yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
That is how the theme is. He placed the volume icon there for it to look like the diamond and you have to follow the directions to replace the profiles.dat file for spb phone suite users. you have to replace the profiles.dat file in the option files folder and place in the spb phone suite folder in your phone. This is if you have spb phone suite.

as for the mru, its another feature of that theme. the mru is placed there to be used as a start button, following the instructions posted by jeffery2000. follow this instructions:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2463262&highlight=start+button#post2463262
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
OK big problem

Using the new Greatbal Diamond V2.1

When i click on Main and it changes to contacts and programs. When i press a button it clicks 2 buttons over!!!! The lining up is all messed up. Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
That is a problem with Mobile Shell v2.1.1, they changed something in the newest version and we are still trying to figure it out.

Read my rant here and vote.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
Crud ok thanks. I guess I am going to reinstall the old 2.1 then.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] loftysnake:
MRU as the 9th icon

I've been going through the thread for two weeks. It seems that there was no mentioning about MRU as the 9th icon inside the launcher. The MRU is ususally be one of the main tabs similar to Home or Contact. Appreciate if someone can help providing me the way (if any) of putting the MRU as one of the icons inside the launcher.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
simple background

anyone know if a simple background can be colored? or does it have to be a black and white index.bmp?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phillyg8r:
Emulator???

I know I cam across this in the middle of this thread somewhere and at that point I didn't think I would be doing my own skinning! However boy do things change! Can someone who knows where it is please point me in the right direction. I am aweful tired of Soft-rests everytime I change something thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
The emmulator is from microsoft and can be downloaded from their website.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
it looks pretty awesome thus far!

keep us updated..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
in refrence to my earlier post..about the themes working fine

i did a soft reset this morning and that was it.. landscape no longer works and my theme looks like crap.

thank u m.s. for making an update blows sheep!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaidnoire:
Tried it and failed miseably

I've followed the directions (spb beginner's guide, etc) for changing the background over and over and all I accomplish is making my Wing unusable. I'm feeling pretty bummed about it b/c usually I'm not that inept.

Anyway could someone PLEASE make this a background for me?

I'd really appreciate it....Thanks in advance...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Good find. I just installed trial on my phone and looked at the files. Has a lot of similarities to Mobile Shell and a lot of potential, and they even WANT people to skin it! I think I'll have a go at skinning it when I get familliar with using it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Here you go.

However, various theme using diff names for the settings.

My theme is using Separator.bmp(most theme uses Separator2.bmp) for the background. So all you have to do is change the Separator.bmp to whatever the name you use for your background.

Good luck.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
yes there is still no real good iphone skin here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
cool - mtkates - keep us informed of your developments on vito , pm me if u need :rolleyes: anything :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phillyg8r:
thanks

Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phillyg8r:
Question

I am working on a skin for myself, that I will share However I have run into a road block, on my now screen and other I would like the BIG speaker profile icon to show up and all I have is the small one to use. Not sure where to find this or where to put it into the file structure itself.

If someone can help me I would appreciate it thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oscarbum:
Kudos to All

I gotta tell you, I'm addicted to seeing what you guys come up with tweaking these themes. I've test most of them, which might explain my current problem.

No matter what theme I load, the Games icon is gone. Any idea why? Wasn't a problem before.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Daremo_23:
i would love to see the iphone the worked out. thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaidnoire:
ty! i'll let u know when i get it to work!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Legolus:
i liked it too!

I like this too and would be glad to switch!

Legolus
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tpeazy:
I hope we don't have to switch to another program, when skinning MS has been so successful.

Tp
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I'm sure we can still skin the new version because some skins still work fine, but I think we will be more limited in what we can do and may end up with bugs on some phones where others work fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gula187:
anyone know where i can find some vista icons i saw some in a thread but i cant find it now...can someone help me out
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
BIG speaker icons

I have this big speaker icon, however, there is another one with big speaker.

Not sure if this is the one you are looking for, if not, I have the other one as well.

you replace this file with the one you have under qa_menu_btn.dat
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Vista icons

is this what you are looking for?

Just look for user 420Mac and find his posts, you will find the icons
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaidnoire:
file gone...

Taninpv - I wasn't able to grab the background you made for me immediately and now it seems to be gone from the post - could you please repost it? ( had to re-install MS and it took me a while to get the layout back to the way I had it..)

