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I have a lovely photo as my today wallpaper but it is faded out so much it's spoilt. Is there a way I can make it display without any transparency. I have searched these forums and gone through all the option I could find on the phone and didn't find anything.
Thanks
PDA Paul said:
I have a lovely photo as my today wallpaper but it is faded out so much it's spoilt. Is there a way I can make it display without any transparency. I have searched these forums and gone through all the option I could find on the phone and didn't find anything.
Thanks
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Trying viewing the photo through pictures & Videos in start menu programs. Then choose photo and go to menu, you will see set as today background, then you can adjust transparency!
Hope this helps
Great, thank you. I would never have found that. GF is looking good on the phone now.
Thanks again.
How about is it possible to make the start menu background opaque so that I can actually read what is in the start menu??
I would rather use a registry setting than a tweak tool, thanks.
I find that when I 'Use this picture as a background' (WM6, Dopod D810) the image appears but it's always 'whitewashed'. By that, I mean it's faded to white - I'd prefer to see the photo in it's full colour with no faded look.
I'm certain that in the early days of WM5 this used to work fine?
Any ideas would be appreciated
use picture & video viewer to find the picture you want to use as your background. tap and hold for the context menu and select "Set as Today Background..." a screen will appear where you can select transparency. set it to 0% and you should be in business!!
Thanks cortezzi, I'll give it a go.
Any idea of XnView Pocket does it? I can't seem to find a 'set as wallpaper' option.
*can't find it*
Also tried out a trial version of Resco Photo Viewer and although it allows me to Save > Use as Home Screen then set the viewable image area and transparency (which I set to 0), however the new wallpaper never appears despite receiving the message 'Picture was correctly set as Today wallpaper'.
Settings > Today shows the background picture is currently set to 'Custom Wallpaper'
Is there a registry hack I can do to stop the default Today settings from adding transparency to new background images?
I had the same problem.. In my case it was caused by the theme I had installed. Try a different theme or modify the one you use.
as helpful as ever....thanks blitzwurst
i tried using a plain colour theme with spb menu but any custom today backgrounds i choose still come out with transparency. how exactly do you suggest i do this? i'm certain that it used to work fine (no transparency) under WM5....
i'm just eager to make use of the great backgrounds another xda user suggested on the Slide2Unlock topic (I think) at http://www.zuned.be !
That Zune site is pretty nice!
In my case I had to get a theme (.tsk) editor and embed the background I wanted into the Theme as opposed to selecting an image from the device to use as a background.
no worries, i might do the same...any recc's on a good theme editor to use?
does it run on the device or on a pc?
Hey guys I downloaded a theme to my phone but i do not like the portrait picture. How do i just change that picture to something else? Thanks!
SEARCH/READ THE USER'S MANUAL!!!! But, if you hold your stylus down on the picture you want as a background, you'll see the little circle things, then a list of options, like right clicking on a mouse, select set as desktop background. Then select how washed out you want it, and select ok. There, that was your freebie. Use Wiki and search the forum from now on.
no i want to change just the portrait picture. only when i slide my slider. i know how to do that. i remember seeing a deal about that now i cant find it.
I'm pretty sure there's no way to change JUST the portait picture. You mean like having 2 seperate desktop pitures with one to display in landscape, and the other in portrait, right?
Yeah. But I found a way of doing. Just a little more work than I intended. Thanks!
HEY! this is give and take here... So spill the beans, how did you do it?
Yeah! this I gotta know about. You may have found a secret no one knows. The other question is: how can you re-size a pic so that when it is used as a desktop background, it only uses a portion of the screen and doesn't obscure say the whole "black theme" in use?
I'll let you guys know as soon as i get it done. Haven't even tried yet. Been playing around with different ROMs to see which I like better. So far I'm diggin the Touch-It Light.
--slLy-Dee
if you want to change picure ionly in portrait mode, bud not landscape, you must force edit the Theme you want.... or, ... maybe if it is multiple images theme, just replace one of them, but most are 1 file, .... in that case you have no chance without any program..
