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How 2 change vodafone start menue background to standard?

Hi all,
I own a Vodafone VDA V (=HTC Vox). I have chosen the Windows standard start page with standard color scheme and standard background.
Everything appears fine, but only the backgound picture of the startmenue (where all the programs and preferences are) is still the "striped" greyish vodafone background.
Any ideas how to change this in the registry and what the name of the standard background picture is to which I then would referr to in the registry?!
TIA

All the standard icons are on the vodafone rom to get them there are 2 ways easy or registry changing
Now if you are really lazy and want to clear all your vodafone icons and change the start menu order then try the following app IBE tweaks ,
choose the image options in the menu
Now change the following for the icons
input phone number up .... windows\ms_mobile.gif , that gets rid of the grey vodafone icon and gives you the smartphone strip
for warnings ect ...
error promt ...windows\yell.gif
warning promt'...windows\yell.gif
information promt ... windows\info.gif
question promt ...windows\ques.gif
earphone volume ...windows\volume.gif
To get rid of the grey smartphone start menu background change start menu option to a photo you own , then choose save , after that go back and delete the startmenu option you just did and it will make the start menu go back to the original windows mobile colours
choose other options/menu startmenu sequence to change the start menu to what you want
The call screen has to be edited with a good reg editor go to ...
HKLM\security\phone\skin\PROGRESS\portrait\other and change the bmpnormal to cprogback.png
then go back and do the same in landscape and you will have the nice jet black calling backround
the application IBE tweaks comes with a 3 day trial so enough time to change your vodafone icons and start up screens if you want that changed as well just the reg needed for the calling screen
http://www.ibegroup.com/viewitem.aspx?ProductID=104
You can also do the above through resco registry ( as i did ) or simular but it takes longer
dont forget when you have finished back up your phone with sprite so if you hard reset it then its quick to get it back to vodafone free mode
problem solved

@wabbit
Can you please give a pointer to the registry keys to edit instead of using the tweak tool? Many thanks!

jbn said:
@wabbit
Can you please give a pointer to the registry keys to edit instead of using the tweak tool? Many thanks!
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Yes please, describe how to change above mentioned with registry editor instead of ibe!
TIA

you can simply use the Modaco de-brand tool for free
i used it on my voda french and everything is ok, just bootscreen
HTML:
http://www.modaco.com/SPV-E650-de-Brand-Fix-P-t255845.html

the e650 de brand tool does not work as it adds folders that are not on the vodafone version which has alot of programmes in media which is not on the rom , you can use it but then you need to use a good explorer exe to delete the incorrect icons and folders , using the app i stated which has a 3 day trial ( enough time to change the icons and then delete it as the app is not required anymore )

well, it worked fine for me, it just added a java shortcut that doesn't work...
i'm still searching for a tool to remove ugly 'welcome' and 'good-bye' screens

Getting rid of the Vodafone welcome and good-bye screens would indeed be very nice
Thanks to wabbit - awesome!!
I got an "Access Denied" when I tried to alter my call screen through the registry (using MobileRegistryEditor.exe) but I guess my phone's locked? I need to research that more. Might explain why some other stuff that I've tried doing had little effect

Quick search of the forum later and phone app unlocked and the final bit done. Nice one!!

Sadly my vodafone s710 is being repaired as the joypad fell off as soon as i get it back i will post all the reg keys needed so you can tweak it yourselfs including removing the vodafone startup and shutdown screens

Vodafone screens
Any news for the voda on and off screens ??

Messed up font in Comm Manager

My font in Comm Manager is messed up. Hardly readable and with missing language specific sings like åäö. Of course it's som of the programs I've installed thats causing this, but even if I uninstall them the right font doesn't appear.
What can I do? Besides hard resetting? Am I missing a font and if so, which?

i have the same thing. are you also using the orbit 2.

No, I've got a Polaris.

I had the same thing on my orbit 2, only way of clearing it was a hard reset. I suspected it was one of the skins i loaded for phonealarm.

no phoneallarm installed and same problem, so...

I had this problem for a while, I did some investigating and found that it was due to my installation of Weather Panel by Marsware. to fix this you need to delete the pixel.ttf and BRADHITC.ttf files found in the "Program Files\Marsware\WeatherPanel\themes\default" folder, i just renamed them to .bak. do a soft reset and you should be OK. If you don't have weatherpanel, try searching your device for any .ttf file, you should only have three Cour.ttf, tahoma.ttf, and tahombd.ttf and they should be located in \windows (don't delete these three) anything else you find might be the problem, try renaming and then Soft reset.

