yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dicast:
Thanks, Got the icons to drop down. but the shadow remain an issue. Since my icons are transparency I want the shadow to position just behind the icons. The showdow on the left and bottom remain unchange. If I move those showdows in too much It over ride the Icons position and I got

'running" Icons. Hopefully someone can address this for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
If you want the highlight to be the same size as the icon, I think you will need to re-do your icons. There is a transparent border around your icons that needs to be removed. The highlight should be the same size as the icon, INCLUDING the transparent part.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Just making sure that you are aware, that if I place the big profile icon to be the big one on the now screen that I will need to remove it from the top of all the other pages. You will have profile access from one page instead of all. You do know that it's already on the top?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HaiAuNho:
Do you use Photoshop? If so, open your MenuButton.bmp file, you'll see the "black" area around the icons. Remove (crop) them. Note the image size. Do the same for your MenuButton_m.bmp file (not removing the "black" area, but to crop it to the same image size.

In your Launcher.xml, adjust these value:

<Rect Name="IconRect" X="0" Y="0" Width="79" Height="48"/>

to have it the same Width and height with your menu edited icons.

also if you use text under the icons, you'll see the highlight part. Or you can just adjust them at:

<Plugin Name="m0">
<BoundRect X="0" Y="62" Width="79" Height="63"/>
</Plugin>

To have the SAME width and height.

You'll be all set.

~ HTH
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
NEW SPB MOBILE SHELL SKINs PAGES

I'm developing a new site to collect all my work on Spb MS customization. Take a look to the link:

http://www.imarche.net/omnia

At the moment i'm dealing with WQVGA screen resolution for my i900 Omnia, but i can test also other resolutions using the WM6 emulator. Maybe in the next future i'll convert the skin packages for the Diamond QVGA res.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
wow wow wow

GREAT WRK

I LK the idea of CHANGING Bottones & Clock .

hope the

QVGA

package will B available soon !!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I had some time to get it done. I think that you will like the layout better. Touch time to get to calendar page.

I didn't remove the profile icon from all the pages. This looks really sweet in portrait and landscape. I did take away that useless second time page.

There's a pic of it in classic.

Thanks and credit goes to Greatbal, Gagaza, 420Mac, and Ahmedfikry.

http://depositfiles.com/files/7741949
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DJ_Bizarro:
why is the program icon in the top left corner.. and how do i remove it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HaiAuNho:
It's your second MRU, it's meant to be a pseudo "Start" button, which points you to your favorite programs.

But if you don't like it, edit your Lockscreen.xml file inside your Layouts.dat file, and remove the reference to the "r1"

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Generic" Name="r1" ID="1" />
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
I like that start icon, very nice!

Also Phonatic; excellent work on your latest modifications!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Thank you. I have a suggestion for you. Try using the Windows Feild Theme without having me rearrange the Now screen layout.

Aside from the top bar, it is already set-up the way you want.

I would like to just sub the calendar page with MRU, add All Weather icons, add mru on the now screen (you will need to configure it with the start button, I can't do that at my end).

I'd like to also sugesst doing just some of the pages with weather, since it already has a nice background.

Gimme a half an hour and I'll work up my suggestion for you. I think it will meet your needs and preferences.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Along with what I previously suggested above, I also changed the mru masks and digital clock to translucent.

Switched to status icons that barely show unless there is some info to show. Placed them above the clock like you wanted.

Added weather icon with temp. Press it and it takes you to detail weather.

I placed mru #1 top left, for you to use for the start button.

I put a darker calendar background and made it bigger.

Replaced Calendar page with MRU page. Touch time to get to calendar.

I have the Natural weather only on the Calendar screen. Start button and natural weather do not look good together.

I replaced the small clock with the temperature. If you press it, it takes you to detail weather.

I moved the clock bottom right. When you press on it it takes you to alarm and time settings.

I moved the day/date from now screen to calendar.

Added status icons to calender.

Thanks and credits go to Greatbal, Mtkates, Beyond Invisible and Gagaza
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sharkonholiday:
ok it' al right on top of every page

remember if you can...4 buttons...digital clock (slide and touch calendar) weather, programs (slide mru), and contacts.

in the now page near mail put the mini weather...move a little bit to the right the icons of mail sms and call.

bye
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daitienshi:
Love this theme. A few tweaks that I'd love to see:

Clicking on clock takes you to calendar rather than alarms

Replace Calendar tab with MRU

3 page contacts

I know you're busy with the Ultimate WM7 theme (which is pretty kickass btw), but would love to see these additions!

