Just wondering is it possiblle to change the default metal looking icons in the sony-ericsson panel?
look in windows folder : )
spasibo,
But where, I thought the files were stored in program/files/sonyericssonpanel.
Which of panels? Media, Radio etc ?
Dialer's icons all placed simply in \windows\ folder
I mean the second panel, called xperia panel or sony ericsson panel. It has those chrome looking icons for rss feeds and so on.
itsmemb said:
I mean the second panel, called xperia panel or sony ericsson panel. It has those chrome looking icons for rss feeds and so on.
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I have been exhaustively searching for them without success
My conclusion is they are inside .VUI files in the program files\panels\ folder
Well got a little bit further. The VUI files can be opened with winzip, and contain a lot of images.
But it looks like its just part of the images. I downloaded a default panels.cab and looked in the setup.xml. There it mentions a mode.vui, rss.vui, clock.vui etc. But cant find those on my phone.
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I am using VJDialer (Thanks vijay555) with cLaunch and i want to make some icons so i can use Pocket Plus to launch the dialer nd get rid of cLaunch.
cLaunch allows you to create icons from pictures. How do i go about making the same for SPB. For instance the pic i have below
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There are 66 different icons in Pocket Plus. To change icon tap and hold it and select Change Icon from pop-up menu. You can also add you own icon to the list. Find "custom16.png" and "custom32.png" in "\Program Files\PocketPlus\Icons" folder on your device. Copy these files to your desktop. Now you can edit these files with any image editor. To add new icon you should create two similar icons of size 16x16 and 32x32 pixels. Add 16x16 icon to the end of the "custom16.png", and add 32x32 icon to the end of the "custom32.png". Make sure that after editing "custom16.png" has height 16 pixels and its width can be divided to 16. Check the same with the "custom32.png" image - its height should be 32 pixels and width can be divided to 32. Copy these files back to "\Program Files\PocketPlus\Icons" folder on your device and perform a soft reset. Now your icon is added to the list and you can use it.
Xilicon, that's a very nice tip there. The built-in icons are OK when using them for apps etc. but when using them with VJDialer and VJSMS you would need different icons for different ppl. There's no point putting a laptop icon for a shortcut that calls my wife!
I'll try this image editing thing tip now ...
kta - I hope the icon is meant to be a phone, not a laptop! I ripped it from XP!
Check this thread for some discussion on how to create the icons:
http://www.modaco.com/Today_Screen_Hacks-t227321.html
and for WAD etc
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=58236
Basically, to get a cute picture of the wife etc, load a nice photo of her up into an art program, eg paint shop pro.
"Crop" the image as closely as possible to her face: this is going to be reduced to 32x32, so make it recognisable.
"Reduce" the image to 32x32.
Now I would reduce the colour to 256, but that's up to you.
In claunch, you can load the bmps directly; you can make icons using an icon editor, eg Microangelo. On the version I've got, basically, just start a 32x32 XP Colour icon, copy and paste directly from your art prog into Microangelo, and then if you want to, reduce the colours.
Save the .ico and use at will.
Again, for my own nausea, I decided to make a dll full of icons to keep all my images in one file. This can be done with microangelo librarian or Visual Studio if you're really hard core.
For Pocket Plus, just use the png format instead of bmp or ico.
BTW new versions of VJSMS etc coming in the next day or so
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vijay555 said:
kta - I hope the icon is meant to be a phone, not a laptop! I ripped it from XP!
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I meant the default icons of SPB Pocket Plus not your telephone icon ;-) So what's new in your VJSMS?
OK I've tried the SPB Pocket Plus trick but it seems that it's only allowing 1 extra icon (totalling 67). Anyone managed to create more than just one extra icon?
EDIT: You need to close SPB Pocket Plus and reload before the icons appear in the list!
VJSMS is the same, just a new brother and sister and minor improvements!
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Made a skin for the hybrid (dual OS) user. For fun only.
Things used: WA3, HTC home, skins and icons from different authors, some new skinning knowledge. I dont have softkeys visible at the bottom (I use only the hard buttons) so I get more screen space. The black one below is my replacement for the green 6.1 screen.
Having Schap's Advanced Config and KaiserTweak helps in addition to the above programs user menus, and Wisbar skins by Juni are sweet. I personally photoshopped the magnifying glass in the bottom left for the popups for the new tasks, as well as the "A" for apps, and moved the settings from another HTC home customizer icon set. dThis is a fast layout that is really simple looking but everything is accessible by hardbutton maps and touchscreen UI.
