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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] torp74:
How about setting up a blogspot blog and hitting it when you try a new brew? I blog using ping.fm sms service. Works great!

You should try Shiner Beer's new 100 years of Beer Commemorater. Just had my first taste of it last night. Will have to try a few more tonight....... :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] smokestack76:
Now this is my kinda thread. :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] seefu:
Handy shopper is good for making lists of stuff.

look that up

Edit: Freeware
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] rickcaudill:
Me <3 beer :D
[HTC Excalibur] fliparsenal:
hi when im trying trying to log on beejive i keep getting the following message:

An error message is available for this exception but cannot be displayed b.c. these messages are optional and are not currently installed on this device. please install "netfv35.messages.en.wm.cab" for window mobile 5.0 and above or "netfv35.messages.en.wm.cab" for other platfomrs.

help?
[HTC Excalibur] Evi1d33d:
Try this http://blogs.msdn.com/martijnh/arch...essages-on-the-net-compact-framework-3-5.aspx
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] irus:
i noticed that when i take a picture through footprints the pic size is large and i can not even change it manually. i would like to have it set at 3MP my default. does anyone know how to do that? thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] irus:
up up and away :)
[HTC Wings] robjbw:
I am using the HTC S730 and the Default HTC Home Plugin and like to know if there's a plugin out there that can display/show the whole sms/text message or at least part of it in Home Screen when it arrives? Thanks.:confused:
[HTC Wings] spone1:
Update your phone to WM6.1, that shows a part of the text message without leaving the homescreen.
[HTC Wings] znial:
or you may try to install Manila2D (ported from ppc with all its issues and problems)

but in the messaging tab you could read the full sms text body (sliding from the newer to the older, with the limit of the last 99 sms received)

imho m2d for smartphnes is really fancy and stylish but with a lot of bugs
[HTC Wings] robjbw:
Thanks

Thanks all for the reply. But I found what I was looking for. It called SMS Bubbles. And it works great.
[HTC Wings] znial:
very good!

you are right SMSBubbles make the incoming sms view like on the ppc (with a popup on the bottom of the display with the text message)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
Ok, just thought I'd post to see what everyone does with there Xperia X1 so that others can see what the phone can be used for and what not.

Currently I just use the phone for the phone, text, e-mail (with T-Zones) and use the Garmin a lot. Rather than that I'm still exploring on what to add to the phone.

I flashed a couple roms, from TF3D to the R2A and found that I am more satisfied with the R1A using the performance tweaks. I do like the TF3D but I like being able to pop the keyboard and type for anything that needs typing

I'm trying to incoprorate the phone as a music player and listen to music more so I'm going to be using the media panel, unless someone else can suggest something better. I want to be able to see all my songs and create a playlist rather easily and shuffle the songs.

Another thing I would like to have just incase is the WiFi tether for my laptop. I know t-zones is rather slow but having some internet would be better than nothing.

I also thought about blogging and taking random pictures to kind of keep up with whats going on in my life and that sort of thing. The facebook panel is ok, but I'd rather have like flickr or something to upload the pictures and blog about it.

So what do YOU guys do with your Xperia? And what do YOU guys recommend?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
I use mine for email, web, gps, the odd photograph, writing articles (usually with a photo) and as an Mp3 player..

Never usually bother with txt and obviously make the odd phone call.

Then there's all the tweaking, tinkering and hacking..

as to music I tend to use the one in TF3d, which works fine for my needs, (but then I just stick it on shuffle).

Without tf3d I use either

Conduits pocket player (which is a really good music player (commercial) and uses media player skins see http://mylostblog.altervista.org/ for some of those)

freeware there's mortplayer, and s2p, but s2p doesn't do playlists just yet, possibly next version by the look of it.

