yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] donbronzi:
Wow. This is a sleek looking shell boss! Possible the apex of the diamond design, where can you go from here? I have been observing this thread and waiting for something like this (unfortunatly i don't have the knowledge to create one for myself). Hopefully you'll be sharing it with us soon?? thanks in advance and major respects. Damn good work!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dinoalbert:
how can you say you are not haters but you're saying "you feel sorry to see waste of potentials".

for those designers and for those admirers, its not a waste of potentials for them....theyre proud of it! You are insulting them!

maybe try to re-phrase your statement ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] donbronzi:
Oh' and for me, i really hope this only has 1 contact page as 3 i just seem to be scrolling forever. Again Major respects

DB
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] farukb:
hehe CommZ made the point "stop the obsession"

well it bugs me and really drives crazy when i see 6-7 same themes from different authors in a row...that is nonsense...

your right about re-phrasing...it looked wrong...i don't care for someones potential...i just wanted to say that most of themes suck and they are justcopies of others politely

can anyone answer the question...or pm me about skinning mobileShell
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luismix:
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Good morning everyone ;)

Where can I get themes in VGA? I have bben searching, and only one ugly green theme found :)

Thank you vey much!! :D

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maxniper:
XI

Realy profitional, i realy like :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
If you look in my signature you will find a link to a VGA conversion of one of the Diamond themes and also a mini tutorial on how to convert themes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
There will be a few variations. Yes, there is one with 3 contact pages and also one with 1 contact page.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
There are a couple of reasons for having so many versions of basically the same theme.

First, the best way to learn how to make a theme is to find one that you like and take it apart and start modifying things to see how it all works (and what doesn't work). As popular as the Diamond theme has been, it has also spurred a lot of people to give skinning a try and that is where many are starting.

It seems to me that the first custom themes were basically the original layout with some graphics changed, so I guess there are a lot of basically the same themes there.

The theme I am working on has been done before too. I have seen another WM7 theme and have used a lot of the ideas in that theme, but hopefully mine will be a little more polished and bug-free.

The second reason you find so many different versions of the same theme is that so many people love this theme but would like this or that changed and people here have been pretty good about trying to fill thoose requests for people to help them out. However, it would be nearly impossible for, say in the case of the Diamond theme, for greatbal to fulfill all the various requests so you end up with different people making the changes.

So, before you know it, you have 100 different diamond themes and hundreds of pages of discussion about it.

Like it or not, the Diamond theme seems to have inspired many people (myself included) to learn how to make themes and I think if you are patient and let us noob skinners get the hang of this, you may start seeing some original work in the future. Just give it time, this stuff can get complex and takes tedious coding and graphic work and can take many hours just to get the simplest part of a theme working right.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
To be honest, I myself am a little bit tired of the Diamond frenzy thing. i still keep getting requests for modifications etc. It's not that I don't like it, I'm using version 2.0 at the moment. :) It's just that I want to start working on something new/different. :D

But having started it all, I found myself stuck with it for the time being. Working on another version, and that's it. I'm moving on to other designs and will be coming out with fresh ideas for skinning and re-layouting Mobile Shell. ;)

BTW, can't wait to try your WM7 theme. I started one before I made the Diamond theme. But got hooked to the Diamond.

I like blue, really. Hope to see your WM7 theme posted soon. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luismix:
Yes, but the quality is really poor and is VERY difficult to do :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] murks_muell:
And in this post you can find a hires (VGA) version of the clock for this skin:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2380030&postcount=3480
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Sorry about the poor graphics quality, I'm not really good at making graphics from scratch and also I do not have a VGA phone to test things out on.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luismix:
No, no... Isn´t sorry, we are very pleasured with your theme, lot of thanks; The quality is good in qVga, but if you double the size the quality is totally lost... And in addition I have been trying to make the things you do, but I´m really lost :(

Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
Nice work pcarvalho! Looks nice so far!

Here's an update on the Carbon Fiber & Aluminum.

Still in design phases.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chibull17:
Sorry to ask this but....Could you provide a cab...

I tried to enter the site & can't, Also, I can't understand the romantic language known as French!!! LOL
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drtwin:
Dial pad skin

It seems that there are few spb contacts skins. Therefore I skinned the contacts tab - it works great with iphone with style skin.

