yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kpyto:
:( Help me please!

How to restore default "white" colour? Soft Reset and Uninstalling UIT dont help!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
just start ui tweaker and go to "menue -> Reset" voilá ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordManhattan:
Hehe.. Yeah, i know

;)

Isn't there a programmer out there who can make a app. witch is easy to use.. and stuff..? :p

Or(!) A creative soul out there who can make a nice colorscheme for UITweaker?

One more thing.. Is it possible to make a .tsk-file with a "total" black interface? Like

henftling's

colorscheme..?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordManhattan:
It's quite dead here now.. :p

*bump bump*
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dr J:
one of the problems with UITweaker is that it can be a bit vague which part of the system you are changing the colour of, and then you have to soft reset to check if it looks ok, if not then back into it, change back, soft reset again, back into UIT and try something else.

i want a kinda slate grey / black theme as well, but the ones already made out there are a bit messy and you end up with wrong colours here and there, not being able to read things or see notifications.

also i get the feeling that not every aspect of the UI is actually changable, at least in UIT anyways...

it would be great though, we have all these nice finger applications in black / grey and then they all cut back to the dull old Windows white when you want to do something proper.

when will Microsoft hire some graphic designers for a change instead of letting the boffins do it all? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordManhattan:
I'm totally agree with you. UITweaker is anoying with the soft-reset crap all the time.. And yes, Microsoft should hire some new graphic-designers.

So.. i know that it exist many programers in this forum, and i don't think it will be that difficult to wright a app. that can change the background color and stuff..

So.. we just have too wait until a programer is reading this thread i guess.. hehe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larsuck:
"also i get the feeling that not every aspect of the UI is actually changable, at least in UIT anyways..."

I used to play with an application like this way back when I had my hp 2210, and the problem then was that not all of the colors of the UI were independently tweakable.

It is probably so with this as well as you can see from henftling's screenshot. The bars for his signal strength have changed to gray as well as his backgrounds. So the same registry entry is controlling two separate parts of the UI, which means no matter how much you play with it you will probably get some unreadable text.

I wish I could find the old software that I used to use, as it was pretty user-friendly and I think it showed you a preview of what you were going to get so you didn't have to reset each time. Sorry, I have searched and searched.

One thing I did find was this: http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/rcmod.shtml . It looks like it gives you some idea of what you are changing before you change it. Perhaps it will help you guys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grodi:
Give SKTools a try

It worked for my Elf

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
...even with he textcolour in the notifications window? I tried SKtools first but have not managed to get this text in the reminders bubbles etc modified...maybe you tell me / us if you have managed and how you have managed this?

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grodi:
It works for EVERYTHING

I don't know the menu option in english, since mine is spanish translated, but should say something like "system improvements", and then go to "colors" tab. That's it.

Hope it helps
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordManhattan:
It costs money.. damn.. hehe..

Somebody have the .cab file for SKTools? I do not have ActiveSync. (iMac user)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
Here's the SkTools Trial cab, attached.

I've also gone through and tweaked henftling's sys color scheme for UITweaker. I fixed the problem with dialog bubbles being black text on black background, as well as a few other things. I've attached it as well, if anyone wants to try it out. There may be one or two more things to iron out that I might have missed, but it's fully functional so far.

I have to say, this new black theme is really refreshing, after all these months of looking at the bright white of the default windows scheme. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordManhattan:
Oh my god i want to kiss you! :p

but how do i find your .sys file from SKTools? :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
uuh?

wow, nice... thanks for sharing...in case you´ll find a solution for the notification bubble text, let me know..because if I can set it to white i will tweak the whole thing incl. cube ...maybe something like this..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
Uh, BazookaAce, I can't even tell if that's sarcasm or not :confused: hahaha. (just in case it isn't, the sys file is for UITweaker>SysColorChanger>Tools>Import)

and henftling, notification bubble text? You mean the bubbles for missed calls, new text msg, etc? It's black on gray right now. I tried to find a way to change the text from black (what it currently is) to white (what I want it to be), but iirc, changing the text color affects other major parts of the scheme, causing conflictions (eg, the newly white text will be on a white menu background or something).

i thought you could customize the cube already with a cube configuration app somewhere on the board?

[edit]

some screenshots for you all, of parts that were tweaked.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordManhattan:
hehehe.. it wasn't sarcastic :p Oh.. okay..

