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Themes, Skins and Dr Gonzos WM6.1 v1.1

Ive recently flashed my vodafone v1415 with the brilliant Dr Gonzos WM6.1 rom.
So far Ive been really pleased and had no issues other than being able to get a theme to be consistent.
Ive installed some WM6.1 themes from the forum here and they change the menu colours and background images but the call progress screens and branding brick are still the ones from the WM6.1 rom.
I know where all there images exist but do i have to customize theses each time i want to change my theme?
surely upon a new theme being installed theses should be changed accordingly?
Any help much appreciated!
Guy

Most themes do not set these screens. Complete ones that come packed as a CAB might add a new incoming/outgoing call screen, information screen and brandingbrick - however the majority of themes do not.

Thanks for the response.
Is there any way to either;
1) Get the original HTC ones installed?
or
2) Where could I find some .cab themes which would do this?
The different colours all over the place are highly annoying!!
Thanks

Hm, I can make you a cab with the original HTC version of branding brick and call screens, if that is what you want and if I can find the files! Otherwise, my in theme hread (signature), there are three version of branding brick and call screens which go nicely with my themes!

It isn't really a problem if I can just get hold of the files that would be fine.
Thanks

Change backgrounds in all tabs

It seems that in Diamond Forums they've done it.With the file below.
Tried alot to my Raphael but no luck.Its not fully compatible, freezes the phone and fades the background.Any suggestions?

Why on earth did you post this here - especially including the .cab file when it doesnt work with the Touch Pro????
There are 2 or 3 threads on here already that mention this particular peice of development work being undertaken by mun_rus - and the authors own thread covers its compatability too? See the following threads:
ManilaMods from mun_rus (powered by D-MAN)
HTC Touch Pro Themes!!
There are numerous suggestions on how this may improve for future use on the Raphael on the authors thread.....
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J posted here in order that maybe someone fixes the problem.But it seems that the update version is fine now.
Works well in my rom (RomeOS .12)..HAVE FUN

The only problem j have is that time in manila is always 12.59, j will try to fix it and be back to report my solution

Thanx man !!
You made that ting works! Tried several theme and it works perfect with each one. The only thing i' ve noticed is that i had to install the theme first, then after the mUn cab.
Great job dude!

thanks m8 i was scrathcing my head with this last night

Mates,that .cab isnt mine, its from diamond forums, author is "mun_rus".
J just post it to share with all Raphael users.

ManilaMods from mun_rus (powered by D-MAN)
Working Really Well thanks to Mun_Rus..... will update the Themes Thread too!

WM 6.5 & TF3D System Fonts (Works with HD2! CABs within!)

I've been messing around with replacement system fonts on the Blackstone (Touch HD) for a few months. Now I've got my HD2, I'm pleased to announce that all my CABs work on this phone too.
Please see the thread here for more details (Blackstone section). I'll continue to update it there rather than have two threads running.
All the fonts are linked in post 2 of that thread with pics, etc.

bumping this coz it was hard to find relevant info.

That are really good news!! I liked your fonts always! What I recognized was an issue with your Segoe Condensed - Font. The font itself looks awesome on my HD2 on the entire phone - but within Manila it look awfully bold. Can you fix it? That would be BOMB!
THX in advance!

Hi Sarcasm
Your fonts work on Leo perfectly, I think I'll stick to Nokia font, it's the best one I've tried out, letters and numbers look sharp and clear.......... it's truly a great job, hang in there!

these are great!
THANKS!

Thanks!
Nice one buddy, was one of the last things on my list to do!
Cheers!

