UPDATE1: Footprints tab and other minor fixes.
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Hi!
I'm usually known in the Omnia community for my M2D All-in-one installers. It was just a question of time to create it for the Raphael too.
This is a very early release, it has a lot of known bugs, (and it might have a lot of unknown bugs). It includes Manila2D version 1911 (patched by xplode), Footprints (by KDKobes), AudioManager (version 1911, but the exe files are from version 1819, because the 1911 exe wouldn't run for me), MHubVo codec files and lots of fixes for the VGA version.
This installer does not include: HTC Album, Youtube, Google Maps, Opera, lots of other thing you might need for non-Raphael phones
I only tested this installer on a HTC Touch Pro. I tried to only add packages that are missing from the Raphael, while keeping other files that are included.
If you want to install this on a device other than Raphael (or Diamond), then first install all the other requirements that might be missing (like HTC Album, youtube, etc.)
This installer still has a lot of issues.
The following are known errors:
Picture tab only has pictures aligned to a quarter part of the image frame
Changing pictures only work if you sweep in the first quarter of the screen on the pictures tab
Weather animation on the weather tab is misaligned
Location tab has some strange rendering bugs sometimes
Settings/Sounds has a mis-aligned screen
Landscape mode is broken
Application icons in the program selector are buggy
Locations in the weather tab are a bit distorted
Already fixed bugs:
Footprints tab is very buggy. I tried to reskin it to VGA, but then Manila2D experienced a lot of memory errors. It might be my mistake, but unfortunately I think this is because the maximum memory a WinMo application can allocate is 16MB, and M2D got to close to this boundary with large icons. It might work though after sacrificing other tabs (like locations)
Footprints application is buggy, and might crash a lot
Buttons on the music tab are not working. It will however display the actual song correctly, but you still have to load up Audiomanager to switch songs
I try to fix them as soon as I find a solution for them. I will also keep an eye on the Footprints development too, to include the latest patches from them too.
Setup guide
Hard reset (might not be nescessary, but you need at least 40MB of storage memory)
Disable everything on the today screen
Install Manila2D all-in-one.cab
DO NOT LET THE DEVICE GO TO STANDBY DURING INSTALL!
DO NOT LET THE DEVICE GO TO STANDBY DURING INSTALL!
DO NOT LET THE DEVICE GO TO STANDBY DURING INSTALL!
Set the theme and background (optional)
Soft reset (might be optional, but advised)
Enable Touchflo on the today screen
Enjoy (optional)
If you're into ROM cooking, or want to edit the source of the cab file, I also provide the package files, and an easy-to-use install creator to create modified cab files.
DL link: http://winmo.sztupy.hu/m2daiovga.html
Many thanks to xplode, KDKobes, herg62123, pijulius and the other guys who made VGA TF2D possible, the guys at the omnia community and everyone else who are involved somehow with M2D/me/etc.
Wooh! Thank you so much for this i have been waiting for a m2d port for our phone.
Thanks for this release. Here my comments:
footprint and pics are displayed in qvga even if the borders are vga
clock is mixed. you have both analog and digital overlayed
inside footprint it displays some glitches and i don't see the pic taken before, just the city and date
regards
MasterOfDesasters said:
Thanks for this release. Here my comments:
footprint and pics are displayed in qvga even if the borders are vga
clock is mixed. you have both analog and digital overlayed
inside footprint it displays some glitches and i don't see the pic taken before, just the city and date
regards
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I'm working on the footprints errors. I think I'll disable the Locations and the Photos tab and keep only Footprints. Maybe this way memory consumption will be fine.
I intentionally mixed the clocks, just to show that clock does work too
The default 4 pics in footprints are broken for me, but the new pictures I take are fine.
sztupy said:
I'm working on the footprints errors. I think I'll disable the Locations and the Photos tab and keep only Footprints. Maybe this way memory consumption will be fine.
I intentionally mixed the clocks, just to show that clock does work too
The default 4 pics in footprints are broken for me, but the new pictures I take are fine.
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Can you disable the digital clock and leave the original analog ones?
Is there no way, to scale the pics to vga inside the frames of footprint and photo tab?
Thanks, and let me know, if I can support you (e.g. free server space, etc.)