I'm a stupid stupid man you know.. :p I did'nt know that it was for UITweaker hehe..

Thanx AGAIN!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jaygriggs:
the settings tab still can't be seen white white
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alebla:
Azimuth,

that's a nice home background. where can i get it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
ah sorry about that, jaygriggs. i'm using quickmenu 2.7 instead of the standard windows start menu, so i never went to the settings screen when i was testing my system color scheme.

i'm going to look through and try to fix it without causing too drastic of a change elsewhere. thanks for pointing it out to me ;)

P.S.

@alebla

yeah i agree with you, i love this tsk/background. it's my absolute favorite from since i got my first WM device. i'll attach it here for you when i get the chance; it's called "iBliss".

Note

after looking back through the color scheme, in the programs menu, the text is gray instead of white because if it was white, it'd again affect a bigger aspect (i ran an app, and a menu that was crucial to using the app was 100% unreadable.) i know it'd look a lot nicer if the programsmenu bg was black and the text was white (which was BazookaAce's original request.. :o ) but i'd sacrifice looks for functionality any day.

[another]

as far as i know, the only fix is to darken "Button Text Color" a bit, and then, to maintain legibility elsewhere, darken up "Button Color" as well. I couldn't find a way to change the tab highlight color, since it isn't "Button Highlight Color". otherwise, it's an easy fix, so have fun with it.

[Finally]
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imisim:
You can change the button text and static background as seen in the attached picture
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
Yes, you are right but i just want to proceed in changing the cube animation when I´m able to get the damned Black ´n white working... ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alebla:
Thx for your contribution Azi.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alebla:
can someone tell me how to change the color on the inbox background?

thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Just a little question, how to load the sys file provided with sktools?

Thx :D

Edit: It's ok I didn't notice that we should import the sys with UITweaker :P
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Just installed you sys Azi, beautiful!!!!! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
ok, let's see..

@ imisim

I already know that I can change the button text and button background, as i stated before your post. I liked the white on white, actually... but since you all asked for i, i changed it something more like your screenshot. still looks nice.

@alebla

Thanks. Assuming you mean email inbox, as of right now I don't know how to change it. It's not "3D Highlight", at least. From what I remember, it could be affected by the tsk file you're using. Sorry.

@Bingoig11

The sys file is not for SKTools. I only attached them together because someone in the previous post requested the cab. Sorry for the confusion, but in that post, i said that the sys file is to be used by UITweaker.

UITweaker>SysColorChanger>Tools>Import
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alebla:
do u think 3D highlight would do something?

edit:

nevermind Azi. doesn't work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alebla:
how about the text color in email inbox?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
text color in email box is controlled by "Window Text Color", which also controls text color inside the Programs Menu.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
It sounds better ;)

I agree with alebla, it would be beautiful if we could have a 3D highlight, but I think it won't be possible :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
Okay, here we go. (Sorry henftling, i kinda commandeered your original sys scheme, is that alright?)

V3, with small tweaks.

Improved Legibility in Messaging (as a result, Slightly Darkened Text in Programs Menu)

Selected Settings Tab Legibility Fixed

Settings Tabs Match with Scroll Bar

Various other tweaks I'm too lazy to specify :D

And as always, Let me know of your issues. I can't possibly examine the entire Windows Mobile Interface.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kpyto:
Any screenshots? It is a good version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
woops, thanks for reminding me about the missing screenshots. i'll take some right now and add 'em to my previous post.

[]

I've added updated screenshots. check it out! (and remember, the sys file is used with UITweaker>SysColorChanger>Tools>Import)

P.S. If you guys are using firefox on your desktop computer, go get the "NASA Night Launch" Firefox theme. It'll match perfectly with your newly black UI on your Pocket PC ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spangelsaregreat:
Hi,

I have installed UITweaker and put the .sys file in the root of my phone but I can't see it when I open UITweaker. In SysColor change I get the open screen but there are no files listed.

Any ideas?

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
spangels, there's not much i can say. do you have gsgetfile.dll or tgetfile.dll installed? if you don't, put the .sys file into your "My Documents" folder that's in the root of your ppc.

(Into "/My Documents", NOT "/Storage Card/My Documents")

Then do the import process again (UITweaker>SysColorChanger>Tools>Import). It should show up.

