This forum desperately needs new home screens!

[bipinsen]

I am tired of looking at my old standby homescreen! There's got to be something better out there!! What are you guys running on your screens? The stock schemes? I've seen some really good ones out there with LCD plugin and various other stuff.

So chime in if you want to share any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, or whatever.

[rorijam]

I am tired of looking at my old standby homescreen! There's got to be something better out there!! What are you guys running on your screens? The stock schemes? I've seen some really good ones out there with LCD plugin and various other stuff.

So chime in if you want to share any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, or whatever.

Yours look interesting, but you may find alternatives if use the search function by looking for TODAY or HTC HOME or POINTUI words...

[Exitao]

I'm using Pearl. Aaroinara (sp? sorry), made a good portrait version. Available over at the SBSH forums. Requires Facade. Another nice one over there, Twilite.

[djsleepwalker]

I am tired of looking at my old standby homescreen! There's got to be something better out there!! What are you guys running on your screens? The stock schemes? I've seen some really good ones out there with LCD plugin and various other stuff.

So chime in if you want to share any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, or whatever.

With the exception of the weather stuff (which I don't use and probably won't, since I don't have a data plan), I think that homescreen is *awesome* What are you using? Me wants! :D

[bipinsen]

With the exception of the weather stuff (which I don't use and probably won't, since I don't have a data plan), I think that homescreen is *awesome* What are you using? Me wants! :D

Oh thanks. Mine is a slightly modified version of "PAH Vista" screens found at MoDaCo. Go here (http://www.modaco.com/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=2409). I changed the order of certain items, increased font size, and removed some text. But the general layout and backgrounds are all the same. Check it out.

[illi]

There are HTC HomeScreen, freestylWM, pointui.home, HTC Home Customizer, etc. But none works on Tornado! I am envious!

I fancy HTC Home Screen and will have it installed with the following exceptions:
1. able to replace the FavoritePeople and the Weather with my choiced application
2. able to add more taps to the home screen instead of only 3
3. installable to SD Card

SGregory did a good job with the HTC Home Screen
making it possible to be installed on Tornado. Some experts hopefully can pickup from there.

my thoughts.
Thanks

[Luckyfox777]

SGregory did a good job with the HTC Home Screen
making it possible to be installed on Tornado. Some experts hopefully can pickup from there.

my thoughts.
Thanks
absolutely agree with you mate.

[karhoe]

There are HTC HomeScreen, freestylWM, pointui.home, HTC Home Customizer, etc. But none works on Tornado! I am envious!

I fancy HTC Home Screen and will have it installed with the following exceptions:
1. able to replace the FavoritePeople and the Weather with my choiced application
2. able to add more taps to the home screen instead of only 3
3. installable to SD Card

SGregory did a good job with the HTC Home Screen
making it possible to be installed on Tornado. Some experts hopefully can pickup from there.

my thoughts.
Thanks
That's weird, home customizer works for me

[illi]

That's weird, home customizer works for me

Sounds more weird to me. I tried numerous times; install, reinstall after reboot but still no luck. It failed to auto download the plugin. When I manually install plugin it crashed. I followed the instructions religiously at pocketemu.com. Karhoe, did you get the files from pocketemu and how you managed? I am keen on this.

thanks

[Luckyfox777]

hey guys look at this one, the home screen of new BenQ E72, it is using flash, let's try to find dump of it's rom and maybe we can have a homescreen which changes wallpaper in dependence of the time(morning,evening, etc)
http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartphone-Standard-News/264113/Benq-E72-UNBOXED/
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9040/mobile0192813cd7efff0d9lo8.gifhttp://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8799/0889kl6.jpg

[xatzis5000]

This homescreen is the one of the best out there!
I'm tring to find homescreens for tornado long time now,but everything is just boooring!!
I need something like Nokia's or most of the sonyericssons homescreens(themes)

[illi]

hey guys look at this one, the home screen of new BenQ E72, it is using flash, let's try to find dump of it's rom and maybe we can have a homescreen which changes wallpaper in dependence of the time(morning,evening, etc)
http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartphone-Standard-News/264113/Benq-E72-UNBOXED/
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9040/mobile0192813cd7efff0d9lo8.gifhttp://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8799/0889kl6.jpg

Not flash mate. It hogs the memory. I've tried the freestylwm.com's homescreen and gave up on flash.

