yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
1. Install RealVGA (with both 128dpi and 96 dpi).

2. Select RealVGA at 128dpi.

3. Install SPB MS 2.1.

4. Run SPB MS 2.1.

5. SPB MS 2.1 should run fine as it supports 320x320 at 128dpi.

6. Unzip the attached files to replace those stock dat files.

7. Go back to RealVGA.

8. Select 96dpi.

9. Automatically it will soft reset your I780.

10. Run SPB MS 2.1

11. SPB MS 2.1 will run under 320x320 at 96dpi mode.

Hope this helps.

To get the 9th icon, unzip and store the reg in your document folder. Click on the reg and you will be prompted whether to add the file to the registry. Click yes and the option for the 9th icon is generated.

Go to the Spb MS 2.1 option. You will be able to select the Games as an option to your SpbMenu.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Themes? Themes only select the colour that you want. However, I still have problems using the SPB MS2.1 them settings. I can only use the stock settings to change the theme.

Note that in order to run properly, you need to install both sets of dpi (96dpi and 128dpi) for the RealVGA. To get the SPB MS 2.1 running, you need to set it at 128dpi first, otherwise MS 2.1 will not run at all.

As to your working battery meter, you can try Resco.

Please do report if you are successful. With this in place, my next project will be to change the format. There are a lot of useful information in the Skins and Theme thread. Referencing will be from there.

Of course, this is subject to the time that I have.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sphynx88:
I was able to properly install it and use it. It's very nice! I only installed 96 without 128. What i did was install trial version of ms coz the registered version had missing files...(no MA_.. files) trial version worked properly. Reg version showed nothing.

Here's what I did

1. install trial version of ms

2. copy all the files in the folder

3. install reg version of ms

4. paste all the copied folder files onto spb ms folder

5. Select no on all overwrite

6. Paste gOOndu's files. This time overwrite.

Reset and all is good :D

Goond,

Yeah i couldnt read the hex either or I need more time. I need to look more into it. I've seen so many nice themes for 2.1 in this forum. They change it up real nice. I could not figure out the 9th button but I'm happy you posted it. It makes my job easier. Thanks I love your release btw im so happy to uninstall my HTC Home, gives me so much space on my today now. Thanks again.

Sphynx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sphynx88:
games.reg did not work for me but ill look into it more.

Installed and clicked it a couple of times and did soft reset variations. maybe it was because we did two different installation methods although it shouldnt affect anything.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sphynx88:
My bad. It works now. After clicking the reg, I can check the games menu on settings/customize menu. After that games folder is now accessible!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nadavi:
it works great!

But can you please make a theme with 4 tabs, or a theme like the original that support the i780 please?

Thanks:)

Nadavi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pntzamaras:
Indeed it is great!!!

g00ndu do you think you can make a theme for ms2.1 @96 dpi?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dash7869:
heeyya great job! works great on mine too!

been looking for this "tweak"!!

you have made me very happy! many many thanks!

possible to have the layout that has the list of most used programs? or not?

sorry if this is a silly qn..

also, with this, is it possible to change the background?

i have tried to look for the qa_bkg etc but cant find in the standard install..

when i tried to install the 2.1 themes (even with RealVGA) it just hung my device with a blank screen

nothing works.. i must be doing very silly but i am stuck.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
I am happy that you like it and it works for you. You are right, the skins and thenes over at the other thread are so nice, it really makes me feel so jealous!

Well, hope you help those who has the I780 + RealVGA and wants to run SPB MS 2.1.

P/S: I am writing this on my I780! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
To all, if time permits will try to do one theme with 4 or 5 tabs. I am quite busy this few days, but I will try. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Juggeli:
Its now working for me too! Thank you very much!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Glad that it works for you. :)

It has been a difficult journey for me, at the last count, my soft reset is more than 200 times to get this far! A lot of time is spent on trial and error on the icons arrangement, and at times I almost wanted to give up.

To those who are interested in what I did, I practically had to unzip the qa_layout.dat file and go through every xml in the dat file and modifying the coordinates and the size of the selection area.

The ma_menu_btn.dat modifications was quite easy, I just merely resize to 32x32 (per icon) instead of the standard 43x43.

The reason as to why I wanted to do it is probably the same reason as you guys out there, which is to get as much mileage on the screen as possible. Some apps running at 128dpi just couldn't make it. :)

I am no programmer, and it is actually the first time I am doing editing on the xml files! One thing I notice is that mistakes made in the xml programming can be found if the file is run on its own, and that actually made my life easier.

Enough said, I will try to use some of the wonderful icons and the 4 / 5 tabs which can be found in the skin and theme thread. This is going to take a while but I seek your patience as I do hold a day job.

Just stay tune.... :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nadavi:
GREAT GREAT Job!

