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There is now a brand new version of the fantastically popular 6 Button HTC Home customisation pack available to be used with any of the HTC Home Today plugins.

What's new in this version:-

- New: Added realtime previews of appearances
- New: Toggle between Home tab preview and Weather icon preview by tapping the preview image
- New: Preview page changes dynamically with appearance/theme selection
- New: Backup and restore functions now saves/loads files, not just settings
- Changed: Made selection tabs slightly smaller to reclaim screen space
- Changed: Themes are stored in folders (like BETA 5 and lower) to accomodate local previews
- Changed: Moved themes to it's own tab
- Changed: Removed old and test code that was unused
- Changed: Donation page in About tab can now be hidden without restarting
- Changed: Enlarged the Launcher tab icons
- Fixed: Non-English device folder naming problem (again)
- Fixed: Deleting appearances not working
- Fixed: Launcher tab now displays all shortcut icons, not just some
- Fixed: Restore button enables properly when you select an existing backup path

This should all run fine on most devices running Windows Mobile 5, 6 or 6.1, It is tried and tested.
The screenshots are from my Orbit 2 and shows the look you can achieve.

Installation guide:-

If you have a previous version of the Home customization pack installed completely remove it from your device first before installing the newer version, it will keep your current today screen though.

Download your choice of HTC Home plugin for WM5, 6 or 6.1 if you have not got it already installed on your device.


If you now have the 6 Button HTC Home today screen plugin installed and working, you can now proceed to download and install the Customization plugin. It is best to install and run this from your storage card as it will hog your devices memory otherwise.

The installation of the Customization cab file will be automatic with full on screen prompts. After installation if you go to programs you will find a black icon with HHC, tap on it to run the programme which will allow you to view, download and change your icons etc to whatever suits you.


If you have any problems with the contacts tab not showing, then you will need to remove the registry entry HKLM/Software/OEM/MASD/Quickdial using Resco Explorer or similar.

Please remember that this application may not work with all devices, and the same applies to the brightness tab.

There is now a cab file fix available for the brightness tab in the launcher it should work as soon as you install it after a soft reset, if not try deleting the backlight link from HTC Home on your device, add the first backlight link and it should be ok.

Also included in the download file below for the backlight fix is a SDK Certs cab which should be installed only by people having problems installing the 6 Button HTC Home plugin onto their devices.

Many thanks to the dedicated hard work that emunutz has put into this new version, donations would be appreciated by him at his dedicated website HERE .

I have uploaded five HTC Home plugins for you to try.
The first 3 are for WM6/WM6.1 devices, the newest version is at the top and the other two are there to try if you have any problems installing the first version.

The fourth is a 5 button version for WM6/6.1 and the last is for WM5 only.


Downloads:-

Home customiser available HERE

6 Button HTC Home plugins for WM6/6.1 available HERE , HERE and HERE

5 Button HTC Home plugin for WM6/6.1 available HERE

6 Button HTC Home plugin for WM5 available HERE

Launcher backlight fix and SDK available HERE

Your comments and thoughts would be much appreciated as usual.