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What is this Thread About?
By itself, HTC Sense/Manila 2.5 is a very nice interface......BUT
With the Package from Maxycy at XDA you can take it to the Extreme and actually get a "changeable" manila. Meaning you can change the way the manila looks like from the Manila ITSELF without even a manila or system restart!!!! This Package Also Adds Hotkey's on home screen to change different things. notification buttons on home screen.

Want to see it in action
just made a video to show the speed of Manila 2.52011 with MaxManila 3

IT IS SOOO MUCH FASTER......

Video is HERE

A Quote from creator of EnergyROM

Originally Posted by NRGZ28

I just tried 2.6 on my own device and I have to say I'm very impressed! Very nice!

Max Manila 2.5 Ultimate is an all in one layout for TF3D. What you get from this is a fully customizable layout that suits your taste for the home screen and more. All settings can be made on the manila itself.



FEATURES

• 8 clock arrays + 1 large analog
• Call History and Calendar wt possible up to 3 appointments
• Weather on demand
• 4 notification icons (Call History, Calendar, SMS, Email)
• 12 / 16 / 20 shortcuts
• Panoramic / BG4all / Default wallpapers
• Retractable tab icons
• Full screen mode
• AutoLock and AutoMute function (orientation activated)
• Transparent slider effect (front tab icon removed)
• Support landscape mode for 19222xxx
• Rotation animation
• And many more.......

REQUIREMENT :

• v3.0 for Manila 2.5.2011xxx
• v2.7 Special Edition for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.1921xxx and v2.5.19223xx). Supports VGA for 1921 as well
• v2.9 for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.19222xx) Lanscape version. More information HERE and HERE
• v2.82 for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.19222xx) Landscape version. More information HERE
• v2.8 for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.19222xx) Landscape version. More information HERE and HERE
• v2.7 and below for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.1921xxx)

RESOLUTION :

• VGA and WVGA phones

OPTIONAL :

• For those having a slow phone, you can try Neos Driver pack ( do a search in the forum ). It can improve the graphic performance ( reported does not work on all phones ). To install, remember to first turn OFF HTC Sense and Soft Reset afterwards and switch HTC Sense back on.

SCREENSHOTS :





If you are using v2.9, pls also download the patch and overwrite in \windows of your phone after you had installed v2.9 cab.

v3.0 cab for Manila2.5 (v2.5.2011xxx) + added album rotation support
v2.7 SE cab for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.1921xxx and v2.5.19223xx)
v2.9 and above cabs for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.19222xx) Landscape version
v2.7 cabs and below for Manila 2.5 (v2.5.1921xxx)

PLS ENSURE THAT YOU ONLY INSTALL THE CORRECT VERSION FOR THE CORRECT MANILA VERSION

PLS NOTE THAT THE WVGA FULLSCREEN PATCH CAB IS ONLY FOR WVGA USERS. VGA USERS DO NOT INSTALL!!

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BEFORE USING v2.8, PLS SET ENSURE THE REGISTRY HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\EnableLandscape = true

v2.7 - only for manila 1921xxx
v2.9 - only for manila 19222xxx (Landscape version)

There is a minor change to the previous versions (v2.6 and below). You can now access the Setting screen by swiping top to bottom. Horizontal swiping is removed and goes back to default where you can access other tabs with the exception when you select Panoramic wallpaper which will pan the wallpaper left/right instead.

Firstly, let me point out the functions of the corners of the screen for different modes.

Max Manila Setting Screen can be accessed by swiping from top to bottom

Menu/Skin Customization (v2.9) - this is the additional selection option appearing on the MENU (accessed from homepage right softkey). What it does is to allow you to skin your notification icons by selecting jpg/png files from your album. Here's how it works.

• v2.9 cab will come wt a folder called "MyFolder" in \windows. There are 8 icons 64x64 png files in there which basically is the previous and current version icons.
• You can move this folder later to storage card and rename the registry path \HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\Max_Folder. You can leave this blank and the album will open to the default path. I find this much more user friendly especially when you have tons of folders to search.
• You can create your own icon in any square size; for eg, 128x128; 100x100 whatever. It should re-size back to 64x64. File can be jpg or png if you want to have transparency. Later, just dump it into the folder on #2.