MasterOfDesasters said:
Can you disable the digital clock and leave the original analog ones?
Is there no way, to scale the pics to vga inside the frames of footprint and photo tab?
Thanks, and let me know, if I can support you (e.g. free server space, etc.)
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1. Yes, it can be done by editing HTCHomeSettings (will do it in the next release)
2. Currently I'm trying to scale the footprints to normal size. I hope I'll manage to do something
Updated:
- Fixed Footprints / Footprints tab
- Removed Analog clock, Pictures tab, Locations tab
- Fixed Audiomanager
You might turn pictures/locations on, by editing HTCHomeSettings.xml but beware that M2D eats 17MB of memory already, and around 18-20 it gets real buggy and stops working! The pictures on the footprints tab are still small (not 2x, but only 1.5x the size of the original), because of memory contraints!
DL: http://winmo.sztupy.hu/m2daiovga.html
This version seems to be fine for everyday usage too.
sztupy said:
Updated:
- Fixed Footprints / Footprints tab
- Removed Analog clock, Pictures tab, Locations tab
- Fixed Audiomanager
You might turn pictures/locations on, by editing HTCHomeSettings.xml but beware that M2D eats 17MB of memory already, and around 18-20 it gets real buggy and stops working! The pictures on the footprints tab are still small (not 2x, but only 1.5x the size of the original), because of memory contraints!
DL: http://winmo.sztupy.hu/m2daiovga.html
This version seems to be fine for everyday usage too.
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wooh, lovin it! Keep up the great work!
Oh, forgot to enable People tab in the latest release... uploading the fixes... uploaded
Has anyone been able to get M2D running along side TF3D? Basically what I'm asking is has anyone been able to install this on a Touch PRO/Fuze without messing up TF3D?
Reason I ask is because both TF3D and M2D have a Manila.exe and I would imagine installing M2D would break TF3D.
I have both installed, and you can run one at a time w/o problem. I'm gonna flash one of the lite rom and get gid of touchflo3D.
dharvey4651 said:
Has anyone been able to get M2D running along side TF3D? Basically what I'm asking is has anyone been able to install this on a Touch PRO/Fuze without messing up TF3D?
Reason I ask is because both TF3D and M2D have a Manila.exe and I would imagine installing M2D would break TF3D.
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M2D uses Manila2D.exe
Hi,
this is what I was waiting for a long time
Keep up your Great work
cheers
amazing..
What can I do to port it to wvga? just edit the xml files and adjust images?
great work
cheers
itje said:
amazing..
What can I do to port it to wvga? just edit the xml files and adjust images?
great work
cheers
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M2D eats a lot of memory, and porting it to WVGA would mean even more memory. So if you want to port it then first disable almost all tabs (keep home, people, settings and programs). Only after that try to change the XML+images. Always keep an eye about the memory usage and if it goes beyond 18-19 megs, then consider lowering image sizes.
sztupy said:
M2D eats a lot of memory, and porting it to WVGA would mean even more memory. So if you want to port it then first disable almost all tabs (keep home, people, settings and programs). Only after that try to change the XML+images. Always keep an eye about the memory usage and if it goes beyond 18-19 megs, then consider lowering image sizes.
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allright.
Its mostly the background images that needs changed (made longer )
I got it working on wvga, just need to fix the sizes on the images.
x1 has alot of memory, so memory usage is not a big consern for me
cheers
itje said:
allright.
Its mostly the background images that needs changed (made longer )
I got it working on wvga, just need to fix the sizes on the images.
x1 has alot of memory, so memory usage is not a big consern for me
cheers
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TP has a lot of memory too, but in Windows Mobile if an application eats more memory than 16-20megs it will crash. So this limit is a hard limit unfortunately
Hi sztupy,
Did you make any progress, I mean on the remaining bugs ?
Specially on those:
# Picture tab only has pictures aligned to a quarter part of the image frame
# Changing pictures only work if you sweep in the first quarter of the screen on the pictures tab
# Weather animation on the weather tab is misaligned
# Locations in the weather tab are a bit distorted
# Application icons in the program selector are buggy
Cheers
torpie13 said:
Hi sztupy,
Did you make any progress, I mean on the remaining bugs ?
