yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
as i said before the icons are dynamic.. represent the actual state and change as such...

Edit: as i can see by screens only profile icon isn't correct... you haven't replaced all the files that i gave... missing qp_menu_btn.dat replacement...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fga:
Thanks pcarvalho, I certainly do a mistake.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
Thank you very much for your good job. I love it so much.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vandinhle:
Thank you! it is great
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
3 bar pages/icons only

Hi pcarvalho

again thanks for the great work

i have your work installed & working perfectly

i have a question:

i noticed that you had 5 icons on the bottombarbefore then you got rid of the close icon because you can just swipe your finger down (great!!!)

the thing is that i do not really need the 3rd screen with the small 15 shortcuts. is it possible to have 3 pages (home-applications(9 menues)-contacts) only with 3 icons on bottom bar?

Thanks again

keep up he great work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes it is...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
can you expalin please

can you explain please if possible

or help guide me to needed adjustments for bottom bar 3 icon change?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
unfortunatly i'm not able to answer/help with these types of questions cause i'm using my pda as a way to keep in touch with you all.. i'm on a "small voyage" and will only be "home" on the 22nd... till then i can only say basic things...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
Mister pcarvalho :D

hello amigo,

I look for a way to put a screen behind Carbone or moon clock .., did you get a solution to this result?

thanks

je recherche un moyen de mettre un fond d'écran Carbone ou la lune derriere l'horloge.., as tu une solution pour obtenir ce résultat?

ou
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
thank goodness i know french otherwise i would have to ask what you meant :p

version 2 of my work will most probably be able to display color backgrounds... lets wait and see...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
anglais:

oups ok, thanks man;

French:

put1 t un français LOLLLL

Serieux oufff, y a moyen dans tes messages tu mets la traduction ou version FR pour moi car je suis une tarte en anglais lol merci lol vive google translate lol

ho tu dors pas , t insomniac? lol moi je suis a montreal il est 22H50 actuellement avec de la neige partout lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
sorry but my french is very rusty... will only post in anglais... lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
okey sorry my friend, you are a good man :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
And more...

A good man and very talented, thanks pcarvalho for your fine work! Enjoy your vacations!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Is it possible to have your layout with a six button menu instead of recent items?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
+ 1 :D Perfecto
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
I assume you are refering to the Launcher page. The original 6 large buttons for Internet, organizer etc. Correct?

Yes its a pretty simple change. Check back tomorrow and I'll post it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] quajungajugssuak:
thanks for this great piece of work!! however i am getting only 7 icons in the programs tab, there are two blank spaces. In your screenshot the two items that you have, which are not on my screen are Games and My Menu. Can anyone please tell me how i can get the other two icons as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] quajungajugssuak:
found it myself :)

one point to note is that the pinned icons cannot be~customized
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] purist:
alter to 4 page?

Do you think it would be possible to modify your layout to work as a 4 tab design? It would be great to have all menu items on one tab (9) and most frequently used apps on another tab (full page, 20-25 last used) and maintain your weather/messaging settings on top?

So far I find your layout most convenient, but trimming to 3 menu items to have the weather/messaging hurts functionality somewhat.

Thanks!

-Stuart
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes they can... by yourself... if you want diferente ones you can change them... edit file qp_menu_btn.dat thats were most icons are... layout (what i really changed) will be the same...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ZeuBug:
Hello All!:)

I'm happy to join to this thread :)

I have tried to read the 49 page but I didn't find the solution for my questions. (and the registry is too hard to modify for this soft, for me :eek: )

- how to make a 3x3 grid for speed dial only?

- I prefer the classic now screen but there is not the profile manager. It's possible to add this?

THX! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
well... 3x3 grid is only possible through layout modification (xml).. and yes... one can add the profile manager 2 the classic now screen (also through xml)... wait for v2 of my work were i will give more atention to the classic view... thanks for your input...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Hello everyone...

Thanks pcarvalho for your great work....

I've tried to make my own icons but the result was.. nothing

can anyone help me and correct my file please...

Thanks in advanced....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
did you copy&paste in photoshop 2 original and then save (not: save as)?

that is where it normaly fails...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] norozo:
Can you tell me how, please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] norozo:
Can you tell me how, please
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
I know this question has been asked several times here in this thread, but can anyone just point me in the right direction as to how I edit the default 16 speed dial?

