yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oscarbum:
I think what ycats is asking isn't solved by spbwatcher. They are talking about the phone going to the Now screen upon wake up, as opposed to the program they were using. Let's say they are using Skyfire. They walk away for a few minutes and the phone goes into sleep mode. Phone wakes up, but instead of still seeing Skyfire, they see the Now screen.

I'm not a programming genius, but I suspect that would require something pretty complicated unless there's a Mortscript that eliminates the return to the Now screen on wakeup.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ycats:
you hit the nail on the head.........................very irritating, makes me want to uninstall Mobile Shell, but I really like the theme I have from Greatbl.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jadesdan:
Go to the SPB Mobile Shell settings and uncheck the 'Show Now screen when device wakes up' box.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ycats:
I had that checked off before, I guess it defaults back to being checked after a soft reset.........so I believe that was the issue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hitmanxxx00:
Same here.

Rommmod Black theme looks great :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Mobile Shell

All you have to do is down swipe to reopen application in the background
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ycats:
yes, I knew this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Here's how I like it. Touch temp to get to detail weather page. Profile icon top right. I'd like to switch the top right icon to black. No tabs. Status at bottom. Mrus bottom left and right. Launcher page has matching bottom layout. Speed dial page has very large 3x3 layout with only status icons at the bottom. Can you please get me the background that stretches all the way to the bottom?

Gagaza had to do this for me because I just couldn't figure out alot of it. I was stuck. What would have taken me forever to figure out, he just threw together.

Gagaza, thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] formula84:
Can you share your files I woould like to look at the mods you did?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
I had gagaza do this for me. Let me make sure it's OK with him. He's been hard to get a hold of lately.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
RomMod now with Landscape

sorry, double posts
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
RomMod now with Landscape

For those that have been waiting for this. Here it is.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brianlau:
I tried downloading... everything is in Russian?... does anyone know a quick way to change the language or would I have to install another SPB theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hitmanxxx00:
I just tried this and i'll confirm that landscape now works.

However, a lot of the menu names are appearing in Russian (i think).

Any way to fix this? My phone setting is still set to English.

Also, the voicemail icon is still not showing.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kevystyles:
For you and the person above, remove the SpbMobileShell.txt and replace it with the one I hope you backed up or just an english one from anyone that can provide one here.

I had just moved away from Spb MS because couldn't be satisfied with perfect theme, now it's a tough choice do I go back and face the inevitable memory leaks of mobile shell and run this one again...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ryano2121:
How to change programs?

How can I change the program icons on the home screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
You are correct. Just replace the SpbMobileShell.txt with the backed up *.txt.

I guess I am fortunate that I didn't run into the memory leaks problem.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
thanks for that RamRod post works just fine!

now if we can only get a good looking iPhone theme for SPB MS ( like post #4030 on pg 403 ) no pressure.. just saying.. lol

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
iFonz Theme

Did you look at this thread?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] disatrushotta:
any chance this works on the herald/wing
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] carcomp:
Ah, whoops I mean pages to this thread, not posts. There used to be at least 400 pages. Now theres only 210 or so. Just wondered where they all went to.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
this is ifonz man, so why should we look at that ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fruss:
Comm Manager & ...

Hello,

I am a beginner using mobile shell so I've tried to find all the answers to my doubts in this wonderful thread. Now I have a couple of them without answer (related to spb shell and others):

1. comm manager:

is there a chance to have the Comm Manager on MS now screen (as for phone profiles)?

also exists a better version of HTC Comm Manager? (I have a P3600 WM5)

(as user of Phone Suite + Pocket Plus SW, I use to manage the bluetooth/wifi switches with the Phone Suite "wireless management" on today screen, having Phone Suite as plugin in Pocket Plus)

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2. problems with some themes (ie Greatbal Diamond 2.1)

I have experienced a strange problem: when I click on a point of the screen (ie: on the first soft key at the bottom left of the now screen), I activate another point on the screen placed on the right (ie: the soft key that is placed two keys on the right): have you experienced something like this?

sorry, problem already known - see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2494352&postcount=1666

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thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] livengo:
How to change Theme/Skin

Hi all,

New user in the forum, trying to find out a lot. Have HTC Touch Diamond and want to change to another theme/skin.

I have SPB MS 2.1 installed, but do not understand where to paste/install all the .dat files and the .tsk file.

The White Diamond v1.0 looks sharp, have all the files.

PHelp/description anyone??

