Today Screen Mods
 

Hey,

I've been lurking around here for a little while. I've learned alot, a whole lot. And I want to say thanks for eveyone who contributes to this great wealth of info.


I want to change the way my today screen looks, but I have NO IDEA how to go about that. I've gotten skins for my dialpad (zPhone) but thats as far as I've gotten.

Can someone give me a heads up?

wisbar advanced and wisbar desktop available at lakeridgesoftware.com but it isnt free, nor is it n00b friendly and quite frankly I dont think there are any good tutorials on actually appling themes. You will just have to check it out and see if thats what u want. ;) I personally dont use it because it does slow the overall performance of the ppc tho....
~mike

lol. Thanks.

I learn quickly. I'm very good with PC's but I've only been in the PPC world about a week and a half.

They slow the phone down? Considerably? Mah. Perhaps not then... is there anything I can do to change the look of the Today screen without causing it to be very slow?

yea its gonna slow it down a good bit, very noticeable. Im not sure I just stick to the basics of a good theme (most the time the default one) and a few neat little today plugins (really love the picture dial today plugin from the treo).
~mike

what is the piccture dial today plugin?

its located here. and looks like so....

http://upload4.postimage.org/1706961/CapScr0002.jpg

oh. I know of this one. Brain fart!

Wideawake what do you think about photo contact pro or inesoft address book. I have spb diary that has pic's on the today screen. But was wanting something to make the pictures bigger when a call comes in. Any help would be appreciated. Software opinion or different program then these two.

Well I stick to bare basics of what I need with almost every app u can imagine on my minisd. But I havent tried either of those, so I couldnt say. As far as bigger contact pic on incoming call, I do believe PhotoContacts Pro does that if Im not mistaken..

They both do that. I just don't know if there is any opinions on how either these run on the 6700. photo contact pro is pricy but I have spb plus and diary running on my today screen and spb said they made updates to help with contact pro. So if anyone else knows I would very much appreciate there opinion. Runs slow, not worth the money, dsod using this. Thanks

try the trials out and see which u like....

The latest version of WA is so much better. It still slowdown the ppc but it's not bad and you have to install it on main memory; otherwise it will make your ppc freeze. Photo Contact Pro is a very neat program but it takes along time to load. I didn't notice any slow performance once the program is loaded. Personally, I would go with Inesoft b/c it's more friendly with the ppc. Hope this helps.

I know it's going to hit me as soon as I post this : but what is WA? All informatio is helpful and I Thank You. I will check further into inesoft since I know contact pro is spb diary friendly, not sure about inesoft. Thanks again. EDIT: The only thing I am really interested in with both of these and any other program is larger incoming call pictures.

WA=Wisbar Advance. Photo Contact Pro will definitely give you BIG picture on incoming calls. The picture pretty much fills the whole screen when a call comes in. Get the trial version of both and see which one suits you.

WA = Wisbar Advance

I would give it a shot. Like wingzero mention the latest version works much better. I never had any major problems or slowdowns using it. The only little thing that bothers me about it is, their is no way to tell if you are in/using EV or 1X.

yeah, that's the only draw back.

I didn't Know wisbar advance was also like these, I will check them out. Thanks for the info.

Does anybody use/know photo contact pro. I'm trying it and have a few issues that I like to figure out before I try inesoft. 1.on a incoming phone call standard caller id balloon pops up for the first 3 or 4 rings then contact pro pops up for the last 1 or 2 rings. 2. I went to settings>phone and all my ringtones are missing (where are they) and I can't exit that screen because you have to enter a ring tone. So I did a soft reset. 3. How come the photo's I use in photo contact do not port over to standard contact or spb diary list? Idon't want to remove the program yet because I don't want to lose my ringtones. Thnaks !

i am using xcpuscalar 2007 on my 6700. i haven't encountered any problems with it yet. it speeds up your device. so if you're using wisbar and you are concerned about it slowing your device down, then check this site out:

http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a...reviews&id=412

personally i stopped using wisbar advance 2 and wisbar desktop because it kept freezing up my device.

bootheresa,
I am using Photo Contact Pro and when a call comes in, it go directly to PCP. Check your setting under Photo Contact pro. I also notice my photos didn't port over to the standard contact either. May be PCP don't have this function. I assume your ringtones are saved in either in the internal or minisd card, so uninstalling PCP will not erase your ringtones. Have you install any music player app? Sometime this will cause your ringtones not showing up.

jamaa124,
I running the latest version of WA and I don't recall my ppc freezes up but you have to install it to the main memory.