I only wish to have 9 or 12, I know I have to edit the speed dial XML which I have done but so far no joy:( what am I missing? do I also need to edit something in the contact XML to get it working?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
backup your original qa_layouts.dat file rename the zipped dat file and save to your MS directory.

See screenshot for launcher appearence. Only for 240 x 320
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
I need to make a "Save as" option ???

Just saving is wrong ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
no.. you must not use save as...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DvTonder:
Citats,

Great layout, especially with the latest 6 menu version.

Wanted to point out a slight alignment change in the top, notification section on the 2nd tab and a slight change in the font size in the item count text on the 3rd tab.

DvTonder
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
*UPDATED* Click link to goto fixed version.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2030931&posted=1#post2030931

Yes... Here it is!

4 Page Messaging Layout using original MS Icons
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
hmmm... It appears the font for the contacts (when no pic is in use) affects the carrier area, even though another font size is defined... looks like the best solution is to change the font to the smaller 9 point for all pages. Because if the font is increased for the contacts it would look extremely crowded. I have to play with it and see what looks better.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I've edited the speed dial xml so that I only have 9 instead of the default 16 quick dial but now the speed dial doesn't load up at all???:( every thing else is fine!

to all the MS editing experts here, please look at the attached file and tell me where I'm going wrong!

Many thanks!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
whenever pages dont load, normaly its because you did not encrypt the file correctly... re-encrypt file...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
I agree however, if my file qa_layouts.dat was not properly encrypted then why is it that the now and launcher screen load except for speed dial?? surely I must have done something wrong within the speed dial xml??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr. Vi:
Good evening,

does somebody now how to change the default background for launcher, quickdial and nowscreen professional? The gradient is pretty boring :D I checked several xml-files but wasn't relly sure where to start editing.

Greetings, Vi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dick Starbuck:
Attention: Please Read

YES, 50 pages is a lot to read... BUT PLEASE read the entire thread before you post questions. 75% of your answers have already been posted. Let's try not to burnout some of the more skilled architects here. This is a developers forum and if the developers have to answer every question 100 times they can become very frustrated. The quality of work here is of the highest caliber so far and I would hate to piss off some of the artists.

BE PATIENT... READ ALL POSTS... then you should be able to solve your own problems.

SORRY if I stepped on anyone's toes, but the best way to learn is to try it yourself.

"if everyone comes to class prepared, then we can cover more material faster"

MUCH RESPECT to pcarvalho, citats and others.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
pcavalho is suggesting only the speed dial xml is not encrypted...

Files are encrypted individually not as a whole.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Hmmm disagree...confused now

Hey Citats.:)

You're confusing me a bit there mate. the qa_layouts.dat contains the speeddial xml as well as the launcher and several other xml files. You decrypt only the layout.dat and then have access to all the other xml's.

Once finished with the xml's, you encrypt all other xml's (that werew released from the layout.dat) back into layout.dat. So from my understanding, the individual xml's in that .dat file are not seperately encrypted at all.

I believe the .dat files are encrypted, decrypt them to freely access the xml's.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
actually each file is required to be re-encrypted individualy once edited (unlesse you rebuild the .dat completly) cause if you dont you are able to extract it without any password...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
you'll have to make it up... cause this feature doesn't existe...

i think its possible and will soon start working on it...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
Thanks guys!! with trail and error I'm beginning to get my head around this:) once I'm finished with this, I will post in "layman terms instructions" on how to encrypt, edit xml files etc... so that anyone else wishing to have go at this don't need go around the bend as I have done!!!

FYI I have been following this thread from start to finish!! most of the post have been vague not very clear its ok if are an expert at photoshop, xml file editing etc.. you can comprehend!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
i had a look and all seems right (one minor error but it doesn't interfer with what your doing)... just encrypt it and it will load...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
its good to know there are many interested in this thread...

just be very careful when showing how its done... do it step by step always! one mistake and you can lockup the machine... i did it about 20x (more by now) when i was trying to remove the bottom bar... its the risk one takes...

if anyone wants to "do it yourself" they must 1st learn the basics of the tools (photoshop, xml structure, layouts... for the essencial part of editing they are essencial, most will just copy what has already been changed)...

the aim of this thread is not to show how to make the changes...but to make the changes (although showing how is done also cause all major questions have been answered)...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr. Vi:
If you need a third hand I could help you out. In some layout-xmls there are some class tags which descripe a "GradBackground".

