I was wondering if there have been attempts at skinning the bare interface of WM. I have seen the .net3.5 sense UI sdk, but I haven't seen anything that makes the whole OS look like sense. Or does that SDK actually skin WM?
Should have known that a .tsk would do the trick. . .Need to get back in the game
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I would like to know if there is a way or a theme out there that makes your start and status bars look like the rounded windows mobile 6 on a WM5 os. I've tried several I found around the web and they just make the colors but don't change the shape. Still boxy WM5 style.
The only way I know to make it as close as possible to have WM6 is to use wisbar advance which is a task/theme manager and then download one of skins in the forums, like the WM6 theme which is pretty close to making it look glossy like that
http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=110472
i think it describes itself. just disable cleatype.
ya that's what I'm talking about! thanks!
hey but it shows up in running programs, so everytime i do "stop all" it stops running, so can anybody tell how to hide it from running programs.
Personally I would just install WM6- it's fairly easy, bug free (with crossbow 1.5, at least from my experience), and works WAY better than WM5, feature and performance wise.
But yeah, I used to use wisbar in WM5, but honestly it's not worth it...
Does anyone know of a Theme Previewer that runs on WM? I hate having to load a theme and then go to the today screen to see what it will look like.
Thanks
Rick
i found several for pc's on google last time i searched never looked for ones for wm though
Hi Rudegar,
I have seen a few for windows also. I just would like to be able to preview the theme before I select one.
Rick
I totally love touch flo but I am not sold that it is anything but eye candy and that other software overlays for WM6.1 might be better.
I was curious if there are people out there who have jettisoned touchflo in favor of something else, and what is that else?
Thanks for your opinions, input and software suggestions.
i go back and forth between wad and manilla
I googled WAD and was soured by what Google thinks I was referencing. )
What are you referencing? Manilla is TouchFlo right, but where does hte manilla come from? What is WAD?
WAD is Wisbar Advance Desktop, here you go:
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
There are a lot of nice skins for WAD.
ufufu got it for you
yes manilla is "touch flo"
manilla comes from htc but has been reverse engineered by some developers on xda.
joel2009 said:
i go back and forth between wad and manilla
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i added wad to pda V10 and cant get it to work.. i disabled tf in today but wad still wont display weather etc..
its just a black screen
i really like the look of what wad is supposed to be..
any help is greatly appreciated
thanx
i see it the same way.. Manila2D/TF3D is good only for having your PDA look cool. it's not as useful as a PDA could get.
I set my UltimateLaunch to be as useful as i could using FEWidgets/Makecall (for speed dialing)/Rumball's weather/some internet icons and a networking plugin... and so forth.
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How do you feel wisbar advanced desktop comapres to SPB pocket plus, do you have any experience?
Glad to hear I am not alone with tf3d not being the ultimate in work horses, I will look into ultimate launch.
by blank screen does it actually look like a blank screen, or does it look like there is nothing on your today screen. wisbar has to be completely designed by hand, or you have to download a theme file.
go here for a theme and tutorial i have put together.......
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442813
I have the same question and thoughts - perhaps WAD or SPB mobile shell would be a better fit b/c of the greater potential for customization. Can anyone comment on the memory usage / responsiveness between tf2d and WAD or tf2d and SPB mobile shell?
the opposite here. i used to have ultimateLaunch, but when Manila (TF3D) was born, ditched UL and now I am a happy manila user... love the changing themes every now and then, and everything else that comes with it, e.g. great graphics (rain animation is nice) and the close to no maintenance. manila is a little less flexibile the UL, but, pros overcome cons, for me at least.
There is a theme called Blue Eye for TouchFLOW phones like my Viva. I wanted to know can I use it on QVGA even if it is VGA, I would like to modify it. Is this possible?
I used to modify skins before. Just that was 5.0... I just got a Viva now and wanted to really start cracking. I'll be applying SPB Shell 3.5.3 (Latest) and the ProPlus Elegance Skin Ultimate. If I cannot get Blue Eye functional.
I'm a graphics and web designer as well so no need to worry And I had made an iPhone layout a long time ago for the HTC Wizard about 2 years ago. Mainly just a debunk version of iFonz.
Hi everibody, so sorry to post a question where it's not allowed but the Q&A section for windows mobile doesn't exist anymore, so I didn't know where to post it.
I am an HD2 owner and for me it's simply perfect with windows mobile, the only thing is that in WM 6.5 and in sense 2.5 there are no smooth and fluid transitions. Don't know if I explained well what I mean. For example in Iphone, android or in any other new OS when I swipe left or right on the screen, the elements move gradually out of the screen and the new one enter gently. In Manila 2.5 no, there is a gap unless you use the manila . Is there a way to make this happen? The same thing when I press the start menu or when I turn the phone in landscape mode, or when I unlock it. I think that the lack of animated transitions make the OS look much older than it is.
Please, I'm asking a last effort to make this system awersome...
as you are using manila 2.5 the nearest to your request is Co0kie Home Tab 2.0. Then you can get in your home tab 7 screens to slide left & right, and 4 levels to slide up & down, and even put some widgets on it.
Other option is MaxSense, but never tried myself. I think you would need to flash a rom with Maxsense as is not provided as .cab
If you wish to try Co0kie 2.0 and need further help post question in the CHT thread.
Thank you for the reply =)
yeah, I'm actually using the HD2O rom with CHT and I noticed that there is the possibility to use widget in the home screen, but I was thinking of something more integrated in the system...for example I found WinStart (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935808): this is an app that replaces start menu and adds the kind of animations for windows I was looking for. Unfortunately I found this program a little too buggy (some icons disappear and many icon names are changed) and very slow I hope it could be possible to continue in this direction, because I think that the idea is good, but in my opinion it isn't developed properly (those animations could be integrated in a cooked rom probably) and have a similar program for Manila too. It would be simply wonderful.
Of course those are only my suggestions, but I know that nobody would develop any further for windows mobile something like this because this OS is considered dead, but I still love it more than any newer one.
I'm using an energy ROM with CHT & find it very fluid for all functions really & far more flexible than iphone & a lot better looking than Android & many functions less clicks to access.
For the hardware spec of the phone & slow official development WM was & actually still is very very good, if you look at layout of Android & compare it to WM6.5.3 you will see a lot of copying by cheeky Google ...
I need viber software for hd2 plz help me
I need viber software for hd2 plz
Windows Mobile does have animated transitions, but they're generally disabled, as they're slow and ugly.
You can still get them back using the registry (I can find that for you), but you'll probably regret it.
BTW, as my much esteemed colleagues said already, HTC Sense and Co0kie's Home tabs extension prvide pretty nice animations and sliding screens already.
sd144 said:
I need viber software for hd2 plz
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You need what ?
Could you be more precise and explicit, please ?