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MS301 Widgets Pro Plus Basic 092009
Contains too many widgets and Mods to count (no extras included in this version).
MS301 Widgets Pro Plus Ultimate 092009
Contains all the widgets as in the MS301 Widgets Pro Plus Basic cab:
PLUS 7 Lifestyle screens instead of the standard 3
PLUS a Task Manager is added to the Carousel Screen (see picture)
PLUS a Wireless Manager is added to the Carousel Screen (see picture)
PLUS a Backlight Changer is added to the Carousel Screen (see picture)
PLUS the Bottom Menu Bar has been made invisible
PLUS 2 buttons on the Weather, Task Manager, Wireless Manager, Contacts Carousel and Change Backlight Screens (Lifestyle Home Screen and Contacts Screen, see picture)
PLUS an extra favourites (contacts) screen (click on contacts and then swipe your finger on the screen to the left to bring up the extra screen), this screen is fully customizable and you can swipe off the second favourites screen.
PLUS the bottom Menu Bar has been stripped of the 3 middle buttons and made useable for anything to be placed there (make it small size if you want it to go close to the bottom of the screen)
PLUS I added a 9th panel in the Spb Menu Screen called Spb Menus which contains 10 spb mobile shell shortcuts that can be selected as application links to be placed on the screen if desired.
PLUS a 3 button menu on the Pro screens on Portrait and Landscape Modes (the extra button is to the Task Manager)
ChangeLog
20th September:
+ Added Weather Pro Omnia widget without Text
19th September:
+ Added new clocks, small date, weather pro variations, new backgrounds, small battery, changing colour on all batterys depending on charge, improved graphics on diamond clocks, fixed layout on other digital clocks, other stuff I cant remember right now lol.
To use the Buttons or Backing Panels: Select the button or panel you want and place it on the screen, then select the icon or widget you want ontop of it and move it ontop of the button. If the button is ontop then when you press it you will get the clock come up.
To use the Invisible Link Widget: Select Invisible Link (medium or small) from the widgets list, then select the program you wish it to be associated with. You can then place it over an existing widget or on any part of the screen so that when you click on that area the link will run. Its totally invisible but the size must NOT be changed or the link will become visible.
To add Spb Menus to the screen on Ultimate version: Select Menu (bottom right button) and Add Widget. Select Application from the Shortcuts section then click on the Spb Menus Folder and select one of the available shortcuts you want to place on the screen. If you want to place it at the bottom as a Menu Button then select it from the screen and make it small then move it to the bottom.
PLEASE NOTE:
TO AVOID PROBLEMS SUCH AS THE WIDGETS OR NOTIFICATIONS NOT SHOWING PLEASE ONLY INSTALL THIS ON A CLEAN VERSION OF MOBILE SHELL!!
I DO NOT WANT ANY WIDGETS THAT I HAVE CREATED FOR THIS PACK TO BE USED IN ANY OTHER PROGRAMS OR PACKS. PLEASE RESPECT MY WISHES. THANK YOU.
Install Procedure:
1. Uninstall any extra cabs or addons you have installed for Spb Mobile Shell
2. Uninstall Spb Mobile Shell and soft reset your device
3. Install the latest version of Spb Mobile Shell (current version is 3.0.1)
4. Install ProPlus Basic or Ultimate to device memory (same as MS3 in installed)
5. After installations completes, soft reset your device
6. Job done. Congratulations you have now expanded the potential of Mobile Shell
Download Links (xda isnt letting me upload to here sorry):
QVGA/WQVGA
* MSkip_ProPlus_Basic_QVGA_092009.cab
* MSkip_ProPlus_Ultimate_QVGA_092009.cab
VGA/WVGA
* MSkip_ProPlus_Basic_VGA_092109.cab
* MSkip_ProPlus_Ultimate_VGA_092109.cab
Donations are always welcome, even if its a small amount. They help me carry on my work. I have spent ALOT of time on this project so if you can afford it then please show your appreciation.
Enjoy
MSkip ProPlus Ultimate with Custom BackGround for Spb Mobile Shell 3 BUILD 092109 (QVGA, WQVGA, VGA and WVGA)
This is exactly the same version as Pro Plus Ultimate but with a custom background on all screens except lifestyle. This can then be easily changed to another background by changing the qa_fundotela.dat file with your own custom made one or one of the files I have supplied. Just rename the background you want to use to qa_fundotela.dat and copy it to your Spb Mobile Shell folder on your phone, then soft reset. I included a black one as well as a couple of colourful backgrounds.
Note: After you rename the background file and copy it to your phone dont forget to rename it back so you know which one it is or you will get lost .
Do the following to make your own custom background dat file.
1. Rename any of the custom backgrounds in the zip file to qa_fundotela.zip
2. Unzip to a folder using the password: b0fm18zq
3. Make 2 backgrounds to use as follows:
For QVGA version (240x400 saved as Background.bmp and 400x240 saved as BackgroundL.bmp)
For VGA version (480x800 saved as Background.bmp and 800x480 saved as BackgroundL.bmp)
4. Move the 2 new background files into the folder you made in step2 (overwriting the originals)
5. Zip the 3 files back up with password protection (using password: b0fm18zq)
6. Rename the new file to qa_fundotela.dat and copy to your Spb Mobile Shell folder on your phone (overwriting the original)
7. Soft Reset your phone
NOTE: The background problem with WQVGA devices has been fixed so the image is shown on the whole screen and not just down to the menubar.
If you enjoy using anything that I have created please consider making a donation even if its a very small amount. Everything donated will go towards treatment of my Aunt who has been recently diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.
Enjoy
Download Links (xda isnt letting me upload to here sorry):
QVGA/ WQVGA Cab - MSkip_ProPlus_Ultimate_QVGA_CustomBackground_092109.cab
Backgrounds - Fundotela_BackGrounds_QVGA.zip
VGA/ WVGA Cab - MSkip_ProPlus_Ultimate_VGA_CustomBackground_092109.cab
Backgrounds - Fundotela_BackGrounds_VGA.zip
*and this one*
Great...
ty...
I'll be waiting for your VGA update on this one.
Is there any way to resize the screen for SPB? The newer 6.5.1 ROMs leave a slight gap at the bottom of the screen (sometimes it is black, other times it has an after image of the most recently closed window).
If ye need screen shots to get what I'm saying I'll get some and edit this post.
Cheers,
Celt
CeltREI said:
I'll be waiting for your VGA update on this one.
Is there any way to resize the screen for SPB? The newer 6.5.1 ROMs leave a slight gap at the bottom of the screen (sometimes it is black, other times it has an after image of the most recently closed window).
If ye need screen shots to get what I'm saying I'll get some and edit this post.
Cheers,
Celt
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Thats a problem with the WM 6.5 builds because I think the Taskbar at the top has been made smaller which moves all the screen up. I dont think theres a fix so if you want to use a 6.5 Rom then you will have to live with it. Personally I dont like 6.5 and prefer to stick with 6.1
VGA should be up tomorrow I need some sleep so I cant do it tonight. Check for download links at around 8pm uk time.
mskip said:
MS301 Widgets Pro Plus Basic 091909
Contains too many widgets and Mods to count (no extras included in this version).
MS301 Widgets Pro Plus Ultimate 091909
Contains all the widgets as in the MS301 Widgets Pro Plus Basic cab:
PLUS 7 Lifestyle screens instead of the standard 3
PLUS a Task Manager is added to the Carousel Screen (see picture)
PLUS a Wireless Manager is added to the Carousel Screen (see picture)
PLUS a Backlight Changer is added to the Carousel Screen (see picture)
PLUS the Bottom Menu Bar has been made invisible
PLUS 2 buttons on the Weather, Task Manager, Wireless Manager, Contacts Carousel and Change Backlight Screens (Lifestyle Home Screen and Contacts Screen, see picture)
PLUS an extra favourites (contacts) screen (click on contacts and then swipe your finger on the screen to the left to bring up the extra screen), this screen is fully customizable and you can swipe off the second favourites screen.
PLUS the bottom Menu Bar has been stripped of the 3 middle buttons and made useable for anything to be placed there (make it small size if you want it to go close to the bottom of the screen)
PLUS I added a 9th panel in the Spb Menu Screen called Spb Menus which contains 10 spb mobile shell shortcuts that can be selected as application links to be placed on the screen if desired.
PLUS a 3 button menu on the Pro screens on Portrait and Landscape Modes (the extra button is to the Task Manager)
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Thanks! I really appreciate the addition of the small weather icon and the new clocks. But as usual, I have questions/requests :
1. Is it possible to do the small weather icons in the other styles?
2. In the Elegance package the screens can be continuously scrolled from screen 7 straight to screen 1. Are you still planning on adding that feature?
Again, thanks.
-Bob-
Are you making these widgets from scratch? or reskinning them?
Is it possible to pull out a to - do list widget? that... would.. make my day.. main reason why im not using TF2
does this ULTIMATE version have continuous scrolling of lifestyle pages too?
Great work as usual, Mskip.
I didn't make a clean install, I installed it over the previous version, until now there are no problems.
THANKs
GREAT WORK
rebecker said:
Thanks! I really appreciate the addition of the small weather icon and the new clocks. But as usual, I have questions/requests :
1. Is it possible to do the small weather icons in the other styles?
2. In the Elegance package the screens can be continuously scrolled from screen 7 straight to screen 1. Are you still planning on adding that feature?
Again, thanks.
-Bob-
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Its impossible to please some people lol
1. I can quickly add the small omnia weather widget without text to fit in the bottom tonight but thats the only other small weather widget that I have.
2. Im not sure about giving the Ultimate version continuous scrolling because it requires changing the lifestyle layout to 7 seperate screens and looses the ability to backup the layout easily and affects the background stability. I might play around and see if I can do it without having to add the selection bar.
Raijyn said:
Are you making these widgets from scratch? or reskinning them?
Is it possible to pull out a to - do list widget? that... would.. make my day.. main reason why im not using TF2
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Im not sure what you mean by 'reskinning them' but I create all the graphics from scratch using corel photoimpact x3.
aypee3 said:
does this ULTIMATE version have continuous scrolling of lifestyle pages too?
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No it doesnt.
gerald_s said:
Great work as usual, Mskip.
I didn't make a clean install, I installed it over the previous version, until now there are no problems.
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As long as its installed over a previous build of the same version then you shouldnt encounter any problems. Especially since this build is just a widget update. Hope everything works well
mskip said:
Its impossible to please some people lol
1. I can quickly add the small omnia weather widget without text to fit in the bottom tonight but thats the only other small weather widget that I have.
2. Im not sure about giving the Ultimate version continuous scrolling because it requires changing the lifestyle layout to 7 seperate screens and looses the ability to backup the layout easily and affects the background stability. I might play around and see if I can do it without having to add the selection bar.
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You know me, never happy! Yes, the omnia widget is the one I like the best. If you have time, I'd appreciate the addition.
Since I have no technical expertise at all, I can't suggest that continuous scrolling be implemented in Ultimate. For me seven screens is too much scrolling in one direction. Elegance was exactly what I was looking for EXCEPT that I really lke being able to control the bottom of the screen. Well, life is all about trade-offs.
Again, I appreciate your efforts.
-Bob-
rebecker said:
You know me, never happy! Yes, the omnia widget is the one I like the best. If you have time, I'd appreciate the addition.
Since I have no technical expertise at all, I can't suggest that continuous scrolling be implemented in Ultimate. For me seven screens is too much scrolling in one direction. Elegance was exactly what I was looking for EXCEPT that I really lke being able to control the bottom of the screen. Well, life is all about trade-offs.
Again, I appreciate your efforts.
-Bob-
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I will add the omnia weather widget with no text and upload the new cab in about an hour.