My Newest Sense 2.5 Theme: HTC Inspired

He is my latest manila 2.5 theme. Hope you guys enjoy! Just install the theme cab file and then the clock cab file. Hope you enjoy.
P.S i didnt create a stocks or footprint icon because I dont use those tabs.
Having trouble attaching theme file so i made a rapidshare link for the file. Only 10 downloads allowed so if anyone can attach it here it would great.
Update: Removed rapidshare link it was used up. Added a mediafire link.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=511ce266f5c6f6c7d6baebe61b361f7c0a967318c41184e54d71ee60c1ce7296

bcruz410 said:
He is my latest manila 2.5 theme. Hope you guys enjoy! Just install the theme cab file and then the clock cab file. Hope you enjoy.
P.S i didnt create a stocks or footprint icon because I dont use those tabs.
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Nice work dude.

Thanks alot for those that use max manila I also attached a cab file for matching notification icons.

Sorry to be a dunce, but I can't get this working on my Topaz. I installed the cabs, but nothing. It's not showing up on the settings screen as a theme, so I'm stumped. I'm running the official HTC 6.5 ROM at the moment.

olliesno said:
Sorry to be a dunce, but I can't get this working on my Topaz. I installed the cabs, but nothing. It's not showing up on the settings screen as a theme, so I'm stumped. I'm running the official HTC 6.5 ROM at the moment.
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Its for Manila 2.5, I'm pretty sure the official 6.5 only has 6.1, so it will not work.
@bcruz410
On another note: What build of manila are you using? Not the version, but the build

iam using the 2.5.1921 version but ive also tested it on the latest energy roms with the latest manila.

cmstackar said:
Its for Manila 2.5, I'm pretty sure the official 6.5 only has 6.1, so it will not work.
Thanks for your quick and helpful reply. Now all I need to do is to work out how to upgrade to 2.5, can I do this without flashing a completely new ROM?
I'll have a little search to see if I can find the solution.
Cheers
EDIT: I can see now that I need to flash a ROM that already has 2.5 in it. Any suggestions? The last time I flashed a new ROM, I had to go back to the official 6.5 because my GPS went mad. It was showing that I was about 400km away from where I actually was, at 15,000m altitude, travelling at around 400km/h.
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cmstackar said:
Thanks for your quick and helpful reply. Now all I need to do is to work out how to upgrade to 2.5, can I do this without flashing a completely new ROM?
I'll have a little search to see if I can find the solution.
Cheers
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If you want to change from Manila 2.1 to 2.5 you have to flash another rom...
You can start reading the stickys in the Rom Development section.

Thank you! Any slider is better than the awful (IMHO) original sense 2.5, but this one is really cool and finally woking in my ROM! (with sense 2.5.19211619.0). Is there a way to get the original black-on-white clock?
EDIT: I just noticed that my bottom bar is not like the one in the screenshot, no big deal, since the slider was my main concern.Anyway I'd like to have it aswell, so any help is welcome.

Works great, thanks for this. Much better than the awful theme in the new energy Roms

iam working on some new slider designs because i definitely agree, they are a bit bland. as to the theme that i have in that pic iam using ahens black theme. you can find in the windows theme sections.

nice theme, more relaxing for my eyes than the default one. thanks

EDIT: @bcruz410 .. Thanks !!

Thanks - these look much better than the defaults! Any chance you can do the 'stocks' icon as well - it looks a little out of place among your new versions. Thx

I like it very much, but the sense in my phone is still 2.1.......

@bcruz410
Wonderful theme... Can you please add those two missing icons (Stocks and Footprints) as well, as that would make the slider tabs completely skinned
Thank you very much for your efforts...

i've downloaded and installed the theme but nothing has changed..how do I have to do? I've manila 2.5.. txs

I absolutely love the clock here, but lately it's gotten thrown out of alignment. I'm not sure exactly what's doing it, but I suspect that it's Max Manila. I'm using the latest Energy ROM.
It seems that the clock background gets elongated, which throws everything below it out of alignment; the weather text appears in between the clock background and the split backgrounds for the weather stuff, and then the split backgrounds end up being behind the Calendar header (date and alarm status).
Any chance you might revisit the clock? I really haven't found any other clock that I like as much as this one, and I've tried I should also note that I haven't had any alignment issues with any other clock that I've tried, although most of them have just been solid (no transparent gaps).

nicely done!