If that's not the case (I'm hoping it isn't, since you're a Senior Member on this board, lol) then I don't know what i can do to help, sry. You can uh... enjoy the screenshots? Haha
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheDude1120:
thanks, i just installed it, it looks great, i tried playing wit the uti tweaker and ended up with black text messages lol, good looks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spangelsaregreat:
Azimuth21

That worked, thanks.

Nice scheme.

Ta
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ppcding:
well done, brings a kind of elegance to the Touch.....;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myownregister:
Azimuth21, thanks for your efforts! looks perfect! makes my ppc look fresh & new again! great eye for color combinations! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonegiven:
Looks good. Doesn't work in landscape mode though.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
Thanks everyone for the compliments on the scheme, but we mustn't forget this was based on the work of henftling.

I don't know why it won't work in landscape... let me go check my phone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonegiven:
Something caused mine to go wacky. The background was still dark grey but there were white boxed where the text goes and the second and third tabs in the settings menu were regular white backgrounds. After a soft reset, it is working again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
no, you did the real work...thanks for sharing your theme ;-)

edit: I just corrected two colours as these have been different from each other at start-up, so with your permission I named this sys "Aimuth...V4";-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] andrebe:
Hi guy,

it is a not valide archive...

Please re-upload again

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spangelsaregreat:
Guys,

Is there any way to change the colour of the text in the pop up windows for messages etc. Mine is showing black on dark grey which is not very readable.

What option would I change to make either the text white or the background a light grey?

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maxniper:
;-)

Open this file with rar
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dgattenb:
Black...... black............mmmm

The UI prog works fab!!!!!!!!.. all changed.. soft resetting is no hassle.. as I have been doing this most days now.. ( thanks to all the updates and progs etc ) and it only takes a few seconds !!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Nice v4! :D

But few suggestions, don't know if possible, I didn't had a look on it:

-Notifications are dark grey with black text so quite unreadable.

-Reception signal in the top of the screen is dark grey to, my theme is black so quite unreadable to, do you think it's possible to keep it white?

-When I type me Pin code, a blank part with the Waiting... message still displays. I don't know if it is possible to change it.

Think that's all, but nice work! ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
I've already been looking into that for quite some time. For some reason I can't find the control that changes the text on notification bubbles. Darn Windows Mobile....

Window Background Color changes the background color of popup notifications, BUT it also changes the background in the programs menu, AND the color of the Reception Signal in the top of the screen...

I can't reproduce the problem. I don't personally use Pin Code Lock Feature, but I went to test it out and the all of the display is working perfectly. Perhaps you could put a screenshot?

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ljinsane:
Admin edit: link removed warez is not allowed.

http://www.c4pda.com/showthread.php?t=41132&highlight=SKTools
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
if that's warez... shame on you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ljinsane:
for what

for providing a link:rolleyes: ...that all i did provide a link that i am not affiliated with..what others choose to do with that is their own business...some asked for the cab...i provided an 'addition' to that cab
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
sorry forget to mention, rename the .zip to .rar

...it is a rar file
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Flar:
If others really need or want that information they should use google. You shouldn't provide links to what you know is considered warez, because we and not you will get into trouble for that. If you like lawyers knocking on your door start your own forum, see how it works out for you.

Best regards,

Flar

Site admin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Here it is ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gobmonster:
Im really loving this UITweaker program, i used it to make my very own yellow and black theme, but it really suks that you dont know what youve done until you softreset

ive been trying to penpoint what each color change does, im thinking that with the assist of a screen capture program, i can put together some visual aids (rather than the bad and often incorrect text given by the program)

if anyones interested, im working on it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
I'm sorry Bingoig11, I think that's one of those sections of the UI that are unchangeable. Or at least, I can't find how to change it, lol. I'll keep that one in mind, as well as how to change the color of the text in notification bubbles (currently black text on gray background) Notifications are still legible on this side, but could stand to be FAR better, i understand.

I'm very interested, gobmonster. seems like a great undertaking but you're willing to do it, i'm willing to utilize your result :o . i can help here or there if you wish, just PM me.

