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Windows Mobile 5 - Lossy Today Wallpapers (pix inside)

Hey all
I've just recently upgraded from a Magician to a Prophet.
One thing I've discovered is that images I set as the wallpaper get converted and saved in jpg with a compression mode of, like two or something.
It never did this in WM2003 on my Magician. It was always tiled.
The screenshots can probably describe it better than I can.
Image set as wallpaper through the today screen/WM5 Picture Viewer.
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Result:
http://jed.delagged.net/jpgs/screen018.png
Even when I set transparency to 0:
http://jed.delagged.net/jpgs/screen019.png
A brief search of the forums shows nothing. I've not really looked into it yet (landscape issue? ctrl+f registry, etc) but when I get a fix I'll post it here.
Anyone got any ideas in the mean time?
Please no "omg i see no diffrence lol" posts.

The files "stwater_240_320.jpg" (portrait) and "stwater_320_240.jpg" (landscape) are in \windows\ and are the images used on your desktop. Copy your files directly over these and you will keep whatever quality you originally had without them being downsampled by the wallpaper picker.
It also allows you to have a different image for landscape and portrait.
Oliy

Some reg tweaks as CABs

I made some reg tweaks as CABs.
The first one is to enable ClearType in landscape.
I made 2 screen shots (note that clear type is some what blurry, but you see less "jaggies" I hope that is the right word):
With ClearType:
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Without ClearType:
Look especially at the "y" to see the difference!
The second CAB is for Power Saving. It enables 3 power management options in the registry. I don't know yet how successful this is, but on PPCs it is very good.http://www.mediafire.com/?9xsulxowjzz
If you don't want it anymore you can easily uninstall them!
Please report back if they work properly, especially the ClearType one, as I read that it reverts back after a few reboots!​

Thanks for the CABs, but allow me one question: when exactly occur the jagged letters? I tried some apps (including File Explorer 'Recent Programs') and had always antialiased letters.

I can't download cabs.
May be broken.

Can you upload it on rapidshare, I am getting this messege:
"Error: The content no longer seems to be available via MediaFire."

I just noticed that the files are gone? Maybe because MediaFire did maintenance yesterday! I'll reupload!

Anyway to adjust the menu font size/icons?

I just wondered if there is anyway we can adjust the system font size and icons in the menu's as I have always thought they were too large when compared to other phones?
Xperia Play:
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Desire:
Example, when you press the power button you get the little menu for airplane mode, silent etc, on the HTC Desire the fonts are much smaller and it even has nicer icons, can we add this?
Same as the main system menus, the HTC's have smaller fonts with really nice colorful icons, we just have black and white icons,
I know its not a huge thing but I always wondered so thought I'd ask!

In CyanogenMod 7 there is an app called Spare Parts where you can tweak that.

Logseman said:
In CyanogenMod 7 there is an app called Spare Parts where you can tweak that.
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I've tried spare parts and it lets you change fonts although it resets on reboot, it also doesn't let you change icons?

[Q] Landscape lockscreen?

Hi,
I experienced quite the same "bugs" (in Nexus S stock rom) like the two following threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827657
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046670
I know a reproduceable bug for getting the homescreen into landscape mode, it even changes the style of the buttons (menue, browser and phone) to the landscape mode.
I have no idea how to reproduce the bug which causes the lockscreen to be in landscape mode for a couple of seconds. After those seconds the lock recognizes that it has done something "wrong" and rotates to portrait mode. The screen is rendered properly in landscape mode, as seen on some tablets.
Does anyone know a method to enable landscape mode for both, homescreen and lockscreen?
I think cyanogen is capable of displaying a landscape homescreen, is it also possible to enable this for a lockscreen? If not, does anybody know a custom rom with this options?
Thanks
nico

I do not think it's possible unfortunately
Sent from my SNES

there is an app for that: com.googlecode.eyesfree.setorientation
(sry cant post link :/)

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Layers Manager

Seen it, tried it to the point of changing the look of third party apps like Instagram and you tube.. Curious about possibility on changing the system ui layers and some other stuff.. But before that, wanna know how to revert to stock layers ? I know they are kept in system/vendor/overlay but can't copy/paste to that directory since explorer says it's read only..
OK, the layer manager got uninstall func, so that's solved but the question about changing ui still remains..
Some thoughts?
Youtube
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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Instagram
Looks like it works..
Nice
Sent from hell

I tried the Layer and seem to work but not on all menus. For example, the menu settings by selecting color black for the background, remains white while submenus change color completely and work well. Perhaps the problem is that the layers are not include the menu "cover" and "safety", which is used on our terminal.
If any user is able to create layers would be great thing.

Yes, the same happened to me. For apps it works great but UI makes a problem.. For now I personally use it for Google play store, and Android keyboards to get dimmer layout.
Sent from hell