Normal (Full) mode - this is your default screen with taskbar at the top and softkeys at the bottom.

• Top Left - Navigates to People screen
• Top Center - **REMOVED on v2.82** (previous version Cycles Clock Array)
• Top Right - Show Battery Info (v2.82 - you can now edit the registry to link to your app.
  \HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\Max_SKTPath = your app path
  \HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\Max_SKTArg = your app argument
• Bottom Left - Navigates to Home screen
• Bottom Right - Navigates to manila Settings tab ( not Max Manila settings )

FullScreen mode - this can be enabled through your Settings screen. Your taskbar and softkeys will disappear and a fullscreen is displayed. The first time after you activated the screen. Press the HOME button to ensure that the screen fully covers up the task and softkey bars.

• Top Left - activates StartMenu
• Top Center - **REMOVED on v2.82** (previous version Cycles Clock Array)
• Top Right - on v2.82 display taskbar information ( previously display battery info )
  : Battery - Press to open up battery info
  : Sound Profile - Press to navigate to sound profile setting
  : Data connection/signal - Press to go to communication manager
• Bottom Right - Lock screen (v2.8 onwards). This can now be changed to link to your app. Tweak the registry below.
  \HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\Max_SKPath = your app path
  \HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\Max_SKArg = your app argument
• Bottom Left - Activates the softkeys panel ( when activated, your softkeys will appear for 2secs before it closes itself ) (v2.8 onwards)

Lite mode - removed on v2.81. You can anyway set your manila back to default by using the settings from the setting page below.

Here are the new screen for the Settings page. Most functions retain for now (I'll add more to it later) but I have shifted it around a bit. Arrows basically scroll more settings.



SETTINGS

Wallpaper - there are 3 types of wallpaper here.
a. BG4all - this is the wallpaper which will automatically load up when you select through MENU/Home Wallpaper/Weather Wallpaper. Wallpaper will show on all tabs and is fullscreen on v2.8 onwards. If you leave it, it will not display anything. Setting is "B".

On v2.9, there will be 2 seperate wallpapers. Portrait wallpaper and Landscape Wallpaper which you can select from MENU/Home Wallpaper. This will be HQ wallpaper. So, make sure you pre-format your wallpaper to 480x800 or it will not come out correct.

• Portrait Wallpaper - selects your portrait wallpaper.
• Landscape Wallpaper - selects your landscape wallpaper. The wallpaper will be rotated 90deg. So, make sure that you rotate your landscape wallpaper -90deg before loading.
• Animated Wallpaper - this has now been tweaked to activate the animated components on your Portrait wallpaper. It has been disabled for landscape.
• Remove Wallpaper - removes both portrait and landscape wallpapers.

b. Full - the file is a 1024x768 size jpg called "MaxBackground.jpg". This wallpaper will fill up fullscreen and all tabs. It is used in 3 different functions.

• "P" - stands for panoramic. When this is activated, you can swipe left/right to pan the wallpaper.
• "F" - stands for full. It will remain still at where you have previously panned.
• "H" - stands for home only. This wallpaper will only show in home and the other tabs will have the default wallpaper (read below)

c. Default - this is the manila wallpaper that requires app like HDWall to create. Rather than using the latest file of 512x1024, I have reworked a fullscreen default wallpaper using the old filenames. If you are using HDWall, go to config and select profile "TouchFLO v2.5 BETA - No Compression - All Tabs".