As a final update, I believe CustomBlackV4 is very polished the way it is now, and I won't focus on it unless someone brings up a major issue. Therefore, keep bringing me your issues! It helps a lot, trust me. Anyway, fuzzvirus over in the Hermes Mobile 6 section has requested a purple theme matching Schap's Roms, so I've begun work on that. I need Schap's tsk theme so if someone could throw it my way, i'd appreciate it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Don't worry, not a problem, I just noticed that, full black like we have now is already beautiful like that ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] allan1:
Have you guys seen this? I haven't had time to play with it yet but looks interesting.

http://www.pdagold.com/software/detail.asp?s=1323
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
this is part of uitweaker(one of its modules).

older version of uitweaker had 4 programs separated, newer one is including all in one.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] allan1:
Ah right so. Oh well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
Here's that purple theme I was doing, for fuzzvirus. I don't have the actual Schap's Purple theme so I'd like for someone to test it out. I was thinking of making a new thread because it doesn't go with the BlackBackground thing here, butI don't think this deserves a new thread since interest in this theming seems to have died down. If you guys want a new thread or custom colors, shoot me a PM, i'll see if i can slap one together for y'all. getting a little tedious/time consuming, though, what with all the soft resets, but no problem, my reward is your appreciation.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stormizer:
Has anyone actually map the tweaks jargon visually?

I mean.. is there any reference of what/which will change on the interface when (for example) I change the "Popup Menu Text"?

On WinXP if we change the appearance (display property > appearance > advanced) we know visually which will change if I edit the color of "message box".

On PPC, since we never heard of such software that can visually tell us what will change, I think a reference card will help. Although many of the jargon is self-explanatory, i am still finding myself keep reseting the device just to find that its not the part i wish to change.

Despite that not many people will use that, is there anybody that alreade made such thing? Surely it is time consuming, but it might help in making the future color tweak faster (especially for beginner like me)

I kinda have time to waste to map it, but if any of you has a better way/method i might as well find some other activity :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gobmonster:
well, i was working on it, but its really hard and time consuming. These things are titled terribly and often dont do anything or do multiple things.

For instance, the highlight color seems to change the highlights in the today menu, but in a program like wtask, it changes text font. Just one example.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stormizer:
Lets do it for one specific software

If different software named it differently, i think any mapping effort can only be used by a particular software. I sort lean towards SKTools since it seems to have alot of color to play, but the settings can't be saved/loaded (correct me if i am wrong). While the UItweaker can be saved/loaded, i still got confused by the different programs inside it (e.g. SysColor and WM5Color and TdyScheme seems to be able to do the same thing) :-/

Any recomendation about which program most people use? And possibly why/whats good about it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Maggy:
I noticed the UItweaker .sys files are ordinary lists of RGB colours in plain ASCII numbers, no hex, no unicode

255 255 255 is white

0 0 0 is black

Just one tiny trap: ALL lines, including the last one, are delimited by hex 0A (shift-enter), not 0D 0A (enter) as you would expect.

The total sys file has 29 lines.

So I created a test file with some nice awful colours, each line a different colour. just rename test.txt to test.sys; this board doesn't allow uploads with sys extension.

It should allow you to easilly find out which colour goes where, so it should IMHO be not to hard to optimise readability.

success
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bull_do3er:
does anyone know how to change the text in notifications and reminder to white? I've tried most of the settings and it still remain black. Help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] benpals:
thank u thank u thank u - i have been spending hrs on UI tweaker trying to get full black with white text.

now see it cant be done!

azimuth & hefty tks for the great reg file.

tks

b
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
this is looking as if it'll be a "final release", if you may. fixed that notification bubble issue (background is lighter), which is the main change. screenshots are inside the zip file.

have fun.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] quadxeon:
Nice work, thank you very much. Two small things, the signal strenght symbol is using the windows background color, so its hard to read (grey on black).

It would be perfect if we could change the messaging background picture (see capture).

to something like this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jpwoof:
is there a uitweaker program that will work for WM6 standard smartphone? specially for my BJ2? I really want this black theme by Azimuth.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] quadxeon:
Found a way to change the messaging background, hopefully this comes closer to the LG advertisement :)

I have modified Azimutht's bliss-theme, after selecting the bliss, you have to reapply his customblackv4.5 sys-file.

http://www.eldaco.net/upload/iBliss3.zip
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] seifip:
Doesn't work for me :/ I open UI Tweaker, Import the sys file (the colors of different elements in the combobox change) but after the soft reset everything is back to normal :(

Is it just me or does anyone have the same problems?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seto7:
Use the "syscolor changer 0.2.4", see post 69
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dzign-it:
Looks good, but my scroll bar is balck and white, the white looks waaaay outta place. how do i change the scroll bar background?