I Support you :)

Nadavi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pntzamaras:
for whoever tries to build some skins for ms2.1:

please adapt the great HTC DIAMOND theme by greatbal to our resolution

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2217658&postcount=687
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sphynx88:
goo

Yeah this is a great program. I think im actually going to keep my i780 coz of this one. I just need it to email and the important things and I basically can do all that plus a few perks. I can even see my battery in % now hahaha. Imma try out the per percentage point in battery drop and send u the link once I make it work.

sp
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
gOOndu What program do you use to edit the xml files for the sbsh weather. I would like to look at removing the last updated row to free up more room?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
bob, those are not xml files, syntax is slightly different, but I believe you will be able to understand it. :)

Just use notepad and you will be fine.

P/S: I am changing my layout too, and trying to set a larger icon of 40x40. My current header is 30x30 and it's able to show. The icons I used is the 352 icons thread... :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marathonpacific:
sorry for the newbie question...

i have copy and paste the files to my storage card. but when i open it with file explorer it still sees it as a zip file and not a cab file. what should i do?

cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
SBSH Weather for i780 + RealVGA with UL (Headers set to 40)

Hi all,

First off, my apologies for the previous release. I was too eager to release it and as such, there are plenty of bugs and I didn't explain it properly. Nevertheles, I just finished Version 1.1.

For those who uses UL, please set your Header icons to 40x40. I did not take out any things.

Also, fixes a lot of bugs found in the pwx files. Should work now....:)

P/S: For those who do not run UL, you still can use in your today plugin, except that the sbsh weather height is set to 227 and there will be some empty space below the plugin.

Enjoy...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Which one are your referring to? Perhaps you can elaborate further?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marathonpacific:
Sorry buddy... I downloaded these files then saved it to my storage card... but usually it shows as a cab file i'm sure, but when i open it with file explorer it shows it as a zip file... am i doing something wrong? cheers...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
I have removed some of the update lines where space is limited on some screens by removing below lines and changing page height to 230. My question is being not that familar with this type of encoding what could I change to shift these lines upward on the screens that have plenty of room like the Current conditions screen.

;TEXT

Last Update

16,218,71,16 (What are these values?)

Tahoma,12,NORMAL GLOW-32-32-32 GLOWEXPAND-1,155-155-155

;TEXT

#UPDATE-TIME-FORECAST#

100,218,204,16,R

Tahoma,12,NORMAL GLOW-32-32-32 GLOWEXPAND-1,255-255-255
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
;TEXT

Last Update

16,218,71,16 (What are these values?)

Tahoma,12,NORMAL GLOW-32-32-32 GLOWEXPAND-1,155-155-155

;TEXT = Command line, telling your device that this is a text string.

Last Update = The text string

16 = position of your x pixel coordinates

218 = position of your y coordinates

x=0 and y=0 is at the top left hand corner after the top taskbar.

71 = length of the text string

16 = height of the text string

tahoma, 12 = font type and size

normal is normal, bold is bold, italics is italics

Glow = whether your font wants a glow on it

-32-32-32 = values of your R-G-B color

Glowexpand-1 = How intense you want your glow

155-155-155 = Glowexpand values in terms of R-G-B colors

;TEXT

#UPDATE-TIME-FORECAST#

100,218,204,16,R

Tahoma,12,NORMAL GLOW-32-32-32 GLOWEXPAND-1,255-255-255

#UPDATE-TIME-FORECAST# = A variable that is recognised in the phatphinger language, telling the update time for the forecast

100,218,204,16 = as above

R = starts from the right

Hope my explanation is clear... :)

P/S: Visit the sbsh forum and they have a custom layout manual in pdf... :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
Thanks Very clear. I will also check out the pdf.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
This is not a cab file, which installs automatically. In order to use my zip files you need to do the following:

Install sbsh weather, V2.0.6 or later.

After installing, check out the instructions here on how to install the theme.

You need to download the fonts and icons (4 files minus the Slick zip files from my earlier post.

Unzip my latest files and place all the files to the Slick directory. If you don't have one, create one under Programs Files\SBSH\Pocketweather\skins.

Hope that helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Slight correction, i just realised, the x-y coordinates are actually defined in the beginning of the pwx files.

If you set your screen to be W = 100 and H = 40, any coordinates that are beyond your W and H will not be seen, as they are out of the defined range.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
Where are your latest zip files? Have you posted them here?

One question maybe a bug but it is not easy to screenshot. when you are in the Whether forecast Text and starting from current and by touching the right most button to advance to the next day it progresses until the 5th day and then on the next press instead of going to the 6th day it switches to the 5th day graphical forecast. Also if you start from the 9th or last day in the Text Forcast and press the left most button to go backwards it moves back 2 days then on the next press returns back to Today text forecast skipping the other days.

Please check in on your setup and let me know if you are experiencing the same.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
That's not a bug, that problem is created by me. Now you see lack of sleep can really do wonders.. hehe....

Since you have installed my earlier theme, go to this post to get the V1.1. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
No problem sleep deprivation I know. Will try the new one again thanks.

PS if your ever in Pattaya Thailand please stop by you can find me easily on google under Bob's BBQ & Grill
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
Please update your Slick_Detail_FC_3 & Slick_Detail_FC_4 Page height to 227

Also I still noticed the problem I mentioned above If you find a fix for it please let me know. Also when in the Weather Config panel my background is white. Is there a way to make it the default background?

What is your choice for Contact application or plugin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
gOOndu I have found the problems mentions in the previous post as well as a few others here is a modified version.

Bob
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Thanks Bob, appreciate your help. I just found it too, guess you are 1 step ahead of me... :)

OT: I sure will drop by at your BBQ & Grill if I have chance to go Pattaya. Just a mere mention about BBQ makes me salivate... haha....

I believe Forecast_6_text had a problem

I missed out the dimensions in 5_text file, (44,44)

2_text and 3_text Height was not changed

Guess should be about it....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
Yes there were also about 6 pages in the graphical pages with the Touch value set to 160 instead of 260.

What are you using for Contacts & Comm Manager?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Contacts I'm using PocketCM. I did some adjustment of pocketcm as well. Comms Manager? I'm using batterystatus to control my phone functions such as mute, vibrate, bluetooth, wifi, airplane mode. Other than that, I use Resco and memmaid for cleanup and sprite for backup.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tika:
Hi g00ndu,

great job :D . Is it posible to have the Diamond-Clock in the WHITE Version?!

Regards,

Tika
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Tika, I'm sorry. I have uninstalled SPB MS2.1 and will not do any more spb theme, at least not now. The reason for not using spb is simple, it cannot default to the today screen.

I'm trying out others, currently on UL. But may wanna try throttie and rltoday.... :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
gOOndu I have installed PocketCM Keyboard unfortunately with real vga the keyboard is small I had a quick look at the files but not sure what to do. If you have time could you take a look at it.

I also changed to Pocket CM and it is ok with your converted Vista Theme. What would be really nice is a matching Diamond theme. Any thoughts about that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
I have converted the vista to diamond, but the effect isn't that good. What I did was just converting the graphics to grey. That's all.

Since you ask, you can try the file below. Replica of the vista theme, but the colors are different.

Let me know, but my bet is that it isn't that nice... :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
UL

Hi all,

My UL with BatteryStatus. Did some changes:

Changed a little layout,

Taken out one row, and taken out mobile operator. Inserted Battery Status at the 1st row.

Changed the message icons

Changed the Commpad icons (Oriental Look! :D)

My UL Program tab:

Note that icons are for PCs, not for Mobile Phones... I find the icons are pretty nice...

Last tab is the HTC Home Plugin... I disabled all other tabs in the HTC Plugin, leaving just the Music Tab...

Did not use the AM Plugin because the AM Plugin is too small and too small to see.... I like the HTC Music Tab much better.... The only thing is the Music Tab Icon smack right in the middle of the screen...

Let me know if you have any questions..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobsbbq:
Yes this is kind of what I had in mind and one of my earlier ones I did move the Battery status to the top. I like the UL icons, but the comm pad are a little too much for my taste.

Got to make a trip to Cambodia for a few days so I will have a much needed rest. Right now I have to worry about Keyboard the small keyboard with real vga is just too small. I use the Qwerty keypad sometimes but if you have numbers it gets old pressing the function key between every number.

When I come back I'm going back to work on changing some icons myself. Still confused about why UL will not recognize icons after editing them and changing them back with an icon editor.

Good work on converting all these apps for the I780 which I love now. My battery life has improved dramatically since upgrade to E1, I'm happy. And to think I almost spent 900 USD on a HTC Diamond.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Regarding your icons, the reason why it doesn't showed up is because you may have converted it wrongly.

I looked at all the graphic properties and realised that the no. of colors is only 1. (I use IrfanView and click on the "Information".

You have also attached a bmp (Mail 48x48). I examined the properties and found that the no. of colors is 394. This is correct.

I then use Icofx to convert your bmp to .ico. Note that I did not use batch processing. After converting I re-examined the properties of the icon and the no. of colors is 381. The no. of colors dropped but still there are colors.

I put it into my phone, and voila the icon showed up! It is therefore highly possible that during your conversion that the no. of colors had changed to a single color. The icon which you produced also did not showed up in IrfanView.

Perhaps you can try using Icofx. I believe that the conversion process went wrong.

Try it, use your mail48x48.bmp and convert using Icofx. Also, after conversion, check the no. of colors of your icon. If there is more than 1 color, then likely you would have succeeded.

Hope that helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cutefox:
Hey bobsbbq,

which rom version do you have prior to the update of E1? Just want to know if D1 rom have bad battery life or not.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Diamond WM Player Skin

To all,

For those who are tired of the default skin, attached is the alternative skin for Windows Media Player. This skin is based on the Diamond theme.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank poorlyduck for his skin for qVGA device. Without his theme, it is not possible to have this done up.

Requirements

1. RealVGA installed at 96 dpi

2. i780 (what elese? :D)

Instructions

1. Unzip the files.

2. Create a folder (Call it WM Skin, or whatever you fancy) in your main or storage card

3. Place the unzipped files to this folder (5 gifs file + 1 skn file)

4. Activate Windows Media Player under the Program tab

5. Go to Menu and Select Option

6. Select the Skins tab (the 5th tab)

7. Wait for a while, as the program is searching for alternative skin

8. The skin will appear as shown below.

9. Press okay

10. Your new skin is ready to play :)

Note:

If you have problems detecting the skin, you will need to do the following:

1. Go to your windows folder

2. Find the following 6 files:

a. wmp_WPC_player_320x320.skn

b. wmp_WPC_player_320x320.gif

c. wmp_WPC_pushed_320x320.gif

d. wmp_WPC_disabled_320x320.gif

e. wmp_WPC_SeekThumb_128dpi.gif

f. wmp_WPC_ratings_128dpi.gif

3. Cut these 6 files and place it somewhere safe. Reason for doing that is to enable the Windows to search for alternative skins (Note that you are not actually cutting the files, since the above files aremy system files and hidden).

4. Search via the Menu. It will appear

I did have problems locating the alternative skin, and that is exactly what I did. After that, Windows Mobile is able to find the skin (shown in the first picture)

Enjoy....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chynababy3:
SPB Mobile Shell 2.1

Hi,

I only tried mobile shell v2.0, and it does not work on my i780.

And I can't seem to find v2.1 anywhere?

Can someone please put up the cab or a link to it Please?

Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
You can try the spb download page.

Look at the right side and you will find the current version as 2.1 (Just below the price).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ht380:
Hi g00ndu,

Thks for the nice works. Can pls help me here. I have follow the above to install and batteryStatus does not appeared the UL (tabs) for the last row. How to bring the UL tabs for the last row out. BTW, can this the batterystatus intergraded to the Diamond today theme? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Go to Start>Settings>Personal>Today.

Select Utlimate Launcher Plugin. De-select the rest.

Under the same screen, highlight Ultimate Launcher and on the right side of the screen, click the Options screen.

From the Ultimate Launcher setup screen, and do your setup there. You will be asked to select either plugins or programs, select plugins. Select Battery Status plugin and you are all set.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vbeli:
please, can any put all the programs and the instuctions for the UL skin with weather panel? i search this forum but i was confused
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ht380:
Me also, try but still cannot get it right. Can anyone able to come out with the instructions. Thanks a million.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ht380:
Thanks for the fast reply. I opened up the UL config/option. It did not ask for either plugins or programs? There is no plugins under option. How do i do it, pls advise. Thanks. My UL is ver 1.2.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
Did you have the UL plugin in the today screen?

On the tabs, press and hold until you come to a screen option:

Settings...

Reload ini

---------------

Minimize height

---------------

About....

Click on the Settings

You will come to the UL settings panel

1st tab - Tabs

2nd tab - Display

3rd tab - Animation

....

....

....

On the right you will see the following buttons:

Move Up

Move Down

Change

New

Delete

Combine

Click on the New button

You will be brought to the New Tab

There will be 3 buttons:

Shortcuts & Systemstate

Today Plugin

Combination of tabs*

Click on the Today Plugin

You will be brought to the Today Plugin tab + another 2 tabs

Tab

Gestures.

Select your Today plugin from the list. BatteryStatus should be listed (if you have already installed the Batterystatus program.

Go to the 2nd tab (Tab)

Click on the XP-Icon, and you will be brought to a directory. The default directory is the UL directory and it contains some basic icons.

You can store icons in your Storage Card (Check out the thread on the world biggest icons). Navigate to that directory and select your icons.

Press ok until the Today Screen.

You are all set for the BatteryStatus plugin in the UL plugin.

For the rest, you can configure and play with UL. Check out some of the settings in this forum. Do a search, or go to the UL forum. I am pretty sure there are some configurations which you can actually play with.

Good Luck! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
You have UL installed? Follow the instructions as per above.

For the weather, you will need the SBSH PocketWeather, in order for it to work.

If you have the SBSH pocketweather installed, just follow the above to create a tab in the UL, instead of BatteryStatus, select the pocketweather plugin.

Good luck. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ht380:
Thanks for the guide. You are the man, keep it coming. BTW, do you know how to set the background to black. I only can set to grey and there is no black color at the theme setting? Thks.