yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Little_Tiger:
to anyone who can help me.

I've been trying for quite sometime now to change the

default background to a background of my own, but with no success.I've tried everything that was sais in the how to thread but nothing (meaning with seperator2 etc etc)...

can someone help me with this?

I just want the default black theme with this background (see image)..

thanks

-=LT=-
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bchandler78:
Has anyone seen any themes similar to the new Touchflo 3D from the HTC Diamond or the Windows 6.1?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pntzamaras:
anyone with a skin for Samsung i780 (320x320 screen)???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jakkrith:
Little_Tiger

Please upload your file qp_bkg_now.dat

I will help you change the background image. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rumball:
I've been mixing and matching various skins and I've managed to get a layout that I'm really happy with (based off of kulet's blue-ray glossy). However I noticed that when I go to Settings>Personal in Mobile Shell all the icons are miss-matched with their application. I've attached a screen capture of what Mobile Shell is showing vs how they should be.

Any idea what file I may have messed up to cause these icons to be miss-matched?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
Ldostang - I'm sorry to bother you again. I made the faceX.bmp smaller (80 pixels to match the faceX.bmp in the qp_dclock_modern2.dat), which seems to work fine. I now have plenty of real estate to drop in the MRUs below the clock. As you can see, however, there's only the one.

In the qa_layouts attached it's r7. It all looks right. I'm frustrated by having to ask again for assistance. I'm sorry. Thanks once again!!

edit: could it have something to do with the dynamic background??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
i made a little change. check to see if it works for u. i am not able to test it.

and i doubt it has anything to do with the dynamic background.

remember to backup first.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Updated Orange

For anyone intersted. I updated the Orange Layout.

Now Screen, MRU, launcher, weather, 3 contact pages.

For some reason the pics never look as good as on the phone? Oh well, you get the idea of how it looks.

Thanks and credits go to Greatbal, Gagaza, Beyond Invisilbe, 420 Mac (for the background and original orange theme)

and to all the other contributors, whos work I may have incorporated.

http://depositfiles.com/files/8233451

Here's another orange background uploaded by tonestones. It is portrait only.

To use it, just remove the.zip extension and copy to your folder.

If someone with photosop can convert it for landscape, I would greatly appreciate it. TIA
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
skin actupsp Actualitémobile

more info and download http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2693231&postcount=342
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
Ldostang. I really appreciate all the help you have shown me (and others in this and several other forums). I copied the file you supplied but nothing changed. :(

What I find very strange though is that the MRU shown (file explorer) is the top, left most MRU, which should be "Name="r0" ID="0" no? But that line isn't even included. So I'm confused by that, and of course the fact that only one MRU (in one case shown twice) is shown.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
I saw that you had for r7 the id was set to "0". thats why it was using what u have set for r0. if you want, you can upload your files to see if i can get what could be causing it. i'll load it into the emulator and give it a go.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Shawn26:
Is it possible to have the CommManager at this position?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
Ldostang - Thanks!!! I had to attached the file in 2 parts - qa*.dat in one zip, and the qp&ql*.dat in the other zip. The combined total is only about 2.5mb, but I'm having one of those days I guess. Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theme freak:
Anyone have a plan to make themes from games? :)

I only enjoyed some like mario thanks to Dreed :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ridley:
here I just found out kingdom hearts II theme

http://mobileshell.ppc-theme.com/page 11.html

I think its new and its awesome :)

There also have some more game themes..search at this site

http://www.actualitemobile.com/forum/index.php/topic,1654.0.html

Last time I found out tomb raider theme at there but since I can't read the languages..I can't register and donlod =(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
no problèm amigo

I share skin tomb raider from my site

enjoy :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
Here you go. It should work already. you just need to move the mrus to where u want them.

the reason the mru0 was showing up was because of this.

<Plugin Name="Line2" ID="0">

<BoundRect X="0" Y="0" Width="240" Height="26"/>

</Plugin>

I changed the ID to 500 and it worked fine. let me know if this works for you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Shawn26:
No one an idea?

See at this post please
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Have a little patience. I just saw your first post a few minutes ago.

Yes, it can be done. First, if backlight adjust is there right now, go to MS settings on the Today tab, uncheck the box for backlight icon. Then on your Now screen, tap and hold the icon you want to change and a menu will come up. Choose "Mannage Pinned" and a tree will come up. Find the Comm Manager (mine was under Programs) and check the box for Comm Manager.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
YEAH!!! It worked! Great catch - in a hundred years I would never have seen that... 2 things: 1) Some of my text (the date on the NOW screen and the status bubbles) are black, and 2) I still get a paypal error message when I try to donate to you.

