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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AmdPhenomII:
Both downloads turned out to be the same, WP7 1.15 old and WP7 1.15 can you please check the links?

Even though one says old it's still saying HD2 and it locks up on the weather app. Has it been tested on HD2 only ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
The non-HD2 version still says HD2, the only difference is the animspeed variable.

And yes, this theme is specifically for the HTC HD2 (though it MAY work on other devices).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abumhmmd1:
interesting . . .

dwnld it now

will test it 2nt

THANKs
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lord brett sinclair:
ae

when i clik on bing"search " it's impossible to return to menu !why
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
I use my hardware Back button. If your device doesn't have one, you'll have to use Start or something to navigate back to the main screen (reload the app).

I'll add a software button next release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lesscro:
looks promising...

very good animation...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lord brett sinclair:
wp7

hello thx for your job it's works very nice on omnia i 900 but a little slowly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
On my Blackstone I can't open bing, because it crashes when I try to open it.

And without pictures in the right directory, it also crashes when you press the space, where the picture tile should be. Besides that I have the same problems as many others (jerky animations when scrolling etc.)

I thought about making an app like this myself, when I have time. I wanted to use open gl, because it gives you really smooth animations(at least on my blackstone with a driver pack). I already took a look at silvermoon and I think you could use some parts of it, like the grid.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vader165:
imho, i think you should polish what you've got here to a mirror sheen and then add on. i think that an xbox hub would be nice. connect to live w. data/wifi, then load your gamerscore, avatar, gamertag, gamerpic, etc. then another tab where you load the games on the device. then another tab link to marketplace filtered by games. that's a lot but it's a thought.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
I agree. At first all the basic functions should work. I think xbox doesn't need to be integrated, because it goes beyond the new UI(and many people like me don't need it) and should be implemented in an app.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lkachun9129:
This release is a big improvement since the last release!!

It runs quite smooth on my HTC Opal which is a QVGA device.

I am sure there is still room of improvement for this app.

My questions:

1. Will it support showing chinese characters in the future release?

2. Is it possible to decrease the height of items(program list and contact list)?

3. Will there be a appointment tile?

4. Will you think of using a better icon for it? I had made one for you.

The ICO file: HERE
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vader165:
i've had a good look with this. i know it's early, but here are my concerns:

people tile should have more dynamic changing, bouncing between contacts. everything should fade out faster when you tap on a tile. it looks nice when things slowly fade out, but it gets annoying fast.

bing keyboard should pop up/down faster.

the app launcher should display the icon pictures as well

the kinetic scrolling has got to be fixed.

people hub. the people word should be extended to the next section, like in the real thing

you should swipe and change sections faster.

contact info needs to be expanded, each having fb, twitter, txt, email, phone sections

one key thing that i am noticing is that it is not the segoe ui type. i liked that b/c it was thing and clean. your's seems a bit thick.

for all my nitpicking it's looking fantastic and these are all minor complaints. but we should help make this as good as the real thing as possible. thanks for this amazing concept.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Omega Ra:
works fairly smooth on my i920 Omnia 2. The lack of the back button is a problem but you are putting that in. And for some reason it doesn't see that opera 10 is my default browser...it uses IE. As someone else said...word overlap, and kinetic scrolling is needed on the main page. Other than that things seem to be working well :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stephnd:
working fine on my acer betough e101, faster than the one in the video. need help on to where the settings are? the weather and facebook says page cannot be displayed.

tip: would be nice to have windows live added to the tiles
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomanlam:
To access settings, simply press and hold on anywhere appears grey in the application and a menu will pop up:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] julian2596:
d

dont know wat you mean
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dangerousrun:
how do you get back to the main menu when you have acces to the people tab ????? im stuck there !!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] explisiv:
facebook wont exactly stay logged in.

there maybe a way to trigger a log in every so often for updates and use a sms protocol to push updates or when it updates have a way to package the data or read it from the facebook application...

also maybe glossy panels for the start menu's live tiles to improve on where they over looked.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Casey_boy:
Ahh... yeah ignore the speed issues. Must have had something running back there cos I've opened it again and it's running much faster (I'd have thought my HD2 should have handled it but never mind). Though still looking forward to any improvements you can make on that front!

Couple of other things:

Facebook Issue:

As I stated in the beta - the IE window does not pop up in front. I don't know if you'd attempted to fix or not.

Contact photos

I know we mentioned this before, but the app is not using Facebook images for contacts even if a Facebook account is associated with the contact and the user has set up Facebook in the WP7S app.

Contact information

When you click on a contact - it would be nice to see a picture of them there as well (you may have said that more details etc were coming...)

