I dont know if this is in the right section...never ventured into this part of the forum
but does anyone know of a lock program(with a password) that has a more appealing look the wm default on is really ugly. or if anyone knows how to skin that one can you tell me where the files are
thank you
try throttlelock!
it's a android lock kinda clone...
you define a pathway, and that pathway is your password.
way better looking... way nicer!
you'll find it in the dev section
i saw that dont like it much
i want something with numbers
No one has any recommendation? I would kill for an application like this!
Since there are a lot of topics about this in the various phone-specific forums, lets just keep the discussion here
I found this thread in the XPeria forums. It is mentioned that by changing the windows today screen theme, you can change the colors of the buttons:
maedox said:
The colour of the buttons follow the Today screen theme. (At least it did when I changed the theme in Spb Mobile Shell (not the panel one).)
I chose blue theme, and the buttons are now dark blue. That's all I know.
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I checked this and it works! Unfortunately, on my Touch Diamond, this means that the top and bottom bar of my screens aren't stylish black anymore
kramki said:
i know you can change the colors in registry, refer to http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=WindowsMobile5Colors, the value number that you may need to change is 8..dont know about changing the pictures on them. Hope that helps
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This is, however, for WM5. And in [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Color] in the registry, there isn't a value '8'.
I don't know that much about the registry, but I made one (binary). The values seem to be the HEX codes for colors, but with spaces between them and ending with 00. Black would thus be '00 00 00 00'. This didn't change the background color, but the color of the keys itself (behind the text), without changing the top and bottom bar of my TF3D screen Changing the value to 'FF 00 00 00' will change it to red, for example.
So does anyone know how to change the background? I'll mess around with other numbers a bit to see if it works in the meantime. To be able to skin the unlock screen with custom images would be even better ofcourse
Personally, I don't want to install a seperate lock-program, which drains the battery.
I wouldn't use a password program without a backup, I didn't backup, was locked out and had to flash a new rom which let to my radio stack being corrupt.
Just a warning
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Ok I'm not quite good enough for this untaking but figured I'd put my findings out there.
There are 2 sets of registry setting that change the size of everything on your screen.
HKLM\Drivers\Display\GPE
HKLM\System\GWE\Display
Entries= LogicalPixelsX & LogicalPixelsY appear in both
Normally they are 96x96, I changed them to 120x120 (+25%) and now everything on my screen is 25% bigger. The Topber Icons are now 20x20 pixels instead of 16x16. Now you can make this what every % bigger you want, but the key is everything in the ROM must be scaled to this size. All images, everything or certain features may not load. For example I have WinMo G.S and because my CPR for the Start Menu is not scaled it will not load on screen. Here's a screen shot of what my screen looks like now.
total noob post that has nothing to do with the awesome tweak but, how do you change the taskbar icons? i did a quick search and got lost.
emmanemma said:
total noob post that has nothing to do with the awesome tweak but, how do you change the taskbar icons? i did a quick search and got lost.
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Check these links for that...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=437307
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441829
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=54514
Good job mate, I am sure it will really help someone with a weak sight. Good work.
drkfngthdragnlrd said:
Ok I'm not quite good enough for this untaking but figured I'd put my findings out there.
There are 2 sets of registry setting that change the size of everything on your screen.
HKLM\Drivers\Display\GPE
HKLM\System\GWE\Display
Entries= LogicalPixelsX & LogicalPixelsY appear in both
Normally they are 96x96, I changed them to 120x120 (+25%) and now everything on my screen is 25% bigger. The Topber Icons are now 20x20 pixels instead of 16x16. Now you can make this what every % bigger you want, but the key is everything in the ROM must be scaled to this size. All images, everything or certain features may not load. For example I have WinMo G.S and because my CPR for the Start Menu is not scaled it will not load on screen. Here's a screen shot of what my screen looks like now.
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excellent work AGAIN my friend
Thanks this does help me i have bad arthritis in my hands and some days i cannot grip the stylus so this will come in handy thanks mate
All of the guides I've been seeing are tailored toward 192 pixel resolution instead of 96. I've been messing with changing the Start menu graphic, among others, and it would be nice to have an icon legend as a reference so that other users can know which icon to change. The numbers for the VGA ones aren't matching up with the QVGA ones.
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All of the guides I've been seeing are tailored toward 192 pixel resolution instead of 96. I've been messing with changing the Start menu graphic, among others, and it would be nice to have an icon legend as a reference so that other users can know which icon to change. The numbers for the VGA ones aren't matching up with the QVGA ones.
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I tried entering 192 in my tilt and the items became way too big. The start Menu Icon was off screen. Luckily I have a registry editor I can use from my pc to change it back otherwise I would have been hard reseting a lot.
Hey,
This might be a very stupid question, but I have no idea about how to change the clock text color into #F24400.
They used a 8 nummered color-code (#FFFFFFFF) instead of the usual 6, but when I change it, I always get a standard blue color. I looked all over the internet, but couln't find the answer.
Hope you guys can help me...
No one, wants to change the text colours? No one knows 'how to' either?
edit: Oke, I was able to change it into a red colour by using '#FF0000FF'. So it is possible, but does anybody know a colour-code list for 8 characters?
On this site there are a few
http://www.ellipsix.net/textwriter/render.jsp
Thanks!
O, it's so simple. Just the normal colour code with 'FF' behind it.
Why didn't I come up with that. I tried adding a '00' or a '0' in front and a '0' in the back...
But anyway, now I know how it works.
After searching a while, and partly thanks to poyensa who pointed me to maxtf3d tool, I compared the whole HKCU and HKLM reg trees before and after using that to change the softkey colours, and here's the summary:
Go into the following reg folder
Code:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today
and create (if not already present) a string key named
Code:
Skin
in which you insert any name (example "myskin") and then create a folder in the same path with the same name of the skin and go in there.
In case the key "skin" already exists you have to go into the folder which goes by that name.
The key
Code:
Color_CommandBarText
is the one you want, if already present in the preset theme you need to change it, if instead you created the skin reference, or the key was not present in the preset theme, create a BINARY key by that name, and insert a 4bytes value inside.
For the black value it would be
Code:
00 00 00 00
Restart, the softkeys text colour will have changed.
To change the application name in the taskbar, you have to go into
Code:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\
and add a BINARY key (if not already present) named
Code:
9
in which you set the text colour in the same manner you did for the softkeys. Restart, served.
The colour for the start menu icons text should be situated in that same folder, in the BINARY key named 39, yet adding that key and restarting doesn't work.
Absolutely noone knows?
Yes, this is a bump
Hellooww
I know as a fact that it's possible, as GTX sports black text softkeys... noone actually cares to share the info?
Have a look HERE my friend...I suppose it could help you !
try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493011
for me HD2 it works but only the tab for color>commandbar text, active enable box and once you have choose your favourite color in RGBA code press activate, TRefresh and softeresset afterwards
Method posted by poyensa worked, I could finally change the text colour of the softkeys using his instructions... thank you
Yet I am prone to tin2404 approach, as I need to know *how* to change that, I mean registry wise or manila wise, which are the things that I manually need to change, otherwise after each flash I will need to use max tf3d utility
Updated thread with working method.
Thankyou ephestione, i have changed the color blue (08 08 8A) using your instructions and it works!
Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
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Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
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Yes, I have read about that also in MS KB, yet I had no entry whatsoever for any skin under that registry folder, I had to create one specifically for that purpose...
@poyensa, karma going back and forth, you pointed me to max tf3d utility, and only then I could "reverse engineer" it to devise a method
Hi all,
newbie questions,
how to add a new binary key using the PHM registry editor?
How to change the color of the taskbar clock's number?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
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Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
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Hi ephestione,
You made my day! Thank u very much!
I installed totalcommander and followed all your instructions and I did it successfully.
Any idea on how to change the color of the taskbar clock?
