yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I mentioned on my post that this theme is not recommended to be "mixed-and-matched" with other themes as it will definitely cause some problems. If you take a look at the dat files, you will realize that it's not just "the looks". I also suggested that if you were using a different theme from other users, itis wise to make a fresh install of MS2.1beforeinstalling this theme.

However, this is a learning experience for me. Next time, It's either I make my themes compatible with others skinners' works or complete the dat files needed by the theme (including default SPBMS2.1 which the theme uses) in the zip file for download in order to overwrite some customized dat files.

Thanks for the feedback.

BTW, I plan to make a lighter version (with less tabs) and imporve on some aspects of the theme, especially the weather icons. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] harbringer:
Hi Greatbal,

Your theme is very very nice.

Inspired by your work i did a theme for S2U2, and i'm working on fixing the SPB Phone Suite profiles issue.

For the weather, i used some very nive icons which could fit to your theme.

​

Thanks for your great work Greatbal
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sanderwispelweij:
Can I use Greatbal's diamond theme in landscape?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ljinsane:
Please post this!!! this is a really nice sweet s2u2 Theme
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RideTheTube:
Does anything point to a conflict between Slide2Unlock and the GreatBall HTC Diomand theme? becaus the theme often freeze so i have to do an softreset or some icons missing like the the weather panel or sometimes the calender...

i´m useing htc prophet. thx for answeres...

I have installed SPB Shell 2.1 and the HTC Diamond theme is first in it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] harbringer:
i don t think there is a problem between s2u2

and greatbal theme. i have both and all

work perfectly.

btw you can find the s2u2 there

http://www.actualitemobile.com/forum/index.php/topic,637.msg29179.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pocketdoc:
I have a VZW Touch with custom 6.1 ROM. I installed MS 2.1 and the Diamond 2.1 theme, but it is not showing up.

How do I "activate" the theme?

(I have searched and did not find a solution)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pocketdoc:
Nevermind.

I found it under SPB Menu.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gammarho55:
question?

i'm having a bit of an issue... is there any way to switch which section is the "now screen"? i use shell as my today screen, so i'd like to have it open up to the time screen rather than the programs page. is there any way to accomplish this? that and i would like to get the exact setup that you have for your programs page with "my menu" and "games". also, here's the *.tsk file i told you about. not quite sure how to extract the bacgground image. any help would be appreciated. thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marciton:
where to download this ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] harbringer:
marciton look to my preceding post. i posted the link on actualitemobile.com.

i can t give the theme on xda right now, i m not on my pc tonight :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
it s beautifull mdr hello l'ami tu as raison montre ton super travail llol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
more changes...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mic_888:
I am trying to convert to 320x320 - a having trouble with it. Hopefully will have time to have another go this weekend.

I had a look at the index.xml that was in dclock.dat that jopiej posted in 240x240 but it's exactly the same as the one posted by greatbal.

I guess it would be the same as it's still 240 width but ours is 320 so the picture looks skewed.

I need to have a look at the other files - hopefull I can work it out... :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JVRSilva:
Great looking!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bridic:
Very nice.

Edit: Can you post the file here?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheIgster:
Nope. Still black overall. The themes doesn't seem to do a thing with this skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheIgster:
Where can I download this version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _DX_:
First of all, great themes RoboDad!

However I have a problem with the Now page... It is still displaying parts of the default MS2.1 theme (Indigo in my case, as this is what it was set to before I changed it to your theme). I have this issue with both the PointUI theme and the PointUI Blue theme. I have downloaded the Layout-tabcal_extended.zip (#4 from the list above). I've copied this with the theme base file to the WM folder, overwriting the existing files.

The other pages are fine, although I'm missing the Games button on the items tab. That's not a big issue, although it would be great if you can tell me how to solve it :)

I have tried a different theme (Blue Wall Tab, forgot who made it), wich worked fine.

I'd really like to use your PointUI Blue theme, so hopefully you can tell me what I did wrong!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Looking forward for ur updates...

I've already made that for u...

Note: I've just fixed the Temp height in the layout to make it compatible with the new icons...

Thank u very much for THE awesome theme...

P.S: do u have a white clock BG skin like the original Diamond...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] scanboy:
Need some help

I really like the iphone with style theme, but I want it in vga and since vga version is not available, I'm trying to create one base on the qvga version.

