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Theme Generator for Win Mobile 2003 SE

Do you guys know any good theme generator that works well with landscape modes?
I used to use Ms theme generator but I believe its no longer compatible with Win Mobile 2003.
any suggestions?

Try the Thememaker Pro Plus SE by Kamware. Very good and easy to use. However not free

wat about a theme viewer?
i tried mtux themex but i dint like it. theme previews too small, and i believe its a little unstable

BVRP's Pocket Theme Manager 2
http://www.bvrp.com/ENG/products/pocketThemeManager/default.asp is quite good for creating themes &
gives a preview of how they look too but doesn't show landscape.
Also, the McDeb version of the Kamware software is easy to use although I haven't tried the latest version thoroughly yet.http://www.mcdeb.com/tmmcdeb/
I created the ones here http://www.irblinx.net/wmthemes.htm with Pocket Theme Manager 2

thanks irblinx! il try ur suggestions

i second that 8)

I've started using v4 of McDeb now, it seems pretty good but I'm struggling a bit with picking up the main image for portrait and landscape. It also seems to struggle with importing existing themes, the main image looks like it loses half of itself.

What about a thememaker for WM5.0? Do they exist yet?

DUTCH said:
What about a thememaker for WM5.0? Do they exist yet?
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yes...2k3se thememaker can be use to wm5...but some color is not accurate...

Both the ones I posted will work with WM5 but as xda2jojo points out, they haven't been optimised for use with WM5 so the colours aren't all mapped properly.
McDeb is supports VGA devices but I haven't got one so I' haven't tried it yet!

further testing with one tsk files...
[Homertrix2k3se5.jpg]

the tsk file...

I thought I was going mad the first time it happened as some colours worked! Do you think this is due to the Xda II not really being a WM5 device? Has anyone tested a WM2003 theme on a real WM5 device?
McDeb apparently lets you change the colour of the highlight circle (i.e. tap and hold), which is nice.
Also I had some hit and miss results following the instruction on buzzdev for changing the dial pad, it doesn't seem to survive a soft reset.
I use Bong's dialpad maker on 2003se, maybe he could be persauded to add support for the extra parts added in WM5.

irblinx said:
Also I had some hit and miss results following the instruction on buzzdev for changing the dial pad, it doesn't seem to survive a soft reset.
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set all gif and png files "hardcoded" at "windows" folder
irblinx said:
I thought I was going mad the first time it happened as some colours worked! Do you think this is due to the Xda II not really being a WM5 device?
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Maybe...

I'll give the hardcoded bit a try
I've had a good play with McDeb Thememaker 4now and it's pretty good for WM2003se themes, it handles landscape pretty well (although the preview has only ever worked once for me). At $18 it's a steal

Bizzarely, the landscape preview has now started working all the time! so hoorah, the "women" page on my themes site now includes landscape friendly themes!

Hi Folks,
would someone be so kind as to upload the Microsoft theme generator. when i download and install the file from MS it doesnt work properly, doesn't have options to move on from the first page( next or back which should be in the bottom left hand corner). I know there is other theme generators around but i havent seen one that works for SPB Pocket Plus extended theme generator, which is an add on for the MS theme generator.
Cheers
SpeedN

o2 diamond pro and the tf3d theme :(

hey guys,
i know there are a bunch of threads out there already which deal with themes and tf3dconfig 0.6.7 and everything. but it seems like there's been quite a few issues with the original o2 ROM TF3D and the attempt to install the black htc theme.
I tried to use tf3dconfig 0.6.7 and use the diamond htc black theme here from the forum. The installation works quite alright, everything seems nice but the music player doesn't show the artist/genre/track/album horizontal menu and also is the list of applications black on black.
Maybe there are a few manila files missing or something?
I don't really want to flash my rom since there's only a beta out of the german romeos and i need a stable working phone - but the blue o2 theme is really ugly.
Are there any ideas out there what's going wrong and how to fix that problem? Or could you tell me which manila files have to be edited in order to see the custom menu bar in the music player and the black font color in the list of all applications?
I think this is also happening with the Vodafone Version of TF3D
Regards
Oli

Yes, I have the exact same problem as well with my Vodaphone Touch Pro, I've scouted through the forums for hours while at college and have not seen a solution for this, I'm guessing the only work around would be to flash the phone?

