So i've had the touch hd for a few months now im starting to venture out into the tricks mods and apps that are available. I installed manilla, Ifonz, and a theme or mod or something for manilla. Found that none of them were for me, so i un-installed them. But now, my little thing at the top right has been resized, and when i go to use touchFLO2d its like, the wrong size and i cannot figure out how to get it to the right size.
See the attatched picture.
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That is was my htc looks like, and the red circle shows the thing that has gone small too.
Also, does anyone think the htc touch works in a complicated way to acheive nothing?. I dont want to compare it to an iphone, but with an iphone, you have your pages of apps n stuff, and you open on?. You close one?. with the HTC you seem to have to go such a long way to acheive the same. and also the htc seems rather slow?
So my questions:
- See the picture and can anyone tell me how to make it fullsize.
- Speed up the HTC, or make it smoother?.
-Install something that (Not immitates iphone), but works, like one, and doesnt just overlay windows mobile 6. Which from what i see is what everything does?.
you cant make the phone better by disguising it as something and pretending it makes it run better?. If anything, its slower as its another app open?. basicly, and app to open apps. Correct me?
Thankyou
~Stephen
So you buy a winmo phone but don't want winmo?
There have been people running Android on their Touch HD so I guess thats what you're looking for but I don't know anything on the subject, I just know it CAN be done.
It works in a overly complicated way?
Hmmmmm.....
Well. Only if you class an operating system as overly complicated.. Its the same as changing your theme in windows. Infact. Its exactly the same. If you want an iphone, and are desperate to have your phone look like an iphone, and think the iphone user interface is all that, then buy an iphone?
This runs windows mobile. It can be Skinned with another UI to make it look and feel different. The same as Windows can be. The same as linux can be. Never used macs so dont know.
Anyway. Can't solve your problem. BUT. Nope. Not overly complicated...
The same UI can be applied to this. All apple is doing is making it so that the UI is all you see. That way it limits what you can do, and makes it so its very uncustomisable.
Honestly, i think the apple iphone is amazing. I get my HTC touch HD delivered tommorow. If i dont like it within the first 6 hours it's goin on ebay and i'm buying an iphone.
Will just have to see what happens though!
Argh, i didnt want this thread to turn out like this. I wasn't comparing the HD to the iphone in that was, and its not the iphone i want. Its the HD, i just wanted to know if anyone thought changing themes and stuff was abit over complicated. Anyway can anybody help me reguarding the resize of touchflo2d?
~Stephen
Go to Settings->Today.
Goto Items Tab. Untick all except Touch Flo 3D. Click OK.
See if it helps.
Some non wvga plugin must be messing around
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Hello all. I now have my XDA2, and I'm finding my way round it ok, but looking for software is like looking for a needle in a hay stack!
What's good? And what sites are good? I know Handango, but that falls under the hay stack category.
What I would really like is some way of customising the O2 Active interface, and the Today screen. Either specific software, or just advice on how to do it if no software is needed.
well it really comes down to what you'd like to use it for
much the same as with pc's
here are some freeware
http://www.freewareppc.com
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well it really comes down to what you'd like to use it for
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What I would really like is some way of customising the O2 Active interface, and the Today screen. Either specific software, or just advice on how to do it if no software is needed.
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Need I say more?
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Yes, you do.
"Customizing" can mean a lot of things. Themes? Phone dialer skins? Or active things like phone logs, status displays, etc? Do you want PIM extenders?
There are a million pieces of software. What do you want?
Okay, my bad
I want a theme editor, which I may already have found with the link you gave me. I also want a way of customizing the buttons on the O2 Active user interface (which I assume all O2 users are enforced to have). At the moment, they are opaque and are designed in the O2 water style. I wanna either make them transparent or redesign them to match my new background. Any clues?
cant claim to know what that active interface is but if it's exclusive o2 then i maybe they dont let others make themes for them
http://www.pdagold.com/themes/list.asp?tp=2
http://www.pdagold.com/themes/
they have some animated stuff themewise here seem to recall seing an editor not sure if it were free though
you are not forced to have anything in your rom
some things can be tuned off in today under settings
most things can be turned of by removing the shortcut to them from
windows\startup
I'm not sure what the "active interface" is, but I think maybe you mean the phone dialer? I don't have an O2 device, so not familiar with that term or its design.
If you mean the dialer, do a search and you'll find the details. Basically that interface is built with a dozen or so seperate .gif files, and you just have to copy in new ones. You can download a number of them, or just make your own. A Google search will surely turn up many. There was once a dialer skin contest, so there should be a lot out there.
