In the today theme option, if I enable "use this picture", the picture being used is greyed out. How do I make the picture look as it should be?
a easyer way is to just name the file "stwater.gif" and copy it to \windows\
But it will replace your original todaybackground...
The original today background is from Expea2 Ext Vga theme. I have replaced the stwater.gif with the picture I wanted (renamed it stwater), nothing happened, restarted and saw only the start menu background changed.
Could there be another picture file specific for the Today background?
Use your program 'album' to view picture and under tools use the option to set it as a background.
Darn, my mistake, it should be tdwater.gif, st=start, td=today...
Sorry...
Used the picture and movie application to set today background. Thank you for the response.
Open 'Pictures and Videos'. In that open the picture you wish to set as the today screen background. The from 'Menu' select 'Set as Today Background...'. Once you do that in the corresponding screen you can choose to centre your picture and on the same screen you have the 'transparency level' settings. Set transparency level to 0% and you will not have the greying problem. Cheers
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I've been working on a theme, but now I'm stuck with a problem that may or may not be related. Changing home screens certainly doesn't fix it. I was also experimenting with VJbasehue but changing back didn't help there either.
My problem is this: in the Start Menu the menu that you bring up with the soft keys now has white text on a white background. How do I set the text back to black?
Kermit
hard reset
Oh yeah, that's REAL funny.
Actually, just as mysteriously as it happened, it stopped happening. I have no idea why. (cue spooky music)
KW
Maybe this methode works ? -->
Synchronize your tornado via Active sync and goto application data/home find the xml of your theme and change the value of colors police the restart your phone;
Sorry for my bad english
Use this program to change the system colors of your choice. You can install the file to your SD card if you want. To make the menu text black, tap sys. colors, scroll down to menu text, tap white customize box, slide all 3 color guides to far left to show "0"..Soft reset.
Here's a screenshot of what to do to make the menu text black or any color pattern of your choosing.
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Use this program to change the system colors of your choice. You can install the file to your SD card if you want. To make the menu text black, tap sys. colors, scroll down to menu text, tap white customize box, slide all 3 color guides to far left to show "0"..Soft reset.
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I found the cab file for instant installation of the program. You don't need the zip file now.
Yea....but how to tweak a Phone with an PPC app...
Yah, that's kind of hard to use a PPC app on a Smartphone. Although the concept is cool. I think PPC/Smartphones need a 'Display Properties' app like Windows itself has. Plus a way to automagically change icon sets. Plus lots of other neet goodies.
KW
...and the colors are FUBARed again. BTW, this time around I'm not altering color settings in the home screen file, but I am working on new icons. I didn't change the background screen, so why these colors are changing is a mystery.
KW
Ooops, sorry. I thought I was at the Wizard forum
Quite all right - I finally just set all the colors in the SCHEME in the home screen and that stabilized things.
I'm still wishing I could figure out for once and for all how to change the color of the text on the start menu.
KW
I got my Fuze this weekend and finally got around to tweaking it. However, i've run into a problem i can't seem to figure out. Whenever i go to Settings > Today > and select a custom background (I've disabled TF3D) the background images are always greyed out.
It is as if a 50% opacity white screen is overlayed on top of the background. All of the functional components on my today screen are fine, but the background is just greyed out. It is really annoying and i don't know how to fix it, can anyone help?
Also, i tried downloading a theme from here, but when i applied it, some of the menu items (the start menu background, for instance) stayed the same color as the previous theme. However, their today screen background displays perfectly, the moment i change it, it's greyed out again.
So really, i suppose i have 2 issues.
i had this problem already with wm5, its some sort of protection, that you really can read all what is on the main screen...only way i could solve that was using some theme editor :-/
Using a file explorer, browse to and open the image you want to set as your background.
'Menu' > 'Set as Today Background' > Change the 'Transparency Level' to 0% > 'OK'
Hope that helps....
hddn_agnda, I LOVE YOU MAN. That worked smashingly, thank you!
I searched and tried choosing different backgrounds by going through file explorer, pictures, or just choosing set as background in the album options. But nothing is working, I even tried changing the themes and choosing a different background from the option and I still see the random picture I somehow chose without knowing.
I restarted a couple times, and I did a soft reset and I still see the stupid leaf picture on the home screen after the initial "loading touch flo3d" is done (during the touch flo 3d part I can see the background that I chose until the touch flo3d loads).
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
EDIT:
False alarm. Went to the settings tab and clicked on wallpaper and an option pops up saying "Would you like to restore the default wallpaper?"
Fixed the problem.
First of all, I'm not using TouchFlo. I changed the background once when I first got the phone about a week ago and it didn't give me any problems. But yesterday I tried to change the background and it just goes to a blue image. No matter what background I choose, where I choose it from it won't change. And neither will the theme. However, on the Start Menu the image in the background of that is the same as the ORIGINAL background image.
What is going on?
p.s. Yes I did search but did not find a comparable problem.
Also, if I try to change the background and then go the Theme settings the "Use this Image as background image" thing is blank. No matter what.
No body has any idea?
I have a 2 tile picture hub on the main screen. It never changes the picture. I have been using for a month. All other live tile updates picture fine like weather, weatherbug, AP news, zune.
I did manually change the background pic for the picture hub, but question
Is picture hub a live tile and should it update the background?
Yes. Take a few pictures w/ your camera and then go into the picture hub and view them. You should see it start to change occassionally (it might not if you override the setting by setting the tile image; I never did, but mine changes).
Went and played with it some more. Changing it to "change it for me" should have it cycle through your pictures occassionally (not sure of the frequency). The current background picture shows up on the Live Tile.
For those not sure how to do it, touch and hold on the background of the Picture panel and you get two options, Change Background and Change It For Me. If you set the background yourself, it will use that for the Live Tile. If you have the phone change it, your pictures will cycle through the tile.
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Went and played with it some more. Changing it to "change it for me" should have it cycle through your pictures occassionally (not sure of the frequency). The current background picture shows up on the Live Tile.
For those not sure how to do it, touch and hold on the background of the Picture panel and you get two options, Change Background and Change It For Me. If you set the background yourself, it will use that for the Live Tile. If you have the phone change it, your pictures will cycle through the tile.
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Thanks both, fixed it after setting it change for me option. Still I am not sure why it did not worked before as since live tile pictures never changed before and I have to change bg manually. It is fixed for now so, thanks guys.
If you take nakeds of yourself or your girlfriend, probably good to not let it cycle