Never got on with tcmpmpmpm/coreplayer but others love it.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
- Full email with built-in messaging and marvellous ProfiMail

- Full Internet (OperaMobile 9.5, OperaMini 4.2)

- YouTube

- Photos, and sometimes video recording

- Music

- RSS Feeds

- Constant work with Office, especially Pdf and Word (currently DocsToGo but planning to get Softmaker)

- Of course extensive use of Calendar, Notes, Tasks (busy life)

- GoogleMaps

- And utilities like ExpenseDiary, Stopwatch, Dictionary, Calc and Currencies!

- Ebooks reading

- Simple Weather app by Gega (great!)

- screen capture utility to catch maps from google maps when abroad (cheap and practical!!!)

As for UI, I just love panels and have two of them (one clean, one with most of my apps I use and all I need)

I also use MediaPanel which supports creating playlists. I don't really watch movies on X1 since it basically kills battery. Anyway there's a sticky containing good converter for videos for X1.

Hope it helps, apparently I don't do too little with my Xperia.....:D
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Angelusz:
First of all, don't blog. Too many people doing it, too few people caring, you'd be wasting your time.

Beside that, my uses include (in order of importance)

- Tinkering

- Calling

- Sms messages

- Musicplayer

- Video's

- Email

- Games (SNES)

- Random stuff :p
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alabij:
Apart from the obvious; making calls.

-I surf the net alot with Opera.

-Use mt 8GB card to listen to music synced via PC(always shuffle)

-Watch Youtube sometimes

-GPS with TomTom is wow( Where would we be without GPS)

-Some games - actually bejewelled

-E-mail - a lot of e-mail. Windows Live rocks

-Texting too.

I've been using Windows Mobile aka Pocket PC Phone Edition when it first came out in 2000. Same what you will about Microsoft but they've got the best Mobile software in existence. Believe it or not, I'e never owned a regular cell phone. Been using WinMo since MS launched the XDA with T-Mob in 2000.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] contaygious:
-turn it back on when it turns off

-restart it when coreplayer crashes
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahd5000:
well i gotta admit i love mobile gaming. This phone really dissapointed me, a lot. Gaming sucks so hard. Hopefully with all these WVGA phone coming, there will be more support for gaming. Even emulators suck, compared to those on Symbian.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_sheen:
LOL :D

i just found it funny for some reason...no offence :cool:
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtrab:
hmmm... sounds good, will give that one a try :rolleyes:

1- Phone calls (:eek:)

2- Agenda/tasks PIM

3- Portable laptop with all my work/personal files (16 GB microSD)

4- Internet browsing (opera)

5- All my email accounts

6- HSDPA Internet Router for office/home/meetings/fiends

7- Watch live TV channels (CNN, Discovery, FC Barcelona matches, local TV stations...)

8- Facebook

9- Youtube

10- Tamagochi (feed the fishes)

11- Show ppts or funny emails to friends

12- Walkman

13- GPS when traveling

lot of stuff
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzz83:
I currently use:

Calls/Messages/Emails - Daily

Calendar (sync with my work server daily)

As a modem (1 month via usb - then found out about wifi programs) - great when on holidays

Internet - daily via wifi and 3G (Opera and IE - Opera won't recognise some certificates for some reason)

Weather (SPB Weather 2) daily

Currency (SPB Traveller) - occasionally (once a fortnight)

Word and Excel - every few days

Powerpoint and PDF on and off (I may have heavy usage for a few days then not use it for a month)

SPB Wireless Monitor (Daily - my telco can't seem to give me accurate usage estimates)

Pocket.RAR - lots at the moment... probably not so much in the future (I can't install winrar on my work pc)

Run.GPS UV Trainer - I would like to say daily... but I haven't been that good at the moment

TomTom7 - when I drive my car that doesn't have a gps built in (mainly on weekends - although I do prefer the gps on my x1 to the one in my other car).

Games - THPS2 daily, SPB Air Islands - once every few days, sudoku... when I am really really bored.

Radio and MP3 - daily

Movies - a few times a week (currently using coreplayer).