I was going to call it something playing off the Parallels idea, but the Titan doesn't have enough ram to make that believable
I will give you the skins and icon folders if you like any of this.
Look Awesome
Looks Awesome, so when are u releasing it for consumption>
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Looks Awesome, so when are u releasing it for consumption>
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Maybe if some people want it, I will post links to the programs and the skin files I made but I would like to learn how to skin mortplayer a bit better. I have to put together the slices so I can skin it with the same background (notice it is a mix of the default desktop backgrounds for the two OS).
dude i want it
Here is what you will need. You will need the following:
Wisbar Advanced: This is where you will use the skin from inside Macrosoft WA toolbar.zip. Install skin file while in wisbar then make sure the windows/apple icon is there in the folder. If not overwrite with the one from the archive.
HTC Home and HHC Customizer 1.0: First you will need to load the most current HTC Home and then open HHC Customizer. Download the following skins: 1. Background = Transparent 2. Clock = Segoe shaded transparent 3. Mac Leopard. I turned off weather and music. You can do what you want. You will need to put those icons in the HTC Home folder into the one on the phone in the HTC Home folder.
Macrosoft background can be opened in pictures and videos to set as background with 0% transparency.
You will need to overwrite the welcomehead.96.png file. Cut from this archive and paste to \Windows.
Next, run the macrosoft.cab for a replacement background on the phone skin.
Lastly, you will need mortplayer and then unzip vista.zip and extract vista.mpz to mortplayer's folder in \Program Files\Mortplayer then select that from the menu.
That's it. Let me know if you have problems or if I forget something.
I was wondering if anyone gets some WVGA themes for sharing for my new X1i.
Thanks alot!
I much prefer the background of the XPERIA Black theme, but unfortunately the bars are 'flat' and not 3D, and the color is not changeable via RCMod... so I wanted to place the images from XPERIA Black into the XPERIA Silver theme so I can play with the WinMo bar colors... has anyone done this? I don't have experience with the Theme Gen software out there.
Can always use tfl3d :-D Then you can use all the themes that are out there already.
Bxsteez said:
Can always use tfl3d :-D Then you can use all the themes that are out there already.
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Not entirely true. If you use the TF3D themes from the diamond they are in a VGA resolution not WVGA, so they dont look right. However, they can be changed with the TF3D theme editor.
I want to know where to find -or how to extract- the "Xperia black" original wallpaper from the whole theme
I like the image but the rest of the theme is boring... (flat borders, no animations, etc...)
I have installed TouchFlo3D as a panel and suddenly I found myself using it 80% of the time (10% Xpeia Media panel and 10% on other panels). IMHO TouchFlo 3D is A LOT much useful that the original Sony-Ericsson user interface.
I´d really like to find a way to put that original "xperia" image on my TouchFLO 3D panel home screen ("background" or "wallpaper") but I can't find theimage inside the phone
Found the original "Xperia" pic: its named stwater... something else in the windows forlder
I assigned it as wallpaper in TouchFLo3D settings tab -> wallpaper but only appears in the today screen !!! (I mean, when I change to any other tab "weather" "programs" etc it is not displayed)
Any solution ?? Ideas ??
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Found the original "Xperia" pic: its named stwater... something else in the windows forlder
I assigned it as wallpaper in TouchFLo3D settings tab -> wallpaper but only appears in the today screen !!! (I mean, when I change to any other tab "weather" "programs" etc it is not displayed)
Any solution ?? Ideas ??
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There is a fix for that around here, try search box.
Actually, it's in the topmost sticky.
For WVGA Windows Mobile Themes (*.tsk) have a quick look over here: http://blogs.shintak.info/articles/wm5themes_wvga.aspx
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For WVGA Windows Mobile Themes (*.tsk) have a quick look over here: http://blogs.shintak.info/articles/wm5themes_wvga.aspx
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Many thanks to you buddy
You may also need the WVGAThemeHelper.cab...google it, install it, change theme, execute it. Needs to be executed after you changed a theme...
i dont understand how you install .tsk files? and also whats the wvgathemehelper.cab about? thanks.
Put *.tsk files on your phone (my documents/themes) Then you will be able to see these themes among your default themes.
"wvgathemehelper.cab" is to help your phone to correctly switch theme.
For me when i changed theme the background did not work, after i executed "wvgathemehe.." everything looks fine!
//Patrik
Edit: They do not nessesarly have to be in a "themes" folder, thats just a suggestion
thanks so much...ill have a go!
