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[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Haha I dont mind at all theres still lots of room for improvement, mainly the crappy menubar area which is still being wasted with only 2 buttons.

And just in case anyone wants a 3D layout for texts and emails instead of going to the Microsoft viewer, hold down your finger or stylus on one of the notification buttons and select 'default action'. You can then choose to use the 3D viewer which gives it an M2D layout. NICE!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] jbh00jh:
Just downloaded 3.5 on my diamond , works and looks great , nice to have current weather (temp) on today screen , really like it so far !
[Windows Mobile Themes] AlienHairball:
I totally agree. That and I've never been a fan of the big notification icons for email, voicemail, etc. I need icons for 2 email accounts, text messaging and voicemail at the minimum and that takes up too much of the screen with the default icons. I'll be waiting for your nice replacements. :D

Ha! I never would have found that, thanks. Not sure if I will keep it on the 3D viewer, but it's fun to wow friends and co-workers with for now.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfinockio:
This may have been answered in the other 419 pages of this thread, but...

I am having an issue with my Mobile Shell 3.0 File Explorer quick menu. When I use the Mobile Shell File Explorer, the "Storage Card" option goes instead to my "Bluetooth Neighbourhood". This is a small problem, I understand... but is there any chance there's an easy reg edit to point it instead to my "Storage Card"? Or some other edit that might work?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Zepiii:
Still no MP3 widgets :( ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] imdarkside:
Madness

When will the madness end? Just got the widgets and mods to behave nicely and now 3.5?
[Windows Mobile Themes] squishlax:
How about an option to chose a 'small' skin for the battery widget to have a button-style background with percentage at the top like the small layout on the weather widget

Or a widget that opens the restart MS3.5 popup like when you change some of the settings

:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] latraviata:
Hi, according to this video MS3.5 seems quite hard on the battery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmvDr7wAPFQ&feature=player_embedded

Is it true?
[Windows Mobile Themes] tacchan23:
I will not have time to install and try it untill the weekend so I have a question even if, looking at some screenshots, I guess the answer will be lakely a negative one:(

Does the calendar widget have any kind of indicator/mark for appointments/tasks?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mike21pr:
anyone know if the custom widgets can be used with 3.5? the layout has changed....

please update
[Windows Mobile Themes] imdarkside:
3.5 changes

a quick look at 3.5 didn't change much. The widget page is different and they added a few. The lifestyle page did not change other than the crappy links at the bottom that msskip cleared out for us.

They rearranged the "home" lifestyle page so that it is the center page which will be nice cause the 8th page to the right was a pain to get to from "home". Adding pages to lifestyle in 3.5 did not to change my 9 page layout from ms config. just confirmed that ms config still works.

Loosing the mods on the proffessional pages is a bummer. The black background is back...but msconfig works so I can rebuild that on the panels. Changing the qa_fundotela didnt work on the overall background.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mike21pr:
i wouldnt call this a small change...

they also added a much needed settings menu in the homescreen allowing you to change the bottom buttons to go to spb menu or launcher as well as the contacts button to go directly to all contacts, enable professional screen, lifestyle or both as well as to choose how many pages it has. You can switch pages while editing the layout also, new widgets, improved weather page etc.

im in love again....
[Windows Mobile Themes] anubis1126:
i canna get the carousel to do that i have an omnia i900
[Windows Mobile Themes] catman51:
MSSkip,

How do you get a Birthday or Anniversary in that widget? Can't figure it out.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] owziee:
Thats it, now I'm sold :)

I was using mobile shell 3 for a week or two and then went back to TF3D due to no current weather conditions in weather, no beatiful viewing of sms and etc...

Now everything is taken care of in 3.5, and the SMS / Email viewer looks way better than in TF3D...

Finally it feels perfect and I'm totally in love with this new UI!!!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I think you basically have to have a birthday or anniversary set for a contact. Then when you add the birthday widget it displays the 'next' reminder in date order. I had an anniversary showing in 25 days, then went into one of my contacts and set a birthday for 30th Sept, restarted mobile shell and the reminder changed to that.

