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Picture Templates for XDA 2 Camera

Im having fun with the XDA 2 camera, even though its not a megapixel one but it still produce quality pictures.
What i'm into right now are the templates for the camera, like the magazine and totem templates built-in.
My question is, these templates are GIF in natures, How can they be created and do they have special formats if a make a GIF file in any picture/photo/drawing software?
Also, where can we download additional templates?
Thanks

The Templates were offered by Ia Style http://www.iastyle.com/
But now it is out of market..and site is down.
Unfortunately I don't have any copy of it..Only some templates for Called ID

I've got a copy, but I don't have a server to upload and host it.
If someone can tell me where I can upload it, I'll put it in a RAR-file for you guys.

i would also like to know the specifics for creating these files and does anybody out there have any tips oh and the templates for Called ID where can we get them or create our own

Maybe this can help

thanks do you have any caller id templates there the ones i want to be able to create from those samples of the camera templates it seems that the picture area is defined by a white border in the last frame and you can create the multi photo template by adding an extra frame so in total you would have 3 frames the 1 st picture or main picture in the first frame then the second picture in the 2 nd frame and then the picture area frame the 3rd hope this makes sence

R_AL_Sim...i don't quite understand with what you said...Maybe you can make it clearer ? Sorry for that...But i have caller id templates though. Hope it will help ! Cheerz !

right then if you open one of the gif files in a animation/gif editing program such as animation shop which comes with paintshop pro you will see that it is made up of at least 2 seperate frames these seperate frames define diferent parts of the template
contents of a 2 frame template
Frame 1
This defines the design of the template basicly what you see when you use a template with the camera
Frame 2
This defines the area where the photo will be visble using a white line marking the area
for more than 2 frames
Every frame after the second shows what area the next phot will be placed in
i have included a sample jpg of what the difference in the frames should be
hope this makes more sence to you

Testimo85 said:
R_AL_Sim...i don't quite understand with what you said...Maybe you can make it clearer ? Sorry for that...But i have caller id templates though. Hope it will help ! Cheerz !
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sorry, but i have a question, which folder am i suppose to put these files on my xda2? they have a .pit extension that my computer and xda2 doesn't recognize. i tried putting them in mydocuments/IACallerIDPhotos.
it doesn't work. thanks.

thanks R_Al_SIM,
that was helpful, yup creating camera templates for the XDA 2 camera was what I had in mind. Precisely what you uploaded.
Downloading now...

salaryman said:
sorry, but i have a question, which folder am i suppose to put these files on my xda2? they have a .pit extension that my computer and xda2 doesn't recognize. i tried putting them in mydocuments/IACallerIDPhotos.
it doesn't work. thanks.
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put it under My Documents/Templates
if you browse that folder, you will see that all kinds of templates are saved there (including Note templates)

Salaryman...put .pit files under mydocuments/templates

thanks for your help guys. just figured it out.

this caller ID templates really ROCKs!!!

How to use caller id templates???

how to remove weird letter "m" in front of phone n
Thanks for the Templates...
Do you guys who used callerID have this wierd "m" in front of your caller number? Showed like this:
NAME
m +phone number
sample:
John Doe
m +1(999)999-9999
HOw to remove "m" in front of phone number?
Thanks!

this m stands for Mobile,
o stands for office and
h stands for home

Im glad someone was there to inform the poor chap maybe he needs to read a bit more about the xda and its functions, hell infact why has he got one anyway?

M4io said:
this m stands for Mobile,
o stands for office and
h stands for home
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@M4io: Thanks!
I realized that BUT mine even I set/put to Office or Home it still showing "m" in front of the phone numbers.
Thats why I am asking is there a way to remove it? Thanks!

collins199820 said:
Im glad someone was there to inform the poor chap maybe he needs to read a bit more about the xda and its functions, hell infact why has he got one anyway?
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I'm sorry! As far as I know this forum is for user helping another user, when they need help... People ask to seek help and to learn somethings new. Why we got one coz we can afford one.

iPhone GUI upgrade free!

