New: Phone Skin (not eTen) & Carrier Logo

**Malatesta** · #1 (**permalink**) 07-18-2006, 03:37 PM

So everyone and their momma is using the eTen dialer skin and although it's really cool (especially the PaulyA skins) it suffers from some drawbacks:

(1) No SmartDial screen
(2) It "locks" your EvDO arrows. So althought you're EvDo turns on and off like it should, those data arrows are locked in whatever state they were in when you installed the eTen dialer. Mine were always "on" regardless if the connection was actually live or not. (They should have turned light grey when inactive.)

So here is a new solution that fixes these issues and still gives a nice skin.

Look below for Part 2: Changing your Carrier logo.

You MUST uninstall your eTen dialer first. Look under your Remove Programs to find it.
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First, download the attached file zPhone.zip. In there is a .cab file you'll want to install.

It will create a folder called PhoneSkins on your device.

Choose either OrangePhoneSkin-WM5.zip or Vista Phonepad.zip and extract those files into the folder PhoneSkins. Copy over the images in the "New Images" folder and soft reset

Here is a pic of my phone with the Orange theme:

and here is the Vista (black) Theme:

**Malatesta** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-18-2006, 03:42 PM

Change your Carrier Logo!

You can't do this on the eTen skin as it'll just disappear.

Download the following image and save it to your \windows folder and soft reset:

It looks like this:

(See in my post above in the upper left hand corner of the dialer to see where it would go/look like)

Want to do your own? Just create a 110x20 gif file and name it carrierlogo.gif.

**Wideawake** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-18-2006, 03:57 PM

these look pretty nice. I'm gonna start playing around with a new dialer maker program I got today. and if and when I figure it out, I post some made by me hehe.

**Sonin66** · #4 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 02:40 AM

looks good, but its going to be kinda hard to give up eten dialer skins. are there more colors coming out like blue? going to try it out though

**Sonin66** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 03:50 AM

looks nice, hope someone can come out with diff colors. got everything else right

wingzero · #6 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 07:44 AM

It looks nice but I think I'll stick with my eten dialer.

**Malatesta** · #7 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 11:56 AM

Those are the only two I'm aware of. Since they're brand new, it'll probably take awhile for others to come out.

I like 'em for their looks but also because of the aforementioned issues with eTen. Basically, I like having SmartDial back!

p0ww0ww0w · #8 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 01:38 PM

Quote:

First, download the attached file zPhone.zip. In there is a .cab file you'll want to install.

It will create a folder called PhoneSkins on your device.

Choose either OrangePhoneSkin-WM5.zip or Vista Phonepad.zip and extract those files into the folder PhoneSkins. Copy over the images in the "New Images" folder and soft reset

what do you mean by the "new Images" Folder?! where is that suppose to be?! or what?!

**Malatesta** · #9 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by p0ww0ww0w

Quote:

First, download the attached file zPhone.zip. In there is a .cab file you'll want to install.

It will create a folder called PhoneSkins on your device.

Choose either OrangePhoneSkin-WM5.zip or Vista Phonepad.zip and extract those files into the folder PhoneSkins. Copy over the images in the "New Images" folder and soft reset

what do you mean by the "new Images" Folder?! where is that suppose to be?! or what?!

Just copy what's in the zip file to \PhoneSkin, overwriting any files.

wingzero · #10 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 02:32 PM

OK, I was wrong. I installed this new skin with the vista phonepad and I like it alot. Also I copied the new sprint logo into windows and even deleted the old logo but it still shows 'sprint pcs' instead of the new one. Any suggestion?