Not sure if you guys use it, but Pulse is a great app for the NC. I used it on my Evo, and it was one of the apps I was looking forward to using on my NC.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/pulse-news-reader/com.alphonso.pulse
not affiliated with developer, just thought its an awesome and useful android app and wanted to share.
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Its a great app on the Evo, but still not "tabletized" for larger screens.. Hopefully the widgets are also improved as well for larger screens.
norkoastal said:
Its a great app on the Evo, but still not "tabletized" for larger screens.. Hopefully the widgets are also improved as well for larger screens.
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I thought the same at first, but I actually like it more on the NC now than my Evo. I can now view more articles at once!
I agree .. it's good on the phone, great on the NC ...
It would be nice if they added a size option to scale up the articles in the app and on widgets.. The functionality of the app is hands down top class, but not quite tablet friendly (try adding a widget, you'll see).
norkoastal said:
It would be nice if they added a size option to scale up the articles in the app and on widgets.. The functionality of the app is hands down top class, but not quite tablet friendly (try adding a widget, you'll see).
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I thought the widgets were lame on the Evo too, not just the NC. I dont like that it only shows a 4x1 and feeds from 1 source.
And if there is a flash video on pulse, you can open it using skyfire. I tried it on two videos and it works great.
oakof said:
And if there is a flash video on pulse, you can open it using skyfire. I tried it on two videos and it works great.
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I had trouble viewing flash videos before, thanks for the tip.
Pulse is the best RSS reader I've found on the nook so far, best part is that it syncs to google reader.
After playing with a LCD density changer app, upping the size of the desktop loses some sharpness but pulse and icons become easier to read and use... Give it a go if you want bigger buttons etc...
My Taptu does much the same thing, you might or might not prefer the interface on that. I like being able to drag to the left to update sources in Pulse, but otherwise they're both good in their own way.
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After playing with a LCD density changer app, upping the size of the desktop loses some sharpness but pulse and icons become easier to read and use... Give it a go if you want bigger buttons etc...
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Doesnt LCD Density changer mess up the bottom task bar?
leeh41 said:
Doesnt LCD Density changer mess up the bottom task bar?
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LCD Density Changer can mess up the bottom task bar, 180 to 200 dpi seems to be about the maximum, after that the notification on the left and the quick change settings on the right, get pushed off screen. I don't know if those settings are optimal for Pulse though, I was checking thread for good news feed readers and saw your question. I haven't tried pulse yet.
leeh41 said:
Doesnt LCD Density changer mess up the bottom task bar?
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Okay, I installed Pulse on my NC at a density of 220. On first impression it seems to fit the screen perfectly. The bottom task bar button that seems a little off at a 220 density, is the left one. The button goes off the edge, but can be pressed. I hope this helps, I've only been at this for 2-3 days and am still climbing the sharpest part of the NC learning curve.
unable to delete resource
Is that only me or anyone else have problem deleting the resources? When touching on the red X in the manage resources nothing happens. I can add new resources fine.
pramalin said:
Is that only me or anyone else have problem deleting the resources? When touching on the red X in the manage resources nothing happens. I can add new resources fine.
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I have noticed this on a number of applications, including Pulse... The edges of the NC are a little "touchy" and do not always recognize the tap very well. The same thing happens for me on Pulse trying to tap the two buttons at the top of the screen. If you notice on the B&N proprietary settings screen, the buttons they place at the top corner is much bigger (i.e. and comes down farther) and I never have a problem clicking on it. Of course, it could be that I have sausage fingers...but I don't have this problem on my Droid. Keep trying and eventually it will recognize the press...
I have started using Pulse, and I am addicted to it. It's a great app, and I hope it's updated to have a bit more functionality for tablets.
norkoastal said:
After playing with a LCD density changer app, upping the size of the desktop loses some sharpness but pulse and icons become easier to read and use... Give it a go if you want bigger buttons etc...
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Thanks so much for pointing me towards LCD density I could tell that Pulse was a nice program without it but with it I can actually read the damn thing. Also, Markets easer to view now, the keyboard is easer and zeams icons are not so tiny anymore. That one program did so much. Highly recommend it to anyone looking to use Pulse, or really anything ells on there new NC
So far Pulse is one of the best RSS Readers I've tried so far, but there are two major gripes I have with it.
1. No "Mark all as read" option for sources.
2. Displays only a set amount of articles per feed. If I have more unread, they won't load.
** PS, If these things are possible (and I just can't find them), then please let me know.**
Pulse update today.... Better widgets and a "tablet" setting for larger windows and text... Wooo!!
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Pulse update today.... Better widgets and a "tablet" setting for larger windows and text... Wooo!!
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Yep, reading in the app looks awesome now, no more teeny tiny fonts in the boxes.
However I agree, Pulse only offers X amount of recent stories, no way I know of to request more. So you gotta look frequently I suppose.
But it's great to read.. I still find the "back" functionality in it a bit weird sometimes.. Sometimes it brings up the list of current feed stories, sometimes it goes back to the main page with all feeds, other times it goes straight back to home (usually when I hit back twice when it's only wanting it once). Ah well.
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hi all...just purchased dopod u 1000 with wm6 professional..any ways to change the ugly thick bold font....treid reducing the size to smallest..
also i tried installing true vga/ozvga..but couldnot find /windows directory on my mobile
regards
try real vga it works great
dheerpat said:
hi all...just purchased dopod u 1000 with wm6 professional..any ways to change the ugly thick bold font....treid reducing the size to smallest..
also i tried installing true vga/ozvga..but couldnot find /windows directory on my mobile
regards
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If you're referring to the font size on the today screen, go to \start\settings\system\screen\text size and adjust it to any size you want.