Here is the blurb I just found....
http://rychlicki.net/en/2007/04/01/174/
and here is the free download link...
http://rychlicki.net/inne/res_ppc-custom.icons.zip
Some of the buttons didn't work until I edited the .ini file enclosed but otherwise looks cool and works nice esp the lock/unlock slide thing.
UPDATE INFO:
Click this link for a VERY cool rewrite of this application;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1219757#post1219757
Nice work!!!!!!!

great find! i was hoping this would show up when i first saw the video. I got it loaded and it's pretty nice to work with. One question so far....where is the comm manager located on the 8525. Im trying to find the path so i can link the settings button to it but i cannot find it. Thanks!
Edit: This is a little bigger issue for me, my clock on the device it self it correct but in the iphone launcher app it is 4 hours ahead. How and hell do i fix this? Any help is appreciated

bodypilot said:
Some of the buttons didn't work until I edited the .ini file enclosed but otherwise looks cool and works nice esp the lock/unlock slide thing.
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How did you edit the .ini file?

^^^ Same question here.
I have no issue updating. I just don't know what to do.
I downloaded and will run the file. I will take a closer look.
PS: WICKED FIND! I was starting to think that it was lost to us.

pasil.pt said:
How did you edit the .ini file?
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Connected the phone via activesync and copied the file to my pc. Then I can edit with notepad by right click - open with etc. If that's not working for you drag the file and drop it onto a notepad icon

bodypilot said:
Connected the phone via activesync and copied the file to my pc. Then I can edit with notepad by right click - open with etc. If that's not working for you drag the file and drop it onto a notepad icon
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Here is what the config.ini file contains as default....
[Button Config]
text=\Windows\tmail.exe
calendar=\Windows\calendar.exe
photos=\Windows\pimg.exe
camera=\Windows\camera.exe
calculator=\Windows\calc.exe
stocks=\Program Files\TCPMP\\player.exe
maps=\Program Files\GoogleMaps\Googlemaps.exe
weather=\Program Files\Skype for Pocket PC\Skype.exe
notes=\Windows\notes.exe
clock=\Windows\clock.exe
settings=\Windows\wirelessmanager.exe
phone=\Windows\cprog.exe
mail=\Windows\tmail.exe
web=\Windows\iexplore.exe
ipod=\Program Files\Starbrite\ppod\ppod.exe

Great find!
Has anyone tried this on WM6? I'm planning to try it in a few days, so if there's no feedback, I'll let you guys know if it works.

wavesound said:
Great find!
Has anyone tried this on WM6? I'm planning to try it in a few days, so if there's no feedback, I'll let you guys know if it works.
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yes, it works on wm6 and even 2003se

i have some problem with the clock i see only 0 0 in my main screen and when i tap it to lock the screen i see nothing ....maybe it'a beacuse i have hebrow installed in my pocketpc what should i do?
and another quick qustion can i make the screen automticly lock it self after a few min that i didn't used it?
great job!!!!!

That's the same for me, "0 0" instead of the time on the clock, but the locking works when tapping on it... any idea?
I got the french Orange "Swiss" last rom...
Very good job indeed, congratulations!

james341 said:
...can i make the screen automticly lock it self after a few min that i didn't used it?
great job!!!!!
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I do not know how to do that, but I managed to map hardware button to slide.exe. To do that you have to create a link to it (for example to programs folder). Then you can map this link via Settings >> Buttons. Only issue I am having is that the time is lagging two hours on Slider screen.

bodypilot said:
Connected the phone via activesync and copied the file to my pc. Then I can edit with notepad by right click - open with etc. If that's not working for you drag the file and drop it onto a notepad icon
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Many thanks. I will try

Any ideas yet on how to get the time in the the launcher program to sync with the phone itself? Mine is still running 4 hours ahead.

CAB File
Hi,
Here is a CAB for automated install/uninstall.
Regards,
Taguapire
EDITED: --------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW INFO: Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=301517&page=4#31 for the new file.

Nice
Very nice find! Like many other my only problem is with the slide unlock the time is off by 5 hours and the date is 1 day ahead. If anyone finds away to fix this please post, thanks I will continue to play around with it and see what i can come up with..........

tried it on wm6 slvw version and get "installation of iphone slider for wm5.cab was unsuccessful. the installation file is not intended for this device.

ceelo2007 said:
Very nice find! Like many other my only problem is with the slide unlock the time is off by 5 hours and the date is 1 day ahead. If anyone finds away to fix this please post, thanks I will continue to play around with it and see what i can come up with..........
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Just a guess - I don't have the application installed and haven't had that program but your phone has to clock settings Home -> Visting. Maybe your phone is accidentally set to Visiting clock and the home clock is off by a bit and the applications are pulling the time from the Home clock? It's a shot in the dark guess but worth a shot!

