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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gman8966:
This theme looks sick! Can't wait to try it out!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Needs help combining Spb phone suite and mobile shell

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could help me out.

I am trying to incorporate the Blue Icon(next to speaker icon) -(Wi-Fi/Flight Mode/Bluetooth) .

The Blue Icon to locate right in the middle between the Weather icon and Speaker icon (see second pic)

I was searching for code on LockScreen2.xml , and SpbMenu.xml to find ways to modify, but could not come up with a solution. Any help would appreciate very much.

After I posted this here I realized that I am in the wrong Thread, so I hope this Thread will be the right choice.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bapssystupr3m3:
i'm not sure if its been done but u can search the thread..it has been posted before...its incorporating spb phone suite to the now screen of ms2.0

i think its in the 2.0 thread not the 2.1 thread
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] martinabooker:
That couldn't be better actually as I meant to ask for a way of getting rid of the mru and contacts screens. This theme is now perfect for me! Many thanks Paul :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
Little_Tiger

I have change background image in your file qp_bkg_now already.

Sample screen (GSmart_MS2.1 Skin)

You must save Separator.bmp, Separator1.bmp, Separator2.bmp as .bmp (In Advance Modes select R5 G6 B5)

Download and Unzip Attach file you will see qp_bkg_now.dat just copy to \Program Files\Spb Mobile Shell and then Soft Reset.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deedee:
i get this at irregular intervals and a soft reset fixes it more often than not.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Little_Tiger:
ok, now I kinda understood my errors...but how do you save the bmp in the correct forums.. (the mask and the wallpaper itself)..what program do you used???

and thanks A LOT!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] legedug:
Go to MS (I use 2.1) "Menu" "Settings" "Spb Mobile Shell" and click "Tabs"

Add SPB Phone Suite as a Tabs (and also its icon).

You can also add SPB Backup as a tab in there.

The setting also can be done via "Start" "Setting" "System" and "Spb Mobile Shell".

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jem30:
Hi - Greatbal with the GSmast theme - I love this - but would REALLY like to see landscape version. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Check out the Windows Field Revisited and the Ultimate WM7 skins in my signature. They are works in progress, but have 240x240 versions and also VGA versions for the Diamond and other VGA devices, plus other resolutions are also available. The VGA for the WM7 still needs some work, but the Windows Field works well on my Diamond.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Desmowiecki:
Hello.

I have Toshiba G9oo.

Where i can find Mobile Shell themes for WVGA?

Some links please ;p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Anyone thinks it's worth trying!!!

Please give me ur opinions here:

FEEL THE XPERIA
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Va_hustler:
how do u install the themes i got spb mobile shell but i can only use the default color themes not the diamonds i downloaded
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dekikaa:
Thank you!

Wooow, Great!

Thank you so much mtkates!

They both work well on my iPaq hw6915. :)

Great improvement wit many new screens...

Thank you,

dekikaa
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
No one can help me please :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
Release 3.1.1

This upgrade doesn't introduces new enhancements respect to the 3.1, but:

- extends the layout for the SQUARE 240x240 and 320x320 resolutions

- corrects some translation errors

- simplifies the layout option choose, removing the not selectable items
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] edufur:
is it me or is there anyone else out there who thinks this thread is too difficult to use if you are trying to find a good skin fast.

goto www.cookedpda.com and post your work for mobile shell skins. there is a forum dedicated to it. so each skin can have its own thread. it needs a moderator too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Va_hustler:
how do u install skins that you downloaded
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aegidios2:
Bind S2U2 With a button ???

Hi, is it possible to bind S2U2 with the close button of the mobile shell bar ?

If yes how ?

Thanks a lot..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] edufur:
just read up. they are all the same. copy the main contents of the skin into the program files/mobile shell directory of your PDA.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] edufur:
Im not sure I know what you are asking. Why would you just want to go back to that screen? It will go to that screen after you power off and back on. are you suggesting that you want it to become your "now" or "today" screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] holdemdogg:
black tread plate
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I have time tonight to play with my hobby. I will work on a layout for you.

I have some ideas that I think you will like.

Tpeazy, thank you for the compliment.

The qa_layout.dat posted on post# 4935 will work for the Sunset layout, to give you 3 contact pages.

Tonight I will work on a layout for LMQT, I will do a Sunset version. If you want to wait, I should post later tonight. Tomorrow at the latest. I only have until noon.

Depending on if I have time after I do the layouts above, I will see what I can do.

Have you tried requesting a layout for the theme changer that uses the qp_dclock_modern.dat. clocks as the main clock.