Updated cabs in first post with added Weather Pro Omnia widget without text (as requested by Rebecker
Now starting on updating VGA/WVGA versions
yep, you got it now !
Superbe piece of work, just one question.....where is the digital clock with the weather 'cause I WANT IT !!!
re: continuous scrolling
mskip said:
No it doesnt.
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Could you please make a cab or give us the registry changes so that we can have continuous scrolling in the lifestyle pages in ultimate version as well.
thanks.
INTRODUCING A BRAND NEW WINDOWS PHONE 7 SERIES BASED THEME FOR SPB MOBILE SHELL 3.5.5
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* TIPS AND TRICKS CAN BE FOUND *HERE* IN POST 2
PLEASE READ!! VERSION 4.0 IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN WVGA AT FIRST. ONCE IT HAS BEEN OUT A FEW DAYS AND I HAVE RECIEVED FEEDBACK AND FIXED ANY BUGS I WILL MAKE IT AVAILABLE IN ALL OTHER RESOLUTIONS (INCLUDING HVGA IF POSSIBLE).
MSkip ProPlus Windows Phone 7 Theme for Mobile Shell 3.5.5
Contains the following:
+ All Spb Mobile Shell screens have now been skinned for WP7.
+ Home Hub is scrollable so you can add as many Tiles as you wish or make up your own.
+ Shortcuts Hub can be reached by swiping your finger to the left on the Home Hub (WP7 feature).
+ Shortcuts Hub is scrollable so you can add as many shortcuts as you wish.
+ Static links on the right of the Home Hub so no matter where you are in the Home Hub you can always see it.
+ Static Links are configurable through the Manager in the Start Menu.
+ Panels are mostly made up of shortcuts and custom shortcut skins so easy to change images or look (if desired).
+ New menu bars in mobile shell screens.
+ All Screens fully set up for LandScape mode.
+ Theme Colour can be changed from the 'ProPlus Wp7 Tools' folder in the Start Menu.
+ Changing the Theme Colour will change the theme colour on all linked screens (Hubs, Spb Menu).
+ Hub Tiles are now partly transparent so if you have a picture background on the Home Hub it will show through the Tiles.
IMPORTANT: On first use of v4 you will find that when you click on some of the links (mostly in the Office, Games, Media and Pictures Hubs) that they will open the spb menu screen. This is because the links have no app associated with them. Once you choose what app you wish to associate with the link you clicked on it will be set for future use. This is also the same for icons that have a '+' inside them.
ChangeLog:
26th March 2011
Update for WVGA to V4.0 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20110326)
+ All screens themed for WP7
+ All Hubs themed for WP7 with background images (Games, Office, Media, Pictures)
+ Added Status Widgets for Home Hub (Volume, Brightness, Wifi, Bluetooth)
+ Added Tasks Widget for Home Hub
+ Redrawn several widget link images
+ Made Home Hub Tiles partly transparent to show custom backgrounds.
+ Lots of other things I will add as I think of them
26th October 2010
Update for QVGA and WQVGA V3.1 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20101026)
+ Includes all updates from [W]VGA versions (see 19th and 24th October changelog entries)
24th October 2010
Update for WVGA and VGA V3.1 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20101024)
+ Updated WVGA to v3.1
+ Released v3.1 for VGA resolution (includes all updates from 19th October update)
+ Added 6 new Shortcut Icons (Facebook, Games2, Screen Rotate, Settings, Twitter and Windows Live)
+ Fixed a bug in the Manager script that stopped non WWE Roms from affecting screen mods.
19th October 2010
Update for WVGA V3 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20101019)
+ Shortcuts Hub now up/down scrollable (same as the Home Hub) with a Static Link to the Home Hub.
+ Static Link to SpbMenu added to Home Hub (default option). Shortcuts Link and SpbMenu Link can be turned on or off from the Manager app.
+ NEW Shortcut Icons added (Android, Bluetooth, FM Radio, Marketplace and Voice Dial).
+ NEW Theme Colours added (purple and yellow themes).
+ NEW Twitter widget for Home Hub (fully working).
+ NEW WideBox Weather widget with full information (current conditions only show in supported locations).
+ NEW Big Box Weather widget with image and temperature.
+ NEW Facebook widget for Home Hub (fully working).
+ NEW Media widget added for Home Hub in 2 colours (black and white).
+ NEW Birthdays widget for Home Hub.
+ Added Location widget.
+ Added Top Battery in Black to go with white or light coloured backgrounds.
+ Backup and Restore apps now fully support different language Roms (backups can now be copied to and from storage card).
+ Added option in Manager app to Enable Extra Favourites page.
+ Cleaned up code in ProPlus Manager and Backup/Restore Apps.
14th June 2010
Update for WVGA version V2 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20100614)
+ Changed Opera shortcut skin and added new shortcut skin for Palringo
+ Cleaned up ProPlus Tasks utility
+ Added new function in ProPlus Tasks to change ALL box types in a single Hub. By default the Box type is 'Small Box Hidden' which hides the shortcut icon inside the box. To use this function first select the Hub you want to change, then select the box type (hidden, icon or icon + text). Lastly select the colour of box you want and let the program do its magic. This will only affect boxes already in the Hub it wont create new ones.
14th June 2010
Update for QVGA version V2 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20100614)
Same updates as for 4th, 5th and 10th June
+ Added new function in ProPlus Tasks to change ALL box types in a single Hub. By default the Box type is 'Small Box Hidden' which hides the shortcut icon inside the box. To use this function first select the Hub you want to change, then select the box type (hidden, icon or icon + text). Lastly select the colour of box you want and let the program do its magic. This will only affect boxes already in the Hub it wont create new ones.
13th June 2010
Update for WQVGA version V2 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20100613)
Same updates as for 4th, 5th and 10th June
11th June 2010
Update for VGA version V2 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20100611)
Same updates as for 4th, 5th and 10th June
10th June 2010
Update for WVGA version V2 for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 (20100610)
+ Updated complete theme for full compatability with Mobile Shell 3.5.5
+ Moved Carousel and Menu buttons back to the Bottom for easier use
+ Reworked the Agenda WP7 widget to make it fit in better with the theme
+ Created a Bing Search (WP7) widget for use on the Home Hub (add an Internet search widget and change its skin to 'WP7 Hub'.
+ Added a Bing skin for use with a shortcut link.
+ Added 'Preset Themes' to Start Menu, MSkip ProPlus WP7, ProPlus Tasks. To use it: first change your Theme Colour (Back, Blue, Green, Grey, Red
or Orange) then change your background colour (eg. Black, White or Grey). Lastly run the 'Preset Themes' utility and select White Text and links for a black background or Black text and links for a white background. The program will then change ALL links colours and text on all Hubs and also perform a Background Refresh. Try it
+ Other improvements and bug fixes
5th June 2010
Minor update for WVGA version V2 (20100605)
+ Added option in ProPlus Tasks Utility to Enable or Disable the static shortcuts link on the Home Hub.
+ Added option in ProPlus Tasks Utility to change Hub title text colour to white or black.
4th June 2010
Update for WVGA version V2 (20100604) with other resolutions to follow.
+ Home Hub is now fully scrollable (up and down) so that everything is on 1 screen and can be added to (will be good for QVGA and VGA resolutions that cant fit as much on a single screen).
+ Added black theme, black link buttons and a white and grey background panel for a great new look (really does look nice).
+ Added new link skins and made all skins have white text to keep the flow of the theme (Calculator, **Camera, Comm Manager, Reset, Task Manager, **TomTom and Shortcuts). **changed text colour to white.
+ A smiley face now appears in the text box when you have new text messages.
+ The shortcuts screen now has own hub (3 pages wide).
+ Added ProPlus Tools utility in the MSkip's ProPlus WP7 Start Menu folder.
+ You can change the shortcuts link on the Home Hub to black or white to look better on lighter backgrounds.
+ WP7 Calendar widget has been reworked to make it look better on a wide panel.
+ Updated all files for full compatability with Mobile Shell 3.5.4.
23rd April 2010
Updates for QVGA, WQVGA, VGA and WVGA versions (20100423)
+ Added ALL updates from 12th and 14th April for QVGA and WQVGA devices.
+ Update to Start Menu WP7 scripts to close the Start Menu automatically after running a script.
+ Added Today Screen Switcher and individual links to switch between verious Today Screens (Microsoft Today, TouchFLO2D, TouchFLO3D, HTC Sense and Spb Mobile Shell (in the Start Menu, Programs, MSkip's ProPlus WP7 folder).
+ Made Small Box Panels slightly larger for better fit of icons and text.
+ Added NEW Diamond Clock widgets (Black and White Tiny) to fit inside the BigBox Panel.
+ Added NEW Current Date widgets (Date2 Black and Date2 White) to fit in Big Box Panel with Tiny Diamond Clocks. Not sure if these will be viewable on QVGA and WQVGA because of font size.
+ Added Tiny Contact, Text Only Contact (no box) and a selection of Invisible Contact sizes.
14th April 2010
+ Minor update for WVGA version (20100414)
+ Added Half Screen Invisible Link so you can cover a screen with 2 widgets in Portrait or Landscape Mode.
+ Added 2 new BigBox Panels (Office and Zune) images courtesy of ljjustboy
12th April 2010
+ Released WVGA version (20100412)
+ You can now backup upto 3 totally different layouts and restore at any time (new for VGA/WVGA)
+ A new Business Hub and Business Panel Image has been created to seperate Business and Lifestyle Screens (can be added or left out at will).
+ I have included some of the widgets from previous themes to give more flexibility to page designs (Diamond Digital Clocks, Anaolgue Clocks, Bottom Menu Bars, Small Battery).
+ Added extra funtions to the Backup Utility (Copy all backups to Storage Card, Copy Backups stored on Storage Card BACK to the device, Clear ALL backups from Device and Storage Card).
+ Enhanced the graphics for the 'Small Box with Text' skin (now looks alot nicer).
+ Added a confirmation screen when Restoring a Backup so you cant accidentally erase all your layout.
7th April 2010
+ Released QVGA and WQVGA versions (20100407)
+ Added more functions to MSkip's ProPlus WP7 folder in Start Menu, Programs:
Change number of pages on any Hub (Hub Pages),
Backup upto 3 completely different layouts with 1 touch,
Restore any of 3 Saved Layouts or Restore Original Layout at any time,
Refresh Background if you try to change it through the Menu button and it doesnt change.
+ Added 3 new Batterys (Horizontal for top or bottom of screen, White panel and Coloured Panel:
(use with medium white battery text for best alignment).
+ Added new Digital Clock for panel.
+ Added new short date widget (add digital clock and change skin) for use in Digital Clock Panels.
+ Added 2 new icons (YouTube and FlashLight).
+ ALL Big Box Icons skins now have fully transparent background so you can use them with the theme colours.
+ Added prebuilt Back and White boxes which you can add as Picture Frames (BigBox). These are in Program Files\ MSkip Tools.
+ Added Operator Widget (WP7) which will fit nicely at the top of a BigBox Panel.
2nd April 2010
+ Released VGA and WVGA versions (20100402)
+ Added more functions to MSkip's ProPlus WP7 folder in Start Menu, Programs:
Change number of pages on any Hub (Hub Pages),
Backup the whole of the current layout with 1 touch,
Restore Saved Layout or Restore Original Layout at any time,
Refresh Background if you try to change it through the Menu button and it doesnt change.
+ Added 3 new Batterys (Horizontal for top or bottom of screen, White panel and Coloured Panel:
(use with medium white battery text for best alignment).
+ Added new Digital Clock for panel.
+ Added new short date widget (add digital clock and change skin) for use in Digital Clock Panels.
+ Added 2 new icons (YouTube and FlashLight).
+ ALL Big Box Icons skins now have fully transparent background so you can use them with the theme colours.
+ Added prebuilt Back and White boxes which you can add as Picture Frames (BigBox). These are in Program Files\ MSkip Tools.
27th March 2010
+ Released QGA and WQVGA versions 20100327
+ Same updates as per 26th March
26th March 2010
+ Released VGA and WVGA versions 20100326
+ Added a Big Box and Wide Box Picture Frame so you can make up your own Hub images
+ Added a new Picture Hub with 5 blank pages to populate with your pictures.
+ Changed the Picture Hub image to a Picture Frame so you can change it if desired (move the inivisible link off the top of it first).
+ Added 4 new theme colours and created a Start Menu Folder called 'MSkip's ProPlus WP7' with buttons to change to any of the colours making it VERY EASY.
+ Added a load of new program icons (Big Box size)
+ Made the weather widget image slightly larger to make more use of the box.
+ Everything works fully in Landscape Mode.
+ Added a YouTube video which shows off the latest version.
22nd March 2010
+ Released WQVGA version
21st March 2010
+ Released VGA and QVGA versions
20th March 2010
+ Released first version (WVGA Only)
ToDo List
Download Links
Install Procedure:
1. Install ProPlus Windows Phone 7 Theme on a fresh install of Spb Mobile Shell v3.5.5 to DEVICE MEMORY
2. After installation completes, soft reset your device
3. Job done. Congratulations you have now expanded the potential of Mobile Shell
Update Procedure:
Uninstall the previous version FIRST before installing the new one.
NOTE: Please ONLY install the version matching your phones resolution or the layout on all screens will be all wrong.
QVGA: 4Shared (20101026)
*DO NOT restore previous backups (pre v3) on V3 as the Shortcuts Hub will be corrupted*
WQVGA: 4Shared (20101026)
*DO NOT restore previous backups (pre v3) on V3 as the Shortcuts Hub will be corrupted*
VGA: 4Shared (20101026)
*DO NOT restore previous backups (pre v3) on V3 as the Shortcuts Hub will be corrupted*
WVGA V4.0: 4Shared (20110326)
*DO NOT RESTORE PREVIOUS BACKUPS ON V4.0 AS ALL THE HUBS WILL BE CORRUPTED*
If you enjoy using this theme please consider making a donation. ALOT of work went into this to make it as good as it can be for everyone. Even if its just a small amount it gives me satisfaction and enthusiasm to carry on developing and appreciation of my work is very welcome.
Enjoy
Mark.
TIPS AND TRICKS ON HOW TO USE THE PROPLUS WP7 THEME
To Change the BackGround Image (All Hubs share the same BackGround Image)
Select Menu, Change Background, Local Gallery, Select your background image. Then goto Start Menu, ProPlus WP7 Tools, ProPlus Wp7 Manager and select Refresh Background Image. Your Mobile Shell will restart and the background image will be changed.
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The Background image wont change on the Home Hub
Goto Start Menu, Programs, MSkips ProPlus WP7, ProPlus Tasks, Refresh Background Image. Your Mobile Shell will restart and the background image will be changed.
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To Add more Icons to the Home Hub
You first need add the Background Box: Select Menu, Add Widget, Shortcut, Spb Menus, HomeHub. Then click on the widget and change its skin to Big Box Hidden (colour of your choice). Finally move the box to where you want it.
Now to place the icon ontop of the box: Select Menu, Add Widget, Shortcut, Select the program you want to open. Now click on the widget you just added and change its skin to the icon you want (they are all under the box skins and go from Android to Youtube). Move the icon ontop of the box and you are done.
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To Delete any of the screens from the Carousel
Run your registry editor and goto:
HKLM, Software, Spb Software House 2, Spb Mobile Shell, NowScreen, Panels.
Delete the folder of the relevant carousel screen that you want to delete. You can see which each panel is by looking in the folders but the Lifestyle panel is '3' and the Businesss Panel is '4'.
The number sequence cant have any skips so if you delete '3' and '4' then you will have to rename other folders, renaming the last 2 folders in the list so there arent any gaps in the sequence ('14' renamed to '3' and '15' renamed to '4').
If you want to keep all the hubs together then after you delete the Business and Lifestlye Carousel panels then rename Pictures (5) to '3', then rename the last 2 folders to '4' and '5'. If you dont do this corrently then you will get a corrupted view in the carousel screen.
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How to make up a panel to an spb screen on the Home Hub
1. Goto Menu, Add Widget, Shortcut, Spb Menus and select from the list.
2. click on the widget that has been added to the screen and then 'Change Skin' to your desired panel image. Example: Add a shortcut link to 'Favorites' and then change its skin to 'Hub People (WP7)'.
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How to change the Small Blank Box into a Shortcut with Icon
Just click on menu in the top right and 'Edit Layout'. You can now click on any of the boxes and change its link to the shortcut or program you want. Next click on the box again and 'Change Skin' to 'Small Box'. NOT Small Box Hidden or the shortcut icon wont show.
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How to make up some of the custom panels
Agenda Panel: Add an Agenda Shortcut (or whatever program you want it linked to) with the Hub Agenda Skin, then add the Agenda widget and change its skin to 'Agenda Hub (WP7)'.
Digital Clock Panel: Add a Spb Clock Shortcut (or whatever program you want it linked to), change its skin to 'Big Box Hidden (WP7)' and move it where you want it on the screen. Now add a Digital Clock Widget, change its skin to 'WP7 Hub' and place it over the Blank panel. Lastly add a Current Date Widget, change its skin to 'WP7 Hub' and place it over the Blank panel.
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To make up your own Hub Image
Create your image with resolution 172x172 and save as a jpg on your storage card where you can find it.
Add a Picture Frame widget and change its skin to 'BigBox Hub (WP7)'.
Click on the Picture Frame and 'Select Picture' then browse to your desired image and select it.
Remove the existing Hub that you want to replace and drag your Custom Hub to the desired location.
Goto Add Widget, Shortcut, Spb Menus, and choose what you want your new Hub to open (Contacts, Games Hub, Lifestyle Hub).
Now change its skin to Invisible Hub Big (WP7) which is found after the Wide Box and move it over your Custom Hub Image.
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Picture Frame Sizes to fit on the Hub Screen
You can double the sizes of these dimensions if you want as long as the aspect ratio is the same, the image will just be resized on the screen.
BigBox Hub (WP7) - QVGA/WQVGA = 86 x 86, VGA/WVGA = 172 x 172
WideBox Hub (WP7) - QVGA/WQVGA = 176 x 86, VGA/WVGA = 352 x 172
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How to have a different Background Image on Any Screen
Create your image or find the image you want to use. You have to remember to take away the height of the TaskBar when you are creating your background image:
A full screen WQVGA or WVGA picture widget size needs to be 480x748.
A full screen QVGA or VGA picture widget size needs to be 480x588.
Once you have a full screen picture widget then you dont want it to bring up the picture viewer if you click on it. To get around this I created a Full Screen Invisible shortcut which can be set to the Hub you are on and wont have any actions when clicked on.
After you have set you Full Screen Picture Widget, goto menu, add widget, shortcut, spb menus, and select the hub you are on (games, business, pictures). Then click on the shortcut on the screen and change its skin to Invisible Link (Half Full). This will cover half the screen with an Invisible Link to the screen you are already on and so protecting your picture widget. Remember in the Edit Mode the Invisible Widget is darker so dont select the wrong area when moving and click on the picture widget by mistake. Repeat this process to create another Half Screen Invisible Shortcut Widget to cover the other half of the picture widget. You will then be protected and can build the rest of your screen.
**and this one**
just downloaded and will give it a go, anything you make is always worth while
Kinda confused though? Changelog says January 20th? Is this new or you just been working on it for awhile?
Anyways, thanks as always for sharing.
acidbath5546 said:
just downloaded and will give it a go, anything you make is always worth while
Kinda confused though? Changelog says January 20th? Is this new or you just been working on it for awhile?
Anyways, thanks as always for sharing.
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OOPS haha good catch I copied the changelog across from one of my other themes and forgot to change it
All changed now
Mark.
LOL...was gonna say...you held out on us for months! lol
I gotta tell ya...I am loving it.
Smooth scrolling, very clean.
Bravo man, you come through stellar as always
acidbath5546 said:
LOL...was gonna say...you held out on us for months! lol
I gotta tell ya...I am loving it.
Smooth scrolling, very clean.
Bravo man, you come through stellar as always
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Thanks
I will make some more skins for the analogue clock and other panels and if anyone has any requests program skins such as the ones I made for TomTom and GoogleMaps then I will make them up and add them.
Mark.
Thank you for your great skins Mark, people like you make Windows mobile 6 last forever..
I'm loving this one, smooth slide, fast navigating.. As usual you make the best a bestest!
I really Appreciate your effort..
Qvga please!!!
hey, great work looks nice!
why not a people hub? a lifestyle screen with the appropriate background and slots for contacts like the "recent" page on wp7..
cannot say more as i have an omnia and cannot test..
keep it up man!
wonder!i waitting for the VGA,you are the best,man.
really a nice work .it makes me want to drop the sense2.5 and get the spb back,thank you very much!
Hi mskip!
very cool theme.
will wait for wqvga
thanks!
Wow, looking great and as people are reporting its smooth. Will be waiting for qvga.
Thanks for your hardwork in this project.
Btw mskip any plan of inlcluding wallpaper?
Way to go, mate!
This thread's gonna grow even larger then your other ones quite soon, I bet!
Grats!
Thank's a lot for your great work,very smooth!!! as soon as i get back my credit card, i will offer you a beer!!!
Max
Vostradamus said:
Way to go, mate!
This thread's gonna grow even larger then your other ones quite soon, I bet!
Grats!
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Thanks again for your help with the install/uninstall scripts to fix those bugs mate
Now I can get around to adding them to the other themes to fix all those too.. when I have the time lol
Mark.
Good work
I searched a lottt!!! to find a way to hide the taskbar, this would like so muth better without it But didn't find any info about how to do it.
Apparently the hide taskbar in spb options don't work.
Please anyone know an working process to actually really hide taskbar??
Thank you
ali1010 said:
Hi mskip!
very cool theme.
will wait for wqvga
thanks!
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jagan2 said:
Wow, looking great and as people are reporting its smooth. Will be waiting for qvga.
Thanks for your hardwork in this project.
Btw mskip any plan of inlcluding wallpaper?
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The theme is all done for QVGA and WQVGA I just have to resize all the graphics which I will try to do tonight.
I need someone with a landscape capable WQVGA device and someone with a landscape capable VGA device who can move the panels and widgets to make the layout look right in landscape mode and then export the appropriate registry entrys and send them to me before I can make the cab and post it. Any takers?
I will post screenshots of landscape mode in the first post today so its just a case of following that layout.
I have a QVGA device so I dont need anyone for that.
Even if i select 5 pages in both the models, i can't have them...How can i make another page?
Thanks
Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 5.07
For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Featuring:
- Widgets Handling (Preview, Activation, Deactivation)
- Additional Lifestyle Panels (sliding background common to all such panels)
- Additional Professional Panels (fixed customizable background in every panel)
- Mobile Shell Panels Background customization
- Multi Language Support
- Contents Copy from one panel to another
- Panel Layout Backup
- Panels PageCount customization
- SpbWeather Panel Icon set Customization
- Mobile Shell Weather Panel Icon set Customization
- Bottom MenuBar customization
- Bottom MenuBar Backup (if you wish to save it before trying new ones)
- Quick links to standard Mobile Shell Panels
- Countless widgets (and growing!)
Click for Preview Images
Layout Examples Images (larger than picasa)
ChangeLog:
(08 Jul 2011)
Widgets Libraries:
New tiny little Widgets Library containing:
- new Battery widgets skin: Glass Wide - (made on request)
(09 May 2011)
Special Library: "Naong Special" (for vga and wvga only).
It includes the widgets from Naong's Mobile Sense theme and also his Mobile Sense Menubar (made into a 1 button advanced menubar)
All credits for the graphics go to Naong, of course.
Credits also included in the library itself.
The library does not contain preview images for the widgets, so don't worry if they do not show up in the "Preview Widget" menu of MsM: they will be there in the "Activate Widget" menu.
(21 Feb 2011)
Advanced Menubar Libraries:
New Advanced Menubar Library containing new "Curve Pink" adv menubar - (made on request)
(16 Feb 2011)
Widgets Libraries:
New tiny little Widgets Library containing:
- new Status widgets skin: Labels Pink - (made on request)
(14 Feb 2011)
Widgets Libraries:
New tiny little Widgets Library containing:
- new color for the Big Box Rounded Link skin: Pink, both normal and empty link - (made on request)
- new color for the Hearts Link skin: Pink - (made on request)
(31 Jan 2011)
Widgets Libraries:
New tiny little Widgets Library containing:
- new Weather skin: Location (only shows the set Location for MS weather widget, available in black and white text) - (made on request)
(29 Sep 2010)
Widgets Libraries:
New Widgets Library containing:
- new Link skin: DateLike (same graphics as the standard current date widget) - (made on request)
- New Colors for "Neon" Status Widget: Gold and Orange (made on request)
- New Colors for "Modern Combo" digital clock: Gold and Orange (made on request)
- New Colors for "Small Box Original" link skin: Gold and Orange (made on request)
- New Status Widget: Invisible 2 (same graphics as standard status widget, but visible only with incoming items. No counter) - (made on request)
- New additional versions for the "Glass" digital clocks, keeping the leading 0 on 1digit hours (made on request)
(05 Aug 2010) ---> Last update before my holidays
Widgets Libraries:
New Widgets Library containing:
- new Digital Clock set: HTCFont Large (White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow) - (made on request)
- new Links set: Blocky (White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow) - (made on request)
Menubar Libraries:
New Advanced Menubar Library containing:
- "Curved Black" advanced menubar - (made on request)
(30 Jul 2010)
MsM 5.07:
- Extended Advanced Menubar usage to 240x240 and 320x320 devices. All currently available advanced menubars converted to work on these devices too
IMPORTANT: installing version 5.07 alone is not enough to make menubars work on square screen devices, you also need to download and import either the latest menubar library or the updated full library
- Optimized menubar change script
- BugFix: sometimes while activating a menubar the available menubars could show up in the wrong order. Fixed
- BugFix: sometimes when activating the last widget of a category it could remain in the list even after activation. Fixed.
Menubar Libraries:
New Advanced Menubar Libraries containing all the current advanced menubars updated to work on square screen devices
Widgets Libraries:
New Widgets Library containing:
- New Status Widgets Set: Pro (same graphics as the Professional one, number box with different colors: Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow) - (made on request)
- New Status Widgets: Empty (completely invisible status widgets, available in 2 sizes) - (made on request)
- New Status Widget: Plain (made on request)
- New Battery Widget: Plain Vertical (made on request)
- New Digital Clock Skin: Date Numbers (only shows the month/day numbers, no time) - (made on request)
- New Current Date Skin: Day Name (only shows the day name, no number or month) - (made partially on request)
(26 Jul 2010)
Widgets Libraries:
New Widgets Library containing:
- New Link Skin: Glass Circle, also empty (made on request)
- New Link Skin: Glass Hexagon, also empty (made on request)
- New Backing Panel: Glass Large (made on request)
Menubar Libraries:
New Advanced Menubar Library containing:
- "Curve" advanced menubar (made partially on request)
(19 Jul 2010)
MsM 5.06:
- Support for Advanced Menubars with MS icons
- BugFix: activating/deactivating the last widget of a category was making the last-but-one disappear from the list for no reason. Fixed.
- Added function for automatic scheduled change of Lifestyle Home wallpaper. It can be scheduled daily, weekly or monthly and it chooses a new random jpg wallpaper from a user-chosen folder.
Best (and easiest to find on the net) sizes for wallpapers are:
----- Desktop Wallpaper size if you have a widescreen device (WVGA – WQVGA)
----- Widescreen Desktop Wallpaper size if you have a non-widescreen device (VGA – QVGA)
Menubar Libraries:
New Advanced Menubar Library containing:
- "Spb Style" advanced menubar (same graphics of the standard spb one, but with 1 to 4 customizable links with spb icons)
- "Icon Buttons" advanced menubar (1 to 4 customizable glass buttons with spb icons)
(14 Jul 2010)
Widgets Library:
New Widgets Library containing:
- Black & White Hub Links skin set (Agenda, Apps, Games, Grandkids, Home, Internet, Media, Music, People, People2, Pictures, Settings, Video, Weather, Work) - (made on request)
- New Empty Link skin set: Neon Empty Big (White, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow, Magenta) - designed by Jotha, sized to accomodate a "small" sized contact widget
- New Special Combined Widget: Neon Silhouette Combo (battery, analog clock, weather) - designed by Jotha
Menubar Library:
New Menubar Library containing:
- new manubar: No Text 3 Buttons (links to launcher, agenda, contacts) - (made on request)
(07 Jul 2010)
MsM 5.05:
- Enabled spb task manager during MsM installation
- Panel Wallpaper functions now remember the last selected folder
- Raised max selectable pagecount to 9
- Extended “Change Pagecount” function to Lifestyle Home and Professional Home screens
Widgets Library:
New Widgets Library containing:
- New Battery Skin: Status Pro 5% (looks like the "status pro" one, works better on devices with a 10% steps battery driver) - (made on request)
- New Status Skins: Glass Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow (made on request)
- New Analog Clock Skin: Doc3000 gtx (thanks to Doc3000 for this clock) - (made on request)
- New Weather Skin: Neon Silhouette 2 - designed by Jotha
- New Contact Skin: Extra Small - fits nicely on empty glass and neon links - designed by Jotha
- New Battery Skin: Glass 2 (made on request)
(30 Jun 2010)
Widgets Library:
New Widgets Library containing:
- New Battery: White/Gray Dots (made on request)
- New Battery: Status Pro (made on request)
- New Link skin: Special Audio (to be used for the profile widget) - (made on request)
- New Panels: Time (2 sizes) - (made on request)
- New Digital Clock set: Reflection Medium (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)
- New Digital Clock set: Date Only (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)
- New Digital Clock skin: Glass Date Line
- New Current Date skin: Glass Square
- New Panel2: Glass Big Square (2 sizes)
- New: Full Libraries now contain everything (widgets, menubars, advanced menubars, ms weather icon sets, spb weather icon sets). Only things left out are the pic-sets (this is to avoid too large files to download)
(23 Jun 2010)
Widgets Library:
New Widgets Library containing:
- New Digital Clock: TimePanel (lookalike of the one in the Time panel) - (made on request)
- New Digital Clocks set: Neon 7 Segments Medium (white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)
- New Digital Clocks set: Neon 7 Segments Small (white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)
- New Hub Link skin: Grandkids - (made on request)
- New Status Widget skin: Dark Transparency with Red on incoming items - (made on request)
- New Battery: Neon Silhouette 2 (designed by Jotha)
- New Themed Widgets Set: Glass. The set includes:
--- Analog clock
--- Digital clock (2 sizes)
--- Battery
--- Status
--- Link
--- Empty Link
--- 2 Backing panels
(18 Jun 2010)
MsM 5.04:
- Added Task Manager to the panels list for the SPB Panel Wallpaper function
- Inject Any XML function now remembers the last used folder
- Added Lifestyle Home, Professional Home and all user-defined panels to the possible options for Advanced Menubars
- When selecting one of the above panels as a function for the menubar, MsM will ask if it needs to work in “Link” or “Carousel” mode. Difference is:
----- Link mode: opens like tapping on a shortcut. The panel can be closed with windows mobile “x” button. Do not use Search, Facebook and Twitter widgets on a panel you plan to reach this way ‘cause they would act weird
----- Carousel mode: opens like reaching the panel via carousel. The panel can’t be “closed”, if you wish to leave it you need to tap on another link or to use the carousel. Search, Facebook and Twitter widgets works normally on a panel reached this way.
Menubars Library:
New Menubar Library containing:
- "Invisible 2" menubar
- "Invisible Large 2" menubar
These are the same as the invisible and invisible large ones, but the invisible button links to the launcher instead of the carousel.
New Advanced Menubar Library containing:
- "ButtonsNumber" menubar. Thin, clean look for a menubar with up to 8 buttons!
(11 Jun 2010)
MsM 5.03:
- Update for MS 3.5.5 compatibility
Widgets Library:
New Widgets Library containing:
- New Hub Link Skin: People2 - (made on request)
- New Weather Skin: Neon Silhouette - (designed by Jotha)
- New Link Skin Set: Neon Silhouette 2 (new colors/silhouettes) - (designed by Jotha)
- Fix for QVGA "line" birthday widget where the contact text in case of no picture available was misplaced
Menubars Library
New Advanced Menubar Library containing:
- "NeonButtons" menubar
(08 Jun 2010)
Additional Languages:
Uploaded Dutch language file for version 5.02. Translations provided by Jaco van Dieren
(07 Jun 2010)
MsM 5.02:
- Added Advanced Menubars handling. Advanced Menubars are menubars with a variable number of customizable buttons (1 to 4 plus side buttons).
- Fixed a small issue which could sometimes prevent the correct creation of a subfolder during installation.
Menubars Library:
New (first) Advanced Menubar Library containing:
- "Simple" menubar
- "Star Wars" menubar
(03 Jun 2010)
Menubars Library:
New Menubar Library containing:
- new "Shelf" menubar
- new "Neon" menubar
(01 Jun 2010)
MsM 5.01b
Looks like I forgot a file while building version 5.01, here's the fixed version sorry for the inconvenience
(31 May 2010)
MsM 5.01:
- Added Full Backup/Restore function to backup the whole current mobile shell configuration: activated widgets, additional panels, menubars, custom backgrounds, custom widgets added through the manager and so on. Due to the wholeness of the backedup data, Backups created with this function will be restorable only on the same Mobile Shell version.
- Import Library function now remembers the last used folder
- Create Shortcuts – MS Panels function now also creates a shortcut to Mobile Shell Task Manager. This is required for the “thin 2” menubar to work
- Small fix on credits visualization
Menubars Library:
New Menubar library containing:
- "Thin 2" menubar - Same looks as the "Thin" one, different links. Requires running "Create Shortcuts - MS Panels" function in MsM first to enable the task manager. - (made on request)
- "Side Buttons Original" - Side buttons (carousel and menu) with the looks of the original ones, nothing in between them. Whole screen height available for widgets. - (made on request)
(26 May 2010)
- MsM 5.00 released
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Download links:
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if you have issues with the above link, try the following mirror:
*4Shared*
Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager
Other stuff attached to this post:
- Widgets Creation Tutorial (by Jotha)
- Working with Changing Pics (by Jotha)
- Default PRO backgrounds (should you ever need them again after changing them)
FAQs: yeah, they live!
If you have a doubt or a question, please try reading the FAQs in the second post before posting: a lot of common questions and doubts have been answered in there already, so it will be easier for you all to look for your answers and you won't have to wait for someone's reply
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Credits:
I placed the credits inside MsM itself, please bear with me if I don't write them in here too... trying to keep this post shorter than The Lord of the Rings
FAQ for Vostradamus MSM 5.0
Vostradamus asked me to compile some answers to frequently asked questions about his Mobile Shell Manager. Reading them carefully will help you avoiding unnecessary problems and help us avoiding unnecessary answers on unnecessary support questions. This is a compilation of questions posted to all versions of MSM (also from the original Thread). The answers however are always adapted to the latest version of MSM.
If you find it useful, please hit the "Thanks"-Button on the bottom of the FAQ. Thank you.
Installation:
- Will it work with my device?
MSM at the moment works only on Mobile Shell for Windows Mobile. It is not planned to port it on another platform.
It works
Perfectly with:
QVGA (320x240 Pixels)
WQVGA (400x240 Pixels)
VGA (640x480 Pixels)
WVGA (800x480 Pixels)
With Restrictions with:
Square 240x240 Pixels (Standard-Menubars do not work, Advanced menubars and all the rest work)
Square 320x320 Pixels (Standard-Menubars and maybe Weather Icon Set Change do not work, Advanced menubars and all the rest work)
Unknown with:
HVGA (480x320 Pixels) (We have no means of testing that. Could work like the square 320x320 Devices, but we can not guarantee that)
- What do I need for the first install
You have to download the Manager Installation File at first. It’s called “Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager x.xx.zip”, where x.xx is the version number. If you unzip it, you have the cab-file for installation.
Then you need at least one of the following things:
If you want to use Vostradamus widgets you need a widget library. If you are using MSM 5.0 for the first time, you should download the complete package, named “MSM Full widgets library (xxx).wzg”, where xxx stand for your screen resolution. It is large, but it has the advantage of having ALWAYS all released widgets in it. If you are not sure which resolution you need, look some questions further. You can also go into the “Incremental libraries”-folder of your resolution and download only the base-library and/or an update-file of your choice. Which widgets are in which update-library can be seen on the widgets preview page. It is reachable via the first post of this thread.
If you want to use the MSM to change the Menubar of Mobile Shell, you have to download a Menubar library. They are in the “MenuBars libraries”-folder. Here there is also a base-library and eventual updates. In this case there is no difference between the resolutions. One size fits all . Again you can see on the preview page (reachable via the first post of this thread) which Menubars are in which library.
If you want to use “ChangingPics”, you have to download one or more “Pic-Sets-Libraries”, again from the folder of your resolution. Because of the size, every Pic-Set is a different file. See the preview-page (reachable via the first post of this thread) for contents. If you don’t know what “ChangingPics” are, see the Chapter “Usage”.
- There are widgets for VGA and QVGA. Which do I need?
That depends on the resolution of your Phone:
1. Non-Square-Screens:
QVGA / WQVGA is for every phone with a screen width (in portrait mode) of 240 Pixels. Also Phones with a screen width of 320 (HVGA 480x320) could work with that resolution with some restrictions. (see first Topic in this chapter).
VGA/WVGA is for phones with a screen width (in portrait mode) of 480 Pixels.
2. Square Screens:
Phones with a square screen with a size of 240 or 320 Pixels should use the QVGA-Versions.
- Where do I store that?
Regarding the size if the libraries, which can reach more than 50MB, you should put them somewhere on the storage card. You will only need them during installation, so just remember where they are. After the installation you can delete them from the card. It would be wise to keep them somewhere on the PC though, to avoid having to download them again when you change phones for instance.
- How do I make the first install?
At first you have to install the Mobile Shell Manager itself. This is done by starting the cab-file with your preferred File Manager.
Please ONLY INSTALL THE MANAGER ON THE STORAGE CARD. The Widget and Pic-Set libraries will be installed into the manager-folder and can be huge! Your phone would run out of memory probably already during installation if you install it into phone memory. There is no need to install it into phone-memory, because only activated widgets will be copied into the Mobile-Shell folder in Phone Memory by the Manager itself.
After Installation, start the Manager via the Program Icon.
Before doing anything, please read the section about navigating in MSM further down in these FAQ.
The next thing to do is to import all the downloaded Libraries. Choose the first Menu-Item “Libraries” and pick “OK”. Now either choose “Import Library” or “Import Library Folder”. If you have more libraries to import and they are all stored in one folder, the second option does them all at once.
If you have only one library (an update for instance), use the first option. Depending of the size of the library this may take a while. (On a fast HTC HD2, the base widget library takes about 8 minutes).
Now you are set to activate the widgets/menu-bars/pic-sets you want to use.
- What is activation of widgets for and how do I activate widgets?
Activation of widgets makes them finally available in Mobile shell. It copies the graphics to the Mobile Shell folder on your phone, makes the necessary registry entries and injects the necessary definition-files into the appropriate files of Mobile Shell.
Activating widgets: Choose the Menu-Item “Widgets”. There choose “Activate”. In the following list choose what type of widget you want to use in Mobile Shell and press “OK”. If there are more widget groups for the same widget type (like Links1, 2, 3…) look on the preview page (reachable via the first post of this thread). Here the folder of each widget is described. Now choose the widget you want to activate. It takes some seconds and the activation is finished.
- Can I just activate all of the widgets in one step?
No, and that’s by design, because you wouldn’t want to (at least not with the devices available now). As you have seen downloading the widgets, even the compressed base widget-collection is more than 75 MB. Uncompressed in MS it would be even more, but this time not on the storage card, but in valuable Device-Memory, which would most certainly render your device unusable. Furthermore the skin list in MS would become ridiculous long, filled with skins you will not use. So look for the ones you probably use and only activate them. If you have found your optimal set, use the option “Save Widget-Set” to save that state. After a reinstall you can use “Restore Widget Set” to activate all of them at once.
- How do I update to a newer Manager Version?
If you have any widgets version 2.xx, please do the following before installing the Widget Manager:
- Uninstall all 2.xx widgets
- Uninstall Tools package too if you have it
- Delete the registry key “HKLM\Software\Spb Software House\Shared\Spb Menu\WidgetPackages\Spb.WidgetsZioGian”
If you have already installed any version of Mobile Shell Manager, download the new cab and install it. All of your settings will be preserved.
- I need to free memory. How do I get rid of widgets?
If you want to deactivate a widget, be sure that you do not use it anymore on any page or panel of Mobile Shell. Then, in MSM, choose “Widgets” and “Deactivate Widget”. From the list, choose the widget you want to deactivate and click “OK”.
Usage:
- How do I navigate in the Manager?
The Mobile Shell Manager is based on MortScript, a script language for Windows Mobile. Though being rather powerful, it has some restrictions. The most sincere for our purpose, is that we cannot intercept and react on the close “X” of Windows Mobile.
Therefore you MUST NEVER leave the Manager via the Close-X of Windows, but ALWAYS via the “Exit” Menu-Item in the Manager.
So always navigate back to the Start-Screen of the Manager, choose “Exit” and click “OK”. Then the Shell will be automatically restarted (if necessary) and all is well.
If you have accidentally closed the shell via the “X” look at the trouble-shooting section.
- How do I get those widgets on the screen?
As those “widgets” are in reality tweaked skins for widgets that already exist in Mobile Shell, you choose them via the “change Skin”-Option in Mobile Shell. So if you want a Vostradamus weather widget, just insert a weather widget via the normal Mobile Shell procedure. Then choose “Change Skin” and choose the Vostradamus widget you want. Of course it is only in the list when activated before (see “Installation”-Chapter further up the FAQ). A specialty are “Panels” and “Changing Pics”. As those do not exist in Mobile Shell, but are “tweaked” Date-Widgets, you find them as skins under the Date-Widget.
- What are “Changing Pics” for, and how do I use them?
“Changing Pics” is a “script enhanced widget” that changes a picture on the screen periodically. It uses a so called Pic-Set that can be provided by the user. Every info you need concerning Pic-Sets, you find in my Tutorial that is provided for download on the first post of this thread.
- What are Widget Sets and how do I use them?
Widget sets are groups of widgets that can be activated/deactivated en bloc. We have already provided some “widget sets” in the libraries, choosen after a common “Theme”, like “Neon”, “Transparency”, “Girls” and so on. Additionally the user can define all of the widgets he has currently activated as a “widget set” and thus reinstall that set very quickly. That comes handy, when you want to experiment a bit, but be able to get back to your standard widgets later.
Please be advised that this function does not save the widgets position, not even if they are really used on the screen somewhere. It’s just a list of the activated widgets. The commands for handling the widget sets are in the “Widget”-Menu.
- What are Panels and how do I use them?
Panels are additional “Pages” for Mobile Shell, adding space to put widgets there. MS and therefore also MSM have 2 types of Pages: Lifestyle and Professional.
The main difference between them is the handling of background pictures: All lifestyle panels share the same background picture. If you have 5 lifestyle pages aside, this picture is scrolled horizontally with the pages. Each professional panel has its own BG-Picture. Another difference is that from a Pro-Panel you can scroll down to the normal Lifestyle-Screen of MS (though not back “up”). From an additional Lifestyle-Panel you have to use the carousel or a link to go back.
To reach a user-defined Panel you can use the links that the manager provides under the “Extras”-Folder in Mobile shell. Here you find a group called MS-Panels in which they can be found.
Everything concerning Panels can be managed under the corresponding Menu-Item.
- MSkip has that second Fav-Contacts Page, why not MSM?
The aforementioned panels are a more than adequate replacement for that.
Just add a panel with 1,3,5 pages and call it "contacts" or whatever. Place a link to it on your screen and you are done.
You can even place an invisible link to it over the existing link to the "normal" favorites, replacing it completely.
If you use professional panels, you can even swipe back to Start with a "Down"-swipe.
- How can I change the background of the Standard Pro Panel?
The MS Standard Pro Panel initially does not show up in the list of Pro Panels if you want to change the background for those. After you used the function "Change Menu Bar" at least once, the Standard Pro Panel is available to change its background. So even if you want to keep your menubar as it is, but want to change the Standard Pro Panels BG do the following: Use the Function "Change Menu Bar" (even if you select the standard menu bar) and proceed to the Function "Change Pro Background".
- What problems can arise when using a "Full Backup"
The Full-Backup-Function does backup everything that is created AND managed by Mobile Shell. The most prominent things that are NOT backuped are assigned ringtones and contact pictures. They are part of pocket-outlook and thus not accessible for us. Also not backuped is the MSM-directory on the storage card (in fact the full backup is also placed in that directory). But that should not be a problem, because the card is not affected by a phone reinstall and it can easily be backuped by simple file-copy to your PC.
Possible Problems with and after restoring a full Backup:
- If between backup and restore you changed contacts that are used in Mobile Shell (in a widget or the favorites) they will dissapear. This is especially the case if you have made a new activesync connection because of flashing the phone or changing your PC. Then all contacts are gone from Mobile Shell.
- The same is true for links when you reinstalled the programs to a different place than before.
- If you have updated your Mobile Shell to a new version, a backup that was created before cannot be restored. (MSM can be changed of course).
- What are those "Invisible" widgets for?
Invisible widgets (available as links and contacts atm) are a means to create a link to a program or contact using another picture or icon than the provided one.
Imagine you want to use another sms-program than the one from Mobile Shell. Then you place an invisible link to your program over the status widget for SMS. A touch on the status then starts your program without showing its icon.
Another example: Create a panel with a background-picture of a family meeting. Then place invisible contacts of the different family members over the faces of the respective persons on the pic. Thus you can create a "different" contacts favorites page.
You can also place links you do not want to show everyone (maybe the link that unlocks a hidden and locked partition of your memory card, or a link to a textfile that stores some codes and passwords) invisibly on the screen or disguised as a link to something totally different.
Troubleshooting:
- I have updated Mobile Shell to a new version or reinstalled Mobile Shell. Now Vostradamus widgets do not work anymore. What can I do?
Mobile Shell does ovcerwrite its XML-Files during installation, thus destroying the modifications MSM has made to them. So every change MSM has made to the Mobile Shell must be made again. Use the “Restore XML-Function” in the Libraries-Item of the Manager. Then all of your widgets will work as previously.
Unfortunately a reinstall/update also deletes all information about additional panels you created, and for them there is no restore method . So you must recreate them.
- I have accidentaly installed another Add-On to Mobile Shell (Mskip, Sense, …) after MSM. Now it does not work anymore. What can I do?
Almost every other Add-On to Mobile Shell simply replaces essential MS-Files with their own, thus destroying the modifications MSM has made to them. So every change MSM has made to the Mobile Shell must be made again. The first step back to normality is using the “Restore XML-Function” in the Libraries-Item of the Manager. Then at least the widgets should work again. Then you have to restore the menu-bar if you had a modified one. The next step would be to delete all “Changing Pics”-Widgets if you use some of them and to recreate them. Then they should work again. The worst would be that additional panels would most probably be beyond repair. So you’d have to recreate them. I have experienced that after recreation with the same name a single panel was exactly like I left it before deletion. But that is not guaranteed , it could have been coincidence.
What I would do in this case is restore the xml, save the widgets-set, uninstall the manager and the shell and begin from scratch. But this time install the other Add-On (if you really, really need it) before the MSM. Please be advised that the same thing will happen if you uninstall that other add-on, as it most probably will replace the files of the shell with the original ones, thus also destroying the Vostradamus-Add-Ons.
- I have closed the manager via Close-X. Now nothing works anymore. What can I do?
For reasons mentioned before, leaving the manager via the Close-X of windows leaves the scripts in an unstable condition. You can either open the task manager and switch back to the Manager-Task (if still there), or you perform a soft-reset of the phone. Then all should be well again.
- I can't use any buttons in the picture preview
As the picture preview is an external program it has limited functionality in MSM. You can only view one widget (turn and zoom it) and close it again. This is because there is always only one preview pic in each widget folder, therefore the "forward" and "back" buttons do not find additional pics in that folder.
- I activated widgets, they show up in the change skin list, but when I use them, nothing happens
This can have 2 reasons:
1. You have downloaded and used the widgets library for the wrong screen resolution (QVGA/VGA). Please refer to the first section of this FAQ for the needed resolution and redownload this. Then deactivate all activated widgets, uninstall MSM, delete the Vostradamus directory on your storage card under "Programs". reinstall MSM, import the right library and activate the widgets.
2. There has been a problem with the import of the XML file. This seems to happen sometimes with certain phone-types/ROMs. You can easily repair this. Just use "Restore XML" under "Libraries" in the MSM.
About Additional Widgets:
- Can I create my own widgets and use them inside MSM?
You can create your own widgets if you have some graphics skills and basic knowledge of XML/ini-files. As an example we have provided a tutorial for creating status widgets and using them with the MSM. You can download it on the first post of this thread. If you master that one, the transfer to other widget types should not be so hard.
- Why are there no real “New” Widgets that add additional functionality in this Add-On?
Unfortunately Spb-Softwarehouse, the maker of Mobile Shell, has not provided a Software Development Kit or any definition of the interface to Mobile Shell widgets. Thus it is impossible for external developers to create really “new” stuff.
- Can I have status widgets that are invisible when there is a "0"
Unfortunately not. The status widget consists of a graphical part and a numerical part. The graphical part differentiates between "nothing there" and "something there", therefore that one can be made invisible when there is no entry. But the numerical part is either shown always or never. So you can't hide a "0" and show everthing else.
The only way to come near that wish would be a status widget without any numbers. You could only see whether there are entries then, not how many. You also can't choose the color of the numerical part, it's always white. Only God and SPB know why.
Other:
- Can I use MSM with other Add-Ons to Mobile Shell
Yes you should not run into troubles. But you have to consider the following. Contrary to MSM, most other Add-Ons work “destructive”, i.e. replace MS-Files with their own, thus also killing the modifications the Mobile Shell Manager makes. So, if you MUST use another package also, install that one FIRST, and THEN the MSM. Also, do not uninstall the other Add-On after installing the MSM.
There is no 100% guarantee, as we cannot guarantee that other Add-Ons play to the rules and do not change additional things and so cause trouble with MSM. So make a backup before you use MSM to change panels, backgrounds and menu-bars if you have another package installed also.
- How do I donate and why should I do that?
If you like Vostradamus’ work and think it's useful, please consider donating even a small amount, it will help keeping him (and his cat) motivated. He spends a lot of time on this stuff, and every sign of appreciation, no matter how big or small, is more than welcome .
If you worked some time with Mobile Shell alone, you will admit that his Add-Ons make the whole thing worthwhile. So give yourself a kick and send a buck for a can of cat-food and a beer.
- My question is not answered here, what can I do next
If you cannot find an answer to your problem here, and there is also none in the rest of the thread, feel free to ask here on the thread.
But PLEASE do not ask questions that are already answered 25 times on the thread or have nothing to do with the Mobile Shell Manager. You'll help us keeping the thread in a a reasonable length. Nobody wants to read through 150 pages where everything is explained 20 times.
Thank you.
Again: If you find this FAQ useful, please hit the "Thanks"-Button on the bottom of this post. Thank you.
Changelog:
08.10.2010
Added Section "About Additional Widgets"
Added Chapter "Invisible Status widgets" in "Additional widgets"
30.07.2010
Added Chapter "Will it work on my device" in "Installation"
Updated Chapter "Which Widget -Resolution do I need?" in "Installation"
Removed "Task-Manager does not work" because it no longer applies
25.07.2010
Added Chapter "My widgets don't show up" in Troubleshooting
17.06.2010
Added Chapter "Task-Manager Button in advanced menubars" in Troubleshooting
10.06.2010
Added Chapter "Additional Contacts Pages" in Usage
Added Chapter "After Updating/Reinstalling Mobile Shell" in Troubleshooting
01.06.2010:
Added Chapter "Invisible widgets" in "Usage"
Added Chapter "Picture Preview" in "Troubleshooting"
31.05.2010:
Added Chapter "Full Backup" in "Usage"
28.05.2010:
Edit "MSM and other Add-Ons" in "Other"
25.05.2010:
Posted original version
Possible Layout Examples
A few examples of different layouts that can be created with the only use of MsM
-- and reserved again --
Dear Vostradamus!
Thanks a lot for your work Greatly enjoying your widgets! Well done
schremer said:
Dear Vostradamus!
Thanks a lot for your work Greatly enjoying your widgets! Well done
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Thanks, and you're welcome!
Vostradamus Spb Mobile Shell Manager 5
Really a great idea to start a new thread.
dansia47 said:
Really a great idea to start a new thread.
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lol yep, the other one was starting to get a lil too big
Thanks for this new version! And also for these clear FAQ!
EDIT: i'm testing right now shell manager and i want to tell you: great great job!
One more question: Installing several widgets can increase usage of memory? (i mean ram memory...)
You're welcome on my behalf (FAQ)
ChrisGarner said:
Installing several widgets can increase usage of memory? (i mean ram memory...)
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The more widgets you ACTIVATE, the more Device Memory is used. When you actually put them on the screen, then RAM is used.
jotha said:
You're welcome on my behalf (FAQ)
The more widgets you ACTIVATE, the more Device Memory is used. When you actually put them on the screen, then RAM is used.
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Ok thanks for the info! And for the FAQ, again!
This will be my first attempt spruce up Mobile Shell. Thank you for your work Vostradamus (scritches to your cat) and for your instructions Jotha. Assuming all goes according to plan, I will happily donate. Thanks!!
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This will be my first attempt spruce up Mobile Shell. Thank you for your work Vostradamus (scritches to your cat) and for your instructions Jotha. Assuming all goes according to plan, I will happily donate. Thanks!!
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Good luck and have fun
Should you need any further info, don't hesitate to ask
("meowww" from my cat) lol
Vostradamus said:
Good luck and have fun
Should you need any further info, don't hesitate to ask
("meowww" from my cat) lol
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I do have a quick, newbie, question (sorry, very sorry) but should I "minimize" SPB Mobile Shell before I install your app? You know, unactivate widgets on that, etc? Seems like if it is running under MSM *and* it has widgets/photos/etc going, might take more memory...
sulster said:
I do have a quick, newbie, question (sorry, very sorry) but should I "minimize" SPB Mobile Shell before I install your app? You know, unactivate widgets on that, etc? Seems like if it is running under MSM *and* it has widgets/photos/etc going, might take more memory...
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nope, it should not be needed you can install it right away even with mobile shell up and running
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nope, it should not be needed you can install it right away even with mobile shell up and running
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Okay, when I go to Import the Widget library, it tells me corrupted or not recognized. I downloaded from both sites and installed the Base Widget file. Am I totally missing something? I started to read the thread on the previous release, but that was SO long!
I have the .wzg files installed into a /Vostradamus folder on my Storage Card. It recognizes the files, but won't import them.
Thanks!!
sulster said:
Okay, when I go to Import the Widget library, it tells me corrupted or not recognized. I downloaded from both sites and installed the Base Widget file. Am I totally missing something? I started to read the thread on the previous release, but that was SO long!
I have the .wzg files installed into a /Vostradamus folder on my Storage Card. It recognizes the files, but won't import them.
Thanks!!
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uhm... maybe something went wrong during download... try redownloading the wzg file.
Fantastic!
Vostradamus,
I have been away for a few days and only now checked your original thread and found this one. What can I say? As usual, this is all fantastic. A new thread was a terrific idea and some of the new functionality is incredible.
I love the combined/multi-functional widgets. It's a terrific idea and the ones you've done live up to your already very high standards.
Jotha - Thank you so much for all of your work in documenting all of this. I have a working document that I was hoping to get to Vostradamus to post. Your incredible work has made my document obsolete before I even sent it. The added touch of being able to see the widgets in Picasa is also an incredible time saver.
You two are very talented and two of the nicest people I have ever met in a forum. Thank you so much for all you do for the rest of us who don't have the same skill set as you do. I, for one, sincerely appreciate both of you!
Cheers,
Mike (powercat1)
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I, for one, sincerely appreciate both of you!
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Glad to be of help and sorry that I nuked your doc . You are very welcome.
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Vostradamus,
I have been away for a few days and only now checked your original thread and found this one. What can I say? As usual, this is all fantastic.
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Thanks And welcome back
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I love the combined/multi-functional widgets. It's a terrific idea and the ones you've done live up to your already very high standards.
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Need to thank Jotha too about them: multifunctional analog and multifunctional digital solid and transparent are a "co-production" jotha+vostradamus lol
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You two are very talented and two of the nicest people I have ever met in a forum.
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Thanks heaps
MSKIP PROPLUS FREEDOM FOR SPB MOBILE SHELL 3.5.5 (QVGA, WQVGA, HVGA?, VGA AND WVGA)
THE MOST VERSATILE PROPLUS EVER!!!
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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TRY READING THE FAQ FIRST BEFORE POSTING
WATCH MY YOUTUBE VIDEO *HERE*
MSkip ProPlus Freedom for Mobile Shell 3.5.5
Contains the following:
* Original Spb Mobile Shell as a starting point which you can go back to at any time.
* ProPlus UltimateV2 with MenuBar at the Top or Bottom (or no MenuBar), on Professional, Lifestyle or both Screens.
* ProPlus Elegance with Thin or Large MenuBar with a choice of the middle icon.
* ProPlus Ultimate Elegance with Thin MenuBar, Large numbered MenuBar or Large MenuBar with icons.
* Switch between any of the above themes at any time very quickly.
* Backup and Restore upto 4 completely ifferent ayouts or go back to the Original Layout.
* Easily change the number of pages on the Professional or Lifestyle Screens (only on Original or UltimateV2 themes).
* Enable/Disable custom backgrounds option on the Professional Screen.
* Enable/Disable a hidden Extra Favorites Page.
* Add an extra icon in the middle of the original spb MenuBar (choice of Agenda, Task Manager, Today Screen or Weather).
* Lots of Extra Analogue Clocks, Digital Clocks, Batterys, Invisible Links, Backing Panels, icon buttons, Picture Frames and Weather Widgets.
* Start Menu Folder added (MSkip's ProPlus Tools) with all ProPlus Utility programs and the ProPlus Manager.
* Most of the pages in the ProPlus Manager has a 'Help' selection which gives a full description to aid the user as much as possible.
* An added 9th panel in the Spb Menu Screen called Spb Links which contains lots of spb mobile shell shortcuts as well as new hubs that can be selected as application links to be placed on the screen if desired.
[NOTE] Backing Panels, Coloured Buttons and Text Headings are selected by adding a Shortcut widget and then clicking on the widget and changing its skin.
[TIP] The Background image wont change on the Home Hub..
Goto Start Menu, Programs, MSkip's ProPlus Manager, Refresh Background
[TUT] Do the following to make your own custom background dat file.
1. Rename any of the custom backgrounds in the zip file to qa_fundotela.zip
2. Unzip to a folder using the password: b0fm18zq
3. Make 2 backgrounds to use as follows:
For QVGA version (240x400 saved as Background.bmp and 400x240 saved as BackgroundL.bmp)
For VGA version (480x800 saved as Background.bmp and 800x480 saved as BackgroundL.bmp)
4. Move the 2 new background files into the folder you made in step2 (overwriting the originals)
5. Zip the 3 files back up with password protection (using password: b0fm18zq)
6. Make sure Custom Background Images are enabled from the 'Screen Mods' section of the ProPlus Manager
7. Rename the new file to qa_fundotela_pro.dat (for pro screen), qa_fundotela2.dat (for all others) or qa_fundotela3.dat (for the carousel) and copy to your Spb Mobile Shell folder on your phone (overwriting the original)
8. Soft Reset your phone
ChangeLog:
1st December 2010 (VGA, WVGA)
+ Added Custom Button Overlay Links for the MenuBar to launch ANYTHING!! (only works with Smooth Scrolling MenuBars)
+ Added ProPlus Froyo MenuBar (Smooth Scrolling section)
+ Added File Injection Tool in the Advanced Tasks section (allows you to inject a modified file back into the original dat file)
+ Added lots of new widgets for Analogue and Digital Clocks, Weather, Agenda and Current Date (some from Naong's Mobile Sense)
+ The HTC Clock with Full Info can now be made with just 3 widgets (saves memory)
*NOTE: When using the Custom Buttons, if you have change the Panel Button to something else then you wont be able to click on the 'Tick' after editing your layout or adding a widget. Simply goto Start Menu, ProPlus Freedom and select 'Restart Shell' to confirm your changes and get the screen back to normal.
9th October 2010 (QVGA, WQVGA)
+ Now fully compatable with ALL language Roms (including backing up and restoring layouts to Storage Card).
+ Split 'Preset Themes' list in the Manager into 2 sections. Smooth Scrolling MenuBars and Selectable Pages MenuBars to make selections simpler.
+ Added ProPlus Droid2 MenuBar Theme for smooth scrolling layouts.
+ Added Weather Location Widget to show your currently selected location on the screen.
+ Fixed bug when trying to change both menubars to ProPlus Desire.
+ Minor bug fixes and improvements in ProPlus Manager and Backup/Restore Apps.
+ Taken out the Reset Layout option when changing menubars to make the process easier. You can still reset the layout using the Layouts Restore program if needed.
+ When backing up a layout to a slot that is already being used you will now be asked if you want to overwrite the file.
+ If using a scrolling menubar (original, ultimate, ultimatev2, desire) you can now add extra hubs using the menu, add widget, shortcut, spblinks, lifestyle1-7 and then change the number of pages in the hub using the ProPlus Manager. You can do this in previous versions of Freedom but you couldnt change the number of pages.
+ When adding new hubs, the menubar on the new hubs will now be the same as the menubar on the lifestyle page.
+ Added the Original MenuBar ONLY option in the ProPlus Manager Themes which can be set on the professional or lifestyle or both screens.
+ Added horizontal and vertical lines (black or white) to the shortcut skins which was on older ProPlus cabs
+ Added NEW Android (droid) status widgets with either a black or grey text background
+ Remade the medium grey2 panel with the rounded edges that is used in the Sense look. Been made slightly bigger with a cleaner border
+ Added a new wallpaper for the lifestyle screen (HTC Sense).
+ Added the option in the ProPlus Manager to enable/disable SpbMobileShell from the windows, startup folder so that when you soft reset your device it wont automatically boot into Mobile Shell.
+ Created a ProPlus Freedom Widgets ONLY Injection Pack for people who only want the widgets.
7th October 2010 (VGA, WVGA)
+ Now fully compatable with ALL language Roms (including backing up and restoring layouts to Storage Card).
+ Split 'Preset Themes' list in the Manager into 2 sections. Smooth Scrolling MenuBars and Selectable Pages MenuBars to make selections simpler.
+ Added ProPlus Droid2 MenuBar Theme for smooth scrolling layouts.
+ Added Weather Location Widget to show your currently selected location on the screen.
+ Fixed bug when trying to change both menubars to ProPlus Desire.
+ Minor bug fixes and improvements in ProPlus Manager and Backup/Restore Apps.
+ Created a ProPlus Freedom Widgets ONLY Injection Pack for people who only want the widgets.
18th July 2010 (VGA, WVGA)
+ Taken out the Reset Layout option when changing menubars to make the process easier. You can still reset the layout using the Layouts Restore program if needed.
+ When backing up a layout to a slot that is already being used you will now be asked if you want to overwrite the file.
+ If using a scrolling menubar (original, ultimate, ultimatev2, desire) you can now add extra hubs using the menu, add widget, shortcut, spblinks, lifestyle1-7 and then change the number of pages in the hub using the ProPlus Manager. You can do this in previous versions of Freedom but you couldnt change the number of pages.
+ When adding new hubs, the menubar on the new hubs will now be the same as the menubar on the lifestyle page.
+ Added the Original MenuBar ONLY option in the ProPlus Manager Themes which can be set on the professional or lifestyle or both screens.
+ Added horizontal and vertical lines (black or white) to the shortcut skins which was on older ProPlus cabs
+ Added NEW Android (droid) status widgets with either a black or grey text background
+ Remade the medium grey2 panel with the rounded edges that is used in the Sense look. Been made slightly bigger with a cleaner border
+ Added a new wallpaper for the lifestyle screen (HTC Sense).
+ Added the option in the ProPlus Manager to enable/disable SpbMobileShell from the windows, startup folder so that when you soft reset your device it wont automatically boot into Mobile Shell.
12th July 2010 (QVGA, WQVGA)
+ Updates same as for 1st July and 7th July
+ Added digital clock from original series (by request)
7th July 2010 (VGA, WVGA)
+ Added new (icon with text) box skins
+ Added new text backing skins for shortcut widgets in black and grey for single and double line text
+ Added page heading texts in black and white for more customisation of the screen (add widget spb link and change skin)
+ Added Backup and Restore of the spb menu screen. Useful if you add files or programs to the 'My Shortcuts' section
+ Fixed the Lifestyle2 and Lifestyle4 links being swapped
+ Added NEW MenuBar.. PROPLUS DESIRE gives you full screen control with a small functional menubar at the bottom
1st July 2010 (VGA, WVGA)
+ Added a BRAND NEW ProPlus MenuBar to the theme options, ProPlus Droid
+ Added an option in the Screen Mods scetion to change the Panels (carousel) into a tiled layout displaying the 7 lifestyle screens used by Elegance, Ultimate Elegance and ProPlus Droid. Very useful to see all your lifestyle layouts on the panels screen.
+ Fixed the Invisible Shortcut (small) displaying as the medium size
+ Fixed a bug in the Layout Backup, Restore Utility
29th June 2010 (QVGA, WQVGA, VGA, WVGA)
+ Updated cab should now work on all language Roms (copy to storage card wont work on non WWE Roms)
+ Added ProPlus UltimateV1 MenuBar with carousel and menu buttons visable
+ Fixed some code in the ProPlus Manager
+ Fixed the Original Layout being mixed up on VGA resolution
28th June 2010 (QVGA, WQVGA)
+ Released ProPlus Freedom in above resolution
21st June 2010 (VGA, WVGA)
+ Released first version of ProPlus Freedom
Download Links:
Install/Update Procedure:
1. Make sure you have a clean version of Spb Mobile Shell installed (only needed for first installation).
2. Install ProPlus Freedom to DEVICE MEMORY (same as MS3.5.5 is installed)
3. After installations completes Spb Mobile Shell will automatically restart so everything works straight away.
4. Job done.
QVGA/WQVGA
* Full version (with added widgets) [Size 4.22MB]: 4SHARED (20101009)
* Naked Version (full theme, no extra widgets) [Size 2.42MB]: 4SHARED (20101009)
* ProPlus Freedom Widgets Only Injection Pack [Size 2.44MB]: 4SHARED (20101009)
* Extra Fundotela Backgrounds for QVGA/WQVGA *HERE*
HVGA (to be added soon if possible)
VGA/WVGA:
* Full version (with added widgets) [Size 7.92MB]: 4SHARED (20101201)
* Naked Version (full theme, no extra widgets) [Size 2.27MB]: 4SHARED (20101201)
* ProPlus WP7 Widgets Addon Pack for ProPlus Freedom ONLY: *HERE*
* Extra Fundotela Backgrounds for VGA/WVGA: *HERE*
PLEASE NOTE:
TO AVOID ANY PROBLEMS PLEASE ONLY INSTALL THIS ON A CLEAN VERSION OF MOBILE SHELL 3.5.5!!
If you enjoy using this theme please consider making a donation. ALOT of work went into this to make it as good as it can be for everyone. Even if its just a small amount it gives me satisfaction and enthusiasm to carry on developing and appreciation of my work is very welcome.
Enjoy
Mark.
FAQ FOR PROPLUS FREEDOM
Q1. What are the differences between the MenuBars?
I created the 'Selectable Pages' MenuBars with 7 pages as it gives people more than enough space to put everything they want on while still being able to select the pages without any trouble. Unfortunately you cant set the number of pages you want so it has to be 7.
ProPlus Ultimate Menubar has the open space at the bottom with the carousel and menu buttons on either side. With the Ultimate V2 Menubar the carousel and menu buttons are hidden (while still being selectable) just to make the screen look cleaner. You wouldnt want to put any icons ontop of the invisible buttons though as the carousel and menu buttons will always be on top regardless. Also with the Ultimate V2 menubar you can have the carousel and menu buttons at the top of the screen or the bottom, or you can delete the buttons completely and just bring the buttons back if needed. Of course these are all 'Smooth Scrolling' MenuBars and you cant use them if you want to jump to specific pages or have continuous scrolling.
There is also the ProPlus Desire MenuBar in the 'Smooth Scrolling' set which has 3 buttons (carousel, spb menu OR contacts, and menu) with space on either side of the menubar for a shortcut of your choice.
With the 'Selectable Pages' MenuBar you have some different choices:
ProPlus Ultimate Elegance will give you the 7 selectable pages buttons right at the bottom with a carousel and menu button on either side. This takes up hardly any space so you can make up your own set of buttons just above the MenuBar. If you want the same set of buttons on every pages then you will have to set them up individually though.
ProPlus Elegance will give you a 3 button menubar at the bottom with the carousel and menu buttons either side, and then the selectable pages bar above it which you can set to be small or large depending on how good you are with your fingers. With Elegance the Spb Menu and Contacts buttons are hard set (but you can change the options for these 2 buttons in the menu) and the middle button can be set by yourself (I think you can choose between the Today Screen, Task Manager, Agenda, and Weather). These will be the same on all pages as they are part of the MenuBar.
Lastly you have ProPlus Droid which gives you the 7 selectable pages, with the spb menu and contacts buttons underneath and carousel and menu buttons at the sides. I personally prefer this MenuBar as it looks beautiful, its clean, small footprint and looks like the htc android menubar (but mine has 2 buttons in the middle so its better).
Those are pretty much all your options I hope you understand the different MenuBars a bit better now
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Q2. How to make up the HTC Sense Clock from the Droid Theme picture
The HTC 'Sense' Clock can now built up of just 3 widgets:
1. Add a Digital Clock widget and change its skin to HTC Clock White or Black
2. Add a Weather widget and change its skin to ProPlus1 HTC (Info) or ProPlus2 HTC (Info)
3. Add another Weather widget and change its skin to ProPlus Info (Left S)
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Q3. After
Add another Weather widget and change its skin to ProPlus Info (Left S)
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Q4. How do I open launcher from the panels button on ProPlus Freedom?
Ok here goes:
1. copy qa_layouts.dat from program files, spb mobile shell on your phone to your pc
2. rename to qa_layouts.dat.zip
3. using winzip (must be winzip or you can have problems) extract the MenuBar3Lifestyle_UltimateV1.xml file using the password b0fm18zq when asked
4. open the xml file in notepad
5. about a 1/3 down you will find the following text
<Layout Name="Default">
<Plugins>
<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.MenuBar" Name="Panels" ID="3">
<Int Name="ActivateOnPress" Value="1"/>
<String Name="Action" Value="Panels"/>
<Int Name="LeftBtn" Value="1"/>
<String Name="Icons" Value="ButtonsMB"/>
<Skin Name="IconSkin" Skin="MSkipFiles" MiddleSkin="MSkipFiles" DoubleSkin="MSkipFiles"/>
<Rect Name="SrcIcon" X="0" Y="54" Width="27" Height="27"/>
</Plugin>
replace the highlighted lines with
<String Name="Open" Value=":BTN0"/>
<Int Name="isActive" Value="1"/>
<Int Name="Replace" Value="0"/>
6. save the file and exit from notepad
7. drag the file back to your opened winzip file (qa_layouts.dat.zip) making sure winzip 'encrypt files' is selected with the password set to b0fm18zq
8. close the winzip file and rename back to qa_layouts.dat
9. copy the qa_layouts.dat file back to your program files, spb mobile shell folder on your phone making sure to overwrite the original
10. goto start menu, mskip's proplus tools, restart mobile shell
11. when mobile shell restarts test the panels button to make sure it opens the launcher
You can now set the new "launcher" button through menu (bottom right button) settings to open spb menu or launcher. This button has also now been mapped to your left soft button on your phone.
You can also use this method to change the panels button on any of the MenuBar3Lifestyle xml files and you can also set it to open any of the other spb screens by replacing :BTN0 with any of the following.
:BTN1 - contacts, favorites, calllog
:WEATHER - weather
:AGENDA - agenda
:TIME - time
:NOTE Be aware that if you reload the Original Theme (or reinstall ProPlus Freedom) then you will need to copy the modified qa_layouts.dat file back to your phone. You can also safely use this modification on any future updates so it would be easier for you to keep any modified xml files on your pc so that you can just import them back into the qa_layouts.dat file on the new version.
***Reserved***
Can't wait to try it. Decided to give SPB MS another shot. Tired of the Sense "problems".
My goodness, Mark... have you been sleeping faster these days?
You definitely the man! I´ll donate for ur beers this week lol
Cant wait to try the qvga!
Nice work lol
big thankssss
MarkAtHome said:
My goodness, Mark... have you been sleeping faster these days?
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Insomnia has its advantages
Mark.
wow.. everything theme is being put together and interchangable..!!!!!!
hi,
The extra widgets or backings does not seems to be in the installation.
eg. current date widget I only have the option of Default and White.
EDITED: my bad.. the backings are incoporated into every widgets.. no longer in the date widget option anymore.
looking forward to trying this out for qvga when you get it up great work
scpion said:
hi,
The extra widgets or backings does not seems to be in the installation.
eg. current date widget I only have the option of Default and White.
EDITED: my bad.. the backings are incoporated into every widgets.. no longer in the date widget option anymore.
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Yeah sorry I forgot to mention the backing panels are now shortcut skins, its a much more effective way of adding them. I will add it into the first post now.
Mark.
Keland44 said:
looking forward to trying this out for qvga when you get it up great work
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I am working on QVGA/WQVGA versions tonight so they should be released later tonight or most probably tomorrow.
Mark.
This looks great! I'm installing right now.
Would I be right in thinking that my previous widgets registry backup will no longer work, and I'll have to do my layouts from scratch?
RobTsintas said:
This looks great! I'm installing right now.
Would I be right in thinking that my previous widgets registry backup will no longer work, and I'll have to do my layouts from scratch?
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What theme/setup did you backup your layout from?
Mark.
wide backgrounds
This seams a nice work, but I really love the standard feature of the background slyding behind the icons (960x800)...
Is this feature present or absent? In the later case, is it posble to add it?
Thank you very much
gluonyc said:
This seams a nice work, but I really love the standard feature of the background slyding behind the icons (960x800)...
Is this feature present or absent? In the later case, is it posble to add it?
Thank you very much
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That feature is only present if you use the Original Spb menubar or any of the UltimateV2 menubar options. Elegance and Ultimate Elegance use 7 single pages that are linked together to give the selectable screens which is why you dont have the sliding affect.
Mark.
You've outdone yourself again! I'm a few hours in and love the extra options so far. Payday tomorrow so more tea and beer to feed your lack of sleep!
mskip said:
What theme/setup did you backup your layout from?
Mark.
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My widgets.reg was exported from an UltimateV2 for MS 3.5.3 layout.
Never mind, I've started rebuilding it now.
I've had a few lockups, but I also updated my Energy ROM at the same time, so it's not necessarily ProPlus.
RobTsintas said:
My widgets.reg was exported from an UltimateV2 for MS 3.5.3 layout.
Never mind, I've started rebuilding it now.
I've had a few lockups, but I also updated my Energy ROM at the same time, so it's not necessarily ProPlus.
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It is best to rebuild from scratch on here anyway as alot of the widget names have changed (backing panels, buttons) which might have caused problems if you imported your old layout.
The backup/restore utilities should be a good help in the future as you can save upto 4 completely seperate layouts from different themes and go back to them at any time. Just make sure you have the theme loaded before you restore your layout.
I dont think the lockups are anything to do with ProPlus Freedom as it doesnt replace any of the original files, just injects whatever choice you make into the layouts file which makes everything alot safer.
Mark.
At the request of a number of people, here's a little tutorial explaining how I made the theme below, I called abstract theme (do not ask me why ...)
(Note that I am not the inventor of this type of theme, I am inspired by many themes I have seen on other forums, I thank very much the creators of wallpapers I used (I never remind theyre names except EG Fox, sorry for that))
These examples where created for the Dell Streak but this guide can be used for every android phone, just use the good resolution for the wallpaper
1/ So, to start, install Launcherpro (you can also take the "plus" but paying)
2/ Adjust the settings you prefer (this is only the parameters related to the theme I present now, but there are other possible parameters):
- Number of pages, the default page, the number of columns, the number of lines (to position your shortcuts, personally I have 8 columns and 8 rows) => Menu / Settings / Homescreen Settings
- Number of dock (the dock is the Quick Launch bar that is located right in landscape mode, you have 5 possible shortcuts in one dock and it is possible to have up to 3 docks (to slide up or down on the dock) => Menu / Preferences / Dock Settings (you can also specify, if you choose to put shortcuts telephone, email and sms on the dock, if you want to be displayed a count of unread events)
- The bottom of the Dock (in the theme as an example, I have no background) => Menu / Preferences / Appearance Settings / Dock Background / None (if you want to put a custom dock by you or found on the net, then you must choose "Custom" and pick the dock from your SD card)
3/ Choose your screen and resize it at 800x480. So that the bottom is not distorted, use Multipicture Live Wallpaper which allows you to set a different wallpaper per page (if desired). Multipicture Live Wallpaperr is managed as an animated wallpaper
The bottom will not be distorted but the 36 Pxls top will be hidden by the notification bar.
4/ Then you need to know, based on the number of rows and columns you have chosen, where you must place your text on the wallpaper. To do so, complete page fully of shortcuts. Then made a screenshot, I recommend the excellent ScreenShot
5/ On your PC, using your editing software (photoshop, photofiltre ... etc.) you can have your wallpaper nude and the screen as it will be on your Streak with the location where applications will be.
So place your text on your nude background by ensuring that these areas are easily covered by applications..
Your wallpaper is ready !
6/ Now install Desktop Visualizer, which allows you to put shortcuts transparent (especially)
(For those who could not find it on the Market : http://www.partage-facile.com/GYV6DGY6CW/jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr.apk.html )
7/ Desktop Visualizer works as a widget : long press on background / add a widget and choose desktop visualizer (it has different sizes, choose the one that best fits the space you have planned for your shortcut)
DV lets you choose the icon of the application to launch, get the transparent icon on your SD card (if you do not have a transparent icon, here's one : http://www.partage-facile.com/0GJIEOUAO0/transparent.png.html )
Then select the application you want to start.
Delete the text of the application and confirm (you can change or remove the highlighting that appears when you press the link to the application you're using, otherwise it will be orange)
8/ Once you've validated, you see nothing changed on the screen, it is normal because you have placed a transparent icon ! The link will always be placed to the top left corner of your home. Make a mong press along the top left, your widget will be highlighted by launcherpro.
You may notice a kind of tab in the lower right corner of your shortcut, by pressing and holding down while moving your finger, you can resize your widget as you like.
So give the desired size for your shortcut and press "back", the highlight disappears. Now made a long press on the top left of the streak and held down, move your widget transparent to the place you want on your home. (To verify that it is well positioned, have a long support for and release to highlight it)
Do this for each shortcut you provided on your screen.
9/ The last step is the Dock. You've already put in the dock transparent, but it remains the shortcuts on the dock that are visible.
Make a long press on shortcuts, you can either change an icon (change icon/custom icon) or change the shortcut and put any you want and you can still choose the transparent icon before finalizing this shortcut.
Then, I think I pretty much said it all. To summarize, here is my wallpaper ith some details :
This is obviously a simple example that you described above some customization capabilities. Unleash your imagination and make us great themes!
I hope I was clear about (and sorry for my english), do not hesitate if you have questions or additions
Some other example of themes done with this method :
My latest :
I compiled my wallpapers and you can download them (empty and modified) here (updated with the 3 latest) : http://www.partage-facile.com/O87TRUWWBJ/compil_theme.zip.html
or here : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12810448/compil_theme.zip
Great inspiration, thank you for sharing
nice home screen ...
but i can't download your wallpaper, can you upload to another
never thought about writing the text to the background, brilliant.
although wouldn't this cause issues with more then one homescreen?
gondronk said:
nice home screen ...
but i can't download your wallpaper, can you upload to another
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I try with dropbox but I don't know very well. Does it work with this link ? (added to the first post)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12810448/compil_theme.zip
crzdcole said:
never thought about writing the text to the background, brilliant.
although wouldn't this cause issues with more then one homescreen?
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No issue with more than one screen, just use multipicture live wallpaper to choose wich wallpaper you want for each screen.
lestat89 said:
I try with dropbox but I don't know very well. Does it work with this link ? (added to the first post)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12810448/compil_theme.zip
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thanx..
this link work
ok, thank you for the confirmation
Great work and thanks for the guide!
Happy that you like it
Amazing work.
Not sure if i should use the ABEILLE, cube2 or cubecarbon2
Thank you
You can change every week for example ;-)
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App
This is good and i will give it a try.
Thanx
Don't hesitate if you have any question