[Taskbar] dafunk Brian's BW [WM 6.5 - WM 6.5.X]

This taskbar is my mod from original Bilbobrian's (Brian's) one.
I opened this thread in this section because some people told me to do it because it was a little hard to find, but the taskbar style is the same than the one posted in Blackstone section.
I made from scratch these last 2 versions (WM 6.5 and WM 6.5.X) because the "old" one was a little "dusty" and there were big issues especially in WM 6.5 version, because in the hurry to post it, I cabbed the same *.dlls of WM 6.5.X version , and the funny thing is that I noticed it only 2 weeks ago
Of course this is the main reason of all these problems.
This time I followed the steps of DarkNinja and I thought to make it "modular", so that there will be more chances to get it working.
Thanks to DarkNinja and his staff.
The taskbar is fully compatible CDMA and GSM.
I don't own a Leo, so I couldn't test it directly, but I have positive feedbacks from many devices: Blackstone, Leo, TP, TP2 and others.
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The image above is from the Blackstone thread, but apart some little modification to some icons, there is nothing really new, except the new custom wait cursor.
Here is the animation...hope you like it
I will refine this opening post in the next days, just a matter of time, so at the moment I can only post 1 version of WM 6.5. This version has the white windows flag start icon skinned. The other versions with different start icons will be added when ready. I will also post the no_start patch.
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TO ALL OF YOU THAT WANT ONLY THE CUSTOM WAIT CURSOR:
No guys, there is no way to make a cab for only the custom wait cursor.
This is because the custom wait cursor graphics are into the file shellres.192.dll. Into this file reside also many of the taskbar icons and other miscellaneous graphics. If I make a cab with only the file shellres.192.dll and you install it, you will have my wait cursor, but you will have many of my taskbar icons as well. It's good if you use my taskbar (but if you use my taskbar you already have my cursor ), but if you use another taskbar....you can easily understand what can happen.
So this is why there's no way to make a cab that installs only the cursor.
I'm thinking about to make some colors variations of the cursor, but I think that I will make them for cookers (and who knows how to edit dlls) and I will post the 32bit bitmaps in the Windows Mobile Themes section.
I'm sorry.....but I'm explaining why this is impossible
Anyway, many thanks for the great interest for my custom wait cursor
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HOW TO INSTALL THE TASKBAR
1) - The taskbar has the certification inside, anyway the safest way to start the installation is to install sdkcert.cab first.
2)- Install the version matching with your OS. If you have the start button in the top left you are on WM 6.5. If you have the start button in the bottom left you are on WM 6.5.X.
3) -If you install the WM 6.5.X version, your volume icons will not be skinned.
You have to download the file dafunk HTCVolumeControl.dll Fixes.zip where inside you will find 4 different versions of HTCVolumeControl.dll:
dafunk HTCVolumeControl.dll 1920.1327.cab
dafunk HTCVolumeControl.dll 1920.3625.cab
dafunk HTCVolumeControl.dll 1921.3629.cab
dafunk HTCVolumeControl.dll 2011.3221.cab
You have to find which works good for you....you can still unistall it and install another fix if the one installed is not good.
4) - If you install the WM 6.5 version your volume icons will be skinned, but if you are experiencing strange issues with volume or similar, try to install the volume fixes how explained above.
5) - Perform a soft reset.
---- If in the place of the volume icons you have a black square, try to install: dafunk BlackBox Volume Fix.cab. ----​
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS POST WILL BE COMPLETED IN THE NEXT DAYS,
SO PLEASE BE PATIENT IF FILES AND INFO ARE CHANGING TOO OFTEN​
EDIT: 16 April 2010 18:20
Created a *.zip file containing all the HTCVolumeControl.dll fixes because I added two more different.
I'm becoming a collector
Hope you like it....
Have fun(k)
dafunk
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Please don't consider this my mod like "Dafunk's Taskbar".....the credits go entirely to Bilbobrian for his input....I only changed/added a few (a lot ) of icons.
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Many thanks to my friend Santod040 for his help to fix the CDMA.

