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Location of [3G] icon in WM 6.1 ROMs [UNSOLVED]

Hi all,
I've been searching for a way to change the ugly [3G] icon that's displayed on the title bar in WM 6.1 on my Kaiser. The current official icon looks distorted as if it has been stretched and is really ugly! I'm talking about the large plain 3G icon, not the one with the antenna next to it.
So far I've come across this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=351770
This thread refers to shellres.96.dll and also to a .CAB which contains a modified version of phcanOverbmp.dll. I extracted these two DLLs from my device and checked them with several resource editors, but could not locate the dreaded [3G] icon... I could find the battery, phone, wi-fi, and many other icons in there, but not the [3G] one. So it must be stored in a different DLL... Note that I'm using WM 6.1 (not 6.0). Could it be that these icons are located in a different DLL in WM 6.1?
Does anyone know the location of the [3G] icon in WM 6.1 ROMs? I want to do the modification myself (I'm a programmer and know how to do it). I just can't find the file it is stored in.
Any info/help is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks to all!
DrXDA

DrXDA said:
Hi all,
I've been searching for a way to change the ugly [3G] icon that's displayed on the title bar in WM 6.1 on my Kaiser. The current official icon looks distorted as if it has been stretched and is really ugly! I'm taking about the large plain 3G icon, not the one with the antenna next to it.
So far I've come across this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=351770
This thread refers to shellres.96.dll and also to a .CAB which contains a modified version of phcanOverbmp.dll. I extracted these two DLLs from my device and checked them with several resource editors, but could not locate the dreaded [3G] icon... I could find the battery, phone, wi-fi, and many other icons in there, but not the [3G] one. So it must be stored in a different DLL... Note that I'm using WM 6.1 (not 6.0). Could it be that these icons are located in a different DLL in WM 6.1?
Does anyone know the location of the [3G] icon in WM 6.1 ROMs? I want to do the modification myself (I'm a programmer and know how to do it). I just can't find the file it is stored in.
Any info/help is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks to all!
DrXDA
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Is this the one you are reffering to?

the icon is in phcanOverbmp.dll

Use resh to strip it

aruppenthal said:
Is this the one you are reffering to?
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Wow, your version looks better! The one I'm referring to is the one I'm attaching to this post. This is the icon that comes with the official 6.0/6.1 Kaiser ROMs.
This has got to be the ugliest, most distorted icon I've even seen in a WM device! It may sound like a minor detail to a lot of people, but it just spoils the otherwise beautiful Today screen of my Kaiser, that's why I want to change it if possible.

shogunmark said:
the icon is in phcanOverbmp.dll
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Thanks to everyone for the quick replies!
Are you sure it's in there? I tried checking phcanOverbmp.dll again using both PE Explorer and Resource Hacker, but it's not there, or I'm doing something wrong. I'm attaching the DLL to this post, if someone wants to check it out. This is the file that came straight out of my device, which is exactly the same as the file I extracted from the official ROM files (HTC WM 6.1 WWE). I just can't find the [3G] icon in there...

raiisak said:
Use resh to strip it
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've just tried resh on the DLL suggested above, but can't find the dreaded [3G] icon!!! See my previous post.

I think it's in the shellres.96.dll file. Check in there. I just checked mine and it's under Icon->44->0.

ecltech said:
I think it's in the shellres.96.dll file. Check in there. I just checked mine and it's under Icon->44->0.
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Many thanks for posting. Unfortunately this is not the same icon! I found this earlier on while I was searching the shellres.96.dll DLL. See attached image. This is the small version (3G logo on top-left), which is part of the animation it shows while connecting. This icon looks OK. The one I'm referring to is the large plain 3G icon with large distorted fonts, as shown in my post #5 above.
Thanks again for trying. I can't believe it's so difficult to find this little icon!