Specially on those:
# Picture tab only has pictures aligned to a quarter part of the image frame
# Changing pictures only work if you sweep in the first quarter of the screen on the pictures tab
# Weather animation on the weather tab is misaligned
# Locations in the weather tab are a bit distorted
# Application icons in the program selector are buggy
Cheers
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Not really. To solve the picture you need either switch back to QVGA (so put the picture in the first quarter), or do some heavy disassembling which I dislike (took me 6 hours of debugging to find where Footprints store the coordinates, and I don't think I have the energy to do that again with Manila...). And as I said: larges pictures = more memory consumption, which is a bad thing
The other things are hard coded too (except maybe for the weather animation. For that changing the pictures might help)
Hi, thanx for your fast replay.
So really to clarify. At first I want to use Manilla 2D because it's faster than manilla 3D, and has less memory consumption. But you say that on a VGA device Manilla 2d is consuming a huge amount of memory.
So for VGA, do you recommand then Manilla 3d better that Manilla 2d ? in other words, what's the adventage of Manilla 2D on a VGA device over a M3D ? M2D is useless in a performance view ?
Cheers
To the chefs who are having lockscreen bug issue.
I was browing the images of my manila folder and noticed that the one of the default images was a full size screen graphic. When I looked at the same file with my custom wallpaper made with HDWall the same image was half the size of the original image.
So I ask...have you used HDWall to make your manila bacground?
I have been testing a ROM with default background and the bug has not come up so I am leaning towards maybe it is the way how HDWall converts the image file to manila.
At0mAng said:
To the chefs who are having lockscreen bug issue.
I was browing the images of my manila folder and noticed that the one of the default images was a full size screen graphic. When I looked at the same file with my custom wallpaper made with HDWall the same image was half the size of the original image.
So I ask...have you used HDWall to make your manila bacground?
I have been testing a ROM with default background and the bug has not come up so I am leaning towards maybe it is the way how HDWall converts the image file to manila.
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i made the background in manila editor, not HDWall, and i still got the problem, so maybe its something else to, cause i got less "broken" lockscreen.
and yes it would be nice to get it fixed, and i did'nt have this problem with the same MS build and manila 2.1.
smaberg said:
i made the background in manila editor, not HDWall, and i still got the problem, so maybe its something else to, cause i got less "broken" lockscreen.
and yes it would be nice to get it fixed, and i did'nt have this problem with the same MS build and manila 2.1.
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Post your manila background files and let me take a look. Are you just having with 2.5?
At0mAng said:
Post your manila background files and let me take a look. Are you just having with 2.5?
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well im sorry im just reflashed to 2.1 now, and will soon flash other build, so im not in position to share them atm.
playing to much to get some version fast, stable, touch x like
but no problem with manila 2.1 and hdwall either. so i think the problem lies in with block in nk the modules go, and how many modules, cause the more modules the worse lockscreen and the slower manila, and more "memoryleak in the new manila 2.5.
i got much moore lockups with the new 2.5 and by not converting modules to files in OEM and some sysfiles i also got more lockups!
keeping the modules under 500 and running a xip newer than 2302x with any sys version does go flashing fast, and without memoryleak if you run maila 2.1. so its quite a dilemma
Manila 2.5 and 2.1 handle the the background diffrently and I believe this is what is causing it. In my 2.1 and no TF3D ROM I do not have the issue but in 2.5 I do.
hey,
i don't know if that helps you somehow, but the bug does only appear for me if my phone is in suspend-mode for some time (at least 1-2 hours). if it goes into suspend mode for let's say 30-45mins the bug doesn't appear.
I think this issue has been fixed by now
you might want to look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4182640#post4182640
Simple, make the images you want for the BG & name them LS_BG_P.png & LS_BG_L.png or what ever you want. Now set these in \Windows of your ROM. Next, open LS_Global_(Resolution).cpr. Change the Source="(whatever)" to the file path of your image. Done, now the Lockscreen will use this image. Normally it is set to ConfettiPlus::WallpaperBitmap, which is the stwater from the in-use Theme/.TSK.
drkfngthdragnlrd said:
Simple, make the images you want for the BG & name them LS_BG_P.png & LS_BG_L.png or what ever you want. Now set these in \Windows of your ROM. Next, open LS_Global_(Resolution).cpr. Change the Source="(whatever)" to the file path of your image. Done, now the Lockscreen will use this image. Normally it is set to ConfettiPlus::WallpaperBitmap, which is the stwater from the in-use Theme/.TSK.
