yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
VistaMobileShell

The newer Vista Mobile Shell (Portrait).

To make the 12 menu's + 4 quicklaunch buttons work please install this theme first http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2097958&postcount=113 and copy my files over, it contains the needed registry adjustments.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] domashniy:
Pls help me change Tab button to Contact

I need to change Tab button to Contact button

help me
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uiskibum:
Well I searched through this post so if I missed the answer my apologies.

Is it possible to have a different contact program launch when you have the spb contacts icon on your contacts page?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Vista Mobile Shell (Portrait-Professional)

The newer Vista Mobile Shell - Portrait (240x320) - Professional

I was finally able to compile a CAB file for this that has the needed registry fixes. So just use the CAB file to install this theme.

*Don's use the classic view on this theme as it doesn't work, it's opimized for professional - portrait (240x320) view incl. calendar/alarm.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 02840:
Update: Ver 2.1

Updated today. Ver 2.1

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/history.html?en
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 02840:
Just a few very quick observations after the 2.1 update concerning skins.

- As expected any registry changes are removed with the new install (including the "9th menu button").

- The new data connection indicator might have to be added to the skins. When I changed mine I lost that. And I believe all I changed was the qa_layout, not any of the qa_operator files.

I haven't tried the new voice mail support yet so I can't vouch for any changes there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Needs Some Pointers!

Unfortunately I haven't had as much time to play for a while...

However still working on the layout tweaking first and graphics later (stumbling through with Photoshop 10.0 learning curve) + I'm graphically challenged as well...

Anyhow... Looking for some help (RoboDad or anyone that want to cherp in)

I have 5 tabs (1=Now) (2=12 Launcher) (3=12 Launcher)

(4=Contacts w/4 upper level tabs for a total of 48 contacts) (5=Exit)

(both 12 launchers share 4 pinned apps at the top)

Looking to do what RoboDad did with his pinned apps. Give them the iPhone background look.

PS: Sending the whole cab just in case... As of now this cab is fully working in Portrait mode only, Landscape looks like crap. I've also have the voice mail messaging working as well on Now screen. I have all sorts of regedits in the cab for the launcher pads 24+ Items some are just folders and some are direct links to applications (example the CommMgr icon opens CommMgr and RSS Opens the RSS program) Keep in mind if you install the cab you may want to do a back up of your present settings Dat and Reg files.

Look For A Spb Mobile Shell 2.1 Compatable Theme, As Soon As I Can Upload!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
finally some new welcomed changes...missing some though :rolleyes:

lets see what they changed and try to mimic them ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bchandler78:
Anyone know the new password to open the dat files, it seems to have changed for 2.1?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
same password...

one more thing...all skins need to be adapted to 2.1 cause of changes made...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cube300:
more contacts

hello

I have installed in my elf the bluegirl theme but i would like to have in the contacts page

4 upper level tabs for a total of 48 contacts

How can i do this?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheSeanTeam:
how is everyone's memory usage when using MS?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Anyway you can tell me how you change the background for the weather screen only??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
Earlier this week I was down to 4.5MB free on my i760, and my initial thought was a memory leak in a new MS theme. But clearing my IE cache, tweaking my Exchange settings, and a soft reset and I was back to 27MB and been there ever since.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Vista Mobile Shell (v2.1 compatible)

The newer cab file will follow soon.

As the now screen uses the large operator name in my theme it will not show the connection icon but only in the launcher / mru and the speeddial.

I'm still figuring out a way to do this anyway by blocking only the small operator icon itself and leaving the connection icon there but still no luck.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wlluo:
I really like the Contact page. Are you able to send the zip file instead of cab? Just don't want to overwrite my current settings.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Do you have WinCE Cab Manger? You can extract all the DAT files you need...

Not sure what you set up is like but for the multiple contact pages involve more that one dat file and might mess your setup as it stands...

PM me if you can't extract the cab... and I'll send what I think you need...

Good luck!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Not to clear what your set up is currently...

But guessing you'll need to write some lines for your (weather.xml) file to point to that picture you want for the weather screen. located in you layouts.dat file

This is my setup pointing to the background picture instead of separator 2. This is to reduce memory taken from added pictures....because I have to much crap in my WM6 that I can't live with out....

