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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cp_kirkley:
i love all the changes being made here, but will these mods be able to change color with the rest of spb? they looks great, really, but black is so November... lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
all changes are color independent...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] met3ora:
pcarvalho, have you found a way to use background images in the various parts of MS?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synned:
Hey guys

Love the work you are all doing. Quick question. Is there anyway to change the shortcut and where it points to? I would love to open PocketCM instead of the SPB contacts list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] met3ora:
I'm not sure if this is the best way to do you, but I unlocked the Organizer menu using the registry hack (adding a registry Add and setting it to 1) and then I unchecked their Contacts shortcut, and made a contacts shortcut of my own (through their menu customizer) and checked that. It's worked for me. Look at the links above for the registry hacking tutorial.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JDSX:
I'm still hoping SpB will get Shell working properly with Pocket Informant, including using PI contacts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chs_arg:
Another nice thing would be the Wi-Fi an Bth icons visible
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jrdejavux:
where did you added them ? i cant see any png files in /program files/spb mobile shell ??? thanks for the help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
Amazing!!!!!

Fantastic job ppl. :D its great to be here at XDA where we have some very talented members. thankx.

btw i hope anyone can help me out with this.

1st *how can i move the spb ms today plugin as shown above, below the htc home plugin. when i install spb ms2 the 1st time it will be at the bottom as i want. but after a change of theme/soft reset it moves up where i dont like it there. can anyone tell me how OR which REGISTRY KEY i need to modify in order to keep it below htc home plugin. ;) PS i do use spb ms2 now screen also. its jus that i like to keep my home screen this way also.

2nd *how can i change the time tab icon to the one shown where we can choose icons. i know, i know, its says the time tab icon cannot be changed...well i dont think so....just a registry restriction, which you all great members can telll me how i can enable it or how to change it. (i dont like the present icon, coz its kinda ugly with all the black out line.

thankx and keep up the great work!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] webpatrick:
I can help you with the first challenge:

In the registry find "HLKM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items"

The "type" value 5 is locked and 4 is unlocked so you can move it up or down,

and maybe you can use the "order" value to change the order of the locked today items??

The second challenge is difficult, but probably you're right. In a beta of SPB Time there was a different (much too big) icon in the Shell Today plugin. Later this was fixed, so you probably have to seach it in the Spb Time corner.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Hi Caretaker22,

Sorry to hear that....

Not sure what happened...

Not sure what your setup was prior to the install of the cab?

Can you elaborate?

Did you have 9 items prior to the cab install?

If so what was the name of the 9th item?

If you have something other than Games or Explorer in your registry you'll continue to have problems.

Use your registry editor and look under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Spb Software House 2\Spb Mobile Shell\Menu\Root\(here you should see only 9 folders) one for each of the 9 items on the Launcher.

These are the only folders that should be there:

Internet

Messaging

Multimedia

My Menu

Organizer

Programs

Settings

Tools

Exploring or Games (Depending on which cab you used)

If there is something different there and you want to... close down Mobile Shell, delete extra folder in registry, remove the cab for the layout, re-install cab and reboot and you should be good to go.

Let me know what you come with...

With Mobile Shell Touch Screens, Spb Menu can be accessed via \2nd tab\Settings\Spb mobile Shell\Advanced Tab\Menu
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
thankx webpatrick. really appreciate ur time. and now that you have given me some directions, i will check em' out and let you what i find out too. thankx a lot :)

anyone else, up for the 2nd challenge????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] webpatrick:
Anyone capable of making a Customizer for SPB Shell like HHC Home Customizer?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
just a thought....

if you install the smartutilities from this site:

http://www.ultimatelaunch.de/

you will be abel to toggle the bluetooth/Wlan state without having to get out of mobile shell... that is.. you can do it from shortcut and/or menu...

now all that has to be found is a way to represent the on/off states...

anyone...is there any registry value that is set when they are activated? where is it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] patcat007:
Games Icon to point to Games folder

I have downloaded the pack and changed the registry to include the Games icon. But I have one strange problem I cant link it to the Games Folder and the Game icons don't appear like the one in the program tab.

What do I have to do to get the games tab to get working. The registry entry just changes the option in the Menu. And the customization to include Link/File/Menu doesnt work.

