yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hipocrazy:
mtstmp, is that a proposed shell for spb mobile or is it something you are almost ready to release?

....friggin' awesome
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
I've had the skin for a while, but I am now updating it to match the newest leaked shots of winmo 6.5. I've got very little free time to put into it, so it may be a few weeks yet.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] idbl_fanatic:
Why not release what you have now? I like what I see...............what about the rest of you?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 1ucio:
Anyone pls?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tarheel:
Adding more contact pages

Keith I absolutely love your themes. I have asked you this before now i am appealing to anyone who could help, is there anyway to add more contact pages thanks again
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
3 Speed Dial pages for flat grey

Here you go, all of the backgrounds will still work with this mod. Both version included, the one with 3 shortcuts and the one with 6 shortcuts on the now screen. In the screen shot you'll notice the three dial pages are numbered in the upper right corner of the tab icon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
New Status

The status icons are blurred if there aren't any new notifications. See screenshot. Rename .zip to .dat
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] duncstar:
Yes please share, mtstmp. I have been patently waiting for what seems like forever...

Release what you have now then update what your working on???

This is the best theme I have ever seen, please share
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] catashtrophe:
I just installed the blue theme on my omnio and all the screens are black apart from the contacts screen and that looks like a mess.

How do i get this to work

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
THANKs

hopng its VGA
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bumpelwumpel:
Please VGA!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WatermelonSlim:
Well we finally have some footage of 3.0:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2AO....com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=6856

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWzppakWPLI

http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=6856

It looks so sweet! Put that on the new Touch Pro 2 and we have a winner!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] disciplined:
Looks great already, but at this rate WM 6.5 will be leaked (beta 2 is already out) and the skin might become somewhat pointless. I would hate for that to happen with all of your work.

Plus Mobile Shell 3.0 is also on its way.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tpeazy:
Touch Pro VGA

Is anyone using mobile shell on a touch pro? If so are there any VGA shells out there? I don't really like the functionality of the TF3D. I like the shell better. Especially with mstmp's themes ;-)

Tp
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Storm theme for mobile shell

You can find it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=483165
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zyborg:
Does anyone know what this is?? ... and where I can find it? Thx. ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3334702&postcount=1617
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ZED_pt:
The theme is done...you have to pay to have it in the form of donation.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Feldhege:
Since when? I have been waiting too. What I understood (after reading a ton of posts) was that he was still working on it and that if you wanted his beta right now, you could donate and he would send it to you. If it is truly done and working, he should post that. I am not against paying him as I have no doubt it took alot of time to create, but if he is only going to give it away with a donation, he should let everyone know so we can do that.

Robb
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tpeazy:
We probably should be clear. From what i was told it is still a beta (although a GREAT ONE) and so he isn't totally ready to release it yet. Hopefully soon.

Tp
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wonsanim:
Hi Guys Have some skin Like vista Ultimate for Mobile Shell 2.1.5
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wonsanim:
were to find this skin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wonsanim:
This Skin works in Landscape screen orientation?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] towinguk:
9 or 6 tab dialer page

Hello all

I have searched and searched I know there is so much info but I still cannot find a answer

I would like to keep the original spb interface but to change the 16 tab dialer to 9 or 6

I did find the post at the beginning of this thread to change to a 9 tab but it changes other pages

So if anyone can point me in the direction that would be good

Thanks in advance

J
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Feldhege:
The only time I have seen this feature is with the Imarche skins generator or a custom skin. I don't think it is in there by default.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Reply

No landscape support. This skin was made way back when I used Mobile Shell. Back then we do it for free. Now I use WAD2. Much easier to customise than mobile shell.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tarheel:
Thank you Keith it was just what I was looking for. 1 question though and I hope I am not repeating a previous question but the text on home screen does not work when I press contacts it goes to internet favorites what to do
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
It points to mru number 2 you may have to move your contacts app to that position. Its number 1 if you do not have backlight enabled in mobile shell settings.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 12berrys:
themes activation

hi freinds

please help me how to apply these themes on my trinity
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
please help me how to apply these themes on my trinity[/QUOTE]

You first must have spb mobile shell installed, then copy the theme files over your existing files in the spb mobile shell directory. should be programs/spb mobile shell
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] idbl_fanatic:
You first must have spb mobile shell installed, then copy the theme files over your existing files in the spb mobile shell directory. should be programs/spb mobile shell[/QUOTE]

Then soft reset your phone
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tarheel:
Thank you very much
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] notch8:
spb mobile shell -- 3 pages of contacts, 9 per page

i have the same question as towinguk ... i've spent many hours trying to find something. Would really like to have the original SPB Shell interface with 3 contact pages, 9 contacts per page. any help would be really appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mywingflys:
can I make this my today screen instead of always having to switch to it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WatermelonSlim:
Technically no, but in practice yes.

