some work for windows mobile again so here I am with a concept.
I remember when I used to use a Prophet, a lot of people wanted black skins for everything because it's supposed to save your battery. So i decided to do so.
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Is this something you guys would like to see on your phones or not?
I'm just looking for something to skin, most of the programs are already skinned here on xda and I feel like it's getting a bit over-saturated with designers.
So if you don't like this idea, give me a suggestion to skin another program.
If you do like it, please let me know.

I realy like this idea fo a simple black dialer. and looking at it it would go perfect with ur OUTLINE FOR TF3D.. im using tf3d2 otherwise id still be using that theme. a couple questios though.. what dialer is it based on? will it be vga, will it have s2a and will it have a curtain like ur MINIMAL PHONE CANVAS ?

Totally Black! i love it

Black always looks good...nice work!

It is a damn good idea. But there is always things to skin Such as G-Alarm, titanium, s2p, s2u2, etc.. I would love to see more of your work since it's nice. I hope you do update your Outline theme for the new TF3D2 and add some new icons.
Kraize

looks nice, if you can skin that way this one, it would be great for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477670

I'll cancel all my skinning until HTC gives us a proper phonecanvas for wm 6.5.
6.5 is the future and 6.1 is no longer comming back to my device.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Dang, I thought this looked really cool...
They might be coming out with a 6.5 device soon, don't they have a conference next month?
Edit: It's June 24th.

i want the old preview D:

Black, my fav. color... This skin would be a HIT... its black and its simple ... im already lovi'n it

Good to see you're skinning Paul.
I'm using your minimal dialer in my ROMs, and wouldn't mind the black version.
;]
HTC should be pushing a new phonecanvas shortly, but we'll need to port it to VGA, since it's most probably gonna be in WVGA.

Any way to fix wallpaper gradients??

It seems that any wallpaper with a gradient or any shading or glowing is displayed like in 8-bit style. What I mean by that is this.
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Its really making alot of wallpapers look hideous and would like to know what I can do to make it look the way it should. Thanks in advance.

Seems like a little help and a little research does wonders these days.
Just so this can be used as a reference, i'm gonna go a little in dept here.
newone757 said:
might try adding some noise to the pic. just a little bit. I used to have to do this on my touch pro 1+2 on some walls
let us know how they turn out
a quick google turned out this:Say Goodbye To Gradient Banding | Planet Photoshop
this looks promising too
How To Correct Banding In Your Gradients Using Photoshop - SloDive
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These methods work in getting rid of the banding lines but what I figured out was to keep the quality, you need to do alot of tweaking and messing around. What I found out was adding a gaussian blur on a new layer thats slightly transparent and adding a little noise on a overlay layer thats slightly transparent is the trick.
This took me 2 mins to do. (Its 6:22am on fourth of July, I'll put up better examples later)
Before
After
What got me thinking was some of my camera pictures and other pictures in the gallery look stunning but anything I transfer via pc had horrible banding. Didnt make any sense at all. I'm no expert but adding a little blur and noise almost tricks the evo's screen.

great idea! thanks, now i can finally get some good wallpapers onto my evo.

How about sharing the exact settings you used? Or even better would be to post a PSD template that only requires people to paste their wallpaper (or possibly copy a layer style)

Download wallpaper set and save from the market. It fixes this problem.

[BACKGROUND] I am boored

I'm bored right now. School is one month away. Weather is (too) hot for me. So the only thing i can do is study JAVA (and android develpoment).
In the meantime i created this (in 3 minutes )
Aspect ratio is just fine for LG OO devices. If you like it (this pic is nothing special), then just can just "thanks", i can do other resolutions too.
Link
http://csko-16.ic.cz/123.jpg
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You know how to work out GIFs? You could make a cool bootanimation!

Vip_blast said:
You know how to work out GIFs? You could make a cool bootanimation!
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Hi. I could try. GIFs are just compressed pictures.

Martin "skunk" Rotter said:
Hi. I could try. GIFs are just compressed pictures.
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Nope. He doesn't want that kind of .gif, but an animated one - the keyword is animation, as in "bootanimation".

ok, i get that

That's right
You could create something really nice, like a cool custom LG Optimus One P500 animation, only for our phones.

Vip_blast said:
That's right
You could create something really nice, like a cool custom LG Optimus One P500 animation, only for our phones.
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Thats not bad idea. I will try to do something in upcoming weeks. I am quite occupied right now.

Can you give me link for any "bootanimation".
I simply dont know, which graphical format for animation i should use.
If not GIF, then what? Flash animation?

Well, what about simple "Optimus one" text with fade-in-out effect?
Something like this (crappy try-2-minutes-made-animation ), download it and open in better image viewer than your internet browse (that fade-in-out effecz should repeat endlessly)
http://csko-16.ic.cz/123.gif

You're getting closer, but:
1) you should also add a fade-out effect at the end, so that the animation will feel continuous; now it looks like "skipping" because from full white jumps back to dimmed white;
2) I highly recommend you to output a 320x480 gif. The one you posted is too much for our phone's processing power and it will definitely play in slow motion
But then again, I'm not interested in changing the boot animation on my phone. These are just my advices, if you ever get bored again and feel like experimenting.