Looks like you're in the process of customizing your device. This is a really exciting and fun journey. You would also be trying to find out cool applications that you can use, I'm sure. So, I thought you might want to check out the following:
1) WkTask writtten by Waku from Wk Software lab Click here:
http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html
This utility displays all active application on the task bar and lets you switch to them.
2) RealVGA, and try out the 128dpi screen. If you have very very good eye sight, try out the 96 dpi display. Click here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
3) If you intend to use VOIP, this is still the best VOIP client that I can find.
http://www.sjphone.org/preview/SJpho...wsCE(preview)/
You need a service provider before you could make VOIP call though.
4) For backing up your contact, schedule, etc, try PIM backup. Click here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705
5) Try out the Tengo software keybaord. They have a free version here
http://free.tengo.net/
If you want to use your Thumb for input and do not mind the keyboard covering up too much of the screen, try out Tengo Thumb.
http://tengo.net/tengo_thumb.html
If you want fast input and want a keyboard that takes up only very little space, try out the regular Tengo here:http://tengo.net/tengo_pocketpc.html
The layout that occupies the least space is Tengo Nano layout.
6) To help you set your default software keyboard more easily, try out this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271008
7) If you want to be able to access all your applications and system settings from the today screen, try out iLauncher, which is the only one that works with the realVGA display.
http://ilauncher.en.softonic.com/pocket
With this, you can have one click access to any webpages, therefore one click access to things such as weather, tv programs, flight arrival and departure time, cheapest petrol stations, etc etc. all from the today screen.
It also let you have the ability to do soft reset in safe mode. In addition, you can have a battery gauge at the top of the task bar. I won't use its program switcher though. See my today screen at the end of this post on how it could look like. My icons are of 43x43 sized TGA format files. You could easily make them yourself for iLauncher.
8) If you want to make sure you do not miss any call during meetings but find the normal rigntone too offensive to be left on, then try one of these mosquitoes ringtone. Choose one that you can hear.
http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/
9) For an excellent task manager that let you see the CPU utilisation, running processes, and applications resource usage, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=280104
10) Try out this phone profile switcher:
http://www.winmobileapps.com/device/pocketpc/plt/plt.aspx
You can set up your own phone profile, for example, for for meeting and another for loud. You can then swtich from one to another from the today screen.
11) Try out the best enhancement to pocket IE, making it a lot better than Opera.
http://www.reensoft.com/PIEPlus/
12) Try out this very very cool enhancement to WM6, so that you don't have to use the vertical and horizontal scroll bar again. This enhancement lets you scrool up and down pages by dragging it. It takes some practice to use it, but you'll get use to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=338143
This applications makes all applications a little more fun to use. Your native contact application will have the iPhone feel to it.
13) This is probably less important once you have installed 12) above, but if you really like the iPhone feel for your contact, try out the best enhancement to the contact applications.
http://vitotechnology.com/en/products/contact-manager.html
14) Try out the free google map. Gives you your street maps and satellite image. Even act as a crude GPS navigation software.
http://www.google.com.au/gmm/index.html
15) The best enhancement to the WM6 alarm system that I know of is Chronos.
http://www.pocketgear.com/en_US/html/display_product.jsp?id=prod5640770
I use this to set my device to give give me an hourly chime. Sounds like the old fashion grand father clock. It also let me have unlimited alarm entries, give me a good stop watch, as well as count down capability.
16) Replace the standard file manager with Total Commander and/or Resco File explorer. Lets you see hidden files, including those in extended ROM, among other things.
http://www.ghisler.com/
http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/default.asp
17) The best program for viewing picture that I know of is Resco Photo Viewer. It also has a screen capture utility which is really good.
http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/photoviewer/
1 The best program for watching video is TCPMP. The reliable version now is 0.72RC1. Don't use any version newer than this as they are still bug ridden.
http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
Make sure you also get the FLV plugins if you want to watch youtube downloads
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196939
19) To quicky lock and unlock your device, try out this:
http://www.mr2-power.com/downloads/DeviceLock.CAB
I actually use one of the softkeys for this applications. The other softkeys is used for contact. I have phone as one of the icons on the iLauncher screen.
Yes, you can change the soft key to anything you want, both the left and right soft keys can be changed easily. There are many different ways to do this. One of the ways is to do it with a software called Sktools. This tool is one of the must haves. It also let you do many other tweakings.
20) Another very popular utility worth looking at is Tweaks2k2. I use this to change the color of my top and bottom bar. I often change the color, from red, to green, to blue, to black, etc, making my device more interesting. Go to system color under WM5 color to do this. Be careful NOT to let this software soft reset your device or else you will be frozen at the primary splash screen forcing you to have to hard reset. Always use your stylus poking into the hole to soft reset.
There are many more nice third party programs which greatly improves the ease of use and functionality of the device. Try them out as part of your exploration of what this device can do. For example I like the pocket weather program from SBSH, with a customized layout, I could display the day, max temp, min temp, precipitation and image of weather on just ONE line (not the one on my screen shot which takes up two lines). Another nice today plugin is Today Agenda, which displays task and date with just one line rather than the two shown on my screen shot.
My today screen changes constantly and it's fun that way. I tend to get bored with the same look and feel day in and day out.
My today screen (taken quite a while ago) after all the customization looks like this in 128 dpi. Note that I limit my short cuts to exactly 70. This would display very well in both landscape and portrait mode.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Good luck to your journey of exciting exploration.