There is an option in the settings "Show the Now Screen when device wakes up" that you can check.

So, basically, it will be your today screen unless you close it. And even if you close it, as soon as your device "goes to sleep" (or whatever the technical term for it is when the screen is off) it will be the first screen you see when you turn your device back on (or wake it up, whatever).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
You can also go one step further than that. Install this cab and select it in the today plugins. It will keep mobile shell alive and up so to speak. one thing to take note of, if you ever uninstall spb mobile shell make sure and uncheck the plugin first or you will have to hard reset your phone. Someone here at xda made it not me, it works great I have been using it for a year now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mywingflys:
Ok,Trying the today cab now

will post result in a minute.

Ok, cab works

Ty.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Feldhege:
What I did was to enable the setting in SPB that says always start up on home tab. Then I downloaded SPBWatcher. This program starts up SPBMobile every time the today screen appears. Not a perfect solution but it works for me. Now I just do everything out of Mobile Shell.

Robb
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
I also went one more step and took a screen shot of the launcher page and cropped it to use as today background, so if mobile shell minimized momentarily it would look like it was still in theme so to speak.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WatermelonSlim:
Do you guys know how to set the default mail account in Mobile Shell? Whenever I hit the "email" icon up at the top, it opens my "Outlook Email" (which doesn't really exist, as the only email account I have is my hotmail). So I have to switch it every time. I would rather just have it open up to my "Hotmail" account if possible.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
The only workaround I have found is to keep one old unread message as "unread" then it will open your email client. It opens outlook only if you do not have any new emails.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WatermelonSlim:
Lame. Well hopefully they fixed that in version 3. I love Mobile Shell but they have to take care of that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Lame, I agree
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] notch8:
no help on the 9 contacts per page, 3 pages question?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Feldhege:
I know it can be done if you use the imarche free skin generator. I have 3 pages of 12. You can choose 9, 12, or 16 contacts per page.

Robb
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
What skin are you using?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aznmasterpiece:
I don't even mess with SPB 2.1 anymore. This thread is dead. Especially once 3.0 comes out.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WatermelonSlim:
3.0 doesn't come out for another month, so 2.1 lives on untill then.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] notch8:
i'm using the stock skin ... found i still like it best. i'll try imarche. thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] notch8:
i tried imarche. it doesn't let me keep the stock skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] methosivanhoe:
ok, hey to all...

i'm just curious, has anyone else tried importing these skins to a Samsung Omnia running SPB 2.1?

aside from the screen size difference, they're pretty much identical...

i'm running the omnia now, but the problem is that none of the skins here work properly... i'm guessing that the problem actually lies in one of the code files that specifies the screen size, though since this could be in one, if not more of god knows how many .dat files, i'm a but stuck as to where to even start...

i'm just wondering if anyone has done any work along these lines before?

M
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 1ucio:
Can anyone pls help me on this theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 1ucio:
Can anyone pls help me on the landscape problem with the window revisted theme pls.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] r_balest:
hi guys.. I really don't understand. I downloaded and installed the SPB MS 2.1 and then I used customized themes by the members of this forum.

I copied all the files (in cab or zip) to \Device\Program Files\SPB Mobile Shell.

Then after that, my Samsung i780 (WIN Mobile Pro 6.1) cannot use SPB Mobile Shell anymore :(

It happens with all the themes
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Me-Mash:
Hey Guys, can anyone help me with this shells? I dont get it working...

When i copy the .dat files from a new skin in my shell folder it doesnt work anymore.. even after restarting the phone..

Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
What device/screen resolution are you using? What theme/themes are you having trouble getting to work? Need to give more info if you want help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] r_balest:
hi Keith

can you help me.

