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How can i hack/modify the HTC home plugin?

I've already found how to change the order of tabs (and which tabs), by changing a registry key.
Does anyone know/remember how i can change the music tab from linking to WMP instead of the (horrible) audiomanager ?
Tips very much appreciated...

Tell more about that registry keys...

Maybe you can try this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319308
And let us know if it is working fine

Thanks my friend, it's fine...

Thanks....this works great !

Got amazing results for myself, very happy. Thanks for the work.

Here is what I got:
Removed the 5th tab, didn't use it
Changed the clock to something much more modern
Weather now works ok for me. had a problem before, probably because of the Hebrew Add On.
Icons by Schaps

Nice ...
However, is it possible to reduce the height of the clock?
Because in my opinion, it is TOO BIG ! ... I prefer to add more space for the appointments, tasks, etc ...
Also, is it possible to DUPLICATE the program shortcut tab ?

gogol said:
Nice ...
However, is it possible to reduce the height of the clock?
Because in my opinion, it is TOO BIG ! ... I prefer to add more space for the appointments, tasks, etc ...
Also, is it possible to DUPLICATE the program shortcut tab ?
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I agree with the first request. I also do not think the clock should be so big. Don't know if there is an answer, I think it is part of the design.

gogol said:
Also, is it possible to DUPLICATE the program shortcut tab ?
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Ι think thats interesting !!!

RonenB said:
I agree with the first request. I also do not think the clock should be so big. Don't know if there is an answer, I think it is part of the design.
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Third! on the size of the clock
When you only have a couple of inches of screen real estate its ridiculous to have a clock you can read from 3 miles!

yeah, the clock is WAY too big.
eric b

I was thinking the same about the clock. I think they overdid it, especially while in landscape mode. Blocks the whole screen

I'd love to get rid of the clock. I like LVM better. Also is there a way to unpin the plugin?

jamespaulritter said:
I'd love to get rid of the clock. I like LVM better. Also is there a way to unpin the plugin?
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Start > Settings > Tab Personal, Today > Tab Items, untick HTC Home

I want to get rid of the clock part only. I love the tabs.

I'm tooo
I'm very very interested to this discussion. The clock it's tooooooooo big.
Please can anyone tell me how to remove the weather icon from the HTC home?!? Thanks

Nobody?!?!
Scuse me. Nobody can tell me how to dolete the weather tab and to reduce the size of the clock?!?!
Thanks

DOC190401 said:
Scuse me. Nobody can tell me how to dolete the weather tab and to reduce the size of the clock?!?!
Thanks
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Look at post #3 at the top of this thread

That HTC customizer app is pretty handy. It allowed me to unpin the plugin so now the clock size isnt really a isue. Thanks.

How modify the 3 tabs under the clock in HTC home?!?!

Good afternoon to all. A little question. It's possible to modify (create new or delete) the 3 tabs that appear under the "big clock" in the HTC home?!? Now I had message, notify and phone. I would like to edit these and remove the notify and add a tab only for mail. It's possible?!? Thanks
P.S. I saw the mini touch skin for phone alarma with 4 or 5 tabs but i would like to create a personal one.

The Touch mini skin in phoneAlarm is a skin for phoneAlarm that just looks like the HTC Home plugin...
I think you can't adjust the three buttons on the clock tab of the HTC Home Plugin or skin this plugin, because it's not skinable (yet)...
there are some settins-programs that can customize the colors and icons, up to even the clock (font type and colors), but sadly not the buttons, as far as I know...

rvdgeer said:
The Touch mini skin in phoneAlarm is a skin for phoneAlarm that just looks like the HTC Home plugin...
I think you can't adjust the three buttons on the clock tab of the HTC Home Plugin or skin this plugin, because it's not skinable (yet)...
there are some settins-programs that can customize the colors and icons, up to even the clock (font type and colors), but sadly not the buttons, as far as I know...
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There is a program called HTC Home Customizer at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319308
You can change how many tabs show up and the order and what not. It is easy to use and you can make a backup of your current settings before you start.
Cheers.
[Later]
Sorry. I didn't read the thread correctly and this program does not do what you want to do. Still it is interesting.

htc plus! v2.0 b28938 - today plugin

nice customizable today plugin htc plus! with clock, msg, and quick link.. you can use just time and msg, or quick link or together.
just install and soft reset. enjoy
credits goes to "unknown"

