IF YOU ARE NEW HERE go to down to the instructions ! The updates explain just new skins and modifikations.
UPDATE 10.05.08: There was a small bug (missing Icon) in all Darknight and wm7 skins for the battery bar/meter, please see my last Post. Its allready fixed in the zip-files.
UPDATE: 09.05.08: New WM7Special Skin (small and good to use with Ultimatelaunch)
- go to Post 154 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2187100&postcount=154
UPDATE 05.05.08:
DARKNIGHT is ready with working meters and more, see second picure !
UPDATE: 04.05.08:
- All Skins now with real working signal-bar (7 Bars !)
- many little changes
- WM7 SKIN is ready ! with working big signalbar and batterybar and gprs-network-connection symbol
- WM 7 SKIN also as Taskbar only ! The Bars are in the Taskbar.
UPDATE 25.04.08:
- Taskbar shows MUTE, Bluetooth and WIFI (with/without Networkconnection)
- Bigger Icons for the Bluephone skin
UPDATE 22.04.08:
- TAP ANYWERE ON THE TASKBAR and Windows MENU opens !!
- TAP on the X and Close Button works, Holdon tapping and Taskmanager opens !!!!
- Now 3 differnet themes/skins with different XML-Files ! Greyphone , Bluephone and Taskbar only
- you need the newest version of batterystatus for that !!! (its in the zip-file)
UPDATE 21.04.08:
- SMS/CALL/EMAIL/WIFI and BLUETOOTH get highlighted or colored when there is somthing new.
- Reworked most of the graphics, because there were some bugs with different backgrounds, Shadows ect.
(For the greyskin i now use 3 better Icons from Deimos, thank you !)
Hallo.
I made this one for you who cant see windows taskbar anymore and get tired of htc Home
All you FIRST need is in the Bluephone-zip file. then you can use my other skins.
My theme just needs vjtoogletodayalphaII and BatteryStatus and a 2 small application to mute the phone/make x button and windows menu enable.
Everything is working: SMS/Email/Missed Calls-Counter; WIFI/BLUETOOTH on/off, mute the phone, a new taskmanager (Batterystatus) etc. You get a new small transparent taskbar with a big taskmanager-button
--) Okay: here we go:1. put the vjtoggletodayalphaII into the windows/Startfolder. Go to Registry: HKLM\Software\Vijay555\VjTodayToggle\ and set the values under "Startsize" und "Softkeysize" to "1". If you need your Softkeys leave/set the sofkeysize to about 26.
2. Install Batterystatus (if you have ultimate launch: it works as a today plugin)
3. Put the folder "SmartUtilities_FilesOnly" to Windows\Program files.
4. Put the File "RegistrySetString.exe" in the "BatteryStatus" folder"
5. Now decide which skin you wantut the bluephone.xml and the folder "bluephone" into the Batterystatus or do the same with greyphone.xml and folder or with Taskbar and Tasbar.xml (u can also put all folders in)
6. Now hold on clicking with stylus on the plugin and choose all rows for showing and choose "lock" rows. AND DONT forget that your new BS-Taskmanager is enable !!!! And choose your SKIN !!!
7. Now you have to do some changes because this is for german version of windows: open the xml u use with your windows editor on your PC or with totalcommander on your ppc:
7.1 you find in the middle a path for: programme\smartutilities_filesonly, change it to program files\....
7.2 you find at the end a path for: "\windows\tmail.exe...." there you see "freenet.de": You can replace this with your own email account. then you can read "Posteingang": replace just this for the english version with "inbox".
7.3 you find there a row with the date like this one - text="dddd, d. MMMM yyyy"- you can change this because this is the european version of date (see picture)
then save the xml file and put it back to your ppc.
- thats it.
- if you like it crazy made more funny sound graphics for you. You find them in "othergraphics", just replace the originals in the Bluephone or Greyphone-folder with them. The wifi/bluetooth icons are with german or english text (on/off-an/aus). Replace them as you like.
- the tabs at the bottom are not part of this, you can find them in my iconthread for Ultimatelaunch.
