yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kevystyles:
You mean to close or minimize SPB Mobile Shell? Just swipe your finger down the middle of the screen, should bring you back to your Today screen.

On another note, where can I find the BG used in that theme? It's amazing, want my today screen to match and S2U2 as well. Cheers. Also while I'm asking here, does anyone know how to change the font for the slide to unlock text within S2U2 I had a look within reg but I don't see a value for it. Right now it just shows simple text where in screenies I've seen a much bolder outlined text, is this an image to change or a font value change?

EDIT - just realized the image didn't show, this is the skin I want the BG of,

Thanks,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] da_mayhem:
@greatbal - Awesome pre! Ganda ng theme mo, ginamit ko na, naintindihan ko din sa wakas!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] plexat:
English please! :-) Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] da_mayhem:
Ok sorry :D :p

Translation: Awesome work greatbal! I got it working finally!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kreigz:
greatbal,

I was kinda just wondering if it might be close to the time for another pint ... ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] botuser:
@greatbal: great theme kabayan! looking forward to your next release!

@BeyondInvisible: Nice weather icons! Please upload!

Man, where are the other great themers? Release your creations :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tylr:
Here is my very small tweak.

I've made a CAB that works for me so I thought I'd share.

This is greatbal's Diamond "F" theme and added in the color icons, the color background, the white clock, and the registry changes to add in Games and Active Tasks.

This is the work of folks in the forum and not my own. I just made it easier to install.

T
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TwoWolves:
Hi,

I've put the diamond weather icons that folks have been using to make these recent themes into the standard SPB shell theme and was going to tweak it from there but I seem to get a darker square around the weather icon. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

I've dried darkening the mask and introducing a #FF0000 area around the icon image but it makes no difference. Any insight on this much appreciated.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
Greatbal thanks. It's ok now and I am very happy and satisfy with it without that annoying problem.

What I did was I uninstall SPB Mobile Shell; delete the directory and did a fresh re-installation of SPB Mobile Shell all over again.

So I suggest those encountering this problem to do the same.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
I am trying this skin & it does not work in landscape

if i rotate or open my sliding keyboard, i get a bkack screen with red text saying "out of memory"

anyone has it working in landscape?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
No prob. :)

Version 1.2 now available! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=402021

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Version 1.2 now available... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=402021

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bzinko1:
I have the same problem, and it does not work the classic view
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] powerintake:
Thanks

Thanks....Your volume icon trick is neat... I would like to see Wireless manager also available on today screen...

Offcourse thanks to greatball for his hardwork
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] creiz:
Still no VGA skins?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] elbennas:
hi you all

ı want something different and high quality graphic with mobile shell 2.1 most of this thread skin is poıntuı or htc touch diamond everythıng goes around these and bored too much pls show something different more charming skins thanx:rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] smittyofdhs:
well, that's the end of this thread.... everyone will migrate like ants to the next feeding.... AMAZING, just amazing how this thread took off. Now, watch the new thread take off like this one did...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
If you dont like them, try making your own!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mike19722:
Time Format??

how do you change the time format from 24h to 12 h format??

thanks

Peace

mike
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I second that. hehe :p

I used to just download themes made by others. Then I decided to learn how to skin as I wasn't getting what I wanted. hehe :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I hope it's not the end of this thread. As much as the Diamond theme was mainly responsible for most of the almost-three-thousand posts (not to mention the bulk of the million plus views), I think there are a lot of pretty good and nice themes around here. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] elbennas:
why you so angry ı only want somethıng dıfferent and:ıf ı understand how to do ı wıll make ıt you can be sure about sharıng wıth all of you brother;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Windows Field Updated

I have updated the Windows Field theme using the new release from greatbal. You can find it here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] femi4ever:
Night time Weather icon

How come non of these themes hav night time weather icons...it kinda sucks to update your weather at night and see a daytime icon. SOMEONE PLS HELP!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
It's a limitation of the program. Mobile Shell is not a weather program, it's just a limited feature they put in.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fzzyrn:
I don't think the ability to have nighttime icons is built into mobile shell. They have to specifically code for that, and theres not necessarily a big demand for that. Also, in some places, it can be 12 midnight and be totally sunny (north or south pole depending on time of the year)

also, this is my 500TH POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tsousan:
Great theme and thanks for the update. One small request, can you add multiple contact screens?

