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Wallpaper Smoked

No matter what .tsk file I use, when I use the option in the settings to display image as baccground. It's always grayed out which seriously makes the pic look crappy. I know I can just use a load of different .tsk files but I don't want to do it that way. I want to be able to change the baccgroud pic at anytime with having it smoked out with some gray transparent layer.
Is the a registry hacc I can do to stop it?

I don't know if there is a registry hack but at least, there is a workaround. Instead of using the today applet to select your background picture, you can use the Pictures & Videos app. Select the picture you like, there is a menu item to set a the selectted picture asToday background just set the transparency level at 0% and you are set

Thanks. Works perfectly.

Glad I helped, but actually you got me thinking. So, I tried to figure out if there was not a way of setting the transparency level via a registry hack as you suggested. I didn't find anything because it's not stored in registry.
What actually happens when you choose a background picture is that wm5 creates 2 pictures (stwater_240_320 and stwater_320_240) in the \windows folder. So instead of relying on the today applet or on the pictures and videos app, what you could do is delete these 2 pictures, then copy your homemade pictures in the \windows folder and rename theme to the above mentionned names. It should let us have a different image when in landscape mode instead of a cropped one. The 240_320 has to be 240x268 and the 320x240 340x188. Why 268 and 188 instead of 320 and 240 ? Because the taskbar and the menubar are 26 pixels wide and (2x26) + 268 = 340 !

newbie problem in changing wallpaper of today

when i change the wallpaper of today using the
default option (the box below theme selection)
the wallpaper get whiten (just like the theme set transparency to 30% or so)
i try different theme also have this problem
What can i do? thx

Browse to the picture you like to use as wallpaper with the file explorer. Open the picture and choose "Set as Today Background..." with transparency 0%.

use pictures and videos menu,>send to today bckground
change the transparancy there
or use a_cs s2v which is the best free image viewer and save to desktop
that prog allows you to save much higher quality contact pictures as well

Done, thank you very much ^^b

Full Screen Picture for Caller ID

How to get a Bigger or Full Screen picture for Caller ID? The Default one is pretty small.

There is no application? pls rep something

Have you tried some of the other Panels? Maybe spb or even the touchflo3d could have bigger caller pictures..

They do, but the resolution stinks...TF3D just blows up the little tiny picture bigger which is crap...

S2U2 has an option for enabling full-screen caller ID, but it stretches the tiny Windows Contact pic so it looks awful.

Oh god! This is so bad. There is not a single software? Shame on WM

There are several alternatives;
S2u2 as mentioned above, (set the contact pic using S2V btw, scales properly that way). Available in the Dev & Hacking section of this very forum.
As is iCaller http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450187
Commercially theres
Phonex and Photo contacts pro both are really nice apps.
The manilla dialer is my favourite, and one reason why I tend to install it on most devices.. The blackstone one doesn't do fullscreen but it is much better than stock, and a nice slidey answer button.
There's probably more, but as you don't seem to want to search for them I won't either..
But the first find in GOOGLE comes up with these..
http://www.pocketpccentral.net/software/contact_cid.htm

matthewf01 said:
S2U2 has an option for enabling full-screen caller ID, but it stretches the tiny Windows Contact pic so it looks awful.
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Not if you use S2v to assign picture to contact. It looks great on my X1.
Home of S2U2, S2P and S2V

Okay,i m messed up with too many. What you guys are using?

emwdava said:
Not if you use S2v to assign picture to contact. It looks great on my X1.
Home of S2U2, S2P and S2V
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Ahhhh! Did not know that, good idea
Though I'm using "Fonebook" to sync Facebook pictures down to my Outlook contacts... I guess I have to pick one, huh.

I`m just testing out Photo Contacts Pro. The Photos are still crapped..to far to much compression noise...yes i reasigned them from the orignal source imagaes.
Ist Phonex looking better?
Ok found the settings to increase photo quality. 400 x 400 pixel and still a lot of compression artefacts...it has to be better...

Photo Contacts Pro is having a problem sending SMS...i get the message "this sms message cant be sent" anyone any idea what to do about it?
I like the SMS editor from photocontacts..larger buttons and all that stuff...

other ways to change home wallpaper?

Hi all,
I was thinking how would be nice if someone could add a menu option for viewing pictures - use as touchflo3D background ( or maybe some picture viewer app which can do this ). Because always when you want to change the background you must slide across the screen to settings tab, select the wallpaper option, click on no ( no default wallpaper ), choose the folder and finally found a picture what you want in that so small thumbnails, click on it and go to the home tab to see how it looks like. But specially in the women pictures you find out (after this ridiculously long procedure) that she has a clock across the face xD.
Correct me if I am wrong. The app with the thumbnails is htc album right? Why there is no possibility to see the image in fullscreen before you select it as wallpaper (as it is in htc album tab) ???
this is so annoying for me, what do you think?

Few things I can't figure out how to do with my HD2

1. is it possible to have a wallpaper changer? could you recommend me the right app\link?
2. is it possible to have games in our quicklinks? or do we have to go to startmenu?
3. in games ive made subfolders for strategy , role playing etc.. how can i put icons on those folders?
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
thank you.

You can put games in the Quicklinks. The phone came with Guitar Hero in the quicklinks.

i realize that.. i mean the folder games. sorry
can i put the folder games in the quicklinks?

anyone have any tips for me please?
ive come up with another thing that annoys me about my layout.. maybe there's a workaround someone knows?
when going into albums storage card it shows all the folders on my storage card for images.. is there away for it to show them like a tree? meaning not show all subfolders right away? i have a folder in my storage card named wallpapers, and inside that are 15 folders, (portrait.landscape, high res. etc..) when i open albums they all show up.. i'd like it to just show wallpapers then IF I CHOSE wallpapers then it would show the subfolders.
Thanks

xtacybyme said:
1. is it possible to have a wallpaper changer? could you recommend me the right app\link?
2. is it possible to have games in our quicklinks? or do we have to go to startmenu?
3. in games ive made subfolders for strategy , role playing etc.. how can i put icons on those folders?
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
thank you.
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What do you mean by wallpaper-changer? You can adjust your wallpaper if you go on settings-tab and then on personalize.
If you want to customize your icons, use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567080
and search for custom icons in themes / apps area.

wallpaper changer - i had a SPV C550(HTC) and there was a proggy for changing the homescreen wallpaper every 10,30 seconds etc.. so curious if anyone has found the similiar thing for there htc.. where it would change the homescreen wallpaper every 10, 30 seconds or minute. but when backlight turns off the changer would stop of course.
thanks for icon changer info
any tip son the albums questions?
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
5. when going into albums storage card it shows all the folders on my storage card for images.. is there away for it to show them like a tree? meaning not show all subfolders right away? i have a folder in my storage card named wallpapers, and inside that are 15 folders, (portrait.landscape, high res. etc..) when i open albums they all show up.. i'd like it to just show wallpapers then IF I CHOSE wallpapers then it would show the subfolders.

xtacybyme said:
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
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No I dont know how to show all your albums just by clicking on the quicklink, but you can navigate to your favorite album and hit the right softkey. There you can choose "set album as favorite". Now, when you click on the quicklink, it will allways show up your defined album instead of "no albums found".

To the OP,
Have you looked at this...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
WB