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Guest ethianate
Posted

Hi, I tried to install a skin on my mpx200 it was a .hme file and the skin is called XP SPV the link to the page I have put below. Now, I do everything the instructions tell me to do on how to install it, and when I've installed it it says installation was successful but nothing changes on my home screen, why is this? what am I doing wrong?

Guest Brody
Posted

Welcome to the site :D

Depending on how well the installer is written the skin should load on your phone upon installation. As it isn't have you tried manually selecting the skin in the settings>Home screen setting?

Guest ethianate
Posted

I have tried manually selecting it from the home screen list and when I return to the home screen I get the time icon thing like when you are waiting but then nothing changes, I dont understand why they dont work, I have got .zip file skins to work just copying the files over to the phone.

Guest Brody
Posted

Is it just this one skin? Have you tried others that are cab files of hme files?

Guest ethianate
Posted

I have tried it with a couple and the same thing happens, I've not tried it with a .cab file because there are no skins in .cab format that I want. Do you think it's something to do with the .xml file or am I doing something wrong? I copy the .hme file to ISPMwindowsstartmenuto install (a directory I created), it seems to run fine and tells me that it installed successfully.

Guest ethianate
Posted

I downloaded that smartcab thing, but how does it work and what is it supposed to do I dont understand it, I installed it and tried to run it but nothing happens, what is it????

Guest gpcarreon (MVP)
Posted

Ahh. You have to install the app in your PC.

Once installed, you can now transfer/install cab and hme files.

1. Sync phone to PC.

2. Select a cab or hme on your PC

3. Right click mouse then

4. Choose 'Install to SPV' or equivalent.

5. Wait for further instructions in your phone screen (the target directory).

Posted from my SmartPhone!

Guest Disco Stu
Posted

A couple of thoughts :

1. You have application unlocked your phone ? It sounds like it, just checking :wink:

2. The skin is called XP SPV but you're trying to install it on an MPX200. Perhaps there is something that makes it incompatible ? I seem to remember having difficulties with this skin myself on my E200..

Guest ethianate
Posted

I installed SmartCab and tranferred the file over and it works fine now. The only problem I have now is that I want to install callface but it wont install, it just says "installation failed".

Guest GuArDiAn
Posted

Hi Guys and Gals

Question for you ppl’s...... I have a Motorola MPX200 from MTN South Africa, when ever I load a new skin the alignment is always out.... On my home page the Email (0) SMS (0) MMS (0) is not like what is previewed here...

Can any one help?

Thanks

Guest Disco Stu
Posted
Hi Guys and Gals

Question for you ppl’s...... I have a Motorola MPX200 from MTN South Africa, when ever I load a new skin the alignment is always out.... On my home page the Email (0) SMS (0) MMS (0) is not like what is previewed here...

Can any one help?

Thanks

Have a read of this :

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=9925...f5828d6b0abab43

Guest ethianate
Posted

sorry but I dont understand any of that stuff. I think I've got the same problem, when I go down the menu onto "messages" it just shows Email(0) SMS(0) MMS(0) on the task bar, how can I get the proper menu to show?

Guest ethianate
Posted

What is JMMS? What does it do and how do I get it? I went to that site cabbage or something but I dont understand anything on there, please help!

Guest martin
Posted

JMMS is the MMS software which is stored in the phone (and on the CD if you need to restore after a hard reset).

The cabbage site is for creating a cab file (like a a self installing ZIP file)

Go to www.customcabbage.co.uk and select Phone Model=MPX200 and tick Jmms FIX. Click Cabbage it. It should let you download a file to the PC.

Using activesync, copy the file to the phone in IPSMWindowsStart MenuAccessories. Then on the phone click Programs and find the Accessories folder. Click on the cab file.

Guest ethianate
Posted

ok, I went to the cabbage site and did what you said and this is what I saw:-

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/cabbage/public_html/cabbage.php on line 79

Warning: unlink(stopper.txt): No such file or directory in /home/cabbage/public_html/cabbage.php on line 80

Your CAB has been created with a unique random name...

(f193a722xxx.cab).

Once installed it will be listed in Remove Programs as: CustomCABbage

Do I still download the file???? is it ok? what are the error messages?

Guest martin
Posted

I suspect it's not using the selected cab name for some reason :?

I've have just tried cabbage, ignoring error and downloading random cab name, and it worked fine :P

Guest ethianate
Posted

I tried copying it to where you said and I installed the cab file, it said it was installed successfully but nothing has changed, so I need to re-install the skin now for it to work?

Guest ethianate
Posted

ok, sorry, I re-started my phone and it works fine now, THANKYOU ! :P .

Now, how do I get the callface thing to work?lol

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