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Changing Home screen

I looked at the Microsoft website for help, but it gave instructions that were not on my Exec....
this is what they wrote:
Change the Home screen appearance
* On the Home screen, click Start > Settings > Home Screen.
* Under Home screen layout, Color scheme, and Background image, select the options you want, and then click Done.
I haven't even got "Home Screen" under "settings" whats going on?
I want to change the font and colour on my Home screen...how do i do that?
cheers

possibly a dumb question BUT were you looking for the instructions under Windows Mobile 5, OR under an older version?

budo*85 said:
I looked at the Microsoft website for help, but it gave instructions that were not on my Exec....
this is what they wrote:
Change the Home screen appearance
* On the Home screen, click Start > Settings > Home Screen.
* Under Home screen layout, Color scheme, and Background image, select the options you want, and then click Done.
I haven't even got "Home Screen" under "settings" whats going on?
I want to change the font and colour on my Home screen...how do i do that?
cheers
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'Home Screen' is on a Smartphone
'Today Screen' is on a PDA
= You're looking at the wrong instructions

The Picture & Videos application has a menu option to set a picture as your Today screen background. It's easy.

no no not the picture, the font colour and size....

budo*85 said:
no no not the picture, the font colour and size....
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Colours and typefaces are really defined within the Theme (.tsk) that you choose.

oh ok... so where can i get more themes from?

budo*85 said:
oh ok... so where can i get more themes from?
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A few have been posted here on this Universal forum. But you'll need to find VGA ones. Avoid those marked Extended for other devices - I've not found one that works, although I believe there is a registry hack that makes them somewhat more compaitible. Even those marked VGA may not correctly switch between portrait and landscape. Many are an "acquired" taste, so be prepared to experiment.
There are people that sell their Today Theme designs on Handango, etc., and some are quite nice. You'll also get some themes bundled with skins for PocketBreeze, WAB, and most of the other Today screen launchers.
It is posible to "roll-your-own". Microsoft did produce a Theme Generator some years ago, but I don't believe that handles the Universal's screen resolution or landscape. I did see a company selling a generator that handled VGA resolutions, but can't remember who, and seem to remember it was US$50 or more, so I gave it a miss.

Sorry, somebody previously posted the following, but I've not tried the link:
"Today themes:
http://www.mcdeb.com/
go to the top of the page to SEARCH and look for VGA, you will get a list of themes that also work in landscape, and they're free!
http://www.mcdeb.com/
E.g.:
http://www.mcdeb.com/MT/archives/000852.html
For help installing goto:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/personalize.mspx"

Font Color on The Wing, HTC Home Plugin

Hi, I recently got the wing and I've been doing a lot of changes to my wing, one thing I can't seem to find anywhere is if there is a way to change the font color on the wing(such as start on top and calendar and contacts on bottom) and/or change the font color for the HTC Home Plugin media player(It's light blue), the HTC Home plugin I got is from the Touch_It full version.
I also seem to have a problem with the cube from the touchflo that came from Touch_It full version too, it opens up when you press the touchflo button then motion from bottom middle of screen to top, but I can't close it sliding from top to bottom instead it closes when I slide my thumb from bottom to top again and after wards it can't open up no more, the animation when I try to bring back the cube is it closing from then on

Running a search on this site provided this :
Change HTC home clock colors!!
Try sliding your finger from left to right instead and see if the cube comes up that way.

my clock color is white which matches the white font on my wing but the HTC Home plugin music player font is in light blue when active which messes up the whole matching thing lol if i cna't change that I would chnage clock color + wing font color
the cube after first time i bring it down can rotate left and but can never be brought up again lol is there a way to fix it?

Check this out !!!
I think this is what you're looking for.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-rc-mod-v-2-1.html

Yeah with RC mod you can change it to whatever color you like. You don't have to keep it white. You go to Font color and change Today Font color.

