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

[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.

Aside from appearance, the skins won't affect any other part of the dialer itself. They only contain images.

Originally Posted by Old_Man_Jenkins

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

Looking at that picture, there must be a bug in skin loading. You're actually in blueFrog mode if you don't have all color options. I'll have to fix that for next release.

Edit: I can duplicate that skin loading bug here. It does put you in the correct mode that the skin was saved in, but it doesn't check the right option on the list. Easy fix.

--v1.0.8
-The Options->Dialer choice is properly checked depending on the mode you are in.

[OMJ]

Originally Posted by tiermann

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.

I guess I'll need to take a close look in the kitchen, as I am getting the same result on both my 6700's. Maybe the dialer is conflicting w/ something else......I was using the ibliss dialer up till yesterday.

I tried a hard reset, but still have the issue, maybe I'll try the bluefrog dialer.

[tiermann]

You'll need a program like Resco Explorer or Total Commander to be able to overwrite the ROM files. Or the images can just be placed in the Patches folder of your kitchen when building the ROM.

[tiermann]

Sounds like you may need to stick with the stock radio.

[OMJ]

Originally Posted by tiermann

Sounds like you may need to stick with the stock radio.

yeah I think yer right....how's this for a kick in the nads.....flash back to Sprint stock rom, make a test call to *2, goes roaming to verizons CS. what???......flash again to Sprint stock rom, made a couple test calls ok, flash to wm6 w/ touch dialer, so far so good.....I'm leaving the radio @ 1.27 for now.

i'm using your Christmas skin.....very nice.....thx for all the help.

[tiermann]

--v1.0.9
-A cab file is now created in the same folder the skin is saved to. This can be used as an alternative to copying the files to \Windows.


For next release, I'll be adding text colors, etc, for blueFrog/new Touch so that the reg settings will be added to the cab file as well. For now the cab only contains images.

[tiermann]

--v1.1.0
-Fixed problem with landscape progress background showing as portrait when loading a skin.
-Added ability to change the statusbox text color (and dial digits) for portrait and landscape individually. BlueFrog/new Touch only, and you'll need to use the cab version of your saved skin. Eventually you'll be able to change progress button text too as well as set seperate colors for dialer and progress, but for now I need to rework the interface to fit it all in.

[Biggjimmy7]

Hey Tiermann,
great work on the application and all the hard work. I was able to load and create a few skins that look perfect thanks to your program but I have hit a snag that would be helpful in the future with other skins. I'm currently using my PPC-6700 with the HTC MW6. In the top right corner of the dialer screen the "stock" color seems to be white when you dial the numbers, how do I go about changing the color to Black so I can see the numbers I am dialing? I have tried both the HTC and BlueFrog dialers and got mixed results.



As you can see all the dial letters are transparent as I set it up to be with the HTC Dialer BUT I cant get the letters that I dial to come up black in the top right corner. With the BlueFrog dialer below you can see that the dialing numbers come up jet black when I wanted it to be transparent BUT I had the ability to see the numbers I was dialing in the top right corner. How do I go about acheiving the look I want, or will I just have to accept the look I got from the BlueFrog dialer so it's functional aswell?

[tiermann]

You're best bet, try the Touch dialer from the kitchen. Make sure you have BlueFrog/New Touch selected in TDial Options->Dialer, set the color you want for statusbox and dialdigit text and use the cab it generates to install the images and registry entries.

The current registry keys added by the cab file are..

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

Which I have tested here with blueFrog, and ajgalbraith98 gets the same results I did, where those keys change both the statusbox text and the digits up top when you dial.

I'm not sure if those are the ones you mean.

If you mean the down-button image, every button in blueFrog and Touch use the same image for that so it's tricky (but not impossible) to get it to still show the number when pressed. You can try setting the down-button alpha to 0% and just give it a different color border than the up buttons. That should leave the numbers visible behind it while still giving you a "pressed" effect.

[Biggjimmy7]

Thanks man that worked out perfectly. I appreciate all the hard work and help. Keep up the good work. Do you have a donations page like Helmi_c?