[28-Jul][TASKBAR]Customized Taskbar for WM6.5 [QVGA]

[whitealien]

Hi guys,

I spend a lot of time looking for good moded taskbar for QVGA device, but in vain. There are plenty taskbars out there for VGA, but nothing that fits Polaris so that finally I decided to take Tsowen build 3 and adapt for QVGA as I found it best looking.

Credit goes to Tsowen and ppcgeeks.com

For more info how to modify taskbar look here or here

INSTALL:
1. first install sdkcerts cab if you don't have it yet.
2. install moded taskbar cab from link below.
3. reset device and enjoy

NOTES:
For Bluetooth icon to work first you must install phonecanvas and only then moded taskbar.

Version 3.0 by WhiteAlien

SCREENS:

DOWNLOAD
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xda alienTaskBar v3.0

P.S. Keep in mind that these icons are 32x32 pixels, but QVGA taskbar is only 25 pixels high so windows will shrink these icons to 16x16 and there will be obvious quality loose.


Cheers, WhiteAlien

 

[nayma1976]

Hi guys,

I spend a lot of time looking for good moded taskbar for QVGA device, but in vain. There are plenty taskbars out there for VGA, but nothing that fits Polaris so that finally I decided to take Tsowen build 3 and adapt for QVGA as I found it best looking.

Credit goes to Tsowen and ppcgeeks.com

For more info how to modify taskbar look here or here

INSTALL:
1. first install sdkcerts cab if you don't have it yet.
2. install moded taskbar cab from link below.
3. reset device and enjoy

NOTES:
For Bluetooth icon to work first you must install phonecanvas and only then moded taskbar.

SCREENS:

Cheers, WhiteAlien

Thank you !!!!!!!! looks great in my polaris!!!!! i love those colors
Btw see you in forums mate!!! good job!!

 

[Bib_x]

Hi, can you customize some more of this taskbars? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512971

I want to have a taskbar which is more coloured and with nicer looking icons, maybe looking like one of this:

 

[worstenbrood]

Kewel, looks very nice on pcarvalho's rom, thx!

 

[alinescoo]

On 3LIT3 VIII rom I don't have the Ok/Close button. It's just a big round white circle. In rest everything fits very well with qvga resolution. Great job.

 

[whitealien]

On 3LIT3 VIII rom I don't have the Ok/Close button. It's just a big round white circle. In rest everything fits very well with qvga resolution. Great job.

Well, 3LIT3 VIII is based on WM6.1 and I did not tested on that WM version

 

[whitealien]

Hi, can you customize some more of this taskbars? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512971

I want to have a taskbar which is more coloured and with nicer looking icons, maybe looking like one of this:

If I'll have more free time I will make some more, but just so you know that this screenshoot is for VGA devices. The screen resolution is very high so icons look nice, but when you shrink them to QVGA size they become very ugly and looks like bunch of colored pixels. Taskbar height is only 25 pixels.

 

[bakaq]

Hi guys,

I spend a lot of time looking for good moded taskbar for QVGA device, but in vain. There are plenty taskbars out there for VGA, but nothing that fits Polaris so that finally I decided to take Tsowen build 3 and adapt for QVGA as I found it best looking.

Credit goes to Tsowen and ppcgeeks.com

For more info how to modify taskbar look here or here

INSTALL:
1. first install sdkcerts cab if you don't have it yet.
2. install moded taskbar cab from link below.
3. reset device and enjoy

NOTES:
For Bluetooth icon to work first you must install phonecanvas and only then moded taskbar.

SCREENS:

Cheers, WhiteAlien

Agree, I had difficult time too in searching for nice taskbar for my POLARIS, only found the Arthemus taskbars suitable for qvga devices thus far. There are lots of vga taskbars around.

Thanks for your new taskbar, btw, does the battery icon show increment by 1%?

Cheers

 

[Bib_x]

I used some other Taskbars for qvga devices, but with every version, my phonepad to enter the phone-pin was not displayed right.

With this version, phonepad for entering pin is displayed like it should be.

 

[whitealien]

Agree, I had difficult time too in searching for nice taskbar for my POLARIS, only found the Arthemus taskbars suitable for qvga devices thus far. There are lots of vga taskbars around.

Thanks for your new taskbar, btw, does the battery icon show increment by 1%?

Cheers

Yes, it does.

 

[chris10230]

This is awesome thanks for it and the time making it work for everyone!

Although i just noticed a slight bug, when you bring up the system status screen the battery reads 100% May well be my older build not making it work.

 

[cruiserrr]

Hi I have installed your task bar, thanks for your time.
However I originally wanted to install tswowen qvga task bar and it worked fine but the phone-pin screen gets buttons messed. With yours does not happen. Do you know what happens to me? (I use pcarvalho 21820 rom for polaris, I posted the same question in his thread).

 

[whitealien]

Hi I have installed your task bar, thanks for your time.
However I originally wanted to install tswowen qvga task bar and it worked fine but the phone-pin screen gets buttons messed. With yours does not happen. Do you know what happens to me? (I use pcarvalho 21820 rom for polaris, I posted the same question in his thread).

Hmm, did not really understood what you mean by phone-pin screen? These are just taskbars icons, normally nothing related to phone dial pad or pin screen.

 

[cruiserrr]

Yes I mean the screen where you type the PIN for the sim card after a soft reset or flight mode, with the numbers 1 to nine and the clear and enter buttons. I have been reading other posts and in one of them read something about the icons of the pin screen being part of the htcvolume.dll so maybe in your cab is handled different than in originals qvga tsowen cabs??

 

[Bib_x]

Look in thhis thread post #7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475900

 

[whitealien]

Yes I mean the screen where you type the PIN for the sim card after a soft reset or flight mode, with the numbers 1 to nine and the clear and enter buttons. I have been reading other posts and in one of them read something about the icons of the pin screen being part of the htcvolume.dll so maybe in your cab is handled different than in originals qvga tsowen cabs??

No, don't know anything about this problem. Maybe in his cab are more dlls related to pin pad layout or it installs something else besides taskbar. HTCVolumeControl.dll contains only 3 volume icons and it is optional dll.

 

[Bib_x]

Can you make a taskbar for polaris with the icons of the other taskbar post? They are still qvga and look very good. I used them in an older rom. But now in my WM6.5 ROM i can´t install them any more.

If you could change only the icons, then it should be no problem to install the taskbar. I can´t install the taskbar of the other thread because of a certificate error.

 

[cruiserrr]

Look in thhis thread post #7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475900

Yes that is what happens to me, thanks for the screenshot. I read al the posts in the thread but I did not see a solution, right? anyway the topic of this thread is the great work from whitealien which works fine combined with pcarvalho rom.

 

[Bib_x]

I can´t install the taskbar of this older thread on my pcarvalho rom.

Can you install it? The new taskbar of this thread can be installed without any problems.

 

[cruiserrr]

I can´t install the taskbar of this older thread on my pcarvalho rom.

Can you install it? The new taskbar of this thread can be installed without any problems.

the only taskbar I have been able to install without messing up the buttons of the pin screen is the cab in the first post (just downloaded two / three days ago). The rest of cabs (qvga tsowen cabs in his thread) mess the buttons in my polaris.pcarvalho though they seem to work well (the taskbars).