TIA!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kevin813:
can anyone get the first skin fron page 452(the green one) to gvga
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
If you want to try the one posted above, the tweaks are done as you listed. Except for the three contacts.

This attached file is the one for three contacts.

After download, remove the.zip extension an put into your folder after having placed the ones above.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drb123:
I wasn't sure where to post this question, but I know that this thread gets lots of traffic from knowledgable folks.

So far, I am still using Spb Mobile Shell 1

I have not upgraded to 2.12 beause I know that there had been issues with certain themes and this version 2.11. Do all posted themes work with 2.12? If not, which ones do not work? I think that I read that any of the Diamond themes prior to 2.1 do not work, correct?

Also, what exactly is the advantages of Mobile Shell 2.12; are there worthwhile improvements?

Thanks all :confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Nice work. You are going a great job here.

I have had a lot of requests like this and I appreciate the support. I am almost done with the last layout on WM7 and will be revisiting Windows Field. I will take your comments and those of others and a few ideas of my own and see we'll what happens. I have put a lot of work into WM7, but I still keep going back to Windows Field from time to time. I think you and others may like what is to come.

Thanks and stay tuned.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I think you will find that most, if not all the themes are working with MSv2.1.2, however, you may find little details that have changed in the skins since they were first released, such as highlights when pressing. If you are still unsure about trying v2.1.2, you can download MSv2.1.0 from the link below.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V01YQSZA
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dicast:
I tried but it won't works. got my icons all screw up. I just have to live with it for now. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Thank you very, very much. That means a whole lot to me, coming from a man of your caliber.:)

sharkonholiday, did you seriously miss that HUGE post that I made of your requested layout.

I don't have photoshop to make a 4 tab layout. I feel that it turned out great with 5 tabs. I'm thinking that you'll like the way it turned out.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drb123:
When you are a few weeks behind the conversation, I know it is annoying to see a post like this one, but I cannot seem to find the answer hunting thru XDA.

mkates addressed part of this earlier, but I incorrectly posted that I was using version 1 , but in fact, I am still using version 2.1.0 of Mobile Shell.

I decided on this rainy east coast day, to update to version 2.12, but on installing that version, I never got the Windows Mobile software question of "Do you want to keep your settings", so after updating, I had the generic theme with 6 large folder icons and two lines of MRUs on one page. Known of the 6 folders was 'Settings', so I am kind of stuck. I tried via File Explorer overwriting the Mobile Shell File with a 9 Icon theme, but it didn't work and I am not sure whether I need to do Registry adjustments or what.

Is there posted a cookbook recipe version of making this update work?

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
You can get to settings from outside of mobile Shell. Go to Start/Settings and click the System tab and go to SPB Mobile Shell.

Not sure why you wouldn't be able to install a custom skin unless you have the wrong screen size for the skin. If you have had a custom skin working before and now it won't work, I would try uninstalling Mobile Shell, browse to the Program Files/SPB Mobile Shell folder, and if it's still there, delete it. Soft reset, then reinstall Mobile Shell, install custom skin, and soft reset.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drb123:
After updating to 2.12, do I need to reinstall the file that adds the 9th icon before attempting to use the skins based on 9 icons are is that still set to go?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
You do not have to install 9th icon to use a custom skin. I usually install 9th icon after installinh my custom skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
Hey,

I don't know where to download this at :( Did you forgot the link or am I being a dunce?

Also, I love the last weather backgrounds. I can just hit the Start Button hard key on my phone to get to the start button, so if it isn't a big deal then I would definitely love having the nicer weather backgrounds in the theme and no start button! Because I really love the backgrounds that you showed there in the last part(that I think you had only put on calendar before? I left the weather pics I really enjoyed in your post)

Thank you so much man, you have been a huge help!

I have like 70 bucks left on my paypal, where can I donate?

Edit: Just looked some more, and really love everything you've done. When I click on Calendar and still have the status things at the bottom, that is a cool touch. Everything else is also so nice. Basically just the backgrounds all being the ones at the end is all I need, and a download link! I can take off the little days thing on the Calendar and just have upcoming appt's on the main page, right? Or like just one line of upcoming days and upcoming appts? I think I remember being able to customize this on my own but don't have my phone by me to check.

