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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Tom Williams:
Hi Guys

I like the idea of the custom home plugins with the extra icons but is there a way of customising the current htc home and removing the weather option as i do not want to use this and having the option to add in something else?

I currently have too much information on my main screen and i have to scroll down to see the rest of my calendar and tasks.

I was also thinking can i customise the strip where it has the email.txt.calls information and add in the tasks option to show uncompleted tasks?

Is there any way of doing this?

Tom
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] marm0lade:
I have a question about editing the xml file. Is it possible to use pngs for the icons? I see that it uses bmps and there is a bmp mask file for each icon. Can I delete the bmp mask and use a png as the icon? I found a set of 5 icons I would like to use. If I save them as .bmp they get black borders around the outside and it ruins the look of the icon. Any help is appreciated.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] marm0lade:
OK, scratch that, PNGs will not work. I have been playing around with trying to create a transparent mask with paint.net, but can't get it right. I can only get completely black boxes to display where the icons should display. Can anyone gives us some insight on how to create the masks? Google hasn't been much help either...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
ok,i try to make a video to explain how to create icons and masks.If it's too hard with Photoshop,you can use photofiltre,i use this because it's quicker.I use a PNG file for begin.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Quick Silver:
please post a tutorial, I'm also very interested in learning on how to do this, I already ahve the iconf in PNG format as well as PhotoShop CS3, just waiting for instructions :)

Thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bubbacs:
I now have the photofiltre program.

It looks simpler, but maybe you can text the instructions instead of video.

Thanks,

Bubba.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
Hi,here is the tutorial :

- First download photofiltre here.

- Install photofiltre on your computer.

- To create icon mask,choose a png icon with dotted contour.You can find beautiful icons here.

- Open photofiltre and your png icon.

- Take the magic wand tool and click on the picture.The green dotted contour must be appear like this :

- Now click right on the picture and choose invert selection then push supp key on your keyboard.The picture appears like this :

- You should have all the time a picture like this,otherwise begin again magic wand tool correctly.

- Click right again on the picture and choose strooke an fill and choose blank color.

- Click OK to finish.The mask is ready,so save the picture as bmp format like this : icon_mask.bmp.

- Open the original png file and save it as bmp file too.

- Resize pictures for quick launcher in 40x40 pixels.

- Repeat the same thing with all your icons.

- Don't forget to edit xml file (ql_skin_l and ql_skin_p ) with the new icon's name.

- Unplug the quick launcher in today/items.

- Copy all the new files in Windows on your ppc.

- Activate the plugin and see your new quick launcher.

I hope this tutorial help you.Marc.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mario23:
This is great stuff.

I'm going to have to sit and spend some time with it.

Great app.

Thanks...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gkom:
Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong with these icons.

I edited the xml files accordingly and I tranfered them together with the icons to the windows dir.

However, I get a blank space instead of an icon - but the link works.

I'm attaching these icons for someone to take a look.

Also, in my testing I found that a soft restart can be avoided by deactivating and then reactivating the plugin from Settings>Personal>Today>Items.

It seems that this way the plugin is reloaded and the changes are registered.

Thanks everyone!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
It seems good,could you give me original files to verify ?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gkom:
Sure, thanks a million!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
I'm not sure,but try this.To create new icons,i use 256x256 pixels,it's easier to do the mask correctly.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gkom:
Your icons work!

You missed the transparency of the mask on the left hand side, but I can fix that.

Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
Yes i see after,that's why I prefer to use 256x256 format !
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] djorge:
Hi, i have been playing a litle with this plugin. I have downloaded an icon ,applied the trasnparency. The problem is that i got no icon!!! As if the icon was all transparent!!

My files are attached.

Can anyone help me, plz?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] djorge:
The plugin appears like it doesn't have the new icon (after the headphone icon). But if i click that area it starts the program i've set it to start (opera).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ra303:
very nice thankyou.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] papamopps:
is there anyway to modify the links on tapping?

i don´t nee the multimediastuff BUT totalcommander or wm5torage on today screen. can i edit the registry?

or is there any other applauncher that is one single line like this sprint plugin??

thanks fro help.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
Hi,edit xml files and change the shortcut.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
Hi,give me the original png,there is an error with your mask,in 256x256 if you can.Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] siryinyang:
Hi. How did you get your HTC Home so transparent? I can't figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mehulpatel:
Thanks for updation
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cbecker33:
OK

Alright, I'm a Noob so please excuse my ignorance.

I am trying to modify this to move the phone and music icons around and replace the other icons - I want to add explorer and google maps.

I'm not really sure what the next process is. I edited the ql_skin xml file with new paths/icons but I can't replace the existing xml file in the windows directory. What am I doing wrong?