Okay. Well I tried.

mcutugno said:
Does anyone have a resolution for this? I really want to change the font and color of the song title, artist, etc.. on the Music tab of the HTC Home screen. The light blue is driving me crazy.
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Remove the HTC Player you installed.
Install thishttp://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-htc-audio-manager-v1-2-515-718.html
If that doesn't work..Download the HTC Customizer, run it, and download the Audio Manager through it. Thats how I got mine. Black theme, default player, and everything.

tks989 said:
Remove the HTC Player you installed.
Install thishttp://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-htc-audio-manager-v1-2-515-718.html
If that doesn't work..Download the HTC Customizer, run it, and download the Audio Manager through it. Thats how I got mine. Black theme, default player, and everything.
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Did this work for anyone? I have exactly the same version installed with my Custom ROM and it is still blue. There is no way to installed because it was part of the ROM. Will new install overwrite the old files? Thanks for your help.
On the same note, has anyone been able to figure out how to change the way time is displayed "within the Music tab of the Home". Mine is always showing "time remaining", and I would prefer to see "time elapsed". I am able to change it in the Audio Manager, but the changes don't effect the plugin for Home. Please help!

[Q] moving items en start menu ?

Hi, on Wm6.5 roms for the touch HD you can press and hold on the start menu items an move them arround but in the HD2 you can only send them to top. Thats is a really ugly to reorder lots of icons.
I think there must be a key in the registry to set this behaviour but cant find it.
Someone knows it?

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I use JWMD Icon Changer V1.9 beta for Windows Mobile 6.5 to change the order of the start menu items... Works well.
Hope this helps...

This is not in the registry. Its in a SYS file named gwes ithink. Only way to fix it is by flashing to cooked ROM or update from HTC.

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dealer75 said:
As far as I know this works only in later revisions of the os build. Maybe your Touch HD has a newer one.
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but how old cant it be? HD2 got one of the newest wm6.5 roms... From where the chefs got the newer version for the HD then???

Lukasss said:
I use JWMD Icon Changer V1.9 beta for Windows Mobile 6.5 to change the order of the start menu items... Works well.
Hope this helps...
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Does JWMD work for anyone else on their HD2?
On my old phone both JWMD Icon Changer and Showaco reSTART worked great in arranging the icons. On the HD2 however, neither seems to work.
JWMD arranges most of the icons on my HD2, but it doesn't rearrange them all (like the settings icon, it appears randomly in the list) and the ones that it does rearrange don't stay where they are supposed to and move after a little while.
What has HTC done to the Start menu to make it different? Because rearranging icons worked great on my old phone with these same exact programs.

Shawn_230 said:
Does JWMD work for anyone else on their HD2?
On my old phone both JWMD Icon Changer and Showaco reSTART worked great in arranging the icons. On the HD2 however, neither seems to work.
JWMD arranges most of the icons on my HD2, but it doesn't rearrange them all (like the settings icon, it appears randomly in the list) and the ones that it does rearrange don't stay where they are supposed to and move after a little while.
What has HTC done to the Start menu to make it different? Because rearranging icons worked great on my old phone with these same exact programs.
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I think that behaviour can be cause htc icons are created every time the phone reboots. There is a cab somewhere here (i think is in the tips thread) that disable the recreation of icons so after that you will have no problem. I hope that works

shagratt said:
I think that behaviour can be cause htc icons are created every time the phone reboots. There is a cab somewhere here (i think is in the tips thread) that disable the recreation of icons so after that you will have no problem. I hope that works
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Thanks for the input, but I already solved the issue (by doing a hard reset, heh).
JWMD works great now though, and with some spiffy icons makes my HD2 almost perfect - the disorganized icons were really bugging me.

