Hey, can anyone tell me how to use a picture as the background for the Windows Mobile Today panel WITHOUT having the picture washed out. I would like to use a full color image, not have it lightened up.
I too am in the same boat.
I got a custom ROM, and when I asked about the background, ppl here said to use the "picture viewer" to select a picture, and then adjust the settings.
problem is, my rom has the program HTC album, instead of the original viewer, so I can't do it...
Having different viewer can screw this.
Anyway when you go to default viewer, just open image
and choose it for WM background.
There you have also trnsparency sett.
Download another viewer, like Resco Photo Viewer Pro.
or you download the themecreator from the sonyericsson site for free
and you can make not only the picture but also the startmenu and all the other stuff.
doministry said:
Having different viewer can screw this.
Anyway when you go to default viewer, just open image
and choose it for WM background.
There you have also trnsparency sett.
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the ROM I'm using doesn't seem to have the default viewer installed... And it's a highly customized ROM that someone sent me, country specific... so I cant use any other one...
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Hi, I was wondering.
On all the diamond ads and demos, you see contact pictures looking sharp, colourfull and nice in he contact shortcut on TF3D.
When I set my contacts in the shortcut, they look like ****, all blury and like underscalled.
When I look at the used pictures threw the album, they look sharp.
Does anyone know haow to have nice pictures in the contact shortcut?
Thanks
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Hi, I was wondering.
On all the diamond ads and demos, you see contact pictures looking sharp, colourfull and nice in he contact shortcut on TF3D.
When I set my contacts in the shortcut, they look like ****, all blury and like underscalled.
When I look at the used pictures threw the album, they look sharp.
Does anyone know haow to have nice pictures in the contact shortcut?
Thanks
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I've noticed the same. I've also noticed that if you take a picture with your Diamond to use as a contact picture it will be sharp and if you take a high resolution picture of someone and crop it without too much scaling it will also be sharp. I think what we need to know is the optimum dimensions for the contact pics as well as the optimum resolution. I'm sure you'll find it somewhere on the forum if you search.
OK thanks,
I think I'll take a picture with the diamond and open it in photoshop, thenre I will have the good ration.
Thanks
I have seen the solution here somewhere before. It has to do with the file compression that the phone does when you select an image as a contact picture. There is a workaround.
to add a pic for contact go to the htc album select the contact pic from the album and add it to a contact with the menu
If you add contact pictures using Outlook on your PC, or Contacts on WM, then it doesn't save them at very high quality.
If you do it using TF3D, then the images are saved at a higher quality, and stay that way, even when they're syncronised to and from an exchange server or through ActiveSync
I had similar issue. Then, I've used S2V (http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=2432) to set images to contacts and they appear very clear now in the TouchFlo3D. I do not really know why, but if you have time to check please let me know the results
mcwtrekkie said:
If you add contact pictures using Outlook on your PC, or Contacts on WM, then it doesn't save them at very high quality.
If you do it using TF3D, then the images are saved at a higher quality, and stay that way, even when they're syncronised to and from an exchange server or through ActiveSync
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This did the trick thanks
YiannisM said:
I had similar issue. Then, I've used S2V (http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=2432) to set images to contacts and they appear very clear now in the TouchFlo3D. I do not really know why, but if you have time to check please let me know the results
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I'll give it a try, thanks
What you need is go to PEOPLE in TFL3D, and flip to the picture you want to replace, and then click MENU | CHANGE PICTURE. Select any High Res pic you want!
In my previous phones I have been using photoshop to tune my pictures for contacts. I would love to know the resolution for the people/contact images aswell.
Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to add a 'Beam' option when you are veiwing a picture/video in the Touch flo viewer??
As it stands you have to open the WinMo photo veiwer or File explorer to bluetooth beam a file to another device. If you're trying to send a file from the touch flow program the only options you have to send via are SMS or Email.
To help understand what i'm on about here goes - scroll accros to 'Pictures and Videos' then tap any image file to open it into the veiwer, then tap the send 'envelope' at the bottom. you'll see the only options you have are Email/ MMS/SMS. Surley there should have been a bluetooth beam option there as well?? Maybe an oversight by HTC?? I know i can beam from the WinMo viewer but that's not the point, i shouldn't have to shut down the TouchFlo veiwer and have to then open up another veiwer just to send a file!!
Thanks in advance for any help.
nope.
tflo3d is meant as an overlay interface rather than OS-based.
Yeah i see where you're coming from but if they can put in an option to 'send' via MMS etc then why on earth was it so difficult to add a 'Beam' option.
My guess is that one of the switched on guys who regularly come up with stuff on this site could do this in a heartbeat.
can this be added by chefs?
can this be added by chefs?