If its not displaying anything then check your contacts entries to make sure you have birthdays or anniversarys entered.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Cascade2:
So far this continues to impress. Only beef so far is the trash at the bottom of the Edit Layout page. Makes it pretty much impossible to put widgets low on the screen. I'll see if it's able to be dumped. "Remove" is still an options so it's redundant.
[Windows Mobile Themes] catman51:
Thanks, got it and it worked!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] ChrisXP27:
i have installed the mobile shel 3 as panel, can i use version 3.5 as panel too?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
What do you mean by installed it as panel?
[Windows Mobile Themes] timtlm:
Found a little easter egg. I was trying to test out the gsensor thing in the carousel, but it wouldn't work. I'm sure you noticed you can tilt the carousel by touching and pulling down. Also, if you flick down quickly enough (drag your thumb all the way down the screen quickly), the whole carousel will spin and rotate in some unique 3D animation.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ChrisXP27:
i will use the MS 3.5 as panel for my XPERIA X1
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Its easy enough to remove from the menubar.xml file in qa_layouts.dat
[Windows Mobile Themes] hermann4711:
ms 3.5 is so crappy! It's now the second time, I have to put out the battery as softreset doesn't work.

I'll roll back to 3.01 until this 3.5 beta-version works ok.

Shame on spb!
[Windows Mobile Themes] owziee:
Press the right button when in carousel view and you'll get an option to enable g-sensor :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] AlienHairball:
First major, repeatable bug.

I have Opera Mobile 9.7 beta on my phone as the default browser. If I use the google search widget it will try to launch my default browser and I see the little opera loading box, but then nothing happens. I end up having to push the "home" key to move on and while it seems like Opera never loaded in truth it's *still* loading. Several minutes later Opera will suddenly pop open and take over. A couple of times now in my testing that sequence has made my device very unstable or even locked it. I've had to soft-reset a couple times now.

The fix - set PIE as the default browser and suddenly that search widget works like a charm. Now is that a problem with the widget? Probably not. Since I'm running a beta of Opera Mobile I won't expect too much there.

I'm also noticing that this thing is eating my battery like there's no tomorrow. :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] squishlax:
I'm not seeing this.. or the other views/actions in the carousel .. is it because I have an Omnia i910??
[Windows Mobile Themes] dustinb17:
Mskip, I can't tell you how excited I am to hear that you are eager to bring back your widget creations to 3.5, I was afraid you would stick with 3 because of the work you'd already put into it.

I would LOVE to see ALL your widgets come back to 3.5, especially, "Small Application" and "Invisible Link". Any idea if they'll be possibilities in 3.5 based on what you've seen in the xml files yet?
[Windows Mobile Themes] owziee:
Probably since it's there on my Diamond...

But I disabled it almost immediately since I found it totally useless... Maybe it's good if you want to impress some friends, I dunno...
[Windows Mobile Themes] Prinzessin Horst:
The weather has two options now: forecast and actual weather.

But only the forecast is displayed - the actual weather stays empty.

What am i doing wrong?

How can i activate the actual weather?
[Windows Mobile Themes] AlienHairball:
SPB's weather database is... spotty. Try changing cities to something else near by.

For example, I'm in Colorado, USA and had to use the main city "Denver" to see current conditions because the smaller city I actually live in outside Denver didn't have any current info.
[Windows Mobile Themes] owziee:
I've noticed the battery drains insanely fast when playing with this new version :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] AlienHairball:
^^^^^^^ = truth.

Granted I've been playing a fair bit with this new version, but even so my battery is lower now than it usually is when I go to bed at night and that's still about 9 hours away. Not a good sign. :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
You will only have the option for the g-sensor if you have a g-sensor on your phone.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I guess its like when you get a brand new phone. Once you have it home and its charged up you go through all the settings and see what everything does and you usually kill your battery in a few hours. Give it a day or 2 and once everything is set up you will go back to normal useage and can judge the battery consumption better.