Edit" If you feel brave enough, do not mind lots of reading before hand, and do not mind risking not having your warranty honored by HTC, then you might want to try out the latest cooked ROM. Some of the applications listed above are already incorporated in the ROM. However, if you do not feel that the risk is worth taking, you could still improve your stock ROM's feel and look by a great deal with the applications above.
thanx irus..that really helped..i purchased this machine second hand..the seller assured me that its not six months old nad very less used
my device details as under
winmo 6 professional (build 179440.0.3.1)-PK
rom : AP touch
ROM date : 1.50.00.00
protocolL:32.83.7020.20h
call duration : 83 hrs incoming 24 hr outgoing
does above data reflects same? is everything latest..
one more thing i intend to use pocket div x converter for video conversion..what should be the ideal setttings(fps etc) for sttutter less playing...i have about 138 video songs on microdrive.divx players hangs when opened
wow eaglesteve,,that was nice..only one thing pending now.best converter and player to watch videos on the device stutterless.any advise..using tcmpm right now for playing and intend to use pocket divx fro converting
dheerpat said:
wow eaglesteve,,that was nice..only one thing pending now.best converter and player to watch videos on the device stutterless.any advise..using tcmpm right now for playing and intend to use pocket divx fro converting
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Sorry that I'm not the best person to ask in this area, as I mostly download stuffs from places such as youtube, and play it as it is without any conversion effort. Perhaps someone else could help out.
dear all...i am observing that there is certain lag in opening up of menus...is not it surprising consedering athena is 600mhz processer..any ways to boost up openings of menus and programs
Comic Reader Mobi
by Ty Landercasper
I just realised that its been a whole year since I started this project!
A look back...
A lot has changed (including going commercial) but I thought it'd be fun to go over all the changes
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Ah the difference a graphic artist can make!
Loading and saving
The first iteration of the load menu was quite crude! In fact for most of the non commercial development, I pretty much relied on everyone just opening it through their favorite file explorer and ignoring my built in load completely
Issues arose when people wanted to read a different comic. Since Comic Reader Mobi only remembered the very last one you opened, you'd lose your place! A recent menu was put in, and that worked great as long as you didn't read more than 10 comics. I tried implementing a crude version of bookmarking, but it was extremely buggy, and difficult to manage.
Now adays, everything is built into Comic Reader Mobi. Your place is remembered in every series, and every comic. So you can easily see where you last, and whats already completed. Everything is done automatically, so you never have to worry about again.
Onscreen Controls
Back in my day, we had these fancy things called "Buttons". And boy, it sure was great, because I hardly had to put any thought at all into the onscreen controls!
Just use the action button to change a page, the up and right to change your comic, (or zoom in) and left and right to change pages. Button binding got more sophisticated in the later versions, and in the commercial version you can bind any button to any action, and it even supports overriding the volume, close and phone buttons!
But alas, the days of buttons soon ended, as more and more people started getting the new Touch HD. Without an action button to press, they were stuck with keeping the menu's open all the time and using the clunky menu system. Having to hit "Menu-> next page" over and over. Eventually some ugly onscreen controls were thrown in. They were small, and before I knew how to do transparency. So they either blocked important parts of the comic or were difficult to press on the screen because they were small!
Now we have a whole new menu system which is layed out for all the important actions. Its easy and quick to drag your finger on it to get to the suboptions. Users have the option of always showing the menu bar, or showing super transparent controls. The transparent controls are even draggable now, so if they're blocking part of the text, you can just move them out of the way
Comic Reader Mobi even has a brand new feature with a center hotspot. If you press in the center of the screen and drag within the box, than the onscreen controls will quicly popup and you can easily change pages or access controls that way! Its like being able to swipe to change pages
Lens Mode!
And who can forget the lens! initially created because someone requested a "zoom box" and I didn't know what that meant, the lens has because a powerful feature for letting people read comics without needing to scroll around.
I noticed early on that I was having a hard time reading my comics, because I'd constantly get lost, or not understand what was happening. By being zoomed in and scrolling around, I could read the text clearly, but most of the gags and action scenes were lost on me, because I was unable to see them entirely.
The first iteration of the lens just opened at a set size, didn't have any borders, and believe it or not, wasn't even draggable!
Most of the development was focused on the lens from that point on. A lot of good well as well as bad ones were implemented in order to get it to be usable. Users could change the size of it, on option was added to make it dragable, another one was added so that it would only appear while you were touching the screen(this feature was quickly scrapped), there was even a "lens mode" option where everywhere you touched a dragged a lens would come up(another scrapped feature). It eventually finished with being on tapping the screen to pop the lens up, and you could drag it by dragging the lens, or drag the page by dragging off the lens.
I created a way to detect text on the screen so that the the lens would autosize to the bubble, and I'm constantly improving the algorithm so its more and more reliable.
And now its just as easy to read on the small screen as it is on the large one!
On the iphone side, one of my customers requested being able to change the zoom level, because he was legally blind and the lens was the only way to read comics at all for him! So now Comic Reader Mobi lets you set the zoom level to 2x,3x, or 4x.
The Commercial version also lets you select "Box Zoom" from the buttons, which lets you drag your own custom box to create a lens.
It also has the option to fit to the entire page, so you can draw custom lens anytime you don't have to scroll at all
The Name
Originally deemed "Comic Reader" because my naming ability is not one of my stronger skills. I eventually asked forum members to help me come up with a name, but as it turns out most of them actually liked the name "Comic Reader!" They said it made it easier to find and identify. Someone suggested Comic Reader Mobile, for Windows Mobile, and it instantly stuck. By simply adding another word, it magically changed from a description to a legitimate title!