I also noticed that the clock does not flip.

Can you provide the background so I can update the today screen and SU2U?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BeyondInvisible:
Weather pictures

For those (gofawkurself, dharvey4651, khmims, ~J~, pmorganii, lepsyfou, & greatbal himself) that are interested in my Diamond weather icons, I already posted the file, which can be seen here:

Weather Icons

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ka911:
Hi guys,

I know I'm not as good you guys but I'm trying over here! this is my personal new theme, stil not finished yet but when I have time I will work on this one again.

Enjoy:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dealwagon:
Are there ANY diamond type themes with upcoming events on the main page? I have not found anything like this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
A clock that "flips" would require animation which is not supported by Mobile Shell(hopefully in a future release from SPB).

I'll see what I can do about multiple contacts.

Here are the background images:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
please help me my friend :o

look here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dinoalbert:
He is angry obviously because of your not-so-nice comment. Its as if you are telling some designers in this thread that their works are boring and then you demand something different from what they share!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincy1020:
Hi:

Beautiful theme. I was wondering how did you get your contact pics to be so large? Mine appear much smaller (please see screenshot), and I like yours much better.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I had to rewrite the SpeedDial.xml file to increase the size.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Just when I think I am done with my theme, someone like you comes out with something I want to add. Great weather pics. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincy1020:
Ah, sounds complicated, lol.

Is the new xml something that would work with the Diamond theme, and if so is there any way you could share it?

Thanks again!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Updated my theme to fix contacts layout here.

Attached here is the modofied SpeedDial.xml file. I think it will work with Diamond layout.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincy1020:
Thanks so much! Sorry to be dense, but where do I need to put this file?

Thanks again!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
It has to be encrypted into your qa_layouts.dat file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincy1020:
Ah, okay. So, it's obviously beyond my skills, lol. I thought it was something which I would just replace within the program, or skin.

Thank you anyway for being so nice :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Corrykid:
Man, What's the point of even using SPB, if you can't link it to custom programs?

I can't find a way to use PocketCM, (for my contacts, and most importantly, my text messages) to be used from SPB. Am I missing something?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Maybe you are missing your search button? I found this in less than a minute by searching for "pocket cm mobile shell"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Corrykid:
I know, I found that.

But my biggest problem is using the text messages.

I can't seem to find a way to make the text messages icon, you know, below the clock, to route to PocketCM.

I can't stand the windows one.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I see. I don't know about that. I've never used pocket cm. Maybe I'll give it a try.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Corrykid:
Thanks, Man.

If you find out something, you'd be doing me a huge favor.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Here you go cincy

Here's your file for large contacts. I also included a frame for contacts pictures if you want them to look framed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Thor84:
Dear mtkates,

Are you ready with WM7 theme based on Heefy's graphics?

I really like this graphics that's I'm asking :-)

Best,

Konstantin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
Dear flughirsch

Thank you very much for sharing. I like your big status button. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
OnceAMatrixMan

OK, I understand. You want to put program link into contact tab right ?

But I don't know how to do this too. :)

All menu tab work by script (main.xml) no registry data, So I thing it can not put program link at this time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
How about this one?

Download, unzip and replace the original one:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anto1267:
have you thise wollpaper in .tsk format
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] flughirsch:
Yeah, this blue one is quite nice!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I don't have an .tsk Today Theme, but you can use SPB Menu > Tools > Themes, and choose your preferred color theme. Then download the attachment below, unzip and replace the file on your \Windows folder.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mkpugh:
wireless manager

what was the name of the wireless manager?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
carbone gsmart
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anto1267:
thanks...