Well
chymmylt said:
Just a guess - I don't have the application installed and haven't had that program but your phone has to clock settings Home -> Visting. Maybe your phone is accidentally set to Visiting clock and the home clock is off by a bit and the applications are pulling the time from the Home clock? It's a shot in the dark guess but worth a shot!
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Thanks for the reply that was actually the first thing that i checked when i noticed the problem

Clock Off
Best guess I can give is that the time isn't being adjusted for time zone. Mine is 5 hours ahead and I am in US Central time zone (GMT -6) so it is close to Greenwich mean time.
I would try to fix this myself since the source is provided but I need a developers kit and a compiler...
Edited:
Actually if I remember correctly (big IF) daylight savings time is a US thing so with DST right now that would put the offset right at GMT.

anybody figure out how to fix the timing issue

Diamond like photo viewer

Hi does anyone extracted the photoviewer application that is there in the diamond main screen which has a finger scrolling option for HTC touch devices.. This looks awesome.. check the screenshot below and the video here.. Sorry I searched a lot for this, but no luck.
Sorry if it is a wrong thread.. Please feel free to remove it if not appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gccIfCpygiY

rxyamaha said:
Hi does anyone extracted the photoviewer application that is there in the diamond main screen which has a finger scrolling option for HTC touch devices.. This looks awesome.. check the screenshot below and the video here.. Sorry I searched a lot for this, but no luck.
Sorry if it is a wrong thread.. Please feel free to remove it if not appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gccIfCpygiY
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look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396910

Sorry this doesn't have Diamond like photo viewer
Radical_MT said:
look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396910
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Thanks Radical. But I have tried this, it doesn't give the option that we get in this viewer.. It's Photo contacts is very good and it's like Diamond one, but not the photo viewer. I am really looking for the one in the video.. It's really awesome, you can use the finger scrolling from the main screen to swipe thru the photos.

It is most likely that your device won't support it anyway... TouchFlo 3D is very graphics intensive...

rxyamaha said:
Thanks Radical. But I have tried this, it doesn't give the option that we get in this viewer.. It's Photo contacts is very good and it's like Diamond one, but not the photo viewer. I am really looking for the one in the video.. It's really awesome, you can use the finger scrolling from the main screen to swipe thru the photos.
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Try EyePhoto, it has pretty neat thumb sliding for viewing capabilities.
http://palm-pocket-pc.handster.com/software.php?id=2188&for=Palm+Pocket+PC

look for htc album. that is what is in the diamond.
there should be a qvga versin available.

Thanks guys
Thanks guys for all your help in providing me with so many options.. I tired all the links you have suggested and most of the applications posted in XDA.. Thanks to all the developers and contributors for the lovely softwares.. Almost all the softwares worked in my phone & I love them.. But still none of the Picture viewer softwares gave me the function that I have seen in the video.. I will keep trying it.. I am pretty sure that someone will come up with this.. I will wait... again I appreciate your help

rxyamaha said:
Thanks guys for all your help in providing me with so many options.. I tired all the links you have suggested and most of the applications posted in XDA.. Thanks to all the developers and contributors for the lovely softwares.. Almost all the softwares worked in my phone & I love them.. But still none of the Picture viewer softwares gave me the function that I have seen in the video.. I will keep trying it.. I am pretty sure that someone will come up with this.. I will wait... again I appreciate your help
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Twolf is trying to do somthing simillar.
See utube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvCwxhvTQw
Posted here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403706&page=33

The_hesham said:
Twolf is trying to do somthing simillar.
See utube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvCwxhvTQw
Posted here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403706&page=33
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Actually i did a test like that for pictures first, but it isnt very usable.
I think that feature in Daimond is just to show, not really to use regularly. I prefer the Camera album to view pictures because you can see all the photos in a list and then choose from one.
It can easily be done in flash but the finger motion effects have a problem with the current 'players', if you press the screen and dont release it for a second only, it pops up the "about flash" window.
Still, if you use simple buttons instead of finger motions, like I did for my flash contact list, all you need is a ouside program to list all the images in \storage card\my documents\my pictures (or whererver) to a xml or txt file, then the flash would read all the picture names as variables and present them in that kind of slideshow (or even better animations, like 3d cubes turning or fade-ins) . Do remenber that the 'photo turn 3d effect' would slow things down.
So, depending on the speed of the pocket pc model it would be slow, it isnt very slow on my dual because it has 400 mhz, but there are a lot of models out there with 200mhz...
Also, for some reason, the flash lite engine works faster but has more bugs reading images than the flash 7 engine. :/
And then it comes back to the today plugin, the only good current one is from the Throttle author but it only has one hardcoded size, he is doing a better one, and THAT one I cant wait for... it sounds as good as melted cheese!

