I can only seem to change the home tab wallpaper, and the lock screen one. I've looked and searched through forum and perhaps I'm just not using the right words when I search, but I'm trying to find a way to give each tab it's own wall paper. What am I missing? Is there a cab file somewhere? Or am I just being that dumb and not seeing some obvious setting?
I've had my htc hd2 for only a week and a half roughly, so I'm still getting used to it.
Thanks.
As far as I'm aware, there's not currently a way to set different wallpaper for each tab. The options are to have wallpaper on the home tab, with the grey background for the rest of them, or to have the same wallpaper on all tabs.
Obviously the latter is the more popular choice.
johncmolyneux said:
As far as I'm aware, there's not currently a way to set different wallpaper for each tab. The options are to have wallpaper on the home tab, with the grey background for the rest of them, or to have the same wallpaper on all tabs.
Obviously the latter is the more popular choice.
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dears, how to make the latter one?
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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?
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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"
I've searched and searched... is it possible to have "different" background wallpapers in "each" TF3D tab???
Different for each tab I don't think it's possible. From what I understood, only the Home wallpaper can be different from the rest.
MackTK said:
Different for each tab I don't think it's possible. From what I understood, only the Home wallpaper can be different from the rest.
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This is correct as i believe the same manila file is used as the background for all the other tabs, not individual manila files
i think their might be a way..SHOWACO might be the person who you can ask..he mentioned if people where interested on different wallpapers for each tab for his next theme.
Use Manilla HD.
It changes the wallpaper in all tabs
Check:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=514963
MackTK said:
Different for each tab I don't think it's possible. From what I understood, only the Home wallpaper can be different from the rest.
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Where can I find the setting to use a different home wallpaper?
dafreakr said:
Where can I find the setting to use a different home wallpaper?
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Yeah, I'm interested in this too! Can anybody help us? how to change just the home tab background and the others together in Touchflo?
Thank you!
hi, may i know how to put my own wallpapers in TF3D?
i just couldnt get it there.
thanks for ur help!
Slide along to settings, and then there is an option called wallpaper, and then from there you can just use the file browser to choose which ever one you want.
Or do you mean on all the tabs? Because that will just do it for the home screen.
yaya, what i mean is all the tab.
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...
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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.
hey guys and most likley gals.
i have a problem thats bugging me, i changed my background to a personal picture but when i scroll across my tabs to (for example) my email it shows the default background, i want it to show the same personal background no matter what tab im in.
i know its probably something really stupid that i havent done but i just cant figure it out
would really appreciatte some help on this
thanks
This has been asked and answered a couple of times here on the forum. You have to use m2dc(manilla 2d customizer) to set up a default background throughout manilla(touchflo). Changing the wallpaper only changes the background on the home tab and on the start menu. So set it as a wallpaper and also as a background in m2dc(which can be easily found here on xda).
zvoner5 said:
This has been asked and answered a couple of times here on the forum. You have to use m2dc(manilla 2d customizer) to set up a default background throughout manilla(touchflo). Changing the wallpaper only changes the background on the home tab and on the start menu. So set it as a wallpaper and also as a background in m2dc(which can be easily found here on xda).
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thanks for your reply.
stupidly about a minute after i posted i found a thread on the first page of the Touch2 themes and apps section.
sorry for my n00bishness.