Thanks in advance...

Or if anyone else could give it a try, I'd appreciate it..... (orig post with files on pg 395)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
i agree.. i just threw on ifonz for the day..and if my Tilt could speak it'd be cursing me out right about now!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
See my result.

Just go back to my previous post. I re-posted the zip file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stevebrooks:
SPB Mobile Shell Advance Configuration Utility

Just a suggestion for this thread.. Does anyone think it may be possible to create an application to be able to configure the wallpapers, icons, bottom bar, placement of icons..etc? For all of the developers spending soooo much time on the skins here, I think the time could better spent creating an application which allows everyone to be able to configure the themes the way they want.

Thoughts?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stevebrooks:
SPB Mobile Shell Advance Configuration Utility

BTW.. I also wanted to say thanks to everyone who is working on these themes. You've MADE spb mobile shell! - So much better than it was because frankly, the original theme didn't do it for me at all and I didn't even use it until I started seeing the themes here. Thanks guys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
white practical diamond with 1 contact page

Hey Matt

I haven't used the white themes recently, and you were right ...both have sub-contacts & do not cycle through tabs

I found an older one that has 3 tabs, one of them is contacts (1 page only), and it cycles through all 3 tabs

I think thats what you needed ... the black clock & tab icons are little different...but should work the way you want

hope you like it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phillyg8r:
Speaker Icon

I think this is the one I am after! Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cyberchucky:
HTC Touch Diamond

I am running SPB Suite 2.1 on my HTC Touch Diamond.

I learned, that all these posted themes doesn't help me ... I need this on VGA (I found one theme converted to VGA - but the quality isn't great).

Where can I find more themes/skins for my Diamond/VGA ???

Thanks for your help!

Cyberchuck
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Tab Icons that were requested.

Here are the icons from this

... and the translucent clock from mtkates
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gofawkurself:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=412052
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phillyg8r:
My Florida Gator Theme

Check it out. IF someone want me to share I will....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tpeazy:
Hey Philly, I think that Florida theme looks great, really I do. But can someone please make one for the boys from Southern Cal? I would love that!

Here are a few logos that can be used.

Hopefully a theme with multiple contact page, like rodmod or something.

Thanks in advance,

Tp
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaidnoire:
Thank you so much!!!! It came out great! It lines up perfectly with the mytego skin...

Would you mind telling me by PM step by step how you did it? MS would be perfect for me if I could just master this....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drb123:
Is there an English version of this theme by Behome?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drb123:
I'm really looking forward to this project when finished; nice job!

It seems like a few themes have gotten bogged down....maybe it's the beautiful summer weather ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] speedbird787:
Good work Taninpv, I'm actually sick of same diamond style themes (although greatbal is GOOD !!) but it's time to move on .. think about something creative. like this one. or Ferrari theme by NiteStalker. That was creative. ;)

hope to see some new ones and was just wondering if there are any other themes available by NiteStalker. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
My Setup (includes landscape)

This is the fiished skin to the one i had started. i started off with greatbal's v2.0 diamond theme and adjusted it to my liking. now screen includes a feel of wm7 from mkates and helu theme.

apart from the changes visible from the images below, features include:

1. status icons accessible from now, launcher or contacts screen. (did away with two main screens to only have one main theme to include all tabs*. launcher screen is accessible by clicking on start-Portait Only!)

2. glossy program icons and added mrus on now screen.

3. moved the round circle in status icons more center.

New changes include:

1. Landscape support

2. Different color status icons

3. Different Backgrounds

4. Total of 3 contact pages

5. Minor changes and fixes.

thanks to the following people

weather thanks to beyondinvisible

analog clock thanks to luigi and heefy from there helu wm7 theme

status icons and glossy program icons thanks to greatbal

tweaks and help thanks to gagaza and luigi

and thanks to kangmas for the now screen tweak

* one thing that may be a bother to you. to make all the tabs and status icons work, i had to do a little cheating. since bound areas are rectangle and cant be angled, at least not that i know of, i had to split the clickable area for the bottom tabs and status icons. pics are 40 pixels high so top 20 pixels are clickable for the status icons and bottom 20 for the tabs. i have been using this way for almost a week and really has not bothered me at all. i use my finger to click and works almost perfect. (this is one thing im planning on changing but i like having access to status icons in all tabs.)

