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YES there is a solution to get the time back in the topbar!

The battery icon in the topbar of new ROMs bothers a lot of people on this forum! Levenum has posted in his topic in the 'development & hacking' section a (partial) solution to our problem! His program works! But covers also the volume indicator For now: congrats to Levenum!!!
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topic with cabfile in first post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45084&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0[/url][/img]

Wow that's great. However, I am sure that most don't want to do an addition by subtraction. Hopefully, somehow this can be tweaked even further to just cover the battery and not anything else.

Yeah.. moreover.. I think most people want to get rid of the battery and put the standard time back there, rather than essentially 'skin' the taskbar by slapping a clock on top. You may also wonder what happens, for example, when using MagicButton - does it cover up the Magic Button bar if it's set to "entire taskbar" ?

it works also well with MagicButton.......

Works for me No problems with Magic Button so far.. ..the time is nicely hidden when "Cover Full Title Bar" is selected

ZeBoxx said:
Yeah.. moreover.. I think most people want to get rid of the battery and put the standard time back there, rather than essentially 'skin' the taskbar by slapping a clock on top. You may also wonder what happens, for example, when using MagicButton - does it cover up the Magic Button bar if it's set to "entire taskbar" ?
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For as long as there is no other BETTER solution to the taskbar time problem, I think this is the best way for now. You're free to develop a tool yourself but i'm verry gratefull to Levenum!

wooo, calm down I'm sure it is the best solution for now, and I'd be happy to use it if I were on the AKU2 rom and it doesn't interfere with other things too much

definitely can't knock people for trying. we need more of that. for me losing the volume icon isn't that big of a deal but what does this cab actually do?

Ok, something wierd is going on here.
I just successfully installed the custom 2.17 ROM on my MDA. I expected to have this problem you've all been refering to about the clock, but I'm not. Mine is still there, same as it has always been. So is the volume indicator.
The only thing I'm missing is the battery icon in the lower right hand of the screen.
Is my phone the devil?

Great work! BTW, you can still edit your volume settings if you click on the "clock" in the top bar, you just don't see its current status. For now its the best and at least someone has tried.
The work IS appreciated!

HagbardCelineII said:
Is my phone the devil?
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Maybe - try placing a post in the following thread (wouldn't want this one to go off-topic, eh?) with the name of the ROM you installed and whatnot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45784 - Any way to remove the batt icon on top?
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what does this cab actually do?
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See the original thread mentioned in the first post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45084
Summary: It adds a Today Item which lists both date (on the left) and time (on the right) -including Swatch @Internet time- using a custom string (e.g. "hh:mmtt" = "09:48am"). In later versions, an option to place a clock on the Taskbar (the top bar) was added. This clock simply 'overlays' on whatever may be there otherwise, which would typically be the new AKU2 ROM's battery indicator icon, and for most people the volume icon. Work is currently underway to make that Taskbar clock only appear when the Today screen is active, and have users be able to define the horizontal position of the clock - both to alleviate the issue of overlapping icons that /are/ desired.

[REQ] Semitransparent bottom bar

I would like to have semitransparent bottom bar on all tabs and not only on Home tab. Can somebody please post it here cause I don't know how to edit it.

drtwin said:
I would like to have semitransparent bottom bar on all tabs and not only on Home tab. Can somebody please post it here cause I don't know how to edit it.
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Found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2746332&postcount=443
Please let us know if you find any alternatives - or a .CAB installer!
Thanks and regards,
Adam R. Hirshfield
T-Mobile UK Ltd.
Core Networks

I try to do a cab for u i hope it works

TNX a lot. This is what I need. When I tried the fully transparent one, I could see letters on some tabs mixing with menu icons. Didn't like it.
Thank you once again, bro.

RichardTenggren said:
I try to do a cab for u i hope it works
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That is really good! If it's possible, do you think you could make it as the home tabs transparency? without the blackscale? so they match equally?
That would be terrific! And maybe extend the transparency down to the menu bar?
Cheers mate!

I have done a cab file for my own transparant slider, if u have any ideas for a nother slider, just send me a pm

up to to the top

is it possible to create a cab that can make semitransparent bottom and top bar?

yes i think so, i can fix it later, i have a lots of homeworks to do tonight

some pics howe your semitransparent bottom bart looks like would be great!

RichardTenggren said:
I have done a cab file for my own transparant slider, if u have any ideas for a nother slider, just send me a pm
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Attention with that one, it kinda ****ed up my TouchFlo. Installed it, rebooted, and then it only said "tap here to start touch flo 3d" and if tapped it said "starting touch flo" for some seconds and then reverted back to "tap here..."
After uninstallation it works again but keeps asking me to tap the screen to start TouchFlo when I turn on the device which really sucks. Any way to get it back to automatic start?