DrTwin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikef1182:
I am digging those screens! I cant wait to see the final product. Keep up the good workk
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Agreed. Good to see pcarvalho and NiteStalker coming with new design. Go for it, guys .. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
is there a link for this one? i want to try it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Go to google translator site.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
Gsmart MS2.1 for 240x240

Guys, just finished convert Greatbal's Gsmart themes for 240x240 screen with some minor edit from me.. now I am adding the calender page,, will post it after finish.

the themes looks so hot on my phone.. thanks Greatbal.. kudo's for you!

cheers,,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
Here you go. Extended Time page calendar layouts, compatible with my PointUI Black theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] martyotaku:
wow!!! looks freaking awesome....is there an eta?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] y1mrn:
Thanks, you're a star!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] scanboy:
So no iphone with style skin (black) yet?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
ANY 1 TAKING THIS UP !!!!! ....????????? - FOR ROBODADS LATEST ???????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
Thanks! Will be trying to get it out tonight, had to go back to the drawing board earlier, some fuctions were broke, but I isolated it down to some bad code.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
Dear jopiej

Thank you very much for kindly help. Now It's look nice as I need. :)

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Note: I have confused about icon name because in PointUI by RoboDad (I have use before) the mask file name MenuIcons_m.bmp and icon as the MenuIcons.bmp :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bigray327:
Can we keep these screenshots safe for work, please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
isuru

After change background image for VistaMobileShell_v0.2.1c

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Download & Unzip File Then copy qp_bkg_now.dat to your device \Program Files\Spb Mobile Shell

Hope you happy with this new image background. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
Shouldn't you be working while at work? :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
Is this complete? Is there a download link?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
many r wtng 4 the great WM7 BLUE theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brianlau:
Best news I have heard so far Greatbal.... Can't wait to get off the whole diamond thing, never really did it for me... Yay!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Benitezwalter:
I am one of those who love diamonds, and I found that creativity has no boundaries as I see in many themes around.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] black_shadow69:
Really proffesional and eleghant skins...:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RideTheTube:
Diamond skin mikentucson

Hi,

im useing for a test the skin from mikentucson. But if i copy the dat files into the shell folder i´ll overwrite the old files and make a softreset.

After the softreset i have some problems.

The Email and SMS picture is not shown only a blank screen

If i klick a button in email and sms i come out in Networksettings - very strange...

Does anybody have the same problem?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fmc000:
Electric Blue 240x240

Hi.

i did not want to post my theme twice, so this is the link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2390709

Enjoy.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikentucson:
make sure that the qp_bkg_now.dat file is copied. only works on 240x320. and the buttons on the email & sms tabs are MRU's. make sure that the buttson are assigned to "messaging" and "contacts". thats what is shown in the picture.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phantomy2g:
Im sure its in here somewhere but i dont feel like searching... but if u can tell me how to get the games icon in the spb menu that would be nice... Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Sorry, I would like to help but I don't feel like it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
Big Thanks

just like to say 4 things

1) THANKS TO ALL THE SKINNERS/DEVELOPERS (mtkates, greatbal, Heefy, Luiggi and all other skinners/devs/testers)

2) KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

3) THOSE SLAGGING OFF THESE GUYS, well - WE DONT SEE YOU DOING ANY BETTER

4) MUST TAKE U GUYS AGES, - MYSELF AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE TIME AND EFFORT YOU PUT IN TO MAKING OUR PHONES LOOK NEW AGAIN - EVERY WEEK - THANKS
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anonymous1:
ROTF LMFAO :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Heefy:
Release of HELU WM7 Theme

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I would just like to let you all know that the above theme has been released in its own thread and can be found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=407164
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mbcbhieu:
others link please,ex megaupload,mediafire...thank u very much!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Romeo_Beck:
Link 4Share for U

http://www.4shared.com/file/5470292...es_Fonts_and_Cab.html?dirPwdVerified=a732831f
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
link download

mirror skin wm7 Heefy and luiggi

http://xdaforums.com/Download link: http://depositfiles.com/files/6515686http://depositfiles.com/files/6515686

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TTWJUQ1I
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
My WM7 Theme for Mobile Shell

I have been looking forward to sharing this theme for a while and now that Heefy has had a chance to get his theme up, here is my interpretation of Heefy's idea.