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can you elaborate on to why this fixes the lockscreen half size screen issue?
not being a graphic artist/person myself I am just curious
At0mAng said:
To the chefs who are having lockscreen bug issue.
I was browing the images of my manila folder and noticed that the one of the default images was a full size screen graphic. When I looked at the same file with my custom wallpaper made with HDWall the same image was half the size of the original image.
So I ask...have you used HDWall to make your manila bacground?
I have been testing a ROM with default background and the bug has not come up so I am leaning towards maybe it is the way how HDWall converts the image file to manila.
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If you use Leo packages from sys you will not have this problem
Hi,
since i never type anything in portrait and i liked how the landscape of manila 2.1 looked, i was always hoping for a full landscape-only rom with the sense gui. and by full i mean no portrait available... or at least only through third party tweaking programs
the autorotate for music and album in sense is just not made for our hardware. its so slow and laggy. and when it has finally finished rotating the scrolling is also no fun. i hope the chefs disable this in their future roms.
Does anyone know a rom like this or are there any cooks who would produce something like this??
thx
hdizzel
hi
i been trying to get same thing hate portait mode, not sure manila
i tried searching n google landscape only but never any good, im thinking of goin back to 6.1 with screen rotate software, as 6.5 constantly goes portrait mode
hope someone can help
thanks
touchhdizzel said:
Hi,
since i never type anything in portrait and i liked how the landscape of manila 2.1 looked, i was always hoping for a full landscape-only rom with the sense gui. and by full i mean no portrait available... or at least only through third party tweaking programs
the autorotate for music and album in sense is just not made for our hardware. its so slow and laggy. and when it has finally finished rotating the scrolling is also no fun. i hope the chefs disable this in their future roms.
Does anyone know a rom like this or are there any cooks who would produce something like this??
thx
hdizzel
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I have installed EnergyROM_23518_BLACKSTONE_20.Jan.2010_StandardM2.5_MaxManila,so far werry happy, rotate works perfect and you can set it thrue maxmanila setup page
gradecak said:
I have installed EnergyROM_23518_BLACKSTONE_20.Jan.2010_StandardM2.5_MaxManila,so far werry happy, rotate works perfect and you can set it thrue maxmanila setup page
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maxmanila is a whole theme... and i dont want it to rotate. it should be landscape by default.
anyway thanks for the hint. will try.
take a rom with a landscape capable manilla (if 2.5 just the latest are for all tabs) and deactivate the autorotate function.
could have found that by search function:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=575557
also have a look here for the gdi value...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=447290
as it cant be changen in "windows-settings -> system -> screen" anymore as i just noticed
and it should be fine...
but u will get the slow music and picture tab as manilla 2.5 is designes this way there is no other landscape for - otherwise take 2.1
actually with the new manilla 2.5.1922 the landscape tabs for music and pictures are different from the ones in previous 2.5 settings. They kinda look like the manilla 2.1 ones.
Yeah, I just started a post looking for a cab or reg edit to disable the rotation on the music, documents and photos tabs on the new manila 2.5 1922 too, those reg keys are not the same as in the new manila.
Maybe, this could help?
greets
Markus
Hi all. I've searched and searched the forums and the net and can't seem to find anyone who has the same problem as me..
I've been wanting to change the touchflo/manila icons on my Touch Pro, and have tried all sorts of cabs and apps to do this, including Manila Cusomizer and MaxTTM as well as others..
What I've found is that with EVERY one, the icons on my touchflo/slider bar whatever you want to call it come up TOO BIG to fit into the space that they're supposed to, resulting in a cropped button/icon..
Surely someone must've had this problem and figured out the workaround? I'm guessing it's something to do with my VGA display and the icons are designed for XVGA or QVGA? I don't know.. All I know is that they look crap, when they should look sweet..
Can anyone help?
I'm running Cap's Special ROM on a Touch Pro if that helps.
Thanks!
Not exactly sure what you mean. Are you using MaxManila - I know there are problems with tab icons being cut off at the top with some ROMs using it? Are you able to post a screenshot so we can see exactly what the problem is?