[SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, ETC]
 

If you are like me and have fallen in love with SPB Mobile Shell 3 within the past few days, then this thread is for you. The ease of use and ability to customize is second to none. If you have not tried it, you can download the trial and find more info here. You will not regret it.

Official SPB Website.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pock...e/mobileshell/

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/uplo.../3/initial.png


The purpose of this thread is to have one place for our community to come up with ideas on how we can make SPB MS3 better or personalised to our own taste. This is also a place where we can show off our stuff (similar to "Post Your Today Screen" threads) so that we can give props to whom props are due and to give others ideas on what they could do. This will be similar to Zepiii's XDA Thread that they have going, but I figured our community needed one too.

If you have something you would like to share (widgets, themes, etc.) you may post them here and if you would like me to list it in these first few postings PM me with the post # and I will edit my posts to include a link to your work. Please state what your work is and what it will do (ex. theme, widg, etc.) and if it is resolution specific (ex. VGA, QVGA, WVGA, etc.).

Thank you for everyone's hard work. Let's stay productive and have some fun folks!

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, ETC
 

THEMEz

>Titanium Theme<
- Thanks to mtstmp
VGA/QVGA - THREAD

>WM7 Theme<
- Thanks to Apothehouse
VGA - THREAD


>Customizable SKINs for Mobile Shell 3.0 multi resolution<
- Thanks to abumhmmd1 and mikibest
- multi language compatible
- multi resolution compatible VGA, QVGA, WQVGA, SQUARE (320 X 320), AND SQUARE (240 X 240)
- THREAD

>Theme ActuShell SPB MS3<
- Thanks to Actupsp
- VGA : THREAD
- QVGA : THREAD

>Vynil Theme<
- Thanks to by Apothehouse
- VGA : THREAD | Direct Download

>Theme "Star Wars"<
- Thanks to Jeje1000
- VGA : THREAD

>Berry 66 VGA MSH3 Theme<
- Thanks to Apothehouse
- VGA : THREAD | Direct Download

>Easier CAB install of Berry 66, Actushell, Star Wars, Transformers and Vynil themes<
- Thanks to ibmxxx187
- VGA : THREAD


>Tom's Themes | 8 to choose from<
- Thanks to thomaselfert
- QVGA : THREAD

>Saint Seiya Theme<
- Thanks to abumhmmd1
- VGA : THREAD | Direct Download
- QVGA: THREAD | Direct Download

>Pink Combustion Theme<
- Thanks to apothehouse
- VGA : THREAD | Direct Download
- WVGA: THREAD | Direct Download

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, ETC
 

TWEAKz, TRICKz, & HOW TOz

>Easier way to change your background<
- Thanks to volDeus
- THREAD

>How to Disable Landscape<
- Thanks to abumhmmd1
- THREAD

>How to remove the Start Bar<
- Thanks to hbenz2008
- THREAD

>I can't see much of my wallpaper, what dimension should I make it?<
- Thanks to ayinde6
- THREAD

>How to add TASKMANAGER page to carousel<
- Thanks to hbenz2008
- THREAD | CAB
>How to add TASKMANAGER page to carousel for the non French Speaking people<
- Thanks to typex
- THREAD


>How to add Holidays in your Calendar<
- Thanks to Lucas0511
In Outlook 2007 on your PC, activate local holidays for your given country in tools/option/calendar options/add holidays/choose country. Sync over activesync, holidays will appear in MS3 calendar.


>How to scroll left and right from professional layout<
- Thanks to Nicaraguense
- THREAD


>How to add more pages/screens to lifestyle layout<
- Thanks to divi786 for this regedit:

Change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Spb Software House 2\Spb Mobile Shell\Widgets\HomeScreen\PageCount value to number of screens

>How to customize the launcher screen<
- Thanks to syrguy1969 for this:

If you want to create another folder in that bottom right blank space:
- HKLM\Software\SPB Software House 2\SPB Mobile Shell\Menu\Root\
- Create a new key called whatever you want your new folder to be.
- Copy the contents of the 'My Shortcuts' key into the one you just created
- Change the value of the 'Text' string to be the name of the folder.

If you want to change the order of the folders:
Changing the 'Index' value changes which position in the grid the folder appears (0 is top left, 8 is bottom right). The 'Image' value will change the icon as follows:

0 = Toolbox
1 = Phone with envelope
2 = Globe
3 = Calendar
4 = Shortcuts
5 = Program Folder
6 = Camera and clapperboard
7 = Cog/Spanner

You can also rename any of the existing folders by going to that same key and changing the 'Text' string in the relevant key. You don't have to rename the key itself but may want to for consistency.

