Good evening everyone,
ok my question: is there an app or a way to change the defaut windows style? (so no HTC sense)
and with change i mean add/remove the standard bars that say for example "favorites" or "voicemail" in the home screen
because i dont use some of the bars but i do like to have a bar saying like
"Remote Desktop" or "Live messenger" or "Weather"
i Know that with HTC sense i can do this all but i really like the looks and feel of the Default windows Style (maybe im a bit crazy ) i also installed Dusk Titanium v2 with this it looks even better for my taste
and i dont think its impossible because the bars are just like links to a program or folder
plz let me know if something like this is possible,
i already tried to search XDA for similar posts but didnt found any.
so sorry if this is something already mentioned before.
Have a look a SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 it should do everything you want, and more
ok just looked at the trail version and it really looks sweet!
i'm only a bit concerned about the battery draining much faster
but it does look really good! so thank you very much for the info
goto Marketplace and download "Home Screen Customizer"
ok this is exaclty what i was looking for.
and the best thing is it also free, was a bit of a search where i could find the marketplace lol but i have it all working now.
so thanks again
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Hi
I have a question as nooby as it might sound
I have My XDA Mini S and love it, but the desktop is pretty boring if i might say.
I have had things like Iluncher and stuff like that looks ok,
But i realy like the XP look you can get eXPerience its called
This is ONLY Windows 2003 Compatible, Is it worth installing WM3 on my phone just for this,
Or can anyone recomed a nice Skin that Gtes ride of the boring Start butten at the top and makes it look a little like XP
Or just something that Gives it that Wooooo and not Borining
dave7802 said:
Hi
I have a question as nooby as it might sound
I have My XDA Mini S and love it, but the desktop is pretty boring if i might say.
I have had things like Iluncher and stuff like that looks ok,
But i realy like the XP look you can get eXPerience its called
This is ONLY Windows 2003 Compatible, Is it worth installing WM3 on my phone just for this,
Or can anyone recomed a nice Skin that Gtes ride of the boring Start butten at the top and makes it look a little like XP
Or just something that Gives it that Wooooo and not Borining
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no need for downgrading an entire OS for the look...u can get a program called Wisbar...u can do crazy things with it....
Which can be found at http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/
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Which can be found at http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/
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Yer thanks, I took your advice and wow you can do some crazy stuff with it thanks.
I have been at this solid for about 24 hours now
i was going to open another post but Oh well,
I have downloaded about 4 Skins and Added them all into one, Some skins there are things i love and others things i dont like.
Its almost looking perfect for what i want, But there was a few things i was stuck on.,
How can i have the Control Pannel (Settings) as a shortcut am trying to creat a docking section with Settings, Programs, Games, and Network on,
But Settings i cannot find it anyway Any Ideas
Thanks Again
Dave
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Which can be found at http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/
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Oh yer sorry for the Double Post, But also
On the Today Screen you have a section for Messeges, I think thats great when i have a messege i can see 1 new messege or email etc
Is that possible to creat this as a shortcut??
Am using the Wisbar Desktop
Thanks again
I was setting here thinking , and came up with an idea. I'm not genius dev so I dont have a chance at it. But in my mind it sounds possible. But PLEAZ check this out , and let me know what you think about this idea.
Okay.One part of my idea is fairly simple, the next would be a challenge but , im sure one of the genius dev's here could do it. Here goes.
The simple part:
Pretty much strip iFonz down, no icons on it anywhere. Create a skin for it, with the diamond background, which can already be done. Then create a skin for the "DOCK" , that makes the bottom icons, look like the Home tabs on the diamond. This wouldn't be hard for a lot of you.
Next turn of the "slide" feature in the iFonz settings. Link the bottom icons to a different page each. That way when you hit one, it quickly pops up another page, pretty much like the htc home plug does. This right here takes care of one of the plugs used withthe diamond also. The program launcher tab. All you would have to do is setup your icons, and that part is done.This seems like it would be pretty simple. But now to the hard part.
The HARD part:
This is the parts that would be a challenge. I know some of you could do it, but its just getting someone interested. But anyway. Somehow create a plugin, or something, that will put apps like the clock, and messaging, and music, etc on the iFonz screen. I was thinking that for messaging and email, that you could somehow just make turn on like one icon on on iFonz, and link it to the proper size graphic. Then it would read whatever program it was linked too. I don't exactly know how to explain what I'm thinking here, but hopefully , you understand.
The way iFonz is set up, being able to choose links, and things. It seems like this would be very possible. Some things, like the clock, and messages, and maybe contacts, may be fairly simple to one of you devs. I myself would be happy , and I'm sure alot of you as well, with this , even if it was missing a couple of tabs, like the music, or something.