Great mod! Now my TF3D is perfect: transparent top bar, semi transparent bottom bar, transparent flip clock, tranparent program tab, background image in every tab and change the background image every 30 mins automatically . It's better than iPhone !!!

strange then why doesn't it work for me? I got official 1.93 rom installed, and with the cab my touchflo won't start anymore.
Is there any other cab like this one floating around? I don't want to test the other cab from ricky, the first one in this thread cause its also from him and I expect similar problems.
But, what the real problem is with transparent bars is that you can see the text of the settings tab behind the slider bar, and I had a completely transparent bar before and in the programs tab it cut off the 4th row of buttons about halfway behind the sliderbar, the same was for the canvas' of pictures in the photo tab. isn't this partly visible also here, with a semi transparent bar?
you know what REALLY would rock? a kind of smaller sliderbar, about half thick so that it matches with the cutoff line of the pictures and the program buttons. Is something like that possible or even done?
I mean something like this, the reddish tint I added means the solid slider bar and above it should be transparent.
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nevermind.

fBx said:
you know what REALLY would rock? a kind of smaller sliderbar, about half thick so that it matches with the cutoff line of the pictures and the program buttons. Is something like that possible or even done?
I mean something like this, the reddish tint I added means the solid slider bar and above it should be transparent.
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I want... to bring that up again

finnsbovi said:
That is really good! If it's possible, do you think you could make it as the home tabs transparency? without the blackscale? so they match equally?
That would be terrific! And maybe extend the transparency down to the menu bar?
Cheers mate!
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Bump.
I would be interested in a semi-transparent bottom bar with the same transparency as the one for the Home tab, but haven't got a clue how to go about it. Can anyone assist please? The .cab posted by RichardTenggren is semi-transparent, but is darker than the one on the Home tab.
I am aware that there are plenty of fully transparent ones, but I would prefer a semi-transparent version.

Change background of "Start" Menu in 6.5??

Hi.
firstly, i'm using the latest ROM from Dutty (WM6.5 Leo R4 Ultimate WWE
Based Rom 2.31 ( CE OS Build 5.2.23016.5.3.0 ))
secondly, i've installed all the "standard" things i use (cleanRAM, total commander, coreplayer, etc...but nothing to do with themes)
thirdly, Max TF3D Theme Maker v4.0 didn't work for me (any ideas why? sigh) and therefore i am unsure how else to "fix" my problem theme-wise
Finally, the problem:
The picture behind all the icons when i press the start button (or softkey on the top left) is...well it's a great pic (of my gf...hehe) but it's been stretched...lol. so it doesn't look so great.
PLEASE help me change it.
(i got the pic there in the first place by doing "Menu" Softkey->"Home Wallpaper"->"Picture Wallpaper"->Storage Card, GF pic.
now when i do that, it changes the home wallpaper, but not the background in the Start Menu)

Go to Settings/All Settings/Today and mark there "Use this picture as the background" then select your one

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Go to Settings/All Settings/Today and mark there "Use this picture as the background" then select your one
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no. doesn't work. what happens is, the top bar (where start, battery indicator, etc are in) shows the top piece of the new picture i selected, but the old, stretched image remains. i'll try and get a screenshot up asap (never done it before, so good time to learn.
thanks for the first suggestion though!

Well, here is the screenshot of the problem. it's not just in that menu, but in any menu with wm6.5 style icons. (ill put the photo on flickr as well, incase the uploading dont work)
my lady looks fat on the pic...so u can imagine how unimpressed she is right now...lol
flickr link http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3999225508/
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ok, last post here. sorry. i figured it out. it was a matter of simply soft reseting after changing the pic... sigh!!!
thank you prdic for your suggestion though.

BUT, maybe some1 can help me:
kkwongkk said:
got 1 minor issue...everytime i changed the lockscreen wallpaper, i've to soft-reset to get it work. otherwise, its only hanging on the top when i press the start button.
Does anyone got this problem ??? any suggestion?? thanks in advance..
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THIS seems to be very similar to what im experincing. My lock wallpaper, and the background of my start and "all settings" menu have the SAME picture. (although i only selected a picture for the lock screen)
this wouldnt be so bad, but the picture gets stretched in the settings menu although it looks fine on the lock screen (just see print screens)
any ideas? (ps. sorry i left real people pictures on! i forgot to change the picture to something more generic. but now u know im a good guy, no skew teeth, wash behind my ears, etc )

Question about modifying Slider

I've almost got my phone 100% the way I want it, more like 99.5%. Last thing I want to change is the slider. I don't really mean the slider and icons. I want the icons to stay the same. Most cabs will modify both slider and icons. Here is my home screen. I'm not sure what the correct nomenclature is, but the area behind my icons is a blueish color. I want to make it a two tone black/grey sort of like the top of the phone. Is it a matter of dropping some sort of image file into the manilla directory overwriting the existing one? Or is it more involved requiring replacing the icons as well? Any info or pointers on what/how I can change this would be much appreciated. I'm sure the info is out there I'm just not plugging in the right search criteria.
If it makes a difference I am running Sense 2.1
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i like the clock of yor device,can post the cab file?
i use winmo 6.5 sence 2.1 origanal rom,thx