>How to add new configurable panel in the carousel?<
- Thanks to Murasan
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...3&postcount=34

>How to change panels name:<
HKLM\Software\Spb Software House2\Spb Mobile Shell\NowScreen\Panels
and inside there are 12 keys (folders) numbered 0 to 11, inside modify text value to whatever you want to call it.

>How to point your SMS to a custom SMS program<
- Thanks to itouch24
HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Shell>Rai>:MSINBOX

Change key labeled 1 to your SMS Program exe file
e.g: "\Program Files\VITO\SMS-Chat\SMSChat.exe"
Note: Dont forget the "", they are important.

>How to allow adding/removing icons more menus<
- Thanks to diomark

HKLM\Software\SPB Software House 2\Spb Mobile Shell\Menu\Root
You will see a key (folder) for each of the menus.

If you go into 'My Shortcuts' you will notice it has a DWord called Add set to true (1).
Go back up and create this same Dword in each of the other keys (folders).

Now when you go back into the menus and tap the bottom right arrow you will see you now have the 'add' options!

If you want to remove a subfolder (for example Media Player from the Multimedia menu) just go into the Multimedia key in the registry and delete the 'Media Player' key altogether.

>How to make a wallpaper on ALL your page<
- Thanks to Apothehouse
- http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...5&postcount=18

>How to map hardware button to "Contacts Carousel"<
- Thanks to Lucas0501
go to windows/start menu/programs/spb mobile shell and make a duplicate of the spbcontacts.lnk or an other one.. change the link properties to "\Program Files\Spb Mobile Shell\MenuLauncher.exe" -cmd:"dlg|:MANAGEFAVS" then map it to a button.

>How to Add SPB Menu button to main screen<
- Thanks to Lucas0501
Call SPB Menu from the main screen, with a button between Launcher and Contacts buttons on the bottom
- use attached cab from this THREAD
Caution: This will overwrite your qa_layouts.dat customizations, so make a backup!

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, ETC
 

WALLPAPERz

>Tinkerbell Wallpaper<
- THREAD

>Green/Black Windows Wallpaper<
- Thanks to Blair5546
- THREAD

>More Wallpapers<
- Thanks to ayinde6
- THREAD

>Thousand Stories<
- Thanks to abumhmmd1
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=136

>Dark Knight<
- http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=10

>Wallpaper SPB Mobile Shell 3<
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506198
- http://htc-touch-hd.forumactif.biz/l...-135.htm#39662
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=507223

>More Wallpapers<
- Thanks to Yearn
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...66&postcount=1
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...69&postcount=2
- Thanks to prototypedc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...42#post3685242
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...930#post873930

>SPB Forum Wallpapers<
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24229

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, ETC
 

WIDGETz

>Bigger Size Weather and Battery Widget<
- Thanks to garo viper for tracking this down

- THREAD

>How to integrate WeatherPanel App as a Widget< *UPDATED* Widget now detailed and updates
- Thanks to storyr
- THREAD

>How to add an Opera Mobile Favorites Widget<
- Thanks to yearn
- THREAD

>SamuriseClear mixed with gbOmnia Weather iCons 4 MSH3<
- Thanks to abumhmmd1
- VGA : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3659332&postcount=44

>Blackstorm+ Weather Icons<
- Thanks to abumhmmd1
- VGA : THREAD

>More VGA Weather Icons<
- Thanks to abumhmmd1
- VGA : THREAD

>MS3 Lifestyle Widgets (Pro Series)<
-Thanks to matthewhypolite
- WVGA/QVGA : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=197
- WVGA/WQVGA/QVGA (zip files) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=218

>Digital Pro Clock<
- Thanks to fronc
- VGA : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=242
- Thanks to toniolol
- QVGA : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=273

>Toms Clock Pack + How to use for Diamond, Touch Pro, and other VGA Devices<
- QVGA : http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=881120&postcount=12
- VGA : THREAD
- Formatted to VGA thanks to abumhdd1

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

ETC...


>What is the password to open, extract, or edit .dat files?<
The password to edit most .dat files is: b0fm18zq
I have found that the best way for me is to copy the .dat file that I want to edit to my PC. Rename it with a .zip at the end to open as a zip folder. Extract and edit it that way.

>Various Custom ROMs including SPB Mobile Shell 3 Trials<
- THREAD

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

i just posted pictures of the berry66 skin in the 3.0 thread. its lovely.

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

VGA THEMES

Attached are the Cabs i made for the themes above!
they should all work fine just install them to device and soft reset

let me know if there are any problems
also if you have a theme and want me to make a cab PM me and i will make you one!

Give MrHawaii a thanks for setting this thread up!