Zip file includes the default files and optional backgrounds and optional status icon colors.

1. Copy default files first.

2. If you want a different background, choos the background you want from the optional files folder. Not all backgrounds support landscape. More will be added later.

3. If you want different color status icons, select the color you want from the folder in optional files folder.

A few examples of the different backgrounds. Other backgrounds include Green Leaf (Portrait only), WM7, Daisy (portrait only.)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Moe5508:
Great work Kulet! I've created a cab file of only the MS files (excludes S2U2 and Today files)...

SPB Mobile Shell v2.1 theme (Calm)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
Well, Ive been waiting for a day and a half for the upload side of the foum to be working, so I've been improving the theme I like. It took a few minutes to learn the format and coding of the xml's, and now that I learned how to package the files so they actually work I have made alot of progress.

I will be posting if the file servers ever come back up.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Moe5508:
P1Tater has a 4Share account that we can upload stuff to and alltheway too - these are awesome guys who've always been only too happy to provide mirrors for ROMs and other stuff like that. I unfortunately have only a Rapidshare account that I can upload to but I know MediaShare allows you to upload stuff for free and its a good service...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
way to go NiteStalker. waiting to see your work here soon.

ps: yeah the upload aint working....mods! wats' happening...hehe

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brock1909:
this is my Now screen plus other screens. i would like to have the new features included(the voicemail icon and the top bar). also, can we integrate SPB Diary into the now screen??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joshkiddy:
Hey kulet,

Lovely new theme, seeing as its built on a whole new concept it already feels like its going to take a little getting used to.

When i lock my device it goes to the middle tab, showing the last page of that tab i was on. Is there anyway to ensure this goes to the "time" screen, so i can see if i've received any messages still whilst my device is locked?

Also, i think it's surprisingly easy to get lost despite the small number of pages. I therefore think it might be worthwhile implementing a more descriptive navigation system, especially as the design may expand to more pages in the future as people come up with new ideas and breakthroughs. I was thinking it might be best if you had a page indicator (2 or 3 dots) above each tab (or integrated into?) so that you can always see which page will come up when you click the tab?

Also, a personal preference of mine but i'll throw it out there. The calender page... surely there's no need for all the icon repeat icons from the time page?

Now, jumping the gun a bit but I'd like to mix things up (despite being confident its very much not possible at the moment). What if you could add a 'slide up' gesture to quit MS2, and change the 'slide down' gesture bring up your taskbar (3 icons, programs + clock + contacts) as your finger reaches the bottom of the screen. Then you can select which category to go into. Once in a category you could then have the relevant tabs with the usual appearance.

Sorry for leaping ahead but your new features have got me thinking.

You're definitely leading the revolution at the moment! Any more themes coming from your way soon? I was a big fan of the bold shapes and colours in your original themes ;)

Joshy x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
non-working link in Kulet theme

Hey kulet,

thanks for the new theme

i like the way it works, but under "customize menu" it will not open the link to mobile shell screen..

maybe the xml file need the link fixed

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] coolguy:
+1 about PhoneAlarm integration w/ Now screen, that would Rock!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bchandler78:
Manila

Can't believe we haven't seen a Manila type theme yet for mobile shell 2 yet? Anyone thinking about it???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pokey:
This is a really nice theme! My only gripe is that I use SpbWatcher & that always seems to jump to the first page - so I get the launcher page by default, when I want the "now" page. I don't know how that could be changed, so could you do a version of the theme with the "Now" & launcher order switched? (or explain to me how to do it myself)

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stigdu:
Sorry if this is a daft question, but how do you switch pages? I can see there are 2 dots above the lower menu, (and 3 on the contacts page) but clicking on them doesn't switch between pages 1 and 2....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DarkWader:
Hehe, havent you used the gestures yet? :p

Try sweeping your finger sideways on the screen, if you have a touchscreen that is.

If not, press one of the softmenus.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CommZ:
Sorry, but for me this is step back. I love stylus gestures and this almost eliminates them.

I wonder if it was possible to remove the tab buttons completely thus saving a lot of space?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kulet78:
Customize Menu not working is not due to my theme. Please check your registry and make sure you have everything correct. What I did after installing 2.1 to restore 9 menu icons was to just create a new key called "Games" then copy all the contents of My Menu key to it. Then I just changed the Image (dword) value to 8 and Text (string) value to Games (or whatever title you want).