You guys are all expert in hacking registry settings please solve this problem. What's the point in getting a 9th Games Icon if it cant point to the right shortcut.

And please dont point me to the same registry tutorial, because I have already done that icon comes but doesnt worj
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] webpatrick:
To toggle BT or Wifi I use AE Button Plus:

I use longpress IE button toggles BT and longpress Mail button toggles Wifi. I also have SPB Menu under the longpress Start button, AltTab under the longpress OK button and DeviceLock under the longpress left software key button.

Works perfect.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes... it does... but i point out this so it can be used to make a shortcut on now screen...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Need more screens with individual backgrounds....Help!!

Hi all. I need some more help please. I've had a picture showing on each page before, but it was the same boring one...in B&W.:(

Can anyone tell me which screens I need to modify the code for and where that reuseable code is?

Would the best way still be to use seperator.bmp's i.e. seperator5.bmp and seperator5m.bmp? You know..make more of my own seperator bitmaps for 240x320 bitmap images that can be linked to existing code (not sure what xml it is in) and then to modify the code to reflect the new seperators? A bit like what pcarvalho pointed out in a much earlier thread.

Simple english.:p Anyone got different colour backgrounds showing up in the various screens yet? If so...how please. Cheers in advance.

Edit: No probs..found the answer vin asef's thread.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bigray327:
+1!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
more like + EVERYONE lol.:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
it can be done...

but there has to be 2 parts: layout and images...

not just images like HHC...

plus imo possibilities are infinite also (layout + images = X^n) ;)

another thing about it is that it is still not fully tweaked...we are all still in development stage...tweaking this and that...not finished like HTC Home is...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
i dont think its possible yet unless u link it directly from the registry keys. i tried what you are saying. i can only link the games individually, which for me is okay. cos it gives me a list view of games i have. oh well!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
Is this 320x240 and 240x320?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom108:
just use it as a menu. you can add the games you want to it through the SPB interface just like you do with the My menu
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bigray327:
An app with a few pull downs and a save button would be good. Some ideas...

Pull-down 1: number of pages (options would be 1, 2, 3, 4)

Pull-down 2: clock style (options digital, alien, original, etc)

Pull-down 3: top style (where you'd configure the layout of the top of the page)

Pull-down 4: number of icons at the bottom of the screen (options 0,1,2,3,4)

Pull-down 5: X button? (options yes, no)

Pull-down 6: Games menu? (options yes, no)

And then when you hit go, have it go download the appropriate files off someone's server. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
1st nothing is broken patcat007 or needs to be fixed... that is what it was meant to do... the icon can be whatever you want (your the boss here :))... is a new "subfolder" to place things... if its a games icon, costumize the menu with games... if its anything else, same thing (you know what i mean)... if you want to make like programs you'll have to edit registry acordingly (like programs but now as games) but that will have to be seen yet...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
its not that easy cause its files (encrypted) inside other files and each one can be changed individually.. the basic is what you wrote... but its also alot more, infinite options (pull down 6 means you'll have to change registry for instance, just to activate the icon, cause the games inside would require building a games list and putting them out to registry also else it would be an empty menu)...

i really hope it can be done... i just dont have the time now...else i would also try to build something like HHC...

this is maybe one of the reasons why spb doesn't put one out it would have to be another full program not just a search and replace (although it can be just a simple search and replace, the server in this case would have as many files as the possiblities that exist)...

lets wait and see ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
exactly! i agree.

btw anyone, any idea how to change this time tab icon. (i wonder whats so special abt this time tab icon that they have simply labelled it cant be changed) grrrr...i hate the actual icon in the today plugin. why cant it be the icon as seen on replace tab preview
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
search for it in all files (i dont know where it is) and replace it, as we have replaced many icons before...

if its in the today .dll use a resource hacker to make the changes...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
trying as we speak ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
thankx for the idea! i have found the location. the time tab icons are in qa_clock_tab.dat

unfortunately the icon i want which is in qa_misc_today.dat has the clock hands as is on the image.

oh well! back to ol' drawing board. thankx pcarvalho
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
please help look my screen

There are lines that appear :mad:, a solution? Thanks

il y a des lignes qui apparaissent, :mad:une solution ? merci
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
whoops...sorry my friend.:( I'll upload all the necessary files in about 15 minutes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Sorry about that..yes QVGA. I'm about about to upload my entire .dat files (dump contents in your own Spb Shell directory and reset). All will be fixed and working well with some minor graphical improvements too.:)

@ Lepsyfou....this is for you too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thanks you for your support..:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] runner111:
Which file is background? All is super, but when I have no-visible calendar, meeting are in green and black background.Is it possible to make only black backgroud for meetings? Thanks.