I like this, but not work on my M700 WM6.
EMERSON VIER

Works on my Artemis but the screen rotation link doesn't work.

emersonvier said:
I like this, but not work on my M700 WM6.
EMERSON VIER
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That's why it's an HTC program. Why don't you use SPB Mobile Shell which is just the same?!?!?

very nice
works soo great on my kaiser
really appreciate it,thanks the guy from pxdxa~~
and i have a question:
i install your attachment,and just have the clock and msg,no green icons~
the green icons on your screen(the quick links?) are htchomeplug, right?

yep, you need to go to the settings - today - and there is one more tab - plus! - where you can setup what you will see or not. just setup it here

It's interesting, very minimalist compared to the HTC Home. I wish they would have added Tab support as in the Home plugin, so we could switch to contact photodialing, quick launch etc.
The existing quick launch along the bottom is nice, especially being able to add any program to it (and drag icons to re-arange their order). But it's only one line, having to click on an arrow to scroll through them. Expanding it to display more lines, or perhaps even the entire screen (if needed) would have been nice.
I'll be sticking with HTCHome for now, maybe use Plus! to add 1 row of quicklaunch icons and not display the clock/mesage indicators.

(unless I am misunderstanding what this app does):
Just to let you guys know, your Kaisers should already be pre-installed with the Quicklaunch icons (with one additional for backlight) prior to installing this app. Go to "settings>today>items". Look through the list and check the box next to "HTCHomeplug" (Not htc home). The only difference is the icons aren't green.

ee, i do not agree. thchomeplug is someting different from this. icons are smaller then on quicklink and you can not customize it..

disagree
patr!k said:
ee, i do not agree. thchomeplug is someting different from this. icons are smaller then on quicklink and you can not customize it..
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you can customize htchomeplug search for either the thread started by me or search for registry under kaiser upgrading and you can customize the new htc tray app using the same registry keys

yep, already found that and it was posted HERE

the problem that i find with this home plug in is that the quick link to the txt, mms and e-mail are all liked to the same main page of Messages, not individually like the htc home plugin v.2... can you fiz that issue, or can any one fix that??

[HTC Manila Theme and Aurora Theme (NEW CAB INSTALL!!)] **New Release 05/15/08**

HTC MANILA THEME revisited withAURORA THEME FOR POCKET PC
Release notes:
**New Release 3/28/08**
Manila Theme V1.0
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-Manila-like clock
-5 softkeys on bottom for batterystatus skin (home, explorer, action screen, contacts, weather)
-live calender
installation instructions for manila theme:
1. install batterystatus and put htc clear folder and htc clear xml file in your batterystatus folder and set it as your theme.
2. install rltoday and put the manila folder in your rltoday folder and set it as your theme as well.
3. put the rltoday plugin in your ultimate launch tab and enable only ultimate launch and batterystatus in your settings/today/items screen.
4. install mortscript to make the appointment notifications work.
enjoy.
Aurora Theme V2.0
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NOTE V2.0 is just a folder of replacement files for v1.0, you need to download 1.0 and replace with the files with 2.0
- New skin for LG keys on the bottom, the overlapping button problem was fixed by making seperate rows (credit to xda-member scicarb for the nice changes)
- New analog clock on home screen with ticking second hand
- cleaned up some graphics
Installation instructions for aurora theme:
1. install BatteryStatusExt.1.04.UPXed.build_0270.CAB and put the htc home.xml and the htchomeskin folder in your batterystatus folder in the windows directory. select htc home as your theme and untick every row except for the "messages" row
2. install rltoday.cab and put the s2u2 folder in your program files/rltoday folder and replace the rltoday.ini with the one i provided.
3. place all 3 htc home files in your windows directory to overwrite the old ones
4. install testtodayplugin.cab (photo speed dial)
5. put dcinobar.exe in your windows directory and make a shortcut for it in your \windows\startup folder
6. put the aurora.jpg on your device set it as your today background.
7. finally, install ultimate launch via the setup.exe and replace the ultimatelaunch.ini with mine.
that should be it! if you have any questions lemme know.
A lot of questions are answered on page 8, read these before asking please!
all credits given to the creators of rltoday, ultimatelaunch, and batterystatus
NEW COLORS, taste the rainbow:

is anyone else seeing a download link for the theme?