Hey guys,
over the last few days I've gotten so annoyed that I can't use my phone (Vario II) with only one hand so I decided to do something about it. Therefore I started to go nuts in Photoshop and Visual Studio and have so far managed to get this far:
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The buttons work and the time is correct but I haven't done the appointments bit yet (any hints on how to do this in VB.net?). If anyone is interested I might release this when I get everything to work, for example the paths to the apps are currently hardcoded, I want OneHand to load them from a xml-file so they can easily be changed later on.
The icons are Crystal Clear btw, included in most Linux distros and released under the LGPL license so they are free to distribute.
Any ideas/suggestions?
EDIT: Oh, and the idea is to add submenus with large icons etc to some buttons such as messaging, settings, web, games, music. Eg so you tap Messaging, then you can chose to write a new text/mms/email and check the inbox of each. Sort of like Spb Mobile Shell but hopefully a bit more configurable..
It is very nice. Something to different to look at that is not aye-Fone-ish.
Although I like the appointment part very much, probably you might not want to go on the appointment section first, as it seems for most people it is not a priority (for me, I use Pocket Breeze, for Task+App up to 7 days ahead). From what it seems, others are looking for things like .. battery, signal strength, number of missed call/sms/voice-mail. You may want to check the ayeFone launcher for users comments as well as methods they used to get into some of the inforamtion.
For other ideas, try looking at the 'Prada' phone interface. Do a search at YouTube to see how the Prada phone interface behave.
For much interesting interface, try YouTubing for 'Neonode' as well.
The Prada phone interface looks very inteesting. Might try to emulate some of those functions. Currently I find the Windows Mobile interface to be pretty much unusable for a phone. Everything is way too small and cluttered. Ill fire up Photoshop and see what I can come up with
BTW, almost forgot about this. Take a look at this program "rlToday". Go to its official website, look at all the possible 'skin' people are using. From what it seems, it can produce the interface you've shown above (big buttons to launch apps) and clock (without the appointment part) BUT, it also ables to show how many missed call, SMS, etc.
Thought you might want to know this to avoid making duplicated efforts. Happy coding.
Over in the Elf forum we love the htc cube. this is an application that has sides and a face. one side has general apps, one has multimedia apps, and one contacts and phone.
it is very useful but cannot be fully modified.
We all love the cube and want to reconfigure it but cannot quite get it right...transformation issues, and some icons that cannot change, etc.
I wonder if someone could do a similar app that was more configurable? if the animation was too hard what about movement like Tene's Contact Manager or a dissolve transformation ???
Sadly I am no longer a coder but would be happy to donate for such an app...
just thinking out load,
Sam.
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This is a small test of a work-in-progress.:
http://rapidshare.com/files/43755638/FlashBox.zip.html
the "oficial" site is actually a portuguese forum:
http://www.pocketpt.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=16424
i am really contemplating on the same ideas as well.. but having ideas without any knowledge in programming really sucks for me..
i stumbled this very nice transition animation thingies which are said written in dotNET framework 2..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMrPz56OVo
link to the developer can be found here
the project is made only for smartphones but i think the transitions switches and its idea can be used in a revolutionary PPC launcher of some sort..
i quite don't like having a launcher that eats the whole screen (just like the touchflo cube), hiding the top and bottom bars, giving the user an illusion of having a "new" and "exciting" interface - but then after you select something, you'll be pulled back to the same windows mobile interface..
maybe it's better to just stick to what Windows mobile looks like, but yet, giving it something flashy and worth seeing instead.. just like cool transitions..
maybe the swipe gesture can be used to flip the contents of the screen instead (including the top and bottom bars) rather than rotating a full screen cube.. i think it'll definitely load and feel faster than summoning a full screen application and redrawing the default interface and the launched program afterwards..
just a thought though..
That is pretty cool...hopefully it can be applied to touch screens as well.
Some excellent additional thoughts and ideas. For me a fullscreen app works best as it allows the touch interface to look much better than wm6 and gives me more 'elbow' room when using my fingers to control the application.
The flash solution looks good but I would prefer to minimise memory demands by loading as little additional software as possible.
Mind you I am no longer a coder and if it works and avoids devouring all my memory I will be VERY happy indeed.
All the best,
Sam.
Orb Interface Concept
Hello
I thought of a new interface idea that would be finger friendly and everything. Read about it on my XDA post here:
I think it would be a great interface, but I need some programers to make it happen. Get the word out about this project, and maybe something will happen.
Thanks,
Andrew
I tried to modify HTC Home, because it is IMHO to big. I only need the Home Tab so i wondered if it might be possible that the tab selection is not being displayed to save some Space (in the pic is shown what i want to be displayed).
The greatest thing at all would be if only the Files needed for the Home Tab would be installed. But that is not necessary at all, because i would be able to figure that out by myselfe and create that cab file.
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Maybe someone knows an other application, that is able to display that i desire. Or a SMS, Email, and Call Notification as plugin for Pocket Plus as Icons that can be plased free into the Tabs.