<Layout Name="Default">

<Plugins>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.GradBackground" Name="Background">

<Int Name="NoBackgrd" Value="0"/>

</Plugin>

PS: Hope this helps you on your way!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] piphunter11:
is that applicable for all other layouts?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anonymous1:
nice theme

please would you mind letting me/us know how did you got the 'task/tab bar' to show up as transparent?

thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Minim3:
Jeffrey2000, looks good, I like what you've done, when will you post your final work? And also, are we able to change that background easily? I find that vista backdrop hard to read the screen. Keep up the great work and looking forward to the next version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
just a very simple screen of my most recente layout...

just some work in progress (icons are not aligned)...

very slow might i add cause recently i haven't had the time...

haven't even bothered to make a backgound image...

but will make it all ;)

changes: small reordering of top bar (more today alike), profile icon reduced and placed on small status area and i removed the % text since the icon says it all, new notification icons and batery icon...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Vista Mobile Shell v0.2.1

Hiya all, my theme has been updated again, hope you all will like it, it's SPB MSv2.1 compatible like you can see, the connection icon itself however has been changed.

CAB file will folllow soon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
It's all in the background itself but my newer theme doesn't have it anymore, if several people want it transfluent again I could make it...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Vista Mobile Shell (Updated) v0.2.1

Hiya all again, see below my latest creation... now it includes the CAB file to install this theme. It doesn't have the transfluent (aero) look anymore but vista basic, in case people want it I could make a transfluent version aswell.

- Vista Home Premium (aero/transfluent) frame (for copy protection ;)

- Vista basic startbar

- Vista Menu Icons

- SPB Mobile Shell 2.1 compatible!

- Includes newer vista connection icon.

- Speeddial Pictures fit within in the Aero frame.

- Newer MRU button background.

- Newer (not default) Weather icons.

- Moved the "time" in laucher/mru/speeddial to have more space for the connection icons and longer operator name.

todo list: Vista Launcher Icons (2nd screen).

todo list: Vista Message Icons

todo list: Vista Home Premium (aero/transfluent) startbar if people are interested.

Credits for the Launcher/MRU screen are not for me, it goes to robodad and jac.

(MRU button background is mine though ;)

Update:

15:57 5-5-2008: - VoiceMail icon added (see the newer VistaMobileShell_v0.2.1a.cab attachment, not tested though since I disabled this at t-mobile.

I just enabled voicemail support but in my case it just shows up like an normal text (sms) message so can't really test it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thank you very much for your post "actualitémobile" my friend
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
Hi,, can you post the *.*dat files? I have a 240 X 240 square screen, and I have to edit it to fit my Treo...

thanks in advanced
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Vukile:
the thing thats bothered me about mobile shell was that you have to switch on the interface manually,it didnt become your default interface. Pointless to me. Has anybody been able to get around that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
You could copy the program shortcut to the "mainstorage\windows\startup" and it should launch the program automatically on boot. (I did the same with WMSTORAGE which worked ok).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Minim3:
Downloaded and using it, great theme, just a couple of things.

1. I have the Eten M600+ with a 240X320 screen, for some reason, the top is overlapping a bit, icon/title overlaps the top border, anyway I can fix this myself?

2. Is there a way to change the background image? I find the wave lines distracts some of the wording on the screen.

Other then that, perfect theme! Keep up the great work.

Damen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Minim3:
Hi Jeffrey2000, where can i download this one, I still like this one better on the NOW screen, can you post the cab for this version? thanks.

Damen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] flughirsch:
Very nice!

But to change background or Icons I need the dat-files.

Please give them to me somewhere to download.

Greets!

Edit: I was stupid. I can copy the dat-file from my mobile after installation.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Ohhh that was the older v0.1 from a couple of posts earlier, see the http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2159128&postcount=1231 but i'm not sure if it has the connection icon though...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Minim3:
Thanks for the quick reply Jeffrey2000, I love this version better cause I like the large icons on the NOW page, the new one is good but I find the border get in the way and some of my icons on top are overlapping the border.

Are you able to to make this version (0.1) with the connection icon appear on the Apps pages only? I don't really care if it's not on the Now screen, I love it the way it is. If not, then no worries, I can live without it. Thank you again.

Damen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
Blue Wall + MRU themes for 240X240 Screen

Hi all, Finally I've get it done for 240X240 square screen..

this themes is edited from the blue wall themes created by kulet78..

it works with MS 2.1 and sorry that I can't post the screen shot here.

Link : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=380103&page=85

cheers,,

Love My Treo 750 more....:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Transfluent startbar for VistaMobileShell

Anyone interested in a transfluent startbar?

See:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] flughirsch:
Hi jeffrey,

I just installed your skin, but it seems to take a lot of storage. The program storage of my KS20 reduced from 37 MB to 28 MB. Do others have the same problem?

And there are overlappings as minim3 describes.

Greets!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Yeh well it's like vista... The Aero interface from Vista takes a lot of memory to run it :D

I'll take a look after how I can reduce it a bit and make Service Pack 1 :D

hehe well I'll take it seriously... and when i'm home I'll try to reduce the graphics a bit ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] flughirsch:
Thanks.

I changed the background (separator2) to a simple black one with less MB, but it takes also too much storage.

Hope you are successful.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Since it's a BMP file the colour of the background won't matter in the size of the picture.

The separator2 file I made contains 5x the 240x320 (240x1600) screen. I think I didn't even use all 5 of them in my theme so you could simply decrease the resolution to maybe 3 (or even 2 maybe) screens instead of 5. (I don't have photoshop here on my work so can't do it). If someone can decrease the resolution I could make a new CAB file from or it has to wait till later ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
has anyone tried to isolate the weather page into a tab page... been trying that but it doesn't show any info once its isolated... time page reacts in the same matter...seems to me that it needs some kind of info to be passed for it to work...still dont know whats wrong...anyone?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Never really tried it but I just simply renamed the weather.xml to launcher.xml rebooted to test but didn't seem to work at all it's more difficult :P
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
First off thank you for your response :D Through some of these releases I have seen people have one .bmp with about four images in it (Either 2 by 2 or straight down) So I am guessing within the XML you can position what part of the image to use? I can try to alter that but I am uncertain which line in XML controls that for the Weather screen? If you cannot answer this thank you anyway for your response to my first question... :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes it is and seems to me that everyone is more into graphics than adding/changing things...oh well...back to the drawing board :)

going slow but...now...at least 2 of my new changes are completed, this extra one (weather tab) would speed up my release, but i'm afaid it will not be so...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] frasbyte:
solution

use spb watcher

you'll find it in the original spb MS II 'How to' thread
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brianlau:
Why does everyone want the right most button to be the Exit button? I really see no point or sense for this since it is supposed to replace your UI? Very strange. I have been messing around with a lot of these and liked RoboDads the best! Props man. He has 5 tabs:

1. Normal Now screen without Calendar

2. Now screen with calendar

3. Regular Program menu with 9 folder options

4. 16 quicklaunch programs

5. 15 contacts....

This is one of the best setups I have found so far. So why do people need the exit button on the screen? Just makes it more clunky and you end up pressing the button far too often.

I also wanted to share this program with you that I found called SPB Watcher which automatically brings up this screen when you Ok through too many windows. Pretty much whenever you get to the Today screen, it will flip you back to the Now screen on SPB. Hope you all enjoy.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Minim3:
Hey, good work! Myself, I prefer to have a fast gui then the graphics, I rather have just a black backdrop or none at all. Is there anyway to take out those backdrops for the separator pages manually on this end?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
Question - add plug ins

guys, I was thinking, can we add plug ins from today screen into the MS now screen? if possible, I can easily forget my today's screen.

cheers,,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Vista Mobile Shell (Updated) v0.2.1c

RED is updated

Optimized for 240x320 (portrait) Professional!

- SPB Mobile Shell 2.1 compatible!

- Vista Home Premium frame

- Vista Home Premium startbar

- Vista Menu Icons (launcher itself still needs a makeover)

- Includes newer vista connection icon.

- Speeddial Pictures fit within in the Aero frame.

- Newer MRU button background.

- Newer Weather icons.

- Moved the "time" in laucher/mru/speeddial to simply have more space for the connection icons in case of a longer operator name. (the program "Personalizer" to change the operator name doesn't seem to work always).

- Brightened the start button compared to the older version..

- Fixed the overlapping (icon) problem for the aero frame.

- Fixed the overlapping weather problem.

- Fixed the overlapping contact problem.

- Fixed memory problem.

- Reduced the filesize..

todo list: Vista Launcher Icons (2nd screen).

todo list: Vista Message Icons

Credits for the MRU screen are not for me, it goes to RoboDad.

(MRU background button is mine though! ;)

For the download see the 2.1 page on: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2179775&postcount=200
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Minim3:
Awesome! Good Work!

Is it possible to use our own backdrops ie. via changing Today's wallpaper (tsk). Or could you do up a cab with no or just a black background? Other then that, this is a perfect theme.