Also, I would like to keep my icons black/white....anyone have a nice explorer (or generic) icon and google maps icon in my preferred color scheme?

Thank for any help you can give me!

-Chris
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Marcdu81:
Hi,look this post,there is a tutorial for htc sprint plugin.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cbecker33:
I see the tutorial on how to create the icons, thank you!

When I edit my xml file and try to place it in the windows directory, it does not let me....it says I do not have permission. What am I doing wrong?

-Chris
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] prophettrader:
l and p

Noob questions here. There are two q_skin files that are loaded... the l and p files. What are the difference in the two? Do I edit both to make the icon changes?

TIA,

PT
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] artkrime:
is there any way to run 2 of these plugins at the same time? like a clone or something? I would like to be able to have 8 icons :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ^^rac:
.tsk

Hi guys!

Mind sharing that today theme??

Where can i get it???

Thanks!!

^^r
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nadavi:
Hi,

I Used HTC HOME CUSTOMIZER 0.5 to change the backround to transparent.

Nadavi
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cwzkevin:
Thank you so much for your instruction! I have one question: when you say push "supp" key on keyboard, I really can not find the "supp" key. Sorry for my stupid question.

Anyway, I find another more difficult way to make it done. Here is the gmail and tomtom icons I made. Thanks! And hope you like it!

View attachment ql_gmail.bmp View attachment ql_gmail_mask.bmp

View attachment ql_tomtom.bmp View attachment ql_tomtom_mask.bmp
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Success100:
this worked great on my mogul thanks guys ill pass this over to ppcgeeks if its not there already
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fubofo:
Het guys can someone post here the camera icon "ql_camera.bmp" found in windows diretory please?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stylz3:
I've been trying to make these icons for my quick launcher they keep ending up with the with back ground. what am i doing wrong?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fubofo:
I made some of my own icons. (well didnt actually make the pictures, found on web) but edited them all and customised them.

Oh and the last icon is actually for Recos Explorer as I dnt see the need for phone icon when its easier just to push call button
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stylz3:
how did you get your icons to come out good. did u use the tutorial above or did you us another method. Still tying the one above but still getting white boarders around my icons.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fubofo:
Pretty easy - just downloaded a few high quality images from web, then folowed above steps. Although I will say, in order to get rid of borders, when you are right-click and "Stroke and Fill" : make sure to set stroke to 3 points.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fubofo:
Waaayyy... finally managed to finish my Today icons LOL !

(sorry im just excited, took me too long)

Does anyone know how to remove background image from Start menu? I would like to give mine a black/carbon look. Any help is much appreciated.

(HTCPlus icons left > right : Remaining Battery; Comm; Rotate Screen; Backlight Adjust; Programs; Corelpayer; FM Radio; Voice Command; DotFred Task manager; Soft Reset)

(HTC Home Sprint icons : HTC Album; HTC Action Screen; Camera; HTC Audio manager; Resco Explorer)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stylz3:
I gave it another try and still have no luck. damn!! what am I doing wrong?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fubofo:
I cant quite see the image, its too small. Upload the files you want as icons n Ill see what I can do.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] johnrr6:
How To???

I am working with the HTC Home Sprint today screen plugin----this site has been excellent for describing how to customize it. Thank you!

I have figured out how to make alpha channel mask icons----and then rewrite the xml scripts for customization....

Works like a charm for any apps that I have loaded with .exe extensions----or I can find a .lnk shortcut.....

My question is----and please pardon if this seems like a stupid question---am new to Windows Mobile.....

Is there a way to set an internet explorer favorite as a shortcut to this type of launcher????

I'd like to set up a shortcut to mobile YouTube within this HTC Home Sprint Plugin.

Maybe another to an ESPN scores page.

So all I'd do is tap on the shortcut within the HTC Home Sprint plugin------then it would launch IE and go straight to that favorite....

I searched with Google and througout the site and didn't see any answers but perhaps I was using bad search terms.....

Thank you for any assistance.

John
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaMilky:
is there anyway to resize the icon?

thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaMilky:
So how do I edit this so I can link the audio to S2P instead of HTC audio? The same goes for the album I didn't like HTC album so I rather use the default program how do I change it to that? Or how would one add a battery meter/link to it? Thank you.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaMilky:
anyone? please?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] NguyenHuu:
you have to go in and edit the xml files and manually change the paths to the one you want. you can also change icons and add in other programs you want too, dont have to be the default 5 that is there right now. you can have it point to other programs as well.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cguilhim:
Hi guys!

I've installed the plug-in on my Asus and it looks great. But, forgive me, we are always asking for more.

My question is: Is it possible to replace one of the links, the camera one for instance , by a whole folder like the one on the launcher icon of Home plug-in, so that we could put a lot of links in a short space?