First, I'd like to say that I didn't just rip off Heefy and Luiggi and I'm not trying to take anything away from them. They have done a great job with HELU. I started on this theme back when Heefy posted his first images and up until about a week ago, I had no idea that Heefy and Luiggi were working on their own version. Heefy sent me his original images and I just took off on my own from there. It has been quite a learning experience and it is not even finished yet.

Right now there are 4 versions. Analog and Digital should be pretty self explanatory. The reason they are not combined is that I was having some weird issues and so far the fix has been to just separate them.

The difference between Standard and Professional is as follows:

Standard has 3 main screens. The Now screen, the Program Launcher screen, and a single Contacts screen. You can navigate through using the task bar or through finger swiping.

In the Professional layout, the Launcher tab has 2 screens you can cycle through, the Program Launcher and MRU Programs. The Now tab (which is the windows logo in center) will cycle between the Now screen and a Calendar screen. The Contacts tab will let you cycle through 3 Contacts pages.

Like I said, this theme is not done yet. It is for QVGA in portrait mode (working on landscape mode right now). I have been using on a Sprint Touch phone and all seems to be working fine. I would appreciate any feeback, good or bad, suggestions, etc. I would also be interested in anyone who feels they can inprove some of the graphics such as the notification icons, weather icons, etc. All ideas will be considered.

After I get landscape up and running I'm going to experiment with other colors for this theme. Suggestions there will be considered too.

The files for this theme have been removed from this thread. The full version is now available. Follow the limk in my signature below.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pmorganii:
awesome mtkates...can't wait to try...are there files, or am I missing something?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NotLutzik:
Guess mtkates was uploading files.Iam not Mobile shell person but looks really nice...!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Try refreshing. They should be up now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
mtkates, great themes and thank you so much for sharing.

Just downloaded and transferring to my PPC now.

Hope you can release the landscape mode in a couple of day or two and that would make it complete.

Appreciate your willingness to share and helping out.

May I suggest also you start a new thread on this so that those using your theme are able to follow the progress. Issues, feedback and update are only confined to the new thread. That would be great for a start and less hussle as this thread is getting to congested with so many themes posting in here. Hope you will consider.

Thanks and repute for your great work....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I uploaded on this thread just to get some feedback and some early testing done. I hope to have landscape ready soon and will start a new thread then.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
Just tried the WM7 Prefessional Analog and I love it!!!!!

The appointment displayed in the Now screen is great as I can view more than one appointment. I like the presentation.

One question for the three contact as it is labelled 1, 2 and 3.

I would like to name it as Personal, Work and Friends. How do I change it? Or is it possible for you to change and share it out.

Thanks a million.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
If you know how to edit the xml files, just look for a reference to pagelabel in SpeedDial1(2,3).xml if not, it will have to wait until I get the landscape done. I may or may not change it for the final release. we'll see how feedback goes. others please chime in.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dinoalbert:
Hi mtkates,

Could you also make a "Black" option of your nice theme? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] froesei:
Love this theme - the absolute best so far, in my humble opinion. Couple of comments...is there a way to reduce the font size of the "next alarm" information so that it all fits on the screen? Also, I noticed the title bar of the MRU Programs page is not centred and some of the text is cut off.

Anyway, really nice theme, thanks for all your hard work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
My WM7 Theme Feedback

Keep it coming. I am keeping notes for possible changes/fixes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] femi4ever:
Help editing

I am using Layout C but i incorporated menu buttons from another theme. After I replace greatbals theme menu buttons with these custom ones, the speaker icon changes at the top bar. Im wondering if anyone could help me edit the menu.dat file to show the speaker icon that comes in greatbals theme. Bellow is the menu button file to be edited.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Alternate to WinZip?

Maybe slightly off topic but I have been busy trying to get landscape layout finished and at midnight this evening my trial version of winzip expired. Does anyone know of a free/trial alternative to winzip that is just as easy to use? I have really gotten comfortable with winzip but can't shell out the $$$ at the moment to purchase.

Someone please help, I want to get back to work on this as soon as possible.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
It should be a straight forward change and I would be able to do it.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
hi mtkates , thanks for your work - check ur pm's round bout 12.30 today
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] froesei:
I use 7-zip...

http://www.7zip.com/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
Try this site for 7-Zip. Think it's freeware.

http://www.7-zip.org/

or

This site and do a search for winzip compatibility programs. It's freeware site. Hope you get something out of it.

http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=2&la=en&search=winzip
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aviral_jain:
Hi mtkates,

Great work !!! I really love it...

