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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Hello! It's been a while, I know, but hopefully this will be well-worth the wait:

Introducing...Jaxbot's Windows Phone 7 Theme for the HTC HD2, version 2.0.0!

For those who are not aware, this is a complete rewrite of the very first Windows Phone 7 theme for Windows Mobile, which you can find here.

You may be wondering, what makes this different from the other Windows Phone 7 themes out there? While the other themes may be better as far as eye-candy goes, my theme is completely stand-alone application, meaning PointUI/WAD2/etc isn't required. Secondly, my application is designed to not only look like Windows Phone 7, but also function like it. Check out the video below for more details ;)

Since this is a complete rewrite, several things have changed from the previous version. In fact, too many things for a complete changelog. So let's cut to the chase...

Features

Smooth Kinetic scrolling

Facebook integration

Pictures hub, Office hub, People hub, and Me hub

Based off of the WP7 design

Dynamic, movable tiles

Pin contacts, websites, and hubs to your start screen

Smooth, drop down lock screen

WP7 themed text notifications

...and more

Screenshot 2:

Instructions

Download the cab file from the site at the bottom of this thread.

Install it onto your device, and (if desired) disable HTC Sense. This will give you some more performance and should help fix a few HTC Messaging bugs.

Customize the tiles as desired :D

To customize the tiles, hold down on a tile you which to move/remove. To add a tile, hold down on a blank spot on the homescreen.

To add a start menu item, hold down on a blank spot on the start menu.

Facebook

If you wish to use Facebook integration, go to the launcher to the right, click Settings, and check "Facebook". Then press Close app and re-run the program.

Known issues

Facebook sometimes asks for the password twice. Trust me, it's the APIs fault, not mine. The application never sees your password.

...Probably some more soon. Let me know.

Upcoming features

More hubs

Integration with Twitter, Flickr, etc.

...Give me suggestions!

Video

Video of the theme in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iELNrSq1Q_M

Download: http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7theme.php

Games icons thanks to: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=642831
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Important note! If you are running a non-English rom, you will need to edit \Wp7Theme\wp7_start_path.txt to wherever your Start Menu programs list is, for example, \Windows\Start Menu\Programs.

If you don't, you won't be able to add any programs to the start list.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Julian35961:
It works on HTC Tilt 2
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] TXREdwards:
Great work, it's the best I have seen so far. Think about customising after the important stuff, like color schemes. Will report back later. Keep it up I look forward to your future progress.

Phone:

HTC HD2 Leo TmobileUS

CHT2.0 beta

Cookies home tab 2.0 beta
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] goodtilltomorrow:
it looked really nice

but only ran once..

then when i restarted my phone, it would load then just stop

:(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] MyRho:
Thank you for that.

But I've installed it on my HD2 (Goatrip 5.9 - WM 23139, german ROM) and I had to move the program folder from "Programme" to "program files" to get it working.

It's possible to start it from there but it will crash whenever you try to add a program in one of the hubs... (program path.... blah, blah) :-(

So I think it will work fine on english ROMs only.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Yes, the program has to be installed into Program Files only, so non-English roms may have some issues. I'll try to find a solution for this, stay tuned ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Casey_boy:
Jaxbot,

Nice to see the final release :) I haven't had much time to play around with it yet - but I will :p

A couple of problems:

Sometimes clicking the right arrow will just bring up a blank page i.e. the all programs/settings etc menu does not drop down (maybe a resources problem)

This build appears to not have the pictures hub - your last beta build had a page much like WP7, this release seems to only bring up my Camera Shots album - EDIT: Ah. I see that the pictures "hub" only works when signed in with Facebook. Intentional?

I see in your screenshots, that your Pictures tile is customizable - mine isn't...

Oh and it is probably advisable to save this program to your device and not the storage card for performance!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
To address some:

1) Try flicking down/up with your finger, sometimes the physics engine will push the tiles out of view. If not, it's back to the code with me ;)

2) The pictures hub is only enabled when Facebook is enabled, and later with Flickr/etc. The HD2's pictures are in a resolution that can't actually be loaded by the .NET framework (anyone care to help?), so without service integration, it will just take you right into the HTC Album program.

3) The tile displays the background of the Pictures hub when Facebook is enabled, which is typically your most-recent upload. Once Flickr/etc is added, this will probably make more sense.

Also...if any .NET developers have figured out a way around the OutOfMemoryException when loading the HD2's photos, do let me know :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] UranusHertz:
Hello,

I'm downloading it now and testing on Miri's Standard lite v23 ROM. Will let you know how it feels :)

Edit-Just tested. Here are my first impressions

1) The people tile is very laggy when scrolling for contacts.

2) Text tile pulled up an error "The following program failed to launch: Argument: messaging_client.exe", I guess your program depends on the HTC Messaging client, which I dislike.

