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[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Changed the FAQ:

Added chapter "Additional contacts-pages" under "Usage"

:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
of course it's possible :D

every time you create a new panel, be it pro or lifestyle, with MsM the scripts also create a shortcut to it inside tools -> ms panels, just use it as the target of your link ;)

EDIT: didn't notice jotha already answered the question lol must be still half asleep (ok, maybe more than half lol) :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Grats! Look great! :D

LMAO!!!! :D :D :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
Vostradamus, I was wondering if you could do me a favor? Could you give me just a few of the main reasons you found to switch to the OMNIA II? I'm trying to convince my husband that I need an early upgrade, lol, and I need some good ammunition, you know, other than just that "I want it". I'd appreciate it if you have the time.

thanks

Kathy

ps. this may be a stupid question but could you explain to me why it says the size of the screen is 480 pixels wide vs. 240 pixels (in portrait) when the physical dimensions only seem to differ by about 1/2 in.?
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Thats not so stupid :). The screen has a higher resolution, i.e. there are more dots per inch, so you can have more pix with just a bit more screen-size, therefore much more information on the same screen estate.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
well.... I guess "my" reasons could not be enough for your hubby 'cause I switched to the Omnia II just because I wanted a wvga screen lol :p Other than that, I still think the Omnia I900 is a great phone and I was 100% satisfied with it :)

Some reasons you could bring to your husband could be:

- brighter amoled screen with amazing quality and more visible out in the open

- more powerful cpu

- Hardware 3D acceleration (samsung drivers are not that great, but your husband does not really need to know this, does he? lol)

- lighter battery usage thanks to the amoled screen

- if you use it to read ebooks, there's actually a nice improvement in the way they look

Should you manage to convince him, here's a little suggestion: do NOT get the 16Gb internal memory version: looks like some of them can have issues with the storage and just "lose it" somewhere along the way, often forcing the user to take it back to service center for repair... so far I've read of this issue only from people with the 16Gb version.

Screen resolution on the Omnia II is 480x800 (WVGA). This does not mean that the screen should be twice the phisical size... it just means that the pixels will be smaller, thus resulting in a much more detailed and sharp image :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] dansia47:
I defined a new lifestyle panel. I then assigned 3 pages for it. I created a link to the new panel. When I tap to the link I get the first page of the panel. If I want to reach the third page I have to scroll twice. Surely I'm wrong in something, but I can't understand what.

Edit: tapping on the link I get the page where I was when I left the panel.

Jotha said in the faqs: "With that method, you don't only have more than 1 Fav-Page, but can also swipe back to Start with a "Down"-swipe."

Cause of my poor english I can't understand the meaning of "Down" -swipe
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
My bad, I gave you a wrong info... the middle page is the default "home" in the beginning... this until you enter the panel and swipe through pages, then it will remember the last visited page :o

Guess I forgot about that 'cause I usually exit my additional panels when I'm in the middle page :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
This only applies to additional Pro-Panels.

Pro panels (like the professional home) can take you back to your main lifestyle screen just with a swipe-down gesture on the screen... swipe down as you were scrolling down vertically, same thing you can do to go back to lifestyle screen from professional home :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] dansia47:
OK. Now all it's more clear for me. Unfortunately I don't use pro panels.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
they're not much different from lifestyle panels... :)

Only differences are:

- can swipe-down to lifestyle home

- wallpaper is "fixed" (does not scroll when swiping through pages)

- every pro-panel can have its own wallpaper (lifestyle panels share the same wallpaper as the main one)

so basically if you don't care for the scrolling wallpaper and would like the swipe down to lifestyle home feature you can use it ;)

EDIT: forgot to mention... in case you're interested, additional pro-panels can be used even if professional home is disabled :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] dansia47:
Thanks for the info. But I don't use it in order to avoid memory consumption. For the same reason I don't like to define additional panels (they are already so much).
[Windows Mobile Themes] poppscc:
I recall an earlier version where my contacts could be changed to a very small 6 per row icon. I cant seem to replicate that with this new manager. I can change my links to small icons, but not my contacts. Can this still be done?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
edited my post while you were writing yours lol :p

I understand trying to keep memory usage as low as possible, just there's no much difference in this case between an additional lifestyle panel and an additional pro panel 'cause pro panels can be used even if professional home is disabled.. so adding one or the other is just really a matter of which one you like more ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
contacts skins from previous versions have been all included in this one too... maybe you just didn't activate them :)

Try going into the activate widgets menu and take a look at the available entries in the "contacts" category, should be one of those ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] dansia47:
Well, I tried to define a pro panel. From new panel I can swipe to th lifestyle one. It would be nice if we could do the opposite too.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
unfortunately that's not possible 'cause swipe-up gesture from lifestyle home is enabled only when the professional home is enabled too, and can only lead to professional home :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] poppscc:
my contacts category is empty.

Here is the list of files I've downloaded:

06/09/2010 09:05 AM 359,625 MsM Base MenuBars.wzg

06/09/2010 09:32 AM 1,355,547 MsM Base MS Weather Icons.wzg

06/09/2010 09:32 AM 5,097,457 MsM Base Spb Weather Icons.wzg

06/09/2010 10:21 AM 79,623,301 MsM Base Widgets Library (VGA).wzg

06/09/2010 09:05 AM 79,623,301 MsM Full Widgets Library (VGA).wzg

06/09/2010 09:31 AM 190,317 MsM MenuBars 20100531.wzg

06/09/2010 09:31 AM 524,991 MsM MenuBars 20100603.wzg

06/09/2010 09:04 AM 1,356,029 MsM Menubars ADV20100607.wzg

I have this in a folder "Libraries", and I've "imported folder" "Libraries"

Am I missing a library, or am I importing it wrong? I have an HTC Touch Pro 2.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
On first sight you made everything right.

The contacts skins are in the base library. (and in the full library of course)

It could be that your memeory card is full and the import function could not copy the widgets to your MSM-Folder. Check the empty space on your memory card. What about the other widgets? Are they complete? It is not logical that only the contacts widgets would be missing. Just to be sure I would import the whole folder again.

BTW your Full Widgets library and the Base Widgets library are identical. You can save 75MB of space on the Storage card by deleting one of them. You only need one of them. The Full widgets library is only the Base widgets library and all of the following updates. As you have downloaded both at the same time, they are identical (see size). Saves a lot of importing time also.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
The libraries are fine, too much even 'cause the base widgets library and the full widgets library are currently the same thing lol :p (in future the full one will contain ALL the widgets, while the base one will remain the same and the new additions will be released as new incremental libraries)

Now a question: where did you look for the contacts widgets? in the Activate menu or in the Preview one? Contacts widgets do not have preview images, so if you've been looking in there of course you found the category to be empty.... I didn't include contacts previews 'cause those widgets do not have any particular graphics, they're just slightly differently sized contact pictures... :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] poppscc:
thanks man, was looking in the preview!

I didnt see it in the OP, so I had no idea about it's reference.
[Windows Mobile Themes] hudster2001:
I upgraded to version 3.5.5 today, and the Vostradamus widgets don't work anymore.

the load ok, but don't display. i thought it was something I did, but I re-installed it and it still doesn't work for me
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
upgrading mobile shell destroys my xml inside qa_layouts.dat, so it needs to be "refreshed".

If you have MsM 5.02 already just run the library -> restore xml function.

If you have an older version of MsM, upgrade to 5.02 and then run the abovementioned function ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Edited FAQ:

Added chapter "After updating/Reinstalling Mobile Shell" in "Troubleshooting".:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
Thanks to both Jotha and Vostradamus for your replies to my (stupid) question. It really was dumb, I do know what pixels are and should have realized that smaller ones would explain the difference in specs. Anyway thanks very much for explaining. And Vostradamus thanks for the help with the ammunition, lol. I'm really hoping that I have him convinced, we'll see in the next couple of days. If he goes for it I'm really looking forward to having a new toy to play with.

Thanks again

Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
eheheh good luck ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Released version 5.03 + new widgets library + new advanced menubars library :)

ChangeLog, detailed info and download links in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
Thanks so much for the PEOPLE 2 VHub link, Vostradamus, I'm going to love using it on my new Omnia II, hehe. I think I'll be getting it tomorrow. Now all I have to do is find all the right apps in the VGA format right? It's going to be fun.

thanks again

Kathy

ps. I'll be sending your kitty some tuna soon.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
so you convinced hubby! woooohoooo! :D

Should you need any info about the new phone feel free to ask, I'll be glad to help if I can ;)

Kitty says "meowwww", which of course means thanks a lot lol :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] kevin_diu:
I love this program . :D Thank you .

I have a good idea . :D

A full screen weather widgets .

People can change their "background" by changing the weather :D

And is the advanced menubar available to add any shoutcut(like program) ?

Thx again . :D and sorry for my bad english

By KevinDiu
[Windows Mobile Themes] goninph:
Hello,

In the menu bar is missing the Button Profile.

There is the Edit Profile Button, but it lacks the panel profile
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Full screen weather is not possible I fear, because Mobile Shell crashes when you turn the screen from portrait to landscape and a widget does not fit on the screen anymore. So the most we could make would be a square weather in screen width. But as a weather widget uses 31 pics (consisting of 2 uncompressed bitmaps each), a weather widget in screen-width would use very much RAM and therefore be a lot of trouble for most users.

An advanced menubar can NOT add any shortcuts :(. Mobile Shell only allows the adressing of Mobile Shell Panels via the menubar. If you want to use standard shortcuts in that area, you have to use an invisible menubar and put normal link widgets in the place of the menubar. But you have to do that on every screen then (like you can see on the pic in my signature).
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Sorry, but I do not exactly understand what you mean :confused:. What is the panel profile? :o. Do you mean that you cannot select "phone-profiles" as the defined command for a button?

This would not be possible I think, because phone-profiles is a program, no MS-Panel and therefore can most probably not be used in a menu-bar as I explained in the post before this one. Maybe vostradamus finds a tweak for that, but atm I think it's not possible to use it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] goninph:
With the menubar, via a button, I can not display "Change Profile"

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6776533&postcount=310
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
I've edited my post (before yours) with the explanation :).
[Windows Mobile Themes] goninph:
With ShellExtension (ver 1.4.3) its possible:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Yes, but MSM should run on all phones the same way, whether it has the ShellExtension or not. As I said, maybe Gian makes it possible for all :D.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Most probably I missed it 'cause it's not a normal panel like the others, I'll look into it and see if I can add it to the possible choices ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol of course I am :)

Uhm... I've never used spb watcher to keep mobile shell on top... I just disabled every "full screen" today plugin such as samsung today, touch wiz and similar... so far that's been enough to keep mobile shell on top, both on my omnia 2 and on my omnia 1 before :) No real need for having that stuff eating on my ram if I'm not gonna use them ;)

Of course I don't mind ;)

I can imagine a little bit of "disorientation" on the first try, especially if your previous phone had a 6.1 rom :) You'll get used to it quite soon, don't worry :)

lol that sounded a lot like Terminator... ahahahah :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
I'm certainly glad you're here Vostradamus, I really appreciate your help. Maybe that is the source of the disorientation, I did have wm6.1 before. Could I please ask you how to disable the Today plugins like you mentioned? Also could you tell me what is a safe place for my Memory (storage and program) to be at?

thanks

Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
sure:

start -> settings -> display and backlight -> items on today -> uncheck everything that runs fullscreen (or even everything everything) :)

what do you exactly mean by "safe place for my memory"? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
I mean how much Free memory I should have under Storage and Program. Right now Storage says 84.82 MB free and Program says 51.94 MB free. On my other phone I could have around 15 or so MB free and didn't have any problems. Is it the same with this phone or should I leave more free? I looked under the Start Menu where you said and unchecked a couple of things that were checked and now it says Selected Items: 0.

thanks for your help again

Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] goninph:
Thanks:):)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Got it :)

Storage: try to keep it over 15Mb, but it should be fairly easy if you install to storage card or personal storage everything you can ;) The i900 had less device memory, on the i8000 it should not be hard :)

Program: the more the better :) You could also install some ram-cleaning software and run it every now and then, somthing like MemMaid, or cleanRam.

Also remember that your still on a Windows Mobile device, so there's still the usual gwes.exe that usually tends grow larger and larger 'til you soft reset the device (this is about every WM device, not the Omnia II alone)
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
Thanks Vostradamus. So soft resetting occasionally helps to free up memory?

Something else I was wondering if you could help me with - what size do pictures need to be for large landscape oriented pics for the picture frames (large borderless)? I just can't seem to get it quite right and I don't want them to be bigger than necessary to save space. I managed to get most everything working so far but now I need to make up my different panels. I really can't tell you how much I appreciate your patience and help.

thanks again

Kathy

Also do I make my bmp images for Pro Panel backgrounds 480x800 now instead of 240x400?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Yep, that's correct :)

borderless large picture frames on vga are defined 480x480 pixels. These are max width and max height, but the actual final size of the picture on your screen will depend on the aspect ratio of the picture you select.

Let me try to explain better using some examples...

- If you select, for example, a 480x240 picture, it will be shown with its real size, for both width and height fit into the max 480x480 definition

- If you select a 960x480 picture, it will be shown 480x240 'cause mobile shell will adapt its largest size to the max definition for the borderless large, and calculate the other size accordingly respecting the original aspect ratio

- If you select a smaller picture, say for example 240x100, it will be again shown original size even if borderless large is defined larger, 'cause mobile shell will not try to enlarge it.

So, if you wanna make your pictures the correct size for borderless large without making them too large not to waste space, just keep the largest dimension = 480 pixels ;)

100% correct :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
Vostradamus, will the 'GPRS_bye_if_device_off ' registry fix work on the Omnia II? I like to have it check my email every 2 hrs and check the weather every 4 hrs. but I don't like to have it connected all the time.

thanks for your help

Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
You don't need it :)

Start -> Settings -> General ->Wireless Settings -> Menu -> Data connections settings

Check the "no packets for" and set the time after which you want the data connection to be closed (I've set mine to 2 mins, I check the mail every 30 mins lol) :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
That was easy, thanks. I downloaded and installed the lock program you recommended and I like it, it's just a little complicated to set up. Do you know if you can set your own pics as a background or do you have to use the ones in the program?

thanks

Kathy

oops, I did something wrong. Now when I unlock the S2U2 screen I have the original lock screen underneath and have to unlock it too. Do you know how to fix this? I'm not sure what I did.

Alright, I disabled the system's lock screen and that took care of that problem but for some reason I've discovered that when a call comes in I can't answer it. The Slide to Answer doesn't work. I've checked and made sure that Caller ID is enabled but it still won't answer the call. Do you have any idea why?

Believe it or not Vostradamus, I think I figured out what my problems were. At least some of them, lol. I'm getting there anyway. Thanks, Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] carbtvserv:
I added a new home panel but it came with an MSM logo background. How do i get rid of it and add a diff background to that panel. Also, i activated the leather and huge metal panels from widgets library but i cannot find them under skins. Where can i find them? Can these be used as backrounds?
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Ad 1) Under the same menu where you created the panel, there is the option to change backgrounds for that panels.

Ad 2) Panel-Widgets are "tweaked" Date-Widgets, so you find them under Date-Widgets. As explained in the FAQ, we cannot create additional Widget classes, just alter existing ones. They cannot be used as backgrounds strictly speaking, but they of course can be put in the background of some widgets. Thats what they are for. But as they cannot be in the size of a panel they cannot be real backgrounds.

BTW I'm glad we have a real MSM-Question here again for once ;).
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol looks like I'm late in answering most of your questions, but I'm glad to read you figured it all out :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
Hi Vostradamus. I'm having a little problem that I'm not sure what to do about cause I don't know what's causing it. Every once in awhile when I click the Carousel button down in the corner I get 2 grayed out buttons (once in each corner) and everything freezes. The only way I can fix it is to power down the phone and then restart. I would just reset but there doesn't seem to be a little reset button (like in the Omnia i910) so there's no way to get to the soft reset function when it's frozen. Do you have any idea what might be causing it?

Also sometimes some of my Weather widgets just disappear. If they're on the screen they stay there but if I decide to change the skin some of the widgets I have activated just don't do anything. I click on them and nothing happens. I don't know what causes it but I went back to MSM and deactivated them and then reactivated them and that seemed to fix it. Any ideas?

thanks

Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Carousel:

check in mobile shell settings if the 3d acceleration is turned on or off... I'd suggest to keep it off 'cause the 3d drivers are a bit buggy and can sometimes cause that kind of problem (plus "3d accelerated effects" on the carousel are just plain useless lol) :p

Weather widgets acting weird:

dunno... never had such an issue, but if reactivating them seemed to fix it maybe something just went weird during the first activation ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
OK, I switched it off, we'll see if that makes a difference. Would you know why if I access my People and People 2 pages from the Hub links on my Lifestyle screen all my contacts are there but if I access it from the Carousel the pages are both blank?

thanks

Kathy

It doesn't really matter as long as everything is there from the Lifestyle Home page but I was just wondering because all the other pages I have set up are fine, they work perfectly.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... that's quite strange...

Only thing that could be different is:

when you access a panel via a link you're taken to the last used page of the panel, while when you access a panel via carousel I think you're taken the the "main" page of the panel regardless of what page has been shown last.

Dunno how the above could cause what you're experiencing though...:confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
I figured this one out too Vostradamus. Well, I didn't really figure out why it's doing it, lol, I just discovered how to fix it. All I had to do was access the pages from the Carousel, set them up (add all the Contacts) and then they're fine. Everythings there no matter where I access them from. Don't know why though.

thanks

Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] carbtvserv:
thank you jotha. Now, where do i get the background? What kind of file is it? When I go to change background option in the panels menu, it sends me to file explorer to pick a background file but i dont know where to look. Do i have to download a backround library?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
A background can be any bmp image you want, as long as its size is sufficient :) Use a bmp image the size of your screen and you're good to go ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mad_a_22:
how can i access this people 2? i can't find it.:o

edit:

ok my bad. i thought i already installed it. :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
it's just a link skin, not something you can "access" :)

It's made in case someone would like to use 2 different panels for contacts, linking to them using 2 different looking "hub-sized" links :)

Let's say for example that you wanna have 2 separate panels for work contacts and friends contacts.

You could decide to use the standard mobile shell contact page for, say, work contacts and then you create an additional panel for friends contacts.

At this point, you could add to your screen a link to the mobile shell contact panel with "people" hub link skin, and another link to your additional panel using the "people2" hub link skin. :)

Edit: lol I thought you misunderstood what it was for, but it looks like you were just looking for its position inside the manager :D I'll leave the above explanation the same, just in case someone else could need it :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] mad_a_22:
:D anyway i have no use for people2 for now.

here's my new display. i hope its nice.:rolleyes: