Hello everybody i would like to start a new thread for these stuff because we are running out of space in WM6.5 roms thread .

So basically share you knowledge about what everything is related for Omnia for WM6.5 based on Customization, Themes, Panels, Tips and Tricks.

Some things work universally for other devices also not only for Omnia specific.

I will try to include everything in order.

Please help to keep the topic clean and if you could add here something useful.

Some of the below are listed also in xda but i want to keep also one copy here.

Thank to all the contributors in xda and modaco for making this possible.
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Tutorials:

Titanium: CHome is the plugin/program’s name. CHome is also one of the plugins as well. It’s the Notifications Plugin. This is the plugin that has Voicemail, Missed Calls, Email, SMS, and MMS all in one line. Titanium is the name of the way it displays things. There is also Bronze and Neo. In Titanium the glass panel always centers itself after you move it. In Bronze (Smart Phone version of CHome from Windows Mobile 6.1), as you move from panel to panel from top to bottom, the Active panel slides down the screen or vice versa.

CHome Registry (Titanium): This should cover most of what you’ll need to know about the registry for CHome.

Directories (HKLM = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE): List of Directories CHome uses.
HKLM\Security\CHome\DefaultSettings
(NOTE: Any registry entries in this directory and its subdirectories will overwrite those in the Software Directory listed below when you disable and re-enable Titanium or Soft reset. It’s basically a safety backup.)
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CHome
(NOTE: Also, all of its subdirectories.)

Values:
ACTIONURL= Location of exe/ink/etc for the plugin when you press on the panel or press the center D-Pad Button (Example: ”\Windows\fexplorer.exe” to make the plugin open File Explorer)
SK1URL= Same as ACTIONURL, but for the “Left Soft Key”.
SK1TEXT= The text displayed for the “Left Soft Key”.
SK2URL= Same as ACTIONURL, but for the “Right Soft Key”.
SK2TEXT= The text displayed for the “Right Soft Key”.
DefaultXML/ExtensibilityXML= Active plugins and their order. Also tells CHome which CPR’s to use (filename).
<Plugins Order="CClock;CMyFaves;CContacts;CPhone…" DisplayStyle="Titanium" />
Filename is all text before the “ _resolution”.cpr (Resolution = 240x400 etc…).
(NOTE: ExtensibilityXML is the Priority and Default is a fall back in case something in ExtensibilityXML breaks CHome.)
Plugins= List of all available plugins. These are the same as the subdirectory names of CHome.
(NOTE: List of plugins in Titanium that work and some untested; CAppointments, CClock, CContacts, CEmail, CHome, CHomeFavs, CLinks, CMessage, CMyFavs, CMyPhotos, COffice, CPhone, CTesUIPlugin (Old Titanium Weather uses this), CText, CVoicemail, CWelcomeCenter, CWindowsLive, Settings.)
Pages= Pages and order of pages within a plugin. If a plugin has plugins it’ll have subdirectories for each page.
GUID= Defines how the specific plugin works. What registry entries it “requires”. What layout template in the CPR it uses, etc.
(NOTE: The GUID “{F0A1B246-6E64-40cd-8E15-347D29FF6F18}” (without quotes) is for custom plugins. It requires a registry entry for the layout telling it which custom layout from the CPR to use. There are a few already in NeoTitanium. Use those as a template to make your own. You can add custom Registry values for text and images. If the registry is “CustomImage1”, it’ll look for <Image ID=”CustomImage1” Left…..” in the plugin’s layout of the CPR. It is best to not edit this value unless you are making a custom plugin of your own.)
ICONPATHS/Image/Pictures/Etc= Location of the image to be used. (Example: “\Windows\my_picture.png”)
If you see number in this field, they are pointing to that resource in a .dll. Usually it’ll be the Bronzeres.dll.
CONDENSETITLE/TitleText/PluginLabel/Etc= Usually the title displayed for the plugin such as CLinks being known as Launcher or Extras.
DataSource= Specifically for the custom plugin GUID. This tells CHome where to find the registry values for each page.
(NOTE: CondensedPage is a required subdirectory. As these are custom plugins, CHome does not know what information is used in condensed and must be told.)