I just wanted to know, where can i find the SpeedDial1(2,3).xml file. I mean which directory etc..

Many Thanks for great help for giving a new life to our Atom Life.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
It's in qa_layouts.dat. I just changed mine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] edgarjmejia:
My WM7 Theme for Mobile Shell

Hello everyone and mtkates. Excellent Skin !!!

It installs on my P535 and entirely correct

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aviral_jain:
Hi WillyBilly, Sorry I may be asking very silly question, but just wanted to know how did you open a dat file. is there any tool? please do let me know i really wish to change the contact page header. Many Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] edgarjmejia:
My WM7 Theme

mtkatesIt is possible a skin s2u2 and a tsk for today ??

It would be great.

Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
WOW ---------- wow

U put me N BLUE WOURLD
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
It's actually a zip file with .dat ext. Use winzip to open it as winzip allows you to add/del file as well as edit. Edit the xml file with notepad.

To perform editing in winzip point to the file, right click with mouse and select to open file using notepad.

password : [FONT=&quot]b0fm18zq

[/FONT]Do a search in this thread as there are many discussion on this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ~J~:
mtkates,

Just a small little graphics glitch near on the weather panel.

Have attached two files below.

I've shown you both where it is and obviously what it should look like, hope this helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] murks_muell:
@mtkates: Are you planning to do a VGA version? If not may I help you? I would really like to have your theme in high resolution on my touch diamond.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aviral_jain:
Hi WillyBilly,

Many Thanks, I did it.. and worked perfectly.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gagaza:
I find that the easiest way to change the text for labels is just to edit the SpbMobileShell.txt that is in your SPB folder.

Like this:

Contacts 1|Personal

Contacts 2|Friends

Contacts 3|Work

Launcher|Programs

MRU Programs|MRU

Claret|Maroon

It's just the original name followed by the name you want to change it to.

People please try it. You'll be surprised at how easy it is. No messing with .xmls.

You can actually just copy and paste all or parts of my example into that text file, then reset. You'll be happy with the results. Simple yet effective.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jezwick:
great info, many thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gagaza:
You're welcome. It beats having to edit 3 or more .xmls. Plus anyone can do it, and saves mtkates having to decide whether to change it or not.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
Where do I insert (which line) the above text mentioned by you into SpbMobileShell.txt?

Can it be placed anywhere?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alex6478:
Help!

[- you can now get 9 menu buttons and as well as the data connection icon when data is in progress.

- only thing replaced in this fixed qa_layout.dat is the launcher.xml which is the previously modded for 9 menu buttons

- may not work with some modded skins as they do not include the Professional now screen layout

:cool:[/QUOTE]

Hello!

What program we can use to open and modify file *.dat?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] EDITman:
Please please please

Anyone of the grate designers/developers in this amazing thread can help us poor VGA screen users to develop some decent MS themes ?

Please posi in this thread to help

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=405646
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pinantonio:
Hi to everybody,

I have from few the theme diamond version 1.2 and I was making some change, now however I need to put in the Now Screen the indicator of the backlight, but I don't succeed in doing him/it, you know how to help me?

Thanks hi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] patko226:
to mtkates

thank you a lot. good job. will you include MRU to your skin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] donatello:
I really like your skin, its fantastic :)

but is there a possibility to keep SPB MS always opened?

f.e. when I make a call, hang up the standard today screen gets shown and MS has to be restarted through softkey again :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ninja.rogue:
Very very nice!

Please if possible arrange for a 3-pages 16-contacts speedDial, it would be perfect.

Thank you for your work, amazing!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom108:
you need this. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2028191&postcount=11

activate this plugin through your today screen settings and it will auto forward to SPB MS when ever the today screen is active.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willybilly:
I am now using Professional Analog and the MRU is there. In the Launcher, just swipe from Left to Right or vice versa and it will switch between Launcher and MRU
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I would love some help with a VGA version. I can do the coding for it but I am not great with the graphics end. If you or anyone wants to resize the images I can code pretty easily.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
I would love some help with a VGA version. I can do the coding for it but I am not great with the graphics end. If you or anyone wants to resize the images I can code pretty easily.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback. I cannot answer each post right now (busy with the landscape coding) but I am keeping notes to try and make this theme the best I possibly can.