yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] polstein:
I'm a new user to Mobile Shell starting with 2.1 (just installed last Friday) - but I'm having a lot of problems with the custom themes.

When I copy the files over (that's all I do right - dump all the files right on top of the ones I have in the install folder?) and soft-reset - when I run the shell my ppc just locks up.

Fortunately, I made a copy of the folder first, so I can easily restore, soft-reboot & be ok again.

I am using a HTC Advantage (vga, 480x640 screen, usually in landscape mode).

Mostly, I'm looking for links to help so I don't totally disrupt a theme thread. Also a link to a primer or adjusting the file to my own nefarious (sp?) purposes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ayyu3m:
here you go man

Originally posted by abumhmmd1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cascade2:
A Little Love for 240X240 Folks

Here's my first shot at a makeover. I've experimented and played with different setups but this one seems to work the best for me at least. Big thanks to whoever posted the link to the emulator - much easier to tweak and play!

Caveats: This was made for and tested on a Treo 750. I haven't used it on a W or WX or any other square screen device. The emulator is a generic square screen and doesn't show any issues, but obviously you use it at your own risk. Also, I haven't figured out how to get the bottom 25 pixles (where the bottom bar used to be) to gesture correctly. I use the Sweep animation and it looks good with that, but it's very noticeable in some of the other animations. It bugs some people, doesn't bother others. No new background files involved. I think it looks best with the Indigo theme, but all of the MS2 colored themes work just fine. I'll re-post the files if I figure out how to make the whole thing move correctly.

Modifications from original MS2 setup:

Now Screen: Bottom bar eliminated, clock moved down to be more centered vertically, weather moved down as well.

Launch Screen: MRU eliminated, replaced with plugins (thanks to bcchristian for this setup!), replaced icons with Wood icons (thanks to kulet78!), eliminated the bottom bar, eliminated the grid, lowered and re-spaced icons to fit screen better.

Speed Dial Screen: eliminated bottom bar, re-spaced pictures and grid to be evenly distributed on the screen

Used with S2U2 (and the Indigo background image from the Now Screen) and spbwatcher the entire experience is integrated and smooth with Mobile Shell. Very clean, very functional!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] polstein:
Found this link for other beginners:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367

Reading now, but for Themes like the iPhone one posted just above -- do I need to decompress/copy/rezip, or just copy files into my folder (still reading)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] razvan_day:
can u make it in black ? pls
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lsherif:
ayyu3m

Can you also help me to get the Skin Max & the Skin Vert Iphone from the same site located on page 2.

Thanks in advance,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
thanks again! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Very nice !!!!

Thanks you a lot for this French Skin.

Is there a way to configure what must be show on the calendar tab ? ie the all day event (like the Saint).

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aeacus:
I'm having an issue with greatball's diamond theme.

I have Greek regional settings and i'm missing the date on all screens. It only shows " ,28 ".:(

Is this because of the fonts used in this theme?

Does anybody have any idea on how to fix that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ch@rly:
Thank the psy but I did not speak of here but .tsk Diamond which is on this forum but contains no landscape mode.

For the site I know (look at my pseudo ;) )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] castigamatti81:
ottimo rokko_nik anche sul cruise funziona, le uniche icone rimaste in inglese sono le descrizioni del meteo...riusciresti a tradurre anche quelle??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] supersobbie:
Great work greatbal!!

The theme is excellent. I love it!!!!!!!:) :)

One questions. On the calendar page when you choose none I see only 3 appointments... is there a way to get it to fill up the screen?

And, maybe this is a feature request for spb, but can you make 2 calendar pages one with current appointments and one for all day events? I am a calendar freak and have many notes in my all day part but never get to see them.... I currently use today agenda and have it fill the entire today screen which works fine... but I would love to have some option like above.

Anyway... the skin is amazing and I appreciate all the work you have put into this.

Best Regards,

SuPerSoBBie

:D

Oh yea... one more thing...... Is there a way to get the location on the weather panel?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
Ok I have a weird problem

On the Now Screen my screen the sound Icon is between the service icon and the battery icon and its hard to click on it. Can anyone figure how to fix this? Also has anyone figured out how to get to the Phone Suite COmm manager by clicking something?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freecall:
I echo all comments on this skin and about the great work. Just amazing ...

One outstanding issue I have still. Skin b) looks very close to my dream skin . The only problem is that I can not slide from Programs to Weather to contacts ... the weather page is blocking the slide motion.

Is there any possibility in the MS shell settings to disable the weather page ?