Thanks again (for the 30th time I bet!)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
Sorry about that. just replace this line in the General section of the lockscreen.xml.

<DefaultFont Face="Tahoma" HeightPxl="11" Bold="y" Color="FFFFFF"/>

Right now the color should read "000000". Change it to "FFFFFF".

About the paypal. dunno what it could be. i know its working.

No problem. Glad to help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Shawn26:
Hi mtkates,

i tried it out and it works. Now i have the CommManger on first site and i am very happy. Perfect theme.

But i find out some bugs (using SPB Mobile Shell 2.1.2) and i hope you can fix it.

1.

My icons "WLAN" and "CommManager" under the Programs Tab are crushed. But only there. On the Now screen the Icon for my CommManager looks good.

2. The Icon "Delete Ram" and "Lock Keyboard" (hope it is the description in english) under Preferences - System are crushed. Crushed means only strips instead of Icons.

3. The Big Sunny Icon is missing.

And one question i have. Is it possible to change the name of the Contact Tabs (Contacts 1, Contacts 2 and Contacs 3) to (Kontakte #1, Kontakte #2, Kontakte #3)?

Many Thx for helping again!

Shawn26
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RedRamage:
Hey... that looks like what I'm looking for. I have a Now screen right now that I'm pretty happy with, but I want to ADD the backlight control to the now screen. Ideally I'd like it along with the weather icon rather than replacing it. Can such a thing be done?

I've played around a little bit with editing the xml files, but I'm by no means and expert.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ridley:
Hei thanks for that ;) very nice looks :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I had some time to spend on my hobby yesterday and a bit today. So I thought I would just post some pics.

I worked on improving the Phonatic landscape layout. Along with a few other tweaks. Updated file is on page 428 post#4275.

I didn't plan to, but I ended up doing a little mod on Greatbal's Omnia.

I love the way that theme looks. My purpose was to show how much better a matching launcher icon would look, as opposed to a bunch of MRUs.

It's subtle and gives many options. I keeps the look of the theme consistant.

Just MHO. Oh, it's also a good way to incorporate the tenth launcher icon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Weather Option For Orange/Pumpkin Theme

Here's something different. Weather page option for the Orange theme.

You can get to your calendar page by touching the time.

This has Now,MRU, Launcer, Weather, and 3 Contact pages.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alvinito64:
nice...clean...smooth...soft....g r e a t...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ntadeusz:
It is beatiful skin and very readable for example in sunny day. Could you make such layout: now, mru, launcher, weather and only one page of contacts. It would be very appreciated by me. I hope, that its simply for you, than please - make it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
You caught me just in time. That one is a simple request for me.

Here you go. Just remove the .zip extension of this file, copy it as a .dat file to your phone and reset.

I'm headed to work, see you all in a week.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ntadeusz:
Thank you, Phonatic. Good luck
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theme freak:
Thanks a lot for the info..it works awesome on my device :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
Release 2.5 Vga Support

The new release 2.5 is now available.

These are the new main functionalities:

- added the VGA (480x640) resolution support.

- add the 12 contacts / page layout.

- to introduce new components (clocks/weather icons/buttons..) is now sufficient to create the relative folder into the "Commons" path, these will be automatically recognized by the "options" script.

- fixed all known bugs.

Feel free to compose your own skin with:

28 background images

13 button series

15 analog clocks

8 digital clocks

5 wheater icon sets

36 different layout combinations

11 languages (ENG/FRA/GER/ITA/SPA/CZE/DUT/POR/CHN(s+t)/POL)

IF YOU USE THIS TOOL, PLEASE DONATE..... I'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK TO ADAPT ALL THESE THINGS TO THE VGA
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I decide to go without the text.

I have it displaying the tenth launcher, on the now screen.

The launcher that is choosen to be at the bottom, of the customize menu list, will show on the now screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ssamth2003:
look nice, would you mind to share? btw thks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mvp84:
GTA theme

Is there any gta4 theme? I will kill for it:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ssamth2003:
After replace with your file, I miss Game Icon...why? any one pls advice..:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bassjam:
Hello phonatic

I would like to install your skin, but I cannot

missing icons( see the picture )

I have a a hp ipaq 614c

could you please help me?

thanks:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sieu_sury:
Thanks

Thanks for all:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] carlos-alqui:
+1:D

greetings
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
I really like your skin and have also a request :D can you do a layout with now\calendar\program\weather\one page 9 contacts please ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ssamth2003:
I think that, at first you need to setup your weather city..its dark theme meaning that it in the night time. after that you may see the icon. if its more bright (not really sure but in my case is like this)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rexboy:
i had similar issues, what version of SPB mobile shell are you running. Use 2.1.2 and it should work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bonnaf:
Hi Phonatic,

Am I missing something? On post 4525, I only see a screenshot to download and not the actual theme. This layout looks great, I would really want to try it!

Thanks,

David.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
At the bottom of the post there is this link to the download: http://depositfiles.com/files/8257425
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bonnaf:
Indeed, but this points me to 'windows_Feild.jpg', which is a screenshot of the theme, but not to the theme itself...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Sorry about the missing link. Instead of going back to change it, I will work on something better.

I just downloaded Mtkates' revisited Windows Feild. It's better and I just got an idea. I will look to do a minor mod. I will post here.

Okay, I’m back to share a mod. I changed out the weather icons to conserve on the file size.

I also added weather icons to the now screen, portrait only. I added just icons, not a whole background.

It loads much quicker.

The nice thing is that I am using the same weather icons for the now screen, full weather page, and the detail weather page

Thanks and credits go to Mtkates. Please donate to him if you like this layout.

My mods will not create any problems that are unusual to this theme. Please read his thread for more info on this theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LMQT:
Request for RoboDad (or someone else ?)

Your theme is fantastic and I really like it.

But I just want to slightly modify the homepage and I can't even figure out how I can do that. I've opened the XML files and don't see at all :(

Here are the two original pages :

And this is what I want to obtain :

- Alarms just above hour

- and next meeting under hour.

Can someone do that for me please ?

PS : I'm using "Layout-tabcal_extended+mru" version of your blue theme
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bonnaf:
Very good, looking forward to it! It would be great if you keep the two things I really liked on your theme: weather background on home screen and direct access (buttons) to both MRU and programs.

David.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I just posted above. This theme is still in the preview stage.

I am pretty sure Mtkates will be making different layouts, including the one that you prefer.

I do not want to do anymore mods to this thme at this time.

I just wanted to incorporate weather icons that had a smaller file size, to see how well it works with this theme.

@ssamth2003 and carlos, yes I can share the Omnia launcher mod.

With so many different layouts and weather options I suggest that you upload your qa_layouts.dat files for me to edit.

That is the only way to insure that only thing that changes is the addition of the launcher icon.

Sorry to hear that. My mod can not make that happen.

Please check your customize menu settings to make sure that it is there and that you have it checked.

If it's not there, use a cab file to put it back.

Also Greatbal made Omnia to work with Mobile Shell v2.1.2

Please upgrade if you haven't already. If you want to use this Omnia theme.

I am not familiar with that Ipaq. I will assume that it’s qvga.

From the screen shot, it looks like you may have installed other .dat files after installing mine. Please reinstall my .dat files only and post a screenshot.

Also please insure to upgrade to SPB MS 2.1.2, if you want to use this theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Here you go.

I also considered using this layout for you. 9 big contacts for portrait and 16 for landscape. I went with the one above.

Copy the 3 .dat files into your folder and reset.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] darktiger:
Where can I find this theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Thank you very much Phonatic

I'm also waiting for this skin

I love itl and specially the clock :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Check post #4802. I did the weather. I will consider doing the clock.

I must go for now. At least I did many things today with my hobby.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dealwagon:
WOW. How can I get 2 calendar events on this one? Any way? I would love to use this, but need to eliminate the alarm, and move the clock up a touch, then add 1 event. Then it would be perfect. Anyone care to share how?

GReat work on this one!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Thanks Phonatic i will try it

[EDIT]I have installed your orange version then the layouts tour did for me with 1 page 9 contacts and works fine but after installed the new weather clock i have 3 contacts pages...

Also do you think you can do something with the osx Mikomi skin ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I'm back. Yes, I mention which layout it is on the download page.

When I pointed to that post, I was just bringing your attention to the fact that I had created another weather option.

Give me a few minutes. I will make your preferred layout with the new weather option.

As far as the Now screen what are you specifically wanting. Do you like the blue clock? The arms with no clock face?

What do you think about the blue digital, with the orange analog below it? Maybe you can photoshop what you want it to look like?

If I also like it, I will make it. If not, maybe someone else will like it and make it.

Alright I have it for you. Here is your layout with the new weather option applied. Now, calendar, program, weather, one page 9 contacts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
I'm bored of diamond clock and i really like the new blue clock alone and with the analog also

Thanks Phonatic (and did you look about OSX skin? )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
Can sum 1 please up Phonatic s orange/ pumkin theme to rapishare

or megaupload and post link - im having probs with depositfiles - thx in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ntadeusz:
I find very cool Iphone theme, but unfortunatelly - it is for VGA.

Can someone convert it to QVGA?

Here is screeny

and here is link to file: http://cid-2142624aa711b6f1.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Publiczny/IphoneVGA.zip .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dstanton:
Noobee looking for help on Skins

What software is required for making or modifying the SPB Mobile Shell skins or themes for WM6? Is there a guide anywhere for this?

Any help you can give would be awesome! Thanks.:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theme freak:
Here read at this thread..

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

just make sure your head won't be heated while reading them hehe :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
Greek and Hungarian localization PATCH are now available on the web-site.

Starting from today is possible to purchase extra components (Buttons, Clocks, Weather) to customize the skins. [For the moment I've added only one Analog Clock to test the process]

My new policy is:

- Platform will be FREEWARE also in the future for the new releases.

- Standard basic components will be included into the freeware package

- Extra components can be purchased and simply added to the others
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] medosier:
Multple Contact Pages

Can anyone tell me how or direct me to a tutorial on how to make multiple contact pages.

Would be GREAT in the RoboDad skins, which I LOVE.

Thanks in advance,

Bull
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mintblue:
Hi Phonatic, this is exactly what i want but when i try to extract the files and copy them to phone, it asks me for a password.

Can you help please.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] webguy05:
Phonatic Request: Replace Weather on Now Screen

Phonatic,

I'm using your original orange theme and I was hoping that you could help me out. I want to replace the weather icon and link that is on the Now Screen with the comm manager icon and link. I've tried un-checking the backlight option in the MS setting and then trying to change it that way but no luck. Also, if possible it would be great if when clicking on the comm manager icon it would pop up a window similar to the phone profile pop up (to select sound options) but the comm manager would allow you to turn on/off options (similar to my 3rd image).

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Do not extract the file. All you need to do, as my instruction says is to remove the .zip extension.

Currently the filename is qa_layouts.dat.zip

Change it to qa_layouts.dat, copy to your folder and reset.

Here's a great tutorial by Luigi. Use the example above to convert to .pdf file.

I will consider it. I won't have time for awhile. I have an hour today to spend on SPB.

I will do two things that I thought of today.

I will do those and post later.

After that, I told someone that I would make a custom layout for them.

That will be my only undertaking for the rest of the week.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Today while using The Windows Field that I modded.

I noticed the weather icons made the digital Now screens look cluttered. So I removed them.

I left them only on the 2 analog Now screens.

Since I had previously extracted the clock hands from Greatbal's Omnia Theme, I decided to use them here.

The weather icons are what I'm using as the the clock background.

As you can see in the second picture, the am/pm would have blended into the clouds.

I moved it to the left, under the mru button. It's placed well away from possibly getting obstucted.

To me, it kinda balances with the profile icon, If that makes any sense?

For anyone interested here are the 2 .dat files that can be used to overwrite the files from my previous upload.

Here's a colorful twist to the Windows Field Theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
Need New Link

CAN SUM 1 PLEASE POST A NEW LINK TO THE ABOVE SKIN, CANT GET IT FROM DEPOSITFILES PLEASE UP IT TO MEGAUPLOAD/RAPISHARE - WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] webguy05:
Here is the Orange Theme. I don't have the other background file, sorry.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
Thanks Webguy05 - much appreciated - cheers

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
Release 2.6

This upgrade include:

- added the choice for the bottom tab icons (no more related to the background image)

- support for coloured digital clocks

- fixed some graphical bugs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
again First download, and commentaire

"BIG Thanks"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mf01mf01:
Please help: how can I choice for the bottom tab icons and how can I coloured digital clocks (I can't find these functions)?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
You can select the bottom tab icons using the Options script (from the Spb Skin list) : skip the layer selection and select the "Program Menu Button Style" option from the list. With the first choice (1) you set the 9 buttons style; with the second choice (2) the 5 bottom tab icons style.

Coloured digital clocks are supported by the new 2.6 platform but not included into the freeware package. They can be purchased from my site.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mf01mf01:
Thank's, it's working!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MikiBest:
What about this?

similar to T-Mobile Diamond