Of course by then I will have my first cabs out for 3.5 and you will be back to square one again :P
[Windows Mobile Themes] catman51:
MSkip,

The only thing I'm worried about now is how much program memory I can have and still have it functional.

With Elegance in I was running about 10mb's left. With this new version being so much larger, I'm down to 8mb and that's without Elegance!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] aypee3:
re :-menu bar

suppose i remove the menubar.xml file in qa_layouts.dat then how can i access the spb menu or the launcher or the contacts page, as i don't have any icon, like we have in your widgets eg. spb menu or launcher
[Windows Mobile Themes] theReverand:
mskip, you workin on any widgets for MS 3.5? if so can we get a preview?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Zepiii:
Even if a lot of ppl knows it now, i wanted to annouce your that SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 is out (or really soon)

Cool widgets to customize your Home screen

* Photo contacts

* Picture frame

* Media player

* Weather

* Internet search

* Facebook and Twitter status

* Wireless switches

* Phone profile

* Appointments and tasks

* ... and many others

>> http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/?en
[Windows Mobile Themes] the_one_and_only:
Unfortunately, once again (I think), it's not possible to sort the contacts by company...

Is possible to change the contacts link, on bottom of the screen, to open another contacts program that I've installed?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] catman51:
Zepiii,

It's all we've been talking about the last 5 pages!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] Zepiii:
I know, in fact, i made an official post for this topic : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4633835#post4633835

That's why i said : "Even if a lot of ppl knows it now"

And i posted 2 times, cuz my connection is bugging ! :D

;)

See ya !
[Windows Mobile Themes] Mattster_spv:
Just trying out SPB MS 3.5 and am so far VERY impressed.

- The quality of graphics is much better

- Addition of widgets is far, far simpler (including the ability to move them directly across panels!)

- Switching size and style of widget is magnificently easier.

Initially I thought that my previous reg changes to remove the professional screen had remained on the device, but I realise now that there is no slide up anymore for professional screen.

Excellent update, making a lot of sense the changes they have made.

Mattster.
[Windows Mobile Themes] xawen:
All this is not needed anymore. The menu in the lower right of the home screen has a settings option. In there you'll find options to disable either the pro or lifestyle screens...without breaking anything else...
[Windows Mobile Themes] winmofreak:
i cant find the wqvga link on the french website itself. can someone help me out?
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
So 2 quick questions here. Does anyone know if you can upgrade or does it need to be a new install? Does Skip's widgets work okay with this version? I know that this version about 4MB larger than 3.01
[Windows Mobile Themes] k1sr:
I love that you love my work...! :D

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Themes] xawen:
Upgrades seem to work and settings will be kept as long as you use stock layouts. The existing add-on themes and widgets (mskip's included) won't work with 3.5 (it's changed too much on the back end).
[Windows Mobile Themes] abumhmmd1:
Hi every 1

SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 User_Manual

ENJOy
[Windows Mobile Themes] bogdatov:
I downloaded few background images from their "Online catalog" and they are VGA. I have HTC HD (WVGA) and those backgrounds do not stretch. And what is worse - I did not find a way to see what image in "Catalog" is for what resolution
[Windows Mobile Themes] joshzzz2001:
feedback on tricks on first page

We know that widgets won't work on this new version but can we also give feedback on the tweaks and tricks mentioned on the first page of this thread? Are they still good or they're not with the 3.5.

As of the moment, I only tried the Shell Extension and it did not work for me. The whole bottom menu bar disappeared and became unresponsive. I had to reinstall SPB as a consequence.

Maybe zepii can be the one on top of this as he started this thread.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mike21pr:
FYI I believe that the carousel and messaging 3d enhanced animations are tied with the 3d acceleration option. thats why i dont and cant have it on my vogue, and possibly the user with the Omnia as well. I tried it on my buddies touch pro and i was blown away!!! i was kicking it just spinning the darn thing all directions lol
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Alot of the tricks and tips will still work with 3.5 but ANYTHING to do with widgets or themes will not work because the widget part of Mobile Shell has been changed alot on both the registry side and in the qa_layouts.dat file. For that reason I think it will be best to start a new thread for 3.5 to keep things in order and stop people screwing up mobile shell and having to reinstall it. Also the thread is growing quickly and alot of information is irelevant for 3.5.