When I was about to go commercial, I was worried that the "Mobile" part might get me in trouble since it was going to be out for the iphone and Blackberry. So I set out to find a new name. That was when I learned that there was a whole .mobi domain out there, and since it was new, there were actually domains still available! Like a kid in a candy store, I snatched up as many as I could. I was very excited when I realised I could call the program Comic Reader Mobi, and people would be able to get to it by going to http://comicreader.mobi
And that is how the program ended up with what is quite literally the most generic name I could possibly give it
Loading Times
Throughout the development, people complained about the comic load times. Since I only read manga, which is traditionally very small and light files, and only had one or two second delays between pages, I pretty much had no idea what you were all talking about, and just assumed everyone was crazy.
When I started the development of the commercial version, I figured if I wanted to take your money, I should probably look into this issue..
I eventually tested it with an American comic, and it turns out you guys weren't crazy and the loading times were indeed slow! I immediately reworked the loading system, and now the program buffers the next page while you're reading so all the pages changes are usually instant.
Kinetic Scrolling and swiping
The most common feature request has finally been implemented! Now the program features kinetic scrolling, and a great page turning feature!
Final Remarks
Its been quite a ride this past year, and I'm planning on making many more improvements for the next one!
If you'd like to buy it, or read more about it, you can go to my website here:
http://comicreader.mobi
or, if you want to wish me luck, ask any questions, or just feel like populating my forums you can go here:
http://forums.comicreader.mobi
Thanks!
This sounds great but where is the App?
whoops, I remembered to upload the attachment, but didn't realise I needed to add it in the body!
Thank You
thx
thx! nice app
Ive been looking at something like this for awhile! Interested to see how it performs!
Any chance for an update to read .cbr files?
yeah, the next version will support cbr and rar files
Kudos for the program. I like it!
I am waiting for the update for the cbz format. Its going to kick some serious butt. Also is it possible to access files from the storage card? When I am given the access to the open menu, I can only open files that are on the device memory.
Cheers tho.
Ben
It actually will open files on the storage card but only one level deep
so anything in \comics\xmen will not be seen
but
\xmen will be.
I really really don't understand why Microsoft choose to make their open dialog work that way, but there you have it
In the next release I'll have an option to associate comic reader with cbz and cbr files, so that you can open them from File Explorer and get around that.
Ah I see that. Thanks for the tip.
This is a really nice idea btw. I have been using just the included image viewer up until now to read my comics and stuff. I will totally be watching for the updates.
Thank you.
where do you find comics that work in this?
New version is up
As for where you get them... I think you can find comics in all the usual places.
I think DC or Marvel supply some for free, but I don't know for sure. I use it mostly for reading manga.
This program doesn't use a propretary format so it should be able to read any comic file or any rar/zip with images in it.
haha i dont know the usual places i havent downloaded any before
just seemed like a cool idea
Best app. Ever. All it needs is a zoom box, and it would be perfect. Thanks.
Any thought of open sourcing this? You could get some help on features from people. Maybe up on Google Code? or CodePlex.
I was thinking of making one of these myself, but just couldn't get around to getting the initial work done.
Just a suggestion.
Hi thanks,downloading and giving it a go!
now that i got some comics it really is cool
but yea the only suggestion would be speeding up time between pages
even with the manga setting turned off whenever i go to the next page it still starts at the top right
great app, gratz
pls optimize it for hd screen, it should be nice
does it read cbz and cbr too?
ScreenSaver is a simple application that runs in the background. When the device is plugged in (ActiveSync or mains) it pops to the foreground and displays the time (more to come). To hide it, swipe down the screen, to close it, swipe up the screen (note, if OS < 6.5, tap minimizes, there's not close as yet). It uses your device settings for time (IE, 24 hour/AMPM/whatever) so there's nothing to change.
Requirements:
WM6.5+ device (touchscreen only)
20kb storage, (up to) 200kb free RAM (on a WVGA device, so less on smaller resolutions) (up to) 2MB free RAM with wallpaper.
To do:
Add a nice start menu icon (anyone fancy making one?)
Add icons for notifications
Possibly make it a lockscreeny like thing (
Possibly add an image that gets slid down (rather than just hoping that will minimize it)
Any suggestions?
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Video on YouTube
Customisation:
Code:
Wallaper (REG_SZ, full path to image):
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Wallpaper
Colours (REG_DWORD in COLORREF format (0x00bbggrr))
Notification text
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Notifications
Date text
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Date
Time text
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Time
Slider colour
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Slider
Fullscreen (REG_DWORD, 0 = disable, 1 = enable)
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ApplicationFramework\l3v5yScreenSaver
Releases:
0.04
Now displays notifications about email, calls, SMS
Better handling of being in background
Now supports wallpapers
0.03
Non public release
0.02
Now displays a calendar as well as the clock
Adds a slider, and slidng animations
Stops doing stuff when not foreground window
0.01
First release, very basic ATM, just does a clock.
Download:
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Nice idea mate. It would be nice to have a fully fledged "powered" screen like this. I'll keep an eye on this. It's always bugged me that screensavers aren't the norm on wm devices.
johncmolyneux said:
Nice idea mate. It would be nice to have a fully fledged "powered" screen like this. I'll keep an eye on this. It's always bugged me that screensavers aren't the norm on wm devices.
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What do you mean by "powered" in this case? Keeping the device on?
I've added a few things in the beta I'm working on, but will aim to make it all customisable so you can switch things off...
Date is now displayed (can be turned off)
Slider to slide down the screen to hide (can be turned off)
Basic support for email/text/stuff - it displays a few numbers in the top corner (can be turned off as well
To attempt to make this as lean as possible, I'm going to try and minimise the number of options there are...
