For those looking to skin your dialer (TDial 1.1.0, 12-09-07)

[tiermann]

If it's blueFrog or the Touch dialer from the WM6 kitchen, you could try...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\DIALER\PORTRAIT\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\DIALER\LANDSCAPE\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff

That's the default white, and all 0's should get you black. Should only affect the dialer screen and not the progress screen. Let me know if it works.

[ajgalbraith98]

That is the right area, and they obey basic HTML coloring (RRBBGG in Hex) for kicks i set it to a purple. It worked fine. Thanks for the location.
as a side note the color does affect the Dynamic text from the dialer..ie. the Last Call.

Also I verified that if you wanted to you can create the registry keys for the Progress and it will obey the TextColor also, but you must create the "Text" key, and the TextColor Value

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\PROGRESS\PORTRAIT\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\PROGRESS\LANDSCAPE\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff

--ajgalbraith98

[tiermann]

Originally Posted by ajgalbraith98

That is the right area, and they obey basic HTML coloring (RRBBGG in Hex) for kicks i set it to a purple. It worked fine. Thanks for the location.
as a side note the color does affect the Dynamic text from the dialer..ie. the Last Call.

Also I verified that if you wanted to you can create the registry keys for the Progress and it will obey the TextColor also, but you must create the "Text" key, and the TextColor Value

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\PROGRESS\PORTRAIT\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\PROGRESS\LANDSCAPE\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff

--ajgalbraith98

Thanks for that info Neither of those are in the RGU so that was a great find.

[OMJ]

Hey Tiermann,

tried your program again...very nice. gotta few questions though.

1. Which dialer would you recommend? Touch or BlueFrog?
2. I just cooked a ROM w/ Vogue but it appears to still have those issues u mentioned above.....no resolution yet? ....I don't care for this Vogue (the issues)
3. The skin I made for my wife is not working correctly, the digits & their background are grey/black, I verified that Dialer_BkgdP.png & Dialer_BkgdL.png are correct. I attached them straight from the /windows dir. Everything else appears to be ok.

Thx

[tiermann]

It looks like you have the wrong dialer chosen in Options->Dialer.
The first picture looks like you have the Vogue dialer on the phone and you're using a new Touch/BlueFrog skin.

The recommended dialer for skinning is the latest version of Touch in the WM6 Kitchen since it's basicly BlueFrog with the blue digits already hidden. In TDial Designer you would choose "BlueFrog (or new Touch)" from Options->Dialer. It's the smallest and simplest skin-wise and seems to have the least problems, if any.


A quick explaination of the differences:
BlueFrog has all of the buttons drawn on the background.

New Touch is the BlueFrog dialer with a different skin and a couple of registry tweaks to hide the blue digits. The change was made because the old Touch version had issues like not being able to dial 911 in certain cases. The appearance was kept almost identical, but the skinning method changed.

Vogue was pulled from the sprint touch (codename vogue). And it skins almost identically to the old (pre wm6 kitchen) Touch version which was pulled from the GSM version of the HTC Touch. All buttons are seperate images.


It's a little confusing since they all look the same, but each skins slightly different to get that appearance.

[tiermann]

I was just playing around with the basic digit set.
Theme is here if you want it. Will work with blueFrog and new Touch.

[OMJ]

I loaded up the skin I made, and checked the dialer, it is set to vogue.......anyway, I don't like the vogue issues, so I am going to build a new ROM w/ the dialer, then create a new skin to test.

thx for the help

[OMJ]

ok, I built a new ROM w/ the latest touch, then started from scratch w/ the dialer skin. It looks the way it should, but I'm having some weirds issues when making calls, maybe it's the dialer & has nothing to do w/ the skin, but here's what's happening:

1. When making a call, I'm getting the roaming icon.
2. If I dial *2 (Sprint CS) I get a msg that says "Verizon Wireless over the air programming....". It appears I'm roaming on Verizon, nad going to their CS.
3. When I end the call the radio has to search for a signal, goes back to PCS.

Any ideas? I tried setting the roaming option to Sprint only, but it made no difference.

[tiermann]

Originally Posted by Old_Man_Jenkins

ok, I built a new ROM w/ the latest touch, then started from scratch w/ the dialer skin. It looks the way it should, but I'm having some weirds issues when making calls, maybe it's the dialer & has nothing to do w/ the skin, but here's what's happening:

1. When making a call, I'm getting the roaming icon.
2. If I dial *2 (Sprint CS) I get a msg that says "Verizon Wireless over the air programming....". It appears I'm roaming on Verizon, nad going to their CS.
3. When I end the call the radio has to search for a signal, goes back to PCS.

Any ideas? I tried setting the roaming option to Sprint only, but it made no difference.

I've been using both the Touch and BlueFrog from the kitchen back and forth now for a while. Before that was the Vogue. And before that I used the old Touch version. I've never had roaming problems like that.

Not sure, but that doesn't even sound like a dialer issue. The only time I've seen something like that happen is when someone clones an ESN and some of the settings are still there from the old carrier.

Maybe someone else has had that problem before though.

[cdingevan]

Hello,

I created a skin with the application and copied the files to the windows dir. soft reset and it's still not working. I have ppc 6700 and wm6. any suggestions?