Perhaps, you could also have an edit contact button as well? (Although I guess that's harder to implement)

What's new

Minor Issue! If you're not logged into Facebook then the What's new page still says "Loading... This may take some time." along with the "Facebook is not set up yet..."

Also the What's new feed is still formatted a bit wrong i.e. it goes over the words "What's new" and is slightly cut off on the right hand margin. <- EDIT: Actually, the margin thing is because the animation does not fully open. I.e. if you slide to what's new it doesn't fully slide over. You have to slide again for another few millimeters to show.

I like the Setup Facebook button though :)

Bing hub

Still very slow - is this because we have to wait for the background picture to be downloaded from Bing? If so, is there the possibility of having a cache? So that an older picture is displayed until the new one is downloaded which then replaces the older picture?

Ideas for hubs

I agree with numerous posters here, that perhaps you should concentrate on getting this core sorted first and getting it running as fast as possible then introduce new hubs; but some ideas:

Pictures hub - instead of opening the album as defined in the settings; perhaps you could create a page where multiple albums are shown. (the current setting could be used simply to rotate through the images on the tile)

Games hub - I've suggested this to you already; but basically the user could have a mock Xbox hub (maybe users set their own background with their avatar - saves you doing the hard work of integration - is that even possible?) which lists the currently installed games on the phone.

Music hub

Weather hub - at the moment we use your live tile (doesn't work for non-US but I know we could create our own) but perhaps you could create a more visually pleasing hub?

Hub background images - I would like to see the ability to add a background image to all my hubs. However, I understand that this may create performance issues.

Cheers!

Casey
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Casey_boy:
You have to use the phone's back button (if you have one!). Jaxbot has said he will implement a back arrow for other pages though...so if you don't then hold tight :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dangerousrun:
thx for now i had to quit it and restart it that the only workaround i found as i dont have a back button on my omnia2
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
After I finally found out that you can't just long-press anywhere on blank space to access the settings(it has to be in the blank space under the arrow) I set the path to pictures and programs.

But now I have 2 more problems:

1. Pictures don't show, but when I press on the space for the pictures, it launches the picture as it should.

2. Because I use a german rom, I can't access the programs. The path for the start menu is

\Windows\Startmenü\Programme\

which contains an

ü

When I save the settings and open it again, the ü is replaced with ?

\Windows\Startmen?\Programme\
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
*Almost* ready with 2.0 beta. Since it's been a while, I'm opening up tester positions. If you've tested for me previously, and are still willing to help, please PM me. It's been a while, though, so I don't know if circumstances have changed.

Anyway, if you want to help me test, here's the requirements:

-You MUST own an HTC HD2.

-You need to have testing experience, or general programming experience. I will need detailed feedback reports, and you will have to understand how to "reproduce" any bugs you discover.

If you are interested in donating some of your time to help test this theme, PM me.

Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Narii:
The HD2 version works on my touch pro 2.

Thanks for the theme!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] swax:
will it work only in HTC HD2??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
It might work on other devices, but will probably be fairly slow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
It's been a long ride, but for those of you sporting an HTC HD2, here's the latest version:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8512590#post8512590
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Julian35961:
Its been updated.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] circleofomega:
the v 2.b is available for Hd2 ONLY?no WVGA?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
You _could_ use a WVGA device (TG01, Tilt 2, etc), but the performance wouldn't be as good, and the Text button wouldn't work (Fixable, of course, when I get around to it.)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] circleofomega:
I installed it on my x1..looks gr8,but whenevr i move anything..imean up or down...or even click on something..it just bcomes very laggy..but its gr8 nonetheless...i luv it..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anesh01:
When i installed this on my touch pro 2. it attempts to load, however past 6kb, it crashes. The cab file installs itself to program files/wp7theme, however the program looks for a different location, which is program fileswp7 theme. I dont know what to do. I've attempted to rename the folder to wp7 theme, however it still crashes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pratapamn:
Hi Julius...how did you make it work on O2 atom life..It keeps giving me .NET framework error..I have installed the cab for the framework twice with no hope...Please help..??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] juliuscezar:
I just installed the cab file and reset. Try using bajok's ROM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drupad2drupad:
Hi Jaxbot!

Congratulations!

I second the opinion about TG01.

Though you have named it 'for HTC HD2' I've tested on TG01 with MiRom Clean English Rom. It works ok. It has same issues as I have seen in the thread. Clicking messaging - Error - it doesn't like winmo messaging client!

Clicking on pictures - Error - no idea how to resolve that.

The moving of tiles was a bit laggy before soft reset. After soft reset it worked ok. However, when facebook was activated and restarted the app, it din't like me. It zoomed in heavily for the 'allow app' page for facebook and no way was it going to let me do anything to it.