My question is, when I unpack the theme, how come I don't see any of those iphone icons that I see in the bitmap?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zen_green:
Hello,

As I previously said, I really like your time, looks like very professional.

And I prefer it now, compare to your last screenshot, with the LCD "touch style" clock.

Could you share it ?

Thks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BeyondInvisible:
Can you please post the Weather icon file (qa_weather_big.dat) please? I love those weather icons

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] edu23:
loop problem with diamond skin

hello,

i love greatbals diamond skin very much, but i have the problem that hwen i want to move by gesture to the ext tab, the same tab comes again.The clock only changes between analog and digital, and goesnot to ext tab.

Had the same problems with greatbals gsmart skint, but i had the luck, tha somebody postet a file called qa_layouts.dat that fixed this problem.

Iwould be realy happy if somebody could be so kind and help me to fix this.

I installed Mobile shel three times, with softreset etc. but allways the same.

Thanks in advance. i need this skin i´m addicted to this skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] airric00:
check the arrows on the top!! It's the way the theme was made. Each screen has arrows to alert you what is available for flipping between screens. It take a bit to get use to, but is cool!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
just the lcd? i have already shared it on my very first release...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=374335&page=44

the rest of the theme...you'll just have to wait...

by the way...i'm going to make the theme have both clock types...lcd and diamond (pro and classic(digital) look)...

as i said before...this is still very early stage...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nameht83:
deleted post
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RGV-Mogul:
memory for SPB Shell 2.1 increases

Folks,

after installing some of these cool skins, I noticed that the memory for SPB Shell 2.1 increased dramatically. I just checked it and it is at 12.8 megs when it usually is about 2 megs when running the default skin. Is this normal?

I run a Titan and it is not the best on memory.

thanks in advance,

RM
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
nice weather icons, can you please send me the icons so i can update the dat file? Thanks! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
It all depends on the number of background images andthe number of tabs. My Themes take about 3-5MB. The price we have to pay to make it look a little bit nicer than the default theme. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Hey thanks for editing the weather icons and the layout dat files. I'm working on the update and may well use these. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
VistaMobileShell_v0.2.1d

Coming to theaters near you soon! (in CAB form ;) )

- New background

- New weatherpage

- New message icons (you could see that already in some previous post)

- New caption icons

- No closure button (just use the hardware button!)

Still needs some tweaking though, CAB will follow soon
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RGV-Mogul:
Thank you Greatbal. I'm going to try your's next.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] corzradio:
why doesnt

my clock look like that??..i put everything in its place
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
yes i have. but, if you look at my pre-release screen shots (attached), i started playing around with the white flip time images using modern_dclock spb class. but the problem is, that spb class doesn't support displaying the zero at the start as in 09:00 pm. It automatically disregards the zero and automatically centers the three digits which makes it disaligned on the white background. so i opted with the darker background and used the dclock spbclass instead, which unfortunately, doesn't support solid images. :(

If anybody can solve that issue, we can use the white background which is IMO nicer. :)

.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Lopio:
Nice work baldo........:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
salamt po. :p

also try my GSmart and the Glassy GSmart themes if you don't like the layout of this diamond theme. THe Gsmart themes also consume less ram because of less tabs/pages. enjoy! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom108:
Greatbal,

how can i resolve the discoloration around the message icons?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Qasani:
I'm trying to extract the clock portion of the Diamond theme to put with another theme. Which files do I need?

Thanks

Q
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bchandler78:
That's part of the Diamond Theme supposed to look like that! It is the background of the skin...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Agamemmnon:
I Changed the Person Icon with the Heart on the Bottom.

If someone does not like the Person Icon with the Heart on the Bottom, can get it replaced here by this:)

Just rename the .zip to .dat and put it in the /Programs/Spb Mobile Shell Folder.

greets Agamemmnon
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom108:
no. if you look close there is a variation of color there and it is only on the clock pages with the message icons. i am not talking about the background.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] natataka:
i do have this too. BTW i love the Theme. thanks greatBal!

p.s. on the picture, you have a "running apps" icon and games. i do not have anything on the last 2 icons. how do i do that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bchandler78:
Also interested in the running apps icon as I have My Menu and Active Tasks! No need for games! Can you help with antoher icon? I know only a thousand questions for you about the Theme :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Agamemmnon:
look here;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
the last two icons is MRU and contacts page.. I haven't convert the weather pages yet. will post it later after I updated it. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
for blue lovers

guys,, changing the background with a nicer blue glass. I included the background (stwater_240_240.png) for today screen, just copy it into your windows folder and select the blue color themes from the mobile shell..

enjoy!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 420Mac:
Modified HTC Diamond

All the credit is Greatbal's for his amazing Theme!