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For WVGA Windows Mobile Themes (*.tsk) have a quick look over here: http://blogs.shintak.info/articles/wm5themes_wvga.aspx
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thank you very much
Has anyone managed to tweak some coding to create an application that allows the Facebook panel to be loaded from the Programs menu opposed to using the panels....(Like Pubba's Panel Installer for MXE and Radio)
If Pubba can port to panels as applications,
And if TF3D can be run as a panel rather than a 'Today' option....
Surely it must be possible? Or does the fact it use internet and such make it a bit complicated?
Anyone?
I would try and edit the Pubba launcher panels, but I have absolutely no coding experience...
that would be nice
It would, I like the panels, the problem is you can't really multitask with them, the idea that you can change your today screen is awesome but I'd rather have Facebook as an application that can be launched rather than change my entire screen.
As I said earlier, if pubba can launch the media panels, is it possible to edit his code to launch the Facebook panel instead? I have no idea how to code or even which program was used to code this...
Surely, it can't be such a big job?
Come on, can I atleast get a decent reply?
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3080511&postcount=666
Here is my tutorial, how to change the Sonyericsson Panel icons:
1, On your Xperia copy the VUI files from Device:\program files\panels\sonyericsson panel\ to your storage card
2, Clear all the attributes - for example use Resco Explorer
( http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/ )
3, Copy to your computer, and decompress the VUI files - I used 7zip
( http://www.7-zip.org/ )
4, You will find the icon pictures in the decompressed folders
5, Use any picture editor software to make new icons (I used Photoshop) -the icon size must be 64x64 pixel, and save as png image
6, Open the VUI file -with 7zip, just open, do not decompress - only copy with drag and drop your edited pictures and overwrite the existing ones
7, Copy back to your Xperia to Device:\program files\panels\sonyericsson panel\
Before edit the original VUI file always backup them. You can change back to the original icons if replace the original VUIs.
I have made some icons, here are the changed VUIs in the VUIs.zip, and the photoshop files what I used for.
I have made a custom background also, use if you like it. It is just a background picture, you have to configure your Xperia panel, to match with the background.
Just wondering, how many vui files do you have in that folder. I only had a couple. In a cab I downloaded I saw there were seperate ones for the clock, rss etc.
itsmemb said:
Just wondering, how many vui files do you have in that folder. I only had a couple. In a cab I downloaded I saw there were seperate ones for the clock, rss etc.
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What I attached are just the modified VUIs. But if you have enough time you can modify the another ones.
I wait the other designs also!
Thanks skoorce
Can you tell me where you got the black theme which I can see on screenshots? Can you share it please!
Thanks again!
Persian Boy said:
Thanks skoorce
Can you tell me where you got the black theme which I can see on screenshots? Can you share it please!
Thanks again!
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The black theme:
Use any theme what you like, then install
UI Tweaker v0.5.4.4 ( http://freewareppc.com/utilities/uitweaker.shtml )
TdyScheme changer --> Windows Mobile 5.0 and above --> Use black Hue and Greyscale
Base Hue value: 161
You are welcome!
Very nice work!
Do you know if it's possible to make a separate icon for when an icon is selected/ pressed? (Have you noticed that pressing an icon on the SE panel does not highlight or otherwise change the icon, which makes it hard to tell if you have pressed it or not).
Thanks for your help.
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What I attached are just the modified VUIs. But if you have enough time you can modify the another ones.
I wait the other designs also!
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Well I meant it slightly different. I have a dutch t-mobile branded phone, and I only seem to have two vui files. settings and thumbnails. I cant find the clock etc.
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Very nice work!
Do you know if it's possible to make a separate icon for when an icon is selected/ pressed? (Have you noticed that pressing an icon on the SE panel does not highlight or otherwise change the icon, which makes it hard to tell if you have pressed it or not).
Thanks for your help.
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Yes, this is possible. I used separate icons also. If you unpack the VUIs.zip, then unpack the mode.vui, you will see the icons how it seems if you pressed/activated or pressed/deactivated it. Of course you can edit them.
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Well I meant it slightly different. I have a dutch t-mobile branded phone, and I only seem to have two vui files. settings and thumbnails. I cant find the clock etc.
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Hm... I have a Hungarian T-mobile phone and I haven't got any problem.
If you use Resco Explorer, check in options->general->browser options to clear all the pipes before the attributes.
It could be, that you aren't allowed now to see the hidden/ROM/system files.