I'm looking forward for your help
Greets so far.
rltoday has a skin that will do what you want. Free program that works very well.
rltoday still have bugs, It can not work properly in my hima I have given feedback to the creator
It would be much nicer if the area you want to disappear could appear and disappear by selecting the tabs. That means when you click onces on the Home tab the clock display appears when you click it again it will disappear. And that way for all Tabs of HTC Home, that would be a great development for the HTC HOME.
Why not use HTC Home Custom 1.0 beta5? (HHC 1.0 beta5?)
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Why not use HTC Home Custom 1.0 beta5? (HHC 1.0 beta5?)
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Why? Cause what he wants to do is not possible with Home Customizer.
AFAIK it is not possible at all yet.
I would really like it if it was possible. Ideally with the custom if there's only 1 tab used the tab bar should disappear... It would be perfect
If rlToday doesn't bug for you, you really should give it a try.
I've been using it in place of HTC Home for weeks now, and never looked back.
It looks better, smaller, more customizable... simply awesome
Should check out the skins made by a person known as FOXCAT:
http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=762#p762
Thnx for your help so far.
RLtody seems to be a nice tool with great capabilities. Unfortunatly the HTC Theme doesnt work for me. It gives me odd graphics, but i havnt had the time yet to change the skin.xml for my needs.
But I'm shure i'll get what i want from this app. Indeed i'll get more i've ever hoped when starting the thread (A today plugin, exacly like i want it and fully customizable).
@PAPPL
It isn't possible to do what i want with any customize tool for HTC Home, because all that they are capable of is changing the reg keys in HKLM\Software\HTC\HTC Home and replace the Images. For both i dont need any tool at all. But there isnt any reg key (at least i found none) that is responsible for the task i want. Nor did i find the place of the prog, where the graphics are defined. I think the only way to find that out is to get a hand onto the sourcecode. But i dont know anything at all of reverse compilation.
Maybe someone knows an other application, that is able to display that i desire. Or a SMS, Email, and Call Notification as plugin for Pocket Plus as Icons that can be plased free into the Tabs.
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Not too sure what you are looking for here, but you might give HTCPlus! a try. I find it a bit smaller and does what I am looking for.
I want to, I really really want to but everytime I boot into it I keep thinking "meh".
It just looks clunky when I compare the Android Homescreen (build as per sig) to my WinMO homescreen - with stock ROM, CHT2 and the Glass appearance.
So as not to repost what I said elsewhere here are my beefs and likes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10328739&postcount=30
Main issues for me:
-poor battery life
-homescreen dominated by huge clock and widgets take up too much room each (large fonts) so the Agenda widget can only display 1 entry whereas on Winmo I can display at least 2 - even with a row of quicklinks and the date/alarm
-no Android Sense equivalent of the Slider?
You seems to really dislike android... I am sure that is because you don't know this os much.
there are many ways to recreate this screen, start to look at pure calendar widget and launcher pro. My battery last more than 6h screen on, more than one hundred in standby. Nand builds are very battery friendly.
I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I like Android so much better the WinMo. I loved CHT 1.8.5 back on WinMo, but when I started to use Android (which soon replaced WinMo), CHT felt so 'limited' if you find out what else you can do on Android. I've learned many things from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743301
Maybe a good idea to take a look there?
Sincerely,
Mac
where did I say I dislike it?
If anything I am saying I would like to like it more, is all.
As I did all the settings etc for my wife's Desire I have played around with it a fair bit over the past 6 months on her phone.
I am just saying apart from those few things above (esp Apps and multi-calendar) for me it does not seem to add much over WinMo and have listed a few negs vs WinMo in my experience.
It isn't a visceral preference - I am trying to keep an open a mind as I can!
I don't want to use a Nand build as there are a few things I need to drop into WinMo for (work related) and at this stage I don't see it as a superior choice yet anyway
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I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I like Android so much better the WinMo. I loved CHT 1.8.5 back on WinMo, but when I started to use Android (which soon replaced WinMo), CHT felt so 'limited' if you find out what else you can do on Android. I've learned many things from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743301
Maybe a good idea to take a look there?
Sincerely,
Mac
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Many thanks Mac
I shall spend more time on that page - I have had a cursory look before and certainly some look great.
Here is my screenshot btw
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What kinds of things are you referring to that you can do in Android over WinMo please?
oh and Mac I hit the thanks button for you simply for your great Sig - I heartily agree!
I would get launcher pro if i was you. You can edit the size of the widgets and change how many rows and columns. I also changed the font size so is smaller and it fits more stuff on each screen. I would also say launcher pro has the closest thing to a slider like winmo. It let's you have three docks which you van slide through which gives you up to 15 different items in the dock.