Hope this helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] neonstorm:
Yes it is, and when you do it is a HUGE improvement IMO. Here is a new layout I'm almost finished with. I'm just tweaking a couple small issues.

Note the notifications, profiles, etc stay pinned on every screen. I also kept the battery and signal too. This required resizing many of the elements but it was worth it. :) (Credit goes to aaron1124 at spbclub.com for the original bottom tab replacement)

kulet78,

Perhaps you could work this into your awesome layout? Your idea with the indicator dots is brilliant! Maybe you could work the current tab indicator into them somehow, and lose the bottom bar entirely. Just a thought...

Ryan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ^^rac:
WM 7!

Who is gonna attempt a nice simple Windows Mobile 7 theme, in a nice blue for us?

You creators are awesome with your graphics!!

Guys! Thanks for all your hard work! The community appreciates it:)

Im interested to see what will happen in this thread in days to come!

Later!

^^r
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stigdu:
Fantastic, thanks. How cool is that?! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Zenoran:
no one knows of a simple theme mod to do this? dont tell me im going to have to dig into this and figure it out on my own! lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
Its already been done by several people, but go ahead and dig in.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Zenoran:
I've been poking around the threads here and sbpclub but haven't seen an updated mod to do this... have any link references? :)

thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Glassy GSmart (VoiceMail Fix below)

EDIT: Voice Mail Icon fixed, see link: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2190062&postcount=407

The GSmart Theme with nicer "glassy" buttons:

Note: All layouts are based on my original GSmart Theme. For modifications made by other members, you have to refer to the individual posts.

Original Green:

Also available in Blue:

And in Pitch Black:

Enjoy! :)

Download:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
I only include files that have been edited, you import them in to your mobileshell directory, where the ones I dont provide should already be installed, which should be the original 2.1 installation. Unless there are major edits, most others themes shoud be relatively the same, but if you like to try each theme, it is recommended you restore your directory to the 2.1 default between themes/skins.

However, going from one of my themes to another of mine, should be fine, since I am maintaining a similar file tree for each one I release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
WinZip or WinRaR. Go to the .dats properties and change "Opens with...." to WinZip or WinRaR. What I normally do is change its name after the "." from ".dat" to ".zip" then extract it. I also view the xml files with Notepad. (Password for the .dat turned .zip is - b0fm18zq) Not sure if this is what you were asking for but figured this would be somewhat helpful...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
Dear gratebal

Your Glassy GSmart Skin are very nice. Thank you very much for your hard work. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
No prob. Maybe you could modify the qa_layouts.dat to include the top bar on all of the pages just like you did before. Sorry, I'm too lazy to do that. hehe :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
wow.. just finished convert your first Gsmart themes for square screen.. and voila, another update.. hehe.. I'll convert it again..

I like your skin very much.. keep up the great job!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Sorry to keeping you busy. hehe :p

But seriously, converting these themes to accomodate devices with square screens surely is a big help! I'm sure some users would appreciate your hard work. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JokeZony0u:
i think everyone here appreciates all the help and all the great looking themes you all have contributed your time to make. Thanks everyone!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dash7869:
great job all of you talented people here! :)

alas i can only drool..

installed a couple of cab files here but my screen goes blank.. maybe i cant use for my i780

but nonetheless, really amazing graphics!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
Truly amazing work! Bravo!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
Robodad,

Layout 14 is the one missing mru. I noticed the xml file is included.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nado_man:
OMG, that's awesome! I'd love to have that for my 750...Can you upload the square version, please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nado_man:
OMG, that's awesome! I'd love to have that for my 750...Can you upload please??? Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 619Ainokea:
I have the blue background, but where can i DL this version? thx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikkelnl:
Hi!

The signal/data icon seems to be the 'default' one on my device when using your awesome theme... Any idea how to solve this? :)

/edit:

It shows the wrong signal icon when connected to gprs. While connected via activesyncs, it shows the icon on your screenshots.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I get G, 3G and H on my device, whatever is available. I'm using the default SPB operator status bitmap, i just changed the signal strength protion.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
Thanks! I fixed the file and replaced it in the original post, but I'm also attaching it here for anyone who needs it:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jem30:
Fantastic!!! Any chance of lanscape mode?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DarkWader:
I second that !