Thanks Freecall
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
English

greatbal thank you very much, :)your themes are really pleased to members of actualitemobile ... I hope it bothers you that I not change your work for a French translation ... But do not worry I never forget that city is your skin's origin

The collection is growing do not hesitate to file also :D

French

merci beaucoup greatbal,:) tes thèmes vont vraiment plaisir aux membres d'actualitemobile... j'espère que ça te dérange pas que je modifie ton travail pour une traduction française... , mais ne t'inquiète pas je n'oublie jamais de cité que c'est ton skin a l'origine

La collection est de plus en plus grande n'hésitez pas a en déposer aussi

merci a vous
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Apparently, yes, it is due to the limitation of the font used by the theme. As a solution, I suggest you don't install the Font used by the Diamond theme (or delete themfromthe \Windows\Fonts directory) and your default system font will be used instead. Please try adnpost feedback.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ThiGaMaJiG:
i need that screen!!! i only can get these
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rloup:
Here it is. I think it works! Make the zip to dat.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
No problem. Thanks for the translation, French users will be pleased. :)

Yes, I saw my skins on your site. I'm also a member of actualite and I used to visit it frequently waiting for the "perfect" skin for my needs to be posted. But, I got tired of waiting, so I decided to start learning how to do my own skin instead. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aeacus:
I'm trying to edit weather_m.bmp in photoshop, so I can make greek weather description but it appears only one layer named index, that's locked.

Am I missing something?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dianeofarcadia:
is possible to request the background image from this theme? I would like to try to make a tsk/s2u2 to complete the set.

thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rloup:
Hallo, thanks for your work, I like it! I have made a german qa_weather_description.dat. Lock at #1392, I think it works.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] y1mrn:
High res weather (rain drops on screen)

I agree; so I replaced the original qa_weather_big.dat file with the equivalent from Amo1759's theme and it worked. It's not quite the right size but it'll do!

EDIT: Greatbal has kindly resized them and they can be found in this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2244622&postcount=1425
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iNiels:
DAT files

Maybe asked before but does anyone know how to open DAT files at a mac?

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grease:
but the landscape is not good !!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
xi780!!!!!!

Hi, can anyone tell me if this skin works on my i780?, if not, can somebody makes it possible????????

TANKS:p:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
you were right, and it was worth it .. You have done a very good job, now we will try out with other colour or screen carbon etc... in order to give pleasure to everyone

tu as eu raison, et ça en valait la peine.. , tu as fait du très bon travail, maintenant on va essayé de sortir avec d'autres couleur ou fond d'écran..carbon etc.afin de faire plaisir a tout le monde :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kal-El:
Weather conditions translation on HTC Diamond theme

Hi,

Someone it can post the file "weather_m.bmp" (contained in the file “qa_weather_description.dat") in PSD format with the text level already formatted so as to be able to translate the weather conditions?

Thanks...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aeacus:
Greek weather description for Greatball's Diamond Theme

Just finished Greek weather description for Greatball's Diamond Theme.:)

-Zipped file-
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gizbug:
How do you install this? NM figured out
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iNiels:
Is there anybody who can make a dutch translation for the weather description?

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 760hacker:
Read the posting! Download the appropriate layout. Unzip the files to your PC. Transfer the files to your device. Fonts go under windows/fonts and files go under program files/spb mobile shell. It will prompt to overwrite, select yes to all. when done soft reset and you should be good to go.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theparanoid:
The phone suit version have not yet been released. That would versions D-G

As for Phone suit comm manager. No clue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BenRivera:
Is there a way to add bluetooth & wifi toogle icons to the home screen? That would complete the package for me atleast.

Thanks,

Ben
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nanastas:
WOW

Wow- all I can say is wow.

This skin made me pay for the upgrade to MS2.1- I hadn't bothered before- didn't see it as being good enough to install.

Wow.

Thanks for your incredible work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oldasuk:
Greatbal please.problem spb phone suite on today on screen.When new layout version D is going to be?sorry english is for me very big problem.Thank you wery much.Hello Olda:o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ddavtian:
Greatbal, thanks for great skins. There was a request for layout C with MRU, I'll add +1 to that, if you have time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uiskibum:
There is a skin from a russian (i believe) site that adds something to this effect, but i do not believe anyone has gotten it working. As long as this thread is, you should try and read most of it. Most of these types of questions have been asked in one way or another.

If you use SPB Phone Suite and want that comm manager, head over to the SPB site and forums and request that they add that functionality to the next release of Mobile Shell or Phone Suite. This is something on their [SPB] end, it is nothing that can be skinned in.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JokeZony0u:
your the best greatbal! thanks for all the hard work and time spent!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BenRivera:
I have tried doing searches but I have not found anything specific.

I don't have Phone Suite, but just left there site to see what it is all about. I have Phoneweaver that does the same thing.

I will keep looking.....

Thanks,

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

I have it too and can't use something else, because of my personnal profils which enable/disable wifi/bluetooth and launch some app...

Now I have to close Mobile Shell to use PoneWeaver on my Today, maybe it can be on one page but I don't see how ?

Thnaks a lot for this geat work !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nightcookie:
Greatbal,

you, Sir, are genius. What a great skin! Just installed version C, very happy with it!

One question: How do I edit the weather description (Heavy Rain, atm) to suit my language? Apologies to everyone if I missed a noobs guide on this somewhere.

Many thanks,

N.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
edit qa_weather_description.dat

How? Read here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I may not be adding anymore additional layout. Maybe you could wait for Layout G. That's the last layout I will do and move on to my other projects. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] heliosismagic:
we belive in pictures?Or....

Guys!

The black HTC theme is great,and I admire the work in it,but why is it good to have a theme where I can handle all apps in doubble time as normal.Isn t it strange?

U are about to see a weather report,and instead u just read it on front panel,u push a button.U are about to dial is even more hassle!!

I bet I can beat all this apps for screen change with the good old SPB PLus...

All info on the screen,and as we all know time is money,so why we gave up the priority of PPC mobiles?The ppc is a quick responding,fast searching,fast data access machine.Not only nice to look!!

Well all this is in my mind since I can enjoy the look of my ppc,but not the data access anymore!!

why some wise guys can t do a theme where all important infos are on the front screen,and u can access later for your buddy list if u need it,or....

But this is crazy!!!Boubble time for some nice pics.Obviously not everyone use the ppc as business.....:-))

thx helios
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] !Novy:
Hi Lads!Somebody tell me why in oryginal version SPB Mobile Shell 2.1 (1 picture from SPB http://spbsoftwarehouse.com right down side no speaker icon, but here (picture 2) i see this icon??Second skin looks better,someone nows how to add this icon??I have SPB Phone Suite but in Classic Today Settings in Shell i don't have speaker icon!Why?Help please!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] faymus:
love your theme, its actually the best I've ever tried but it just seems too dark for me any way to get the white diamond wallpaper on it. Not change anything elese in the theme just get the white background.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larvamadrid:
Has anybody the SPANISH version of the qa_weather_description.dat ????

gracias amigo
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sobralito:
Hi Greatbal,

This is one hell of a Skin. Just beautiful and very well made. I only have one problem with it.

I use one button assigned to the [dial tab] of Mobile Shell to quickly access my contacts. But since the 3rd tab of your skin is the weather tab, whenever I use that button I go to the weather tab.

Is there a way I can change the order of the tabs you created? Or is this a bug that you can fix?

I know I don't have the right to ask you for nothing, but I think that it's inputs like this one that will help this skin to get even better.

Thank's for your hard work

Sobralito
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cesarium:
Greatball awesome Theme!

I Love it!

I have a request ;)

Can you put other wallpapers in the theme (blue,green etc..)

Thanks for your support
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
HTC Diamond SPB MS2.1 Theme v1.1

For those requesting for alternative weather icons,

Download, unzip, and replace the orginal files on your MS2.1 installation directory.

Credit goes to azzambm (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2224115&postcount=866) for the icons. I just resized some of them to fit my layout.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mlh01:
Greatbal!! You're the greatest!! THNX for the updated weather icons. These are even better than those from Amo..... something :-)

Love the theme! But you already knew that :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BenRivera:
http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=20728

Phoneweaver command line support......

SELECT_PROFILE : 1nn (Being nn the profile number with two digits)

AUTOMATIC_PROFILE: 500

...

WIFI_TOGGLE: 930

BT_TOGGLE : 931

Create shortcuts and add them the menu....

Next on my list to try.

Ben
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nightcookie:
Greatbal,

thx for coming in to help. Probably I'm too thick for this. I went and got WinZip, openend qa_weather_description.dat, and I get these files:

weather_m.bmp

index.xml

Selection2_m.bmp

weather.bmp

The three bmps obviously are graphics files, I can look into them. When I extract the index.xml with the password and open it (in a browser or in Notepad), all I get is this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<skin name="Noname"/>

I'm probably missing something basic ... :confused:

Thanks for the help, and great new weather icons btw!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Very nice and usefull !