...and sorry for my bad english:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wingks:
Hi pcarvalho,

Any chance for a VGA version or a tutorial on how to convert it? This is exactly the interface I'm looking for. Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
Help! Two Questions:

1) Just installed a pack to my replacement phone and the My Menu button is missing - so I only have 7 of the 9 (I'll work on the registry hack fo the 9th later).

2) Some themes have 5 buttons at the bottom I've been noticing, it looks like the programs button with a small clock added. What does it do? And how do I add?

(ok 3 questions). Thanks all for your amazing work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
probably yes... all you'll have to do is double all the changes.. i'll look into it ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Hi macaby007, the now classic screen is a bit unclear. missing is the hour and minute hand on analogue clock and digital clock is hard to read. Here screenshot. Hope you can fix it. Appreciate your fantastic work, friend.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Hi kangmas. Thanks for the compliments, but all the credit goes to the other gurus here...I just use their files and tweak the graphics to my liking.:)

I had not looked at the Classic screen yet, so had not noticed what you point out. Gimme me a few days and I'll have every page sorted with a Themed and customised look for each possible view.;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] csjneek:
looks good now

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oyegaurav83:
Hi, i am trying to add two more photo dial contacts, but MS2 doesnt give any option while tap and hold ...

is there a limit of 16 in speed dial and also in launcher??

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
all limits are the ones defined by the layout (not tap and hold)...

and 16 is not the limit :)

if you what more you will have to wait for someone to make it for you or if you know how... do it yourself ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oyegaurav83:
oopss... i defined plugin class as dF and dG and in plugin name wrote d16 and d17..

will change that asap... but doing soft-reset everytime is kind of irritating..:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HC4Life:
Hi,

How can i put a different background image?

Helpe me please...:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iamwhoiam:
Important

Firstly, many thanks to all the people who have contributed in disassembling the customisation process for SPB Mobile Shell 2.0! Without you guys, we would have been stuck with the boring default and this thread wouldn't be so active.. thanks :)

I have created a thread for themes only so that we don't have to search through 80+ pages for these excellent themes:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2057453

Please could the theme creators post in this thread so that we have all the themes in one place?

Thanks again x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iamwhoiam:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iii_see_tagpi_run_iii:
weather?

pls help, the checkboxes for selecting the city doesnt contain anything. thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
try this. unzip and place on your SPB MS install directory...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iii_see_tagpi_run_iii:
>>>>>> thank:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wingks:
Good to hear, I'll wait patiently as I honestly have no idea about coding. Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Hey, how did you get the 9 icons? Mine came out with just 7.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bradecrain:
Calendar

I use thumbcal to set appointments. On the NOW screen when I click on one of the appointments it opens windows regualr calendar. Is there anyway to make it open a custom calendar app?

Any help would be much apprciated

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Activate in advanced menu and change in registry..

Go into Spb menu options (click on the weather icon..then the right of the 2 bottom 2 tabs). Go to Advanced and make sure all categories are checked....should show up now.:)

You can change the icons for them (images 0-9..IIRC) in the registry...HKLM/Software/Spb Softwarewarehouse2/menu/root/....

..then choose appropriate image (0-9)..this will be trial and error till you get it right (at least you won't have to reset in-between).

Hope that helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PPCBANDIT:
I finally managed to get a color background pic on all the backgrounds - except from the contact page and speed dial....

Have anybody succeded in changing the background pic of the contact page and speed dial??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Thanks, the only thing I didn't have was the game menu(icon). But I do have MyMenu, which I don't know what is this for. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
My Menu is for your own shortcuts or sub categories of your choice.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Work in progress (QVGA only)...portrait

Still working on it....if anyone wants to play with the files, you're welcome..in the interest of further developing this great app.