Maybe suggest to Mikibest that it would be a great way to expand the number of options for clocks?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Here's stuff that I did today for the purpose of sharing.

I'd like to thank and credit all the contributers whos work I used and/or altered to integrate into these layouts.

I made colored icons to match each background. These look alot better on my phone than online.

This has Now, MRU, Launcher, Weather, and 3 Contact pages. Portrait and landscape modes.

For qvga screens.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Here's the other one. I had to use a different post.

@ Madremiha, I barely had time to look at the chrome clock. My mind is pretty tired right now.

I managed to edit the index and change some .dat files.

Good news is I got it to work. I put it in a theme that called for the qa dclock

and it showed properly. All that changed was the chrome directly replaced the flip clock. The bad news is that I mesed up/lost the file.

I am puzzled and tired. 12 hours of modding wore me out. I can't remember which edit worked. I had to try so many.

Anyway I'm out of time and patience for now. I might try again when I get the chance. For anyone that wants to help, the main thing that I worked around is that the image and the mask seem to work in opposite for the qa dclock and qa dclock modern.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
Added clock discount packages:

http://www.imarche.net/omnia/packages.php
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aegidios2:
S2U2 With close button

Thanks for your response, but in fact i've a little problem with S2U2, when i power on , unlock, power off and again power on i see mobile shell ,on screen before S2U2 appear (and i've experiency problem when i receive a call :in the little time before S2U2 locking I may press the hardware answer button), i've tried all registry tweak in s2u2 but nothing, the solution for me is to bind S2U2 with the bottom right cross button of mobile shell and so when i want to power off with locking my device i only have to press that button and wait few seconds

thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Thanks for your patience Phonatic, i'm sad you can't do it properly but i know it tired works (mentally) but if Mikibest would help me ...(i think he can...)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JMHL:
JML skin VGA-Portrait

Adapted for my use:

- Based on efbiayes skin (and other…)

- Delete Kalendar page

- Delete Time/Alarms... page

- Only SMS and Telephon notifications

- Contact page modified

- Weather page modified

See my website : http://www.jmlacou.com/wpJML/?p=10#more-10

Excuse for my poor english !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dweeb:
super mario theme???

just wondering if anyone was up to the challenge or task of making a cool super mario theme,just wondering,i would highly appreciate that..i love mario:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] masChmagic:
I need some expert help here. As before, I mentioned I couldnt get the clock to display or edit any bmp file and get it to display. If I simply replace the bmp with something else found on this thread, it will work. But if I crop the bmp, change its color, and reload it back into the .dat, it wont display.

Previously I thought it could be because I couldnt save in the correct 16bit bmp, but I have downloaded GIMP, and set it to save as 16 bit bmp, and still the images wont come out.

Here is a link to the whole skin, with the analog clock not displaying.

http://www.nusantech.com/FileUpload/DoesntWork.zip

Please someone have a look at it, and if possible put the clock I wanted in, and most importantly, tell me what I did wrong and what should I do instead.

Thanks very much!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LMQT:
Thanks, this one is really near what i want to :)

Except for greenish icons that I don't love at all :(

I prefer those from Rusty, or even the HTC ones (white icons, the lower status icons)

But placing of icons and functions is perfect for me, don't change anything :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nikko-x:
help, question and lost

i cant really read through each page on the forum..

hope theres a link about what is in which page at the first page of each topic??

Mobile Shell v2.1 on my Htc Polaris/touch cruise, is it possible to change the unlock key just like the iPhone? like. " Slide to right " to unlock?

something like that..

i saw something like S2U2, theres the slide thing, is it working on ms2.1?

and is it working on htc polaris? if not then..

any idea? or any thing outthere have such function?

:confused::confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kadooosh:
I've been using SPB Mobile Shell SKINS with Kyro deepblue and I really like it but I was wondering if I can have the weather icon in the start tab next to the clock.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Srem:
i would love to use this. looks clean and simple
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kadooosh:
To bad it uses 16(!!!!)mb ram :eek::eek:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tarheel:
Trying to use it but will not work on my Titan. Keep getting error message on soft reset all of them are doing same thing sunset and rusty Even load clean version of Mobile shell. Have been using Nitestalkers carbon theme but wont something a little different.

PS ever made one with a college them say maybe Tarheels
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kadooosh:
Would it be possible to display a appointment in the blue version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] canecbr600:
This one is almost perfect for me! How do I get rid of the second, and 3rd contact pages, and have it roll bact to the now screen when u slide the page with ur finger! Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!! Great work by the way!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aegidios2:
Pleaaase....

No solution ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] devdarshan:
where can i find this theme !!! please if you have the link?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] matisamd:
Excellent Stuff!

just thinking any way to intergrate audio player like in the htc home plugin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Here you go I hope this is what you want.