So for me, worked without facebook. I am hoping the feedback will help you to create Jaxbot's Windows Phone 7 theme for SnapDragons!

I think TG01 processor is manly enough to take the app and pretend to be winmo7. Little tweaks and adjustments will make it look even better and work even smoother!

Great work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ncisgirl:
when i install the cab file on my diamond2 and run it at first it shows a grey background and after it it shows that there`s an error can u tell me please why this is hapenning
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drupad2drupad:
did you soft-reset your phone after installation?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kameirus:
is this excellent theme done or is there maybe future updates for it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
Development has moved over to the HD2 for the time being:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=802621
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kameirus:
ahh ok

maybe il will give that a try

as im haveing lost of problems with this one

tap on the sms tile crashes the program

cannot add people to favorites crashes the phone

i rerally love the look of it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] brewhoxs:
Windows Phone 7 on Windows Mobile 6.x devices, wow great and thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kapie:
will this work fine on my blackstone, or will it be very laggy?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
It should work, though this older version does have quite a bit of lag.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kapie:
now im sad :S

i think im just going to buy a wp7 device :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MatthewYiu:
Tested it out! pretty cool for a beta!

can't wait for you next releases! looks very promising!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
Time to address some concerns :)

Actually, that IS segoe ui, and it looks TOTALLY different from the WP7S font, so I actually don't think that Microsoft is using Segoe UI.

Nice, thanks. I'm not an artist :)

About some of the other things mentioned:

1: Facebook uses IE: The program loads IE, and passes the URL as an argument. It does not check for default browsers.

2: IE showing below Facebook window: There's no Maximized startup mode when I launch IE, but I'll play around with it.

3: Bing loading slow: A cache is a good idea, I'll see about it. I also might add it to a thread, so the form doesn't even download it, the main thread will.

Back to work :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vader165:
4 eg: the two attached photos. official lock screen and people hub respectively.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fxdadbrowser:
looks cool......... one more issue here in my TP.

when I touch a blank area between icons (bottom area), "Error" pops up. saying An unexpected error has occured in wp7s.exe Parameter name : Index.

but works only touching right side.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
Not sure why that would happen, but I'll look into it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zarpy:
Great job!!

What your doing here is incredible for early stage. I know as Iam a developer myself. I did something different but similar what you did but with a game demo. I used windowsphone7 as a homescreen and when you click on Xbox live it took you to a call of duty demo game here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=646309 . Keep up the good work because the more you reveal the more it forces microsoft to keep improving it or people wont buy it, they just download your UI.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ajdrausal:
Nice Job

Running it on the Tilt2 from ATT

Looks good, a bit laggy, but hey its a beta. But worth checking it out :D cant wait till the next release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] federaly:
Honestly. Keyboard.

I know its beta so I'll be keeping a close eye on this. Though. Any chance of you make a .cab file for that keyboard! Seriously I want the new keyboard it looks so much better then the sense on my TD2.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AlkamistStar:
Great job

This is a really great first start, and i plan to keep my eye on this project. Much respect to you Jaxbot for this theme, it's looking awesome so far.

My suggestions are:

1. Would be nice to make the gray background customizable, so we could add our own wallpaper (maybe even an animated wallpaper).

2. Access media from SD Card.

3. Add a marketplace tile

4. Add an Xbox Live title that links to Xbox.com's user profile page.

5. Allow internet favorites to be tiled on the Home screen.

6. Have the option to search Bing's different categories (Map, Images, etc) before launching into web browser.

That's most of my ideas for now, and if you need any further suggestions, help, or beta testing, please PM me :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iullian:
weather

I would like to know how to change the F in Celsius. It's very slow on my Diamond. Let's hope the next release(s) will be faster.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MD323:
i keep getting an error when i start the app. it wont let me start it. it says quit and try again System.Drawing.Bitmap. I wanna Try This!!! Any suggestions?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Timothye:
thanks for sharing this beta .

concerns .

1. very unstable , i receive errors after every time i use it , it crashes .

2. scrolling is horrible . too slow and studders, laggs .

3. each time i should do a "long press" for the settings it crashes

4. tiles change very slow and not really working .

5. its a great start keep up the good work , i'll bbe following your thread and looking forward to future releases .

Cheers

/T
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kuzibri:
Can you install cab file on SD card or is it necessary to install in device memory? Also, can you uninstall in case something goes wrong?

Thanks in advance, Kuzibri
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
What's the URL to link to someone's Xbox.com user page?

It's part of the PHP live tile example, it pulls the data from Accuweather.