I'm using Samsung i780. screen res is 320x320. I have problems with all the themes except the one coming with the SPB itself..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Most of the themes in this thread are 240 X 320 qvga. If you do some searching you should find some 320 x 320 skins, there are some problems with this resolution something to do with real vga or not, I'm not sure just something I read.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=405896

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=426841

These are the only ones I have found so far.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ashkan Oveisi:
Is there any theme for Xperia SPB Mobile Shell ?? please help me
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Me-Mash:
Oh.. I got a SE Xperia, these Themes wont work then because the resolution doesnt fit,right?! I thought this Themes would be for Xperia, because of the spbShell and stuff..

I really dont want search the whole threat again, so maybe anyone got any bookmarks of nice Xperia Shell Themes?

Searching for nice Stuff for this new phone really takes too much time :/

Thanks in advanced guys
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] antwan30184:
Can you please provide landscape support. One of the best themes ive seen after looking at over 551 pages of themes just on this forum alone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greanmunky:
Spb Menu Screen Issue

My Spb Menu screen just shows up blank with a favorites, home, calendar, menu, and weather icons. Nothing else shows up. Any idea what the issue is?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HTC528:
Hey how do you start spb mobile shell i did everything you said and i just dont know how to start it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tapsystem:
9x9 icons problem

Hi evrybody,

since a few day, i've start playing with my spb mobile shell, i've read thread and make some personnal adjustement on my device.

I've tried to get a 9x9 icon launcher, but i get a problem...2 problems ...:rolleyes:

1st one :

all 9 icons appear and work, but on the 3 new icons (m6,m7 m8), icones are not at the good place (like 5 or ten px more in Y) and i've got the same problem for their titles... so i can't see the titles ...

if i put m6,7,8 on the top i get the same problem and their titles are on the icons m0,1,2 ...:mad: And idea on this point ?

2nd problem :

i've put a nice backqround on the spb mobile shell home, but i can't see it on the launcher, wich ligns need i to change or add to get my backround here ?

Thanks for your help

TS.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cdma:
Maybe you are running out of space. You need to follow the directions and install the themes on a storage card and run the install scripts from your storage card.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Most of the themes in this thread are 240X320 or qvga, I think your device is not a qvga device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mattguindon:
How do I make this work?

I'm completely new to PDAs in general and especially new to reconfiguring them. I've been soaking up tons of knowledge from here though, and have set up a theme the way I like it all except for one thing. I figured out how to edit the registry and add the 9 menu icons. However I cannot get my task manager to launch directly from that icon. I have everything in the registry just like it's shown above. It just created an empty folder though. I want it to function just like if I were to go into Tools and select the Task Manager in there. Can anyone help me figure out how to do this? Thanks in advance.

I found another way to do it that was a little different and it worked for me. Anyone else having the same issue can look here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anand30:
Best theme ever

Hi can you please give me the link for this theme and is this theme available for QVGA devices :):):):):):):):)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
This is a wisbar vista theme i believe not spb mobile shell
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phuceew:
Help Backgroud Image

I know this has probably been beat in the ground, but I am having a hard time finding it. I am trying to change the background image for Landscape(Greatbal's Diamond with Black fusion Icons). I changed the ql_bkg_now.dat, seperator2.bmp and when I go to check it everything freezes. I changed the Portrait and everything works for it. But when I try the LS it just freezes everything.

Help Please.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] easy910:
where do i get it

i have been trying to download SPB 2.1 but ever where i go i got to pay for it is there somewhere i dont have to pay plz help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WatermelonSlim:
There's a free trial on the SPB website (at least there used to be). Fully functional, no nag screens or anything. The only way you know it isn't the full version is after 30 days (or however long it is, I can't remember) it tells you to redister it.

On another note...

Does anyone know when the new version is going to be released? The last I heard was OEM's get it in February, consumers get it in March. Well it's March, so has anyone heard anything?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
I haven't heard anything about the release date yet. On the subject of mobile shell here is a new background for my storm theme. Credit for the background goes to Bob_55, from his s2u2 theme blackberry.

Go to the link in my signature to get it, the new background is on last page.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] irotier:
i'll heard that it should at the end of march be released...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tapsystem:
ouf, nut not yet finish

Hi evrebody, no more help needed on this point, i fnd solution bymyself.

Thanks for this thread there's a lot of informations to play with spb...but..yes there's a but... i've another problem and this one is make me crasy !!! :eek:

On each page, i've add a top bar with battery, clock and statu. The problem is that i get a blue text on the clock and i can't change it !!!