I think zepii is the best person to run the thread as he has done a fine job with this one.

If anyone else thinks this is a good idea then shout out and lets get the new thread started before confusion sets in :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] joshzzz2001:
Thanks, mskip for the above info. I agree completely with you on having a new thread and with Zepii on top of it, that is, if it's okay with him.

I tried your MS3 transparent bar cab and it still works! Good thing as I find having a transparent bar a lot better than the default. The downside is that the trash icon of the edit layout mode disappears but you can still drag widgets there, that area turns red and you can remove the widgets.
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Works perfectly for me....
[Windows Mobile Themes] bogdatov:
With MS3 I had Mail/MissedCalls/VoiceMail/SMS indicators + WirelessManager+PhoneProfile - ALL in SINGLE row. For whatever reason I cant do that with 3.5 - not enough space.

And this "Recycle Bin" drives me nuts :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Ok preliminary tests are in and its looking good. I have everything on Elegance working perfectly with 3.5 apart from the widgets (obviously). With Elegance 3.5 the settings screen still works aswell so the Pro and Lifestyle screens can be turned on or off and the number of pro screens can still be set :)

Ultimate will also work fine so the bottom menubar can be made useable as before.

Also I have managed to keep the settings working for the launcher and contacts buttons so Elegance can be installed and those buttons can still be changed (launcher can be set to open launcher or spb menu. Contacts can be set to open call log, favorites or contacts).

I have built a basic cab for Elegance (naked without any widgets) but I will start looking at the widgets tomorrow (its 2:34am here now LOL) to work out exactly how the widgets need to be inserted into mobile shell.

Im also going to take out the recycle bin in Ultimate 3.5 and Elegance 3.5 as its totally irelevant.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
Thanks for you efforts Skip. I was wondering if the Menu Shell Links would still work. I also agree that a new thread would be very beneficial. In the first post their you can link to this thread and then close this one.
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Omnia i910 does have an accelerometer, but not seeing the special animation.......will continue to research......
[Windows Mobile Themes] k1sr:
There's a few gripes going around about the new version... personally, I think it's great, but there are a few things missing:

Damn I want my invisible widget back - the rest I can live without, but not the invisible widget...!

Integration is not the same - I want to be able to select my source for the weather

The widget 'grid' seems to be different - I can't fit as much as I used to

Is it worth putting together a gripe list, and any solutions if people can find them...?

Agreed, perhaps there needs to be a new thread - this one's huge, and so much stuff doesn't apply anymore...

Also, there's probably no use everyone tearing their hair out over the new release, and what's missing - given a little bit of time the great minds behind the widget packs and everything will work out how to integrate them again...

It's just evolution, and while there's good and bad in the new release, we'll just start to love the good, and forget the bad was ever there...
[Windows Mobile Themes] glyndal:
this might turn me off TF3D ... it's amazing
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Hmmm. FWIW, Seemed to work okay for my wqvga Omnia.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I realise Mobile Shell has grown ALOT and as im going to have to go through over 100 custom widgets, check each one for compatability, make icons for each widget and add them back one at a time I will probably be leaving a few of the bigger weather widgets and clocks out (which take up most of the space). If people want it then I may release a naked version of ProPlus Elegance and Ultimate with just the mods and menubars changed but without any of my widgets. A naked version of Elegance with just the sunset wallpaper will only take up about 500k and a naked version of Ultimate will take up next to nothing.

If anyone wants naked versions until I can get the ProPlus widgets working with 3.5 let me know.
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
MSkip, you know us! Let's have it! But if you'd like some sleep first, it's okay. 3.5 hasn't even been out 24 hours, yet! :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I agree totally that theres really no point in griping about things when its only been out less than a day and most of the gripes are just a lack of understanding.