3) Pictures tile pulled up a similar error with "Argument: HUB_PICTURES"

4) SIP Input icon disappeared when I switched input from Keyboard to Swype when adding new icon and entering label. I head to restart WP7 theme to see it again.

5) When I added a contact with picture profile and email and address to the main screen, there's only a blue square, and when and I tap on the tile, i can only choose to call or send text to the mobile number.

6) I accidently clicked on the trash can and then on the settings icon, and I can't exit the program.

7) Adding a new program after using a big SIP (like HTC EZ Input or Swype) makes it hard to select an icon because of (4)

8) Moving the tiles is a bit of a chore

Aside from the contacts thing I mentioned, lag is minimal and quite acceptable, speed is not an issue on the HD2.

Looking forward to more improvements and a new release :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Casey_boy:
Pictures hub

Hi Jaxbot,

Thanks for your reply. I have a suggestion for the pictures tile (thanks for putting the Facebook album names btw).

My current pictures tile:

View attachment 415633

The actual Windows Phone picture tile:

View attachment 415634

Thus, my suggestion for my pictures tile:

View attachment 415635

Thoughts...

Casey
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Yes, this is the first release of the rewrite, so there may be a couple of issues, which I hope to sort out ASAP. Thanks for the feedback ;)

To address some things:

1) The kinetics seem to have issues, I'll look into it. But you can jump to a contact by clicking on the letter at the top of each "section."

2) It's designed for the HD2, and while other WVGA devices may work, there may be some performance issues. I might add tmail.exe support in the future, though.

3) It uses HTC Albums for the picture tile.

4) You can close the SIP, click another text box, then click back to the text box to re-enable the SIP. I'll try to make this smoother.

5) You must have a contact picture, or a name that the app can display onto the square (not sure why it would only be blue.)

6) I should probably disable that, but for now, taskmanager should help ;)

Everything else, hopefully I will have improved in the next version. Thanks for the feedback ;)

Yes, I admit to having "thrown-together" the pictures hub towards the last minute, I'll be sure to make it more WP7-esque by next release. Thanks for the reference mockups!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] skiez:
Hi. I'm wondering if is there any way to make this theme workable on HTC Mega: touch 2? It's a QVGA screen. Thanks.

This theme you've created is awesome. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] resa73:
Its Great!!!

But im using a german rom and have the same problem as "MyRho"

Please help us to use your great WP7 theme without problems;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
This theme only works on WVGA devices, and that at, newer devices. I chose the HD2 because the Snapdragon processor really boosts the performance.

QVGA is too small to display all the information.

I'm trying to think of a way to get around the path limitations...thinking maybe a path file that can be manually edited, or is there an environment variable that will give me \Program Files\?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] resa73:
Sorry i don´t know.....i user the latest Dutty ROM from HTCPedia in german

(sorry for my bad english) ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
I'll be looking into the code at some point to see about changing the Program Files and Start Menu directories to language-independent variables. Until then, you technically could copy the files into \Program Files\Wp7Theme (create the folder), but that's a little messy.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] abumhmmd1:
This is GREAT

I'll test it tonight ....

THANKs
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] malkrae:
looks great will give it a try can it be uninstalled too?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Yes, through the normal Windows Mobile Remove Programs page.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Fishawy:
Looks very promising :) .. Will test & revert soon.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vfcustom:
WM 7 Theme will not start.

Hi!

Got error when starting up the WM 7 Theme, see attached Screenshots.

I'm using a Norwegian Rom, the message is in Norweigian in the beginning, but the rest is in English, hope you can help me with this
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
It's trying to load the theme from \Program Files\Wp7Theme, but your rom has the \Program Files called something else.

Try copying the Norweign Program Files\Wp7Theme folder into \Program Files\Wp7Theme (If that makes any sense.)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vfcustom:
Had to create a new folder and name it Program Files, then it worked. Thanks for your help :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] homer000:
Hi there!

Looks really, really great!

If you integrates the calendar I will install the theme immediately.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Casey_boy:
Hi Jaxbot,

An error screenshot for you:

View attachment 417229

View attachment 417230

I was in the pictures hub, signed into Facebook, but no pictures were yet showing and then clicked the back button and this was thrown.

Also, just so you don't miss this off your list (I know I've reported this to you a couple of times) - only one number is shown for contacts, so other numbers (i.e. home) are not being shown.

Casey
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Adriaanbrillie:
Not working

Not working on my HD2 dutch version.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
I haven't made a multi-lingual version of this application yet, and non-English roms will crash the app.

To get around this (for now), make a folder called \Program Files\Wp7Theme, and place all the Wp7Theme files from your language's program files directory, into that one (so instead of, say, \Programmi\Wp7Theme, it would be \Program Files\Wp7Theme)

Again, when I get some time (probably this weekend), I'll be sure to get a multi-lingual version out.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] off_service:
I got the same error as you.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Thanks for the screenshots, Casey...the problem occurs when a form is closed while it is still animating (Kind of confusing, and a pain to debug).