• 4bfcbbee_manila
• 54612042_manila

In landscape mode, this will be replaced wt another wallpaper. The construct of these files are as such
0509ab83_manila : Left
- 512x512 manila qtc
- actual wallpaper dimension 480x480 (from top left)
47fb5656_manila : Right
- 512x512 manila qtc
- actual wallpaper dimension 320x480 (from top left)

Assuming you have a landscape wallpaper of 800x480. Below are some instructions how you can make your own.
- for the RIGHT wallpaper, crop from the right to 512 and expand your bottom to 512
- for the LEFT wallpaper, crop from the left to 480 and expand right to 32 ( your total width should be 512 ). Do the same for the bottom.
*******on v2.9, this has been removed due to it's redundancy*******

Call History (Call H) - toggle the call history on/off. This will now reside on top of the calendar. Voicemail alert has been added for v2.8 onwards.

Calendar - you can now select option 0, 1, 2 or 3. 0 will not show the calendar bar on the screen. Pls make your own adjustment to avoid any overlaps as I have removed this feature due to the inclusion of VGA which complicates the matter.

Slider - for those who does not have this feature build into the ROM, you can toggle the icon off. What this does is that it removes the first layer of the tab icon which makes your transparent slider looks much nicer when sliding through all the tabs. "ON" means slider effect is switched on.

Mute - you can now activate a silent "S" or vibrate "V" mode when you put your phone face down ( that means front screen facing the floor )

AutoLock - when turn on, your phone will goes into LOCK mode when you turn your phone upside down ( that means rotating your front screen 180deg )

Alert - here you can select whether to display the shortcuts or notification icons on screen. Also note that on v2.8, the notification icons will only display in fullscreen landscape mode only with the exception in normal mode, when your tab icon is retracted.

• NS - both shortcuts and notification icons will display
• S - only shortcuts will display
• N - only notification icons will display
• OFF - both will not display

Hide Tab (previously called Tab Icons) - in v2.8, this has been renamed to Hide Tab to avoid confusion. This only works in normal screen mode. When "ON", it will activate the retractable tab icons. In fullscreen mode, this will disabled for the sake of accessing softkeys.

Weather - this is where you toggle your weather animation. It is best to toggle it off to gain speed especially when you are loading wallpaper for BG4all.

Shortcuts - you can select 12/16/20 shortcuts for WVGA and 9/12/15 for VGA.
If you have problem accessing your shortcuts, go to the registry HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila/Home and look at the numbered folders. Chk out the "IsSet" and set it back to 0. Remember to do a SOFTRESET afterwards.

In lanscape mode, shortcuts will change to 3 columns for WVGA and 2 columns for VGA. (not tested on VGA device yet bcos 1922xx not ready)

Fullscreen - this will activate the fullscreen mode. Fm v2.8 onwards, the fullscreen softkeys can be accessed by pressing the bottom left while in fullscreen mode. The softkey panel will appear for 2secs.

Titanium - this will deactivate TF3D and goes to WM6.5 Window Default UI. To get back to TF3D, just go to StartMenu/Settings/Home/Items and select HTC Sense.

Goldfish - my own hobby app which will create an animated fish swimming around your screen. To close the app, just double tap the goldfish.

LTab - when "OFF", this will retain the original tab during landscape. Your other settings must be Hide Tab = OFF and Fullscreen = OFF. This is normally to be used when you want to set back to default settings.

Resolution - select "W" for WVGA and "V" for VGA phones.

Clock - this now replace the big analog clock button and incorporate all clocks into one including a full blank screen. As for the big analog clock, you can move the clock around by press+hold and move. This clock also has 3 functions to it.

• Left - will toggle the inner face of the clock
• Top Right - goes to world clock page
• Top Left - cycles the size of the clock

The text on the setting button is labelled as below :
FA - Flip and Analog Clock
SA - Spring and Analog Clock
D - Digital Clock
AA - Dual Analog Clock
MF - Medium size Flip Clock
LF - Large size Flip Clock
S - Large size Sprint Clock
LA - Large size Analog Clock
AC - Huge size Analog Clock
OFF - Blank Screen ( removed Notification and Shortcuts )
********The text "My HTC" on sprint clock can now be edited from the registry************
\HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\Max_TextName = text displayed on the sprint clock
\HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\Max_TextSize = font size

Rotation - to use this, pls ensure that you do not have any external program activating the rotation of the manila or you may encounter conflicts. Below are the 3 functions :

• OFF - deactivate all rotation but maintain the album/music rotation
• R - rotates your screen clockwise when your turn your phone right. In this mode, your album/music turn landscape in the normal direction but can also be rotated when turn the other direction.
• L - rotates your screen anti-clockwise when you turn your phone left. In this mode, album/music rotation will be disabled and replaced wt the landscape mode.
• B (only on v2.9) - rotates both ways. Album/music rotation will be disabled and replaced wt the landscape mode.

