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How to replace the background of the Start menu TOPAZ

Anyone who can provide some suggestions or ways to change it? TOPAZ default Start menu is a black background, if there are ways to change into other patterns, it will be great, please help, thank you

amiapig said:
Anyone who can provide some suggestions or ways to change it? TOPAZ default Start menu is a black background, if there are ways to change into other patterns, it will be great, please help, thank you
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You mean the today menu?
Settings => Background

the START menue. i was thinking about this too, maybe it is a black picture file which could be replaced? no idea how to find out.
same with the grey background appearing when you unlock your td2, maybe someone found out how to replace it?

woelv said:
the START menue. i was thinking about this too, maybe it is a black picture file which could be replaced? no idea how to find out.
same with the grey background appearing when you unlock your td2, maybe someone found out how to replace it?
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I'm interested too so: push^^

clear the data found @ HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\DefaultHomeBackgroundPath

hoosbude said:
clear the data found @ HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\DefaultHomeBackgroundPath
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This is not the background of the startmenu Nothing happens when i remove this

peter van lis said:
This is not the background of the startmenu Nothing happens when i remove this
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Sorry thought you meant the Home Tab!

The default WM6.1 start menu uses the same background as the Today screen, so you could always use the default menu instead of the TF3D one. There's a registry hack for it somewhere nearby.

do you want to change to welcomehead.192.png??

i think he means when tf3d is active and you hit start you
get a screen with you're favorite programs
i like to know how to chanche this background...

does someone know how to do this now?
can't find anything

eskoo said:
does someone know how to do this now?
can't find anything
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a temporary solution is to use my touch x background on all pages, it does the new startmenu to.

[Issue] Home Tab Wallpaper

hey guys,
Just wondering why i am not able to change my home tab wallpaper...for some reason it is not changing, it is staying black background!
after hard reset i was able to change it without any problem however after instaling several essential HD2 cabs (20 shortcut, and many others that are available on this forum) I am not able to replace the default one. Usually there is a message poping up asking you whether you want change the wall paper to the default one, but i am not getting it.
Ironically i am capabe of changing it to the animated wall paper...I am really puzzled!!!
Can anyone help please?

gdayhtc said:
hey guys,
Just wondering why i am not able to change my home tab wallpaper...for some reason it is not changing, it is staying black background!
after hard reset i was able to change it without any problem however after instaling several essential HD2 cabs (20 shortcut, and many others that are available on this forum) I am not able to replace the default one. Usually there is a message poping up asking you whether you want change the wall paper to the default one, but i am not getting it.
Ironically i am capabe of changing it to the animated wall paper...I am really puzzled!!!
Can anyone help please?
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Use the animated wallpaper option, but browse to the wallpaper of your choice instead.
If that doesn't work then one of the "essential" cabs that you have installed has caused the problem. You may be able to resolve it by uninstalling the culprit, but you may need a hard reset as not all mods get uninstalled fully.

johncmolyneux said:
Use the animated wallpaper option, but browse to the wallpaper of your choice instead.
If that doesn't work then one of the "essential" cabs that you have installed has caused the problem. You may be able to resolve it by uninstalling the culprit, but you may need a hard reset as not all mods get uninstalled fully.
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I am afraid the alternative solution did not work!!!
now the question remain which cab is causing the conflict?
thats what i have installed\:
20 home screen shortcut
BSB tweak
disable auto device lock
keypad led cotrol
mark all emails read
Touch X bluetooth
touch x task manager
touch x reset
xda shutdown
torch button
audio recen_ (record conversation)
mark all emails read

I've got the same problem..
From the cabs you have installed, I installed these too:
20 home screen shortcut
Touch X bluetooth
touch x task manager
touch x reset
torch button

Joostem said:
I've got the same problem..
From the cabs you have installed, I installed these too:
20 home screen shortcut
Touch X bluetooth
touch x task manager
touch x reset
torch button
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it is definetly the 20 shortcut, i have unistalled it and it worked fine.
so i guess we know what the problem is...but had to install the 20 shortcut back because it is very usefull

True, it is the shortcut-cab that causes the problem. But after selecting my new background and re-installing the shortcut-cab, the problem is back.

Have you tried using HDWall to create your wallpaper? I use it because I want the same wallpaper on all the tabs, and I also use the 20 quicklinks cab and they work together fine.

johncmolyneux said:
Have you tried using HDWall to create your wallpaper? I use it because I want the same wallpaper on all the tabs, and I also use the 20 quicklinks cab. They work together fine.
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i have not , i will search it now and wil give it a go

Well, did you try it?