Almost Forgot... soft reset - multiple times daily at the moment...
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
wow. Thanks for all the comments guys.

1) I agree with the emulators being crappy compared to Symbian and stuff. I really wish we had a better one cause I love the idea for landscape and having a keyboard.

2) I like the weather panel. Reminds me of the TF3D weather and the iPhones weather. Very nice.

What program are you guys running for the Wifi router? wifi router?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buzz83:
http://wmwifirouter.com/
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
yea thats what I figured. I ran that with the Touch HD. Just confirming. Thanks.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuddyLee:
Calls

Texting

Instant Messaging

GPS

Internet Browsing

Internet Sharing with my tablet

Geotagging

Calendar

Fitness - Run GPS, Tracky, My Sport Training

Health -My Personal Diet or iFitone

Movies

Music

Voip Calls

Dodging people or meetings (fake call)

Watching Live TV

Dictionary

Translator

Subway Directions

Youtube

Cheating on my Japanese Tests ;)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcbyte_it:
I use my xperia to do the following things, most used first:

Watch video/divx

Opera to browse net while in bed or on the move

Youtube

Calendar synched with Google

RSS and/or AvantGo

Comic Reader

SMS

making calls

I feel it is strange to get a mobilephone that i use to do everything except calling :D
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
What do you use to watch TV...??
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sthoeft:
I use mine primary for my job, physican

- Drug reference Guide

- Merck Manual

- Harrison Practise

- MP3 with Mort Player

- Video

- some Websurfing and eMail

- Texting and Calling
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leobox1:
i use my for scheduling, i use calender plus and oggsync to my google.. GPS leaves much to be desired :( wayfinder takes very long to lock :(
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astoroth:
What a device!

Hi All,

Shouldn't the question be, what don't you do with your Xperia. I travel all across the UK, Ireland and Central Europe with my job and since having the Xperia and an 8GB SD card I leave my laptop & TomTom 910 at home now as the X1 (along with the SE car charger) does it all for me!

Cheers,

Astoroth
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slash_5150:
phonecalls, msgs, im and checking emails

weather updates

alarm, appointments

surfing web with opera

youtube

games- virtual pool, bubble breaker

radio and mp3 (everyday)

occasional gps

snapping random and landscape pics, videos

watching videos (and showing off the nice vid qlty to my mates) :D
[XPERIA X1 General] dark1412:
i am wondering if it will be easy to upgrade it officially from sonyericsson..

coz ROMs sometimes are dangerous and the phone may jam ?

so anybody know about this?

it is bretty cooler the WM6.5

i hope it will work
[XPERIA X1 General] Angelusz:
There's already a ROM by Itje. It's probable that there will be a 6.5 update from SE. But nobody can tell you for sure, let alone when.
[XPERIA X1 General] jahd5000:
if not officially, there will be some kind of port or fit for X1... though of course officialy is better, most likely it wont be that way, even less knowing X1 is the only WinMo device of SE and they probably wont be spending that much time and money (i guess they need licenses?) on that, is not the case for newer phone to be released, like Touch Pro 2 and Diamond2,. Those are covered by Microsoft itself.
[General Topics] Menneisyys:
While at Microsoft’s stand at MWC the just-announced Diamond 2 was behind glass and couldn’t be used, at HTC’s booth anyone could give them a test ride. In the following, I post my first thoughts of the device.

First and foremost, I just don’t like it. It’s just too thick and has an outdated hardware. In the era of 1 GHz CPUs (where the faster clock also means FAR better performance – see my real-world benchmarks of the 1GHz Toshi TG01 HERE), I find it just lame to announce a device with a 528 MHz, oldish, not very capable CPU.