Thanks in advance.
ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
ephestione said:
ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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What conflict is there? Do the Stripes occupy the same space? If yes, just make them empty in BattClock or put them in another place or show other information.
I use SlideIT keyboard, but I don't like the color in it, because it doesn't match my theme I am using. So I ask here if anyone can help me change the colour so it match the GreenGlow theme. Is there anyone here that can help me? I can donate to the person that's help me.
Best regards
J
Sent from my ~FreeX10 2.2~GreenGlow~ Using SlideIT
gonna give this a bump.
Me and another dude are working on a few themes, but we cant find the xml to change key color to white. I will PAY someone if they can find it.
not having white keys are limiting the possibilities. we still have a few versions in progress though
bad4u6669 said:
gonna give this a bump.
Me and another dude are working on a few themes, but we cant find the xml to change key color to white. I will PAY someone if they can find it.
not having white keys are limiting the possibilities. we still have a few versions in progress though
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I'm browsing through the apk right now, and there are a LOT of .xml files, what would it be called on any other keyboard (if you know) or what line of code would i be looking for exactly? im pretty much just looking for the HEX of 00000 or FFFFF not sure which one is black
is is definitly not in the xml as a hex color. 000000 is black ffffff is white.
last week i changed all instances of 000000 to ffffff and it didnt change it. also in the aramibi folder changed the .so file. changed "000000ff" (found twice) to "ffffffff" still no go.
However, messing with my theme i just noticed something. After messing with images i realized something and verified this by changing the background.png to full transparent. once i applied this change the full background is black.
there is something in the xml's that call for a dark background. Im going back through the xmls now. Hope this will help find the string.
I think that this is too much for me, maybe if I knew more about what I was looking for. I'm used to doing this kind of stuff for iOS .plist files and strings...maybe after I get used to android and .xml files I can be more useful. I'll keep looking around though.
Hi Folks,
I'm new to Windows Mobile. Sorry if it has already been asked. I search it but haven't find it though. I wonder is there any way to change in Back ground. I'm using Ansar WM 7.5. In option there is only light and dark. Is there any way to put a picture there or change the color to blue of orange.
Its Windows Phone, and no that's not possible!
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read in the developers section , you cant change to a picture background that I know of but you can change the color , it is in registry but you'll have to look for it ,theres several posts on it use the search button!
Vintage144 said:
read in the developers section , you cant change to a picture background that I know of but you can change the color , it is in registry but you'll have to look for it ,theres several posts on it use the search button!
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if you have ansars ROM i think it has an registry editor, you can edit the registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > ControlPanel > Themes > 0 White theme or > 1 Black theme. select lets say 0 > tap on BaseThemeColor (thats the background behind the tiles)> and change "Value data" from #FFFFFF to #FF**** (any hex color code you want) just search on the internet an hex color code table or use the colors free app in the marketplace where you can select an color in an RGB spectrum and then see the hex code, it is only 6 letters long like 7a3b32 but DONT forget to enter the first two FF before the #. because if you dont enter the first two FF the device will don display anything and you can not revert it back if you change your accents for example to EE7a3b32 < that doesnt work and you must then hard reset you device to get it back but you loose all your data, FF7a3b32 is right. and if the color dont change after you exit the registry app restart your device then it should display!
i have tried to edit the accent color without the two FF before the hex code, because FF means full saturation, no opacity, AA is something like 100% opacity, i tried to enter DD something like 60-70% opacity but my device has nothing to display and i coulndt enter anymore my settings, i can not change the accent, because the registry for colors here work only with FF. the only exception is the one code at the bottom in the themes folder it is for the transparent tab in the people hub, and there you can only add something like AA
Yes a feature that MS apperantly thinks we don't need anymore on Windows Phone nor Windows 8, well at least on Windows 8 you can choose some cheesy pre-installed crapy ones but the opption in Windows Phone is gone especially with the Large tilels in WP8 comming
Maybe they will bring it back in Windows Phone 9 or something. (hopefully).