Same problem here. Have a MDA Vario IV (T-Mobile Version) and I have the same issue as you when installing the original theme.
I am searching for a solution for two days now and I haven't find anything yet.
I don't need the original HTC theme, I would be lucky with any "magentaless theme" that works.

I have found a working black theme, but it is on german.
for tf3d:
http://rapidshare.com/files/137214550/Mossi_TF3D.zip.html
and for wm6.1:
http://rapidshare.com/files/131850418/Htc_black.zip.html
Now the colors are right, but I think tf3d is much slower now. I have already done all tweaks for optimizing the performance.
Is there any solution?

hey very cool!
but i think that version is older than my current one.
where'd you find that one?

SpArKy87 said:
hey very cool!
but i think that version is older than my current one.
where'd you find that one?
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I found it in this forum
http://www.ppc-phones.de/punforum/viewtopic.php?pid=56565
I installed the theme. It's not that slow that I can't use it but with the original T-Mobile theme TF3D was much faster.

well i installed it just now and it isn't slower than the o2 tf3d version really.
but if you go to settings -> connections this page appears still in blue in tf3d but i don't really mind that (i don't open that page too often since i have secondtoday)
do you know how i can change the dropdown background when i click on start in the upper left corner? cause that's still blue too
thanks

go to start - settings - today and there are the themes for wm6.1.
there you choose this file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/13185041...black.zip.html
(I copied it to the windowsfolder before selecting it in the settings)
with the t-mobile theme the first screen (the one with the clock) was there immediately when I switched to it on tf3d. now it needs half a second, but it is ok for me.

hi,
this rapidshare link doesn´t work.
any other link or solution? that blue o2 theme is soooo ugly

Titanium Panels

Hi peeps!!!
I found the titanium panels on this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=525018
It looks so nice (See Screenie) , but when i slide the keyboard on the vox, it crashes..... (It changes back to the old sliding panel thing, with some icons being corrupt)
Does anyone have a fix for this??
Thanks for the new ROM's

Background
Where will we get this official wm 6.5 wallpaper?
Does anyone have them anywhere??
Thanks gents!!

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Where will we get this official wm 6.5 wallpaper?
Does anyone have them anywhere??
Thanks gents!!
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I wish we could get out home screen just the same as that.
and the back grounds are great to..
so is this possible?

i Found the wallpapers
Mine almost looks like that now!!

You got the Titanium Panels? How?
I would be happy if my vox would look like this
Ahhh and i got some pic seen, it looks like someone gets his smartphone looking in this style, would someone be able to do that? Frauhottelmann, Dr. Martin Gonzo etc.?
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Yay!!!
It looks like the titanium panels is more stable on the Fireburned ROM!!!
Works great! Here is how mine looks now

Use this one!
Windows Mobile 6.5 only!!!

phone frozen after installing homescreen.can
frauhottelmann said:
Use this one!
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hi, i just installed homescreen.cab and phone freezes after booting. its not connecting to the comp either! what to do?

Do not install the homescreen.cab on a WM6.1 (WM6 is useless anyway as it does not have the sliding homescreen). On 6.1 it will spoil your sliding panels homescreen.
Unfortunately the CAB installed cannot be uninstalled easily - it does not create an "uninstall" entry. Delete the installed bronzeres.dll from \windows - then it works again as it should. Still you have some garbage left on the device, further cleanup:
- delete the 2 titanium*.cpr files in \Windows
- revert back to old registry content at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CHome
The latter can only be done if you have backup of your registry and can easily delete and insert complete branches. Tools for that are:
- Registry Workshop (not free)
- CeRegEditor (free): http://ceregeditor.mdsoft.pl/index.php?lang=en

For me it does work very well...it has also fixed the clock issue in landscape mode. Great FH!

I use the multilanguage 6.1 ROM from frauhottelmann, which do you use?

It did not work for me either I just got loads of red X where there should on been icons.

Thanks FM!!!
This one is much more stable and works nice!
Im using WM 6.5
(I dont think its designed for WM 6.1)

Favorites
Hey guys....
I had my favourites on the homescreen aswell. But dissapeared.
It still shows as active on CHOME......
How do i get it to appear again?
I tried re installing it, but did not work!
Have a good one!

You can't get them back yet. The *.cpr file doesn't support all standard panels of 6.5 Standard! I will add some!