Joostem said:
Well, did you try it?
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have not atually...searched it and did not want do something wrong, i can live with black background

Well, I tried to manage it but it worked not perfectly. I got an other wallpaper at the background, but parts of it where missing (a black bar above the sliderbar). That's why I uninstalled it and now have to deal with the black background also, waiting for someone else finding a fix

Joostem said:
Well, I tried to manage it but it worked not perfectly. I got an other wallpaper at the background, but parts of it where missing (a black bar above the sliderbar). That's why I uninstalled it and now have to deal with the black background also, waiting for someone else finding a fix
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I had the same problem with the latest version of HDWall (v0.28b), but the previous version (v0.27b) worked fine. Just make sure you go into the config screen and ensure you're making cabs for WM6.5 and Sense 2.5.
Edit:
I've just tried v0.28b again, and it works as long as you install the "High Quality Wallpaper for Home Tab & Manila Start Menu by Co0kieMonster".
It now fills the screen correctly, and is higher resolution than the previous versions. It looks great now!

Great, that's better! Only one 'problem' left, I want the bottom of the screen (with 'contact'-button and 'menu'-button @ homescreen) to be black instead of the color from the background. Is there any way I can change that?

Joostem said:
Great, that's better! Only one 'problem' left, I want the bottom of the screen (with 'contact'-button and 'menu'-button @ homescreen) to be black instead of the color from the background. Is there any way I can change that?
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This is a bit poor, I know, but it works.
Open Settings (or All Settings from the settings tab), and go to Today. Change the theme and click OK. Then, open the Today settings again and change the theme back (I assume you want HTC Black, from your comment). Click OK and it's done.

johncmolyneux said:
This is a bit poor, I know, but it works.
Open Settings (or All Settings from the settings tab), and go to Today. Change the theme and click OK. Then, open the Today settings again and change the theme back (I assume you want HTC Black, from your comment). Click OK and it's done.
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Lol, thnx!

Joostem said:
Lol, thnx!
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No problem mate

How do I disable the weather animations on screen

The ones all over the screen, I dont mind the little symbol when the animation is over, but when you have the rain or frost, I find it begins to clash with the wallpaper
This is probably really simple and easily googleable (<-- good new word ) but the difference with me too other people who say, just use an animation background, is that my wallpaper I have is installed that I made customly
using HDWall and this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=601369 so I cant just set it as a wallpaper, it must be installed
any ideas?

just select animated wallpaper in the settings, and chose one which is not animated.

arturobandini said:
just select animated wallpaper in the settings, and chose one which is not animated.
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Cheers, I guess it worked because whatever I picked, it wouldnt show up, but now the animation is gone

[★] said:
Cheers, I guess it worked because whatever I picked, it wouldnt show up, but now the animation is gone
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just instal the 20 shortcut at the home page and that would disable the animation....dont ask me why,it just doesbut theonly thing youwill only end up with a blackwall paper

gdayhtc said:
just instal the 20 shortcut at the home page and that would disable the animation....dont ask me why,it just doesbut theonly thing youwill only end up with a blackwall paper
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I already have them installed, but it doesnt matter now, I got it sorted

A little way to disable the animation per registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > HTC > Manila > search for "Home.WallpaperMode"
Set DWORD Data to "2". Make a softreset. Now, the animation is off

How change Lock Screen Wallpaper in spb?

Hi, I need to change my Lock Screen Wallpaper, but I'va installed Spb Mobile Shell app, so I cant find where to change it, does anybody knows?
Thanks for your help anticipated!!!

start - settings - home and select the wallpaper (check the box at the bottom)

follettoverde said:
start - settings - home and select the wallpaper (check the box at the bottom)
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Thanks dude, it really works!!!

Hello I was viewing the post above about changing the lock screen and I also try to do that and was unable to change the lock seems simple enough.... But for some reason I can not change it...Thanks for any help on this

Why use .cab's for wallpapers instead of just plain pics?

Just curious. I always see people talking about making or sharing wallpaper cab's, and I am wondering what the advantage is of doing it that way instead of just saving pics to the storage card and setting from there? That''s what I do, but maybe I am missing a better way in these .cabs...

VisualOddity said:
Just curious. I always see people talking about making or sharing wallpaper cab's, and I am wondering what the advantage is of doing it that way instead of just saving pics to the storage card and setting from there? That''s what I do, but maybe I am missing a better way in these .cabs...
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It's called HDwall. By default, the quality of wallpaper in HD2 is low..seems kinda blur. With this cab, it is possible to get higher wallpaper quality. Also u can set the taskbar and softkeybar background (u can make it looks as if transparent).
But that's old time.
With the new CHT 1.8.5 there's no need such application. It has this ability built in.

VisualOddity said:
Just curious. I always see people talking about making or sharing wallpaper cab's, and I am wondering what the advantage is of doing it that way instead of just saving pics to the storage card and setting from there? That''s what I do, but maybe I am missing a better way in these .cabs...
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Because CAB files which contain wallpapers in Manila format can overwrite original manila files.

negawolf said:
But that's old time.
With the new CHT 1.8.5 there's no need such application. It has this ability built in.
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That is correct but i´m sure not all People using Cookies.

Dic3ptor said:
That is correct but i´m sure not all People using Cookies.
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Then they should be...where have they been??