- FOR THE OKAY BUTTON you must sometimes press your Hardware OK button ! (will find a Solution)
- VGA and Landscape-view dont work. This is just tested with wm 6.0 but should run with wm5
Looks awesome! I'll try it now!
thanks you for your share ;D
Thanx for sharing....nice refreshment for today screen!!
hey very nice!!!....I wonder....is it possible to get the big transparent x button as a stand alone?...I feel like if we could this would enhance a lot of peoples touchscreen experience....let us know!!
mmh, the button you see is a icon that just links to a program called tasklist.exe. This is a part of Batterstatus. It only runnes, i think, if batterystatus is running. So i understand your wish (because it was my wish too) but it wont work without batterystatus.
If you want only my taskbar, i can make you a xml file just with the taskbar.
cool stuff I like the idea and the way you created it
but can you (or someone) make a copy of the iphone taksbar? just the taskbar, not the "desktop" stuff
Is the Smart Utilities the same as this one?This one is already a cab. Could make things easier
(nevermind sry...)
Great looking taskbar created!
Thank you!!!
This is what I was looking for, thanks a lot!!
Downloading now!
bluemetalaxe, congrats, U R really crazy, dude
Nice work, though
Olioaglio
everything looks like promised.
nothing works. not the mute (the "mute" progy doesn't work) not bt 'cose there is no registry key_value="HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Bluetooth" on my phone (maybe 'cose is wm 6.1 ?), not messages. the icon doesn't appear anywhere !
tried to uninstalled it by reversing the steps to install it.
everything went back except the hated windows taskbars and of course i am missing now all the info and settings they were ment for.
i think i'll have to restore a relatively old back-up
suggestions?
[later] got back the wm taskbars. forgot to delete the vjtoggletoday progy. everything back to "normal".
interesting is that the tray launch with the "original" battery status theme, is working. what are the shortcuts to bt and wifi??? didn't you use the same in yr .xlm file?
great work... hopefully there will be more battery themes you can share with us
also how did you make the top bar smaller?
Can you make the bottom tabs part of the same theme? And can I get that headphones grey background?
This looks very cool. Will try it .
bluemetalaxe said:
mmh, the button you see is a icon that just links to a program called tasklist.exe. This is a part of Batterstatus. It only runnes, i think, if batterystatus is running. So i understand your wish (because it was my wish too) but it wont work without batterystatus.
If you want only my taskbar, i can make you a xml file just with the taskbar.
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as it turns out I do use Batterystatus so yes thank you very much!!...your work here is quite nice....is the clock BS as well?
@tomoffel: If i find time i will try original iphone taskbar. then you have just to repalace the new iphone.xml with the bluephone and some graphics, thats it.
@Vukile: if you install smartUtilities und you find there muteonoff then this will work also. If not, put just my muteonoff in this new folder. you find the backgroundgraphics in your bluephone-folder (take the first 35 pixel of the head1.png= 35x50).
@nothin: i wont buy a iphone cause i cant do such things with that and i have gps and umts on my Polaris And why should WM always look ugly and not be userfriendly, do you use still Windows 95 on your PC ?
@Kukuriku: I`m sorry, tested it on touchcruise wm 6.0 and not on not existing OS There could be trouble with the working of wifi/bluetooth buttons because the registry values depend on wm or some phones.
UNINSTALL IS VERY EASY: Delete vjtoggletoday from your windows startfolder, uninstall Batterystatus, delete the folder with muteonoff.exe. Softreset, thats it.
Cant say anything to BS Traylaunches because i dont use Traylaunch.
@character: can make more themes (a question of time). The topbar is just my graphic with icons and text on it (see in the Bluephonefolder). The original Taskbar is hided by vjtgooles tool. I/You can make it smaler, bigger whatever i want.
@wyzepro: its all just one BS theme/plugin nothing more. The theme has 4 rows (see in the xml file how it works): 1. Taskbar 2. Sound and Clock 3. Date 4.Buttons. I can delete or add rows and buttons as i want.
The tabs at the buttom are part of my Ultimatelaunch theme. I can make them a part of Batterystatus, so that they just open Software,Settings, Internet, Wheater-Program. But everyone has differnt software, or wants to open specific things with that icons, maybe i write a .xml with that and you have to change the xml with links to your software.
EDIT: I sorry, just found a bug im my latest .xml with the Text on the battery-icon. The new .xml will come tonight.
I've cacked open the xml....which files do I delete in order to obtain the large X button you have?
Im sorry dont understand what you want, do you want just the x button and nothing more ? But then you need the original taskbar and will have two x buttons ?
I just flashed to l3v5y Topaz WM6.5 [21819/21820] (26060901) WWE, and was wondering if there was a way to put the honeycomb background back to the start menu/program list?
