yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Hi kangmas, is it not possible instead of writing in hard the city name to extract the one you have selected with MS2.1 ?

On the original is it MRU or selected launch ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
1) For city name, you need to edit the qa_layout.dat. Its at lockscreen. Try it , or I can edit it for you, no problem. Just tell me want you want to put.

2) The MRU is the same as Ldostang. I just add one more and shift the positions, and also the position of the profile to make way for the city and town name. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Ok thanks for your answer but my initial question was to know if it's possible to change automatically the country/city name when you choose a new one from the weather ?

Sorry for my English, hope my question is good :P
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
you speak good english lol ( quand tu auras fini avec ce theme n'hesite pas a le poster dans la collection mon ami) lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
Looks good. No reason i should mind, I borrowed my ideas from others too. I already made a few changes to the original layout i made. mainly cosmetic and a few fixes. but i like ur idea of the mru's and profile below the clock and adding the city name. i probably will implement that. i also made three contact pages and already started working on landscape. hopefully i can have it all done before friday cause the weekend and all next week will be almost impossible for me to do any major skin work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 12gage:
can anyone tell me how to put the "Backlight" lightbulb on this now screen (the one that's normally in the home tab and mru screen)? I've tried looking in the managed pinned and the backlight in it isn't the same, thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Legolus:
town(Singapore)

I Have No idea how to change the town on the weather,

can you send me a file with:

Mount Laurel

New Jersey

or Just Take it out completely
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
You should be able to get into the settings and change the city!

Mount Laurel? I visit there all the time (friends in Mullica Hill)!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lsherif:
Hi Kangmas,

Thanks for this nice one especially with the MRU`s, but can you do one with only single contact instead of 3.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lsherif:
Change City name

Syrguy,

Could you guide me also to change the city name as i could not allocate it.

thanks,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oscarbum:
A Request?

I guess first question would be if this is the right thread to make a request on a theme.

Second, I see a lot of these themes have the large weather icon and the clock on separate pages. I know nothing about making these things, but would there be any way to make them both smaller and combine the two?

Please let me know or direct me to the thread where I can make such a request. I didn't find one in my search.

Beyond that, the work being done here is incredible. I find myself changing themes every few days because there's always a great new one coming out. Thanks to everyone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Legolus:
NOOB

I am a noob, no idea how to change anything. if you lay it out and give me the password i can try.

lol,

Legolus

i figured it out.

changed to Mount Laurel, New Jersey

Thank you

see you in Mullica Hill
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
Landscape>>>>>>>>>>>

Hi

can we have this in landscape please
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davidgelb:
Hi all...

I am sorry if this has been answered and I am overlooking it, but I have searched this forum and PPCGeeks as well as google and am not coming up with anything.

I know that if I want to change a heading on the contacts screen, it must be done in the xml. Question is how do I unpack the .dat to extract the xml? I did see a post somewhere that says the .dat is password protected, but it did not say anything else about unpacking it.

I am on a MAC at work and cannot install rar, so it may be as simple as that. I just can't tell at work.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

David
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dmscherr:
whats the pass to change the city info?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Glad you got it, I was just figuring out how to word the settings for it when I saw your edit!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lsherif:
Legolus,

Could you please guide me to the way of doing it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
CHECK OUT THIS GUIDE , SHUD HELP ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Hi,

instead of a text hard coded, could it not possible to use this :

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Generic" Name="City" ID="20"/>

So if you change your city it will be automatically change on your pages ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dmscherr:
i seem to be a little confused as to what files i should edit to change the location. would anyone mind doing it for me please,

Californa

San Francisco

or telling me what files i need to edit.

thanks a lot,

great work by the way!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Thanks

Hi, thanks for all the comments. Its all the hard work of Ldostang. I just mod it. As for all request, we will wait for him to release the updated version (with landscape) before I do any new modding.

Thanks, have try that before, but I get blank home screen. Maybe it need something else. Will look more into it soon to solve all the City/town name problem.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zacksims:
HOW??