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
If anyone vaguely interested in this can give me some feedback, I'll know what I'm aiming for!
l3v5y said:
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
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I think a slider's a good idea, but then again, I can't really think of a better way of doing it, so it may just be the easiest for me to agree to! I like the idea of the whole screen sliding down with the swipe of my thumb, clock and notifications included.
I'd personally like to have the ability to select a wallpaper, or a solid colour of my choice, but if you want to keep it lean then that may be overkill.
Again, this is a personal choice, but I like the idea of the date under the clock, in a small font.
I like notifications at the top, but again, that's just me.
Maybe you could come up with some clever way of defining the layout in an xml file so that people could edit it - position, font size etc.. (or any old text/ini file).
Heh - have I just turned your simple idea into a massive app? I'm just greedy mate
Incidentally, when I said "powered" earlier, I meant externally powered. This would be perfect for me as I have my phone plugged into my PC at work, and usually turn the screen off. It would be nice to have something dedicated to looking good in those circumstances.
Hope this gives you some ideas anyway
l3v5y said:
To attempt to make this as lean as possible, I'm going to try and minimise the number of options there are...
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
If anyone vaguely interested in this can give me some feedback, I'll know what I'm aiming for!
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I'd say just make the clock slide up or down.
I personally like the simple black background.
Date attached to the clock (maybe under it,small)
Notifications could be in a sort of HTC Home layout under the clock and date with their respective icons next to them.
Here is a crappy little mock up I pushed out with PS:
Keep up the great work,
dwizzy130
Hi,
You should look at the "Zune lock screen". You should fine good ideas about the unlock "slider"
maybe somthing like this (dockrunner from droid)
Updated!
It's now got a slider thing, and a pretty animation!
I'm now going to add email icons etc.
Anyone here any good with photoshop? Could do with a nicer icon, and three images for email, text and voicemail...
l3v5y said:
To attempt to make this as lean as possible, I'm going to try and minimise the number of options there are...
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
If anyone vaguely interested in this can give me some feedback, I'll know what I'm aiming for!
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got an idea to share
Is it possible to do so? As in when you slide the bar down, the clock will sort of follow from the back (the clock does not stay in the bar like the one in the video). Then you quickly slide the bar up (without unlocking the phone), the clock will have a momentum kind of effect then only it bounds back to the bar. (personally it looks kind of cool and fun to play )
Oh yea, 1 more thing, is it possible to add some animation, eg. after unlocking the phone the notification bar or maybe the clock and date will "fly out" to the edge and vice versa when the phone is lock. (kind of like iPhone style animation )
cheers~
Loving the app lv...simple, elegant, and practical. All thats needed is there and I think going with simplicity like chrisch showed with the Droid dock screen is perfect. One question though, what the HE** did you do to your HD2 screen I dont even have on and it hurt to see it. lol!
Oh, I dont see a slider or sliding animations in the 2nd release. Am I missing something? As well, I've noticed if I have the device powered off and plug in, then sometimes just the lockscreen will stay up. Does it work best when the lock isnt enabled?
edit** after further testing, it does work best if the device is already awake and unlocked. It doesnt activate when I have the device locked.
kwill said:
Loving the app lv...simple, elegant, and practical. All thats needed is there and I think going with simplicity like chrisch showed with the Droid dock screen is perfect. One question though, what the HE** did you do to your HD2 screen I dont even have on and it hurt to see it. lol!
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Have a read here...
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=11279
ouch!!!
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Have a read here...
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=11279
ouch!!!
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DAAAMMMNNNN!! Only words to express it
I like the idea of keeping it simple. For more functions there are plenty of lockscreens.
Just 2 things that could be improved in my opinion:
1. Make the clock bigger and and let there be more contrast between font and background( When you look at th screen in a too big angle you can only see a gray bar on a black screen, but no time)
2. Option to turn the screen off after a few minutes
One more thing:
On my Blackstone there is no problem because under the screen is no edge, but especially on some older models it could be difficult to reach the bottom with the slider. You just have to make it minimize when the bottom slider is touching the bottom of the screen so it should be really easy to implement it but it will save you from some complains .
edit:
Just now I noticed that I miss another thing that you normally want to know when you charge your phone: Battery
Since this app starts when the device is charging it should definitely contain a battery indicator where you can see hom many % battery you have.
I think keeping the screen simple is a good idea. Just keep displaying a bar with time and date, email+text messages+missed call counters as well as an alert symbol, if there is a notification from calender or clock. A good idea will be to keep this "bar of information" moving at random locations on the screen.
Keeping the screen black is specially a great idea for phones like Omnia II with AMOLED screens as these phones shut down all the pixels that are to be rendered pure black and that saves a lot of power. For regular LCD's this is not the case though.
l3v5ys
Dear l3v5ys,
first thanks alot, i have my own suggestion...
i think if we make the screen save more graphical that would be awesome. and more prodcutive or informative.
and i guess the screen saver should iformative about the battery ???
how to make the screen saver work when you plug in the device, because it works for me just when i click in the icon in the start menu, that mean every time i should do that ? ? ?
brilliant app...minimalistic approach keep it up..
@ goldenhero:
You just have to start the program once and after you have done that it will automatically launch when you plug the usb in.
I guess an autostart option wouldn't be a bad idea.
Bug
Device : omnia i900
when you plug the device , first time it took, 3-4 secound for the screenSaver to appear, and once you slide the clock to unlock, and plug again it dose not work again alone, i should relunch the relaunche the program, any i deas...
thanks for the program and the idea .....
honestly i like the slide clock to unlock it is nice but can we improve the touch in this small app ? .....