Reserved....

Reserved for future use

Glad you posted this Dafunk!
My favorite taskbar!

nice, really like the ngtv taskbar

santod040 said:
Glad you posted this Dafunk!
My favorite taskbar!
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Thanks Santo
Now that I posted the taskbar I feel lighter.....it was tiring to write such a post LOL
I wonder how Co0kie does to write that kilometric posts like the CHT one.
I guess that if he doesn't have a very strong breakfast he risks to die during the post editing
Anyway...it's done.
Thanks again bud for your kind words

May I ask how you unsign, sign and edit your dll's? I have had a problem since like a month back where some dll's just isn't working after I edit them.

ArtieQ said:
May I ask how you unsign, sign and edit your dll's? I have had a problem since like a month back where some dll's just isn't working after I edit them.
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Sure you can ask!
To unsign I use Unsigner, to sign them I use msigner the last version I don't remember where I got it from. The previous version has the certificates expired. If you need it I can attach it.
For editing I use Restorator 2007, but sometimes misteriously it fails to open a *.dll. Then I try to open it with ResHack. Sometimes ResHack open it, sometimes don't....
I don't use PE explorer, because the way I need to use this resources editors, I found Restorator 2007 wonderful.
Feel free to ask artieq
Anyway, awesome taskbar....great work mate

That's really strange, I do exact the same. When I try to edit heavy files such as shellres.192.dll they just break the whole taskbar, some icons don't show up so I have to put back the old one. I can edit MessagingRes.dll and stuff like that, which is strange.. But please upload your msigner folder because it must be something with the signing process.
EDIT: And thanks btw Same to you!

Wow!!! can't wait to try your new NGTV Taskbar!!!
Your's is always the best man! I'm a big fan of your Funk'd b&w taskbar!!!

Love the work......but its not working on mine, i installed the 6.5.x.... only 1 or 2 icons are showing up(volume and blue tooth) the rest are left blank.
I already have a pre installed taskbar that came with the ROM i'm using, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
The Rom i'm using is Laurentius26 V4.0 WWE Ultimate POWER
CE OS 5.2.23554 (23554.5.5.0)
Base oemdrivers 1.72.831.1 (82124) WWE

ArtieQ said:
That's really strange, I do exact the same. When I try to edit heavy files such as shellres.192.dll they just break the whole taskbar, some icons don't show up so I have to put back the old one. I can edit MessagingRes.dll and stuff like that, which is strange.. But please upload your msigner folder because it must be something with the signing process.
EDIT: And thanks btw Same to you!
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Hi ArtieQ, here my compressed folder of msigner.
Hope you solve your problems
Greetz
saveferris said:
Love the work......but its not working on mine, i installed the 6.5.x.... only 1 or 2 icons are showing up(volume and blue tooth) the rest are left blank.
I already have a pre installed taskbar that came with the ROM i'm using, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
The Rom i'm using is Laurentius26 V4.0 WWE Ultimate POWER
CE OS 5.2.23554 (23554.5.5.0)
Base oemdrivers 1.72.831.1 (82124) WWE
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The cooked taskbar with the rom is not a problem. The files are into the ROM, so they cannot be deleted, but can be installed an application or whatever you want that overrides the original files inside the ROM.
But....did you follow the instructions steps carefully?
I can believe some issue on Volume Control, it's a classic, but you are telling that you have no signal, battery etc etc icons....it sounds strange to me