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

Here is my LifeStyle Screen. Not much done with it yet.
I will post the wallpaper is anyone wants it.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6986/screen137.png
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/s...png/1/w480.png

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Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

>How To Use Tom's Clock Pack for Diamond/Touch Pro<

Extract Clock of your choice
Rename it to either va_clock_small.dat (is analog small), va_clock_now.dat (is analog medium), or va_clock_big.dat (is analog big)
Copy/Move over to Program Files/Spb Mobile Shell (you may want to back up your old file first by copying old file to Internal Storage/Storage Card or renaming to something else)
Soft Reset
Now Add Widget whichever analog clock size you chose. They all are about the size of the medium clock so I like to use that one. Plus it changes it also in the Time Panel. See below for reference.

>Toms Clock Pack<
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=245

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/3993/screen01b.png
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/s...png/1/w480.png

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

How are you doing the cursive font in MS3?

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

I actually changed my Tahoma which is used for most of the WinMo system. You can find the cab MrHawaii WinMo System MarcosHand Font.cab here in post #5. If you want to learn how to use a different font, read from post #10 and down.

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

Mahalo! Just wish xda wasn't down atm... But GREAT collection and well put together thread!

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

No problem, I learn from the best here.

And BUMP on XDA being down! :angry7:

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

Hey nice thread man! Well sorted out, everyone seems to be liking ms3 so hopefully itll take off and be an awesome one stop shop for all our ms3 needs!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

>How to use your own Background on all pages (i.e. carousel, Prof Home, etc.)<

First off let me say that this works, but it replaces the qa.layouts.dat file which seems to be the main file that points to what to use using XML files. So if you have something else that already installed that edited your qa.layouts.dat file, you may lose it because it is missing the part that you had to point to your previous file (i.e. Professional Layout Big Digital Clocks). If someone finds out a better way, let me know and I will be sure to post it.

Instructions:
Download file from rapidshare link here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=448
Extract qa.layouts.dat file and FondEcran.dat file to your PC
Create a new folder
Rename FondEcran.dat file to FondEcran.dat.zip and extract all files to the your new folder using password b0fm18zq
Edit Background.bmp, BackgroundL.bmp, BackgroundPanel.bmp, BackgroundPanelL.bmp to the image files of your choice.
Using same security passoword b0fm18zq, zip up all files (7zip worked for me to do this) Background.bmp, BackgroundL.bmp, BackgroundPanel.bmp, BackgroundPanelL.bmp, FondMenuSlide.bmp, FondSlide.bmp, Index.xml and name zip file FondEcran.dat.zip
Rename FondEcran.dat.zip file to FondEcran.dat
Copy new FondEcran.dat file and qa.layouts.dat file to your PPC in Program Files/SPB Mobile Shell
Soft Reset
Enjoy!

See images below for reference

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8...reen138.th.png http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9...reen139.th.png http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1...reen140.th.png

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

hey man if you want me to make a cab for all the themes let me know!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

It's up to you if you don't mind taking the time to do it, I will definitely put links to your work.

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

yeah i will would you be able to post all of the download links as i am on my touch pro and it is a pain to go through all the threads to get them.
ill have them cabbed up by tonight or tomorrow morning!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

Yup I can do that. Thanks again!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

yeah man no problem
ill finish the cabs when i get back home

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

:headbang: That would be great ibmxx187 and thanks.

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

Here are the themes all cabbed up for easy instillation!
uploading them as i make them
tell me if theres any problems!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

Thanks a bunch!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

we should get this thread stickied!
Definately cause there are a lot of people using ms 3 now!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

I'll 2nd that!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

Requested to be Stuck! Haha, thanks guys!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

haha! good this is a great thread! thanks MrHawaii.
i hope you dont mind i posted some screenshots

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

Of course I don't mind. Like I said, the purpose of this thread is to come together as a community to make MS3 better. Thank you again for everyone's hard work!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

aight no prob man
i think we should have a post for mobile shell roms!

Edit just made a section for roms!

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

+1 for getting this stuck:mrgreen:

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

+1 for both of you guys making things easy to find and dl all the cabs and tweaks.

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

I assume the Actushell cab is VGA, can you make a QVGA one as well? Perhaps the others as well?

Thanks

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

hey man i didnt make the themes i just cabbed them
if you send me links for some qvga themes ill make cabs for you too

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

If you do cab any qvga themes up, place them in one post like you did the last ones and I will put another link to those. thanks again!

Re: SPB MS3 Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 

I just posted a link to the Actushell theme in QVGA in a ZIP file.

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

okay ill work on qvga themes tonight if i get a chance, but if not tomorrow for sure!
btw the transformer theme screenshot is up

Re: [SPB MS3] Shine Up and Show Off Your Shell! [THEMEz, TWEAKz, WALLPAPERz, WIDGz, E
 

That is nice, cool!