Edit: For the new version, see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8512590#post8512590
Hello
Welcome to my thread for my Windows Phone 7 Theme. The ultimate goal of this theme is to have a fully featured Windows Phone 7 theme that allows many similar functions as the real device.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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To use it, install the cab file below, then click on the icon in the start menu.
To exit, long-tap on the right side of the screen.
Settings is also listed in the long-tap menu.
To lock the device, click on the top of the screen, near the clock.
Current version: 1.15:
Performance greatly increased, lockscreen password, etc.
"Treats"
The real WP7 contains something called "Treats". These are little, fairly useless, but cool features.
Some of the ones included in this theme:
Text icon changes depending on amount of messages. First it is a smile, then a frown, and finally a gasping face.
Bing search background changes depending on the day's image.
Upcoming features
Pictures hub
Office hub
Games hub
Integration with Steam
Appointments tile
Smoother interface
Known issues:
Facebook does not stay logged in
...More later
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEYzUhnmRFk
Download: http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7s.php
See website for full details and screenshots: http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7s.php
People Hub
- Allows seeing contacts on homescreen
-Favorites list
-List of contacts. Tapping on a blue letter brings up a letter list.
-List of latest friends facebook status
Text tile
-Displays number of new messages
-Changes emoticon based on number of messages
Outlook tile
-Displays number of new mail messages
Phone tile
-Displays number of missed calls
Pictures tile
-Displays pictures, fading in and out new ones
-Takes you to default album viewer
Search
-Displays latest Bing background
-Searches Bing with custom keyboard
See website for full details: http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7s.php
nice
is it only for WVGA screen?
chriscsh said:
nice
is it only for WVGA screen?
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VGA/WVGA. It also works (in theory) on QVGA, but it may not run well due to older devices being slower.
Looks and runs nicely on my Blackstone, have noticed a few things though:
- the blue squares shake a lot if you press and hold the screen...not sure if it's intentional but personally I feel the 'vibration' effect isn't too nice to look at.
- when scrolling on the apps screen some program names get broken. For example: 'FreeUpRam' becomes 'FreeUP' and 'pTravelAlarm' becomes 'pTravelAl'. The scrolling motion is also a bit jumpy.
- could not find a way of returning from bing search to the main screen without exiting the app and reloading it.
- pictures tab does not see images on the SD card in \Storage Card\My Documents or \Storage Card\DCIM (it would be nice if it could be set in the settings to look at 2 paths - storage and phone)
- none of my music is listed (also stored on storage card).
VERY nice start though! I'll be watching this one!
...also for some reason your website just comes up grey on my PC in IE8.
sweet, why not put it on your diamond2?
what are your thoughts on changing the faded black background to pitch black?? I am guessing you're trying to make it look like what's shown in the microsoft demos on that prototype device...? That's probably due to the display on that device though and i'm going to take a wild guess and say MS will make it black like on the zune hd when it's done. Or maybe you have a different reason for it?
cool
Jaxbot said:
Hello
I have released the BETA version of my Windows Phone 7 Series Theme, and am looking for some feedback
To use it, install the cab file below, then click on the icon in the start menu.
To exit, long-tap on the right side of the screen.
Settings is also listed in the long-tap menu.
To lock the device, click on the top of the screen, near the clock.
Current features:
People hub with recent, all contacts, and a list of contacts Facebook status updates.
Bing search with background changing depending on Bing picture of day.
Live tiles (Javascript based, set a URL in the settings to your own)
Program launcher
Lock screen
Upcoming features:
More hubs (give me ideas!)
Better animations
More social network integration
(Ideas?)
Known issues:
Facebook does not stay logged in
Facebook lags when viewing What's New
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEYzUhnmRFk
Download: http://windowsphonehacker.jaxbot.com/files/wp7s_beta.CAB
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going to go try it out its going to look good
wm7
keep gettin a error when i launch the app
are you using windows form control/user control to display items? You can't get any smoother animation with windows form controls, because everytimes the control Location changes, it repaints itself regardless and as you can see it is very resource consuming. You gotta paint individual control for better performance.
But overall, it's looking pretty nice
I trie on my ELF P3450 and runs fine but a little bit slower, understand that, older device...
Very nice app... any chance to edit menu ( the right side)???
ohhh...and tell the trick to unlock screen i spend about 2 min to find out...looool
Feedback
I tried this on opal (201mhz processor) qvga screen.
I can tell one thing its just awesome on my device i didnt expected it to be so smoothe (iam comparing this with the preview version) its much smoother just one thing on home screen while scrolling the tiles move with hands thats absolutely smoothe but for some time it leaves a trace of the tile say 1 or 2 seconds if u fix that u can officially say its compatible with qvga.
I expect more pages, more likelyness to original wp7
Hey Jaxbot,
It's getting better - the only that has disappointed me with this build (as opposed to the one I've tested for you) is the animations seem to have got slower rather than faster - especially for the people hub.
I see you have fixed some bugs - some still remain but I will not double report those.
A new one, it's nice to see you've added the contact surname, however, it is now shown underneath the next person's first name (i.e. you've not given it enough space/padding).
The same goes for the program list (the second part of the program name is cut off). good to see it's actually working now - though still not scrollable.
The live tiles still take a long time to animate out/in.
More to come...
Casey
Update: In qvga device there is no tile for images.
Plus this homescreen needs kinetic scrolling its a must coz scrolling between the left and right pages is excellent the animation is perfect but scrolling down is little hard so i am saying kinetic scrolling please add in next version.
very nice start.
theres alot of shaking around on the icons, and arent any smooth transitions. btu seeing as this is version 1, im sure that you will refine it in the coming weeks
i look forward to the more refined version. good work and thanks for the download!