Weather animations on home screen only, Verizon WinMo 6.5

Hello. Long time lurker, first time poster.
So, I want to have my wallpaper of choice on only my home screen, and have the weather animated as well. I'm running Verizon's official 6.5 upgrade with, as I understand it, Sense 2.1 (I haven't been able to confirm that the way I could on the old ROM, though).
I made a cab of the wallpaper with the nearest I could find to the proper settings, which was TouchFLO v2.1 - No Compression - Home Tab. HDWall tells me that I need Co0kieMonster's Patch. I found it here: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529730, though it definitely seems to be meant for the Blackstone, and not my Rhodium. Not able to find anything better, and not knowing my specific version of Sense, I tried a number of his cab's, starting with the Verizon specific one, and then running through all of his 2.1 variants. At the best, there was no noticeable change on my phone. At worst, the clock would only display white boxes with bits of black in them (and wouldn't flip up to show the text version), the Call History became 0 Missed Calls and my calendar appointments wouldn't show up on the home screen. Trying different settings for home screen only in HDWall either resulted in no change to my wallpaper, or the icon bar at the top being weirdly skinned or turning green (which makes sense, since I wasn't using the correct settings). HDWall works fine creating a wallpaper for all my tabs, but I don't want that.
So then, does anyone have a solution to suggest? I can't imagine I'm the first one to have tried to do this with this particular configuration. Any advice and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I believe this is what you are looking for: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503511&highlight=hdwall
This has the patch included already.

If you want to change the wallpaper of the home screen without affecting other tabs then go to settings on TF3D and change the home wallpaper. Then install this cab, soft reset, and the animated weather will be on top of any custom wallpaper...

dj_doeboy said:
If you want to change the wallpaper of the home screen without affecting other tabs then go to settings on TF3D and change the home wallpaper. Then install this cab, soft reset, and the animated weather will be on top of any custom wallpaper...
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i forgot to add the cab... here you...

dj_doeboy said:
If you want to change the wallpaper of the home screen without affecting other tabs then go to settings on TF3D and change the home wallpaper. Then install this cab, soft reset, and the animated weather will be on top of any custom wallpaper...
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Gah! That was sooooo easy! It was just a cab! I'd put probably three hours into getting this to work, and there was a cab for it. Thank you so much!!

So now I have another question:
When I installed the cab, the top curtain on my home screen disappeared. I was thrilled about this, because I was going to get rid of it next anyway. As a result, though, the clock shifted upwards to fill the space (around 1/4"), but the weather animations didn't. In most cases this doesn't mean anything. However, when it's sunny and there's the lens flare, it comes from just below the sun instead of inside it. When icicles form on the clock, they're happening a quarter of an inch below the top edge of the clock, rather than on the top edge.
These are minor issues, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a fix. Thanks in advance...

I already have weather animation on mine. I didn't add anything. Is this stock T-Mobile 6.5/2.1?

Mine's the stock Verizon 6.5/2.1. My issue isn't that I don't have the weather animations (I do, both with the default wallpaper and, thanks to the above cab, with custom wallpapers as well), but that the clock on the homepage isn't where the phone thinks it should be, which results in the weather animations being misplaced a bit.

WVGA cab for custom wallpaper and animated weather:
forum.ppcgeeks.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=55674&d=1263503329
Thanks, dj_doeboy!!!

does this work on sprints 6.1

AmelFl said:
does this work on sprints 6.1
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I don't think it will, no. The weather clock on the homescreen is limited to WinMo 6.5 and Sense UI, as far as I know, and this cab is for that.
Once your official ROM upgrade hits though, you should be able to use it, so maybe save it until then. It shouldn't be more than a month and a half before it's released.

