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Removing Start Menu background image?

Anyone know how to remove the start menu background image, so that it's just flat?

you probably have a background image now?
The way I choose my startmenu background color and/or image =
make a (small) bmp with only the color you want.
then open this bmp file with resco explorer.
when image is viewed press 'menu'.
and then press 'set as background'
At least works for me with my Touch Pro, it won't change the TouchFlo3d background, but it will change the Startmenu background.
To change the startmenu text color go into registry and edit the following:
HKLocalMachine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Color ->
Binary Value 39 = Startmenu Text Color
white = FF FF FF 00
Black = 50 50 50 00 (i think)
cheers

Sorry to put things upside down but quick Q.
How do you guys get an image to show on the drop down Start menu?
I want that!
Thanks.

snoopstah said:
Anyone know how to remove the start menu background image, so that it's just flat?
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Show big icons on start menu!

Help with theme port

Hey all, I just got done porting over one of Ted's older themes with the Akirah 1.6 template. So far, everything seems to be working great, the look and feel is there. The only thing I noticed is the clock up on the top bar is screwy. The bar is black and the numbers are coming up black so it is nearly impossible to see. This isn't a huge problem since I am running the flip clock with weather widget. But when I have something else open and want to check the time, I can't see it. My question is, how can I change the color of the clock numbers. Is this setting somewhere in an .xml file that needs to be copied over? Thanks in advance.

knowfear said:
Hey all, I just got done porting over one of Ted's older themes with the Akirah 1.6 template. So far, everything seems to be working great, the look and feel is there. The only thing I noticed is the clock up on the top bar is screwy. The bar is black and the numbers are coming up black so it is nearly impossible to see. This isn't a huge problem since I am running the flip clock with weather widget. But when I have something else open and want to check the time, I can't see it. My question is, how can I change the color of the clock numbers. Is this setting somewhere in an .xml file that needs to be copied over? Thanks in advance.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535630
look on the last 2 or 3 pages for the most recent version. also did you copy over the progress_horizontal.xml from framework-res.apk/res/drawable so that the bars will not be orange.

Awesome thanks a lot David! That did the trick.

OK so I ported over as much of Ted's v1.2 for CM4.04 as I could. So far so good. I got all the colors back to how I want them. I didn't do anything with the progress_horizontal.xml yet. Everything looks good for the moment...except
When I get something on the notification screen (email, USB mount,USB debug etc) the bar they are on is black and the text is black. I thought this would be part of the 'ongoing' color change, but that is only for the ongoing notice bar. So how do I edit that area to change the text color there?
Thanks again for any help.

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OK so I ported over as much of Ted's v1.2 for CM4.04 as I could. So far so good. I got all the colors back to how I want them. I didn't do anything with the progress_horizontal.xml yet. Everything looks good for the moment...except
When I get something on the notification screen (email, USB mount,USB debug etc) the bar they are on is black and the text is black. I thought this would be part of the 'ongoing' color change, but that is only for the ongoing notice bar. So how do I edit that area to change the text color there?
Thanks again for any help.
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Set ticker to ffffffff and in framework-res.apk/res/layout/ edit status_bar_expanded.xml and status_bar_latest_event.xml to have the 6 hex codes after 08 00 00 1C be FF FF FF
Also for colorChangev3.jar ,set everything except clear to ffffff, and it staus_bar_latest_event.xml doesnt have 08 00 00 1C in it ,then check out status_bar_lastest_event_content.xml.

how can i change wallpaper in sony ericsson panel.

hey, how can i change that, can you give me some instruction, application that use to do that, or something that it helps, thanks in advance

not sure what you mean when you say sony ericsson panel but if you mean the 2 default html panels x1 comes with then no they don't use backgrounds at all just colours

lol those aren't colors, they are background files, either JPG or PNG. They are literally backgrounds with only 1 distinction to them, which is that each background is a specific color.
These backgrounds are changeable but I don't have my X1 so I can't find the folder to replace those background files.
Maybe someone can help.

It definitely works. I tried it myself. In the SE panel folder there is a subfolder "images" where the standard backgrounds are stored. They are numbered from 00 - 10 and there are two for each number (horizontal and vertical but they are always the same). What you have to do is replace the original ones with your custom images. You have to use exactly the same file name (for example 01v.jpg and 01h.jpg to replace background number 1). After doing so your desired background will be available in the SE panel menu. Unfortunately I have not found a way so far to change the description so the name of your background will still be the name of the corresponding color. But it's really easy to find out because it starts with black and the sequence of the colors corresponds with the numbers (black = 00 ...).

that's right try this
goto program files> panels> sonyericsson panel> images
00v is for black vertical
00h is for black horisontal
and so on
myself I changed my xperia background like this
I replaced 10v and 10h
but remember befor you change the image you have to unselect the color I mean when you want to change the xperia you have to select another color 1st to take effect... for me I put my wedding picture in it. also remember for the H image it must be in 800x428 pixels
and for V image it must be in 480x748 pixels
Good luck

Theme help!

Im in the process of making my own theme but there is one part i'm stuck on. In certain places the colours are not from a png but from a registry setting i.e the list selectors in call history, or apps like Resco Explorer.
I suspect it's the reg entry in tsk as below:
ThemeValues"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
FF,FF,FF,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,FF,FF,FF,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,50,50,50,00,FF,FF,FF,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,FF,FF,FF,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
This gives a shade of grey but how do i edit this string to make those same selectors black? I think it is the 50,50,50 part so do i just lower those values or is there more to it?

Yep, that's the value to change. You can even achieve more complicated results like inverting the system colors (as seen in kane159 HollBlack Themes).
For the selection colors you mentioned you already found the right digits, you have to change them to 00,00,00 for black. You need to understand how the hexadecimal RGB-notation works for this .

Thank you for confirming that. At least it's not going to be trial and error now

Here's a trickier one. Hopefully somebody will know the solution:
When you tap and hold on an item to bring up a context menu there is the circle of dots animation. How does one modify the colour of that now? I understand that it used to be an entry in the same place as above called 40 with a Binary value. I assume as i don't have that value that the method has changed?

Look in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\MultiColorTheme, there are four values (BaseColor1 through BaseColor4). The dots you mentioned get the color by somehow mixing these four values together... I have BaseColor1 and 3 set to black (simply 0) and the other two to white (FFFFFF hex), and the dots are grey. They also controll the gradient in some legacy message boxes (for example when deleting something from the file explorer).

I see what you mean! Mine are set to the same values as yours and so are obviously grey too. I want them black really so i will try it with all values set to 0.
Thanks again for your help!
EDIT: Well, i altered the values of all four to 0 in my tsk and re-installed my Theme. It's still grey I guess there must be more to it than this. It's not a big deal but if you have any other suggestions i'd really appreciate it.

[Info Smartphone] Align Start-Menu and MRU Background with your Homescreen

This info is for smartphone (WM Standard) but some items may apply also for touch screen devices (WM professional).
Not many things can be personalized on a smartphone, but some can.
The home-screen:
each of these has XML code to define its layout, the utilized plugins, the color scheme and the home-screen background. Many have defined sophisticated home-screens or loaded them from the web.
Sadly when leaving the home-screen, only the color scheme stays, nothing else
The color-schemes may be selected independently from the home-screen and these may also contain a background picture. Selected color schemes are overwriting the relevant settings of the home-screen. Note that only the defined parts in the selected color scheme are used to overwrite previous definitions in the home-screen - so they are complementary in that regard. If a background picture is defined in the color scheme, it takes precedence over the one defined in the home-screen.
An own background picture can be forced and overwrites all above methods.
Selection of a background picture via the settings panel is only possible from the \Application Data\Home directory (where all home-screens are) while defined home-screens or color schemes can reference pictures from any location on the device (usually \windows).
Via the Pictures and Videos application or via File Explorer you can also set any picture as home-screen background. You do this via the context menu and then you are presented a work-flow consisting of selecting the area to use and the transparency level to apply for that picture. Vendor specific other procedures may apply here. Finally all these should create images like: stwater_<x-res>_<y-res>.jpg in the \windows directory and a compressed adapted home-screen in the \Application Data\Home directory.
Start Menu Background: Not often used but powerful, see here for all details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb416463.aspx. In essence you have to add to the current entries:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:MSStart]
"BKBitmapFile"="<your picture here>"
"BKFlags"=dword:1a
"BKBitmapTransparent"=dword:00ff00ff
"BKBitmapLogPixelsY"=dword:00000083 <- your DPI here '83 = 131 for QVGA
"BKBitmapLogPixelsX"=dword:00000083 <- your DPI here '83 = 131 for QVGA
Most Recent Used Applications Background: Introduced with Sliding Panels backgrounds from WM 6.1 as there is no MRU plugin with sliding panels. Here the same logic applies as for the Startmenu, just use :MSMRULauncher instead of :MSStart
And NO - the settings panels cannot handle a background picture
So why did I tell you this? You can simply align your start menu and MRU launcher with the picture on your home-screen. No need for any offline tools or editing, just do the following:
enter the keys to the registry as given above for start menu and MRU laucher, take care to set the correct DPI. You find the right ones at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GWE\Display in the values "LogicalPixelsX" and "LogicalPixelsY"
set both the background pictures to "\windows\stwater_<x>_<y>.jpg" so that "<x,y>" matches your resolution
With file explorer or "Pictures and Videos" seek for the BG picture of your current home-screen, usually it is either in \Application Data\Home or in \windows
Set this to be your home-screen picture, choose a value of ~30% transparency in the work-flow.
Check your home-screen and the MRU + Startmenu panels. If you have already a background active you need to restart the device to pick the new ones up.
Now you will see that the selected picture is too pale for the home-screen, so on the settings-home-screen go to the background picture selection and select "standard" again to get your original picture back there.
As long as you are not assigning a new dedicated background picture to the home-screen, the previously created stwater_x_y.jpg stays in the \windows directory and will please you as the MRU and Start menu backgrounds.
Any new background related activity will only require steps 3-7, the registry stays unchanged.

Some more
The background setting in the Shell registry hierarchy works just the same as for :MSStart also for: :MSScut (Short Dials), :MSSolitaire (Solitaire), :WCEload (when installing programs) and :SIMPinBKGround (when entering the SIM PIN).
You may not want to have backgrounds for all of the above, but to get rid of the light green background in Solitaire, set the value of BKUnselected there to something else than "00FF00" which is Green only. Sequence is RGB, so make your choice. Even simpler (and best choice here): Add BKDefaultGradient = dword:1 which gives you the standard (and altered by your color scheme) gradient color on the background.
The dialog for the SIM PIN is not transparent though, so not nice to look at.
Of course the Shell\RAI has other bitmap settings (brandings, dialog backgrounds), no need to mention that here.