Same problem here; it appeared after installing phonealarm

search with resco explorer for .ttf
do not delete tahoma.ttf tahomabd.ttf cour.ttf
delete Bradhitc.ttf and
newton.ttf and
Pixel.ttf or anything else

Oh course I have both WeatherPanel AND PhoneAlarm.
But your advice did help. Thanks.
I was thinking what causes Comm Manager choose another font and how to stop it.
I'm thinking of two ways. Either copy the needed font to the same directory as the exe file or make a copy of the needed font and reneme it with an a in fron, if Comm Manager looks for any font, and goes for it an alphabetic order.

Similar thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1871697

I have of course both Weather Panel and PhoneAlarm.
But your tips solved the problem, I uninstalled the fonts.
But what causes Comm Manager do take another font? Does it look for the "nearest" font in a folder close to it or does it choose from an alphabetic order?

I had the same problem in my XDA Orbit, but it isn't the phone fault, but WM's. I'v copied a new font (random one, for skinning Wisbar Advance) into /windows/fonts folder and after soft reset, the comm manager font changed. I think, that maybe, somehow, Windows makes the last used/updated/copied font a default font for it. Try re-copying tahoma in windows/fonts. I can't try it for myself now, waiting for my Orbit 2 hehe, but I know the issue. Hope it helped.

HTC Diamond Theme for the slide wm6.1

HTC Diamond Theme for the slide wm6.1 240x320 screen
install the cab then go to start settings down to more to regional settings go down to time format go to 00:00:00 am or pm
format

looks awasome mate nice job!

Nice looking theme!

it is fantastic, but i have a 176x220 display
T_T
can anyone resize it? can anyone say how to resize it by myself? (or can anyone point me in the right place to get this stuff for my *rare* relolution?)
tia
znì

if you use nrg weather app and are having trouble with it and the theme
you can try chome configurator here it is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=393104 go in to it and hit ctestuiplugin and hit show exit out
it used to work for me but with the one I have now I have to us a reg edit and go to security/chome/defaultsettings/ctestuiplugin change disabled to 0 and go to
software/Microsoft/chome/ctestuiplugin change disabled to 0
here is some cpr. files if the clock slide changes back.just install the cab one is for 3.0 to 3.2 and one is for 2.0 to 2.3 then go to options in the weather app layout options and pick one of the cpr. the weather app over writes the cpr file in windows so win you pick a layout it will kill the clock slide till you put the cpr files I made in it

here is some original wallpaper that came with the htc diamond and I added a bronzeres.dll with black diamond icons
and if you are using my theme I added a clear clock so you can add your own wallpaper the original had a black background all you have to do is add the files to the windows folder on the phone and if you us the black bronzeres.dll just switch to a noun slide theme thin add it
to the windows folder if you us freddy's menu or dialer I added icons to the icon folder for the icon folder for them.http://allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2321&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=10

*snip* :-D .. (some microwaves might have fried my brain - now it works )

won't work on my i600
hi everyone, i have a samsung i600 with original winmobile 5; i installed on but the screen has nothing, just "start" "Contacts" and the battery icon. nothing more. u know why?

the theme is made for wm6.1

ok many thanks

kron2 said:
the theme is made for wm6.1
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I've used it on my i617 with wm 6.1 and it still doesn't work.........

kron2 said:
HTC Diamond Theme for the slide wm6.1 240x320 screen
install the cab then go to start settings down to more to regional settings go down to time format go to 00:00:00 am or pm
format
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I apoplogize ahead for my ingnorance! I am downloaded the cab you posted, but I am very new to this nd I don't know what I need to do w all the files. I assumed it was a an auto installation cab, so if anyone can help I appreciate it, I really like the theme nd it looks like you did an excellent job.

johnnyeoneal said:
I apoplogize ahead for my ingnorance! I am downloaded the cab you posted, but I am very new to this nd I don't know what I need to do w all the files. I assumed it was a an auto installation cab, so if anyone can help I appreciate it, I really like the theme nd it looks like you did an excellent job.
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It sounds like you unzipped the cab file because otherwise you wouldn't see all the files. Redownload the cab and save it to your phone, but do not extract the files from it first. Then use file explorer on your phone to start the cab install by clicking on the cab file.

hey coo theme who created it?

i have this installed and running on a Blackjack 1 with 6.1, everything seems to work right except the clock and the slider panels. The clock is the standard clock not the one on the screenshot of the OP, the slider panels are blue no matter what back ground i use.
Is the default background supposed to be the black diamound one? I bet its not showing up because this is not made for a landscape device. could this be made for a landscape device?
OK look at the second posters avatar.....my screen looks just like that. Isn't it supposed to have the diamound style clock and background? When i switch the the diamound green or diamound fire they both show up fine, just the clock is not diamound and the panels are blue.