很漂亮,qvga也可以用,但是提出几个问题:
1. 使用过程中,容易造成崩溃死机。
2. 上下左右滑动,速度很慢。
3. 不支持中文路径。
4. 程序图标不显示。
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This app is awfull
I'm running it on my HP614C, WM6.5 with a 520Mhz processor.
It's stille pretty slow, but it surely is an improvement over the alpha release!
Keep it coming
welki1979 said:
- when scrolling on the apps screen some program names get broken. For example: 'FreeUpRam' becomes 'FreeUP' and 'pTravelAlarm' becomes 'pTravelAl'. The scrolling motion is also a bit jumpy.
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My guess is they are taking up more room than available, which means the auto-font size is broken. I'll look into it.
welki1979 said:
- could not find a way of returning from bing search to the main screen without exiting the app and reloading it.
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The hardware arrow button on my device works for that, but I'll add a software button for people who don't have one.
welki1979 said:
- pictures tab does not see images on the SD card in \Storage Card\My Documents or \Storage Card\DCIM (it would be nice if it could be set in the settings to look at 2 paths - storage and phone)
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I'll look into it, currently it only allows one picture path.
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- none of my music is listed (also stored on storage card).
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Haven't gotten around to a music+video hub yet, but it's coming.
welki1979 said:
...also for some reason your website just comes up grey on my PC in IE8.
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Uh oh. I'll look into that.
Casey_boy said:
A new one, it's nice to see you've added the contact surname, however, it is now shown underneath the next person's first name (i.e. you've not given it enough space/padding).
The same goes for the program list (the second part of the program name is cut off). good to see it's actually working now - though still not scrollable.
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Interesting, and yes I noticed that. The problem is that most testing was on the Device Emulator at QVGA resolution, so the fonts worked perfectly on low res. I'll play with the numbers at get that fixed.
About the speed being lower, I'm confused by that, as not much was added (just fixes from the list you sent me). By chance do you have anything running in the background?
Otherwise, I'm still working on speeding up the animations, expect some changes soon
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很漂亮,qvga也可以用,但是提出几个问题:
1. 使用过程中,容易造成崩溃死机。
2. 上下左右滑动,速度很慢。
3. 不支持中文路径。
4. 程序图标不显示。
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I'm under the impression this is an English-only forum, but I'll answer your concerns as best I can.
1robably takes too much memory.
2:Obviously, since it's QVGA, it runs slow. (since the device is older)
3:I don't know what to say, because .NET CF handles all that.
4robably due to #3.
To get an image to fit perfectly, it needs to be 1600 pixels wide and 1280 pixels high.
This is exactly the same aspect ratio as the wallpaper crop/selection tool, so nothing of the image is lost.
But, obviously, not all of the wallpaper is shown on the screen, so to make sure you get the part you want, it would need to fit the following template:
The red area is the centre screen when holding the tablet in landscape mode, the area with the translucent blue overlay is the centre screen when holding it in portrait and the green area just represents the size the image has to be - obviously, as you swipe between screens, some of the green area will become visible.
You can test it yourself by clicking on the image, going to my dA page and downloading the full 1600x1280 version and putting it on your Tab.
The only issue I encountered with it is if you're using ADW EX, you only have a single homescreen and wallpaper scrolling is enabled, it doesn't line up on the red area like you would expect it to, it shifts to the side.
But if you switch wallpaper scrolling off, then it snaps to the red area properly (and lets face it, if you're only using a single screen, it's not like you need it to scroll...).
Now, I have read elsewhere that the reason a lot of Honeycomb wallpapers are 1920 wide is so that they still look good when the Tab is connected to an HDMI out.
I'm not so sure that's been thought-through but if you're worried about it, then you scale it up from 1600x1280 to 1920x1536 and that should be the correct aspect ratio to fit the wallpaper selection tool exactly (NB - I haven't checked this myself though) - just bear in mind that if you did that, the read and blue boxes would then cover areas of 1536x960 and 960x1536 respectively.
Hope that helps.
edit: looking at it again, I just realised it's exactly the same as for Android phones.
Taking the screen res in portrait, your image needs to be the height of the screen and twice the width.
edit #2: if you want to be able to size your wallpapers correctly without having fit it into the template above, see below...
There are two apps that might be of some use to you.
I'm not recommending them, I don't as of the time of writing use either myself but it's worth being aware of your options.
Firstly, Wallpaper Wizardrii, which allows you to set a 1280x800px image as your wallpaper and have it fit the screen perfectly by disabling wallpaper scrolling.
Secondly, Multi-Picture Live Wallpaper, which allows you to set different images as your wallpaper on each screen of your homescreen.
Many thanks for this
Thanks Step666,
This does mirror what I see in ADW. However, when I i simply use wizardrii without ADW the wallpaper image appears to be center-justified in both portait and landscape.
In ADW the wallpaper appears to be top-justified. If your wallpaper has a center of focus, that center is different in Portrait and landscape - this is a source of frustration for me. ADW is currently uninstalled and not usable for me right now.
My primary use-mode is landscape, so I suppose I can re-size the image as you note above, and then simple deal with the odd offset the rare times I am in portrait mode.
Thanks Step, I'll give this a try when I get home...
markp99 said:
Thanks Step666
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Thanks Step
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You're both very welcome.
markp99 said:
This does mirror what I see in ADW. However, when I i simply use wizardrii without ADW the wallpaper image appears to be center-justified in both portait and landscape.
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It all depends on your needs of course, I wasn't taken with the wizardrii app, it seemed very clunky and I don't like the idea of having to have something running all the time just to get my wallpaper right.