hey theres no download link yet, it involves a few different programs and im still perfecting it so sit tight and itll be available soon

It's a very nice theme I'm waiting for your news

hey mañtha looks awesome! could u shoot me a pm when a dl link is avalible?
cant wait,
dwizzy130

red sunset aurora theme:
pitch black aurora theme:

very cool! is that lg buttons at the bottom? or a skinned rltoday?

its a skinned batterystatus, most ppl dont know how skinnable batterystatus is

WOW!
Very beautiful themes, HIGHLY attractive concept as well... all the right information in the right places!
Any idea on an ETA? Looking forward to it...

would be really cool.. to explain how to do it,
i don t like the htc home plugin, cause it is to big on the screen..
please bring thes uploads...
greets
voxid

voxid said:
would be really cool.. to explain how to do it,
i don t like the htc home plugin, cause it is to big on the screen..
please bring thes uploads...
greets
voxid
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using ultimate launch i can slide to different tabs. the home tab is blank and less cluttered, if i slide to the weather tab i get the htc home plugin so its not always there.
I'm still trying to figure out a way to get this as a simple install but it might be a step by step tutorial instead. there is A LOT of configuration involved so we will see. It should be available shortly though

it seems much better than HTC home!!!!!
wonderful

tazma said:
it seems much better than HTC home!!!!!
wonderful
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id sure hope so, it is a lot more involved and way more possibilities than htc home, i do like the weather in htc home though but the other tabs of it are not needed

spencepu3 said:
using ultimate launch i can slide to different tabs. the home tab is blank and less cluttered, if i slide to the weather tab i get the htc home plugin so its not always there.
I'm still trying to figure out a way to get this as a simple install but it might be a step by step tutorial instead. there is A LOT of configuration involved so we will see. It should be available shortly though
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How do you manage to remove the tab bar in the HTC home plug?
Even if i only have 1 icon/tab the bar is still there

looks great waiting for release with simple way

matthieup said:
How do you manage to remove the tab bar in the HTC home plug?
Even if i only have 1 icon/tab the bar is still there
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it involves editing the .png file named HH_FW_framefill.png I will release it when I release this theme if you can't get it to work.

thanks. i'll give it a go

Whoa!!!!!!! U R The Man!!!! These Look Awesome. Waiting Eagerly

thanks guys, i appreciate the compliments!

Beautiful theme, really can't wait to see some step by steps on how to replicate your theme.

Tools to customize the today screen

Greetings,
I was searching the forums looking for tools to change my today screen. In fact, I have found 1-Home Edit, but it doesn´t seem to work on my Kaiser.
tbh, I just want to change default colors and the background. Are there any utils that would do that ?
Thanks in advance,

search for htc home customizer

haam1978 - search for htc home customizer
He wants to customize his today screen as he said. He didn't say anything about wanting to customize the HTC Home plugin.

That´s right... for example, when I go to settings, today screen, and specify a background, it loads ok, but it appears like Im looking through a smoked glass... I even thought about editing some themes and saving them with the backgrounds I want, but that wouldn´t be pratical.
Reading the description of the 1-Home Edit tool, I found that that´s what I´m looking for, but it won´t work on the kaiser.
Any suggestions ?

In response to the OP, try reading this from microsoft. Personalize the Today/Home Screen.
Also,
Microsoft’s free desktop PC Theme Generator
ThemeMaker
VITO ThemeEditor
Spb Pocket Plus
PocketBreeze

StealthNet said:
That´s right... for example, when I go to settings, today screen, and specify a background, it loads ok, but it appears like Im looking through a smoked glass... I even thought about editing some themes and saving them with the backgrounds I want, but that wouldn´t be pratical.
Reading the description of the 1-Home Edit tool, I found that that´s what I´m looking for, but it won´t work on the kaiser.
Any suggestions ?
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The 1-Home Edit tool is for Windows Mobile Smartphone/Classic not for Windows Mobile Professional that the Tilt/TyTNII uses.

ok for putting your bakground do the next
open it by the windows photo viewer and then choose it from the option menue to be as a background and then you will get a transperant percent put it in 0 then you will see it as well
for changing the coloures of your bars i think any themes can do that
i hope this is what you mean

I had the same problem about the background, thanks for the info haam, it helped