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Exactly what i was wondering!!! Anyone wanna take up the challenge??
Damn!!! No-one know how to do this?? Really??
*Bump*
Does anyone have any solutions to this its driving me mental:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=435112
That thread has a screenshot of someone whos achieved this but what rom is it what settings have been activated? I can't believe anyone who uses tf3d hasn't been annoyed if showing your friend a photo and they say " can you send it to me " and i have to close the viewer and go to file explorer and then search through loads of directories ( and IF i can remember the file name for a start!) then send it from there.
Please tell me theres something I'm missing.
I don't use photos for my TF3D contacts, I just want to use ones like the standard grey Manilla ones.
But I notice if I don't choose a photo for a contact its sets the default to a "male" photo. I would like to find the "female" picture for this.
Is there anywhere I can find this?
I tried using these and cutting them individually but they appear blurry and not sharp when I view them in the contacts tab
The trick is...
..to find them in the album and then use the 'Set as contact' and it will give you a much higher res looking version. It seems to compress the images when setting the image for a contact in some cases.
Thanks, I tried that too, but it still doesnt look as clear as it should for some reason
The Kaiser was able to crop photos and rotate them around, and I cant for the life of me stand to believe that this phone isnt capable without spb mobile shell. It wouldnt be so bad if the camera didnt store the photos upside down and sideways , no matter which way you hold the phone.
I have G sensor disabled for camera in G-config and can hold camera straight up and down and the pic store upside down one shot, and right side up the next. same problem if held horizontally. and take a pic. its becoming quite aggrivating lol. If I have missed something somewhere please flame me in the right dir .Thanks
I was a bit disappointed I couldn't find a decent app for this. As far as I know, cropping is limited to looking at a picture in Album, zooming to whaty you want then hitting menu and save screen, which will save what you see on your screen. Haven't seen any rotation or anything of the like anywhere. Perhaps whatever app you used before could be found or packaged as a cab and someone could provide that?
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I was a bit disappointed I couldn't find a decent app for this. As far as I know, cropping is limited to looking at a picture in Album, zooming to whaty you want then hitting menu and save screen, which will save what you see on your screen. Haven't seen any rotation or anything of the like anywhere. Perhaps whatever app you used before could be found or packaged as a cab and someone could provide that?
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you can rotate and crop with the regular pictures and videos app
The tool you want to use for editing your photos is \Windows\pimg.exe (even most "cooks" don't remove this...I think it's the system's image rendering tool).
if you're like me and you really hate the reduced functionality of the Album app, just edit the file associations with Schap's Advanced Config, so they all open pimg instead of album.
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you can rotate and crop with the regular pictures and videos app
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Holy.... you're right! Thanks for that! That's exactly what I was looking for, didn't even know it had auto correct....
Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!
Myrddin Wyllt said:
The tool you want to use for editing your photos is \Windows\pimg.exe (even most "cooks" don't remove this...I think it's the system's image rendering tool).
if you're like me and you really hate the reduced functionality of the Album app, just edit the file associations with Schap's Advanced Config, so they all open pimg instead of album.
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Sry for the late thanks, I didn get a chance to check my thread til today. Worked perfectly, and I learned more about advanced
config! It took me a min or two but I got it and it worked like a charm! Thanks again!
I use xnview pocketfor all my photo editing on the go. Very feature rich and best of all FREE!!!!!
http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
Ok I am making this thread because I cannot seem to locate a thread that will help me with what I am trying to do, I have a few questions about getting my HTC Diamond Tweaked in such a manor, lets begin.
1. I would like to change the default email program from whatever it is now to something that will allow you more than 5 email addresses like q3mail (I have 10.....mostly work related). Now I ask because I need something that works in real time, I tried forwarding emails but they work when the server feels the need to check and there is no way to change that on my end. Also anyone knows how to set up q3mail or whatever that program is that seems like my best bet.
2. I want to change the contacts list and dial screen from the default one to iContact and iDialer or something better than the default one.....
3. I would like to change the photo viewer from the default picture viewer to Rescos Photo Viewer
Now when I say I want to change it from the default I mean that I want to keep the same icon etc etc but when I click on say contacts or dial screen it brings up iContact/iDialer instead of the default one etc etc...
Also side note, .NET 3.5 seems to mess with my phone, it makes all ringtones silent no matter what the setting is, as well as messes up some of my app icons...like MP3 Trimmer looks all weird like the colors are off.....or sometimes you just dont even see an icon (I have tried a hard reset and install) and I cant seem to figure out why is that
As a matter of fact dont even worry about the contacts list app because I am using SPB mobile 3.0 and the contacts in that will do....but I do need a better dialer
ive been lookin everywhere to change the default contacts to icontacts as well.
Cant find anything.
Bump?