Black and White Metal 2.5 2013

See if you like it. It is White Metal 2.5 2013 for a 6.5 build. Tell me what you think.
Also including a different contact icon if you want it. Not necessarry but a different style in case you do not like the contact tab with the human outline.
I am running mighty rom Windows 6.5 with Manila 2.5.2013
I was not happy with the centering of the Calendar date on the tray icon-so I included a cab with the fix.
Facebook Tab. You must already have the tab in order to use this. I installed it from Meltwaters and then alterred his manila for tabs

lubbad85, you are my hero! I have been looking for this everywhere. I don't know why but for some reason I've liked this style of slider ever since I've seen it on another carrier's phone.
I installed it asap and I like how it works! It works like a charm, I love it. Great job lubbad85, you rock! The only thing I would probably do is just better the screen icons when you change to a different tab on the slider. Those stock white ones will do but I would just see if I could replace them with any other better icons. Just my personal opinion. Other than that, you created a beautiful slider!
Quick question, I'm running C0okie's Home Tab. How does that extra notification bar appear? (The one on top of the actual sider)

develop1 said:
lubbad85, you are my hero! I have been looking for this everywhere. I don't know why but for some reason I've liked this style of slider ever since I've seen it on another carrier's phone.
I installed it asap and I like how it works! It works like a charm, I love it. Great job lubbad85, you rock! The only thing I would probably do is just better the screen icons when you change to a different tab on the slider. Those stock white ones will do but I would just see if I could replace them with any other better icons. Just my personal opinion. Other than that, you created a beautiful slider!
Quick question, I'm running C0okie's Home Tab. How does that extra notification bar appear? (The one on top of the actual sider)
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In the options for cookies home tab you can put the extra notification bar. I think under miscelaneous The bar is a bit redundant though.
Glad you like the slider. Give me an example of what kind of slider you really want. If you give me a direction I can build one. Manila is very forgiving. If you screw it up you have only to delete the manila file that you put into windows and the phone's ROM will build it back the way it was before the new manila was used.

[email protected] said:
In the options for cookies home tab you can put the extra notification bar. I think under miscelaneous The bar is a bit redundant though.
Glad you like the slider. Give me an example of what kind of slider you really want. If you give me a direction I can build one. Manila is very forgiving. If you screw it up you have only to delete the manila file that you put into windows and the phone's ROM will build it back the way it was before the new manila was used.
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I've been looking around in C0okie's Home Tab for the past 40 minutes and I believe I've gone through the whole editor twice and I still cannot find the setting which enables the extra notification bar. I feel like a noob or just looking for something that isn't there. I'm running v1.8.5.

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develop1 said:
I've been looking around in C0okie's Home Tab for the past 40 minutes and I believe I've gone through the whole editor twice and I still cannot find the setting which enables the extra notification bar. I feel like a noob or just looking for something that isn't there. I'm running v1.8.5.
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From the home screen soft key
1. Menu
2. Edit home layout
3. Main Home
4. Rt softkey Advanced
5. Check Show Notifications

[email protected] said:
From the home screen soft key
1. Menu
2. Edit home layout
3. Main Home
4. Rt softkey Advanced
5. Check Show Notifications
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I got it! Thank, yet again! As far as the slider goes, it works like a charm! I really don't have any other suggestions for it as of right now. Maybe later as time goes by and I think of something. But if you implement any improvements or make any changes to it please post it up, I will gladly test it out. Thank again!

lubbad85, I found a small little defect that you might consider. When I slide to a desired tab on my touch flo, I find that the tab icon I chose has a blurry icon. It looks like as if there is another lighter icon behind the primary icon. It's just a little annoying and tends to cross my eyes after a while. lol. Check it out in the attachment to understand what I'm talking about.

Nice work bro! Would you consider adding icons for Facebook and Call History tabs please?

[email protected] said:
See if you like it. It is White Metal 2.5 2013 for a 6.5 build. Tell me what you think.
Also including a different contact icon if you want it. Not necessarry but a different style in case you do not like the contact tab with the human outline.
I am running mighty rom Windows 6.5 with Manila 2.5.2013
I was not happy with the centering of the Calendar date on the tray icon-so I included a cab with the fix.
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I found this slider skin very pretty and charming! Is it OK to cook this skin into rom? I'm developing roms for myself, but somehow the xda community convinced me to upload them to public xD

develop1 said:
lubbad85, I found a small little defect that you might consider. When I slide to a desired tab on my touch flo, I find that the tab icon I chose has a blurry icon. It looks like as if there is another lighter icon behind the primary icon. It's just a little annoying and tends to cross my eyes after a while. lol. Check it out in the attachment to understand what I'm talking about.
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I think it's meant to.