I'm sorry but i'm new at all of this and i want the calm setup...........how do i get it to work...........i've installed spb ms2.1 and the .cab file for the calm setup but it still won't work....please help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kytto:
reset ??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zacksims:
ever since i installed this none of my messaging will workj...........help please
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zacksims:
thanks i got it to work but now my messaging won't work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
/// sorry, wrong post ///
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zacksims:
Please someone help........ever since i installed the calm layout my messaging will not work..........i've tried everything.......uninstalled the calm layout, spb ms2.1 and it still will not work.........ive soft reset at least 10 times and it still will not work.......i'm wiggin out here please help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DAP420:
Has anyone thought of doing a batterystatus type theme where it shows your sytem information and such on the now screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kytto:
can someone pick this skin and finish it?

the problems i detected was ladscape mode

http://4pda.ru/forum/attach/1662760/RomMod22Black.zip
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DAP420:
i hope Mike didn't decide to leave this one alone. Still hoping for the download link!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zacksims:
please Help!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Was the really necessary?

Are you serious?

Maybe you need to give it some time. Maybe the person who has an answer for you has not been here in the last hour and a half since your first question. Maybe you should give some more info about what you are using. What phone do you have? What is calm layout? Maybe you will just be ignored because of rude posting.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zacksims:
i'm sorry i'm just new at this

the calm llayout is on post #33

ever since i've installed that i can't open up my text messages

the button on the front and when i try to open it up from my start menu it does nothing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Not sure what the problem might be. I just installed the theme to try it out and it work fine on my phone. My suggestion would be to remove the theme and mobile shell from your phone, soft reset, and see if you can use your text messages.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] StMichael1:
NOOB- plz be gentle!

I searched and read this thread for the past 3 days so if it has been discussed I totally missed it and would appreciate any direction to that thread.

I’m not computer saavy and new to Mobile Shell skinning … but I went thru the Beginners How to thread to change my background when running the older RoboDads PointUI Layout-ext_tabcal+mru. When I rezip the qp_bkgnd.dat file and replace it ends up being 900KB smaller and never runs, I just get a black screen that says “out of memory.” I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong and I’ve spent hours zipping/unzipping and reseting with no success.

Can anyone help me to replace Robodad’s PointUI background for the above layout with Greatbal’s Diamond background and make the clock a digital clock similar to Pocket Digital Clock? If you cannot change the clock, just the background will be okay and I will donate to whomever does it for me.

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
OK I admit I feel stupid for asking, but how do you set the 4 MRU's on the now screen? Clicking Manage Pinned only allows me to set 2 of the 4. And the 2 are Pocket Informant apps and show a generic looking dialog box.

Still love the skin.

PS Is there a way to tell what the number of a particular MRU image is? Never saw anything on it. And since you can't see the mru page how can you set it for a particular app?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikentucson:
actually working on a new theme.. i think i might have the theme zipped up somewhere.. the main problem with that theme was that the tab icons on the second page weren't clickable.. only way to move around after the first set of tabs was with softkeys or gestures.. i eventually gave up and started working on a new theme all together.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aznmasterpiece:
Beautiful

This is a great theme. Where did you find it? Does everything work on it besides the landscape? I don't really use landscape anyhow. When in landscape it goes straight to the calendar.

I just installed the theme. Everything works fine in portrait mode except for the Message and Missed Calls icons. Can you provide the link to the original post? Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ajk511:
go to manage pinned. scroll all the way through every menu and uncheck the programs that you dont want pinned. then you will be able to add more. basically when you click on manage pinned, its not for the icon going into that speciffic spot, its a general menu where you choose four programs to be pinned on the screen. to change the icon for the pinned item, go to spb ms settings> customize menu> find it click on it go to menu>edit> icon and pic your icon you want.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kytto:
in my ppc works fine, try to reinstall ms and than the skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Duckszone:
Where in the registry can I change the Functions which are linked with the icons?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
SPB update 2.1.1

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/?en

Post XDA

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=410598
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
I've tried different methods and havent been able to do that and i searched around and havent found anything on being able to do it.

On a side note: landscape is almost done. but i am not too happy with the now screen, that i made 3 different now screens. i will post pics of the now screens later to see what u all think.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I need your help please

I modified my RomMod22 theme, using Samurai weather panel.

The Professional screen is perfect(see pic), but the Classic today screen is all screwed up(see pic)

Professional Today screen.