Anyone tried pointui.com's. I like it but need customization to suite non-touch screen.

thanks

[illi]

sorry to messed up my post. pls see next one.

thanks

[illi]

sorry. see next post.

[illi]

This is my customized homescreen.

1. Carrier/Date/Time
2. V2R.ag's PhotoDialer
3. ElecontWeather
4. CBReminder Plugin
5. sms/email count

Not shown are Missed Call/Voice msg.

Quite basic but I want to be able to have a quick look at my appointments and number of unread messages. I am trying to put the Task there too but constrained with space.

In pointui.com's homescreen, I fancy the "ribbon" but only if it can be customized and integrated into the homescreen's xml.


Anyone interested I can post the xml file.

Thanks

[Luckyfox777]

illi
why not using flash? if BenQ E72 can work just fine with it's ~17mb of RAM after start then why my Tornado with ~28mb would have problems to work with it?

[illi]

illi
why not using flash? if BenQ E72 can work just fine with it's ~17mb of RAM after start then why my Tornado with ~28mb would have problems to work with it?

Flash makes the device unbearably slow (IMHO). I have installed freestylwm.com's homescreen. But finally decided to uninstall. You also need to customize the layout to fit the screen since it was designed for PPC not smartphone.

I am now seriously looking at pointui.com's. Looks promising and needs customization too to get the right links. However, it was quite "smooth" on my Tornado WM6 and I like it very much.

You may want to try PointUI's.

thanks

[Luckyfox777]

i know pointUI, but it's not in my taste:)
this one i am talking about was special designed for BenQ E72 which is a simple WM6 smartphone, with 64mb RAM and 260mhz procesor, i think this homescreen should work just ok... will see.
best wishes.

[Twistit]

hmm something like this? http://labs.designprovince.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:LiveU!&catid=39:Mobile%20Wallpapers&Itemid=56

gues it wont work on wm2003/5/6, maibe someone can port it? :P

[unleashedvigilante]

Hey guys,
here is my homescreen. It is based off of Kristoff(I believe, but whom I did contact for permission) homescreen but I changed a lot of it to make it look more WMP11. Pretty much just requires the Facade plugin. Didn't post the missed call screen.

[revanmj]

mine on Tornado (left) and Vox (right)

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/3960/sshot000bl2.jpg http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4576/ss000pq1.jpg

[Osmos]

My homescreen :)

[Luckyfox777]

http://4pda.ru/forum/uploads/img-53004-Capture_2a.jpg http://4pda.ru/forum/uploads/img-53005-Capture_2.jpg
my theme called VistaMania(with slideshow)
*MBAnalogClock
*MBAnimation
*Fizz Weather
*eficasoft smartphone traffic monitor

[bestever]

can you give use a link ore put all that and zip them and put them here

[bipinsen]

http://4pda.ru/forum/uploads/img-53004-Capture_2a.jpg http://4pda.ru/forum/uploads/img-53005-Capture_2.jpg
my theme called VistaMania(with slideshow)
*MBAnalogClock
*MBAnimation
*Fizz Weather
*eficasoft smartphone traffic monitor

This is a great example of a good homescreen. Thanks for sharing!

[djsleepwalker]

My homescreen :)

I wish I could ask in Russian but I'm still learning and am *very* bad at it. I'll not butcher your language and ask in English, but rest assured I'm learning:

Where did you get your homescreen? I like it a lot. Da.

спасибо!

[Osmos]

djsleepwalker I've made one by combining two themes from nectun.com. Well, I can post it somewhere if you want..