Still can't find it! Aaarghhh!
Hi again, sorry for bumping this, if any of the cooks out there reads this thread and has successfully modified the [3G] icon on a WM 6.1 ROM, I'd be really grateful if they could let me know how they did it. As said above, I was expecting to find it as an icon resource in a DLL, but checking both shellres.96.dll and phcanOverbmp.dll it's just not there... There are 500+ DLL files in the thing, so it's near-impossible to check them all manually...
If anyone knows anything about the whereabouts of this mystery icon, please let me know.
Many thanks in advance to everyone in the forum, your help is greatly appreciated.
DrXDA

Try IconsExtract from www.nirsoft.net. You can point IconsExtract at a folder and tell it to scan sub-folders too; just give it the root folder of your dumped ROM and let it go.....
As several people have already said, the icon is almost certainly in the pcCanOverBMP.dll file; there are about ten "3G" icons in my (WM6.0) version, most of which are the small versions that get displayed when a 3G data transfer is taking place......BUT, there is (at least) one icon that could be the main icon.
When you look at the output from IconsExtract, the 3G icons don't actually show until you click on them to highlight them, which makes me think they may be kinda transparent icons?
Have a go....see what you think
Mark.

phcanOverbmp.dll is where the 3G icon is located. I have a nice looking 3G icon from back in the Hermes days that works on the kaiser I will upload later if you still need it.

@Mark Crouch: Many thanks for the suggestions. I've never used IconsExtract, it sounds like the ideal solution for batch-extracting the icons in the 100s of DLLs in the ROM. I will give it a try and post my findings here.
About phcanOverbmp.dll, if you guys are absolutely certain that it's in there, then I must be doing something wrong. I tried at least 3 different resource editors and could not find it. But I did notice that different editors showed slightly different data (for e.g., Visual Studio's resource editor wasn't able to display all data for some reason). I hope IconsExtract will manage to show the dreaded icon.
@austinsnyc: Another vote for phcanOverbmp.dll, many thanks for this. Let me do some tests and if I still can't find it I'll ask you for the file.
Thx guys, will post here when I do the tests.
DrXDA

I am 100% sure that the 3G is in phcanOverbmp.dll.... Again you can also find the cab I am talking about by searching Xda for "clean 3G icon" you might find it in the hermes section but it works fine for Kaisers as well Now a CUSTOM 3G would be totally awesome and something I have not seen before except by using WiseBar Advanced which I don't like to use.

Still can't find it!
Hi again, I've just tried IconsExtract to extract all icons in phcanOverbmp.dll. Guess what? The damn [3G] icon still doesn't show up! There's only one icon in there (not related to 3G) and also some bitmaps (again unrelated to 3G).
Can someone please download the version of phcanOverbmp.dll that's in my Kaiser (it can be found here), and check it out to see if you can find the icon? I'm really looking forward to your results. Note that this DLL is the original file that is contained in the official HTC ROM, I've double checked this by extracting the same file from the official ROM image and comparing the two. It's definitely official and untouched.
Please note that I'm using the official HTC WM 6.1 WWE ROM (not the old WM 6.0 ROM). My guesses are that either the WM 6.1 ROMs don't have the icon in there, or maybe the icon is stored in a non-standard way, so the normal resource editors can't extract/show it.
Any ideas are welcome.
I think I'm beginning to give up on this...
DrXDA

The attached file is the one I have been using on Kaiser and previously used on the Hermes I had - no problems on either devices. I like it and am still using it today on WM6.1 PDAviet v7
I Believe that it was inside an add-on package from one of Schap's earlier WM6 roms (mid-2007).
search xda for "clean 3g icon" if you care to know it's history.