Classic Today screen. I would like to have the weather icon small like the icon from Professional Today screen settting.

Weather Panel. The layout is not aligned --Telcel GSM name shouldn't be there .

otherwise, my RomMod22 theme is almost exactly how I like the today to look.

Could some pro please take a look at my layouts.dat and tell me what I did wrong or know how to fix the Classic and Weather pane layout.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
Has anyone tried pointing the weather server to another server so that weather would be more accurate? Could we point it to the server used by HTC Home? I think its accuweather's server.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
As far as I know, the server is written into the program and is not changable. I know for sure that it is not written into the skin files anywhere. SPB Weather will allow you to change servers. I have not tried it with Mobile Shell to see if/how it integrates. If you want to go that route, I would suggest searching the SPB forums.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Legolus:
no themes work

non of the themes work that i have tried, since i updated to 2.1.1.

quest they changed something. the theme shows up but the most of the buttons do nothing. reverting back to 2.1

Legolus
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tpeazy:
True, most themes I have tried no longer work also. The Rodmod22 works though. The underwater theme is all screwed up. I may have to revert back myself as I don't like being so limited.

Tp
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Legolus:
oh no!

i don't have a copy of 2.1 can you show or post a copy?

Lego
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tpeazy:
I have tried to add attachement. If this doesn't work, pm me and then I can send it that way.

Ok, so it wouldnt let me update....so anyone needing it will have to pm me. By the way, the copy I have expires after 15 days, so it is by no means warez or anyhting like that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DAP420:
Oh ok gotcha, but I hope you still have the same concept with the messaging page with the new theme. Can't wait to see your new work!.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Wake up SPB!

I think SPB needs to wake up and realize that the custom skins(that are not "officially supported" by SPB) that are found here, and other sites, has been free advertising for them and probably sent them a lot of customers.

Due to the problems people are now having with custom skins on ver 2.1.1, I have started a thread on the SPB site about skinning problems with their new and improved version 2.1.1 and have a poll to see just how many people bought Mobile Shell so they could put a custom skin on their ppc.

I think it is time for SPB to make this program user and skinner friendly. If you agree, please follow the link below, cast your vote on the pole, and leave a comment for the people who work for SPB.

You may have to register(free) to post, but it could really be worth it if we all get involved.

Thank you!

http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18485
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theme freak:
I really agree with you mtkates :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aceracer24:
Just did the same thing
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
I am eagerly awaiting the release of mikentucson theme. I truely hope he did not abandon it. I have a few requests. Just let me know if its possible.

1. Have more then five tabs? Like scroll the tab bar you know?

2. Keep the Multimedia tab?

3. Keep the messages tab but include them all into one tab some how?

4. Have 3 pages on the contacts tab?

5. System status tab like memory, processor usage?

So tabs would be

Home, Weather, Mail, System, Programs, Multimedia, Contacts X3

I am still using Greatbal's diamond theme. Great job by the way dude. Mad props. I love it so much but now I need a little change and I like mikentucson. Let me know if any of that is possible and if so then that may be the final theme I put on my phone for a while.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NBer:
Thanks

I've decided me for MS 2.1 and the MS_WM7-DE theme.

But I don't know how to install this theme. There are many .dat and .reg and .ttf files.

Can you explain shortly how to install it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
well just posted on sbp mobile shell forum - please do also (see mtkates last post) - i also ran into this the other day - check it out

http://vitotechnology.com/en/products/vito-mobile-shell.html

VITO MOBILE SHELL - any 1 comment on this and the ability to develop skins for this shell
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] j_mee_5:
******* help me plz any one...........

how do i get these icons to not display ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Agamemmnon:
For me works the new Update v2.1.1 great, i don´t have Problems.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
yea i have yet to hit any bumps with the upgrade.

im about to switch out the weather icons tho..ill report back on my status then

UPDATE

: still no problems

after hearing about the release i actually de-installed and then re-installed SPB MS and kept going from there.. maybe thats where alot of ppl are hitting some issues, ive tried 3 maybe even 4 themes and as i mentioned .. no issues to report.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tpeazy:
What skin are you using. I think it works fine with some skins and not with others.

