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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CWKJ:
It is working fine for about 1 day.

I have stop the cycling as there was one night when it hangs, it seems that the phone does not go into certain mode where power consumption is low and to my horror, when I woke up the next morning, it drains of 40% of my power.

It happens only once. I am not able to repeat it.

Maybe also due to other things that I have on today screen (some power/mem status software that download here, my own HTC Home Plugin and Device Lock) and daily M$ alarm that was always set and also a Phone number Monitor software.

I sort of understand how you cycle the picture, because I have found that you are using STWATER.GIF & TDYWATER.GIF in the Windows directory. Guess it consume too much resource with my today plugins and I have also set the Sys File Cache to 8MB instead of 0MB.

You might not possibly see my problem.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wacky.banana:
1.52 Stress Testing

Shantz,

As promised I have been stress testing 1.52 for most of this evening (approx 6 hours). The environment for testing was running a series of .tsk files at 20 second and, later, 15 second intervals on my Tytn (the tool won't change themes at 10 secs or below, as I reported earlier).

In operation it appeared more robust than 1.51 although there was the occasional lockup. On investigation it appeared that a utility I use called ilauncher was conflicting with the changer. Deinstalling iLauncher proved to be the difference and the changer tool has worked consistently so far since then (I will continue testing to see why there is a conflict with iLauncher).

The changer even survived me updating my radio rom. I booted back up after upgrading the radio rom and on it went.

2 issues came up during testing:

1) When I tapped the START key at the top of the screen, the START dropdown menu colours were stuck on Green, ie reflecting the colours of the last theme in operation before the reboot. Put another way this dropdown menu refused to change colour in line with the colour scheme of the prevailing theme.

Despite soft booting and several times the only solution was to manually choose the windows default theme. Doing this several times seemed to eventually resolve the problem. You might want to investigate this.

2) The changer will occassionaly stop cycling for no reason, even though no other applications are running. The only way out is to soft boot and then set the changer again. It does take a while for this to happen though, say several dozen cycles. However its a problem to be aware of.

Strangely enough cycling seems to stop at the same theme. Now whether there is a problem with that theme (one of Dax's) or it is mere coincidence I can't say at this time. I will continue testing and let you know later (sorry but its nearly 4am and I am knackered).

So in summary 1.52 seems much improved over the previous release. If we can resolve the issues highlighted above then we might just be getting there.

WB

PS: Please note that the only process the changer won't survive at the moment is when Spb backup runs. Even though I have Spb Backup set to leave processes running whilst backing up the changer always fails to kick back in after a backup session has completed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
hows it going again,

I am still having a lock up issue. if the device is a sleep and the theme rotates more then once it locks up completely and i have to reset it. Any other options i can do cause i really like this program.

thanks,

ill
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wacky.banana:
Did you search for and use the fake server solution I suggested? What applications are you running? Give us a bit mor info to get a better idea od what's going on.

WB
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
sorry about that,

my 8525 has spb pocket plus and mobile shell running sktools, jetware bt ext. eten zoom sms. are the main programs i am running.

thanks

oh and i did the fake server thing
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wacky.banana:
Illcaptive,

You can try one of 2 things: deinstall Spb Pocket Plus then run the changer on a 15 sec cycle to see if that makes a difference. Alternatively you could hard reset your device (after backing up all your data first) then install and run the changer on its own, again to see if it stalls or not.

If you take the latter option do not forget to setup the fake server trick again.

If the changer on its own does not stall then install your apps one at a time, then run the changer and see what happens.

Cheers

WB
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xit:
Title bars not changing colour

Thanks for a great app.

The only problem I have is that the top and bottom bar colours do not change at all with the theme rotation - only the background image.

Any thoughts?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CWKJ:
It happens to me for a while, but somehow disappear by itself and sometime problem comes back and go.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CWKJ:
@Shantz

I seems to be able to produce the problems I mentioned before 100% and also some of the problems mentioned by some others. I am talking about v1.52.

There is still one problem I cannot produce is the sometimes hang when it is either during standby or from standby to poweron and also 40% power drain.

Suggestion to overcome the problem still cannot produce by me, when you detect Standby/Poweroff or display off as it will be wasting CPU time and battery, stop the cycling and when you detect poweron, start cycling. I maybe wrong on this because I am only guessing.

