Homescreen xml tweaking WM6

[Guest mwille]

Well... there she finally is, the lovely little S710 :rolleyes:

Now I've been editing homescreen xml's for some time now.. Smartphone 2002, 2003, WM5 and now WM6 on Vista with WMDC. So, of we go : install Facade, snatch full.home.xml from the device and start tweaking it to my personal taste... as always :P

So, first tweaks done, time to have a look at what it looks like on the device. Whats that you're saying mister Vista? "you can copy the file there for storage or transport but you can not use it" (something like that)... and wadda ya know : it doesn't show as a selectable homescreen layout :D

Checked the xml over and over again for syntax or other errors but nothing...

Any idea's ?

I'll have a go at the office tommorow where there's still XP and good old activesync... but if any have an idea as to what I'm missing here I'd love to hear it !

Edited May 2, 2007 by mwille

[Guest mwille]

Little update : Just tried the exact same thing at work (Win XP + Activesync) and the xml is copied to the phone without any comment and it works :rolleyes:

So it's really my Vista/WMDC knowledge that's screwing things up for me at home...

Anybody know? I can't really do all my homescreen editing at work now can I :P

[Guest DWKMI]

Little update : Just tried the exact same thing at work (Win XP + Activesync) and the xml is copied to the phone without any comment and it works :rolleyes:

So it's really my Vista/WMDC knowledge that's screwing things up for me at home...

Anybody know? I can't really do all my homescreen editing at work now can I :P

I use Vista Ultimate and WMDC. It works fine. Yes it does give that odd warning that it will convert the file and it may not be usable... blah blah blah, but Activesync on XP gives the same type of message.

I would guess that you forgot to change the title tag in your xml. That's easy to overlook.

[Guest conan_troutman]

I edit all my XMLs on my phone using Vieka Wordpad its a free download don't know if it works on WM6 but is fine on WM5, ps pocket word can't edit XML on the phone.