When phone is facing up ( screen on top and flag ), it will not activate any rotation event.

3D - this basically toggles the look of your shortcuts between normal and 3D like when you scroll it up.

TBar - this basically toggles the display of fullscreen taskbar indicators. Can only be activated when not in fullscreen mode.


PAnim - cycles through the type of rotation animation for portrait wallpaper. Here's the description of the text.

• OFF - no animation
• SD - slide down
• SU - slide up
• SL - slide left
• SR - slide right
• RA - rotate anticlockwise
• RC - rotate clockwise
• O - increasing opacity
• FU - flip up
• FD - flip down
• ? - random

LAnim - cycles through the type of rotation animation for landscape wallpaper. Here's the description of the text.

• OFF - no animation
• SD - slide down
• SU - slide up
• SL - slide left
• SR - slide right
• RA - rotate anticlockwise
• RC - rotate clockwise
• O - increasing opacity
• FL - flip left
• FR - flip right
• ? - random

Notif - adjust the notification size, position and effects.

• N - normal size (standard position)
• NT - normal size; hidden when no alerts (standard position)
• S - scaled down (lower position)
• ST - scaled down; hidden when no alerts (lower position)

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here are my screens from my freshly cooked custom ROM
winmo 6.5.x 23518 sys with manila 2.51922 / maxmanila 2.81 / parts of my dusk theme






my MaxManila 2.7 screens with My enhanced Dusk Theme
Max Notification icons are bigger! have to resize mine to make them look better. will have out later today.
MaxManila comes different design then seen here... there are my currents....

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Older Versions of MaxManila

MaxManila 2.6

Notes From Developer on New Release...
Pls note that this version is in no way completed yet due to my assignments at work is getting more hectic. However, I believe it is also good to first release it so that there are more people out there can help me to detect the issues and bugs that I may have overlooked. There are a couple of requests which I promised to do but have not find the time to do them yet like for example adjusting the notification icons pixels and VGA support. The NRGZ ROM incompatibility has caused me a lot of time here but I've finally arrived to a single cab for all ROMs (keeping my fingers crossed). I've this cab tested on both NRGZ 21XXX and XannyTech 2.2 latest ROMs without any problem. So, pls be patient as I'm not done wt it yet and there will be more things to come.

What has changed vs v2.5? I will only list the major stuff here bcos there are just too many. I'd practically overhauled the entire layout almost fm scratch. 

1. Scrolling animation removed completely for the sake of speed. I have simplified the pages which means a single swipe to get there as well. There's only 2 screens as shown below MAIN and SETTINGS. Here's how it works now.
- Bottom/Up : Toggle shortcuts expansion
- Left/Right : Toggle between SETTINGS and MAIN page

2. Full and Lite option. When you first load, you will go into full mode. For the LITE version, I've removed most of the stuff except leaving the animation on demand and clock array in. The shorcuts number will follow exactly what you had selected in full. So, in a way some of the settings are shared between full and lite. If this is too much, let me know and I will remove everything to bare minimum.
- from FULL to LITE, go to SETTINGS page and press LITE button
- from LITE to FULL, press TOP CENTER

3. Normal screen mode changes (FULL mode)
For the top, only works in home tab
- Top Right : now activates battery info
- Top Left : toggle weather animation
- Top Center : cycle clock array
For the bottom, works in all tabs when retractable tab icon is activated
- Bottom Left : navigates to home page
- Bottom Right : navigates to settings page
- Bottom Center : activates the retracted tab icons