I also changed the mru backgrounds to match.

Credits go to Greatbal and many others.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LMQT:
Arrgg no.

Sorry for my bad english, I was unable to make me understood well :(

I was speaking about the 5 lower icons (the name is "tab" perhaps ?). I prefer far away those from HTC theme you used before this version. They are visible on your previous version :

And if it is possible to have white digital clock also please, it will be perfect for me :D

Anyway, thanks a lot for the launcher icons and MRU icon : I think that they are better in white glossy effect like that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
OMG! it was ages ago that I did this theme and used it!! I don't use Mobile Shell these days as I'm far to busy playing about with Manilla 2D, on top of that I will be soon upgrading to Touch HD so agin my time will be focused on that!!

going back to your question it can be done but as I'm busy with other projects and don't even have spb mobile shell installed on my phone anymore it be would wrong of me to promise you to fix it and then not deliver!! so I suggest if you can ask someone in this thread who will be kind enough to modify this for you!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] a1jatt:
Most of the skins available disable some very good features of mobileshell i.e. ability to change skin colors, home screen, consistency between screen such as border lines etc. So i decided to modify original skin without disabling any features of spb mobile shell.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Here you go, again. Just as you described.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maver:
Fiel Final

This version of field final is for QVGA, it´s possible have it for VGA Diamond?

Regards

Rui Silva
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] masChmagic:
Anyone got any idea why the analog clock wont display after I have changed the image? Has this been answered before?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
You may want to check your image settings. I have not used GIMP, but in other image programs you have to save as an advanced setting and choose 16 bit R5 G6 B5. A regular 16 bit setting will not work. I can give you an example of Photoshop Elements that I use. I select "Save As" and select .bmp and a dialog box comes up to select 8 bit, 16 bit, etc, and at the bottom of the dialog box is an "Advanced Setting" button. If I click on that, I can select 16 bit R5 G6 R5 bmp and it saves in the proper format for Mobile Shell.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Look inside your qa_clock_now.dat files you are missing the clock.bmp file you only have the clock_m.bmp file. Plus the format does seem to be wrong. I am not sure what format the clock should be saved in. It does not seem like it is the same as the background images, i may be wrong though.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Sorry no, I don't have a VGA device to work on. Please try the version from mtkates. He has it for VGA and his work is outstanding and great. Click on the link in his signature.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LMQT:
Wonderfull, all is perfect for me. It's the best of "Windows-fields" theme now !

Thank you very much for your work :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LMQT:
Here is the result for those who could be interrested :

NB : it seems to be blurred but it is due to image compression, it's Ok on the PPC ;)

Link to Phonatic file => http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=127013&d=1225736386
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
You are welcome. Thank you for the appreciation.

Yes it seems that all of themes themes look much better on the phone than the screenshots that are posted.

You can edit the main.xml. It's not really all that simple. If you post the the files or give a link to where you got it, maybe someone will edit it for you.

Edit: Okay, I am taking a stab in the dark. Looking at the pics that you posted, I decided to post this for you.

You will need to back-up your qa_layouts.dat file that is located in your SPB folder.

Replace it with the file that I attached here. You must change the name of the attached file to qa_layouts.dat by simply removing the .zip extension.

Reset and let me know the results.

Please share the files for that theme for others to use and for me to look at.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
clock

your clock won't display because it needs to be saved in INDEX mode... I'm not sure how to do this with GIMP, but I should be able to fix it. Upload the .dat with the original clock_m.bmp in it. The one in your zip file is too grainy.

Edit: That was your problem. Also you've got the wrong hands for the clock. This is one hell of a franken-theme my friend :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jtcrusader:
Keith...do you have a background for the Now page that includes a couple of appointments. That is an awesome theme you got.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
I am not sure what you are asking for. Are you asking if the appoinments can be place on this theme below or if this background below can be placed on another theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jtcrusader:
Sorry...I was talking about the main "mixed theme"...not the squares. I sent you a PM. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] holdemdogg:
dialer to match fields
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deisel:
is there a gold theme or the bling bling theme for the spb mobile shell i want to upgrad to manilla 2 d just for that theme but dunno how to do it ima noob so iffy on the whole upgrading stuff but anyway is there a bling bling fotr moboile shell?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
This is the best I can do. We need to ask the pros how to get this down to one clock I can't figure it out. However you can swipe from one page to the next if you swipe in the tab area. Try it and see what you think.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
what are you trying to do? I would like to help!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] masChmagic:
Wow! I think you did it. I used gimp to save it into greyscale and sometimes Indexed, and now I can get it to display! Thanks for pointing me the right way.. The results are attached below.