@All

Regardless of what other items on today screen (including Tray Icons), if your cycling jpgs are in the same directory as the program, you will not see the problem.

Overcome some possible problems

If you need to use jpgs in another directory (not the program directory), you need to switch off all items on today screen (including Tray Icons) before you start cycling the jpgs (in another directory). When it is cycling properly, you can switch back on your items on today screen (including Tray Icons). This should solve the problem of jpgs (in another directory) sometimes not cycling or the items in today screen and tray icon not cycling/partial cycling.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andy Phillips:
Suggestion

Hi Shantz,

I would like to use your app to display a certain picture per day. For example you could have jpg's named by days of the week and they could change at 6am every day.

What do you think?!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
Sorry for the delay guys, but am really busy these days..here are a few quick replies:

@illcaptive: Am sorry could not reproduce your issue...

@CWKJ: Cant reproduce the things you mention as well. Moreover, I cant stop the cycling on detecting display off (i dont cycle on power off because, well, the phone is powered off so prog cant run :) ), because then as soon as the phone comes out of sleep there would be a surge in CPU usage and it might cause problems with receiving calls etc.

Another thing is that location of JPG's (or any other files) DOES NOT matter. So you dont need to switch off any today things just because the files are in some other directory. I am not sure what is causing this issue on ur ppc but after testing it for quite some while I cant reproduce it...

@Andy: You can do that even now. Just take 7 jpg's and name them alphabetically (it is not gauranteed to pick files up in alphabetical order but mostly it does), then just configure the app in the morning (at whtever time you want) and keep the cycling period as 1 day (i.e. 86400 seconds), and that should do it..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
yeah it wierd i reloaded everything and tried the prog each time i installed one and it was fine everytime. but then after it was in sleep mode over night it locked up. and then it started locking up after that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wacky.banana:
Illcaptive,

Have you tried out your device in sleep mode WITHOUT the changer installed to see what happens? If the dvice locks up then you know its not the changer.

Must admit my lockup problems in SLEEP mode were caused by active synch, which was cured by the fake server thing and ensuring that no other locks were on at the time the device goes into sleep mode.

Only other suggestion I have is to make sure that the other programmes you are running are the latest versions and are designed for the particular OS you are running.

Cheers

WB
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
the lock up does not happen at all when the theme changer is not being used. right now i made the timing so that i will at least activate the device once between theme changes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 200mpx:
shantzg001

Is it possible to make a feature that forces themes to change. Just a button that switches themes. My probleme is that if I want to show smdy a theme that is my folder dedicated to your app, I have to move this theme to \windows to show it as today theme by using settings/today etc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
Hey 200mpx,

its possible already with the app. Just make a shortcut to the app with the command line parameter "-c" without the quotes. Then whenever u tap this shortcut, the theme will change...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 200mpx:
ОК, thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
Shantz and WB

i upgraded my hermes to a wm6 rom and now the prog works perfect just to let you too know.

thanks

ill
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wacky.banana:
Illcaptive,

Excellent news.

WB
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
hey shantz,

I was wondering if you where going to put a randomizer on your theme changer? or do you know how to get it to cause out of 12 tsk's on my phone it always rotates through the same 4.

Thanks,

ill
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
hey ill,

it should cycle through all 12 i dont know why only 4 are bring used, any more info abt ur setup?

btw, abt the randomizer, i'd do it but there are a lot of roadblocks...a bit busy atm, visual studio trial has expired and moreover, CTS signs are showing up, so stying away from the lappy a bit...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
shantz,

thats cool bro. I am running vp3g 3.60.1 wm6 rom.

ill
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] peterkling:
Great Tool - I love customizing, thanks Shantz.

If I may request anything, a random order would also be my first choice.

But this was exactly what I was looking for ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbrianj:
I think it would be awesome to let you define a registry Key to Change Based On. For Example HTC's Weather Plug In stores the Current Weather in the Registry, and I would love to have the ability to select a background based on the Current Weather Conditions.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
@jbrianj: can u elaborate a bit more on that?

If I understood correctly, you want the program to check a registry string and based on the contents of that string, you'd like to select an image.