id242 said:
The attached file is the one I have been using on Kaiser and previously used on the Hermes I had - no problems on either devices. I like it and am still using it today on WM6.1 PDAviet v7
I Believe that it was inside an add-on package from one of Schap's earlier WM6 roms (mid-2007).
search xda for "clean 3g icon" if you care to know it's history.
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Many thanks, I will give it a try to see what happens. I quickly checked the phcanOverbmp.dll contained in your .CAB and voila! The 3G icon is in there (and looks nice too)! What I still don't understand is the fact that the 3G icon is NOT in my own phcanOverbmp.dll (original file from HTC). How come?
Anyway, I will try the .CAB to see what it does. But still, I was expecting to find the 3G icon in my Kaiser's original DLL too, so I can change it myself as needed. This is still a mystery to me...
Thanks again.
DrXDA

the reason i think HTC changes it from build to build and also something strange that might be cause of your problem inside the kaiser OS.nb there are to pecanoverlook.dll)) one is just like that one and the onther is _pecanoverlook.ddl which is swapped out for one another when Autro-run is run...
may not mean didle **** just a thought.

HELP: Transparent Taskbar & SoftKey bar in WinMo 6.5

Hi, I've just flashed Dutty's R4 Leo winMo 6.5 rom and am lovin' it, however I've seen a few other roms where their default theme/background is modified to look as though the taskbar and softkey bars are semi transparent so you can see the background image through the bars.
i've been reading up on this have already tried a few things that should have worked but I can't get any method to work, and need some help.
My first attempt was to see if making the black_taskbar.png file semi transparent in Photoshop and copying back over the file in the windows folder and and reseting would work, but no, transparency in the PNG isn't kept (or windows is using another file from somewhere).
Second method was to take crops of the top and bottom 52pixels of my preferred background (much like what HDWall does) and apply a semi transparent black on top and replace the existing PNG files in the windows folder, No transparency, just faking it, again it didn't work.
I'm now beginning to think that the HTC Black theme in Dutty's rom isn't using the black_taskbar.png or blacksoftkeybar.png files in the /windows/ folder
Please help me, can I use HDWall to create an updated HTC Black theme for Dutty's R4 winMo 6.5 Leo (manilla 2.5) rom so I can get my "Transparent" bars working? I'm reluctant to use HDwall cos I'm not sure how compatible it is with Winmo 6.5 and the Leo/Manilla 2.5 build, if not what else can I do?
or am I just doing something so obviously wrong that I just can't see it for the thought of being stupid.

hmm have you tryed MAXTF3D it worked for me

disable TF3D, copy these files to windows directory and owerwrite for full transparent top and bottom curtain and enable TF3D

nyasin1 said:
disable TF3D, copy these files to windows directory and owerwrite for full transparent top and bottom curtain and enable TF3D
Full transparent bottom.zip (163 Bytes, 9 views)
Full Transparent top.zip (340 Bytes, 7 views)
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Can this be used in WM 6.1?

gigno said:
Can this be used in WM 6.1?
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No it is only poslible in 6.5

abzza said:
hmm have you tryed MAXTF3D it worked for me
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This worked! nice one, thanks.
full transparency top and bottom to the task bar and soft key bar. Just means now that I have to do a little photoshop'ing to my backgrounds to apply custom bars top and bottom
thanks again for the help
shame there isn't just a registry key to modify that can set an opacity percentage level for the bars while in Manilla screens, windows 6.5 seems to be able to do it on the lock screen when in default skin. nevermind, you can't have everything perfect!

could you make the attached zips as .cabs please??

The files in the zip archives does not exist in the windows folder. Im using the dutty's 6.5 R4 rom.

For which build is it for?? i have shadowline's 6.5.1 build 23064 and when i put those files in windows dir they add to the folder but doesnt replace previous manila files. any chance to get it working on 23064?

mine is 23016 and there is no such files too.

You allready said the answer..
You have 6.5.1 and it works for 6.5

oops ;p yep the answer was there all the time. hahaha thanks Overloaded

Well im using this rom (the same as the author of this thread) and these files does not exist in my rom too.

i'm probably being an idiot...but what do you mean by "disable tf3d" ? disable touchl flo? as in uncheck it and use the standard wm 6.5 desktop? coz i did that, but it didnt work for me...