Thank you again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
hi, yes it is possible but you will have to edit the dat files...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
one of my most recent work in progress ;)

black and blue screens but this is color independent (still a lot of work ahead)...

trying to give it a very professional look...

new icons...

completly new layout (bigger clock, status without numbers, weather without icon and text, profile without text)...

top left (3 dots) takes you to the weather page...

5 tabs where taskbar smart gestures takes you to the same tabs as original though 2 new tabs inserted in between (Home:Menu:People though tabs are Home:Calendar:Menu:Shortcuts:People)...

what do you think about it? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
According to my RegEdit screen.

Notice: I do not have a folder called Games? How can I fix this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
Read the 5th note about how to get the 9th Icon here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2037930&postcount=1

you can change the text "Games" to anything you want like "Explorer"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] menhir:
Now Screen - Calendar Bold items

Hi,

Please is it possible to change bold "days" in calendar on SPB Now screen from bold to red color for example? I have some apointments there but they are not so easily read cause text is only bold and not colored. Is there any way how to change it to colored ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kobyz:
x51v

Do any of these icons/skins work on a vga device? I have tried on mine and I get bad graphics or the machine gets stuck until sr.

are these all for qvga? or is there some for vga?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] critof:
Why don't we use the close button in your bottom bar to activate the commManager ? or menu for wireless (wifi & BT) ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cascade2:
I've been searching and hunting in this and the other two MS threads about the bottom bar. I can make it visually disappear by moving it off the screen, but the 25 pixel bottom (using a 240x240 screen) doesn't transition.

Am I correct that as of yet there is no solution to the bottom bar removal working with the transitions correctly?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
If you have a application for me that can toggle or enable/disable wifi/BT and still works on my (default) WM5 HTC Wizard (T-mobile MDA VARIO) I will sure put it there but I still didn't find an application that works ok (without needing to install dotnet2 mobile) but if you do have one I'll post a newer version... I've made some minor fixes anyway but didn't post it still cz it wasn't worth a repost.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
How did you manage to get the volume icon there (this since there's no volume icon in the small operator or anywhere else) and is it working anyway? Is it pointed to the default volume bubble or did you do something else? Is it the operator name which you blurred right now because I want to disable this in my Vista Mobile also well not in the lockscreen but the other screens.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Ohh never mind... after some logical thinking I know already what it is... good solution!! ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dlajeune:
How to add speed launcher, remove X from bottom bar

I have spent hours looking through hundreds of threads for this. I see many users have added a new page on the bottom bar to add shortcuts. How do I add this. I also want to remove the X button as i never leave Mobile Shell.

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
hi there...it was done by icon relocation and resize... yes its fully working (updates profile its in and all) and it points to the "default bubble"...yes the operator is blurred...to remove it...well haven't tryed but it should be possible...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aqrab:
excellent thread
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] critof:
In fact ...no. It's what i am looking for. The only one i know is SPB Phone Suite menu

I've already the volume/phone menu like the picture below (with SPB suite).

And may be could we link the close icone (or another design) with the wireless menu (of SPB suite too)...

I just try to find idea because i don't know how to do that bymyself :)

There are lot of very good programers in this site and i try to help with small contributions ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
I know about the popup of SPB Phone Suite but didn't find a way to implement this into SPB Mobile Shell yet. Anywayz this is my latest addition to my own mobile shell, I was still thinking about just moving the weather icon to the current close button.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
How to reduce the icons quality?

Please someone tell me how to reduce the number of quick dial icons in the 3rd tab?

Default number is 4x4 (16 icons), this appears too small in my XDA Orbit display. In this picture it became 3x3 (9 icons), just enough. But how to modify?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
from which dat file did you get it from? looking at the layout xml, the skin points to qa_weather_small_lock.xml. But I don't see the "volume" (profile) icon there. As far as i can see, the profile icons come from qp_menu_button, is that correct?

I would like to learn how youdid that as i am making my own skin wherein i like the way you put the profile icon on the top bar.

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
One way to do it (like I did) is in fact editing the "qp_menu_btn" (lucky nrs 7 and forget about the mask and selection bitmap) the last 3 icons but then you need to make sure you disable the SPB PHONE SUITE in case you enabled this plugin and you need to get rid of the text below the icons well anyway that's what I did and I didn't use operator tweak program to get rid of the operator name!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] corneryan:
looks nice thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes you are correct...i'll show you how...as soon as i make all the changes i want...and after that...release it ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
more work in progress...