I've just modified the main weather window and lock weather window as well as the clock, topbar and bottom bar to my own liking. Glossy as usual :rolleyes:

Thanks again to Greatbal for his creative work! :)

And thanks to Agamemmnon for his little tweak :)

Greatbal Do you have any plans to incorporate Landscape at any point?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
hi,, for the 9 icon, just copy this registry key into your phone registry.. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] muzikfreakah:
Pareng greatball, fellow pinoy here.

Great job! Salamat!

Request: Could you possibly swap the weather and the contacts tab since the Vista-like access gives you only to 3 windows and right now contacts isnt one of them, since I use contacts a lot, I would like it to appear. My main home screen kase is the HTC home, then I switch to spb shell every now and then, and I like the shotructs to the contacts giving you access to text or call other numbers.

Salamat ulit pare!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gman8966:
Don't know if I missed it, but is there a link to DL your modified work?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Anyway you can share your MOD?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toblo:
Not sure if I get you right, but I think it does support solid Image. Below is my screen shot and modified qa_dclock

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.DigitalClock" Name="DigitalClock" Skin="qa_dclock" DoubleSkin="va_dclock" BoldFont="n"/>

<Plugin Name="DigitalClock">
<LeftTop X="0" Y="30"/>
</Plugin>
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
BTW, I'm using opera on my device to access the site. 3zll try you dclok.dat file tonight and see how it goes. would be nice to have a white flip time background with black numbers. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] patko226:
I have this theme but clock is not show correct... I have not idea why.... :confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KukurikU:
no help?! anybody?! does this happened to me only????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pntzamaras:
we are counting on you then!!! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ^^rac:
1. I know this happened to me, when i triend to use a different weather icons set (Stardock) one. Me device would not open SPB shell...............also had the strange topbar.

The cycling pages, i have no idea! (Maybe, after you clean installed it, still some registry setting or summin that was not cleared!)

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DarkWader:
Can you upload this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pho_love:
I have this problem too, how to fix it? change to small icon for SPB Phone suit?

Who can help us?

:confused::confused::confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zehro:
Games icon

I love this theme by Greatbal! Its so pretty!

I have added a Task Manager button to the Root menu and it is working fine and brings up a list of tasks running. I also added a Games button but it doesn't seem to bring up a list of installed games. I have tried many different settings in the registry but nothing seems to work for me.

If there is a specific "Type" value that I need to use could somebody please help me out? I have never had this trouble before and its frustrating me to no end. :confused:

For reference, at the moment I'm using these settings

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Spb Software House 2\Spb Mobile Shell\Menu\Root\Games]
"MRUImage"=dword:000000BF
"Image"=dword:00000008
"Text"="Games"
"DrawType"="Grid"
"Index"=dword:00000009
"Add"=dword:00000001
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Lopio:
I like the Htc Diamond, if theres an update just sms me hehe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deedee:
It doesn't produce a direct link to your Start - Games folder, just a convenient place for you to put shortcuts to your games. This you have to do manually i am afraid.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] harbringer:
Hi,

i post here the weather icons i use for my s2u2 theme.

These icons are not my work, i found them in a Weather Panel Theme.

I just modified the size to fit in s2u2 in full screen.

I'll post my S2u2 theme in the proper section.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iNiels:
what is the skin

What is the skin you are using here with the gray topbars?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zehro:
Ah cheers! I thought that may be the case. I'm glad that you have cleared that up for me. I probably would have wasted a lot of time going around in circles. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toblo:
It's a modified my Iphone With Style II (BLUE V2.1)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
Instructions please!!!

Hi

I downloaded, unzipped & copied your weather folder inside the "gfx" folder of S2U2 to replace the old one... i still get the same old weather icons... how do you get FULL screen please?

can you add a link to your post..i am not sure where to find your S2U2 related section?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] harbringer:
You can find the S2U2 theme here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2225598#post2225598

i posted the weather icons for greatbal to put them in his theme.

If you want to use them in S2u2 you must hav Weather Panel on your pda and change the weather settings of S2u2 and so...