Is it possible to have neon clock?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] klockers:
This zip-file only contains 3 files and made my SPB corrupt
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] budney:
greatbal, thank you for the awesome skins. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
wrlsmgr.exe in the Windows Directory. You'll have to assign it an appropriate icon too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
no prob. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Thanks greatbal for this fantastic skin. Today tsk in blue and green.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Splitter:
Just applied it... beautiful work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] coolguy:
Yah , same here.. corrupt mine.. looks like that zip file dont contain all necessary files..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uiskibum:
I believe that you need the have the full theme installed then you "patch it" with the files in the zip download.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bigray327:
I did that and ended up having to hard reset because my device wouldn't boot. *grumble*
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fm02ppc:
Thx! I will try.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kulet78:
This was only an update to a complete theme. Its somewhere in this thread, download that then overwrite the files with these 3 files in the zip.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kreigz:
Multiple pages of contacts would address some issues, but it would be better if it were easier to have the "Contact" tab launch the user's preferred contact application ... icontacts ... pocketCM contacts ... etc ...

In fact, same with weather ... I'd love to be using Weather Panel instead the built in weather app (it's kinda lame).

So, does anyone know of an easy method of launching an app by changing tabs?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kreigz:
Oh, man, I couldn't find my search button for a few minutes this morning ... I think my dog ate it.

But I found it later ...

mtkates, thanks for reminding me doing a search is usually faster than waiting on someone else to post the answer ... or remind me to do the search!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
JUST A QUICKY , lil off topic - but -

Are there any emulators i could use to practice themes on ???

, so i can see my theme develop and i see what they would look like and any errors

before i put em on and off phone till i get it right ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
New versions of my themes

Download
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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] heliosismagic:
Marfanuk!

You made my life miserable!What can I do now?:-))Which theme I can use?All of them are nice!!

Still here is a starnge request.Can you please put a tiny little icon or ...?what shows the weather right on the first oprning page without touch a button?

I mean you can keep the button and the big display weather site,just a small in the first tab.

If not,it is still a very good tasty skin!thank you.

helios
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
You could always cheer yourself up by buying some new phones and put one theme on each!

I am in the process of creating a completely new theme and will take your thoughts into consideration. They will be posted Here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Not ready yet. I still have a lot to work out. I'm still new at this so it's going slow. It takes a lot of work for these themes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
PPC Emulator

I found this article a few weeks ago. Follow all the links and instructions. I have it on my PC and can emmulate different Windows Mobile versions.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ceevee369:
I second this.

30 USD bounty for a full set of VGA SPB 2.1 Black Diamond sets.... for the real HTC Diamond 640 x 480 .

EDIT: this with 4 x 4 contacts and 4x4 programs (or is it both 3 x 4?) + the reg to enable 3 missing icon's on the Diamond .. that's all

Send me a PM if you want to make 30USD (to be proven that you're the owner)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dianeofarcadia:
thank you for sharing this.

A quick question, I have been reading and trying to get the understanding on how to make these skins, so far it is going over my head :confused:

What changes would I have to make to use your large contact layout.dat in greatbal's newest version (1.2) to create three pages of speed contact?

(btw...like the idea of getting another phone - everyone's works is just amazing!)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I haven't figured out the 3 contacts pages layout yet (I only use one page). I tried a little last night and I think it is close to working but has some bugs. I'll post info/files if I get it figured out. I'm still a noobie at this stuff.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dianeofarcadia:
I have to say for a noobie, you are doing some wonderful stuff. ;)

Thanks for the reply.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ridley:
Midnight Blue Skin

For VGA & QVGA..I think :p

I haven't test this skin yet but I will share the info to my friends in here first :D

Original creator: http://mobileshell.ppc-theme.com/page 8.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
Download
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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eskostar:
Where would I put the Frame.png in order to get it to work? been searching the quickdial.xml for a reference to it but just can't find it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincy1020:
Wow, thanks so much!

For some reason the frames aren't showing. Where should I have put the frame file?

Thanks again!!