Good luck in studying Russian! ( I suppose, my English also is not very good))

[Eikichi]

http://4pda.ru/forum/uploads/img-53004-Capture_2a.jpg http://4pda.ru/forum/uploads/img-53005-Capture_2.jpg
my theme called VistaMania(with slideshow)
*MBAnalogClock
*MBAnimation
*Fizz Weather
*eficasoft smartphone traffic monitor

Fantastic! any chance of sharing a cab there matey? :D

[Luckyfox777]

here you go Eikichi
vista_mania.zip (http://4pda.ru/forum/uploads/img-53006-vista_mania.zip)
just put all the files in the Application Data/Home
of course you have to have installed all the aditional plugins i mentioned before.
good luck!

p.s. please write if you managed...

[bestever]

cant find the software searshed the google but nothing cant you give me a link

[Luckyfox777]

Fizz Weather >> http://www.fizzsoftware.com/products/weather/weather.html
MBAnalogClock >> http://www.madbeetle.com/ClockPlugin.html
MBAnimation >> http://www.madbeetle.com/homescreen.html
efficasoft smartphone traffic monitor >> http://www.efficasoft.com/

[Sefy]

Mine isn't too exciting, basicly i've taken Gregory's HTC and added a few things here and there, like: Facade, Battery Plugin, Calander and Skype

And i've changed the background to a more bright Vista wallpaper :D

[bestever]

you forgot to ment smarttool

[Sefy]

Well, SmartToolKit is accessible just when clicking, it's not really "part" of the mainscreen wallpaper and won't be included lets say in a homescreen script file ;)

[bestever]

i wish it was

[DaMilky]

How Can I add the Wireless Plugin and Windows Live plugin to a Standard Homescreen ??? (I don't want build a homescreen from scratch)

In Windows Live, i try in Options > Home Screen options and I choose "Live Seach bar" and "Windows Live services" but it dont appear in Home screen

[Sage]

this is mine :)

[ascorpion]

this is mine :)

Nice one!! Can i get download link? please :)

[bipinsen]

this is mine :)

Very clean! Excellent example! Thanks for sharing!!

[ascorpion]

2 homescreens: RastaCool by DjOuBhAa and Htc home ;)

[Sefy]

Here's one i've re-adjusted from my previous Skype HTC Home w/Battery, i took out the Skype, and inserted EQO instead, but i lowered the Calendar and put EQO above it :rolleyes:

[Sage]

xml and background attached.

Need the smartmonitor plugin for the battery, signal and memory at the bottom..

Not sure how to share this so let me know if you need any more than this :)

[glennza]

I have been trying to change the colour of the clock on the HTC homescreen. I have managed to locate the PNG files but when I open them in Photoshop, I can't change the colour. Any ideas?

I thought the original grey HTC screen would look really cool with green LED-type clock and text.

[glennza]

I have created a green segment set for the original grey HTC homescreen. Makes it look like an old LED clock. Basic but effective

Let me know what you think.

Sorry, don't know how to create preview image :)

[KEROLiUKAS]

Want a new homescreen? try this 1:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=369589

[Exitao]

KEROLiUKAS
That looks similar to Cube SCLP
What plugins does it use and is there any functionality to the top one with the clock/carrier id?




Other than Nectun, this is the nicest collection I've seen so far:
http://www.djoubhaaskins.com



I've been checking out homescreens lately, and I find that I prefer to have the messaging plugin at the top. It's one of the biggest reasons to access the device after dialing. Next comes calendar/tasks. Keeping the most often accessed at the top seems functional.

[KEROLiUKAS]

KEROLiUKAS
That looks similar to Cube SCLP
What plugins does it use and is there any functionality to the top one with the clock/carrier id?




Other than Nectun, this is the nicest collection I've seen so far:
http://www.djoubhaaskins.com



I've been checking out homescreens lately, and I find that I prefer to have the messaging plugin at the top. It's one of the biggest reasons to access the device after dialing. Next comes calendar/tasks. Keeping the most often accessed at the top seems functional.
Never seen 'Cube SCLP', so a link would be appreciated to see resemblence. It uses the Carrier/Clock/Date plugin, Missed Call Plugin, and SMS Count Plugin. I'm not sure what you mean by "is there any functionality to the top one with the clock/carrier id?" Care to rephrase it?