I think I don't have to comment on this :D I thought we maybe could replace them with an imagetag and serched for the tag which describes the background image for classe-now-view - but nothing. I think if someone finds it, we should be able to copy it into the other xmls.

Greetings, Vi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
will only be looking at this in a week... so...

as i said... it has to be done from scratch or adapted from somewhere using existing classes (the way i would take)...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
Problem Solved!! thanks citats for clarifying it seems winrar did not encrypt the actual file I edited even though I did password encrypted the qa_layouts.dat so I had to install Winzip pro which did the trick:)

Thanks for confirming!

Because I mess about with my device frequently i.e. registry tweak, flashing roms etc... I'm used to hard reset, lock up etc... but I agree with you if you are a novice it's something you don't want to mess about with! so with that point in mind when I post "how to instructions" it will be just the basics!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
+ 1:D it's fun To modify and improve applications
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Thanks To All! + Learning Lots!

From info shared here and the Spb site this is turning out to be better than sliced bread!! Been using Mobile Shell for several years and never did I think the tool would be as useful as it is today (Thanks to you folks!)

I've been turned into a configuring, tweaking and customizing junky lately...

However one thing has eluded me on the now screen. (The Weather) and don't know if it's even possible. I would like to use WeatherPanel or PocketWeather instead of SPB to get the current weather.

Is this even possible?

Use the Icon on the Now Screen to activate one of the programs.

(kind of use it as a shortcut?)

Any thoughts or suggestions?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
Anyone have this in English?

This is P I M P.... Does anyone have it in english and even better .cab format?:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] j.a:
Just overwrite your files with the ones from lepsyfou zip file. The only one I Did Not overwrite was the "SpbMobileShell.txt" and mine stayed in english.

If that does not work for you, edit the names via the registry, to whatever you want them to be.

The registry entries are located at:

HKLM>Software>Spb Software House 2>Spb Mobile Shell>Menu>Root
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
*UPDATED*

4 Page Messaging Layout using original MS Icons

Note that the Now screen has no changes from original.

(backup original qa_layout.dat before using the attached)

FULL CREDIT to "PCARVALHO" for figuring out how to do a fourth page and also for providing the information required to get the separator on multiple pages.

This layout is only intended for 240 x 320

Landscape works (however multi messaging layout is only available in portrait mode)

Also fixed issues with pinning icons on the 2nd Launcher tab.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sbarash:
profile ikon

is there anyway how to put the fone profile ikon on the digital clock menue? it's usful but missing
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Thank you I will try it now. I almost missed it because of all the posts in here and A_C came out with his S2P. Thank You Again. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr. Vi:
What a nice day :)

I just found out how to make the background visible whereever you want: QuickDial, Launcher, Professional Now Screen. I guess it can be put anywhere else but for the beginning it's quite cool :D

I'll post a little how-to soon. Don't worry it isn't difficult, but it took some time for me to figure it out :D

Look:

Greetings, Vi

P.S.: The background used is the one in qp_bkg_now.dat (the one for Classic-Now-Screen)

Edit 1:

Weather and Time works, too.

Edit 2:

Landscape works, square screen needs to be tested (I don't have a square screen device)!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Good work ...

Keep up customizing the whole SPB SHELL....

Any chance to share the file !!???

Q: If you change the theme color, the background will change too ??

Enjoy as much as you can today...

Cause according to your local forecast, tomorrow is a rainy day...:D:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr. Vi:
I'll attach the file in a second ;)

A: Yes, because it works like the background from Classic now screen!

Thanks for the information :D Right now the sun is shining

Edit:

Woho, I think I changed too much... Now I'm having a black now-screen :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
OK, good luck with that....

hopefully you'll find out a solution..

Time to go now, cause I'm having an exam in about 3 hours wish me luck...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr. Vi:
Finished :)

But I guess we (or you :D) are getting problems now, because you're going to replace the whole qa_layout.dat file. Guess what will happen? Right - if you used another custom launcher file, it'll be replaced! (I'm using a nine button launcher).

Maybe now the time has come where someone has to develop a little application where you can "cook" your layout.dat file :D

Maybe I'll post some different versions if requestet.