(clock applied with : Class="Spb.LSP.ModernDClock" Name="ModernDClock)

Tks for your help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tapsystem:
calendar customiz

Hi,

I just forgot another question, sorry, there is a way to change color on the calendar on the lockscreen ? I only want to change the color of the box which is arround the current day...

Tks:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alexxxita:
Any chance of getting the icons as .png instead of a .dat file?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xjohnx:
Can anyone make a skin that looks like mac OSX? I think the icons at the bottom to look like the mac dock would be awesome. Ive seen it done with other themes and interfaces but I love SPB too much to use something else.

*just saying this ahead of time for anyone who hates. You may think this is blasphemy but as far as i am concerned a mac theme on windows is no worse than a blackberry theme. Mac is to windows = blackberry to windows mobile. NO?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithdupont:
Try this one: Made need a little work as it is for mobile shell 2.0

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2155844&postcount=607
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mtstmp:
winmo 6.5

Everything is set. Started a thread. Comment the hell out of it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=492203
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] poisonspider:
Backround in today screen

How can I install this background in the today screen?

Thx for helping!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] poisonspider:
I have a question and a wish again ;-):

Can somebody integrate the menue of the 3 profiles (sound, vibra, quiet) in this theme in the "now" screen (in "classic" with analog clock)? I miss this button very much in the very nice now screen :-(.

Thx!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeder:
Hi there, members of the skinning olymp.

I just started using SPB mobile shell and i am very very amazed by your efforts here. Your skins look amazing and give a LOT of extra value for this cool product.

One thing i didnt find was a simplistic skin. White on black (i mean black, no background image) without (!) all this glossy effect. i went through this thread on maybe 40 pages and after 3,5 hours I couldnt find one.

Is such a skin already made?

Thanks in advance

(and you guys here are skinning gods btw)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] poisonspider:
thx very much to greatbal! I like this theme so much, it is simple and very nice :-)! I tried many themes (last was WinMo 6.5) and many are realy good but they have to much options.. I like this simple theme GSmart from greatbal.

I also tried to change the background and take some other picture from this thread (I think called Real Diamond). This background i put in the black version from GSmart. I'm not sure if it is allowed or not to change something and to share later? If it is i would share the Real Diamond background too.

Thx for your work to greatbal!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] amarguli:
Changing background in default skin

I tried to change the background in the default SPB MS skin by replacing Separator.bmp and Separator2_m.bmp in qp_bkg_now.dat. The problem is that I can see the new background only in now screen, all other screens have no background. I'm sure there is some other file that need to be modified but I cannot figure out which one. Can anyone help me with this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] poisonspider:
It need to change Separator2.bmp in qp_bkg_now.dat for to change the background in all screens.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tapsystem:
Hi,

you need to edit all xml files to declare background in it, if i remember , by default background skin are not set "<Plugin Name="Background" Skin="qp_bkg_now" DoubleSkin="vp_bkg_now"/>"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] amarguli:
Maybe this works with custom skins, but it is not enough for the original skin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] amarguli:
Can you elaborate more please? Which xml files must be edited?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tapsystem:
Hi,

you need to edit all xml from screen you want to see your background in qa_layouts.dat :

- Contact.xml for contacts details

- SpbMenu.xml for icone launcher (the page, not the fast bottom launcher)

- SpeedDial.xml for contacts

- Weather.xml for weather

- time.xml for time and alarm details

...

plugin need to be declared in default layout :

<Layout Name="Default">

<Plugins>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.GradBackground" Name="Background">

<Int Name="NoBackgrd" Value="1"/>

<Point Name="Separator3Y" X="0" Y="21"/>

</Plugin>

.....

And skin need to be declared in each layout, like this by examples :

<Layout Name="240x320">

<Plugins Extends="Default">

<Plugin Name="Background" Skin="qp_bkg_now" DoubleSkin="vp_bkg_now"/>

....

Hope it's more clear

TS
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] poisonspider:
@greatbal: Hi :-) is it possible that you work on a vga theme like gsmart or another? I like your themes very much and on my diamond I have one of you (similiar like the original diamond) but I like this gsmart very much.. now I hope you get a vga screen too ;-).. maybe we all get very nice vga themes.. maybe? i hope..