But anyway. Ponder on it, and let me know what you think. In my mind it seems extremely possible. And if someone was to do it, you'd have the smoothest working Diamond them around. The way iFonz would pop up a different page and things. But I hope you all give your ideas here. Maybe with some help this will become a reality
sounds like an idea
I'll be willing to pay for that even
Just try the latest beta of ThrottleLauncher
I think WAD2 is the best option....
The new beta version of Wisbar Advance Desktop 2 is amazing and I have had good results making a Diamond theme with it. Attached are some screen shots of what I have done so far. Goto www.lakeridgesoftware.com if you want more information or to download the latest (V8 as of 6/10/08) beta version of WAD2.
2manyphones, I certainly hope you'll be sharing that WisBar skin with us. Your skin alone is enough to make me wanna buy WAD!
I agree. Throttelauncher or SPB Shell w/the Diamond theme. Nice WAD setup though. I played around with it before. Great app but SPB Shell is easy to setup.
What about speed.
The throtllelauch and mobile shell slow down your device and are hungry for memory.
UL has nice possibilities if you want to keep speed and is highly customizable
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2287294&postcount=238
But most people forget to look at Manila Theme for XIAMultiTheme
which is still in beta state tough, but works quite good.
I tried searching on the topic but i found nothing on either here or google. Am I missing something? Anyways, I am looking for a .cab that has the touch screen scrolling effect like the iphone. But I wanted to keep my theme...not get an iphone theme. I just want to use it for scrolling my contacts easier and to scroll through internet pages quicker.
Thanks in advance
you wont get anywhere by typeing in iphone scrolling. The apple phone has kentic scrolling so try looking up something like that. All the custom roms have it built in so try those.
try s2u2. there are some posts in this forum about it.
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I tried searching on the topic but i found nothing on either here or google. Am I missing something? Anyways, I am looking for a .cab that has the touch screen scrolling effect like the iphone. But I wanted to keep my theme...not get an iphone theme. I just want to use it for scrolling my contacts easier and to scroll through internet pages quicker.
Thanks in advance
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I don't know if there exists a cab like that, but if you want to have scrolling contacts, you can always use icontacts. If you want to scroll through internet pages, just use opera mini and you can scroll that way too.
easy
it sounds like you're talking about touchflo. the best way to get touchflo on the wing is by flashing a rom with touchflo in it... it's very easy to flash a rom, if u have a wing, a data cable, and a computer with activesync you are ready to go... i have otp 7.4 lite by ttran01 very nice and leaves lots of room (40mb i believe) for you to install your own stuff and comes with touchflo preinstalled as well as opera mini built in along with a few other goodies like manila2d . hope this helps. just go into the roms part of the htc herald/wing section of the forum. good luck.
or you could always just install touchflo if u want to be gay about it, and that would give you the finger scrolling effect in internet explorer, contacts and just about any other screen where a scroll bar exists, but just remember a lot of people put many hours of hard work into creating the roms and some of them are bad ass.
just google touchflo app or look for it in the forums im lazy and don't feel like finding it for you
Here's something for those who are perhaps coming over from the iPhone. You'll probably be more at ease with your device!
By the way, for the record, I just made this for fun, thinking that there are people who actually appreciates this sort of theme. I use my other theme more regularly. Please don't flame me with Apple-fanboy comments!
Note: This cab does not include the taskbar, and 1% battery driver. You may find them at the links provided. Credit to Chainfire, InsecureSpike
Instructions:
1. Install cab
2. At the soft-reset prompt, tap cancel.
3. Disable and re-enable TF3D to see the changes.
If don't like it, just uninstall. Disable and re-enable TF3D. Back to normal.
Meh, You make great stuff dude..
I use your V1.4 TF3D.. btw I'm curious about something..
Shouldn't the "Mail" and "Messages" icon be replaced with one another ?
Seems like the (a) is more suited for E-mail.. xD
Ha! I like your V1.4 TF3D more..... iphone icons?? Don't think so.... that is the reason why I bought my TP2... and not putting iphone stuff on my TP2.
Btw... Awesome work!!!
Yuuvi said:
...Shouldn't the "Mail" and "Messages" icon be replaced with one another ?
Seems like the (a) is more suited for E-mail.. xD
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Well, I'll say this. I'm not a huge fan of the Messages icon I chose to use. I just haven't been able to find one that feels like "the one". Anyway, have a look at the other thread. I've made a poll to see what everyone thinks...
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..... iphone icons?? Don't think so.... that is the reason why I bought my TP2... and not putting iphone stuff on my TP2.
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That's exactly how I feel too!
Still trying myself to get this theme thing down, Still getting all kinds of white blotches on my screen which is pissing me off but good work on the apple theme although I do hate apple still looks nice.
Wow, no love for this theme...