Under LITE mode, the functions are as below.
- Top Right : cycle clock array
- Top Left : toggle weather animation
- Top Center : back to FULL mode

4. Fullscreen only works for MS build 21XXX and not 28XXX. I've not finished the bottom softkey for all tabs yet, so for this release, I've only included for the home page.
- Top Right : activates Start Menu
- Top Left : activates battery info ( battery icons appeared, thks to DJCedric for the icons ). Pls note that the battery indicator only goes in steps ( limitation in the manila code )
- Top Center : activates clock array
For the bottom part, it is now been replaced wt workable softkeys as in the normal screen.

5. Settings Page, a lot of new additions here vs 2.5
a. Titanium - change to Titanium UI ( to get back to TF3D, you can MaxTTM and do a TRefresh or the usual manual way of activating your Today items )
b. Goldfish - activates my goldfish program ( cab needs to be downloaded on post#4 to work )
c. Lite - this is where you change to your Lite mode
d. Analog - activates single large analog screen ( everything now removed on main screen )
e. Resolution - WVGA or VGA ( VGA not ready yet, I will need feedback and testers fm VGA users before I can get this done )
f. Mute - OFF / Silent / Vibrate ( phone volume profile settings when you phone is face down )
g. AutoLock - toggle on/off when phone is faced upside down
h. Alert - this is the layout settings for your notification and shortcuts. There is altogether 4 types.
   - OFF : nothing will show on screen
   - NS : both notification and shortcuts on screen
   - S : only shortcuts is showing
   - N : only notification is showing
i. Tab Icons - toggle on/off the retractable tab icons ( only works for normal screen )
j. Slider - toggle on/off the transparent slider effect ( pls note that NRGZ ROM for HD had permanently ON this )
k. Rotate - this has not finished yet. I've not decided what to put here but it's basically a quick way to access something by rotating your phone to 270deg when it's activated
l. Fullscreen - this is where you toggle your fullscreen mode. Pls note that this setting will also be remembered and will automatically turn your mode to fullscreen when you boot in.
m. Wallpaper - I have not changed much here from v2.5 except that panoramic has now been removed and replaced by fullscreen wallpaper. So you will still have BG4all, Fullscreen and Default. For fullscreen wallpaper, I'm using the same filename MaxBackground.jpg and have a resolution of 480x800 instead.
n. Weather - toggle on/off your weather animation
o. Calendar - this is where you set your number of appointments and call history
   - 0 : no appointments will be shown
   - 1 : will show Calendar icon (one appointment)
   - 1C : will show Calendar icon and Call History
   - 2 : will show 2 appointments ( only appears if you have active appointments )
   - 3 : will show 3 appointments
p. Shortcuts : added the 12 shortcuts. You can cycle through 12/16/20.

Pls note this is a massive change to v2.5 and I will never be able to iron out all bugs especially wt so many ROMS available. So in order to make this a bug free version, pls give your feedback in an organized manner or it will be difficult for me to understand and debug them.
1. Tell me which ROM and phone you are having
2. Pls describe in details the problem that you are seeing. Use the same terms that I am using
3. Screenies are most welcome

Pls also give your input on the below items
1. Notification icons - I'm pretty fixed on height of 55 ( no more space ) but should I go back to 55 on width as well? Change files from manila to png?
2. Wallpapers - I'm still using the old manila files for default. Any changes needed?
3. VGA support - I will need screenshots of v2.6 on your phone and volunteers for testing
4. Bottom softkey for fullscreen mode - I can add nice graphics here as in HTC Hero. Let your imaginations run wild. Inputs from skinners are welcome

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Here a some bugs reported... might not be relevant but i am posting. the replies are from creator of MaxManila

Originally Posted by siddartha

thx for the new beta!
works good with my rom:
Anja Touch HD [GER] Rom Windows phone 6.5 OS build 21876 LEO Style

but i found 2 little bugs?!
- when i click in the first date, i go to the date in the calendar
- when i click in the second and last date, then nothing will go on

- when i use the big analog clock only shows 2 dates
greets
sid

It's not a bug. This is how it should work. I do not want the 2nd appointments to click or else most of the time you will accidentally trigger it when swiping on the screen. As for the larger analog clock in the clock array, the layout automatically removes the 3rd appointment or it will overlap wt other things. You can't have everything on the screen.

Originally Posted by omek07

Hellooo
I test new 2.6 version and is very good ...

Can i ask you something ???
Can you put the battery indicator on the non full screen MODE ????

Thank you very much

Yes but it's pointless bcos the taskbar would already have one.

Originally Posted by sandymac

Excellent update. I am using with Dutty's Leo Holy Grail and all working. The following are observations:

1. None of the shortcuts are shown on the main page. Must swipe to get to them. Your screenshot implies that the first row should be showing.
2. When in fullscreen mode, you must press and hold on the top left to get the Start Menu.
3. Whilst I don't want or need the Lite option, I did test this and then tried to revert back to full but ended up resetting the phone as HTC Sense would not launch.

Hopefully the above is helpful.

Ideally, it would be good to have an option to hide the notification buttons but quite honestly this is minor. The overall improvements you have made are spot on! Well done.

1. Are you using a VGA phone? If not your settings are not right. Show me a screenshot and let me know what settings your have on ALERT.
2. It supposedly goes straight to startmenu wt a single press.
3. Not sure what went wrong but it basically copies some files and uses my MaxTTM TRefresh to re-load the TF3D. No problem on XannyTech and NRGZ ROM.

Originally Posted by maesus

ROM: Xannytech GRID EVO 1.5, 28008.
1. when switch from 12 -> 16 -> 20 shortcuts, the 10th~16th shortcut settings are missing and no longer configurable from Home screen. Shortcut 17th ~ 20th is configurable.

** I checked the registry and found IsSet = 1, that's causing the shortcuts unconfigurable. Setting it to IsSet = 0 solved the problem. Not sure if this registry came from v2.6 beta or other cabs.

2. Top Left (supposed to animate weather) but toggle to People tab.

3. although knowing fullscreen mode isn't working for 28008, but I think you have a typo in your description:

- Top Left : activates Start Menu
- Top Right : activates battery info ( battery icons appeared, thks to DJCedric for the icons ). Pls note that the battery indicator only goes in steps ( limitation in the manila code )

4. in Lite mode, not sure if this is a bug or the Lite feature:
a) analog clock's second tip is not ticking
b) flip clock doesn't flip when minute+1
c) tapping on clock doesn't get to the Clock settings
d) scrolling top/bottom animates. Why not rather disable the animation too?

So far that's all I have. After all this is brilliant work!

1. Good. You found the problem before I posted. It does not come fm my cab as these are old settings before you install my cab.
2. My mistake. It supposed to go to Contact. Weather animation is toggled through Settings.
3. Thks for that.
4. Thks for noticing that. It's an old file which I have not really tested. I must have accidentally removed some scripts. Will fix this on next version.

Originally Posted by omek07

Hey man i have exacly the same , where i can found the registry that you said to fix this problem???
Thanks mannnnnnnn

Refer to above answer.

Finally huh?!?! lol. Great to see!! Thanx for this one!!!!!!!!!!! No problems as of yet

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Woo hoo!!!!!!

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Very nice...thanks for keeping us up to date!

Hmm...just noticed something. anyone having trouble adding shortcuts? i'm using the 20 shortcuts setting and touching the icon to add one and does nothing. just goes to pressed state and back but no "programs" "contacts" "bookmarks" option. other than that this thing is kick @$s!!!!

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Originally Posted by newdey

Hmm...just noticed something. anyone having trouble adding shortcuts? i'm using the 20 shortcuts setting and touching the icon to add one and does nothing. just goes to pressed state and back but no "programs" "contacts" "bookmarks" option. other than that this thing is kick @$s!!!!

check post 6

think answer is there