But then again, I have wallpaper scrolling switched off and ADW locked into horizontal, so it's a lot easier for me to sort out a wallpaper manually.
Thanks very much Step666.
I have a question here regarding the default wallpaper's aspect ratio... wondering how it works... as it's not able to fit into the template above, and not compatible with the aspect ratio of the Tab display either... will some of the default wallpaper will be cropped off especially when holding the Tab in portrait? Thanks.
I don't know what size Samsung's stock wallpapers are but assuming they're 1920x1408 like the I/O stock wallpapers, that means they're shorter than they should be, so when you select/crop the wallpaper, it'll be too wide, so you'll lose something from the left and/or right edges.
But obviously, as I said before, even within the selected area, you will only ever see a small portion (slightly under 50% once the status-bar covers some of it.) on the screen at any one time.
Step666 said:
I don't know what size Samsung's stock wallpapers are but assuming they're 1920x1408 like the I/O stock wallpapers, that means they're shorter than they should be, so when you select/crop the wallpaper, it'll be too wide, so you'll lose something from the left and/or right edges.
But obviously, as I said before, even within the selected area, you will only ever see a small portion (slightly under 50% once the status-bar covers some of it.) on the screen at any one time.
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Hi Step666,
I tried to use the template for test in my Tab, but found that my wallpaper select/crop app doesn't fit into this template... you could see it from the following screenshot, any insights? Thanks
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Hong Zhang said:
Hi Step666,
I tried to use the template for test in my Tab, but found that my wallpaper select/crop app doesn't fit into this template... you could see it from the following screenshot, any insights? Thanks
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I find that 1920 x 1440 fits like a glove...
jzen said:
I find that 1920 x 1440 fits like a glove...
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I just tried with 1920×1408, and this aspect ratio can fit into the wallpaper select/crop app perfectly... but some of the content on the top and down(maybe left and right) cannot be selected by this app.
Hong Zhang said:
I tried to use the template for test in my Tab, but found that my wallpaper select/crop app doesn't fit into this template... you could see it from the following screenshot, any insights? Thanks
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I don't know to be honest, it fits perfectly on my Tab.
I'm at work just now and my Tab's at home but when I get home, I'll load it up and get a screenshot.
Just one small thing, the people who are finding my template doesn't fit, are you all using TouchWiz?
Step666 said:
I don't know to be honest, it fits perfectly on my Tab.
I'm at work just now and my Tab's at home but when I get home, I'll load it up and get a screenshot.
Just one small thing, the people who are finding my template doesn't fit, are you all using TouchWiz?
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Thank you, Step666.
Yes, the GT-7510 Tab released in China is equipped TouchWiz 4.0 by default.
Apologies for taking so long to get back to you, here are some screenshots from my Tab...
The first two show me sizing up the template which fits exactly and the third one is the wallpaper I use - it's got the same green background, that's how sure I am that the dimensions I quoted are right (NB I don't ever see the green part because I have my homescreen set to landscape and wallpaper scrolling disabled).
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The only thing I can think of is that TouchWiz changes the way you select the wallpaper...
Step666 said:
Apologies for taking so long to get back to you, here are some screenshots from my Tab...
The first two show me sizing up the template which fits exactly and the third one is the wallpaper I use - it's got the same green background, that's how sure I am that the dimensions I quoted are right (NB I don't ever see the green part because I have my homescreen set to landscape and wallpaper scrolling disabled).
The only thing I can think of is that TouchWiz changes the way you select the wallpaper...
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I see.... thanks again, Step666. So, it's due to the TouchWiz... , which is making wallpaper customized more complicated... sigh...
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So, it's due to the TouchWiz...
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I think, I can't be sure.
If I get a bit of free time, I might try updating again to TouchWiz and seeing what's what.
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I think, I can't be sure.
If I get a bit of free time, I might try updating again to TouchWiz and seeing what's what.
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Thank you, Step666. I just don't understand why the app leaves margins...
I'm using ADW over the top over Touchwiz with just a single homescreen and I've had a very difficult time getting the wallpapers to look any decent even with Wallpaper Wizardrii.
I've been doing some mucking around with both Wallpaper Wizardrii and the Touchwiz wallpaper chooser and seem to have come up with a method that gets the wallpaper in the right spot.
I open my chosen wallpaper in Wallpaper Wizardrii and set it as the wallpaper using the 'exact' setting. This adds big useful margins around the image. I then open Root Explorer and browse to the WallpaperWizardrii folder on the SD Card (I use Root Explorer because Gallery doesn't seem to refresh the images properly, even when using SDRescan). I then select the current_wallpaper.jpg and open it in gallery. From there I can set this image as the wallpaper using the Touchwiz wallpaper cooser and I can use the big new margins to hang the wallpaper selection box over so I'm getting all my image onto the screen.
Below is how I crop the image in the Touchwiz wallpaper chooser to get it to fit properly in landscape.
Hope this helps some!
its works, however the wallpaper will become "zoomed in" again after a restart of the device... but works again once u start the wizardrii app..
and doesnt work again once u turn your screen to Portrait on homescreen..
I noticed this also, where it looked to crop the right third of the image off.
funnily enough, when I then chose an unrelated image and set that as a wallpaper, it still has 1/3 of the image missing.
Must be a bug somewhere down the line...
If I could find another app that would allow me to add the margins onto an image, removing Wallpaper Wizardrii might stop it from happening?
hey bro an update that wizardrii app doesnt work after a reboot. when it reboots, it only shows 3/4 from left to right. On the right there is a big black block where the wall paper should be. And yes I set it up unscrollable etc.