Regards,

Christian
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fruss:
Hi,

after downloaded a theme (in this thread), open the .zip file and paste all the .dat files in the Mobile Shell folder in your device (I suppose you have already installed the SPB Mobile Shell software)

see here an example (Greatbal's HTC Diamond Theme):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=402021
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kytto:
thanks :D

request: is it possible to remove the contact page and replace the icon with the exit one??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
pretty much!

iFonz is pretty lame i.m.o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hitmanxxx00:
Thanks. I did just this and the English has reappeared.

This theme is exactly what i was looking for.

The only thing not working that I found is the icon for a missed call and voicemail received icon.

If anyone knows a fix for this please let us know :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sirive:
anyone..ANYONE??!?!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Does anyone else have the knowledge to help me please? Gagaza was a big help, but I can't get ahold of him.

I somehow messed up my font colors. Gagaza had it set up to where I had black fonts on my Now screen and white fonts on all my other screens, just as I had requested. In turning my profile icon from white to black, without having to install spb phone suite, I messed something up.

I played with so many files I don't know which one I messed up.

The problem is that now my font colors on my sub pages, the ones that come up when I press a launcher icon(see third pic) have black fonts. I would like these to be white. Does anyone have the knowledge?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
The submenu file is spbmenu.xml. The font color needs to be set to "FFFFFF" to get the font white.

Hope this helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
ldostang, thank you for the quick reply. I had looked at that page so many times because that's where I thought it would be. I was so hung up on looking at the first set referenceing color, that I didn't look below it. Thanks to you the problem is solved. I must have changed it somewhere along the way. I changed the lower color reference and voila, the final peice of the puzzle is now in place and my set-up works just as I want. Thanks:D

<General>

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

<Color Name="LineColor" Value="000000"/>

<Int Name="LineOpacity" Value="60"/>

<Int Name="DefIcon" Value="182"/>

<Int Name="DefOpacity" Value="100"/>

<Font Name="ListFont" Face="Tahoma" HeightPxl="14" Bold="y"/>

<Font Name="ListStatusFont" Face="Tahoma" HeightPxl="14"/>

<Font Name="ListSmallFont" Face="Tahoma" HeightPxl="13"/>

<Font Name="ListSmallBoldFont" Face="Tahoma" HeightPxl="13" Bold="y"/>

<Color Name="TextColor" Value="000000"/>

</General>
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sinclac:
greatbal

The GSmart Theme with nicer "glassy" buttons:

Awesome theme Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ToddeSwe:
Mobile Shell 2.1.2

Hi!

Have someone tested the "new" 2.1.2?

Sniped from Spb home:

Version 2.1.2 (August 14, 2008):

* Option to show all day events

* Option to hide "free" events

* Fixed compatibiblity issues with some custom skins

* Fixed Palm Treo 800w compatibility issues

* Reduced sensivity of closing gestures

* Other minor bug fixes

Does it work with the new Diamond 2.0?

ToddeSwe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Will someone please tell me what the color code is for red.

ie. "000000" is black and "FFFFFF" is white.

I use black fonts accompanied with black battery and operator icons on my Now screen because it is easier to see with the weather background.

I use white fonts on my Launcher screen becuase I couldn't see black fonts on a black background.

The problem was that I still couldn't see the battery or operator icons. Instead of making them white I tried red icons provided by Tom108.

I like the way red looks on black and now want to match the fonts to the icons.

Depending on how it looks, I also might use red on my Now screen. This way I am only using one font color and one set of battery and operator icons for my set-up. TIA

Never mind. I searched and found this http://websitetips.com/colortools/colorblender/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jem30:
Yes - installed 2.1.2 yesterday with Diamond 2.0 theme - works very nicely (not seen any issues). Nicefeature to be able to see "all day" events
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Yes and yes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ToddeSwe:
Nice! So it's safe then :)

And what is "all day events"?

ToddeSwe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
Birthdays, holidays, modifying a new MS skin, etc.:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kajoe:
I found a great skin here: http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13098

But it is not in Dutch. That is a pitty. It looks very good. Maybe there is a developer that can work on it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pedrovsky77:
And the moon icon?

There´s no moon icon...by night always show the sun.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rdegiuli:
spb diary

somebody knows if is it possible to have a lot of appointments in the home or maybe to use spb diary in one of the page?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ToddeSwe:
Nice! Looking forward to see this!

A question: if i save all my .dat files will i be able to restore my current theme after the new install? Or is it more i must backup before installing the new version?

ToddeSwe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Chivas610:
I can't get these theme's to work on my Diamond. I'm using the final MS 2.1.2, and the themes get all messy :(

Is it a Diamond issue due to the high resolution, or should they work perfectly fine with Diamond?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dayze0:
most themes here are for QVGA - Ibelieve your phone is a VGA - hence the layout/ design is not compatable with your device - sorry . have a look for VGA THEMES

have a google for vga themes , spb themes of vga ect ect
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Chivas610:
Oky, thnx. Will do that :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
WHITE DIAMOND transparant icons

Hi all

I had few comments / requests regarding my white diamond theme icons

many wanted the icons to "float" on the white screen..and to NOT have the black siamond square around it

so here what i did:

- I modified the GSmart (better looking transparent) icons..now you get the floating look & also you can see through them...

- If you change the shell theme colors, the BG squares colors will change and this is seen THROUGH the icons

- I also changed the MRU icon backgroiund to match and be transparant as well

- I also changed the STATUS icons, now they are hidden(shadows) and when a new call or message arrive they will turn dark ... more eye catching to me :)

finally, and in a seperate zip file,

for the ones who are using my latest FULL screen white diamond, because the new icons are little different i had to adjust the position of the icons in landscape to line up correctly.... so i attached a new layout.dat file (again this one is ONLY FOR FULL SCRRN WHITE DIAMIND)

if you like my work...please donate :)

enjoy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
That looks great. Can the clock be made to look like that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schwalbach:
Hey,

I installed a theme at the start and also put on some fonts with the theme.

Now when I slide my keyboard up, the line that my cursor is on is white colored, and the "suggestions" that pop up when I'm typing are all jumbled. Everything is still functional, it's just I can't see what I'm typing and sometimes the text even all turns white when I switch to landscape only. How can I fix/replace my fonts or whatever? I have deleted the fonts that were in the folder I put them in, but something is still definitely wrong.

FYI; It was 3 fonts I had moved to the folder, I may or may not have replaced old fonts and when I deleted them may be the problem, but I deleted them because everything was worse and everything was white before I deleted them. Now I get some functionality, but not how it should be.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
i tried a white clock and a transparant clock both with back digits

but they did not look good

not because of the graphics, but the style itself was no right...the contrast with black clock is better..so i kept it this way
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Thank you for the reply. Can you share or tell me where to get a transparent clock with black digits.

Your work is very beautiful and very functional, and so much of it. You must be a very busy man.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] OnceAMatrixMan:
A general question on all the skins. Would deleting all the unnecessary layout sizes make a difference in the memory footprint and overall responsiveness? For example, my display is 240x320 should I delete all the other displays? Or is this more work than it's worth??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] formula84:
I have done this and I don't think it makes much difference in memory but if you want to be able to free up mem without using landscape, just delete all the ql*.dat files from you programs file\spb mobile shell directory when you switch to landscape it will force quite mobile shell freeing up memory until you launch it again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kristokristo:
Fantastic

Looks very good! No needs to flash or else!

Tanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] IceManTX:
I've seen brief mentions of this but no solution or response. Please help me if you can.

I want to set a button to immediately take me to the [Dial Tab]. But with all of these customized themes it takes you to the weather tab instead (or whatever is tab 3 at the time).

The shortcut for this is MenuLauncher.exe -dial

What can I do to get a button to take me to the Dial Tab? Change an .xml file? Move a tab? Fool it into thinking the dial tab is really #3? ANYTHING at all that you can think of would be great.

There are so many smart people here that could surely solve this little puzzle. And I honestly can't believe that more people haven't wanted this feature. It is cumbersome to have to go through multiple strokes to get to the dial tab when I want to contact someone.

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] c1bear:
Hi and good day i was hopping you could if you have time fix this so i could have 48 contact 12 per page
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
can u post a screen of the contacts page to see the layout. or can u tell me what skin u r using? that way i may be able to help u better.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
LdoStang's Blue Wave theme

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=418863
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Legolus:
Beautiful

Is it possible just to have three tabs and eliminated the X tab

I never close my now screen

Thanks,

legolus
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
Im thinking of doing different layouts like mru tab instead of the close tab or eliminate the 4th tab entirely depending on comments and suggestions.

Also replied to this comment in my theme thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2544384#post2544384
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] IceManTX:
OK, this was scary easy. This leads me to believe that everyone knows how to do this and I'm late to the party. But just to humor any other person that finds themselves in my shoes I will detail what I did.

I opened the qa_layouts.dat file of my favorite theme. Then extracted the Main.xml file and simply changed the tab names in this section of the code. The bolded names are what I changed.

Then put the main.xml file back in the qa_layouts.dat file using the (b0fm18zq) password as usual. Surprisingly, (to me) I didn't have to edit the bottom row of icons. They updated automatically. (I thought this was a static image) So I used to have Main, Apps, Weather, Contact1, Contact2. Now I have Main, Apps, Contact1, Contact2, Weather. So the Weather tab is moved to the far right and the Contact1 page takes over the Tab3 spot which is where it was originally. This of course makes mapping a button to [Dial Tab] work!

*I can hear all the pros yelling "DUH!" right now* :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] flughirsch:
Hi there,

I didn´t had the time to read along this thread the last weeks, so I lose the overview.

Ok, there is a new version of MS (2.1.2). But is there a list what skins are working with this new version? I read that diamond skin 2.0 is still working but how about the other ones? Now I´m using the Sony PS3 skin from Dredd67 (page 51).

Please let me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jcjames:
Nice one. :) Can you make mru for this theme. MRU is a must for me. I dont use the calendar that much. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
This looks nice. Can you make it with a Diamond back ground and give it a little diamond look?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
iPhone for MS 2.1!

Not totally done yet, but i couldn't resist a sneek peek! Will probably post tommorrow as i'm out of time today. Just a few minor edits and this baby's good to go!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I'm not big on the background (leopard is it?), but that is very good work, I especially love the calender page. If I didn't have a 240x240 screen I would definetly try to change the wallpaper and use this one!!!!!

Very nice!!!! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
Wow Wow Wow

it will B a good idea 2 have alternative iPhone background
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nightcookie:
Hey IceManTX,

thx for sharing! Even in post 4347 (:eek:), it's never too late for some advice to rookies. Certainly enlightened me, anyway! :)

N.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tyguy:
I posted in another thread w/o success.

Need some help...

HOW do I get my top bar showing Provider, WiFi, BT etc.

Using the GSMART WM7 theme but top bar is empty.

I do not want to change anything on the theme but missing the transparent top bar icons.

First attachment how mine is, second how I'd like to have the top (no changes at the bottom and I can live without weather)...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
If you know how to edit the .xml I can explain and post examples for you.

If not, you can upload your qa_layouts.dat and I will edit it for you.

I will add the provider and the connection status as shown on the pic. The top bar will look like the pic. I cannot do bluetooth.

By the way what are those red dots?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tyguy:
The red dots where just to show what I'm missing where...

XML ... not really so see attached my qa file just rename to dat.

Thanks mate
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] walla:
Sweet! Please keep working on it and post it when you are done.

Someone else had done a similar project but he dropped the ball: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=11507

Can his icons be used in your theme? I believe you can do better than him!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Your qa_layout looks fine and should be working. You might have this .dat file missing. You know what to do with it.

By the way when you uploaded that file you might have zipped it. Next time just change the extension to .zip only.

Please let me know the results. Remember to reset after you put the file into your folder.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tyguy:
Sorry for zipping!

I had the file but copied yours - no change, sniiiif

Will send you a directory shot later.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
What version of Mobile Shell are you using? People have had problems similar to yours when using a 2.1 skin with 2.0 installed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Phonatic:
Strange stuff. I checked your qa_layout again. This is your layout on my Tilt. Are you using version2.1? Have you ever had that info on the top bar with spb. Maybe try reloading the theme?

Thanks mtkates, I just noticed your comments after I posted. Yea, looks like 2.0 problem. I guess I should have asked him that question beforehand.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tyguy:
*scratching head*

2.1.1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtkates:
MS v2.1.1 has many custom skin problems. Try with v2.1.2 (latest). You can install over current, then reinstall custom skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tyguy:
2 thumbs UP that did the trick!

Thanks!!!

Last but not least:

How can I remove the little digital clock top in the middle of the now or even all screens? Would a delete or rename of the "small" clock work?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bassett:
Looking for some advice. I like nearly every aspect of the Greatbal/y1mrn skin here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2256105&postcount=1828

What I'd like, however, is to add the battery, weather, profiles, and signal icons to the top of the Now (main?) screen like Littlerain/Toniolol's skin:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2298419&postcount=2522

Looking for direction as to what files I need to modify to obtain this look. Thanks for your help.