Hi Dafunk,
So you released your new taskbar
Still very happy with the taskbar and def. will take a run on the white one..looks good too...nice work man !!
ps do you also have the one in green ?? i pm xennytech but no response...
i offen switch to a new homescreen and like to switch also with the taskbars so my looks of the phone doesnt get bored
keep up the good work
greetz

hullem said:
Hi Dafunk,
So you released your new taskbar
Still very happy with the taskbar and def. will take a run on the white one..looks good too...nice work man !!
ps do you also have the one in green ?? i pm xennytech but no response...
i offen switch to a new homescreen and like to switch also with the taskbars so my looks of the phone doesnt get bored
keep up the good work
greetz
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Hello hullem, nice to "see" you
About the Xannytech's mod I don't know...Xanny is a lot of time that has became invisible....he didn't post anymore for about 2 months or so
It is possible to recover the files by flashing one of his roms then extracting the dlls with RomExtractor or in another way don't care, so you can take them and make a cab. I should like to do it for you, but my time it's always very limited and I have to go ahead with the NGTV Taskbar....
If I will have a little time after released the NGTV Taskbar will give it a look, but it's not a promise mate
thanks hullem,
regards
dafunk

oke thanks dafunk,
Ill search some info for myself wich files i need and how to make a cab !?
haha no creator just taking al the wonderfull designs here....
take your time and if you dont have it to make it for me its oke
thanks again for the taskbar and letting me testing it !!!
greetz

dafunk2 said:
dafunk's NGTV taskbar PREVIEW
This is a quick preview of my new taskbar I'm working on these days.
It's based on the taskbar posted above, so the icons are still the same, but I inverted the colors black/white but keeping the icon border in black.​
What do you think about it?​​
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BEAUTIFUL!!!!

dafunk2 said:
dafunk's NGTV taskbar PREVIEW​
This is a quick preview of my new taskbar I'm working on these days.
It's based on the taskbar posted above, so the icons are still the same, but I inverted the colors black/white but keeping the icon border in black.​
What do you think about it?
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WWWWWWOooooooooooWWWWWWWWWWW It's VERY COOOOOOL MAN can't wait To see it

dafunk2 said:
The cooked taskbar with the rom is not a problem. The files are into the ROM, so they cannot be deleted, but can be installed an application or whatever you want that overrides the original files inside the ROM.
But....did you follow the instructions steps carefully?
I can believe some issue on Volume Control, it's a classic, but you are telling that you have no signal, battery etc etc icons....it sounds strange to me
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My Italian brother......
Install sdcerts................................check
install taskbar in phone memory.........check
Soft reset.....................................check
then after restart all hell breaks lose, no signal, battery, network icons...I thought i did get the volume icon but that was the icon from my previous taskbar
I have tried to take a screen shot but it doesn't allow me to get into main windows menu's. ie: the start button doesn't work.
In desperation i have also tried installing your taskbar straight after a hard reset..... same thing happens. I have never had any issues installing a taskbar with my current ROM before. hahah fun times.
Thanks for all your hard work bud.

dafunk2 said:
Hi ArtieQ, here my compressed folder of msigner.
Hope you solve your problems
Greetz
The cooked taskbar with the rom is not a problem. The files are into the ROM, so they cannot be deleted, but can be installed an application or whatever you want that overrides the original files inside the ROM.
But....did you follow the instructions steps carefully?
I can believe some issue on Volume Control, it's a classic, but you are telling that you have no signal, battery etc etc icons....it sounds strange to me
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Thanks for it, I'll try it later About the other guy, some cooked ROMs mess up the dll's so the resources aren't always on same place as another ROM etc. It's a pain but if you know how to edit dll's and stuff, you could just extract the ico's from this taskbar and put them on your own dll's.
EDIT: Not working. Start menu icon and signal bars dissapear (it shows that icon which means no signal or something). Can you tell me exactly how you do step by step when putting a new icon into a dll? Thanks.

ArtieQ said:
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EDIT: Not working. Start menu icon and signal bars dissapear (it shows that icon which means no signal or something). Can you tell me exactly how you do step by step when putting a new icon into a dll? Thanks.
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Same problem: I tried to enter your new wait cursor in your old dafunk_mod_28011 but not seen the icons .. tried reshacker, pebuilder, Restorator 2007 but nothing to do...BOH!