PS: I now have the frame png placed in the mobile shell folder.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
The frame is not for Mobile Shell. My contacts pictures have that frame around them. Use whatever image editor you have and put the frame on top of the picture you want to use as a contact. Update the picture in your contacts program with the new framed one and then it will be framed in Mobile Shell and any other program that displays contact pics.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincy1020:
Oh, well I feel dumb, lol.

I will do that. Thank you very much for all your help!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
yes, I tried to register so that I could contact the designer of this incredible theme, but heard nothing from him. Perhaps because he doesn't speak English, or he drop out of sight and no longer surfing the forum. I actually toiled with it, and got it to work in landscape. I lost my touch, and bought a new one. Unfortunately, I did not back up the files. I will work on it(when I have time) and see if I could get the landscape mode for you guys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synergie:
mtkates: awesome work! I always loved the translucent icon/bar looks and I always liked that wallpaper.

Was wondering if you had a matching tsk or even if you could just post the actual wallpaper so I can match the today screen??

Thanks

Wanda
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Wallpaper and TSK

Glad you like it. Here's the wallpaper and TSK.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
Marfanuk, for the background is it possible to make it a little darker like the one you did for Diamond 1.2 Burnt Orange? It would be great as I love the Diamond 1.2 Burnt Orange color saturation because the one for Gsmart Burnt Orange contrast is rather bright for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fuller45:
how do i go about making this my 2.1 screen? i copied the spb mobiel shell files into the mobile shell folder and overwrote them all but i cant figure out how to make it my main theme...sry kinda new to spb mobile shell, thanks much
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kevystyles:
Have you soft resetted your phone yet?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
ill take a look today...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
this theme used up all of my now screen mem..maybe i did something wrong..but it wouldnt work on the landscape view..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
Ive done it take a look

Download
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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Hircine:
Nice theme, a mellow blue version of it would be awesome :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
Marfanuk, Great!!! Your Gsmart theme is to my liking and I love it.

Thank you very much.

I've replaced the analog clock (pleasant to my eyes) with the one that I preferred and very happy with it now.

Appreciate the time taken to entertain my request......8)))))
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
nice combination!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lunarken:
how do u really make that 3 icons backgrd transparent? n change the wallpaper?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kytto:
is it possible to replace speed dial page with spb contacts??

thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Sorry to bump but someone could help me for my skin problems ?

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
Already done Here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
salut petit nouveau :D

je veille au grain t'inquiète pas LOL ,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Hircine:
Mais il est partout ce psy ! :D

Marfanuk, I spoke about a G-smart Mellow Blue version, not the Diamond one :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
Ok, I will have a look soon.

Download

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ameet:
one reason why i uninstalled mobile shell was that whenever i pressed the red button, the screen goes back to the default today screen.. any workaround to making the mobile shell screen stick on the device? anyone facing the same problem as me?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
spbwatcher

Search for a program called spbwatcher.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marfanuk:
Heres the app you need - works great. just make sure its ticked in your today settings
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brianlau:
I have been having the same issue. Not sure how to resolve.... The only way I can get my phone to really "function" again is by soft resetting. Anyone have a work around for this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeennijhof:
Same here.. a shame, love this theme....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I like SPBWatcher! This makes SPB Mobile Shell perfect! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Hi, which file does contain the translucent icons? Can i somehow add these pogramicons to the burnt orange Theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
You should be able to. I'm at twork right now and don't have any files here. I'll try to get back to you tonight.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
WHITE practical diamond there with 4 FOUR contact pages under ONE tab

Hi all

here is my adjustments to Greatbal theme & some work from few other authors

i worked for couple of hours on graphics & xml & dat files

but the main bulk come from others .. my work was tewaking things to my liking

this is the white diamond theme, "practical" (see my posts) with 3 tabs only. the clock on the main screen takes you to calender where the alarm is moved to bottom. The launcher screen has 6 icons + light&profile&weather

The NEW thing is the contacts, now the tab has 4 more pages each is 12 contacts..this is from a russian developer originaly, but i fixed it to work for diamond & fixed the landscape

the white background squares change color with theme color

all work in landscape & protrait

please check & let me know what u think...i like feedback to improve

enjoy