That's exactly what I am looking at.
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Actually i did a test like that for pictures first, but it isnt very usable.
I think that feature in Daimond is just to show, not really to use regularly. I prefer the Camera album to view pictures because you can see all the photos in a list and then choose from one.
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IT's wonderful work twolf, and that is exactly what I am looking at... Will it be possible to post a cab file of the one in the video.. So that I can test and use it on my phone.. I have seen your website and is pretty impressive.. Will it be possible to share the work that you have done here.. So that all of us can enjoy it..

Thats not dependant of me, just of the trotthle author, sorry, like I said I gave that to him.
But after he releases his new plugin, I'll be sure to make a lot of flash goodies for everyone, always releasing the sourcode, because, as I said, I'm a iilustrator, not a programmer, and Im sure others can do so much more.

thanks Twolf
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Thats not dependant of me, just of the trotthle author, sorry, like I said I gave that to him.
But after he releases his new plugin, I'll be sure to make a lot of flash goodies for everyone, always releasing the sourcode, because, as I said, I'm a iilustrator, not a programmer, and Im sure others can do so much more.
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Thanks Twolf.. I tried this before and I am trying the Tempus V13 now..It works perfect, but the till still skips by 1 sec every 2 secs and becomes very slow during skip.. And also takes lots of memory around 3-4 MB on my HTC Touch... Which is a lot for my phone.. . is there is a work going to reduce this... I can't wait !!! for Throttle author to release new version.. ..Tempting

Actually the skipping is good, it does skip sometimes but thats my way of making sure the time is always correct. Otherwise the minutes could change before the seconds reached 59.
The slowness is really because of the 200mhz of the touch, sorry...
As for memory, thats flash...
Maybe in the next version of throttle since the weather and clock are separated and in flash lite, they may become faster, time and tests will tell.

Thank you Twolf
Thanks Twolf.. This is a great application and I am currently trying Throttle launcher works great on my Touch.. Thanks for all you guys work.. Fantastic... Hope to see more from you.. thank you..

Help with Today Screen

Hi there, fantastic forum.
I came across the attached image. Does anyone know where I can find the "time" addon, cab file or configuration software that allows me to have the same time format as shown in the image?
I like the default home screen but now thinking that the time takes up too much space.
If it dosnt exist, does anyone know where i can start looking to edit my existing home screen..
Cheers n thanks.Mally.

Settings>System>Regional Settings>Time> must be like:
H:mm:ss
P.S need to restart your phone
with that u can change 12\24 time not how big will be the clock

Thanks for the reply, I did dive that a try, all it does is display the clock in different ways. Still takes up 1/3 of the screen.

malhyp said:
Thanks for the reply, I did dive that a try, all it does is display the clock in different ways. Still takes up 1/3 of the screen.
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Hi malhyp
Maybe this can do ?

Hi tito12, thanks a lot for the file. Its perfect and now I have some free space on my today sceeen.
Thanks heaps.
cheers
Mal

You are welcome, I used it myself before I entered the world of Homescreen plusplus...
All the best.

Tito12, is this the one you were talking about?
http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_im_cs.htm
Cheers
Mal

Thats right, install it and you'll see a million possibilities for skinning your device, see also this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=350510&page=151

Got myh HD2 and here is my first question...

It is gorgeous and for the last 3 days all's I have done tweak/upgrade and generally have fun with all the possibilities.
One thing I am a bit disappointed with is the font display on the home screen in the quicklinks - the font is so small it just does not seem to display correctly...and some of the links I have added to the quicklinks seem a bit pixelated...
Is there anything I can do about this?
Thanks
Scott
Why would anyone want an iphone?????

UberScooter said:
Why would anyone want an iphone?????
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i dont get it either but i guess they want phone that works out of the box and they dont want to spent time tweaking it(best part about windows mobile, cause u can make your phone look like exactly the way u want ) and maybe cause of appstore? dunno about that cause itunes are very bad imho... slow and doesnt let u do what u want...
well everybody likes somethin else...

Activating Cleartype fixes the pixelation in the fonts you referred to. To turn it on go to Settings>Menu>All Settings>System>Screen and select the Cleartype tab.

Excellent that has made such a difference - the small title text for each Quick Link is still a bit fussy - or it just maybe be me....
I love this phone!!!
Thanks
Scott

Just did a restart and found the text is now truely clear - so I revoke my fussy statement from before.
Scott