Might be a good idea, will add it to my to-do list whenever i start updating the proggie again...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbrianj:
@Shantz

Here is what i am thinking.

I have the HTC Home Plug-in that alot of users around here are using, I have everything set to transparent so you can see pretty much the whole background. I have some pretty cool background images that have weather pictures on them. Like a Lightening strike, a Sunny Day, a Rainy Day etc. I would like to scroll thruogh them based on the Registry Setting for the Current Weather since HTC is nice enough to store the Weather Icon Index in the registry where we I can get to it. But I think it would be amazing to have the current weather define the background.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Iftin:
cool/ respect programs :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ncruze:
CONFUSED

I was looking for an application that would automatically change the theme by the time I woke up each morning or every two days or so. the problem I have with the shanztodaychanger is that it only specify's 600 sec. I was wondering if I could set it to what ever amount of time I wanted. what about hours, minutes, days? I apologize if this may have been posted already..still new to the site. oh one more thing, I tried the themechanger app b4 I switched over. it was so unstable but the only thing I loved about it was the ability to preview the themes from the options menu before they were applied. can that b incorporated in the updated version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wacky.banana:
Ncuze,

You can set the number of seconds to whatever you want. So if you want the theme to change before you wake up each day then input 86400 into the box containg 600 and jobs done.

The only thing you need to remember is that if you want the theme changing at 7am then you need to set the changer to do so 24 hours before by simply setting it up at 7am the previous day. I can't remember what options exist in the tool but read this thread ad play around with it.

I have mine change 4 times a day. The minimum number of changes the better as the the pda can sometimes become unstable if the tool is changing the theme when, say, spb backup is about to kick in.

Cheers

WB
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ncruze:
Yeah but no matter what number i input..after i put the desired number i want in seconds, i click apply...then i click on the starttdychangr program..it then says shantztoadaychanger is set..but when i go back to the configure program i noticed it's been set back to the default 600 sec..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
@Ncruz, are u sure u r using the latest (1.52 version) cuz there was a bug in one of the earlier releases where the time was not updated...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Blindheit:
Thanks your soft.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mario23:
Great job on this app...thanks.

One problem for me.

It seems the app is hanging up on one theme. It appears to cycle to the next theme only the background does not change. Have I done something wrong?

Thanks again...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
mario, do u mean the app is having problems withe one particular theme or with all the themes?

if it is one particular them, then can u attach it here...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Hey Mario,

I'd hazard a guess that it's one of those themes I encountered which caused the same issue for me.

I think I posted the one I was having problems with earlier in this thread.

Perhaps you could post your 'broken' theme and someone might like to compare the two files. Just a thought.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mario23:
sure. here's the theme...tks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mario23:
Hey hadn't been around in a bit.

Any luck on finding if it was this theme causing a problem for me?

Thanks again...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
hey mario, sorry havent found any time till now..will look at it this weekend...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mario23:
No problem. I can see this type of program is a little tricky.

Thanks...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] erikbolduc:
hi,

I tried to install on my HTC TOUCH running WM 6.1 and I cant get this software to work.

the backrounds wont change.

I tried a couple things :

- pointing to another directory

- different image type

.....nothing is working.

I just want to cycle jpg image as background every 60 seconds. Nothing complicated.

ive installed in \\\My Documents\Personal\ShantzTodayChanger1.52

executed TdyChangerCfg.exe.....waited....nothing. so I ran startTdyChngr.lnk...still nothing.

damn ! :(

ive been looking for THIS app for a long time.

i really want it to work !

questions :

-how can I be sure that the software is running once ive executed startTdyChngr.lnk ?

-why cant i it in the running task (top right corner) ?

-what else can I try ?

- if i really cant get it to work, HOW CAN I COMPLETLY UNINSTALL this software ?

thank you VERY MUCH for your help guys !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wacky.banana:
Shantz,

Good to see you are alive and kicking. Sent you a PM a few days ago; did you get it?

WB
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SeanFromSoCal:
Erik, try installing ShantzTodayChanger into the program files folder (i.e. \Program Files\ShantzTodayChanger\) and see if it runs. If you install it with the cab it'll place it in that folder. It may be hardcoded to run the executables from that folder.

