Okay, ive been looking for the default background image for the homescreen for the regular Tmobile brown. I tried editing CHome_framework_background_p but thats the background for each menu things on the left. When i edited the CHome_framework_background_p it will change all of the menu background and it will make it have the icon and the image i want the background to be. I just want to edit the homescreen background and have the same default background. Basically i want to add a small little picture to it. Any suggestions?


I want it to look like this basically.

Just save the penguin image as a .png and save it in with your other picture files. Make sure that the image has a transparent background. If you're using photoshop, the background will look like a gray checkerboard when it's transparent. I believe since the phone supports .png transparency, when you set the penguin .png as your home screen image, it will look much like what you have posted above. In theory at least. Let me know if that's not the case.

Is there a way to change the order of applications in the message Centere.

I used hamsuplo's base files along with junior icons I downloaded from iconaholic.com and the results are nice! Thanks hamsuplo. I only updated the main icons and didn't bother with the many subicons. I didn't even bother to resize the icons and the neo interface will shrink them to fit. It's kind of neat having the icons being so big and a little overflowing and bleeding off the screen. I even made a poor-man's photo contact dialer by making a copy of the CLinks section.

For the icons:
1. Download icandy junior icons from http://www.iconaholic.com/downloads.html.
2. Download Faststone image viewer from http://faststone.org/.
3. Use Faststone to batch convert the .ico files to .png to create the active icons.
4. To make inactive icons, use Faststone to batch convert the .png files with the advanced adjustment option for Sepia. You can adjust the settings to change the hue.
5. The only real work was that I used Adobe Fireworks to add the glowing red exclaimation mark to neo's glowing notification icon.

There are the files that I updated:

from iconholics.com:
CHome_Appointments_desat_inactive.png
CHome_Appointments_sat_active.png
CHome_clock_desat_inactive.png
CHome_clock_sat_active.png
CHome_home_desat_inactive.png
CHome_home_sat_active.png
CHome_home_sat_inactive_glow.png
CHome_links_desat_inactive.png
CHome_links_sat_active.png
CHome_music_desat_inactive.png
CHome_music_sat_active.png
CHome_MyPhotos_desat_inactive.png
CHome_MyPhotos_sat_active.png
CHome_sendmessage_desat_inactive.png
CHome_sendmessage_sat_active.png
CHome_settings_desat_inactive.png
CHome_settings_sat_active.png

from hamsuplo's zip:
CHome_framework_background_p.png
CHome_framework_glass_p.png
CHome_framework_NavIconSelectionPanel.png
CHome_framework_status_bar_bg.png
CHome_framework_TextGlow_p.png
CHome_framework_textpanel_NoNPI_p.png
CHome_framework_textpanel_p.png

Converted to jpg and bmp from hamsuplo's background post. You will notice that the files you are overwriting are slightly taller. Don't worry about it and there is no need to adjust the output size.
BackgroundImage_Port.bmp
PhoneBKI1_Port.jpg
PhoneBKI2_Port.jpg
T-MobileBasicBrown.jpg

If you're curious, the NEO interface does support landscape mode, as evident by the different skin files for portrait and for landscape. I used a mortscript command to rotate the screen and the neo interface automatically uses the landscape files. The only problem is that the shadow's input drivers are not designed for the flip to landscape and so the dpad does not shift orientation.

Now to make a skin for my wife's shadow. She is now jealous of my shadow's new look and all I can say is that I'm prototyping for a perfect skin for your phone. I wonder if there are cute hello kitty icons out there.

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Can you please post the files .png files that you are using?

Ok... so i'll probably annoy some of u lol but I'm a newbie here as u can tell.. and I want to start changing some things on my shadow which I just got 4 days ago. So I'd like to change the theme or the color or something like what they posted in here but I have no clue how I can do that or how to edit anything.. any help with that please? I was also wondering if there is a way to add fonts to the phone from my computer and if so how can i do it... thanks a lot in advance to everyone!