I just got around to flashing my AT&T Tilt to WM6.1. I was sort of looking forward to the home screen I've seen in on Microsoft's WM6.1 website. Instead, I have the HTC Home screen (which I've never been too fond of). Frankly, I'd rather have the defaults for WM6.1. Microsoft refers to it as the "sliding panel" home screen.
So I've been searching for how to get it, but my search hasn't yielded any results. Could some kind soul point me toward the information? I'm more than happy to invest the time to read how to do it, but I simply haven't been able to find the instructions.
Thanks!
Sliding Panel Homescreen
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the "sliding panel" homescreen is only on the windows mobile 6.1 Standard (no touchscreen) version. Windows mobile professional (touchscreen) does not have the "sliding panel" homescreen.
You're right. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/meet/version-compare.mspx
Sliding panel is non-touchscreen only. On the touchscreen version we have there's nothing more than the classic Today screen. HTC Home is the closest you get to that sliding panel.
Hrmmm, my memory could be wrong, but I seem to recall seeing video(s) on microsoft that the sliding panel was demo'd on a touchscreen as well.
That's pretty disappointing, though, that it's only for non-touchscreen. It's a pretty slick looking interface.
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Hi,
I have just received a replacement Tytn II which now has 6.1. I was hoping to look at the Microsoft Sliding Panel home screen, but cant seem to find it. Am I right in saying the Orange 6.1 ROM doesnt include this? The HTC Home plug is great, but would like to see Sliding Panel.
Sliding Panel is for Windows 6.1 Standard... Not Pro.
If you had a HTC S710/730, and slapped on a 6.1 rom.. or even a hurricane or tyhoon... you would have it.
All Touch screen did not have this,,,, nor will they.
Only Smartphones.
Hello
A lot of people asked for the WM6.1 Smartphone Sliding Panel on touchscreen devices with WM6.1 Pro.
I found this
http://www.sellit.co.at/products/wm/myhome.html
which is a Sliding Panel look app.
Regards
Highc
I use pocket informant. But If I want to use the touchflo, I'm pretty stuck to its layout for the today screen. What I noticed is sometimes, if I go into landscape and try to open the calender or contacts, it opens the WM version, not the PI version. Then when I switch back to portrait, the calender/contacts button is messed up sometimes still. Only way to get it to display correctly, is by opening the calender version of PI, then by clicking on the calender button on the "today" screen, it gets remapped.
Did that make sense? Any way to stop it from opening the crappy WM version?
starstreak said:
I use pocket informant. But If I want to use the touchflo, I'm pretty stuck to its layout for the today screen. What I noticed is sometimes, if I go into landscape and try to open the calender or contacts, it opens the WM version, not the PI version. Then when I switch back to portrait, the calender/contacts button is messed up sometimes still. Only way to get it to display correctly, is by opening the calender version of PI, then by clicking on the calender button on the "today" screen, it gets remapped.
Did that make sense? Any way to stop it from opening the crappy WM version?
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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but you can remap the calendar button on the touchflo home screen (AND the landscape button screen) with SSMaPa. Do a search for it over in the Diamond Themes forum.
Keep in mind it was written for the Diamond touchflo and has some bugs on the Touch Pro. There are some posts late in the thread that explain how to get it to work on the Touch Pro. It worked fine for me.
Is there a way to customize HTC Home? Like, can I change the look of it at all? Also, is there a way to make it finger scrollable, and also D-Pad scrollable? I know in some of the ROMs it's somewhat D-pad scrollable, but it seems to never work right.
I'd like to lower HTC Home to near the bottom of the screen (like Manilla) and make it more scrollable (like Manilla). I'd also like to customize the graphics, and possible add/remove icons.
Is there any way to do any of this? I know people are putting a ton of time into customizeng Manilla, but I would rather use HTC Home because of the whole landscape support thing.
Try Advance Config
Go here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470370
Scroll down to post #2 then download System Tools Cabs
It's a Zip file with all the system tools, and Advance Configuration is in there.
Once you install AC, run it, scroll to HTC home and unlock its position. This will enable it to scroll though, so if you have too many things on the home screen, the scroll bar will be on top of your htc home, make it looks ugly ~ but if you don't mind then try it out
finger scrollable?!!! You can use the Dpad, just press up or down untill one of the tap icon was selected, then press left or right to flip trough those taps... HTC Home is design to be light and fast ~ if you want all the complex M2D functions might as well just use M2D ~ sacrifice the buggy landscape mode.
-post removed- rant was here before(might come back) but im not sure what you mean. Do you mean by customizing HTC home changing the clock, tabs, etc.?
Well I was initially trying to make HTC Home look nicer- like M2D, and make it finger scrollable like M2D. I have since installed SPB Mobile Shell, and I no longer care about HTC Home.
I was just fed up with M2D and it's sluggish, buggy, no landscape, performance. M2D is nice to look at, and it is finger friendly as well. So I wanted to combine its looks, and its finger friendly operation, with the snappy performance and stability of HTC Home.
SPB Mobile Shell seems to do all of that, and plenty more...
well I found this http://www.touch-commander.com/
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well I found this http://www.touch-commander.com/
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Looks retty nice. Similar to SPB Mobile Shell:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/
Looks to be a little cheaper than Mobile Shell.
I could add extra things to the MS Today screen, can I do the same for the Flo3D home screen? All I have is Call History and Calendar, can't I change this? I only seem to be able to change the tabs at the bottom a bit.
Has anyone found a way to insert other things (links,icons...) to the home screen? Or to take away the calendar/call history links?
Just turn off TF3D, it's a completely useless memory, battery and resource hog anyway. Then put TodayAgenda on your Today screen, it's the best thing since sliced bread. :O)
Any screenshot or preview for TodayAgenda?
Look for Manilla Today Page. It adds another tab to TF3D which functions as a virtual Today screen. This gives you all the beauty of TF3D plus alot of the Today screen functionality.
Sadly it doesn't support all Today screen plugins (I miss PocketPlus desperately), but it is an excellent 'best of both worlds' solution.
The other way is to try SecondTodayScreen. This does as it says and gives you a second Today screen so you can have TF3D running and still access another Today screen with all your plugins on it.
Am using windows Mobile 6.1 and all the screen rotate pannels etc I have found apparently were for a previous version of windows mobile? I have no idea just can't get them to work on install.
Am at the point now where I am just so annoyed of having to pull out my keyboard whenever I want to be playing music etc.
Anyone point me in the right direction
been an idle lurker here for months, just hate messaging. Keep up the good work guys
I can't figure out exactly what you want the phone to do..
The Xperia X1 does not have an accelerometer, so it can't 'feel' how it is oriented if that's your problem. The only way to rotate the screen is through settings - screen orientation, or sliding out the hardware keyboard.
I hope it helps...
- Sofa
you could always map a button to rotate the screen...
AE Button plus.
quickmenu also provides rotate
maybe a little less comfortable as you need to access the respective submenu manually
Why didn't I think of that... Mapped a button.
Thankya.
BUMP
nobody with ideas?
ok i guess you want to rotate screen with some software.. ?
SPB Mobile Shell (available as a panel for free) or SPB Pocket Plus (commercial) both provide such a feature.