As I’ve mentioned several times, the lack of competition has definitely made HTC lazy and refusing to invent revolutionary stuff. If HTC was just one manufacturer of the many, this wouldn’t be a problem. But, given that HTC is the leading one and Windows Mobile’s future largely depends on the generic acceptance of HTC’s models, not inventing any more is a serious mistake. In addition, they don’t seem to even fix bugs and errors plaguing a lot (if not all) their devices; see for example the infamous touchscreen CPU usage bug causing major problems on all non-Xscale platforms.

I consider their latest-and-greatest model, the Diamond 2, equally uninteresting and unimaginative. I, who have an iPhone 3G, may get the Nokia N97 (which turned out to be much better in real life – I’ve played with it quite a bit at MWC – than I previously thought) and will surely get the Toshi TG01 if it’s not as bug-ridden as Toshi’s earlier QWERTY sliders, the G900/G910, the Diamond 2 is a huge, thick and slow device that simply doesn’t have anything I would happily pay for.

Let’s see some (also comparative – with the BlackBerry 8800 and the iPhone 3G) pictures I’ve taken at MWC. As you can see, the Diamond 2 is pretty large and is much thicker than the iPhone. If it was a power device with the latest and greatest technology, I could easily forget this. But for a phone with a pretty mediocre CPU, there is just no excuse.
[General Topics] Menneisyys:
The device reported on low memory after a while…:

Interestingly, the list of running programs didn’t have any seemingly offending entry (and the total program memory was still over 35 Mbytes – of the 288 free):
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
I successfully edited my first .png and ported it as a theme!

Colored Vibrating Phone!!

I want to appologize for being impatient to all the current theme developers specifically Manup. After spending an hour how to get the .png to save in the archive file, I can see that editing each individual icon could take hours and hours if you want it to look right.

Time for me to try at some more difficult stuff.

Hope to be posting my first theme within the next few months. :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] damnitpud:
um..what did you do that took so long?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
well....

Remember that this is my first self attempt at this.

I was having trouble getting it to save to the archive. The pop up was behind other applications I was running, so I didn't see it prompting me to save to the archive.

Next is just the editing of the .png itself. If I was just copying and pasting it wouldn't have taken any time. I had to find the icon I wanted to put there, then change the colors just right. It isn't really hard, just time consuming, but you already know that. This is why I was apologizing. Its my first time, give me a break. :P
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
Ok I went to edit the first android boot screen.

and of course it hung on boot screen in a loop. My file went from around 3k to 31k so obviously the file is too big. I can't seem to find an option to compress or deflate the file using 7zip.

Can any give me some suggestions?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] manup456:
You don't the .png images with 7zip you do it with Photoshop or whatever graphic design program. There is a post some where explaining how to compress the .png images i just don't know it of hand.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] damnitpud:
Yeah you want to save the file in photoshop using the save for web & devices...or the pngout program. read thru this here. has my way and the pngout way in the posts.

Ill give ya a tip, this is how i do it at least. i extract the update.zip then extract all the apks that i am going to change. I start editing all the files in framework-res, then move to Launcher, contacts and phone. After these are done i normally import them into the update.zip, sign it and test it.

When i import the images i just open the update.zip in WinRar, then double click the apk i need to import images into. It opens the apk in a new WinRar window, i browse tot he folder i need then just drag the images into it. Do that for each apk then sign it and test it.

Hope this helps.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
I was using 7zip for extraction and paintshop pro for editing

I was doing fine. I was just excited to get that far. One of the problems I ran into was when I edited an image file it went from 3k to 30k when. I even used png crush and it only compressed to 24k. Not sure if it is even important yet.

I was only:

A) apologizing for expecting so much when it is so much work.

B) proud that I figured it out and am on my way to editing/creating my own theme.

I only ask one thing of some of the more senior devs. Please don't be so critical. All of us are at several different levels. What may seem juvenile to you might be a huge hurdle to others. This is why we are dependant on you for themes.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Ryanmo5:
Good job on getting going, im getting ready to make a go of it as well. I dont think they are criticizing you just being helpful. Have you seen how critical people are in the theme makers posts, cant believe half the theme makers still do it lol.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] damnitpud:
Hope i didn't come off that way...i was just trying to help. no ill intenet in that post at all =)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
Thank you.

It always helps with reassuring words while trying something this complicated.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
Thank you damnitpud.

I have been following the forums very closely since October. I have even followed your posts and tutorials. I am just trying to ride the wave crest and not fall in, because getting out is a *****. I have had to not only pick up the 'ol writing computer
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] brandenk:
Read through my post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3339701&postcount=6

It tells you how to edit the update.zip without extracting anything but the drawables folder. After a lot of time and effort I have streamlined the process as much as possible so maybe you can pick up a few tricks with that walkthrough. And I use gimp, I dont mess wtih compression or saving file for web. I take big images, save them as a png, resize them to 48x48 using the XP power toys resizing tool and drag-and-drop them into my update.zip. I dont know what is happening but everyone keeps thinking its way harder than it really is.

Then when I swap themes from ADP to RC33 or vice versa I open up my theme in 7zip and a blank theme in the version I want to convert too. I got to each apk and drag-and-drop the drawables folder straight into the other update.zip replacing the existing drawables folder. If you do it my way you can convert a theme in minutes or if you have all the artwork you can turn it into a theme in about 15-20 mins TOPS.

My biggest suggestion is to experiment with trial and error, use your nandroid backup and make mistakes, its the best way to learn and there is nothing that compares to hands on experience, that way you know what works and you can tell people from experience instead of hearsay.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] JackD3ath:
7Zip is the best tip you gave B, I tried using WinRar but it wasnt as user friendly for this stuff. Especially as 7Zip saves as you swap and move up the file tree.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
I am using your tutorial B.

I don't have photoshop, so I am using Paintshop pro PhotoX2 which works fine for me.

I was using 7zip, but I am used to using Winzip. I am currently using Winzip12 so thats serving my needs nicely.

What I was referring too isn't so much difficult in moving files around, it is more or less knowing WHICH files you can mess with. I have seen posted that don't mess with .9.png files at them moment as that can cause problems. I also do not know what size a theme is aloud to be in the update.zip. I also wanted to know If i have to include ever single file or if it is just neccessary to do just the things you want to change.

It isn't hard to actually do the file changing and such, the "HARD" part is more Time consuming then hard, and thats the artwork required to actually change the look of the component.

More questions will pop-up I am sure, but I am in the Trial and Error Stage right now.

Another question if anyone reads this, Where is the Clock Widget located? I see that every theme maker edits this, and lets be honest, If you use this widget, it is the center focal point of every theme. Just changing this gives the whole desktop another feel.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Geo411m:
It's in the Launcher.apk.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] JackD3ath:
All your questions are in the tutorials, if you drag the drawable folder onto your desktop you can see the pics when you doubleclick the folder.

Just my thought,

The clock is something that most people change, but I dont use the clock, that is why the time is in the corner constantly. I feel the clock just eats up space on my desktop. Of course I like it with as few icons as possible.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
Thanx for the replies.

I had also found the clock in the Launcher.apk file, but for some reason, when I try and edit it and put it back into the folder it causes my phone stop at the boot screen. I just wanted to make sure I was trying to edit the right file.

I somehow expected it to be in a completely different place.

Yes a lot of my questions may seem to be repeats, but I had initially started this thread as just a Eureka thread. But as long as people who are in the know are reading it, I am glad to ask questions. Sometimes the Main threads and stickies are 150 pages deep and after not reading them for two days you kind of get behind.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Fear_Zoa:
well if we are asking questions....then can someone help me

when I go to update my phone with the update zip i get

E:Wrong digest

system/app/Launcher.apk

E:Verification failed

and yes I am new at this...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Brutal-Force:
Have you rooted with RC29 yet?

Looks like what happens before you root.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442480

Read this first.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mannyb:
:D

I had the exact same "wohoo" feeling when I made my first theme mod and it was a success.