Tp
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
ive tried :

"***** Black GSmart Theme"

"Windows Field" (currently using)

"Wanted"

ive changed the weather icons to "Samurai Diamond" and changed the color of the status icons. Still works good.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
"phoney" theme

couldn't find an iphone theme for mobile shell out there so I embarked on making my own! it's still in the extremely early stages of development, but I wanted to share a shot to see if anyone else was interested....

STAY TUNED!!!! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mattster_spv:
White and Black Skins

This theme by Ahmedfikry (thank you!) is the perfect skin for me, looks awesome and so easy to see in bright light. It's one of the only white themes I've found online, which I find so suprising as I thought black (not grey) on white would be more popular. :D

One question: I only need one contacts page, not four. Is there a way to manually change this, or does one need to create a totally new skin (which I don't know how to do!)?

Thanks, Matt
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
My themes & V 2.1.1

My themes works OK

Hi

i read some reports that some themes either don't work at all with new release 2.1.1 or have landscape problems

I would like to report that my theme (Practical GSmart WM7 Blue Hue) works fine with NO problems at all

I did not try my other themes, but i think they all should work fine

My guess i that because i used the BASIC code for spb MS without any fancy variations like the sophisticated other themes

You are welcome to use my uploaded themes of course

I been trying to do modifications to meet all requests

but time is a big issue as i am so busy these days

if you like my themes or you want specific modificatiosn i will try to work on them...Donation is appriciated (link next to my signature below) as this may help buy me some time to do the skinning work...Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
needs little tweaking in the code by a skinner who knows xml...this can not be done from program settings

i have a white practical theme with one contact tab and 4 contact sub-pages, also i have a multi-tab white theme with 3 contact tabs

if you want the multi-tab theme with one contact instead of three ..i can modifiy it for you

is that what you want?...just let me know...

or do you want the practical one with one contact page & no sub-contacts?

i will do my best as i am getting many requests...Donations (link below) is appriciated..thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mattster_spv:
Hi. Quick reply, thanks!

Me personally, I only need one contact page. What I want is for a finger slide to take me directly back to the other pages (programs, mru, clock, etc). At the moment, finger slide just takes me round and round the contact pages.

I will look into contributing when I get back from work. I do appreciate your time and would be happy to show it. Links to any other black and white themes you have done would be cool too!

Have a good day.

Mattster.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
links to white diamond

here is the link to the multi-tab white diamond

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2354138#post2354138

this is the one i think you may want to try

and here is the one to the practical one

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2334475#post2334475

this is the one with 4 sub-ciontact pages..i think this is the one you have

let me know if this works for you..or if you need adjustments

enjoy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Hi ldostang,

I'm sorry, I couldn't find time to try this line :

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Generic" Name="City" ID="20"/>

I've just extracted it from the head of the weather.xml page from the qa_layout.dat, after you have to put in the correct section (240*320 or/and 320*240) something like this :

<Plugin Name="City">

<BoundRect X="2" Y="1" Width="142" Height="14"/>

</Plugin>
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cassatta:
Gretabal's theme works also good with the last release of Spb Mobile Shell on my TyTnII.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gnlp:
where i can found this fantastic skin????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] d3rm1k:
Hello @all ...

I have a (maybe) stupid question:

I use FlexMail as my standard eMail application (not SMS/MMS).

But when I get new mail, it is not shown in the eMail count in any themes, I've tried; while S2U2 shows an Icon for FlexMail.

Is there a possibility to let SPB-MS let show the count of new mails and open FM by clicking on it?

Brgds ... d3rm1k
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shep211:
Thank you for the great theme. I love it. I am learning how to edit but all files have a password. Can you share this? I would like to add both clocks to home screen. I would like to add one more contact tab to contacts like original diamond theme. If I could add your background to the original diamond theme that would be the easiest way. I would like to edit calendar to bring up or display thumbcal. I would like to edit contacts to bring up icontacts instead of spb contacts. Sorry of the newbie questions but I am trying to learn as much as I can. Thank you again.

ShEp

Edit: NVM I found Howto thread with password

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
I have a big problem. I ahve Greatbals Diamond V2.1 LayoutA but the problem is that the volume Icon is between the network and batter on the top bar as well as 1 most recently used program Icon is showing in the top let corner of every page. Can someone help me out?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
See Post #3891

HERE