Thanks a lot, I'll try this tomorrow.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Just edit the weather_m.bmp,no need to change anything on the other files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
Here you go;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mkpugh:
qp_menu_btn

Is it possible to add or change the icons in the MenuIcons2_xx.bmp files? I would like some extra ones to use on the MRU.

Mike
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nightcookie:
Got it, that did it! Pretty obvious once you rubbed my nose in it. :o

You da man!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PocketPcUser05:
Just when I thought your original, couldn't get any better, you did it!

Thanks so much for this theme. I love it! I especially love the weather updated icons, :)..

Thanks,

Andrew,

PS, this will be my highest reccommendation for theme for Spb MS.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toniolol:
Thanks for that but just something,

I can't use that they write, I've to use this content in my lnk files :

#"\Windows\PhWeaver.exe"XYZ instead of "\Windows\PhWeaver.exe XYZ"

Someone know how to assign icon to lnk ? Or in SPB MOBILE SHELL ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] y1mrn:
Shadow when selecting

Hi Greatbal,

I was just wondering whether the greyish shadow when selecting items from MS is a design feature, design flaw or bug? Perhaps I'm the only one experiencing it, or is it just that I'm the only one to be that picky!

I don't actually mind the shadow, but sometimes it is a bit big or wrongly sized, making it look odd. I have attached some examples below.

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
I'm not trying to underestimate anyone's work here but,

Why this clutter & hurly-burly about the Diamond weather icons...

I've posted them here since ages...

See Page (87)

At least you people have to give the credit to it's owners...

By the way awesome work like always greatbal...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] supersobbie:
Phone log how to

Ok as I said before... this is amazing!!!!! It is simply amazing how much talent that is in this thread. Everyone...

I currently use greatbal theme and would like to make a change to it. I have the link on how to change and edit the files but my question is this. How do I edit one of the phone tabs to show a call log? In the original MobileShell if you didn't have a pinned picture it would put pictures of the people in the call history log. Can this be done on one of the phone pages provided? What file would I have to edit and with what?

Best Regards,

SuPerSoBBie

:) :D :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rumball:
Here is a Diamond tsk file I put together which includes landscape support.

Don't forget to set BaseHue to 160 in the registry if you want the WM6 bars to be pure black.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mlh01:
OK, but in those files is no weather discription. So that's why everybody is asking to combine these files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mlh01:
OK

OK, but in those files is no weather discription. So that's why everybody is asking to combine these files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grzenio01:
Still not VGA support?:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
That's true...

But when I've posted them, there was nothing called "weather discription"...;););)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nightcookie:
Highlighting the selected area or item in a special colour is a design feature of Mobile Shell (check the original). It helps you see where you're putting your "cursor" when using the D-pad.

It will always highlight the whole area that is "touch-sensitive" for that particular icon. The touch-sensitive area does go beyond some of the icons, but I actually find that helpful - makes it easier for my fingers to hit them. :)

N.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DUTCH:
Argghhhh!

Although I love the Diamond theme, I've decided to make a basic black theme/skin myself. With all the info in this amazing thread everything is fine so far, except for one thing...

Can anyone please tell me how to make the top bar (with battery and operator) transparant or black?!? I stays grey no matter what I try. I have spent about 4 hours trying to figure this about but without success.

Help please, someone ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bob_55:
Of course it's me, Who else can take my name... :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rumball:
Read my post on the previous page...set BaseHue to 160 in the registry if you want the WM6 bars to be pure black rather than grey.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rokko_nick:
For Italian Users!

Italian MENU and WEATHER! for Last GREATBAL skin!

Eccovi 2 zip da decomprimere nella cartella SPBshell!

menu e meteo in ITALIANO!!

per l'ultima versione della skin di GREATBAL! (A)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DUTCH:
Thanks for your quick reply, but I'm referring to the top bar of MS 2.1 itself. Check out the screenshot below (that actually got a transparant top bar with battery and operator in it)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dougongo:
..HI from Italy

At the first....a big, big,big, big thanks for your work Greatbal....for me, your skin, is the best of the treadh....but...:confused:..i have read the post for the beginners..ok..i have open the dat file whit winzip etc, etc...i try to edit the bmp file......but was a completly failure...please, there is a good guy that can make this hard work for me and the people that are not able for do this?

..this is the translation of weather description from English to Italian in my not functional bitmap,now for host is a PNG;), in the exact order like the extract bmp...many thanks in advance for who do that!

..link image >>> http://i29.tinypic.com/qxnr13.png

..OUCH!!:D...my prayer was answered already!...grazie rokko!!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rokko_nick:
you have to re-zip the files with password: b0fm18zq (not RAR files! only ZIP!). PS..di niente!!