Thanks again!

Oops, also the weather tab itself also looked very nice! I like those weather icons fine in the actual tab, I was only talking about the actual background having the Natural Weather backgrounds and just taking off the start button(Sorry!) but the weather page itself looks good!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Strop:
Extra photo speeddial buttons

Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong.

I am trying to access Speeddial1, Speeddial2 and Speeddial3 via buttons, but they do not work.

I have attached a screen capture of Speeddail1 and my .xml files.

Thank you to anyone able to Help.

Strop
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I don't know what happened to the upload link. :( I added it back onto the post.

Thank you for your appreciation. I kinda knew that you would like it. I'm pretty stoked at how it turned out. You made some good choices. It made it enjoyable to do.

Days will drop of as appointments come up, if you select auto under configure when selecting proffessional.

I will add the natural weather onto all the main pages except speed dial.

If you want me to add it to speed dial, contacts, and launcher sub pages I can.

I just think it might be overkill. Depending on your phone you might experience a very slight lag when you go to load a page for the first time, as it loads the graphic. After that it's as fast as usual.

I will also do what I did on the calendar page with the temperature. You'll be able to press it to get to detail weather from the now screen.

I will place the mru#1 where the weather icon was and you can use it for start, or reset, comm manager, or whatever you'de like. Or I can remove it and center the status icons. It's you're choice. Hope you enjoy the test drive. I will go make the adjustments and post a qa_layout for you in this post.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
Hey,

Yea, no need for the sub-pages or whatever, just whatever you think is nice.

Why are you taking the weather icon off the front page? Just because the degrees is already there with the natural weather thing or something?

I don't have anything I use that much, so just centering the 3 will be fine if my guess is correct on the weather still being on my front page.

Thanks again man, you are awesome!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Here you go, centered the status. I was also able to make the calendar a tad bigger.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joedoe:
Date format

Is there a way to display date on the Now screen as "Saturday, Sep 06" instead of "Saturday, September 06"?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
Hey,

It looks great!

You were right, it is slow to change screens now to load the graphics.

Only problem is the fonts. I can't see the fonts on my main screen due to the white sand. Like my font for my appt's is white, and I can't see the fonts for my upcoming appointments.

Everything else looks great though!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zhihwa:
Sorry Phonatic. I can't download from this host. Can you up it to another site. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dicast:
It works just fine. try again
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sharkonholiday:
ok for 5 tabs an ok only little weather....volume profiles only on the top bar

can you only change the sequence?

digital clock(tab) calendar, weather (tab), program (tab), mru (tab), contact vip (tab) contact, contac.

than i dispose the button in the right way with photoshop.

and in a separete file can you write the xml for four button? for the graphics of the button i try by my self.....i don't know how to program the button in xml....take the bar shift in four and calculate the pixel for the touch..so if you can give me the xml i rebuil the dat file and we try the skin.....bye
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deepthroat:
hi joede

Mobile Shell just reads your setting and display information in more convenient ways. SO it is easy - make a change on your regional setting (short date, long date, currency etc.). Good luck.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aqeelhaider:
Can someone upload it to rapidshare as i can't download it from current server. Slots full message always.

Thanks.

Edit: Finally able to download it :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ntadeusz:
Is this possible to have your full screen white diamond with MRU Page and 3 pages of contacts? It would be great!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] porkythe5th:
installing skins?

can someone give me instructions on how to install skins please? i'm trying to install the diamond skin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rxster:
I have read through all 400+ pages of this thread and can't find the answer to my question. That doesn't mean it is not there, just I couldn't find it. I am using Greatbal's layout H and want to change the icons for email, sms, calls, etc on the now screen to look like the icons in the attached. How would I go about doing this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
How to install:

1) Download zip file attached.

2) Extract on your hard drive.

3) Copy all extracted .dat files to your device's \Program Files\Spb Mobile Shell directory.

4) Soft reset device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
Hey,

Does anyone know how to help me with my font problem? I need to change the bottom appointments font from white to black so I can see them :)

Thanks everyone!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Please provide the tab icons that you will be using. I can change the sequence to how you want. I do not want to provide it until I know that you have matching tabs.

Or maybe there is someone else that can tailor it exactly the way you want.

Yea, that's the problems with weather pages.

For the fonts here are your options.