Buckoni said:
i have this installed and running on a Blackjack 1 with 6.1, everything seems to work right except the clock and the slider panels. The clock is the standard clock not the one on the screenshot of the OP, the slider panels are blue no matter what back ground i use.
Is the default background supposed to be the black diamound one? I bet its not showing up because this is not made for a landscape device. could this be made for a landscape device?
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sorry i did not make it for landscape and it would not work on it

ok, well thats to bad, it is really a cool home screen. I didn't think there would ever be this kind of screen on a smartphone.
Great work though! I wish i could figure out how to do this kind of stuff!

Well i took a pic of something black and made it my home screen and with the blue sliders it looks pretty good! So i don't have the clock like i wanted but, all the other stuff works and i have a pretty cool looking home screen!
Thanks!

kron2 said:
HTC Diamond Theme for the slide wm6.1 240x320 screen
install the cab then go to start settings down to more to regional settings go down to time format go to 00:00:00 am or pm
format
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So I installed cab on phone succesfully, but I went to settings, more, regional settings nd I tried to change the time format like you said but it only gave me a few to choose from ( 11:19:42 am or pm) but wouldn't let me enter in 00:00:00 or anything else. Please help & thanks.
edit: FYI it seems to be working just fine w/out adjusting those settings, excatly what does changing the time format do? Thanks again nd I luv the new theme, keep up the good work.

johnnyeoneal: you have it right I just put the 00:00:00 for currant time and if you didn't change your time to that format it would not line up with the diamond like boxes

Help, Co0kie's Home Tab V1.8 trouble

i just upgraded from 1.7 and have nothing but problems with the new update
1. my home screen, nothing loads. clock, weather, tabs are all missing. i just see my previous lockscreen wallpaper
2. i can get to all of my apps but not my settings shortcut from the middle button.
overall, phone is extremely sluggish and bad experience for me maybe i need to reinstall but how do i uninstall when i'm unable to access my settings? my file explorer will load if that helps

diviznrider said:
i just upgraded from 1.7 and have nothing but problems with the new update
1. my home screen, nothing loads. clock, weather, tabs are all missing. i just see my previous lockscreen wallpaper
2. i can get to all of my apps but not my settings shortcut from the middle button.
overall, phone is extremely sluggish and bad experience for me maybe i need to reinstall but how do i uninstall when i'm unable to access my settings? my file explorer will load if that helps
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please more information

just a suggestion. better post your concern at the main thread of cht.

I have no idea.
Go ask in the original CHT thread?

hey, i tell ya what,
post the issues yer havin in Co0kie's thread,
instead of startin new threads mate,
much easier for all!

This is what worked for me when I had similar problems... ...
1 Disable sense/enable windows default.....
settings>today>untick sense/tick windows default
2 soft reset
3 re-install CHT 1.8 (I just reinstalled over the top of the previous install)
I know thats not recomended but hey........
4 soft reset
5 Re-enable sense (step one in reverse)
Soft reset just for good measure....
worked for me anyway...........
hope that helps

I've had the same problem tried instal and uninstal cht but only hard reset worked for me now got cht 1.8 but works quite slow for me on my Hd2

Post this in the main CHT thread please. We are more likely to read problems there, and get onto testing solutions.

[q] help! Skins won't install!

I'm trying to install skins on my hd2 wm 6.5 and no matter what skin i install, the taskbar and softkey menu's always stay blue. i go into settings and home, and only two themes show up for my device: cell_theme and classic blue. none of the installed cab themes appear (yes they are made for 6.5) and no matter which of the two that who i pick, its always blue.
so how to i either:
A. manually change the colors for the taskbar (without really using code)
B. get these theme cabs to install?!
i've looked everywhere on the net and nothing seems to work.
thanks for any help.

jazzmanmonty said:
I'm trying to install skins on my hd2 wm 6.5 and no matter what skin i install, the taskbar and softkey menu's always stay blue. i go into settings and home, and only two themes show up for my device: cell_theme and classic blue. none of the installed cab themes appear (yes they are made for 6.5) and no matter which of the two that who i pick, its always blue.
so how to i either:
A. manually change the colors for the taskbar (without really using code)
B. get these theme cabs to install?!
i've looked everywhere on the net and nothing seems to work.
thanks for any help.
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Did you install them on Device Memory or SD Card?
Install them on Device Memory!

yes, installed on device memory, was asked to reboot, rebooted, and nothing! no new theme and cant find the theme in the settings.