The download count must have set some sort of record low for most unpopular theme or something.
Don't things too hard! I love parts of your other theme, elements of that I am using on my own theme for the communications and settings tab.
Since this thread is a bit quieter, could you answer a couple of questions?
I've been using Manila Editor v.0.2 to build my theme, which is a bit trial and error since most of the manilla files are listed as unknown (eg, the program doesn't know what icon they represent) but does give you a preview of the file and allows you to change it. What do you use?
What is the correct protocol for posting a theme containing elements from others work? EG my theme would have your communications, settings (and dammit, more fiddling, now the volume part of settings! But thanks for the effort.) Should I ask each person if it's ok for me to share, post but with credits and links to the original theme or what?
Thankyou for going the extra mile on your themes and customising parts that others haven't. It really makes a difference when the phone doesn't just go back to the standard look once you leave the main pages.
Hey Steve, thanks for the consolation, I feel much better...haha!
Now, regarding your queries...
I've used Manila Editor before...back in the days when I was first bought my Touch Diamond and people were just starting to figure out how to edit manila files. But I've always found it really difficult to use and (like you said?) a lot of the files are categorized as "unknown". All in all, this app is pretty outdated and I don't believe it's being developed anymore.
I use Chainfire's great tool, CFC-GUI. Try it out. It should be quite easy to figure out for you.
I don't know if there's even a protocol (per se) in place for creating themes containing parts of other user's themes. I suppose it's ok if all authors are happy with it. I'll be perfectly happy with you just linking back to my theme's thread.
very good,wo like it!!!
I like a look of my stock tp2 (with WinMo 6.5) but there are 2 things I would like to change:
1. When I tap start I don’t want my background to change to something predefined.
2. To change the experience of clock i.e. transparent background with white numbers.
Can somebody direct me where to look?
forster said:
I like a look of my stock tp2 (with WinMo 6.5) but there are 2 things I would like to change:
1. When I tap start I don’t want my background to change to something predefined.
2. To change the experience of clock i.e. transparent background with white numbers.
Can somebody direct me where to look?
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1. Open Windows Pictures & Videos program, find the picture you want as your Start Menu Background, Once you found the one you want click and open it, then click on the menu button, then there will be an option to "Set as Home Background" select it and follow the prompts and your all done
2. As far as this goes, this requires some various mods and tweaks...not sure exactly what you are asking for...but this depends on what your phone is running and that tells you what mods you can install...do some searching and reading
acidbath5546, thank you for a fast reply.
Well, I would like clock like this one in attachment, with weather forecast of course. I hope that changing clock won’t require flashing the phone.
My phone is running stock Win 6.5 rom. The phone is 1 weak old.... I trayed reading and searching..but in every theme there are 50 + pages of posts...Hard to find explanation, when i dont understand even a term "manila", as far as i'm concerned Manila is the capital of the Philippines.
Im not afraid of tweeking, but only if i know what im looking for.
forster said:
acidbath5546, thank you for a fast reply.
Well, I would like clock like this one in attachment, with weather forecast of course. I hope that changing clock won’t require flashing the phone.
My phone is running stock Win 6.5 rom. The phone is 1 weak old.... I trayed reading and searching..but in every theme there are 50 + pages of posts...Hard to find explanation, when i dont understand even a term "manila", as far as i'm concerned Manila is the capital of the Philippines.
Im not afraid of tweeking, but only if i know what im looking for.
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LOL...Not a problem man
We were all afraid of tweaking at one point.
From what you said you are looking for a clock that also has the weather update inside of it. That is found only in custom ROMS.
It is a version of TouchFlo3D that is called "Sense 2.1 or Sense 2.5" you will also see it said as "Manila 2.1 w/Sense and 2.5".
If you want a good place to read about all this stuff, there is a great site/blog that has everything in one central place, it helped me a lot back when I had an HTC Fuze, and there is one just for the HTC TP2
See here:
http://tilt2.blownfuze.org/
So if you really really wanted that clock and some cooler stuff, you would have to flash a "Custom ROM".
If you need any more help or want my opinion feel free to send me a private message/PM and I will help if I can.
acidbath5546, you wouldnt belive how helpfull your answer was!
Thank you very much!!!!
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acidbath5546, you wouldnt belive how helpfull your answer was!
Thank you very much!!!!
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No problem at aall man
As far as your PM about how to find your Manila Version....
I dont really remember that much about your Stock/Regular version, been awhile since I used it.
But if you slide you slider all the way to the settings tab, there should be a selection that says "About Phone" or software info or something like that, that you can click on.
But after seeing your ROM version you sent me, you have an older/standat version of regular Manila 2.1, NOT SENSE manila 2.1, which is what you are looking for, with the weather forecast clock and what not....