I have one last question though if you dont mind. Is the background image located in qa_bkg_now ? I tried finding it in there but the image I found in background.bmp and background_m.bmp is so different than the one in the image attached below. You can have access to the qa_bkg_now in the zip file as before.

I think the background is in that qa_bkg_now file because I remember once, I replaced it with something else and the background disappeared. But I cant find the correct image to edit it myself. I want to get rid of the horizontal lines at the top that goes under the analog clock, weather and profile.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Trying to only have the one digital clock on this theme no anaolg clock, fix the gestures where is cycles properly right now it goes from digital clock to analog clock and then back to digital clock, does not make it to the other pages. Also if you do fix it can you tell me where the change was made for future reference. Thank you

Keith
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
Background

Okay lemme see if I can put this into words. The files that control the backgorund, in this theme anyways, every one is different, is called Separator2.bmp. It's located in qp_bkg_now.dat, for portrait, and ql_bkg_now.dat for landscape. This one is a little tricky, cause it's a color-changer. You'll notice that this file is in index mode, and the mask file, Separator2_m.bmp, has a black dot in the middle of it. These two features let the "desktop color", for lack of a better term, shine through. If you want to just remove the bar at the top, without changing anything else, open Separator2.bmp in your editor of choice, remove the bar, and save as an index. If you'd like to change the background to some other image, you have to do two things. 1) Open the Separator2_m.bmp file and make it all white, saving it in index mode. 2) Open Separator2.bmp, first changing it to RGB mode, paste your image, then save as 16bit, R5 G6 B5 bmp file. Then you can load them up into the dat file and onto your ppc. If you use landscape, you'll want to follow the same steps, but using files from ql_bkg_now.dat. Whew, I hope that helps. The attached .jpeg has the topbar removed. Happy skinning!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
This one is a simple solution, although it took me a good fifteen minutes to realize it! Okay, here goes:

The file "Main.xml", in qa_layouts.dat, is the "guide" that directs the shell pages, and the gestures. This file names the tabs, and tells the program what tab to jump to upon gesture. The main.xml had a page called "Home" listed as the first tab. The "Home.xml" file, is just an endless loop of the two clock pages. I changed this first tab to be the digital lockscreen file, and voila, problem solved. Here is how it appears and what you need to edit, in Main.xml, inside qa_layouts.dat.

<Layout Name="Default">
<Plugins>
<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Form" Name="Subform">
<Int Name="IsTop" Value="1"/>
<Int Name="IsBottom" Value="1"/>
<Int Name="IsLeft" Value="1"/>
<Int Name="IsRight" Value="1"/>
</Plugin>
<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Rect" Name="Line1">
<Color Name="LineColor" Value="FFFFFF"/>
<Int Name="LineOpacity" Value="255"/>
</Plugin>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.SimpleBackgrd" Name="TabBackgrd">
<Color Name="BackgrdColor" Value="7D6B00"/>
<String Name="ImageName" Value="Tabs"/>
</Plugin>
<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Tab" Name="Tab1" ID="0">
<String Name="Form" Value="Subform"/>
<String Name="Dialog" Value="[B][SIZE="4"]LockScreen_Digital[/SIZE][/B]"/>
<Int Name="IsDefault" Value="1"/>
<Int Name="Image" Value="2"/>
</Plugin>
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jtcrusader:
Thanks...that was an issue I was having, too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Thanks for the insight. I am learning to mod these xml files, they can be tricky sometimes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] witchdoctor:
Gators Yes Please!

I would love to have this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PeacefulWarrior:
PW Project

This is my Theme "PW Project". Started out from Nigthwalkers theme.

I was aiming for a theme focus on project management. I wanted to have a link placed in the calender tab (the tab would have a checkbox icon instead of calender) pointed to a listpro file named project.clf. And maybe some other taskrelated links there, like Notes. And datums with event would be underlined or different color. Also the background picture isn't visible in the Analog Now screen, and subfolders. I didn't have the program skills to make this all come true (would be nice if someone could help). Feel free to modify.

The skyline color of the background picture is affected by the basehue color you choose.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Corrected layout digital clock only

Thank you mtstmp for helping with xml.

Keith
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dede14:
nice ...

Thanks..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jtcrusader:
Very nice...simple and functional. For the .cab file...do I just download it into my phone, open it, and let Spb MS do the rest?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluegreenwhite:
hi greatbal, can you help make one for WQVGA i.e Omnia (aside from Omnia Theme?). Sorry if there were posts made about WQVGA - i haven't gone through the posts. Salamat...

Excellent work!