That is correct too! I love cookies and it is easy!

i love coOkies too but after installing them my HD2 freezes

I never figured out how to use Cookies with the wall cabs. I enable it then what? I have HD wall installed but either way I have to go to the cab file and use it that way. It makes me reset the phone whenever I change the wallpaper. Help?? Thanks.

lhernana2j said:
I never figured out how to use Cookies with the wall cabs. I enable it then what? I have HD wall installed but either way I have to go to the cab file and use it that way. It makes me reset the phone whenever I change the wallpaper. Help?? Thanks.
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man...u've done wrong...if u installed cht. no need anything else. that would make it crash. cht got everything. hdwall, bg4all tab. just cookie. np need anything else.

After the HDWall thingy installed via CHT 1.8 - I have an issue.
I do have plenty of sweet backgrounds to chose from. It all works fine with CHT except a feature that I did love very much - the Randomnes.
I have for several years both on Diamond and on HD2 used a .cab named:
Kevin2u Diamond Background Changer v015.
This .cab would pick a random picture from a designated folder every x minute as your liked it. After CHT v1.8 - this ain't working anymore. On CHT v1.7 it worked.
Have any of you guys been able to get a random picture prg. to run on top of CHT v1.8?
If so help me see the light as I really miss the feature that my phone has a new background every now and then when I grab it without manually picking a new picture.
Kindly
Kwas
Nevermind - Search Function did this one for me - sorry for bothering

negawolf said:
man...u've done wrong...if u installed cht. no need anything else. that would make it crash. cht got everything. hdwall, bg4all tab. just cookie. np need anything else.
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So I go to miscellaneous settings and check what under wallpaper Regular, HD Wall or HQ Wall? I have tried them all but only the hd wall setting lets me access the Regular wallpapers not the cab files. Help?

so I have a question. If I installed the latest version of CHT, I already have HD Walls installed? all I have to do now is check HDwall in miscellaneous settings, download the cab for the wallpaper, install, and soft reset? Do I install to the card or device? And one more question, Do I have to uninstall aything to change to another HD wallpaper? Sorry for all the noob questions

Android_King said:
so I have a question. If I installed the latest version of CHT, I already have HD Walls installed? all I have to do now is check HDwall in miscellaneous settings, download the cab for the wallpaper, install, and soft reset? Do I install to the card or device? And one more question, Do I have to uninstall aything to change to another HD wallpaper? Sorry for all the noob questions
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Actually you can dl the cab and just run it without anything (Ithink). It's all within the cab. I believe hd wall is the organizer but it never worked for me. Not sure how CHT works in with this.

You don't need to install any cabs with CHT (1.8.5 at least, can't remember about 1.7).
From the home screen tap Menu>>Set Wallpaper. All of the options are there on the next screen (Home Tab, All Tabs, Lockscreen, Taskbar Skinning)
Sometimes the things in front of your eyes are the hardest to find!

Hi guys, I tried the search function as well but can't seem to find a solution to my problem.. Help is much much appreciated!
I'm on the Artimis Rom v25, with cookies 1.8.5, i downloaded the .cab wallpaper, tried to install.. didnt work, i downloaded the wallpaper fix download, Didnt work so i gave up... so i tried to go back to cookies editor to change my wallpaper back to the one i had, and it didnt work. I have a totally back wallpaper and can't seem to change it in anyway!
HelPPP i'm losing it!!......

matmaneyre said:
You don't need to install any cabs with CHT (1.8.5 at least, can't remember about 1.7).
From the home screen tap Menu>>Set Wallpaper. All of the options are there on the next screen (Home Tab, All Tabs, Lockscreen, Taskbar Skinning)
Sometimes the things in front of your eyes are the hardest to find!
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Actually I have seen that but I was hoping to use some of the beautiful screens that were in those cabs. So in essence you have to dl some wallpapers and then use the settings you described. Thanks.

lhernana2j said:
Actually I have seen that but I was hoping to use some of the beautiful screens that were in those cabs. So in essence you have to dl some wallpapers and then use the settings you described. Thanks.
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That's correct. If you really want the wallpapers that are in the cabs, I believe you can open the cab files on your pc and extract them manually. Don't quote me on that but it would seem logical. Or you could ask the OP of any walls you like to point you in the direction of the source.

matmaneyre said:
That's correct. If you really want the wallpapers that are in the cabs, I believe you can open the cab files on your pc and extract them manually. Don't quote me on that but it would seem logical. Or you could ask the OP of any walls you like to point you in the direction of the source.
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I have tried that but there is no image file inside the cab. Thanks again.

negawolf said:
man...u've done wrong...if u installed cht. no need anything else. that would make it crash. cht got everything. hdwall, bg4all tab. just cookie. np need anything else.
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Im using CHT 1.8.5 and I also install hdwall on my hd2 , just because i have 30 or more cabs, all with thumbs and the HDwall app gives you the ability to preview.You just dont have to install the patch anymore..It doesnt crash my HD2at with this configuration.

Dic3ptor said:
That is correct but i´m sure not all People using Cookies.
matmaneyre said:
Then they should be...where have they been??
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This really get on my nerves.
I keep opening threads, then find that it is for manilla only. Grrr...!