[Exitao]

Never seen 'Cube SCLP', so a link would be appreciated to see resemblence. It uses the Carrier/Clock/Date plugin, Missed Call Plugin, and SMS Count Plugin. I'm not sure what you mean by "is there any functionality to the top one with the clock/carrier id?" Care to rephrase it?
Well, I guess I was asking if it is just the regular carrier plugin.
The ROM I'm using has an option to allow me to set actions to when clicking on the date-time plugin. I was kind of hoping your (very sexy) home screen would add functionality to that space where the clock/carrier ID is.
It just looks too slick to do nothing except display the time. In fact, it's too much of a tease. If you don't plan on doing it yourself, you should partner up with an developer because you have the makings of a sweet interface there.


As for my other comment, I made a mistake. I was thinking of some of the iPhone style themes/apps I was looking at yesterday. SCLP is a C++ version of Cube that will work on some WM 2003 devices as well as most others.

[KEROLiUKAS]

Well, I guess I was asking if it is just the regular carrier plugin.
The ROM I'm using has an option to allow me to set actions to when clicking on the date-time plugin. I was kind of hoping your (very sexy) home screen would add functionality to that space where the clock/carrier ID is.
It just looks too slick to do nothing except display the time. In fact, it's too much of a tease. If you don't plan on doing it yourself, you should partner up with an developer because you have the makings of a sweet interface there.


As for my other comment, I made a mistake. I was thinking of some of the iPhone style themes/apps I was looking at yesterday. SCLP is a C++ version of Cube that will work on some WM 2003 devices as well as most others.
I'd love to partner with someone as I'm not much of a homescreen coder, but then again, i have to find someone. Anyone?

[revanmj]

my new home screen on SPV C600 :)

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6107/sshot000rt0.jpg

[xatzis5000]

Where we can get this one?

[revanmj]

you must install SGregory ROM with this (it's called Neo)

[LeoArg]

my new home screen on SPV C600 :)

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6107/sshot000rt0.jpg

Is beautifull, share please!!

[revanmj]

You have to have Neo home screen, this is only theme to that (you can get entire rom with it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=370765). PNGs copy to windows folder and xml file copy to Application Data\Home. Now set the blue color scheme and restart the phone.

Blue theme: http://cid-d108d1883834461c.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Publiczny/Blue.zip

[xatzis5000]

you must install SGregory ROM with this (it's called Neo)

No thanks!I will not change Nitro's V5(Greek) to SGregory's for just one homescreen!Can you take the files from Applicaton Data\Home and share them with us or "neo" isnt working like this??

Sorry about my bad english!!!

[ascorpion]

you must install SGregory ROM with this (it's called Neo)

Or go there: http://freddyreyes.com/forums/index.php?board=18.0 and instal best one ;)

[xatzis5000]

Thanks mate for the fast reply!I will go and see if it works..

[Exitao]

You have to have Neo home screen, this is only theme to that (you can get entire rom with it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=370765). PNGs copy to windows folder and xml file copy to Application Data\Home. Now set the blue color scheme and restart the phone.

Blue theme: http://cid-d108d1883834461c.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Publiczny/Blue.zip

So you had to dump the cab to get the theme and install it manually?

I'm asking because when I used the cab installer, it told me it couldn't install.

[revanmj]

I mean that you have to install this ROM for Neo home screen not blue theme :) blue theme is in zip file

[Exitao]

I mean that you have to install this ROM for Neo home screen not blue theme :) blue theme is in zip file

I see. The other themes are cabbed.

[revanmj]

yes, but I moddified this theme so I packed it to zip file because I don't how to make a cab installer

[Profy_X]

Or go there: http://freddyreyes.com/forums/index.php?board=18.0 and instal best one ;)

can you send me the file please because the site doesn`t work :(

[Exitao]

can you send me the file please because the site doesn`t work :(

Site works. Did you register? You have to register to see downloads.

[xatzis5000]

can you send me the file please because the site doesn`t work :(

Search a little first!!Dont expect everything you want to find to come in front of you!!!:mad: