[Tutorial - updated 11/22/09] Customize your Diamond -- WM6.5.1 and Manila 2.5 Mods

[wmdunn]

Originally Posted by bxtzd3

my home screen still has the tabs on the bottom. not an arrow like yours has above phone and menu. i did the rom than the clear cab than the 2.5. also how do you keep just one clock?

The toggle on the top right will cycle through a half dozen clock configurations ...

[bxtzd3]

sweet. works great. a tade slow but will keep me interested for now.

[mhhd00]

Are the 6.5.1 home screen softkeys / buttons customizable? I really like NRG's "action" + contacts configuration. But even without the "action" button i'd like to change the softkeys on most of the ROM's i've tried.

[PrO...]

This works well but I noticed a few things like I have no picture mail,actually I can't send or receive and I tried installing the arcsoft.Also on my last rom i had the option to upload pics right to facebook and vids to youtube, is there a cab for this feature?The last thing is with the browser not the rom but I can't access my favorites when I hit the star,not that big of a deal because I can set the pages on the rom but a little inconvenient.

[JQuill]

Thank you all for helping eachother out. Makes maintaining this thread a lot easier. Attached is a picture mail cab, I've heard different things about different versions, this is the one I've always used. Will post wallpapers and other updates soon, it's been a rough week. I promised Juicy I'd make him some graphics like a month ago and still haven't gotten around to it so...truthfully I've been out of the design game for a while but am starting to get back into it, it's always been what I like doing and being creative always helps. Again, thanks to you guys for answering each others questions I appreciate that. Updates soon I promise!!!!!!!!

In the mean time I recommend that all of you update to OMJ's latest rom, this means you'll have to customize manila again...but you already know how to do that don't you.

EDIT: BTW...I haven't tried customizing the soft keys on manila 2.5 yet (the soft-key changes you are referring to are accomplished by a simple registry change to manila. It's got nothing to do with 6.5.1) , you can't do it with a simple reg edit like you used to be able to. Truthfully I wouldn't want to the menu button is key for me, but if I see anything I'll link to it here.

THIS PICTURE MAIL CAB IS FOR SPRINT ONLY!!

[PrO...]

Thanks for the pic mail. I'm having a storage memory problem whichis weird cause I only get it with 6.5.1 roms.

[JQuill]

Hopefully I'll have some time to work on this stuff this weekend. Updating to OMJ's latest rom will take care of 90% of any graphics issues people may have so definitely update to OMJ's latest rom and follow the tutorial from there and everything should be better and more usable.

[JQuill]

very small update with link to OMJ's new rom and new taskbar and my own custom home screen buttons.

Note: All custom icons properly "expand" to show new sms, new e-mail, missed calls, and agenda appointments. The bottom right corner of the icon pops off and shows the number of missed items when you have one, just like the agenda icon has in the screen shot.

On the phone calls and SMS icons the "sms" bubble and the telephone icon shrink to the proper size so that they don't get cut off when you have a missed item, only a corner of the green square pops off and the icon inside the green square shrinks to the proper size (and on the phone icon...as you can see when you have no missed calls it stays as just the telephone, then when you have a missed call it shows an exclamation point next to the telephone icon to show that you have missed calls, along with the number of missed calls)

[mshnayde]

Is it possible to just have the Clock and Calendar changes without the 4 shortcuts on the bottom.
If they are not customizable that makes it really difficult to use. I would much rather have the contacts tab as one of them

[JQuill]

Originally Posted by mshnayde

Is it possible to just have the Clock and Calendar changes without the 4 shortcuts on the bottom.
If they are not customizable that makes it really difficult to use. I would much rather have the contacts tab as one of them

Yeah...the shortcuts at the bottom are there anyway, I just gave you custom icons so they look better. So when you install max manila ultimate, you can have just the calendar with 2 appointments and no icons (or just one appointment if that's what you prefer)... and many other different configurations. Having the icons at the bottom doesn't hinder your access to the slider that has ALL your icons / tabs. All you have to do is tap the white arrow and your normal slider pops up, and even though the white arrow might look a little small in the screen shot, trust me it's very easy to touch and not hit other buttons by accident.

I'm actually looking into SOMEHOW making a hardware button retract and expand the slider...but I have no idea how I would do that so I might look into it, I might not.

Edit: Now that you mention it I may just look into somehow getting a contacts button on the home screen but it would have to replace one of the 4 that are already there.