I'll be sure to add it to my bug list, though. Thanks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] BereanPK:
Jaxbot,

Very nice app so far. As it develops, I think this is one I'll be sticking with for my HTC/ATT Pure (unless of course, I plunk down the money for the new HTC Surround when AT&T has it available next month - who knows?)

Since it was written for the HD2 as opposed to the TD2 and its derivatives (like the Pure from what I've long understood), is this why I'm getting text appearing larger than what I can see on the screen? Also, call me (or all of us) a WP7 noob, but how do you get back to the primary screen from one of the hubs?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] DizzyDee:
Is this man unemployed for taking so much time for this development?

I'll take a paypall account just for the reason to buy him a beer !!!

Good Work
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kuzibri:
Dear Jaxbot,

It looks like a very interesting theme that I would like to try on my HD2. But, before doing that I have three questions for you:

1. Is your theme compatible with Artemis ROM? I'm using V36 with Manila 2.19 and Radio 2.15.

2. (I think I already know the answer, but still!). Is your theme compatible with CoOkie's Home Tab or do I have to deinstall this when I want to use your theme?

3. Can you install in on SD card or does it need to be installed on device?

Thanks in advance and regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
The text is actually supposed to go off the screen (part of the effect).

The TD2 uses WVGA iirc, which is what the HD2 uses.

Oh, but employment would take the fun out of it ;)

It's rom independent for the most part (Make sure it's English, though).

You can use the rom with Co0kie's home tab, HTC Sense, etc, but you may want to temporarily close it just for the performance boost.

Also, it *must* be installed on the device.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kuzibri:
Dear Jaxbot,

thank you very much for your quick reply. I normally use NLD versions of Artemis, but I can also flash WWE, which I will do then. I also decided, to keep things as clean as possible and give your theme the best chance to perform, not to install CHT after flashing a Artemis WWE ROM and disable Sense and just use WinMO 6.5.x.

regards, Kuzibri

P.S. Will report back when I have installed and got used to your theme.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] myself11:
With dutty's, "people" hub crashes. For 5 days of realease, your app behaves very well.

Congratulations!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kuzibri:
One other thing: when I disable HTC Sense and reboot the device, will I always have to start your theme manually or is there a way to start it automaticaly after reboot?

regatds, Kuzibri
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
You can add it to your \Windows\Startup menu (create a shortcut)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kuzibri:
Thanks Jaxbot. I will now flash Artemis ROM V37 beta2 WWE without any customizations and then install your theme. Keep you posted,

regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] myself11:
I screwed up... :s I've eliminated the first row (moved down all the tiles) and now if I touch or try move a hub til, the app crashes. Tried to unninstall and reboot, but no result.

Is there a way to go back do default settings or config?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Delete \wp7_config.txt (Or something like that, can't look up what it's called atm)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] myself11:
It didn't worked.

I deleted instead all the wp7 files (.txt, I think) in /My Device and now everything is ok. Yay, I really like your app!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Yeah, those files ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] zarpy:
freeware added

Hi jaxbot I love your work. I have a question I saw your download at freewarepocketpc.net and was wondering did you post your theme there. I ask because alot of my stuff is on there too.

Also whenever I read your responses at xda-developers , your very nice. I read your responses at freewarepocketpc.net and you sound like an A-hole. here is the link

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-jaxbots-windows-phone-7-theme-for-hd2.html
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] robert5377:
it shuts down

it's nice but it won't let me add any games it shuts down
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Whoa whoa whoa.... the heck?

Those definitely aren't my responses (as you said, it doesn't sound like me in the first place), I think someone is playing imposter (note the different capitalization.)

I'm going to have to contact FreewarePocketPc about this, thanks for the heads up.

Don't want some immature people ruining my reputation, now do I? ;)

Also, I'm still working hard on the new version, but life is way stressed right now. Sorry for the delay.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] michedenhaag:
Does this app only works on WWE version? My dutch winmo gives error because app cannot open 'programfiles' as its called 'programmabestanden' in my winmo version.

Any workaround to solve this?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Casey_boy:
Jaxbot has posted a couple of times now saying that this version only works "out of the box" for English ROMs. However, there is a workaround and he will be releasing an update so that it is multilingual.

Look here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8579373&postcount=28

Casey
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] michedenhaag:
thanks casey, missed that message. I'll wait for an WWDutch version :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
It's coming, trust me ;) But a couple of weird things have come up recently that I unfortunately have to deal with, which I shouldn't have to deal with, but will have to anyways.

All that aside, I'm planning on changing how the app installs to make it support all languages, and I'm also planning on adding an option for Tmail.exe.