Have Fun
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Good work Mr Vi!! Did you edit any bitmaps or reuse existing code in other xml files? I want to ideally change my 3 screens to jet black when I select the black theme and was wondering how to do this.

I know pcarvalho said it could be done via bitmaps or code i.e. 000000, but I could not find the code to change the background.

Any ideas please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] janhaider:
Hi is it possible do do a version without the grid lines?

Thanks very much

Jan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
This is exactly what we need!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Yes it is but at the moment we just touched a little on everything that is possible. At this point only SPB knows what else we can be altered. This is exciting though.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WereWolf_PL:
I have a little question, not about the background...

how to make a 5 line calendar? I can have max 3 lines in my MS
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BoBka:
Hello everybody.

Is there any possibility to add "Profiles" button to Classic Now screen?

Something like on the picture below (picture taken from developer's forum - it is Photoshop of course).

I like it so much, but Profiles available only on Professional Now....

Any suggestions?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Mine so far....

Sure it is! If you can identify the code from the Now screen XML (can't remember the right name for it), then you can reuse it elsewhere, but you will have to 'introduce' the code in the 'General' layout and know how to 'call' it up for use elsewhere. You'll also through trial and error have to work out the position you'll want it on the screen, i.e. x=220 and y= 272 or whatever the coordinates might have to be.

This is mine so far (thanks to pcarvalho, citats and our friends @ the Russian 4pda site....many thanks).

I've only compiled it for 240x320 as I only ever use Landscape mode for 2 applications (Coreplayer and Web surfing - application independent, so no need for Landscape Spb for me).

If anyone is interested in my layout, let me know, as I have to extract the files from my Kaiser, or just to study my files (compromised of several peoples efforts here including my own ;))

I like my set up, but am still trying to learn how to change all the default Theme backgrounds .bmp's to replace with my own choice (but to keep original Theme colors).

Any help or suggestions welcome and appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
beautifull interface, good job, thanks ,

Do you know the trick to change the screen color? Because I would like to put carbon ..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyecrispy:
back up settings?

hey all, i've been following this thread with interesting and think you guys are doing an amazing job with these customizations.

one question - what do i need to do to backup my current MS2.0 settings? i hard reset a lot and now would like to try some of these configuration changes you guys have made and want to make sure i can revert back.

I suspect i just have to backup some of the .dat files? if so, which?

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Quick way would be to make a copy of whatever you are about to replace. Basically whatever you download from here look for it on your device and make a backup of it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Sorry lepsyfou..not yet.:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
.....or make a complete copy of the Spb folder in program files and store on SD card.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
It is possible to install mobile SPB shell on my storage card SDHC?:D

est ce possible d'installer SPB mobile shell sur ma carte de stockage SDHC? :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyecrispy:
I am trying to install your new and improved MS2.0 updates. I extracted the dat files and entered the pw. Then I copied them into my Mobile Shell folder. When I soft reset my phone, it never fully boots up. It just freezes as it's loading the today screen.

Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?? I'm afraid I may have to hard reset my device if it doesn't boot up.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
No expert here, but just like Wisbar Advance is system specific, I would have thought that MS 2.0 is too. You can always check at the developers website, but I'm quite sure it's Main storage (Device) dependent.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
Here are some screen grabs of the latest version of mine. I borrowed (and tweaked) the large digital number graphics from pcarvalho, but the rest of the graphics are my own, with some initially culled from the HTC Home plug-in.

I'm mostly happy with it, although I am now convinced that it will never be possible to get a perfect digital clock. The software simply won't do it. It is programmed to treat some digits (1,3, and 7, for example) as special cases, and it squeezes those digits closer to adjacent digits. I've tried several different ways to "trick" the software into not doing this, but I have only had minor success. Nevertheless, I have created some new digits that work fairly well. I also have tweaked the battery, profile and operator graphics on the Now tab, set my Launcher tab to have 9 menus (as most people have), added an MRU tab with 16 items, and redone the "add new contact" button on the SpeedDial tab. My operator icon is color-coded, so 3/4 bars=green, 2=yellow, and 1=red. I also added a little color to the tab icons to make the active tab stand out a bit.

I have also included a sample shot of another clock variation I'm working on, in case anyone might be interested in it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
Do you have thes files available for DL, also is this 320x240 only or both 320x240 and 240X320? PS, love the work it looks real nice!