Thanks for your great job
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaMilky:
How do i make it an xml file and which one would I have to make as an xml file?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaMilky:
any body??
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] NguyenHuu:
when you download the file attached in post 1. unzip it and you get 2 XML files. just open it in any text editor on your computer and edit the paths. save it, then upload to your phone.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaMilky:
Thank you but that did not work at all. Could not get the file to extract.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ryncppr:
The easiest way to extract a cab file is the packagecreator in the Kaiser Kitchen. This is free and will extract the cab and its contents into a folder for edititing.....

After doing this download from Microsoft (its free) XML Notepad and open the file. Click on the View at top and expand all....then you can change the file to what you want. You might need to save as a different name then delete the original and rename the file to what it was...

Hope this helps.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cj182:
I'm interressted whitch theme is used here:

does anyone know this?

thanks for the answer,

cj182
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Sponzert:
Same question here. I'm dutch and do not have or understand what the supp key is. Any explanation from someone please?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] petervbeck:
theme

here you go
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cj182:
Thanks!!!

cj182
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Sponzert:
I have tried to make an icon for my google calender-sync app but something is wrong. When i put all files in my \windows\ directory i get an black square. I upload the files that i made and maybe if some of you would be so kind to check it out and tell me what i have done wrong? Thanks in advance.

Edit.

Nobody willing to help me?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hohoeyo:
Same problem here

I'm having the same problem here .. tried changing all the bmps to png but then it changed one of the icons and one of them was blank and the others were still showing the original sprint icons even though I had deleted those from the folder. I'm quite baffled at this moment
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jimmybowser:
Doesn't Work W WM6.1?

I can't get it to install on my Mogul, I'm running WM6.1. After install, it says program might not work properly because its designed for earlier version of WM. Please help... I really like this screen!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ßeta:
Managed to change my icons thanks to this thread.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] a.k.a:
Hi, im trying to make a different tomtom icon than the one posted. The file is attached. Ive tried to do it but seem to get a white background on the image, is it possible for someone to have a go at it for me. Id also like it to be in greyscale if possible

Anyone got an easier way to do this or another tutorial if not, id prefer to learn how to do it!

Pete
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] FLORINOX:
here you go they worked for me:) (supp key is "delete")
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] a.k.a:
Wicked! Was tat done in the Photofiltre program? When I used the Magic Wand tool couldnt get the tolerance right to pick it all out!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] FLORINOX:
Yes It Was Done In Photofiltre. To Be Able To Select It All Just Colour The Corners:) THE BACKGROUND DOESN'T HAVE TO BE WHITE .DO THE SAME WITH EACH PART YOU DON'T NEED.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Garth Soutj Africa:
thanks this looks amazing would dig to try, do you have to install them in any order, and for the htm file do you copy it into the origional afterwards, i am new here it really helpfull.

thank you
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] a.k.a:
After installing this app my phone had to be repaired and reflashed. I have installed this again but the icons are now not blue in the menus like they were before. Does anyone now a fix to this?

Pete
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] a.k.a:
These were the Comm Manager and Ring Style icons if anyone can help, the pink T-Mobile icons are just not me! Haha
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] a.k.a:
Haha, Solved the problem I was experiencing by downloading HTC Home Plugin (I know its the same as the one that comes on the device but it just works I guess)

My next question... Is there a way to make the Plugin icons slighty transparent in colour. I have the above icons set to transparent but the plugin ones stand out like a sore thumb on my today screen!

Thanks in advance

Pete
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jpnsbja:
i tried to change the xml file to add more buttons(more then 5). didn't work. after many tests, i think it only accept 5 buttons not more.i succed to move the buttons position, change links, change images but not add more :-( please can anyone help ?

how can i change from small to big icons ?

just for others, i tried to change xml files with xml editor but it was not working.i used word pad and it worked :-)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jpnsbja:
i finaly found the solution :-) i use the tdLaunchv1.6. much much better and very easy to add as many programs u want.no need to put bmp files for icons....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Pciolka:
Hi,

can anybody make some nice contacts icon with mask?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] :
Is there any way to run a shortcut (instead of an EXE) with this app? I'm trying to run a program that has arguments, and whenever I add the command into the XML, the entire bar disappears from the Today screen.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] BigBen60:
Hey guys !

I keep customizing my S7 edge, but there is 1 thing I couldn't customize yet : The lockscreen

With my former phone (LG G3), I tried many alternatives lockscreen, but they all had problems (battery drain, not fast enough, some lags, not fluent, etc...).

I'd like to make my lockscreen more alive, with useful informations on it. And I use fingerprint unlock.

So here is my question : Do you know a way to make it work ? A good xposed module working with touchwiz ? Or a good lockscreen app ?