Try changing theme colours.:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thanks again my friend;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
THNKS mackaby007

hr z another LNK

http://www.4shared.com/file/42120213/7025a9f6/MackTech_v_01.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes...you wont be able...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
hello pcarvalho how are you?:D:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paulojdaniel:
Hi, pcarvalho. You are portuguese?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
fine...little busy right now...

no...though i know portuguese, french, spanish, italian, and so one :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paulojdaniel:
Hi. What you think about this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
..actually..you can. ;) only thing is that the bottm tab bar, fonts on the now screen and selection color will be affected.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
Mackaby,

FIrst of I want to say your themes are beautiful! One thing that could be tweaked slightly is on the now screen. In the top right corner where it states the carrier name, mine is Verizon Wireless. THis creates a problem because it overlaps the missed calls icon due to the length of the word "Verizon Wireless". Perhaps you could bump down that top section of icons for Mail Text and Missed Calls or maybe you have a different solution?

THanks for all your work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
2 diferent types of layouts...

on the 1st they use my dual launch layout (just shifted the bottom buttons a bit)...

on 2nd they have no launchers, just now screen and 3 contacts layout...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iamwhoiam:
Looking good mackaby007, please could you post that in the skin collections thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=380103

I've also included a .cab in the second post for the original spb skin so if anyone runs into problems there is a backup for them
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes... if you go to today screen it changes and all... but sm2 theme color... no... cause of background maybe if you made black transparente it could work better... its a question of semanthics ;)

good work...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes one of the things that one has to be careful about... length of words...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
OK its a little early here still on my first cup of coffee. Words...

SO I assume this is fixable?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes its fixable... he'll just have to realocate it to just below the signel (that back space looks nice to put something there) or change letter size to gain length...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paulojdaniel:
Well. This is my s200: I use MackTech edition and this layout (in zip).

But i don't like the grids.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Hiya. Say pcarvalho...do you think the operator name could be omitted? That would save me reworking the Theme (as it was made to measure) just for the professional screen....if not, I'l just shift down a tad and see how it looks.

Just think no operator name is more universal.

@ 760hacker. I'll have a go at it later today..a little busy at the mo. but better themes will be coming once I've got all changes affected in portrait and Lanscape mode...just treat this as a trial run.;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes it can... omite...

<Plugin Name="Operator">

<BoundRect X="216" Y="3" Width="14" Height="16"/>

<Point Name="Label" X="207" Y="0"/>

</Plugin>
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
Omitting the name is totally fine with me and I am sure others... afterall we should all know which carrier we are using right? It really serves no specific purpose as far as I know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
if you are like me (3 carriers) it is always good to see what carrier i'm on :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom108:
something similar to the LG bottom launchbar in a 5 button would be nice.* hint* hint ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iamwhoiam:
help

I'm having trouble writing registry settings using a .cab

This is what I want to write in:

However, I looked at jac's and noticed he writes the entire directory structure for /root/

So does that mean I have to write in all of /root/ just to insert my two extra keys?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
yeap pal

Correct me if i m wrong, but Yep!!

The My Menu folder you can select from advanced/menu from ms, which is deselected by default.

once you have done selecting my menu, for the 2nd folder what you can do is go to root and copy the folder "my menu" and paste it in the root. then copy all the keys found in original "my menu" to your duplicated "my menu"

and inside ur duplicated "my menu" structure you will find the text key which hold the title name in launcher as "my menu"

change it to anything you like "iamwhoiam" and the original "my menu" to games ;)

;) hehe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blazingwolf:
You guys with the carrier name issue give Personailzer 3 a try. You can change the name to anything you want. I use VZW for mine. It can be found HERE.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Much obliged.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
:) Great app reference blazingwolf! Works perfect and best of all isn't a resource hog!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Cheers pcarvalho. I'll make the amendments when I get some time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Thanks for the heads up mate.:) I'll give this a shot before amending my xml file.

here it is if anyone else wants to give it a try before I can get around to it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
There is a 3.1 version!

Thanks to CODY at PPC and whoever else worked on this!