My iPhone Theme (finalized and includes instructions)

[jasonmac]

Got this working wonderfully on my Mogul, thanks for a great package! A few notes for the PPC6800:

Zip of the extras mentioned is attached!

1. Landscape needs a lot of work (perhaps I'll do it), but this is really for the normal view anyway and it doesn't crash the phone or anything.

2. Go ahead and install the Game w/ Dock theme -- it is a bit of a pain to create your own dock and after setting it all up you'll want to get all your shortcuts set and working.

3. In Step 2: "\Program Files\Lakeridge\Wisbar Advance\Themes" doesn't exist, so just create it (the Themes folder). Because of this, you won't get any of the warnings mentioned.

4. Also in Step 2: tap and hold in a blank spot at the top, not the top-left exactly. I was able to get the little WBA Desktop menu by holding next to the battery. If "Settings" isn't second from bottom, you have the wrong menu.

5. In Step 5: I installed SPB Clock, but if you get the latest slide2unlock, it has a clock and can show appointments. SPB Clock just seemed too big and buggy to be worth my while, so I actually unistalled it at the end (and the skin). Feel free to skip it if you don't need a second clock. Also, you can alter the title bar to show the time and date on all programs, soooo.....

6. In Step 6: Use the latest Slide2Unlock -- they're up to version 0.72. It is very nice and customizable without any freezing (so far) and development is happening daily.

7. In Step 7: The dialer included is a bit odd, so I decided to replace it. I tried a few different ones and settled on the iphone.cab (attached) in the zip halfway down this page (also a nice skin for gCalc):
http://hackaddict.blogspot.com/2007/...bile-skin.html
It's very smooth and integrates well with the other changes. That link gives a similar way to make your WM like an iPhone, but the method here is less complicated. Worth a read, though. FYI, the Mogul has the latest .NET framework, so you shouldn't need to install it for things like Weather Watcher Mobile

8. For a threaded SMS, I like smiley's and low complexity. The one called "shogunmark_wm6_threaded" (attached, can't recall the link) has been my favorite after trying several others and works seamlessly with the Mogul and this iPhone package. Very much like the Treo's SMSing. No MMS (Sprint/CDMA limitation I think).

9. In Customization: The title bar shows tiny icons of open programs, but if you include the "Verizon" image (or whatever text you want) it pushes them off the screen. They reappear in landscape. I saw no need for any text up there, so I just removed the custom1_normal.png from the phone and the little icons now show.

10. If you're like me, you'll use a different app for SMS, but still use Outlook for grabbing all your email. For the shortcut to the Mail part of Outlook, use "\Windows\AppButtons\Messaging.lnk" and it'll take you to a view of all your email accounts. Similarly, if you want to see unread email counts, create the little red buttons and text using "%Unread:AccountName%" as the Text to Display, so if your account is "Gmail1" it would be "%Unread:Gmail1%". Very cool.

11. I put one of those red buttons with text to show my unread SMS texts on the top corner of the SMS icon (see the Picasa album in the first post). If you play with the "Bring to Front" and "Send to Back" options, you can make them stay and only show on the first page. You don't have to restrict them to the bottom dock.

12. Finally, for a calculator, there is gCalc (attached) and a very nice skin in the link to the zip I put in (7) above.

I'll try to get some screen shots, but it's all pretty much the same as the album. I also included a registry editor so you can tweak S2U2.

That's all I can think of for getting this working nicely on a Mogul. Don't forget to read the Edits on the first post! Thanks again, lazyboy!

[Edit]
Just had two freezes when in landscape, so don't do too much switching from apps to the desktop in landscape!

I attached some screen shots.

[kmm111]

Wow! Now that's what I call a first post. As for your step 4, which version of Wa are you using 2 or 3? You did a great job setting up your theme, I never thought of adding extra little red icons! Thanks for the idea. When I first installed this theme with WA2 my landscape view was very slow to switch, if you tried to go fast it would lock up the phone & you had to reboot it. The screen was also blue in landscape mode. When I upgraded to WA3 my phone wouldn't even go into landscape view, it would just crash. I finally reinstalled all the theme's, icons, ect & now everything works great. I hope that helps you with your landscape quest. Thanks for sharing your files with the group!

[InvincibleLiving]

nice write up, can the dialer be skinned or is it just the fish background included?

[jasonmac]

Originally Posted by kmm111

Wow! Now that's what I call a first post. As for your step 4, which version of Wa are you using 2 or 3?

Thanks! Version 2. Somewhere in this thread people were stating that v. 3 didn't work with these files, and that 3 is fundamentally different in the way it works so modifying it wouldn't do any good.

Originally Posted by nautica2450

nice write up, can the dialer be skinned or is it just the fish background included?

The dialer seems to be just a piecemeal skin -- all the images are in the "\Windows" directory and can be changed.

[bimzrus]

I need another link this one come up bad

[jasonmac]

Originally Posted by bimzrus

I need another link this one come up bad

The working link was a Christmas gift a few pages back. Read through the thread -- all questions will be answered! Some of what I wrote was already mentioned in previous posts. I just verified it all works on the Mogul.

[dtvman]

going to retry to install...... it's crashing my 6800..... did everything to the tee

[daveedem]

I'm going to install WA3 today and try to get the theme working with it (my last attempt was not successful so I reverted).

I also like the iphone dialer... especially since I can put my background in it. I like tiermann's dialer skin mod, but this one seems more Iphoneish. thanks for the dialer cab.

Let you know how it goes.

[InvincibleLiving]

Originally Posted by daveedem

I'm going to install WA3 today and try to get the theme working with it (my last attempt was not successful so I reverted).

I also like the iphone dialer... especially since I can put my background in it. I like tiermann's dialer skin mod, but this one seems more Iphoneish. thanks for the dialer cab.

Let you know how it goes.

how do you go about changing the skin on the dialer? where is it found? I looked thru /windows folder but didnt quite know what i was looking for in the first place...

[nbpanjwa]

Is it possible to make a customised ROM (like dcd, No2Chem,Colonel) for Mugul with iPhone theme???