Thanks, have a great day
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] dannybee1:
Have you had a go with good lock from the Samsung store. It's pretty good at being customized.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] BigBen60:
Yeah I already tried it, but don't really like it. And there is no widget on lockscreen
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Simo Boubou:
Yes there is ! In routine's setup when you choose the clock style swipe to the top and ull find a way to add a widget
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] dannybee1:
Yeah, go to routines, and clock and swipe to top, you can add one widget. I personally like the worded clock. You can also add widgets for when you swipe down for notifications.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] BigBen60:
Ok thanks
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptorddd:
Screen capture you can with free g4 tweak box..

go to theme tweaks..

naavigation bar

button action

action no home double tap.

select screenshot

. thats tje circle navigation button double prssing will take screen shot..

4 way rebooter i use quick reboot from plasytore..
[XDA Assist] Heelixx:
This is my first post on this website. I have read as much as I could in the forums and watched tutorials on Youtube but I still haven't found a solution.

I had Mediamod V5 and TWRP 3.0.0-0 recovery on my phone. It was moving really slow so I decided to boot into recovery and clear the cache like I would usually do. It took a really long time but it eventually finished and then rebooted. After a while though, the phone just turn off and when I tried to turn it on back, I saw nothing but the Logo. I went into recovery and there was a message saying that the system partition was unmodified. I tried clearing the cache but it was unable to mount the cache, system or data. TWRP could not repair the file system and I couldn't do a factory reset. I tried using ADB and fastboot commands to clear to userdata but it also failed.

I saw people posting that Alcatel Mobile upgrade helped them so I tried. It failed after it was trying to format userdata. I thought it was a driver or usb cord issue so I bought 2 new USBs that are for the alcatel phone and I installed all of the MTK drivers. This still didn't help.

After this I download the alcatel 4015 firmware, MTK droid tools and SP Flash tool. I got the scatter file and everything and tried to flash it but I got Error 4010. The suggestion was to try different firmware. I did that and it stilled failed. I tried a suggestion which said to use the write memory option and flash the preloader.bin and ROM_0 which I found here, http://xdaforums.com/show...postcount=2003. That also failed.

The closest solution that I found was to repair the partition table but I don't know how to do this. Can anyone help me?
[Moto G4 Questions & Answers] IM7:
I've switched from an Elephone P8000 to Moto G4 but I'm missing the ability to send SMS from either SIM (without the need to switch SIMs in settings) Do the custom ROMs bring back this functionality?
[Moto G4 Questions & Answers] tubbycyclist:
I am using Google Messenger and it indicates which SIM it is using. Tap that and it offers to send from the other SIM
[Moto G4 Questions & Answers] IM7:
Thanks - I hadn't noticed that.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDavi01:
Hi guys, i've some problems with my Bluetooth.

Yesterday i've tried to connect to a bluetooth speaker but my device seems to not find it. The speaker is working with the devices of my friends.

Tomorrow i was trying to connect my p8lite to the bluetooth radio of my car. My brother has a p8lite rooted and we have the same version(b574), he's finding the radio's bluetooth, but i'm not finding it. So my question is: is this an internal problem or a software side issue?

I've tried to reinstall the complete OS, wiped all partitions, mounted and searched on the internet but i didn't find nothing that can help me.

Is anyone else having this problem too? How can i solve this problem?

Thanks
[XDA Assist] XDA Visitor:
Hello guys :)! Im using a Samsung galaxy s7 edge SM-G935F exynos. And i have installed the newest version of twrp recovery 3.0.2-2 for my device but when i boot in to recovery mode and try to make an nandroid backup it just says: "failed to mount data" "failed to recreate folder" and so on... It does backups the system but nothing else. Also it shows 0mb internal storage but thats not true :(. I can only try to back it up to an sd card. At the end of the process that takes about 5 minutes it just says: "Failed to create backup. Clearing up folder"
[XDA Assist] GuestK0087:
Greetings,

Thank you for using XDA Assist.

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http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge

Please create an XDA account so you can ask your question to the experts here:

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Good luck and welcome to XDA!
[XDA Assist] DuP14:
hello guys, I need your help urgently, my zenfone selfie can't turn on, i'm desperate, if anyone could help me please do it
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatherboard:
I've just purchased a brand new G4 (manufacturing date is May 2016) and it runs stock android 6.0 (V20d). When tested with GPS test (app), it will lose signal every few seconds (like it restarts or something). Is this normal?

Besides, the gps icon shows up in grey randomly in the notification area without running any app which uses gps, or if I quit an app which uses GPS (such as Waze), the Icon will remain on the notification bar for additional minute or two. I already tried to factory reset the device but the behavior is the same.

Any ideas?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatherboard:
No one?