The CPR XML code: The code inside the CPR’s is XML. If you open the XML with an XML editor such as “Microsoft Visual Studio”, it’ll recognize the code and highlight errors in the same manner “Microsoft Word” does for spelling and grammar. It also color codes the code so it’s easier to read. The CPR’s can be opened and edited with any text editor though like “Notepad” or “WordPad”.

EDIT: XML Notepad 2007 by microsoft for editing the cpr files found by justpctech. Special thanks to him for finding this.

The code: The main parts of the cprs are the left/top (Position) and width/height (size) entries represented in pixels. They control how big something is and where it is positioned onscreen. The left/top values are from the images of the specific layer, not the whole screen. So, if the layer is 240 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall, the left/top value are for within that rectangle. To scale images use this code, ScaleStyle="***". Known working values are Fit and Stretch. Color refers to the color of the text and its offset. OffsetNone is the text itself. Vertical/HorizontalAlignment is the layout of the text within its width/height box. If your image or text gets clipped off, try adding Clip=”False” to the Layer(s) in is inside of. Expanded layers are the layout of the plugin when active and Condensed is inactive. The page arrows are the NPI and MPI layers. TitaniumListView refers to Titanium. If you change both entries to BronzeListView, it’ll act as Bronze does on the Smart Phone as described above.

That should cover the basics of editing the CPR. Just start playing with them and you’ll catch on quickly as did I. If you know html or xml you have a head start.

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Customization (.tsk, theme, backgrounds, etc):

Default themes (thanks to dddrko for fixes):


 Microsoft_Classic_Blue.tsk.cab ( 90.15K ) Number of downloads: 1420
 Microsoft_DVF_green.tsk.cab ( 123.5K ) Number of downloads: 704
 Microsoft_Isaac_Mizrahi_purple.tsk.cab ( 97.61K ) Number of downloads: 708
 Microsoft_Rock_and_Republic_black.tsk.cab ( 111.15K ) Number of downloads: 1094
 Microsoft_Ron_Arad_orange.tsk.cab ( 115.54K ) Number of downloads: 915
 Microsoft_Vera_Wang_red.tsk.cab ( 115.16K ) Number of downloads: 681
 m.carroll_PureBlack2_QVGA.cab ( 281.61K ) Number of downloads: 3001

m.carroll Gloss Black - Link

Tiger theme by smilegod - Download - Link to his post


WM6.5_Gloss_W7 thanks to jeffrey2000 - Download from his post
Windows 7 v2.1 (Basic/Premium) theme , thanks to jeffrey2000 - Download: Basic / Premium


Windows 7 v2.2 (Basic/Premium) theme for 23034+ build WM 6.5, thanks to jeffrey2000 - Download: Basic / Premium


DJKoaS -  DJKoa.CAB ( 226.04K ) Number of downloads: 812

JonNRb - Simple Blue - Download
JonNRb - Gone CRAZY - Download
JonNRb - Windows 7 - Download

Hexagon Start Menu and 4 ROW hexagon menu - Link

hComber - Link
Is a program to change Icons of start menu.

reStart -  reSTART.cab ( 472.08K ) Number of downloads: 1554

Has ability to add/change icons to any links or folders, but they must be in the icons folder located in reSTART folder to be found. I included a few folder icons in install package to get you started(hence the large size of cab, actual exe and dll are only about 120kb). New icons added to folder should be .png files.


