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Default Black & White dialer skin?

Having tried the default orange E-TEN_M600_Dialer _Skin & Pauly-A_Skin_Grey I still find it difficult to read the shaded dialling box in sunlight.

A simple Back & White, without shading, Skin would offer maximum contrast. I have brightness set to maximum.

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Try DIY The Eten skin is made up of multiple graphical files. Load this graphical files into your graphics editor (in your PC) and make it b&w.
 
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Try DIY The Eten skin is made up of multiple graphical files. Load this graphical files into your graphics editor (in your PC) and make it b&w.
Thanks for your suggestion: I simply opened the .bmp files& blanked out the grey shading in PcvDialerBkP & PcvDialerBkP_Inv

Copied them into the Windows folder, overwriting the shaded ones, and now have Black on White dialling!

When I have time I will 'play' with the rest

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Any chance of posting them on here for the incredibly lazy :lol:
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Any chance of posting them on here for the incredibly lazy :lol:
It appears that only the PcvDialerBkP is necessary - don't know the significance of the _Inv extension; initially I used the same file with the _inv extension.

This is only a 'rough' copy; those with patience and/or skill will be able to improve upon it:
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Have reworked it:
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One suggestion. You ought to use a better font. The TNRoman is good for writing letters and stuff, they aren't really pretty in most cases. Try using the Tahoma or Arial (as what the original comes with), it will look better and i think it gives you a better contrast as well (e.g. a small font Tahoma is better to look at than a small font TNRoman)

UPDATE: After you've finished, you might want to pack it up and post it to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/view...asc&highlight=
 
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Have reworked it:
Any luck in creating the dialer skin?

I'm also searching for a clean Dialer skin. Thinking about taking the dialer from the new Treo 750v en modify it so it fits in the E-ten dial skin. Or maybe use the ZPhone as a template...
 
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Having tried the default orange E-TEN_M600_Dialer _Skin & Pauly-A_Skin_Grey I still find it difficult to read the shaded dialling box in sunlight.

A simple Back & White, without shading, Skin would offer maximum contrast. I have brightness set to maximum.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Peter
I agree with you. Although the colorful skins are nice to look at, in bright sunlight I need HIGH contrast. This link is for Zphone dialer skin and today theme.

http://www.zombienexus.net/portal/GL...SEC=3&CatID=82

If you want high contrast black and white, choose the "zphone_wm5_carbon_mm_qvga1.6.cab" for the dialer skin. This is the normal skin, not Eten, then get the Today theme "carbon_extrablack_blackbars.tsk" from the "zpv_wizard_dialpad_skins_w_tsk" package. They match, and the security code entry pad changes to the same black and white theme too. I've been using it for months, it is really bright. There are other skins in the pack also, but the ones I pointed out are the highest contrast that I've found anywhere.
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That's the same dialer I'm using for a few weeks now.

Personally I also like the TiBlue dialer from paulya.com

 
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