To see if its running you have to check your notifications. It uses these to instruct ShantzTodayChanger to run and change the background at the intervals you've selected. You can find the notifications in the registry. You can view it by using software like Memmaid and SKTools. You may also view it with a registry editor but I don't know off the top of my head what is the location of them. You should see a notification for it to run ShantzTodayChanger.exe at sometime in the future. When ShantzTodayChanger runs the next time it will change the background.

Once you have made the settings with TdyChangerCfg they will be saved in: HKCU\Software\ShantzTodayChanger\

ShantzTodayChanger when it runs from the next notification will use this settings to select the new background/theme. Take a glance in the settings to make sure its the proper folder and test with a time frame that is like 120 seconds (2 minutes) so you can see whether it works without waiting too long.

Shantz designed the software pretty to be pretty easy to use and does exactly what it should. It uses no resources -- hence it not showing up in the task manager. It runs when its changing the background and otherwise its closed. Only a tiny bit of storage space. And it has always worked for me. No matter what ROM I use or other software installed. Definately a keeper!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jambaj0e:
Does anyone have a good collection of wallpapers/themes that correspond to morning, afternoon, dusk, and evening? I think that would be a great thing to have with this theme changer
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mario23:
Check the "Post your Today Screen" thread.

That's where I found some of mine...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
@mario: sorry man, couldn't find anything wrong with the theme (as with the earlier one reported by wb.) I guess the only thing right now is to avoid this theme.

@wb: yeah, just saw it, didnt notice the "unread messages: 1" at the top :). Will reply today.

@Erik/SeanFromSoCal: The program can be placed anywhere. When you first run the program, it will read the path from where it was executed, and store that for future. The only thing is that both the exe's have to be kept in the same folder.

@Erik: If you can't see anything on running TdyChangerCfg.exe, there might be an issue with security permissions or some dll's etc. Are you running the program through Resco Explorer (or some other 3rd party browser)? If yes, then try through the built in file explorer, because I ve seen that many times 3rd party explorers suppress security/missing file errors and simply dont execute the file. Then let me know if you get an error.

You will know if the program is configured/running properly, if you get a "ShantzTodayChanger is set" message box on clicking apply in Config app (or on running startTdyChgr.lnk)

The program can also be used without the Config app.

Just click the startTdyChgr.lnk, and check the registry settings as mentioned by Sean (give a dump of the settings in this thread so that I can look at it). Rest of the settings configured through config app can also be directly added to the program by manually editing the registry but lets keep that for later and for now just make sure that there a few theme files (.tsk) present in the same folder as ShantzTodayChanger. Let us know the result.

@ALL: My Visual Studio trial ran out, and moreover I generally don't boot into windows anymore (unless it is really important), so not much development is going on towards WinMob, am contemplating releasing the (pretty messy) source code of the Changer. Lets see if I dont get around to making any more changes over the next month as well, then would release the source if anyone of you would be ready to take it up and extend it to include a few to-do's (I have the idea of how to do it, u just need to implement it). The only condition is that the development has to be continued on xda-devs forum so that ppl here should be the first to get a benefit out of it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] erikbolduc:
I can run TdyChangerCfg.exe and do my config. And I do get the "ShantzTodayChanger is set" message. Sorry if I was not clear before.

Like I said, I just want to cycle jpeg image. not theme files.

Ive put some jpeg in the same folder as ShantzTodayChanger. still not working.

here is the registry dump.

I didnt look at the notifications directly but I am pretty sure they are there cause....here is what ive noticed......

Ive set the timer to 30 seconds...every 30 seconds the "HTC HOME" item on my "today screen" is flashing just for a second...like it was trying to change the background.....but nothing is happening.

when i click stopTdyChgr.lnk, it stop flashing every 30 seconds

does it tell you something ?

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] erikbolduc:
I GOT IT TO WORK :D

Thanks to CWKJ solution on page 18.

What i did :

- i went to : Settings...today....appearance

- un-check "Use this picture as background"

(I was using one of my personnal picture instead of the one included in the theme *which was also a custom theme ive dowloaded somewhere* )

- started the program using "startTdyChgr.lnk"

exactly the same problem as described by CWKJ.

maybe you can had this step to you procedure on page 1 ?

thanks for you help and thank you for this great program !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
@erik: cool...I'll add this to first post...