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Novice Wing Modder with Some Questions....

Hey folks, I got my Wing a couple of weeks ago and I love it. I had a treo before, and this makes me much happier. I had gotten into modding the UI a bit and playing around with the best combos of third-party software on my old treo, so I started playing with my Wing. Well, I've gotten probably mid-level with my technical modding competency thus far. I'm comfortable with most progs and mods I've found below actually flashing the ROM, and I'd think about that too, but I've gathered that most of the TF roms out have trouble on the Wing. So far, I'm overclocked to 260, tweaked some stuff in the registry, installed the HTC Touch UI minus the cube and all that, but I'm not quite happy. So, I have some questions:
On the HTC Home 5 tab skin:
1. Is there any way to put custom icons in the launcher area? Not just style-wise(though that would be good), but that link to things that aren't on the list? I'd really love to but a button that would take me to "settings" in there, like the one that takes you to "programs". I have a few other ideas too.
2. On the weather tab, I know there is a way to add cities to the "select city" list by getting the city code off of accuweather.com and changing the registry, but I can't figure out how to get the code for my city when I look it up on the site...I search it, and it comes up, but where is the code?
3. I put the HTC black theme on here, but I wondered, are there any others available? I know I've seen a blue one, and I think I've seen pictures of an HTC Touch that had a red theme....
Other Stuff:
1. I tried to up my page pool to 6mb like it says in the "all you need to know" thread, but the preparation app wont work....I install it, but nothing happens after that....I can't find it to open or anything else...Is installing it enough?
2. Is there any way to keep wm6 from putting the recently used programs on the start menu?
3. Is there any way to change the two links on the bottom bar that the soft keys are mapped to? Not change what the keys are mapped to, but like, change "Calendar" to "Settings" or "Contacts" to "Messaging", for example?
4. Is there anything out there that would let me navigate my phone with my finger? I know certain programs have this capability, like Opera Mobile's latest beta and PocketCM(which I use), but I'd like it on all windows that require scrolling....
Apps:
1. Anyone know the best app to use to stream radio and/or tv on my phone?
2. What's the best way to watch youtube? I wouldn't ask, but I've found like three or four different threads/articles on ways to do it, and I don't know which I should use. I prefer to use Opera as my browser, but I can use PIE now and then, if the process actually lets me watch it in my browser....
3. Can ya suggest any good games?
Well, thanks in advance for any help you can give. I've been trolling here for a while, so I know there are some very smart people here and I have faith. Sorry for asking so much, and forgive me if I should have broken this up a bit into different threads, but I'm trying to perfect my phone, and this was basically what was left on my list....Any other tips on how to achieve my goal of making a nice, clean, finger-friendly UI and putting the picking the best apps would be appreciated too.
Peace.

Ok, I figured out the HTC weather thing, and the today softkey thing, so I'm good there. Any help on the rest?

I can cover a few for you but any more's gonna cost ya....
flash your phone with either of the touch roms out right now and you will be able to finger scroll in nearly all applications.
try avotmv, or search using google for similar programs for streaming videos(avotMv includes youtube as well as google).
Many streams to tv stations can be opened with WMP directly which makes it alot easier to connect to them by saving them as PIE favourites. You just need to find 'em first, I would suggest doing that from your computer first.
I've recommended Flux Challenge before, ill do it again...apart from that I don't run too many games from my pocket pc. Seal Volleyball is kinda fun too.
Maybe some others can assist you with the rest
cheers

What's the screen like for readability?

I've attached a screenshot of me attempting to read a PDF full page using Adobe Reader (still surprised that it won't go totally fullscreen), and as you can see, it's unreadable unless you zoom into the page and then you're stuck with having to scroll left and right as you're reading each line. Is the Diamond's increased resolution capable of showing a PDF full page and be readable? Post a screenshot if you can! Thanks!!

yeah I wouldn't mind knowing the answer to this. I tried and gave up reading a pdf file on my phone the other day. It's a long and tedious job. To get the text readable you need to zoom in a lot and then you need to scroll right and left to read each line. The scroll isn't smooth either so there would be a second or two loading time after each scroll movement.

well if you want have PDA readable documents you should use PDA to convert it to you into proper format ... i can`t remember whats the function name but the PDA should do it automatically or you can do it via desktop adobe acrobat enabling some re-flow mode or sthg like that.

I have taken two screenshots of page 11 from the HTC Touch Diamond manual. The second one is with Adobe Reader LE 2.5 in full screen (which actually is totally full screen).
The first one is readable if you have good eyes, but the second one (in full screen) is much better.
However, I do have another problem: How do you get back from the full screen to the normal screen?
/LeiEn
Edit: After posting the images, I realize that they look much worse after uploading them to the forum than they do in their original form, due to the fact that the forum recompresses the images. Sorry about that.

Try xpdf.
Worked perfectly for ebooks on my iPAQ hx4700 with VGA and fullscreen.
You can define a custom page width.

Fun with Diamond Camera

Hi there!
Today I had a little fun with my Diamond using the camera to produce some kind of false color realtime background picture (or better background video?) in fullscreen (full 480x640 !).
This is what it looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tiEji2sTyA
Well, it's a little bit battery consuming and somehow disturbing to look at, so it's not really usable, but it's a funny thing, isn't it?
cheers

Well... It's incredible!! Are you sure it isn't a fake!!???
How do you managed it ? How do you configure manile to be trasparent with camera underneath?
So curious!!

How did you do that ?????
How can your top & bottom bar be transparant ???
It's really fun !!!... I want to be able to do that too ^_^.

Wooow.
Please share your knowledge with us!
Greetings to all.

Yup share plz.How you did that nice trick?

SUPER
Expleine how pls !

Little useful and limited battery time

i want to know how you got the top and bottom bars transparent.

can this be made into a program that you can just run on demand rather than just being on at all times? so we can run it to play around with it then turn it off when your done?

Its a fake. He dont want or he cant tell us how it works.
He just want that we beg to him " Oooo please show us how it works, youre the best etc."
I think he just need attention and nothing more.
Poor guy.

FAKE
look at 16-18sec. when he moves the D closer but the image of the computermag onscreen does not get any smaller
also the angle is not right given the fact that the d camera records 90 dregrees to the screen

I dont unterstand why people doing this. He has no friends or why?

Great!!! You're the best. Pleeeeeeease... show us how it works!!!

You know it's actually logically quite simple to make such a program using video overlay as was used on older Windows operating systems before the DWM came to light.
What the deveolper has probably done is made a theme for the diamond that has alot of a single colour, most likely magenta, as this is not used often in WM6.1 (to my knowledge). All one has to do then, is render video onto any area of the screen which is pink. Using this technique, you could most likely render pre-recorded video onto the screen. If a program is created to sit ontop of all other windows, and remain ontop, and simply pass through stylus entry underneath it, then this is actually a relatively simple things to do...
This method explains how the bars appear transparent, but other visual elements do not. It also explaint why you can see aliasing around fonts and visual elements, as well as no transparensy on the Manila slidey bar thingy.

Or he used the colour as a traditional green screen, and added the video on his computer later.
Surur

teh **** ;-)
And Why does that Diamond look different to mine (it seems to have rounded corners...

sickboy555 said:
teh **** ;-)
And Why does that Diamond look different to mine (it seems to have rounded corners...
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because its a CDMA diamond, its the step up from your GSM models.

Juggalo_X said:
because its a CDMA diamond, its the step up from your GSM models.
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not really ... thats a regular 3g / gsm device from t mobile germany ..

Kleiner Hirnloser Spacko, na geht Dir jetzt einer ab weil alle gebettelt haben?
Nunja T-Mobile User, was soll man dazu noch sagen....

It appears the video is real time.
As for the part at 16-18 seconds, well that effect is caused by just moving the camcorder closer to the phone and at a slightly different angle. It can be seen happening throughout the video.
No one in their right mind would choreograph the exact steps and angles to match the video this exactly. It would take many hours I assure you. Therefore the video must be real time.
However, the elements displayed in the foreground could be faked. Lucky me, I have a 61" monitor/hdtv that I can see some elements rather clearly. One of those elements is the time displayed on the phone.
At 20s into the video the clock turns
14:02
at 1m17s its
14:03
Do the math. Where did the 3 seconds go?
Perhaps he just edited out 3 seconds where it displayed his name or something similar. The world may never know..
If it's all indeed a fake, then why would someone do this? Advertising the newspaper on the table maybe? Or just for kicks... If it's just for kicks then likely it would be someone here, and likely someone drawing attention to it at roughly around the same time this thread was started.
My theory is that it's real, it's from someone here, and they want to get people talking about it. Eventually, someone will say, "Hey I figured it out"...and that will be them.

New Diamond, please help

Hey fellow forum users,
I recently (read: last tuesday afternoon) got my Diamond. And I am kind of lost.
First of all, my internet doesn't work. Tuesday begin of the evening it did work. But at the end of the evening and today it hasn't worked at all. @ the dutch vodafone site there are specific things you need to fill in which I did. However it still doesn't work. So I will be giving them a call first thing tomorow.
Second of all, my music. When I plug in my Touch Diamond on the computer, I see this map "content" I click on it and I see "music" so I put an album in there, but there is no music on the phone. Does it have to be converted? because I didnt find a converter on any of the cd's I was given. The same thing with my video. I put a movie on it for testing, but can't find that anywhere on my phone either.
Further I have some requests,
- I am looking for a transparant clock (the white part transparant) so you'll see the wallpaper better.
- I am looking for a way to change the bottom bar.
- I am looking for the best way to use my gps receiver (like a program or something).
- A way to simplify my contacts, I find it very annoying to have all this info. I just want to keep their names with e-mail, mobile phone numer and home number.
- A thing like that weather tab, only then with the time. Don't know if it's out but I find that a really funny feature on the iPods. Perhaps with those huge analog clocks showing the time of 6 countries in the world
Thanks in advance,
Dennis
p.s. I'll be using this topic if allowed for some further questions and am looking forward to any advice given.
p.p.s general advice on what to do with it for easier and better use of the device is very very much welcome.
p.p.p.s I have these programs on my phone aswell, as a .rar file still though if that matters (he said not), someone adviced me to put them on:
- Mortonscript
- Diamond TF3D Config Setup
- Automatic Wallpaper changer (no use for this yet but I really liked the background he was talking about that changed to the time it was, so like a sun during the day and a moon during the night).
I am completly lost at the moment. Gonna study the books that were packed with it I guess. Any help is appreciated.
1000 times thanks for anyone who can help.
(and hope this is allowed)

anyone that can help?

Rydan said:
anyone that can help?
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Hi Dennis,
I'll try to help where I can. The internet issue you will probably have to sort out with your provider. If it was working and now it isn't it the only thing I can think of is you made some change to the network config. They should be able to get it working again.
As for Music I found the best way to transfer music to the Diamond is through active sync. Plug your phone in to your PC, when prompted on the phone select active sync, then on the PC open up Windows Media player and select sync. Then just drag and drop the music you want on your phone to the sync panel and then click sync. All the music you selected will be transferred to your phone and the album art and everything if it is available will be displayed on the phone.
For the transaprent flip clock and lots more tf3d mods, look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=436867
For the bottom bar you have to be more specific, do you want to change the softkeys??
I find the best GPS software is either google maps or microsoft live search, both are free, google them!
For contacts there are many solutions out there, you will have to look on your own, sorry!
I've seen world clock application but most of them are home plugins, again you will have to look around on your own..
As for the rest, you will have to spend some time reading and searching. I don't advise reading the book that came with it as it contains very little useful info.
hit me back if you have anymore questions!!! oh and welcome to the community!!!

With changing the bottombar I mean putting like perhaps the gps on the spot of the photo / video etc.
Thanks btw

Sorry Dennis, as far as i know there is currently no method for changing the tf3d tabs. You can add some but really they already exist just not displayed. You can try SSmapa to replace some of the default functions.

Gif Editor for Laptop

Hi Guys,
Can anyone suggest a free gif editor for win xp pro? I want to edit gif files from the internet to a more suitable size for use on here and in other apps?
The gifs i will be editing arent big complex ones, but small and simple so im not after paint shop or anything
Any suggestions on a free one? Been through google and seen many many programs that say "free" but you know what its like!! (free for a time...)
So im open to ideas?

By GIFs, do you mean animated or stationary? Because if it's just stationary .gif files, then GIMP, or even Windows Paint should suffice. It is a free, open source program that is, although not as good as Photoshop, still pretty excellent for its price tag. Just make sure you download the Windows version and not the Linux version. However, if you wanted to edit animated GIFs, I think you have to pay, as I could not find a single program in google that does it for free. I ran into the same problem as you did, where a program would say FREE!!! and then turn out to be a trial.
Dave

lol nice one Mike
Thanks for the advice, very useful!

I use
gimp for stuff like people would use photoshop
I use
paint.net for less complex stuff
I use
irfanview for simple edit like size and colours and such and viewing all my images
all which are free

I use gif animator, its not free like you asked but it is pretty fab. You can download a free trial of it, I think its for 30 days. x

yip, paint.net is pretty cool! cheers, and id forgotten about irfanview

Would someone here be willing to take my existing banner that I am using for my web page and turn it into a GIF animation for me ? i would be willing to send a few cold ones your way for your troubles..all I need is for the kart in the bannerp to be shown with the rear tires spinning with a little smoke coming off them , and then for it to take off across the banner from left to right , it would be a looping banner
let me know if you can be of help

Sweet....I am going to send you a pm with a link
the banner that I am currently using..
Thanks..

Thanks Mike, I just realized that I do not have any sideview or 3/4 view pictures of the kart itself, and no separate pic's of the kart itself , so i have to wait to hear from the guy who designed the art work first..
but once a again thank you....I will post back once I have everything that is needed..
You can go to www.OVKA.com and look at the very top and let me know, the image is 900px × 113px and 31.21 KB (31962 bytes) in size.
The kart under the OVKA is what i am talking about