Remove 'curtains'
Last thing I want to change is the slider. I don't really mean the slider and icons. I want the icons to stay the same. Most cabs will modify both slider and icons. Here is my home screen. I'm not sure what the correct nomenclature is, but the area behind my icons is a blueish color. I want to make it a two tone black/grey sort of like the top of the phone.
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I would suggest using the "Remove Both Curtains" cab file. What this should do is make that blue hue clear - you will see the black background of your screen.
The following URL will show an image of what my 'slider bar' looks like...
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1741/clearcurtain.gif

DeoreDX said:
I've almost got my phone 100% the way I want it, more like 99.5%. Last thing I want to change is the slider. I don't really mean the slider and icons. I want the icons to stay the same. Most cabs will modify both slider and icons. Here is my home screen. I'm not sure what the correct nomenclature is, but the area behind my icons is a blueish color. I want to make it a two tone black/grey sort of like the top of the phone. Is it a matter of dropping some sort of image file into the manilla directory overwriting the existing one? Or is it more involved requiring replacing the icons as well? Any info or pointers on what/how I can change this would be much appreciated. I'm sure the info is out there I'm just not plugging in the right search criteria.
If it makes a difference I am running Sense 2.1
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It does make a difference . If you are on PPCG, chuckz07 has posted a fix using mode9 edits. Here's the link (I don't think I've posted enough here so I'm stripping the beginning part h t t p)
forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=97345
It doesn't change the icons, just the slider. The files at the beginning of the thread are for the rom you are using where you have the small slider. If you look later on you will find where I have posted a modification that allows for a wider clear slider for those roms that have/need a wider clear slider.
HTH

gackt said:
i like the clock of yor device,can post the cab file?
i use winmo 6.5 sence 2.1 origanal rom,thx
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Sorry for the late replay. Here is a link to the link of the clock I used.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5420736&postcount=16

toucan said:
I would suggest using the "Remove Both Curtains" cab file. What this should do is make that blue hue clear - you will see the black background of your screen.
The following URL will show an image of what my 'slider bar' looks like...
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1741/clearcurtain.gif
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Awsome. This finally did the trick. The C07 transparent slider stuff i could never get to work. Also tried the Glass/Metal and the C07 fix and basic. But this one at least made the slider all black so I am happy Tab still has color but I don't mind that at all. Yay no more blue!

There's an extra taskbar

A couple of days ago the alarm clock in my Mini sounded, so I tried to take it not looking at it, touching the screen, buttons and who knows what else. The thing is, when I looked at the screen, there was a new bar!
It looked like this
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Not exactly, since that's a quick Photoshop work I've done, but you get the idea.
Does anyone know to make it appear again? It was the first time I saw it

just tap at left of edge icon (E or G).

Could you specify where exactly? (in a picture or something). I'm trying what you said but I only get the Notifications window

Exactly below The H of HTC logo at top.

Thanks, but that only takes me to the notifications window... have you seen the image I posted?

i think that might be appearing due to any of insatalled application on my device. and yes it is as per the screen shot(not photoshoped). A zoom button, clock, connectivity, battery, etc.

Yeah that's what I was thinking, but I haven't installed anything like that, that's the weird thing
There's a guy in a Spanish forum who saw that bar once also, but no idea how he managed to show it

i saw a similar taskbar but disappeared the same way you mentioned before

Same here...i was reading a buk using adobe reader when i accidently pressed taskbar..this another bar poped up but was gone next second....i tried several times after that...got it one more time..but not after that..

taskbar
I have this piece some times after I have established foreign taskbar crept out!

I got it. Install X-task. and u will get it every time.

Do you mean this one?
I don't really care about having that taskbar or not, what I'd like to know is just how that happened and how can I see it again.
Mine didn't show and disappeared again, I pressed the zoom icon and my screen zoomed in a lot. Then I tapped the X and the screen went to the normal view, with no taskbar this time.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=606162
go for this.

The bar you've seen is probably the original WM 6.5.x bar which is normally hidden by default, due to the HTC bar, might be a bug if this old one appears.

jemaho said:
The bar you've seen is probably the original WM 6.5.x bar which is normally hidden by default, due to the HTC bar, might be a bug if this old one appears.
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You might be right, I've found this picture
That's exactly the bar I saw
Finally, mistery solved
Thanks so much

How do we get back this original WM bar?

I guess if you disable/uninstall HTC Sense... but dunno how

I've tried that. Didn't work. Still get HTC notifications.

Hi check out this thread..
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=664889&highlight=hints
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Instal the task manager and whenever you tap the clock you will get the bar pop up.