1. Don't have weather background on now screen.

2. Don't have appointments on now screen.

3. Move somewhere where you will never see that clear sky forecast.

4. Change the font color, which will affect more than just appointments.

#3 is a joke and here is a layout for black fonts on the now screen.

Choose your option and I will help you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Those things are huge. This is the best that I have for you. This is layout H.

Just remove the .zip and place into your folder if it suffices.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rxster:
Do I just copy and paste all to the shell folder?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
Hey Phonatic;

Edit:

Black looks great!

TY so much man!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
All you do is change the name of this file to qa_status.dat

by removing the .zip extension. Copy this one file into your folder and reset.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Appointments are part of the calendar and can't be separated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
It's The Time To Change

Don't loose time with SOFT RESET, get the NEW SKIN COLLECTION with AUTO-SWITCH feature.

HERE IS THE REVOLUTION

With this tool you can customize "on the fly" (without soft reset) the look of your mobile phone launcher application, choosing from different basic skins and a from several background alternative images.

Extra options are available to refine the final aspect: menu launcher buttons, analog and digital clocks, weather icons and more.

Here is the LINK:

http://www.imarche.net/omnia/

NOW READY FOR WQVGA (240x400) and QVGA (240x320) resolutions

and for ENGLISH / ITALIAN / SPANISH / FRENCH / GERMAN users
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
NOW IS qvga ready ...... download it from http://www.imarche.net/omnia
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rxster:
It worked great. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Beautiful collection.

Will you be doing a version that has an MRU page instead of a calendar page?

@ rxster, you're welcome.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
YES, next release will be based on more MRU and Contact pages.

The best relevant thing of this tool is not only the several background images, but the automatic switch functionality implemented by MortScript scripts. This avoid to move files manually and to reset the device after a skin or option (buttons, clocks) change.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rxster:
Can any change the email and voicemail icons from what is showing to the ones I have attached? Also can you put the green circle indicator in front of the icon? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Thank you. Keep up the outstanding work. Everything looks so beautiful.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
very nice site thank you very much for your hard work :eek:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
1,000,000 THANKs

GREAT WRK

keep working & developing
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joedoe:
Thank you for the advice but it didn't work. Any other ideas?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theme freak:
This is great :eek: really an evolution to us..thanks for the hard work :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Th3_Ghost:
Great work ! but what about vga resolution??? any chance???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
ok ive read and read..and followed the instructions..but have yet to figure this out.

is there a dummies version to how to install this?

thanks in advance,

Jstar
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
Hey,

What does everyone use for their weather?

I live in the USA, in KY, and have horrible weather reports. I use SPB Weather, and get my reports from weather.com(supposedly, I had a lot of trouble getting it to work in the first place)

Like I have 76/65 as high and low on my phone, but 76/55 as high and low on weather.com on my computer.

It has also been wrong often on rain for the day, but I don't know if it conflicts weather.com or not. Is there anything more accurate that anyone knows of? How about something with % chances of rain? Or current temperature outside?

Just wondering if anyone else used anything else.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Omnia MS2.1.2 Theme (QVGA devices only)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=424479

Enjoy! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dicast:
You're not alone, not only it's not working for me...it's in Italian now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
To set the english language, keep the English Patch for the weather descriptions and remove the file SpbMobileShell.txt inside the \Program Files\Sbp Mobile Shell folder.

Set the correct values for params SpbPath and SkinPath into the Scripts\options.ini file.

For example, if you have extracted the files in your Storage Card, you should have:

SkinPath=\Storage Card\SpbMobileShellSkins
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dicast:
Can I get dummies version of the instruction? I'll buy you a beer for it

this is what've done so far \storage card\spbmobileshellskins. Cant open Options.ini file in scripts
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dicast:
dummies version is unnecessary now, Got it. This is cool program, you sure deserve a nice cold beer. A beer on me on it's way. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
well **** ill buy u a beer..

can u break it down please..

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
good job! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cascade2:
Gesture .dat files?

I've figured out how to move things around and generally mess with MS however I want thanks to all of the great information here, but I'm stuck on getting the gestures/animation to work right without the bottom bar.

What files are the gesture rules located in? I've moved the bottom bar off of the screen (as described in the How-To guide thread) but the animations don't work on the bottom pixels where the bottom bar used to be.

Any suggestions or leads on how to animate the entire screen?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theme freak:
Yes that's rite..why no one create for VGA users sigh :(

please someone