This is all i can say about... for now
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iNiels:
Can you post it here?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cesarium:
Can you share the Leopard Skin Style?

Thanks

Cesarium
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thorfr:
uplaod? :)

Can you post your sm2 skins please

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
i've resolved that one. will include it in the update soon. if you want to do it yourself, see qa_status.dat, the image (mask) should be totally black. apparently i used a "not-so-black" color which i thought was black. hehe

good luck. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
uy pinoy! hehe :p

I'll see if I can do that for you pre. For the meantime, while on the Weather page, press the right softkey to transfer to the contacts page. and while on the contacts page, you can switch between the three contacts pages using your left and right softkeys. (I hope your device has softkeys hehe)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I tried it again using your dat file, still no go. :(

The face is solid but the digits aren't, it seems to disregard the digits.bmp and uses only the mask file with plain white as base color.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheWizzard2203:
How do I get the profile icon and the wifi/bt icon of SPB Phone Suite on the main (digital clock) screen of SPB Mobile Shell HTC Diamond black theme of course, (for instance underneath the digital clock) instead of that the profile icon is being shown on the above right taskbar, thus not showing correctly (as many of us experienced).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RGV-Mogul:
Yearning for learning

All,

after looking over this thread and some of the great skins available, I have found myself with the urge to learn. I am greatly appreciative to those that build these skins for showing me the other side of SPB stuff.

I'm currently running Kulet78's skins. I especially like the 3 contact screens. I have found though that I would rather only have 2 contact screens, no calendar screen, and no MRU. I also want to tailor it down because it's killing me on the memory side. Hitting about 12 megs on the SPB Shell process thread.

So here is my request. Can the community point me to the direction of some good how-to's and examples? I am not a programmer by trade but a very persistent cool geek.

The more I learn the more I can share. Any direction would be appreciated.

RM
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
you can start from here :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2037930#post2037930
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes it does seem to only use white as base color...i'm looking into that too...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paulsg63:
Hey greatbal... love the Diamond theme...

I have modified the qa_layouts to only have the Today, Calendar, Launcher and Weather tabs.

Got that done fine... but where can I find the positions of the background tabs... (see pics).

If you just let me know where to find this... I can change them.. I just was having issues finding it.

THANKS!!!!! :)

Paul G

P.S. Oh ya, also, on the Now screen banner you have the date listed... where can I change the font size on that.? Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
that has always been my problem even before i released this version. i opted to use the modern_dclock because you can use solid colors for the digits. however, it automatically adjusts to center the 3 digits, hard to align inside the face of the clock.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
1) main.xml of the qa_layouts.dat (for position of the tabs)

2) index.xml of modern_dclock.dat (for date font size)

Thanks for editing. Some users would prefer it your way also. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Paulsg63, can you add the contact page too. thanks bro .. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paulsg63:
Thanks for the response!!

I already edited the main.xml to move the tabs... its the background to the tabs.. check the pics, see how the background doesn't line up with the tabs. The tabs are where I want them to be.... THANKS! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
you have to edit the corresponding xml of the page. for example Tab3 refers to mainweather.xml, wherein you will find the MyTab image class. edit it's position (x and y coordinates). Good luck. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] The_Tech_Ninja:
Man, I'm not a retard but I cant get this to install

I have 2.1 installed

I downloaded diamond theme

Extract it to: /Program Files/SPB Mobile Shell and I dumped the files from files in there

and then under /windows/fonts/i dumped the files from fonts in there.

Soft reset, and back to default...

WTF MATE
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RGV-Mogul:
thanks a bunch.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deedee:
Really stupid question and it may not apply, but the files in the theme are in sub-folders, did your extraction replicate the folders or did it overwrite the original files in ../SPB Mobile Shell? The latter is the correct outcome.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] trojan9x:
Did you skin the classic view? Mine still looks like the original black classic screen. The professional screen is skinned and so is every other tab. Any hint as to why this is?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbh00jh:
Man, there is a cab file

you can download back

around post # 746.

On page 75.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikedav01:
Great appreciation

To all;

Being a noob of MS, I am having the best time trying all of the skins and being awed by the knowledge and creativity on display. Had Treos for years, now XV6900 and this is great! Found out about MS on HTC's wiki.

I love the Diamond and Robo's Point Blue, but I find myself switching between them all on a daily or even more often basis.

Just wanted to show some love to all!:p