I just use the HDWallS.
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citiboy said:
I just use the HDWallS.
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how can u make the wallpaper to whole screen? i.e. the taskbar and bottom bar transparent?

hungera said:
how can u make the wallpaper to whole screen? i.e. the taskbar and bottom bar transparent?
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First: use HDWalls.cap set your Photo to 480x800, second: Change your wallpaper in setting tap(Use the same photo as the first step).

me neither
sawo said:
Well im using this rom (the same as the author of this thread) and these files does not exist in my rom too.
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well I am using this one Duttys Topaz WM6.5 Leo R4 Ultimate WWE and it is not there either, I will search for the file and see if I can replace it.

nyasin1 said:
disable TF3D, copy these files to windows directory and owerwrite for full transparent top and bottom curtain and enable TF3D
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Hi there, I am trying to get a transparent taskbar, or short of that, trying to change the colour.
I have a touch pro2 from vodafone UK now running the latest official rom wm6.5, and whatever I seem to do it just stays black, the vodafone today theme is light so i've made a nice wallpaper but the task bars look out of place, i've tried changing the windows mobile theme, this changes the taskbar colours but only when you click on the "start" button, everything else is just black.
I've tried changing the colour with maxTTM but this does nthing, I've also tried the transparent option and again...nothing, I can't even change the colour to a graduated glass effect that I've seen used elswhere.
Ive tried copying and overwriting with the files you posted but again....nothing, still black.
Any ideas please.

ir803 said:
Hi there, I am trying to get a transparent taskbar, or short of that, trying to change the colour.
I have a touch pro2 from vodafone UK now running the latest official rom wm6.5, and whatever I seem to do it just stays black, the vodafone today theme is light so i've made a nice wallpaper but the task bars look out of place, i've tried changing the windows mobile theme, this changes the taskbar colours but only when you click on the "start" button, everything else is just black.
I've tried changing the colour with maxTTM but this does nthing, I've also tried the transparent option and again...nothing, I can't even change the colour to a graduated glass effect that I've seen used elswhere.
Ive tried copying and overwriting with the files you posted but again....nothing, still black.
Any ideas please.
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I used maxTTM on my TD2 successfully, install the latest version 4.1, load it up, navigate to wm6.5 tab, ensure the following are set:
component: Both
Change Method: Wallpaper
adjust your alpha
make sure 'Soft Reset after convert' is selected
select 'Convert' phone will restart, and bingo mine was done

[THEME]°°DJC Taskbar Leo 6.5.x°° V0.5 Test! 29-01-2010

°°DJC Taskbar Leo 6.5.x°° V0.2
Many requests to make new taskbar for 6.5.x roms so here it is
Not finished yet but new dll sms & volume included.
Also new blue waitcursor included.
Don't forget this taskbar is basicly from tsowen,i have changed and remade icons & dll's so credits go still to Tsowen & me
Also thanks to Xannytech as i taken a copy of his work to change it with mine
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Very important: i have talk with some cookers and the result is that shell is different from sys 218xx and 23xxx and 28xxx
and htc volume control is different from rom and rom, and from device to device so not easy to make work for everyone,thats the reason why the cookers included the taskbar allready!
Im working with Xannytech rom and its working perfect for me so please report if its working for you and wich rom you use please
Install SDKCerts First!
This is only a test version so test, report and be kind until the V1 is out
Download DJCedric V0.5 LeoTaskbar 6.5.X.cab
Download DJCedric V0.5 LeoTaskbar 6.5.X.cab
Changelog:
V0.1 : Test version
V0.2 : Shellres.192.dll fixed (titanium ok now)
V0.3 : forgot it
V0.4 :built 23xxx
-working fine on Xannytech roms.
-working on Artemins HD2 ROM Ver 2.7.1
-do not install on miri's roms!!!
V0.5 : Built 23XXX
-some icons fixed
-Volume fixed
-working on more roms now,Xanny,energy,bobsbbq(flashed these roms so report other roms)
-Not working with miri's rom i think?
Don't forget to say Thanks!

working well on my Rhodium with WM6.5.5. Could it be that I now got the WM volume control back instead of the HTC Sense version (which I like more)?
Anyway thanks for the taskbar.
Cheers, M

oltp said:
working well on my Rhodium with WM6.5.5. Could it be that I now got the WM volume control back instead of the HTC Sense version (which I like more)?
Anyway thanks for the taskbar.
Cheers, M
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yes possible but i have test it and i still have the sense volume control dual so maybe its not my taskbar?
a question did you also the icons changed in bottombar like the screenshots please?

Hi Cedric,
Just tested it, few comments:
1- top taskbar colored icons not shown - only network shown
2- HTCvolumecontrol is broken, (ugly) WM control is shown
3- inbox email: the trash does not show up
4- try to go Titanium...
the graphics are really nice, that will be again a brilliant taskbar

Steve0007 said:
Hi Cedric,
Just tested it, few comments:
1- top taskbar colored icons not shown - only network shown
2- HTCvolumecontrol is broken, (ugly) WM control is shown
3- inbox email: the trash does not show up
4- try to go Titanium...
the graphics are really nice, that will be again a brilliant taskbar
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good feedback thanks.
1-i cant understand its working for me and the other guy to, all the icons works fine and shown in taskbar, did you have installed sdkcerts?
2- the volume now is confirmed (but working for me?),i try another dll,did you have the very latest dll file?
3-working for me too...
4-titanium works fine,do you mean the bottombar is not shown?
Thanks

djcedric said:
good feedback thanks.
1-i cant understand its working for me and the other guy to, all the icons works fine and shown in taskbar
2- the volume now is confirmed (but working for me?),i try another dll,did you have the very latest dll file?
3-working for me too...
4-titanium works fine,do you mean the bottombar is not shown?
Thanks
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Cedric,
For all the points, i have attached the pictures in my previous post.
another thing, the waiting cursor after removing the cab remains, i don't mind since i like the blue - but just to tell you.
titanium does not bottom seems screwed up - look @ the screenshots i posted.
the dll should be from 1.66 rom, 6.5.5 and manila 2.5 1922 - so pretty much the latest.
Awaiting for your taskbar, sure it will look pretty nice

Steve0007 said:
Cedric,
For all the points, i have attached the pictures in my previous post.
another thing, the waiting cursor after removing the cab remains, i don't mind since i like the blue - but just to tell you.
titanium does not bottom seems screwed up - look @ the screenshots i posted.
the dll should be from 1.66 rom - so pretty much the latest.
Awaiting for your taskbar, sure it will look pretty nice
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yes i have seen it,titanium is the same for me,searching for a solution...
i have the latest sms dll from 1.66 and i was thinking the volume dll also...maybe some wrong manipulations...i retry.
I really appreciate your help,as im not a pro for these thing ,im working on it

please can someone else report that once installed all the icon are shown in the taskbar?

Salut Cedric,
Same problem as Steve0007 here, missing icons (Batt H G E, But ok for BT and HP icons), but bottom bar and volume are ok.
I am on Artemis ROM FRA V2.5
Regards
Merci pour ton travail

thierryjc said:
Salut Cedric,
Same problem as Steve0007 here, missing icons (Batt H G E, But ok for BT and HP icons), but bottom bar and volume are ok.
I am on Artemis ROM FRA V2.5
Regards
Merci pour ton travail
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Thanks for the feedback.
your volume is ok?!?
strange...

V0.2 released,shellres.192.dll fixed,titanium must be ok now.
if someone can test and report please?
don't forget to install SDKCerts.

does that taskbar also work with hq wallpapers?

dt-floppy said:
does that taskbar also work with hq wallpapers?
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do you mean whit wallpapers made with hdwall?
don't know,have the taskbar influence on wallpaper???

Allways same problem with V0.2 some icons are missing, volume is ok.
I am on a fresh install of the new Artemis V2.7 FRA.
Regards

thierryjc said:
Allways same problem with V0.2 some icons are missing, volume is ok.
I am on a fresh install of the new Artemis V2.7 FRA.
Regards
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Ok thanks for the feedback
so strange because when i install it on my device all the icons are working!!!
i search further

For me most taskbar icons are okay except the signal icon is always showing no signal (but I have signal)
And the titanium bottom bar is still messed up for me...
Using Rhodium_AF rom on build 23518 on a Rhodium

ctbear said:
For me most taskbar icons are okay except the signal icon is always showing no signal (but I have signal)
And the titanium bottom bar is still messed up for me...
Using Rhodium_AF rom on build 23518 on a Rhodium
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ok thanks to help

Very important: i have talk with some cookers and the result is that shell is different from sys 218xx and 23xxx and 28xxx
and htc volume control is different from rom and rom, and from device to device so not easy to make work for everyone,thats the reason why the cookers included the taskbar allready!
im working with Xannytech rom and its working perfect

Hi DJC,
Really appriciate your effort to get it working for us. Running v02 now. BTW in v01 the volume started working after the second SR. It's still working on v02
So far:
BT icon works; enabled (blue) & visible (red), didn't test headset connected
Wifi icon works; conneccted and searching
Signal icon works; strength bars, G, 3G, H, I don't have edge at home
Batt. icon works
Mail delete button still replaced with the menu button
SMS left button replaced by X button.
In Titanium the windows logo isn't replaced.
Back-/lock button in startmenu works
X and OK buttons in apps and startmenu are not replaced/skinned
Volume control works.

great work
your windows button is much nicer than the one that xanny has...you should probably suggest him to integrate that in his ROM
or maybe its possible to make a cab just for the bottom bar because I like the bar at the top in XannyTech's ROM...

[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:
....
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!

[Taskbar][NEW for T-Mobile US] dafunk's NGTV Taskbar [WM 6.5 - WM 6.5.X]

- For WM 6.5 version read the post #1 below.
- For WM 6.5.X version read the post #2
- [NEW] For T-Mobile US stock WM 6.5 version read the post #5 [NEW]
- [NEW] For EXTRAS read the post #3 [NEW]
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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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dafunk's NGTV taskbar WM 6.5
T-Mobile US users: DO NOT INSTALL THIS VERSION. Go to post #5.
​
This taskbar is my mod from original Bilbobrian's (Brian's) one. I have inverted the colors black/white, but the original button layout is from Bilbobrian. Thanks Brian
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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Here is the animation of the custom wait cursor...hope you like it
The taskbar is in two versions: with "classic signal bars" and with "Black signal bars". See the image above.
The taskbar will install the default windows flag for Start button. See the image above. You can find alternative versions of the Start button graphics for classic/black signal bars in the attachments at the bottom of this post.
If you want to get rid of the "Start" text you can find the NO_START Patch WWE in the attachments at the bottom of this post.
Please note that this patch will work ONLY on WWE Roms.
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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)- Choose which version you install: with classics or with black signal bars.
Note: don't make the mistake to install directly one of the alternative Start button cabs. It will only install "shellres.192.dll" and not the full taskbar. Install the taskbar first.
3) - Perform a soft reset.
4) - Your volume icons will likely be skinned, but if you are experiencing strange issues with volume or you have the volume control "broken", showing the ugly Windows Mobile volume control, try to install the volume fixes how explained below:
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.
---- If in the place of the volume icon you have a black square or you have no icon at all, try to install: dafunk BlackBox Volume Fix.cab. ----
If the cab does not work please delete the following two reg entries:
HKLM/Software/HTC/VolumeOverlay/LoadIconFromResDLL
HKLM/Software/HTC/VolumeOverlay/SoundIconLink
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS PERFORM A SOFT RESET after installed or uninstalled some stuff!
And.......please, report feedbacks specifying your DEVICE, ROM, and OS VERSION
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Hope you like it....
Have fun(k)
dafunk
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Many thanks to my friend Santod040 for his help to fix the CDMA.
______________________________

dafunk's NGTV taskbar WM 6.5.X​
This taskbar is my mod from original Bilbobrian's (Brian's) one. I have inverted the colors black/white, but the original button layout is from Bilbobrian. Thanks Brian
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.
Here is the animation of the custom wait cursor...hope you like it
The taskbar is in two versions: with "classic signal bars" and with "Black signal bars". See the image above.
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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)- Choose which version you install: with classics or with black signal bars.
3) - Your volume icons will not be skinned.
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
If you are experiencing strange issues with volume or you have the volume control "broken", showing the ugly Windows Mobile volume control, try to install a different volume fix from the four provided.
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) - Perform a soft reset.
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS PERFORM A SOFT RESET after installed or uninstalled some stuff!
And.......please, report feedbacks specifying your DEVICE, ROM, and OS VERSION
---------------------------------------------------------------​
Hope you like it....
Have fun(k)
dafunk
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Many thanks to my friend Santod040 for his help to fix the CDMA.
______________________________

EXTRAS​
Screenshots of the NGTV CHT Locker graphics for GTX
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NGTV CHT Locker graphics​
There are at the bottom of the post 3 ZIP files: with classic signal bars, with black signal bars and with black signal bars for GTX theme.
The CHT Locker graphics are the graphics installed with Co0kie Home Tab: the battery icons showed when the device is locked, the locker icon and the active pages indicator icons.
Of course I made this for users of the taskbar who want to have the icons matching with their NGTV taskbar.
You will find into each ZIP 2 versions that differs only for the locker icon.
The locker icon in the image above is the #1.
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Taskbar backgrounds​
I made a taskbar background that is very nice IMHO for NGTV and GTX Sense Theme. I made the top right system clock background in the same style of NGTV but in black (the system hour is white....).
You can find the cabs at the bottom of the post, and there are a version for WM 6.5 (height 52 pixels) and a version for WM 6.5.X (height 36 pixels).
USE THE CABS IF ONLY YOU INSTALL THE TASKBAR BACKGROUND OVER GTX SENSE THEME.
The cab will install the file into Windows/GTX_Theme so will work only for this one.
You can also use the taskbar backgrounds with other themes, but you have to find out the name of the PNG of the taskbar of your theme, then rename and copy/replace it into the same folder with one of the following two PNGs.
Here the PNGs:
This is for WM 6.5
This is for WM 6.5.X
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Hope you like it.
Have fun(k)

Looks nice! Does it works on 2.5.2012?

dafunk's NGTV taskbar 4 T-Mobile US stock (WM 6.5)
​
My apologies to all the T-Mobile US stock users. I know that you had to do Hard Resets and believe me I'm really sorry.​But I wanted to made from scratch especially for you the NGTV. I took the .dlls from gfreek's v6 taskbar and edited them.
So, many thanks MASTER gfreek
This taskbar is my mod from original Bilbobrian's (Brian's) one. I have inverted the colors black/white, but the original button layout is from Bilbobrian. Thanks Brian
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.
Here is the animation of the custom wait cursor...hope you like it
The taskbar is in two versions: with "classic signal bars" and with "Black signal bars". See the image above.
The taskbar will install the default windows flag for Start button. See the image above. You can find alternative versions of the Start button graphics for classic/black signal bars in the attachments at the bottom of this post.
If you want to get rid of the "Start" text you can find the NO_START Patch WWE in the attachments at the bottom of post #1.
---------------------------------------------------------------
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)- Choose which version you install: with classics or with black signal bars.
Note: don't make the mistake to install directly one of the alternative Start button cabs. It will only install "shellres.192.dll" and not the full taskbar. Install the taskbar first.
3) - Perform a soft reset.
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS PERFORM A SOFT RESET after installed or uninstalled some stuff!
And.......please, report feedbacks specifying your DEVICE, ROM, and OS VERSION
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IF YOU DIDN'T READ THE OPENING POST AND INSTALLED THE WM6.5 NOT FOR T-Mobile,
TRY TO DO THE FOLLOWING TO UNINSTALL THE TASKBAR:
If your left hard key is still programed for voice, you can do a long hold and then voice comand "open settings" and go to apps for a quick uninstall.
Thanks to snasearles for the tip.
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Hope you like it....
Have fun(k)
dafunk
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Many thanks to my friend sirphunkee for his help to sort out the things for you T-Mobile US users
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Because i have a Problem. All Taskbars for 6.5.x only change the taskbar on my device not the bottom bar.
ROM: Artemis ver 10
Can´t wait for yours!

Dic3ptor said:
Because i have a Problem. All Taskbars for 6.5.x only change the taskbar on my device not the bottom bar.
ROM: Artemis ver 10
Can´t wait for yours!
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Thanks
But....I don't understand well what you mean...
The taskbar only changes the icons of the taskbar.
For the taskbar BAR and for the bottom bar (taskbar and softkeybar) you have to change the PNGs of those files...it's not related to taskbar installation.
Anyway follow my signature and try to install my black version of the taskbar, so you can see if it works for you

very nice,very nice,very nice

I mean DJC had one wich change both, top and bottom. And that doesn´t work for me.
And i don´t like the grey softkeys at the bottom.
But thx for your Help!!

I still waiting 4 release also in this thread too
Do u make 4 GSM ?
@ Dic3ptor
look @ my thread #2 there ur some softbuttonbars
and here from whiskeybro, too
MaTT

matt_jackson said:
I still waiting 4 release also in this thread too
Do u make 4 GSM ?
MaTT
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Yes Matt, it's fully compatible GSM and CDMA.
Santod040 helped me to skin the CDMA part because of an icon still missing that I couldn't find, but the taskbar is born GSM.
Now I cannot because I'm at work, but if I have enough time I will post it tonight (central europe) or tomorrow.
Thanks mate
cheers

Dic3ptor said:
Because i have a Problem. All Taskbars for 6.5.x only change the taskbar on my device not the bottom bar.
ROM: Artemis ver 10
Can´t wait for yours!
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Bottom bar and Task bars are two different things
You have to get two seperate cab files that address the two different objects. I am using Artemis 10 and have both Taskbar and Bottom bar skinned, of course using different cab files for each
Cheers,
Faisal.

@matt_jackson and faisalee.
Okay THX for your Help

Dic3ptor said:
@matt_jackson and faisalee.
Okay THX for your Help
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My favorite is attached with this message.
Install the Livven SimpleGloss Themes 192dpi.cab first followed by Livven Glass Selectors 192dpi.cab
Then go to settings, home and select the Black Livven! You will have beautiful finger friendly selectors and superb bottom buttons.
Search for Livven in the general Windows Theme forum, may be he already has some updated version to this. But this as it is works perfectly with Artemis and any other ROM!
Enjoy
Cheers
Faisal.

BIG THX!!

looks nice mate, keep up the good work

Very nice.
I can't wait.

Very very beautiful friend!!! but in the battery icon try to put only the %....I really like it!

Shum97 said:
looks nice mate, keep up the good work
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NEC0067 said:
Very nice.
I can't wait.
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dena994 said:
Very very beautiful friend!!! but in the battery icon try to put only the %....I really like it!
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Thanks guys
@dena994:
I was already thinking about to do it.....the only thing that stops me to make it is that I need a breath and not to see dlls for a while
Anyway I'm planning to release in the future battery indicator with only percentage as well as some new custom wait cursor or to add some more colors to this one.
Thanks again,
dafunk

they look awesome. : )