I updated the CAB check it out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3923767&postcount=2

Thanks man!!!
Reporting that this one works very nice....
Nice to have the settings applet back!! Thanks FM!

Well, your update has some bugs: I don't have settings panel, instead of it I have some "0" around Texts, Mails, etc. And I don't have any text in Texts panel. Take a look at screenshots:

Try restarting the phone, if that doesn't help reinstall the CAB! This happened to me before too. I don't know why it occurs!

frauhottelmann said:
Try restarting the phone, if that doesn't help reinstall the CAB! This happened to me before too. I don't know why it occurs!
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To get around this small problem I installed the Titanium in the Tweaks folder
the went into Chome then Hide text save and exit.
then I got your Titanium.cab installed stalled that and all was well
perfect...
But I still cant get Clear storage to work or find any weather app
but I will keep trying..

My Today Screen is the best

Okay guys & gals,
Just thought I'd start a topic about our Today Screen.
I love a good launcher program (which I believe is simply what a today screen is). It took me a while to get to like WM6.5, but I do now. The disadvantage is that I still have to press my Start Menu for other apps... and for 64MB Uni's the disadvantage is only too obvious.
I hope you don't mind me quoting, but this is what started me thinking...
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What I would like to do is set the programs screen ie the screen full of icons as the default when you start up the Universal. One less step and simpler for the end user.
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home screen plus is what yu need, i guess....
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Yeah, oh for a simple Today Screen. I'm with you there.
Why do we have one method of accessing our apps on the Today screen, and yet another from the Start menu. (And for me a third when I want to choose a game to play).
I suppose nobody has come up with something that everyone agrees on!
Hence we have such platforms as Android, maybe.
As phezthie says, HomeScreen PlusPlus is a cool app. However, if you can't find a theme that someone has made that you like, you must be willing to write a script. Personally I love this app, but spend too much time tweaking my scripts! Ouch
Another one is ThrottleLauncher. A lovely graphic approach, but a bit heavy/slow and a few bugs. Very easy to set up, though... but perhaps more of an interest with 128MB devices and maybe a little restricted.
Anyone got a great Today Screen or Launcher they think others would like?
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Hi Jonny
Interesting thread indeed
I used for a long time HTC Home large VGA by pj07 and I was very satified as I had all I needed on that home screen.
Now I´m using titanium but I´m agree with your comments above.
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Cheers,

I use Titanium too and its going pretty well for my needs till now.This his a good idea.

Hello thank you for starting this thread,as i am obsessed lately with this subject. I tried EVERYTHING that i could find,and so far,on my 64 MB uni,i can say only that i managed to find NOTHING in my taste.
Throttle launcher is awesome but no way it can work on my device,buggy and extremely slow,same as Pointui Home 2, with the POINTSENSE suite 2.0.0.6 looks awesome but useless on my device. For everyone with a 128 MB device i would recommend it,there are many many interesting skins/themes and applets on the Pointui website http://www.pointui.com/
Also,i am waiting for a new or fixed version of Touch Shell Pro ,which looks promising also,has some nice skins too, version now is 1.1.0.17,but has too many issues still,on my UNI at least.
http://www.touch-shell.com/
Also i tried FEWidgets Ultimate,again nice idea but too slow on my UNI.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544874
There is now also this Sense UI Theme for FEWidgets Ultimate.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-sense-ui-theme-for-fewidgets-ultimate.html
As for launchers,i tried plenty,most of them too slow ofc,the nicer ones
Easy Today Launcher is a nice today plugin,you can combine it with some others to make a nice today screen also :
http://www.loffactory.webs.com/
MyAction is a nice launcher you can pick up here versions 1.1 and new 2.0 :
http://www.8080.pl/
This one looks real nice but was way too slow on my 64 mb - Touchlaunch :
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-touchlaunch.html
And for last,the best thing i found to be part of my today screen,is a skin for marsware weather panel 2009 - here is the whole thing :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401781
When i get time i will put some more up,when i remember them,i really tried a lot of things out. And i really really wish that my UNI has 128 MB

I never looked back since getting SPB Mobile Shell 3.5, I think it's the best. In fact, once I got it, the ROM UI became irrelevant, I even have WM5 on one of my Unis in order to have the VC and not suffer much.

Complexity
Jonny
Thanks for starting this thread. I have also played with a number of the Today screen graphical setup programs, some are quite good. However, since upgrading to 6.5 I quite like the standard program screen that comes up when you select start.
My question is why do we need any of these today screen programs, when the icons and screen are already there. We really don't want to add any more complexity to the setup or anything else to use up precious memory.
I originally asked the question to see if there was just a way of bypassing the today screen altogether, so that the standard program screen came up by default.
Now thanks to you we have the collective minds thinking about it.

@gewin:
I actually got your idea. But couldn't find the function OS calls (@shell32.exe) when you hit on start menu.
Once we get then it is just the easy part....

I use SPB Pocket Plus, because it can handle other today plugins in different tabs. And it runs quickly on UNI64...

Thanks guys, this has been very informative. Especially to PalDragon for all the review... I'm going to give some of those a try. Cheers. What do others think?
MyAction - I found I didn't like. It looks ok if you use all the icons, otherwise you have half a screen full of blue +'s. I would prefer slide to screen, rather than use of a Prev/Next button. You also need to add all the apps yourself, it wasn't self-populating.
TouchLaunch - like. However only 1 item per line means a lot of scrolling, and the scrolling can be quite slow. Nice that you can make categories. Latest version here. Smooth (on my 128MB Uni)
EasyToday Launcher - @gewin, this is what you want! It's not self-populating, but I do like it. And as PalDragon pointed out, you can add other Today items with it, if you wish.

enigma1nz said:
I never looked back since getting SPB Mobile Shell 3.5, I think it's the best. In fact, once I got it, the ROM UI became irrelevant, I even have WM5 on one of my Unis in order to have the VC and not suffer much.
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i completely agree, its not free though but worth it...

Hi Jonny.. can you please attache some pics of your today screen if you haven't yet, I use HTC Home its got all i need even wheather, Messaging etc... But i wonder if its possible to add some applications to the wm6.5 on that cool up down slide. This made me stop using HTC Home but now i have some app's missing on my today.

my today screen is unintersting. I use WM6.5 'Ron Arad Orange' with CHome editor* for my apps (piccy1). I used to have weather plugin* but this seemed to make my GPS navigation freeze intermittently. I use QuickMenu* for my task switcher (piccy2) and iReflect icons* in my start menu (piccy3) with honeycomb start menu*. (Also, once used ATContacts widget*).
However I am still looking for a good 'app launcher' for games. I use fexploreext* set to 'Icon View' (see piccy4&5). Sadly fexploreext doesn't seem to work in WM6.5.1
I did once create a HomeScreen++ theme* for back when it was BatteryStatus, but haven't kept it up to date. It also had weather. The funny thing about weather widgets is that whenever I want to look at the forecast, I always want to update it ... so it seemed reasonable to stick with weather from an internet page! (perhaps because in UK weather is so changeable, I don't know!)
however, I am beginning to like SPB Mobile Shell (unsure how long the trial is for). What themes are people using? enigma1nz? phezthie?
FEWidgets and throttlelauncher seem similar, but a poor mans copy?
*if you want any of these files, just PM me.

spb mobile shell is really impressive and powerful (the latest is v3.5), ive been using ms v2 since tomal's 8.5. however, based from my experience, v3.5 is not advisable using tomal's wm6.5 roms (v9 & 10) due to slow response and occasional freeze. same with other wm6.5 cooked roms i tried, the reason why ram upgrade is imperative, at least for me, to enjoy the latest rom with latest spb.
off course, another solution i think is if our great uni rom chefs will always consider releasing vanilla of their great work...

UltimateLaunch
http://www.ultimatelaunch.de/index_en.html
Setup is a bit of a hassle (I've been messing around in Android, so a lot of Windows Mobile/Phone stuff seems more complex to customize), but if you're willing to put in the time, it's a rock solid-app and can customize to a T. It's also the least memory-hungry of what I've tried.
The only thing I don't like is that it doesn't accommodate rotation very well unless you count out pixels and just set it up so that in landscape it looks good even though the bottom of your screen is cut off.
I've tried Lakeridge (think Titanic, flashy, but *will* crash), ThrottleLauncher, Win6.5, SPB, SBSH. I keep coming back to this.

