hi all,
i have already researched this but havent found a solution..
im trying to have a different lockscreen wallpaper to my start menu
If you go to the Settings tab: Personalize, there are two wallpaper options.
Home Tab Wallpaper
Lock Screen Wallpaper
If you go to the "All Settings" and select the "Today" at the bottom is a Check Box:
"Use this picture as the background"
And you can browse for an image.
If you actually tried to use these three settings, you will find that the setting in the "use this picture as the background" is the same as the setting for the Lock Screen Wallpaper. Which is the same as the Start Menu. The Home tab, is part of HTC Sense, and is different than the other two. I want two different background images for the "Start Menu" and the "Lock Screen". Thus, equating to Three Total different backgrounds.
HELP!
not 100% sure, but i think what you desire is possible.
i think a file called "LS_LockScene_800x480.cpr" (for landscape) and "LS_LockScene_480x800.cpr" (for portrait) located in the \Windows folder contains a reference to a wallpaper file. i think if you change this reference (AFTER setting start menu and home screen wallpapers), you might be able to get a different lock screen wallpaper. i'm not certain if the mentioned files are actually "active" because i've noticed quite a few more files in my \Windows folder that might be the "active" files such as "htc_LS_LockScene_800x480.cpr" and "htc_LS_LockScene_480x800.cpr"
i seem to recall reading about CPR files and how they can be edited to achieve various styles of lock screen, incoming call screen (if using native WM dialer) and in call screen (if using native WM dialer), and alarm screen (if using native WM alarm application). so in case my suggestion doesn't work, try searching about CPR files and how to edit them and what each one is meant for.
finally, if you notice my signature, i played with lock screens about a year ago and i wrote a thread about it...so all of the above is the little bit that i remember from my experience earlier. i believe there is also an editor (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=525499) that can ease the process of making advanced changes in CPR files.
let us know if any of the above helps. if it does, why not post here with a tutorial? good luck!
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Okay, so I've trawled the net in search of a definitive answer to this, and I know it has something to do with the tdyater image file, but I can't get mine to change.
To cover my back I decided to make the file in 3 different formats, and with 3 different names. So in my windows folder I now have:
tdywater.gif
tdywater_480_640.gif
tdywater_640_480.gif
tdywater.jpg
tdywater_480_640.jpg
tdywater_640_480.jpg
tdywater.png
tdywater_480_640.png
tdywater_640_480.png
And still the background of the start menu is just clear, with my background picture visible underneath. This isn't helpful since my background image is very busy and no font colour can make the menu clearly visible. Is there a certain size the image has to be? I'm trying to use a 640x640 image. And is there anything I need to alter in the registry to make the picture appear?
Basically I am trying to use a plain white image, so would also be happy if someone could inform me of a registry key that can change the colour of the start menu.
Thank you
Hi,
tdywater = Today screen picture
stwater = Start menu picture
My start menu picture is a darkened version of the picture I use for my today screen but you can have anything you want.
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I have to disagree. Though that would be logical based on the file names, I have just done a little test, and my today screen background is governed by stwater_480_640.jpg (for portrait) and stwater_640_480.jpg (for landscape).
If I rename those files to tdywater, then the default windows background appears. And none of these files, be it stwater or tdywater have any effect on the start menu at all.
I sense something odd i happening with my device, since the way you said it sounds like it should be right.
But having said that, I did originally read somewhere (think it was ppcsg) that the correct filenames for portrait and landscape backgrounds were the ones I am uing, hence why I use them, and hence why they work. So basically it's just the start menu I'm struggling with.
I quote from "How to Create an Extended Theme" from Spb Pocket Plus:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/pocketplus/themetutorial.html?en
# Select your Today screen image (tdywater.gif) from the folder you created. Press Next.
# Select your Start menu image (stwater.gif) from the folder you created. Press Next.
These have been the standard filenames for the images for as long as I can remember...
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gquipster said:
I quote from "How to Create an Extended Theme" from Spb Pocket Plus:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/pocketplus/themetutorial.html?en
# Select your Today screen image (tdywater.gif) from the folder you created. Press Next.
# Select your Start menu image (stwater.gif) from the folder you created. Press Next.
These have been the standard filenames for the images for as long as I can remember...
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Well bugger the standard. If you read my posts you will see that is not the case on my device. Suppose I'll just keep trying
Are you just copying the images onto the device or using a TSK theme file?
I could never get it to work just copying the images.
This was the program which was recommended to me for building TSK files:
http://www.codeppc.com/telechargements/themegence/themegence.htm
Or do what I did for my first theme and use a CAB editor and just change the images in an existing theme
Not doubting you that it's not working on your device, just not a lot I can do but offer you the information which I have.
Hope this helps
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Found a way round it
1. Make the theme using the standard microsoft theme generator
2. Apply it on the device
3. delete tdywater.gif
4. Insert my own tdywater_480_640.jpg and tdywater_640_480.jpg files
5. Bingo!
Only thing is, I have to re-do most of that (from step 2 onwards) every time I soft reset, because by default my universal is showing stwater as the background image (ie: a think white bar which I have as my start menu background). It only recognises tdywater after applying a theme
Just use Wisbar!! :lol:
GaZ said:
Found a way round it
1. Make the theme using the standard microsoft theme generator
2. Apply it on the device
3. delete tdywater.gif
4. Insert my own tdywater_480_640.jpg and tdywater_640_480.jpg files
5. Bingo!
Only thing is, I have to re-do most of that (from step 2 onwards) every time I soft reset, because by default my universal is showing stwater as the background image (ie: a think white bar which I have as my start menu background). It only recognises tdywater after applying a theme
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Thanks
Is there any way of doing this?
Thanks
You can use a program called IconChanger, it can place the icons where you want in the gridlist. Download it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567080.
When you open the program you just press MENU and Sort Current Items or something like that. Now you will see a list with all the names right, the first 3 is the first line in the startmenu and then the 3 following is the 2nd line and so on.
Thank you for your reply. But can you change the wallpaper for the honeycomb as well?
Yes you can, go to settings/today and disable TF3D, then go to pictures & videos (or album, I'm not sure which one) and find the wallpaper you want, tap and hold it till you get a list, chose "use this wallpaper as background" or something like that, set the transperency to 0% and you're ready to go.
And btw, go to settings and re-enable TF3D of course
In the later versions of WM, you can actually drag and drop the start menu icons around without the need of a 3rd party app.
Most WM6.5.1 roms will support this but WM6.5 does not.
ArtieQ said:
Yes you can, go to settings/today and disable TF3D, then go to pictures & videos (or album, I'm not sure which one) and find the wallpaper you want, tap and hold it till you get a list, chose "use this wallpaper as background" or something like that, set the transperency to 0% and you're ready to go.
And btw, go to settings and re-enable TF3D of course
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Thank you!!1
I was able to remove these when i first got my phone, but now ive changed roms and need to do it again, i cannot find out how to delete some of the icons in the bottom taskbar, ie. footprints,music,social club,stocks etc...
whats the way to get rid of a few, have tried googling, searching this site and am not having any luck
thanks
first of all, what you are referring to are called "tabs" on the "tab bar" of manila/sense. knowing this will help you refine your searches next time.
the process for modifying the order and visibility of tabs is simple! on the home tab, open the menu bound with the right soft key called "Menu". the second option called "Personalize Home Screen Tabs" should do the trick!
in some cooked ROMs, this menu is removed and replaced with other custom options. on such ROMs, swipe to the Settings tab and choose "Personalize". there you will find the same option named "Home screen tabs".
Ok, Newbie here. I have the Energy Sense ROM on my TMO HD2 and I have searched but no luck at finding what all I need for the HD Walls. Any help would be appreciated.
Are you sure that ROM doesn't have Cookie's Home Tab (CHT) baked in? If it does, you don't need HDWall beacuse that functionality is included in CHT's latest version.
If the ROM doesn't have that already, I'd recommend you just getting CHT anyway, it incorporates HDWall's methods, among others, and is a great tool to have around in general.
I used to use HDWall by itself all the time, but it's fairly complicated, and it's so much easier now just to use CHT to get the same effect.
ya its got the latest cht already. i kinda thought that but wasnt sure.so what else do i need to create wallpapers? is there a cab for the program i need on the desktop? sorry for the lack of knowledge, just couldnt find anything on it.
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ya its got the latest cht already. i kinda thought that but wasnt sure.so what else do i need to create wallpapers? is there a cab for the program i need on the desktop? sorry for the lack of knowledge, just couldnt find anything on it.
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Check out the CHT thread, there's info there on the different ways you can do that, it's done through the CHT interface.
EDIT: Here's the link to it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625483
You'll also want to check out the companion tool for that, Cookie's Home Tab Editor (CHTE). You probably have that as well on your ROM, it extends the functionality of CHT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633590
Thanks! Now I just need to find the program for my desktop to create the wallpaper and create a cab file right? If so where can I find these at? If I overlooked it my apologies.
HD2TM said:
Thanks! Now I just need to find the program for my desktop to create the wallpaper and create a cab file right? If so where can I find these at? If I overlooked it my apologies.
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No, you don't even have to do that, you just need to have the image you want to use saved on your phone somewhere (like in a "wallpapers" folder on your SD card, for example), and then you use the options in CHT to choose that image and apply it as the background on your phone. CHT will apply it on all tabs, and even skin the top and bottom bars for you, like HDWall would do.
I switched from using HDwalls to strictly CHT a while ago. It is much less problematic and easier to change wallpapers.
I don't suggest keeping your wallpaper in your SD card but copy it to the "wallpapers" folder in my documents. If you have it plugged into your computer (i do a lot) and reboot the phone it won't find the wallpaper on your SD card as it can't see the SD card because it it plugged in. Yeah, clear as mud.. anyway.
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I switched from using HDwalls to strictly CHT a while ago. It is much less problematic and easier to change wallpapers.
I don't suggest keeping your wallpaper in your SD card but copy it to the "wallpapers" folder in my documents. If you have it plugged into your computer (i do a lot) and reboot the phone it won't find the wallpaper on your SD card as it can't see the SD card because it it plugged in. Yeah, clear as mud.. anyway.
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Very good point decim8, and I hadn't though of that...I had assumed that it cached the final wallpaper somewhere on the phone, but it's probably true that having it on the SD card will prevent the image from being usable whenever you're connected in disk drive mode to a pc over usb.
ok, I think Im a retard. I open CHTE and switch to HD wallpaper, reset the phone. I have saved the photo I want under the wallpaper folder on the device, and cant seem to figure out how to set it. The set wallpaper option goes away once I set it to HD and when I go to the photo and try and set it to the wallpaper the only option is todays background and I only see it when Im in the start menu. All tabs are black background and cant change to anything else.
From your home screen...
Hit the Menu soft key and then Set Wallpaper at the top.
Under the Home Tab section, tap the first thing, Portrait... and browse to the location you saved the image. Repeat as needed for the other sections.
Worst case, hit Albums, All...
It doesnt give me the option to set the wallpaper from my home screen (not able to be selected). It is an optoon when Im not trying to use HD though.
Sounds to me like you still have HDWall selected in CHTE.
Select Menu (soft key at bottom of home screen)
Select Co0kie's Home Tab Editor
Select Miscellaneous settings
Scroll down to the "wallpaper Mode" section. "HQ Wallpaper" should be selected, not "HDWall"
Please double check that this is the case. With this option selected you should be able to select "set wallpaper" with the Menu softkey.
EDIT: I have landscape on my home screen enabled via BSB tweaks and "set wallpaper" is not available from the menu when in landscape mode. Works fine in portrait.
Thanks!!!!!!! See I told you I was a retard. I did have HD selected instead oft the HQ like I should have. Thanks for all the help
Edit: The wallpaper is working correctly BUT when I try to set the Skin Taskbar and Softkey bar it gives me an error. Says "Out of Memory Exception"? The phone is no where near out of memory. I cant win for losing.
I have one basic question on wallpaper:
1) How can I change the wallpaper of Lock Screen and Start Menu screen?
I think it is "HTC Black.tsk" that take the role?
Do I need to replace the files inside the task (stwater_480_800.jpg and stwater_800_480.jpg)?
OR I need to have a new set of file for "HTC_stwater_x_x.jpg"?
But the issue is this will change the same image for both Lock Screen and Start Menu background ... Which I dont want.
If we see the default Lock Screen background and Start menu background they are actually different... so can we change them to different image?
Thanks.
Here is the script I use with oskitchen.
In the destlop wallpaper simply replace the file in the files folder and make sure the app.dat and the app.reg match your filename! You need to add all these registery keys to make it work!
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTc\Manila]
"Home.wallpaperMode"=dword:1
"HomeBackgroundPath"="\\My Documents\\My Wallpapers\\Background.png"
"DefaultHomeBackgroundPath"="\\My Documents\\My Wallpapers\\Background.png"
For the lockscreen / start menu I simply use an image and rename it to HTC_stwater_480_800.jpg then use an app.dat file to copy it into the windows directory eg: Directory("\windows"):-File("HTC_stwater_480_800.jpg","\Windows\HTC_stwater_480_800.jpg")
Both of these work a treat!
I have attached the two ext packages here!
View attachment Wallpaper.zip
prabhat said:
But the issue is this will change the same image for both Lock Screen and Start Menu background ... Which I dont want.
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There is no other way around this! Changing background will change your SM bkg and also lock screen...
Yes ai6908 is right. Both lock screen and start menu use the same wallpaper.
@GhostXSeries:
Thanks for your tip. For home screen it is working for me For Lock & Start Menu screen I was looking for and I wil use the HTC_stwater_x_y.jpg and see how that works
@ai6908:
Yes I know when I change the Lock screen image from settings I can see that the SM image also get changed to same file, but If I see the default build I see both are different so I was wondering If that possible from cooking .
Thanks.
You got an answer in your MUI thread, you might try that.
prabhat said:
@GhostXSeries:
Thanks for your tip. For home screen it is working for me For Lock & Start Menu screen I was looking for and I wil use the HTC_stwater_x_y.jpg and see how that works
@ai6908:
Yes I know when I change the Lock screen image from settings I can see that the SM image also get changed to same file, but If I see the default build I see both are different so I was wondering If that possible from cooking .
Thanks.
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There are two different file names used but unfortunitly I cant remember what they are! I think that is also for wm builds only. If you use sense it overrides the two files and uses HTC_stwater_480_800.jpg instead. 480_800 is used on the HD2 as that is the sceen resolution. The filename might be slightly different on other devices.