Jackos said:
I found this slider skin very pretty and charming! Is it OK to cook this skin into rom? I'm developing roms for myself, but somehow the xda community convinced me to upload them to public xD
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I like that idea. I have been running a Mighty Rom. But I will try yours when you get done cooking.

[email protected] said:
I like that idea. I have been running a Mighty Rom. But I will try yours when you get done cooking.
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My ROMs won't be updated before August if someone doesn't find some critical bugs
This slider really fits the "old" Sense 2.5 skin, however it has got some images that could be a bit more polished... Ach, and some icons could be a little re-sized, because they aren't this same size. Anyway overall the experience is great! So keep up this wonderful work, first time that I like something that isn't made by ShowTime7.

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develop1 said:
lubbad85, I found a small little defect that you might consider. When I slide to a desired tab on my touch flo, I find that the tab icon I chose has a blurry icon. It looks like as if there is another lighter icon behind the primary icon. It's just a little annoying and tends to cross my eyes after a while. lol. Check it out in the attachment to understand what I'm talking about.
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You can fix this with a darker slider. I will cab it up for you here. It is for 2.5 manila

[email protected] said:
You can fix this with a darker slider. I will cab it up for you here. It is for 2.5 manila
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Thanks lubbad85, you're the man! Your work is greatly appreciated.

Hi there, I downloaded and installed the theme, but I dont know how to change the theme, i hate to ask but how exactly do I apply the theme? I tried Star->Settings->Today, but the theme is not on the list of available themes.
Thanks for your patience, I've only had the phone for a week or so.

iotran said:
Hi there, I downloaded and installed the theme, but I dont know how to change the theme, i hate to ask but how exactly do I apply the theme? I tried Star->Settings->Today, but the theme is not on the list of available themes.
Thanks for your patience, I've only had the phone for a week or so.
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You're going to run the .cab file from your storage card and install it onto your device when prompted to. Immediately after the slider is installed it is going to ask you to restart so the changes can take effect. You hit "yes" or "ok" (Not sure which option it gives you) Then, once the device restarts and turns on, the slider will appear and should be already installed automatically. You shouldn't have to do any other additional setting changes after you restart so the slider takes effect.

Hmm I installed all 3 cabs and it just told me "white metal 2.5 2013.cab was successfully installed on your device" (same thing with the other 2) but it didn't prompt me if I wanted to restart the device.
Any ideas why? this blue at&t theme is ok but this B&W Metal theme looks amazing.
Thanks

turn off sense
iotran said:
Hmm I installed all 3 cabs and it just told me "white metal 2.5 2013.cab was successfully installed on your device" (same thing with the other 2) but it didn't prompt me if I wanted to restart the device.
Any ideas why? this blue at&t theme is ok but this B&W Metal theme looks amazing.
Thanks
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Two ways to install. One is you first turn off sense
1. start menu
2. settings
3. today screen
4. items
5. uncheck htc sence
6. install cabs
7. and then go back and check htc sense
Or install the cabs and then soft reset

Hello again lubbad85!
Could you do me a little favor and add a facebook icon too? The meltwaters work is really impressive!

Just the sense tab
Jackos said:
Hello again lubbad85!
Could you do me a little favor and add a facebook icon too? The meltwaters work is really impressive!
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You just want the sense tab-in other words you already installed the other files neccessary for the tab? So just the tab icons?
If so here is the cab for just the tab sense icons in white to match the set. I cannot test it since I have not installed the control files for this tab.