Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Slide 2 view image viewer

Slide 2 view (S2V) can be used to set higher resolution photos to your contacts. S2U2 will then use these higher res. images when you receive a phone call and have slide to answer enabled.

Download S2V from xdadevelopers and install.

Download the CU Photos from drop.io/cyatesxyz and unzip in your My Documents folder on the phone.

Now open S2V and navigate to \My Documents\Contact Photos. Tap on a photo thumbnail then long tap on the photo. Select the "..." at the bottom of the screen and then "Assign to Contact"

Monday, August 25, 2008

Weather Panel Today plugin



Weather panel is one of the best and most configurable weather plugins for windows mobile. It was commercial software up till a few years ago when it was abandoned by the author.

Since the abandonment it has stopped working and updating several times but through the hard work of several folks at ppcgeeks it still is at the top of the weather plugins.

You'll need the main weather panel install files from this thread. You may need to register to download the files.

After installing the .cab be sure to find the phatphinger theme and install it as well.

Settings







Weather Wallpaper for S2U2

Weather wallpaper will change your S2U2 wallpaper based on the current weather. It will also show a quick forecast icon in the lower left corner of the S2U2 screen.

First you'll need Mortscript so download version 4.11b7 and install it. It's in a .zip file so uncompress it on your PC and then move it to the phone. Tap on the .cab file with pocket explorer and install it to the phones main memory.

To download the next files you'll need to register at xda-developers. It's a great site and will be the source of many tweaks so don't worry.

The weather wallpaper script has two parts. First is the script, second, the graphic images.

Let's get the weather script from the main thread. Scroll to the bottom of the first post and download this file Weather_Wallpaper0.36.zip You will have to be logged in to xda to download.

Open the zip file and grab the weather_WallpaperYah0.36.mscr file. Open it on the PC with notepad and change these sections:
delayHours = .25
location="USMO0828"
wallpaperfolder = "\my documents\wallpaper\weather\"
slideforecast = 2

Next move it to the \windows\startup folder on the phone and tap on it with pocket explorer.

From the same post download Wallpaper MyCombo0.3.zip and move the files to the
\my documents\wallpaper\weather\ folder on the phone.

Open the S2U2 Settings from the S2U2 folder in "Programs" and change "Todays Weather Forecast From" to "option 5" which is "UserWeather". Tap save and cross your fingers.

Slide to Unlock 2 (S2U2)

Slide to Unlock version 2

Support forum at xda-developers

Download from that forum post or from asapload. This is a .zip file that you can open on the PC.

Move the .cab to your phone and then used pocket explorer to navigate to the save folder, tap on the file to install it. Be sure you install it directly to the device.

Next, open the S2U2 folder from the "Programs" launcher and select "S2U2 Settings". Enable it and change any other settings you might need.

My settings are:
  • On Battery Power
  • Lock when device wakes up: on
  • Lock when backlight turns off: off
  • Power off in: 10s
  • but blank screen only:off
  • Blank screen on talk:off
  • On External Power
  • Lock when backlight turns off:off
  • Power off in:off
  • but blank screen on talk:off
  • Information
  • Date format:1
  • Time format:2
  • Clock font format:1
  • Clock
  • Next alarm:on
  • Next appt:on
  • Time format:1
  • Task count:on
  • Weather forecast:5(only if weather is installed)
  • Phone
  • Callerid:full screen
  • Slide to answer:on
  • S2A Answer key:on
  • S2A End key:on
  • Phone No. format:3
  • Wallpaper portrate:5
  • Wallpaper landscape:1
  • Overide gif:5
  • Endless gif:off
  • Change jpg every:off
  • Chage jpg random:off
  • Others
  • DPAD:off
  • Hide all soft keys:off (don't ever change this)
  • Top Curtain:on
  • Unlock after screen rotate:off
  • Advanced
  • Don't suspend power:off
  • Safe mode:off
  • Direct draw:on
  • SMS patch:off




For advanced use take a look at the ppcgeeks post on S2U2 themes.