Wiki for WM6.5 Colors: Link

Themes and theme tutorials


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Theme creation by jonnrb

Base QVGA theme to start working: Link

listViewSelector.png
menuBorder.png
menuDownArrowBackground.png
menuSelector.png
menuUpArrow.png
menuUpArrowBackground.png
menuUpArrowDisabled.png
msgboxBorder.png
msgboxTitle.png
scrollbarThumb.png
scrollbarTrack.png
scrollbarUpArrowButton.png
scrollbarUpArrowButtonSelected.png
sipHighlight.png
softkeybar.png
softkeyHighlight.png
TabCurveH.png
TabCurveEdgeHShadow.png
taskbar.png
taskbarHighlight.png
toastBorder.png
UpDownArrowPushed.png
UpDownArrowPushedRight.png

Instructions on how to build a theme:

1. Name your theme (use your name instead of the *)
2. Make your images according to the guidelines set. If you don't know what each image does, unpack some of the original shipped themes to get some ideas.
3. Make the TSK. Use WinCECabManager to edit my base for VGA (and then for QVGA) so that wherever a key says "REPLACEWITHNAME" in the Registry section, put in *. Name the TSK "* VGA.tsk" for VGA and "* QVGA.tsk" for QVGA
4. Add wallpapers. This is where you have to make separate images for VGA and QVGA. You need stwater_640_480.jpg, stwater_480_640.jpg, stwater_800_480.jpg, stwater_480_800.jpg for your VGA tsk and stwater_320_240.jpg, stwater_240_320.jpg, stwater_400_240.jpg, and stwater_240_400.jpg for your QVGA tsk. Make each image at the resolution given in its filename. Just drag and drop your files (these will be the backgrounds) into the Files section of each of your TSKs and put them in the Windows folder and then select Hard Code Path.
5. Save your TSKs and create a new CAB. This will be your theme installer.
6. Drag and drop all of your TSKs' theme elements and the TSKs themselves into the files section and put all of the files in /My Documents/Themes/*/ and select Hard Code Path.
7. Test your theme by installing it. Select your theme in the Today settings and check that all of your theme elements are displayed. If some aren't, make sure you have everything in the right path and at the right resolution (also check filename!). If you had to edit something, just recompile your theme and test again.
8. If your theme works, share it!

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ScrollBars:
Windows mobile 6.5 has changed a lot of things to attempt to make things more finger friendly and a little easier on the eyes. One of the new additions to 6.5 is the skinnable scrollbars, and built in "scroll action" with the swipe of a finger. With everything going gestures, you may want to completely do away with scroll bars (and you can) but i suggest something a little different to cleanup your devices screen..... Simply removing the up and down arrows.



If you are brave you can reduce the scrollbar's width to a half or quarter their original "defaut" size and only use them to be able to identify your location on your screen. To do this you will need to set your arrows to zero and adjust your scroll bar width in your registry. I would use Schaps Advanced Config to make your registry changes because it is alot simpler and safer, but if you just must do them by hand, here are the keys:

Change the thickness of scrollbars
To change the thickness of the scrollbars at the right/bottom of documents larger than the screen, adjust...
For the horizontal (bottom) scrollbar:
HKLM\System\GWE\cyHScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)
For the vertical (right) scrollbar:
HKLM\System\GWE\cxVScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)
The default thickness is 13. You can set the value to anything you may like

Change the length of scrollbar arrow buttons
To go with changing the thickness of the scrollbars, you may wish to change the length of the scrollbar arrow buttons...
For the horizontal (bottom) scrollbar arrows:
HKLM\System\GWE\cyVScr = 0 (DWORD decimal)
For the vertical (right) scrollbar:
HKLM\System\GWE\cxHScr = 0 (DWORD decimal)
The default length is 13. You can set the value to pretty much anything you like.
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Moving the "lock" slider (with brief cpr tutorial, thanks drkfngthdragnlrd)

Most of the Hacks for Titanium will come from the ".cpr" files found in the windows directory. Cpr files are simply xml files (and to edit them you will simply need to rename them to .xml, use an .xml editor, and then rename them back to .cpr) ....or you can of course just use the "right-click open as" and open them with word pad, microsoft xml editor, ect.

In Quote from drkfngthdragnlrd,

If you want to make things simple You can grab the attachment to this post and copy paste it into your Windows Directory on your ppc.

.....but if you prefer to get down and dirty, everything is explained below:

In this specific Tweak you will want to find the CPR file named LS_LockScene[your resolution here].cpr Once you have it in your XML Editor you will want to find these Keys:

Code:

These are not the slider itself but will be in the way of where you are trying to move the slider and will need to also be moved:

Code: If you would like to change the slider to be located to the left (like s2u) you can change the orentaion of it like this:

Code:

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Plugins:

WM6.5 Tutorial for Titanium Customization by rendeiro2005

Apps:
Titanizer - Link
Is a Chome or the Titanium editor.

CHome Editor - Link
Another Chome or the Titanium editor.

Plug-in Installer : Link
This program allows chome/titanium plug-in developers to create a cab file that will insert the plug-in's markup into the cpr files depending on the device's resolution and update the registry without overriding any of the user's existing chome/titanium configuration files or settings.

COffice By JukEboXAuDiO [Omnia ONLY]
 COffice_Omnia_Titanium.cab ( 43.89K ) Number of downloads: 2614

"COffice is a Titanium plugin which allows you to get to your Microsoft Office tools quickly and easily.
Office tools include: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Powerpoint, Microsoft Office OneNote and Microsoft Office Communicator......"



CFacebook By JukEboXAuDiO -  CFacebook_Omnia_Titanium_AIO_0.2.cab ( 523.55K ) Number of downloads: 2317

"Facebook is a Titanium plugin which allows you to continue your Facebook Addiction using Facebook Mobile and Facebook Instant Messenger....."



Favorite People Plugin by AppStar [All Resolutions]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506221
"This plug-in allows you to add your favorite contacts to the WM 6.5 CHome (aka Titanium) homescreen....."



Titanium Weather By Mnemonique [QVGA, WQVGA]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487090
"Weather info on your todayscreen. QVGA and Omnia......"



Titanium Weather (and more) by showaco [All Resolutions]
 Showaco_TitaniumWeather_v4.2_Omnia.cab ( 1.05MB ) Number of downloads: 2932

"Cab will install weather plugin to homescreen. Install to main memory.
Radar--press "Refresh" to redownload an image, tap screen to zoom in, 3 levels of zoom(none, 200%,300%), fullscreen,
first radar image displays in weather panel of homescreen......"



Titanium Plugin CVolume [Omnia ONLY] -  CVolume_Omnia_Titanium.cab ( 84.13K ) Number of downloads: 2162

"little plugin which give the opportunity to change the level of the sound easy and sound profiles...."



CLauncher v0.21 [Omnia version ONLY]
 Omnia_CLauncher_V0.21.cab ( 164.92K ) Number of downloads: 2783

"another Titanium Application launcher - easy to add and remove application...."


Titanium CommManager [v0.22] for Omnia Only
 CComm_V0.22.cab ( 104.72K ) Number of downloads: 3042



AudioManager Titanium Panel (ONLY for OMNIA)
 HTC_AudioManager_Omnia_Titanium_AIO_0.2.cab ( 738.52K ) Number of downloads: 1158

"This is a installer for AudioManager plugin for Titanium..."
 Screen01.jpg ( 28.71K ) Number of downloads: 383




Titanium System Panel by dgaud007 [Omnia ONLY version]
 Titanium_System_Panel_Omnia.cab ( 194.52K ) Number of downloads: 1992

"1. Shows RAM, STORAGE and SD CARD free available memory.
2. Updated every 10 seconds.



CAnalogClock for original Titanium (OMNIA ONLY) :  CAnalogClock_0.6.2b_Omnia_Titanium.cab ( 916.5K ) Number of downloads: 751
 CAnalogClock_0.6.3b_Omnia_Titanium.cab ( 915.6K ) Number of downloads: 2068

clock skin:  rp_thm_titanium_canalogclock_Titanium_Default.cab ( 161.79K ) Number of downloads: 1870

Install panel first then the skin. Thanks Genix.
 canal1.png ( 52.51K ) Number of downloads: 4540
 canal2.png ( 53.85K ) Number of downloads: 218
 Screen01.jpg ( 40.5K ) Number of downloads: 369


Ibrythill_WM7_6.9_1 (OmniaWM7 Only) :  Ibrythill_WM7_6.9_2_Titanium_WQVGA__OmniaWM7_.cab ( 1.49MB ) Number of downloads: 1960

 wm71.jpg ( 39.75K ) Number of downloads: 343
 wm72.jpg ( 40.31K ) Number of downloads: 233


CTwitter (only for Omnia)  CTwitter_Omnia_Titanium_AIO_0.2.cab ( 502.92K ) Number of downloads: 921



CS2P Omnia Only!  S2P_Omnia_Titanium_AIO_0.2.cab ( 300.72K ) Number of downloads: 999



MultiClock Omnia Only! Supports RSS, Appointments, Weather, Alarm. Thanks to Genix!  Genix9_CMultiClock_0.6_WQVGA.cab ( 555.93K ) Number of downloads: 1383

 mc1.jpg ( 34.71K ) Number of downloads: 1659
 mc2.jpg ( 36K ) Number of downloads: 202
 mc3.jpg ( 35.23K ) Number of downloads: 172

Themes/Skinning Titanium:

Coloring: Download
etc...


Panel Skinning: Download



Bliss:  rp_thm_titanium_wqvga_bliss_1.6_4__OmniaBliss_.cab ( 1.71MB ) Number of downloads: 2475
(final for Omnia ONLY thanks to Genix) it will be updated when new panels arrive
 3485576710_e66bca52f2_o.jpg ( 178.25K ) Number of downloads: 1974



TIphone - Link
 Tiphone_all.png ( 145.16K ) Number of downloads: 1355


WM7 Skins -  wm7bronze.zip ( 2.65MB ) Number of downloads: 1610

black, darkblue, light blue, transparent, orange, glass
1. Overwrite bronzeres.dll in \Windows\
2. Restart titanium with Chome Editor or from Today Settings.

 black.jpg ( 40.85K ) Number of downloads: 501
 darkblue.jpg ( 40.79K ) Number of downloads: 302
 lightblue.jpg ( 41.1K ) Number of downloads: 189
 transparent.jpg ( 41.24K ) Number of downloads: 262
 orange.jpg ( 41.03K ) Number of downloads: 162
 glass.jpg ( 39.96K ) Number of downloads: 256


Honeycomb GridList. Original author lesscro.
Omnia ONLY. Install to \Device and softreset -> Download
Colors ->  GridList_colors.rar ( 23.45K ) Number of downloads: 814

Rename to StartMenu_List_Active.png, copy to \Windows\ and soft reset.



 gridcolors.png ( 92.16K ) Number of downloads: 1359

Thanks to original authors of this nice tool. Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524265

Havent tried it yet but could help lots of guys struggling with cprs.
Some parts are in Eng, some in Chinese.

Download:  CPR_Editor_test.zip ( 427.5K ) Number of downloads: 2014



1.Support various types of CPR Editor
CHome, LockScreen, StartMenu Grid

2.Text effects editor
By taking into account the issue of speed editing, text editor as a plug-in effects exist, rather than in a built-in CVE. CVE effect in the simulation simply click, does not mean to see the effects of mobile phones, but in a text editor to see that the effects of mobile phones. At present only one edit, the version will be added behind the magic wand that can directly copy the results to other words.

3.Folder mapping
Because a lot of CPR will be directly defined in the document image path, so that picture would have to show CVE Kaodao the Windows directory under the directory, add this version of the path mapping, can be on the local computer can access any map the directory as Windows / Program Files directory. Lane Configuration.xml change in it.

4.Mapping registry
With a similar folder, there is a lot of system resources within the registry, ElementMapping.xml mapping can help to solve the problem.

5.Full custom CPR files
CPR can edit any of the elements.

6.Preview mode
CHome specifically for this model is designed following the design pattern, each of the commencement and CHome state can see, the preview is to check the effect of editing in this mode, CHome hidden template, only those selected item only to start

7.Code model
Switch to code mode can view the CPR code. However, CPR is not in favor of changing the code back to reload.

8.Revoked, redo
This version in particular an increase of revocation, redo function under the Edit menu, shortcut keys with the same general software: Ctrl + Z, Ctrl + Y

How to use:
You need to be replaced CVE Windows directory the following file from your ROM
1.stwater.png
This document is a desktop wallpaper, only use this file name. ROM If you are using a jpg file, please change its name into the name above it.
2.bronzeres.dll
This file contains the system's own icon CHome, when the registry after import, CVE icon will need to quote CVE extracted the Windows directory in the following name format is "icon ID". Png, when you bronzeres.dll replaced, please delete these icons together, if we do not change, you can not delete, so can I. icon saved some time.
3.cmhomeres.dll
The document which contains the system a number of text messages CHome
4.CVE open, click the file menu to open a CPR, the import process a bit slow, a little patience
5.Edit menu, click Import Registry .. to the import registry

P.S. It just work by .NET 3.5 SP1
Here is the link to download that
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...9-81da479ab0d7

[Reserved] parties, pool games and boogie nights

Excellent sector, excellent.

Great job as usual.

Great thread, well done sector!

Thanks

Dang! Excellent post!

thank you guys. im waiting for updates from you.

i will add the finalized wm7 and bliss themes when there are finished.

still working them with Genix.

take care

I made an XML Schema a while back, which is handy in Visual Studio (perhaps other editors), for code completion.

 Titanium_Schema.zip ( 1.33K ) Number of downloads: 442


Cheers

leppie

Topic pinned so it does not get lost among all the other posts.

this is very very useful! thanks leppiel for everything. you could make some small description for the non-coders what is what in schema.
it will updated of course in the tutorials!



coolio

Another tool I made for automating CPR hacking.

This one runs on the mobile side, and monitors the current Titanium_***x***.cpr file for changes.

Just overwrite the CPR file, and CHome gets restarted.

Thanks to CHomeResart from ATContacts.

 CPRMonitor.CAB ( 16.24K ) Number of downloads: 256


I will upload a 'desktop' component soon too. That pushes changed files to the device.

Does anyone have the code or a tool to turn off CHome and then on again later? I would like to automate uploading of resource dll's too.

Cheers

leppie

Here is a build script for making your own resource dll's from scratch.

The .rc is created when you extract the dll with ResHacker.

You will need the Windows SDK for this. You will also need to import the mobile SDK certificates locally.

1. Start the SDK Command Prompt.
2. Run the following or create a bat file:

rc bronzeres.rc
cl /LD bronzeres.res /link /NOENTRY
signtool sign /i TEST bronzeres.dll

Cheers

leppie

Hello Sector I think you should add this
WM 6.5 Titanium Theme Crimson Darkness by rpereira
 3470622466_15ae9ff97c_o.jpg ( 110.28K ) Number of downloads: 1022


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WRPZGTG0

And this Ferrari WM 6.5 Theme by greatbal
 ferrarithemescreenshots.gif ( 306.25K ) Number of downloads: 302


 greatbal_Ferrari_WM6.5_Theme.cab ( 186.91K ) Number of downloads: 396


Black Dragon by DomSim
 1.jpg ( 56.97K ) Number of downloads: 430
 5.jpg ( 35.6K ) Number of downloads: 201


 DomSim_Black_Dragon_QVGA.cab ( 215.42K ) Number of downloads: 712

have you tried them and everything works?

Tried everything except The first skin , but where i found it was written Qvga,Vga,Wqvga,Wvga and other work well


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Tried creating Nature (green) skin for WM6.5 , but i cannot get it to work.
Please help someone
Heres my attached theme PLEASE tell me what am im doing wrong

 Nature.cab ( 232.13K ) Number of downloads: 189

Great thread Sector.

thx

keep on trying

Damn BAW$$!

didnt see this; you moving fast these days.

Like it, very nice thread, easy link for me to add to my posts

Keep it up bro, doing a fine job as always!