[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
FAQ FOR ALL PROPLUS THEMES

Q1. Whats the difference between ProPlus Elegance and ProPlus Ultimate?

Ultimate has an empty menubar area at the bottom so you can place whatever widgets and links you want in that space.

Elegance has a 3 button menubar and also a page selector bar to take you straight to any of the 7 lifestyle pages. Elegance also has continuous scrolling so that you can scroll from page 7 to page 1 in a single swipe.

Apart from those differences, both versions have the same enhancements and widgets :)

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Q2. How do I Exit Shell?

To Exit Mobile Shell Completely

Goto Spb Menu from the bottom menubar, then click settings, Spb Mobile Shell, Bottom right menu button, Exit Shell.

To Restart Mobile Shell

Just click on Spb Home in the bottom right of your Today Screen :)

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Q3. I cant uninstall ProPlus, it just hangs and doesnt do anything.

Note: ProPlus packs can take upwards of 8 minutes to uninstall fully because of the vast amount of work packed in and how it is integrated into Mobile Shell. Be patient and wait until you get a verification that it has failed to uninstall before attempting the manual uninstall method:

If you have a registry program on your phone then delete the following 2 folders, then delete your program files, spb mobile shell folder.

You should now be able to reinstall mobile shell and then the new version of Ultimate. It will tell you it has to uninstall the previous version first but just hit ok and be patient because it might not do anything for a bit and then it will be fine.

1. Exit Mobile Shell (Spb Menu, Settings, Spb Mobile Shell, Menu button, Exit)

2. In the Registry Delete (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Spb Software House\Shared\Spb Menu)

3. In the Registry Delete (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Spb Software House 2)

4. Using a File Manager Delete Program Files, Spb Mobile Shell folder

5. Soft Reset and install Mobile Shell

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Q4. Im running WM6.5.1 and have a StartBar covering the bottom area.

Follow *THIS* post to fix it OR try installing *THIS* registry fix.

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Q5. How do I open launcher from the panels cutton on ProPlus Freedom?

Ok here goes:

1. copy qa_layouts.dat from program files, spb mobile shell on your phone to your pc

2. rename to qa_layouts.dat.zip

3. using winzip (must be winzip or you can have problems) extract the MenuBar3Lifestyle_UltimateV1.xml file using the password b0fm18zq when asked

4. open the xml file in notepad

5. about a 1/3 down you will find the following text

<Layout Name="Default">

<Plugins>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.MenuBar" Name="Panels" ID="3">

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

<String Name="Action" Value="Panels"/>

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

<String Name="Icons" Value="ButtonsMB"/>

<Skin Name="IconSkin" Skin="MSkipFiles" MiddleSkin="MSkipFiles" DoubleSkin="MSkipFiles"/>

<Rect Name="SrcIcon" X="0" Y="54" Width="27" Height="27"/>

</Plugin>

replace the highlighted lines with

<String Name="Open" Value=":BTN0"/>

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

<Int Name="Replace" Value="0"/>

6. save the file and exit from notepad

7. drag the file back to your opened winzip file (qa_layouts.dat.zip) making sure winzip 'encrypt files' is selected with the password set to b0fm18zq

8. close the winzip file and rename back to qa_layouts.dat

9. copy the qa_layouts.dat file back to your program files, spb mobile shell folder on your phone making sure to overwrite the original

10. goto start menu, mskip's proplus tools, restart mobile shell

11. when mobile shell restarts test the panels button to make sure it opens the launcher

You can now set the new "launcher" button through menu (bottom right button) settings to open spb menu or launcher. This button has also now been mapped to your left soft button on your phone.

You can also use this method to change the panels button on any of the MenuBar3Lifestyle xml files and you can also set it to open any of the other spb screens by replacing :BTN0 with any of the following.

:BTN1 - contacts, favorites, calllog

:WEATHER - weather

:AGENDA - agenda

:TIME - time

:NOTE Be aware that if you reload the Original Theme (or reinstall ProPlus Freedom) then you will need to copy the modified qa_layouts.dat file back to your phone. You can also safely use this modification on any future updates so it would be easier for you to keep any modified xml files on your pc so that you can just import them back into the qa_layouts.dat file on the new version.