Uninstalling and installing to SD card should work fine.

If you mess up a setting, try deleting \wp7s_settings.txt
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kuzibri:
Hi Jaxbot,

thanks for your quick reaction!! Is the \wp7s_settings.txt located in the \windows directory or in its own directory?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lkachun9129:
Suggestion about the weather tile:

I think it is better to download 7 days weather forcast and save it to somewhere such as registry or a txt file.

The weather tile can get information for the registry or txt file.

Auto-update is avaliable when the phone is connected to a network.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
As I've said before, the weather tile is actually more of an example of what a live tile can do.

I encourage other users to make their own live tiles. (I'll have a guide up shortly on the topic)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smoothcrooner:
Hi,

I'm eager to try this out, but will run smoothly or even work on my Omnia's (W)QVGA screen??:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
It should work, but I'm not sure how smooth it will be. Try it and tell us the results :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
Live tile guide, see first page!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5868312#post5868312
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smoothcrooner:
Will do:) Can't wait to try it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] infonorm:
Just installed it on my HTC Kaiser

Just installed it on my old HTC Kaiser, and it works. I have the same problem as others with getting stuck in the people page. Strange is that the back button is not working either. It is slow but not much worse than everything else on that phone. Looking forward to more updates. Thanks for getting us a glimpse into WP7.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ernonewman:
not working on my Blackstone

Hi there,

I keep getting a "UriFormatException Invalid URI: The host name could not be passsed" error. I've tried uninstalling and then re-installing. No luck. Any suggestions?

-Erno

PS. Keep up the good work. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] killerbie:
Looks great,

I'm definitly going to check this topic regulary.

Now i'm going to test the beta

ps can't wait for updates :D

keep up the good work man! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thom74:
Excellent

Looks but but drags a bit when scrolling> looking forward to the next beta:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
Delete \wp7s_settings.txt and \wp7s_paths.txt on your device.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zarpy:
today and future development

I have tested and tried this out works perfect with touchpro2. For this early its more amazing than I though , after seeing your work , it inspired me to make something myself. I will work on a halo game(short game) using Xbox graphics. I have sort of special request when Iam finish I wanted to make it where when you touch Xbox live it would go to the halo game. I made a call of duty (short game) and your the one who gave me the idea of using windowsphone7 face. No matter what anyone says here from one developer to another fantastic job. If you want to know more about what Iam talking about check here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5875874#post5875874
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smoothcrooner:
Been testing this out on my Omnia i900. Drags a fair bit but a great job all the same. Can't wait for the next update.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
Just watched Pocketnow's video (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts4UTsU-0BA&feature=player_embedded), and never realized how fast the animations were on the HD2!

As part of trying to make this application run as fast as possible, and as smooth as possible, how many people are experiencing animations like that?

What should the animations look like (as far as speed goes)?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tsalta:
Just to give a positive feedback, the project is cool

i test the beta and like you know now everything working perfect and etc..

But the idea is good

with sure will test the final release.

Please do everything posible.. to increese the SPEED everyone in this forum want SPEED and Everyone want FASTER and Faster UI

So if the final release is really Smooth and Fast.. im sure peoples who even don`t like the look of WM7 will Use the theme:)

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nileet1:
i don't like it yet, when i installed first it works on my LG GM750, but now everytime i start the app opens the internet explorer to facebook and wp7s crashes! ooouh can you tell me for wat reason it crashes?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] B3RL1N:
Great first try, you've got the basic WP7S theme down.

It's a bit buggy and laggy on my Touch Pro 2 and the weather and bottom boxes all show up as scrollable windows.

Keep up the good work! Can't wait to see more.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] surfacing8671:
Awsome man. I have this running well on my pure. There are a good number of bugs and stuff from what i can tell but ill post some actual feedback for you in a bit once i have had more time to play with it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kel16harris:
buggy, and slow on my hd2, hopefully it gets better because the other wp7s theme is better at the moment
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jaxbot:
It is probably trying to connect to facebook and facebook is rejecting it.

Next build, it will properly handle Facebook errors.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ss0mohit:
hmm. just tried it out on my vogue (256 mb of ram)

pretty good for a first attempt. just one question, how do i get out of the lockscreen?

good concept.

i will definitely be checking up on this theme a lot. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rich2thad:
have been frowning about the windows7 stuff but this looks nice im going to install in a few and will be back to report the feel of it... actually kinda excited to chek it out it has been a while since ive seen sumthin fresh, tired of all the roms being the same and android is fun but eh ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zangai:
Awesome!

Although the Bing Hub crashes on my HTC Touch Pro.

Are you planning on open-sourcing it? I would love to see how you made it work :)