Also, how do I get 4 rows of programs instead of 3?
EDIT ADD: Oh, and is it possible to add more links to the main menu of 6.5? I don't want to have to always go into the start menu and scroll all the way down to start an app. The Topaz doesn't have a big enough resolution (lol).
This it's a good question were is the Honey...comb ?
I try 2 different ROM's and the same flast interface and no options to customize only to MOVE TO TOP option.
Hi everyone
I using Agent's Valkyrie ROM and I very like his ROM and his work. I have a question about how change TaskBar icon in top right corner to be aligned to right corner, for me it's too close battery icon. I tried to do it by replacing images in Windows folder and looking through registry, also I've been searching many threads but I couldn't find it.
I attached screen maybe somebody have a clue how to change it.
I know this is not a bug and it's not very important, but it's a little bit annoying.
Please help WM65 experts.
Thanks in advance.
I tried softkey manager[freeware] but it does not work on 6.5 though it does on 6.1. Anyone out there knows how to change the softkey?
I would like to change the left softkey from [PHONE] to [LOCK]. I know at the start honeycomb menu, there is an icon to lock my phone but i would like to have an icon at the touchflo 3d. Anybody knows how?
Thanks in advance.
Hi - in Advancaed Configuration 3.3 there is an option to assign different values to the soft keys. Also, Max TF3D theme maker has same. I have WM6.5 and both these work fine.
Peace
AaronJoYee said:
I tried softkey manager[freeware] but it does not work on 6.5 though it does on 6.1. Anyone out there knows how to change the softkey?
I would like to change the left softkey from [PHONE] to [LOCK]. I know at the start honeycomb menu, there is an icon to lock my phone but i would like to have an icon at the touchflo 3d. Anybody knows how?
Thanks in advance.
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Softkey manager works fine for WM6.5 and Manilla 2.1 Its manila 2.5 that it doesn't work for.
Anyone got a solution for changing the softkey on manila 2.5?
I notice that if I apply an older WM 6.1 to my 6.5.3 device, I get the old style popup/context menus where all the options appear on one screen, rather than the newer, larger, more "finger friendly" menus which require scrolling up and down to see all options. I like the old-style ones better.
Unfortunately applying an older theme also seems to have the side effect of messing up some of the icons on the bottom menu bar so that they either don't display at all, or display incorrectly. Is there any way to cause ONLY this old-style menu change to occur, without messing anything else up? Either through a registry edit or some other way? Alternatively, is there a way to fix the bottom menu bar on 6.5.3 when a 6.1 theme is applied?
I haven't done any theme editing before so if anyone could provide any assistance it would be greatly appreciated, thanks...
What type of theme have you applied? For what UI?
Just the regular Windows Mobile UI. By default my device has the "Classic Blue" theme selected out of the box, which works fine. As a test I installed Windows Mobile 6.1 Green Theme found here:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-windows-mobile-6-1-theme.html
It mostly does what I want with the menus, but for example in the email/POutlook app (among others) in the bottom menu bar the OK/X button is okay, but the icon/button for "Menu" is completely missing. There is no icon, nor any word in its place. It is just blank, yet tapping on it still does bring up the menu as desired. This is what I am not usre how to fix. Alternatively, I'd be happy with just changing these menus back to the old compact 6.1 style without affecting anything else, but right now applying an old-style theme is the only way I know of accomplishing this.
there are a lot of themes, better to find at least a 6.5 of your taste.
make a search here on xda or look here
The thing is, I'm not really too concerned with the appearance part of things, so the look of a theme doesn't matter that much to me. What I am mainly trying to accomplish is getting the old smaller, compacted system/context menus that we used to have on 6.1.
For example when you're in email (Pocket Outlook) viewing your list of messages, and you want to check for new mail, you hit the "menu" button and then select "Send/Receive". It's that menu I'm talking about. On the old OS version you could see all items on the screen at once, but with the new finger friendly 6.5, you have to scroll up and down to get to various items, such as Send/Receive.
That's the only thing I'm trying to change: getting those old menus back. And currently applying a 6.1 theme is the only way I know of doing so, but it also messes up the bottom menu bar under 6.5.3. So I'm hoping to either find another, easier way of restoring those old menus, or finding a fixed/tweaked 6.1 theme that doesn't mess up the menu bar on 6.5.3.