Samsung SGH-i600 Home Screen Carousel/Card Wheel Plug-In
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I'm sure once its released we'll be able to find it and the version of flash required to run it. As far as I know its only on the European i600 which isn't out yet.
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I switched from a S620 to a i600 2 weeks ago because I wanted a UMTS Smartphone. The i600 caroussel software is nice to look at but generally the i600 is not as stable as the S620 was, there are frequent lockups for no apparent reason. It also feels slower and that may be caused by the caroussel software.
Indeed, if we can get our hands on that it should be real nice.
I know the Moto Q community is looking to grab it as well. Seeing as it's just a plugin/.xml it shouldn't be too hard I would suspect and if it can be coupled with a .cab installation it'd be fantastic.
It supposedly doesn't have a recently used applications card on the wheel and it doesnt support other home screen plugins. 
It supposedly doesn't have a recently used applications card on the wheel and it doesnt support other home screen plugins.
Yes, but it's still worth trying out in my opinion.
This is the home xml for the Carousel theme.
Still need to find the DLL...
Anyone?
Still need to find the DLL...
Anyone?
PHP:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<home>
<author>Microsoft Corporation</author>
<contacturl>http://www.microsoft.com/</contacturl>
<title lang="0x0409">Card Wheel</title>
<version>1.0</version>
<default target-width="240" target-height="320" font-face="Segoe Condensed" font-size="14" font-weight="bold" padding-left="4" padding-right="4" bgcolor="transparent" fgcolor="COLOR_HOMETEXT" padding-top="2" b-border-color="COLOR_HOMERULE" b-border-width="1">
<format state="selected" fgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHTTEXT"/>
</default>
<scheme>
<color name="COLOR_TRAYGRADLEFT" value="#000000" />
<color name="COLOR_TRAYGRADRIGHT" value="#000000" />
<color name="COLOR_TRAYBKGND" value="#000000" />
</scheme>
<plugin clsid="{837FC251-FE69-43ad-84E0-EBCEDEBA0884}" name="iconbar" height="20">
<iconbar fgcolor="COLOR_TRAYTEXT"/>
<background bgcolor="COLOR_TRAYGRADLEFT" b-border-color="COLOR_WINDOWFRAME"/>
</plugin>
<plugin clsid="{6BC0CE3D-42F7-44be-A02D-C0253F86D879}" name="Carousel Homescreen" height="266">
</plugin>
</home>Cool! We have a way in...
Okay, using something Resco Explorer or some explorer/search utility, look under \Windows on your for a .dll probably with "Carousel" as the key word. You should find something like "CarouselHomePlugin.dll" or "Carousel Homescreen.dll" or something similar.
I'm not sure if we need more than that as I don't see a background image listed and I guess the .dll is all we need along with the clsid? Anyways just upload them here and we can find out ;-) Basically attach anything with the word "carousel" in it.
(on a side note, I had no idea that MS evidently made this plugin and homescreen? Guess it really is a brief glimpse into "Photon")
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The posted XML code for the homescreen (page 1 of this thread) shows 2 class names:
{837FC251-FE69-43ad-84E0-EBCEDEBA0884}
{6BC0CE3D-42F7-44be-A02D-C0253F86D879}
Maybe you can search for this values with a registry editor on an i600 device. There should be keys with the appropriate names under "classes". The subkeys maybe contain information concerning the DLL name. At least this is what I suppose.
{837FC251-FE69-43ad-84E0-EBCEDEBA0884}
{6BC0CE3D-42F7-44be-A02D-C0253F86D879}
Maybe you can search for this values with a registry editor on an i600 device. There should be keys with the appropriate names under "classes". The subkeys maybe contain information concerning the DLL name. At least this is what I suppose.
You most likely need to dump the rom to retrieve the homescreen dll. We also need Flash to run this homescreen. Have you dumped a rom before?
I found the carousel.dll and carousel.xml in \Windows but cannot copy it with Resco Explorer. Any tips how to get it to a Storage Card?
try changing the attributes ,the dll might have the read only attribute selected so try and unchecking this ?
I'm pretty sure you'll need to dump the ROM to get a copy of these files. Its quite easy. Follow post #11 here
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?p=1203197
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?p=1203197
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