Google search for ThemeGenCE. It works like a charm and allows one to change the portrait (slide closed) and landscape (slide open) to different pics. it will also change almost all of the colors. I'll try to post a screen shot of the Halo3 theme I built with it. I've built about 12 different .tsk files with it so far and all of them turned out pretty well. It will also let you import an existing theme and modify it. I used the black touch skin and applied my own pics.
It automatically resizes pics to fit the screen...
Yeah. That's what I was gonna play with but never had the chance. I forgot what the prog was that's why I never bothered. Thanks!!
the gloss from WM6 doesn't show up when you make a theme using ThemeGenCE?
The gloss???
wow thats nice....this will work with the wing correct???
Yes... I'm currently running it on a wing. I'm having some issues getting the color fades on the start bar to work. It has to do with the WM5 tab but the descriptions are a bit cryptic as to what fields they actually represent. So I built one with a LOT of really out there colors to see what field effects what part of the screen. If you don't use the stuff on the WM5 tab then it will just be solid colors. The Halo3 one wound up just being green instead of the orange/green fade at the top. That screenshot is from the previewer in the program not what actually wound up on the phone.
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Yes... I'm currently running it on a wing. I'm having some issues getting the color fades on the start bar to work. It has to do with the WM5 tab but the descriptions are a bit cryptic as to what fields they actually represent. So I built one with a LOT of really out there colors to see what field effects what part of the screen. If you don't use the stuff on the WM5 tab then it will just be solid colors. The Halo3 one wound up just being green instead of the orange/green fade at the top. That screenshot is from the previewer in the program not what actually wound up on the phone.
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Probably a stupid question but what were the size image options you put in? In the options it asks about the size of the screen & the size of the start menu
Does anyone know how to change color of the scroll bar on today screen? I would like to see the bar black for example for theme "allblack". Thanks.
I think UI Tweaker does that.
More about it in this thread. They succefully changed the scrollbars color as well as other system colors.
RC Mod
I´m not sure if I understand exactly what you want, but there is a small application I use, called RC Mod that helps anyway to personalize the Mobile. It's freeware. Take a look in the site to be sure that it is what you are looking for...
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-rc-mod-v-2-1.html
Yes, I like RC Mod and it does a great job for a lite app! I found UI Tweaker a little buggy with my rom, and u have to do a SR for any changes to take...
sktools ... change all u want.. and after make a soft reset to apperance your changes
Thanks everybody, i'm going to try these different applications.
Can someone please tell me the steps necessary to make my own custom slider using HDWALL.
My rom i use is Cell Leo PRo V6...
I have a set of awesome transparent icons for manilla but am not sure what size the icons have to be, if i have to include wallpaper and what the specifics are with making sure i do it right.
If someone has a link, that would be great too as long as it explains it.
PPC Insanity said:
Can someone please tell me the steps necessary to make my own custom slider using HDWALL.
My rom i use is Cell Leo PRo V6...
I have a set of awesome transparent icons for manilla but am not sure what size the icons have to be, if i have to include wallpaper and what the specifics are with making sure i do it right.
If someone has a link, that would be great too as long as it explains it.
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It's very simple, but there's some variables. Have you used HDWalls at all before? Or read the thread for the app? It doesn't give all the details, but you need to make sure you start there at least.
The pics can be any size to start really...HDWalls resizes them to what they need to be automatically, for both the small and large icons for the slider. You literally just drag and drop your chosen image into the window.
Now, the caveat is that HDWalls only natively converts slider icons for the base set of 10 that appear in 6.1 (home, people, txt, mms, cal, web, cam/pics, weather, settings, prog), not any of the new tabs added in 6.5 and up. You can kind of use HDWalls to make the others for you, it just involves some extra steps in renaming and replacing certain manila files.
hey sirphunkee.... tried it exactly as you said and it doesnot work.. i created a slider cab, ran the cab, the tp2 said it installed it but no change.
i was told that with sense 2.5, hdwall cannot create a slider because of sizing issues. but if you are successful with this then i must be missing something still. i would like to add the additional slider as well but i am not that skilled with this phone or the hdwall program.
its definitely worth creating this slider because there is not a better set of transparent icons out there to use.