regedit nonstandard screens question

[Guest drblow]

I was sure I had read somewhere that midnight's nonstandard screen regedits do not survive changing skins. Is this correct?

I customised mine by creating jpgs & naming them the same as the default screens, then just copy to windows folder & replace defaults. They survive skin changes by cab files & manually.

[Guest jim80b]

on a reboot you will lose them though, by changing the reg you can make it perm.

most skins do not touch these screens so they survive. there are some that have these extra ones and they will change them. search for graduations longhorn theme and its got extras like all thoe skins and a mplayer skin. they all get installed by a cab.

hope that helps

[Guest drblow]

no m8, i think you missed the point!

i was saying that my screen tweaks DO survive a reboot, i was just looking for clarification on whether they were supposed to or not!

thanks anyway!

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

All registry edit's will survive a reboot (other than protected areas, but even these can be circumvented). Anything placed in Windows will be removed or over written on a power cycle though...

[Guest drblow]

Mono-

When you say that anything in /Windows is overwritten on a power cycle - I take it you mean just switching off/on the phone?!

The screens I have edited (& by that I mean I changed the jpgs to the same names as default screens & replaced them in /Windows) do not get overwritten when switching off/on the phone.

Don't get me wrong here - I LIKE the fact that they stay there ;) !!

I'm just asking because it seemed that this was not what was meant to happen & I wondered why!? :?:

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Are you putting them in Windows or IPSMWindows (just to check ;))

[Guest drblow]

In /Windows

I just created the jpgs that I wanted, the named them the same as the default files. The copied them into /Windows using activesync, and when prompted replaced old files with my ones.

I didn't actually change the registry at all.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Odd...

[Guest midnight]

jpgs? they're gifs, and they dont survive a reboot, heheh, back engineer and find out how you did it, cos i'd love to know (cos i'm having trouble gettin my new card packs staying) :wink:

[Guest drblow]

Sorry ... GIF's is correct, not jpgs!

It was a while ago, but I'm sure of what I did, coz I was too scared at first to use regedit!!

I DL'ed midnights photoshop templates for xbox skinning of non standard screens (info.gif, incall.gif, volume.gif etc). I did a little tweaking to the pics (in fireworks), exported them as gifs

- then opened activesync

- opened /Windows

- opened the folder with the gifs in

- copied gifs

- paste into /Windows

- click 'yes to all' on 'do you want to replace...' command

That's it! :shock:

I have changed skins regularly, and rebooted often. The screens are always the same. I have modified a few skins so that they all fit with my nonstandard screens.

Is my phone just magic then?!?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Possibly, or a more logical explanation wouyld be it only overwrites certain files on reboot...(font's, sounds, etc)

[Guest midnight]

it overwrites the screens aswell, try it mono :)

i think drblows phone is indeed magic hehe

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Cool :)

[Guest drblow]

Em... small mistake - the gifs are in IPSM/Windows!!

Dunno if that makes a difference?? The screens are still after reboot. I'm customising skins at themoment, so I'm changing them on the phone every 10 mins these days for testing, and switching the phone off/on often aswell.

All my tweaked nonstandard skins stay the way they are tho!

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Well that explains the magic then ... I'm kinda dissapointed *hehe*

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

That was the first thing i asked and on two occasions you assured us it was NOT IPSMWindows hehe

[Guest drblow]

Yeah, yeah - if I had a brain I'd be dangerous...!! :)

So, does that mean my phone isn't magic then?! :cry:

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

I'm afraid so...

[Guest drblow]

Bollox!!

I really thought I was onto something there!! :) :(