Stay tuned for more...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] HD2kty.:
Thanks, had the same problem.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kuzibri:
Your Theme

Hi Jaxbot,

I have installed and tried your theme. Although it's a perfectly running theme and is well developed, I must conclude that WinMo7 is not my "cup of tea". Sorry for that. I do not like the UI, just like I do not fancy Android with it's foolish little green robot.

But all in all, congrats on a perfect theme and for your passion and invested time.

regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] williambs:
Get errors when I try and add widgets to the home screen. I guess it is because of the lack of interface. You will work on it I am sure.

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
Alright! This latest version fixes all the major multilingual issues (or should, at least):

http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7theme.php

Important note! If you are running a non-English rom, you will need to edit \Wp7Theme\wp7_start_path.txt to wherever your Start Menu programs list is, for example, \Windows\Start Menu\Programs.

If you don't, you won't be able to add any programs to the start list. Thanks for your patience!

Also: If you want, you can enable tmail.exe by:

\wp7_config.txt and find messaging_client.exe, and replace it with tmail.exe. (Keep everything else as-is)

This will change your texting icon to support non-HD2 WVGA devices. Better solution coming once I get time to add some more features ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] lelsid:
The BEST WinMo 7 Theme there is IMHO! My hat's off to you Jaxbot. Hope you continue to improve on this project of yours. Cheers!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] heigell:
Great works! But as a Chinese user, I have met a problem, that's the chinese font displace increcktly, just display a □□, can you help me to solve this problem? I do really love the theme!:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
It's because Segoe UI font doesn't have Chinese characters in it... and I'm not sure how I would fix that.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] heigell:
Hi, Jabbot, but'how can I change the wp7 theme's font? or would you think about make the theme's font could be changed? I have seen the installed folder, and there was only a exe.file and some configure files, if it can use system's font(or have this option), the theme would be more popular than ever.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
The font is hard coded into the code, and I'm not sure of what font would enable Chinese characters if I was to replace it. If there's enough demand, however, I'll open up an option for it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] MyRho:
Ok.

Nice... I could install it, start it... looking very clean.

But on my HD2 (german ROM) I can't scroll back from the people's-page. Scrolling up and down is way sloooooowwww....

If I try to add a shortcut-path in the games-hub it crashes. (I've edited the start...txt-file before that)

And then an error message comes up (see attachment)

After closing the program using Arkswitch I get " manila not found :-( "

Guess you have to make a 2.02.

Nevertheless - thank you for your work!

N
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
It has to do with your ROM... unfortunately, I can't test it, because my HD2 is in English.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] digitalray:
hi there.

been looking for a wm7 theme for my touch diamond. 500 MHz ist not really too less for a wm7 theme imo.

using the 2.0.0.1 on my htc td wm 6.1 is just terrible.

the app itself is crashing all the time with various errors. i installed it correctly.

it is really made for wvga and NOT for vga also as the other site stated.

the fading animation takes about 10 to 20 seconds. way too much. i know this is cpu bound, but really, there are only 2 cpus right now, snapdragon 1 GHZ and the old 500 MHz.

- it would be nice to make a faster animation for older 500 MHz CPUs

- it would be nice to resize the stuff for VGA use, because td for example can do all that newer phones can, and you dont really need a 1ghz for wm7 theme.

- it would be nice if the app was working and not crashing all the time.

crashes include: some facebook stuff (getfriends) and some other error.

changed the messenger app to tmail.exe, works.

you know, i coded much stuff back then about 15 years ago, even bbs proboard pex files (animated key entry, filelisting .bbs highlighted cursor selection and more).

i know about coding.

and i know you can do it in 2 hrs for vga if you are a good coder.

the scrolling function could be better, there are many apps on td with 500 MHz that scroll just nicely and without really flickering. its maybe not that easy to make it like other apps, but there are many freeware apps that do the job very good, so i bet there is a library for that that can be modified with another font and black bg.

if you don't have the hours to make a 500 mhz vga port (you could even do manual select 500 mhz or 1ghz in setup screen if autoselect cpu is not a usual lib thing), can you tell me where to find a nice and working wm7 thing for my htc td ?

would be very nice ! :)

you know, my phone is capable of doing all the stuff the new ones can, has wlan, hsupa, vga (is enough for a phone compared to qvga)...

you dont need more for wm7 really.

i dont know why i should buy a new one for that interface. i know 1 ghz is smoother animated display, but the wm7 theme can really be done on a 500 mhz too. maybe skip the animations or use animated gifs if there is a lib.

maybe i can help too in doing a vga version ?

thanks for your reply.

ray
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jaxbot:
The theme is designed for the HD2. Yes, I could make it work on other devices, but maintaining multiple screen resolutions with the rendering engine I use is just a pain.

The app only officially supports WVGA on the HD2. It may work on other devices, but as you said, you may experience crashes and slow scrolling.