I used most of the GI app there and i liked WAD2. and i used with my custom theme when i was in wm 6.1, now with 6.5 due to memory issue i can not run it. so i'm using titanium with some customization.... see pic's below...

Hey Rajiv
Jane is so beautiful!!

Yes, very nice Jane, mate

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Hey Rajiv
Jane is so beautiful!!
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Yes, very nice Jane, mate
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Thanx a lot Guyz...

i envy you mate

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i envy you mate
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He he
common guys no comment on titanium ....

WM6.5/Touchflo ROM with Flip-Clock & Weather ?

Hey Guys - I've poured over these threads and am a bit confused about the versions of HTC touchflo. What are my options, if any, that allow running WM6.5 and getting the flip-clock with weather beneath it? Is this possible? Or is this only touchflo 3d, which hasn't been cooked into a wizard rom?
Or maybe I should be able to change the look of the clock for this touchflo but I haven't been able to find it?
Thanks for any info.

theorbo said:
Hey Guys - I've poured over these threads and am a bit confused about the versions of HTC touchflo. What are my options, if any, that allow running WM6.5 and getting the flip-clock with weather beneath it? Is this possible? Or is this only touchflo 3d, which hasn't been cooked into a wizard rom?
Or maybe I should be able to change the look of the clock for this touchflo but I haven't been able to find it?
Thanks for any info.
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I think what you mean is the HTC home plugin, right? I would say that you could use any 6.5 ROM and install the HTC home plugin to get the features you want (by the way, I just found this in a German ROM somewhere here, check out the "SKYNET ROM v6", post #7- Seems it's working there and should of course work for any English version, too). Good luck
Andreas

I think it's called "HTC Sense" ?
Thanks for replying Andreas. I did some more searching and I think the name associated with the look I want is "sense" ... i don't see a wizard ROM for that yet. But maybe i'm missing something? I've attached a pic.

theorbo said:
Thanks for replying Andreas. I did some more searching and I think the name associated with the look I want is "sense" ... i don't see a wizard ROM for that yet. But maybe i'm missing something? I've attached a pic.
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hm... well, I don't know this one. But guess what- I'd be interested in this too Sorry I couldn't help. Personally, I don't like the 6.5 default look either and I keep always changing to even the 'old' 6.1 home screen, simply because I have all the information I need on one screen. I prefer this over a fancy look. But the thing you are looking for seems to do the job, too. Let's hope someone can jump in and solve the issue
Good luck,
Andreas

Once i ask cracing why dont use this on a rom.
1- this new touchflo is to big
2- our processor is to slow to process the flip clock, you can imagine...there is a lot of deferents images all the time change.
3- there is still bugs on ported version (maybe now this is not more valid)
Just one more thing, the picture is the 3d version, this one is IMPOSSIBLE to get in a non 3d acceleration device, but there something like that in 2d.

I've run this (the 2D version anyway) on a Wizard, by installing cabs onto a fairly naked 6.5 rom. It's slow, and takes too much memory and storage. It sure is pretty, though.
I think I used an "MSD-Series" rom as the base. I can't remember for sure.
I often try 6.5 but my favorite roms are 6.1. Even there, Manila2D is a hog.
RoryB's latest ExtROM-based Angel rom and TechTeamup's NSN rom are pretty evenly matched as my favorites right now. Both come with M2D. NSN loses points for using an older version, but Angel loses points for requiring tweaks to get the album view and music tabs to work properly.

theorbo said:
Thanks for replying Andreas. I did some more searching and I think the name associated with the look I want is "sense" ... i don't see a wizard ROM for that yet. But maybe i'm missing something? I've attached a pic.
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I also need the same. Anybody there can suggest something

Its New HTC Manila from HTC Mega having Flip-Clock and Weather on home screen. It can be found here.
As it has many images ( for making animation like flip clock ), it makes the device slower. So its only good for newer qvga devices having 400+ mhz CPU speed and 128+ MB RAM or users how use there device rearly.
Best Regards

You can see pictures of a Wizard running Manila2D v2 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4016314#post4016314
It realy looks great but as Cracing and n2rjt and boto said: It needs to much RAM and CPU power! And is has no real landscape mode wich is a problem if you use it on a phone with a slide-out-keyboard like the Wizard. I did not only installed the CABs but cooked it into my ROM. I flashed it, tested it and 2 days later I already flashed an other ROM again because it is not usefull at all.