A gripe list will be a great start for the new thread LOL :D

Invisible widget should be easy enough to integrate into 3.5 as its just a mod of the existing link widget ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] zindian:
Hi guys

can any one tell me how to install new SPB 3.5 on omnia. i dont have much space in it and 3.5 does not ask for location to install so i can not install.

also it does not upgrade my old version.

tx guys
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
I installed right over the old version on my Omnia without any issues at all.

Maybe it is a space issue if you're low on it. Do you have some stuff you can move to storage card or simply delete?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you have 3.0.1 on your phone still then try uninstalling that first and you should have enough space for the new version. Mobile Shell always installs to device memory so installing to storage card isnt an option. Taking any unecesary programs off your phone will also give you more space to play with.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
Is SPB Weather no longer integrated into the shell? I have it installed but when I installed MS 3.5 I had to select a city and it doesn't seem to launch spb weather.
[Windows Mobile Themes] catman51:
Naked sounds good.

Weather is not really integrated. You get a weather widget for MS and a separate weather widget for SPB Weather. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
[Windows Mobile Themes] drseuss:
does anyone have a problem with their contact pictures not showing in the 3D sms viewer? if so, how did you fix it?
[Windows Mobile Themes] squishlax:
I uninstalled mskip's widgets, and SPB MS3.1 before I installed MS3.5 and it seems to be working fine on my Omnia except for the special carousel animations and views ..
[Windows Mobile Themes] AlienHairball:
After further playing I can definitely say the battery drain is huge. I fully realize I've been playing around with this new toy a lot today, but this is much more than just that. I watched it drop literally 1% every couple of minutes for a stretch this evening. It was brutal. :(

On a positive note, I've got it looking sharp and doing all the things I want for now. :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] xawen:
Do you have 3D acceleration turned on? I have a Touch Pro and saw the same drain with acceleration. It seems to have stopped since I disabled it (only been a few hours, so hard to tell). I really wish they'd release the 3D drivers for the chip in this phone...this software rendering sucks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
Okay I found the weather item. I must say that the weather widget that comes with 3.5 is better than the one that was with 3.01. With it I don't really need spb weather. I must agree with the battery issue. I have seen a large decrease in my battery power while doing a basic set up of the screens.
[Windows Mobile Themes] AlienHairball:
Hmm I'm sure I do have that on, but I don't remember there being a general "toggle 3D acceleration" setting anywhere. Where do I set something like that? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
It is in the spb settings under system I believe. You can turn 3d acceleration off. I did but I am still seeing a pretty good hit to the battery power unless the meter is flawed.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bigchrizzieboy:
3.5 is out :-)

:eek:

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/mobileshell/

Version 3.5 (Sep 30, 2009):

New widgets:

* Tasks

* Picture frame (widget and fullscreen slideshow)

* Facebook status

* Twitter status

* Birthdays reminders

* Four instant wireless switches (WiFi, Bluetooth, Flight Mode, and Phone Switch)

* Internet search

* Operator's name

* Date

* Alarm

Updated widgets:

Contact: ability to choose the default action

Wireless manager: icon shows current states, and popup shows current states

Weather: support for more advanced skins with detailed forecast and current weather conditions

* 3D email and SMS viewer

* Access to online catalog in the "Change Background" dialog box

* Streamlined background change (with cropping and easy to view local gallery)

* Current weather conditions (in addition to forecast)

* Gravity sensor support in the 3D carousel

* Improved 3D carousel design (e. g. added reflections)

New "Add Widget" dialog:

* Widget skin selection with preview

* New skins for most widgets

* Widget-based Professional home

* Option to have only one home screen (lifestyle or professional)

* Option to change the number of screens in lifestyle or professional layouts

* Weather in Agenda

* Tactile feedback on tap-and-hold

* Option to choose the default tab for Contacts and Launcher

* Improved design of most dialogs (popup menus, settings, etc.)

* Category filter in the contact list

* Improved widget edit mode (widget can be dragged to other pages, recycle bin for easy delete etc.)

* Color themes support on Windows Mobile 6.5

* Integration with SPB Weather and SPB Traveler via widgets

* Improved "Choose Shortcut" dialog box with similar look to SPB Menu