!! UPDATED !! 6 Button HTC Home plugin+all icons+coloured clocks in 1 package !!

[boz]

This thread is now closed there is the newest and best version available for all devices running WM6 available HERE .

Thanks boz


UPDATED !! 6 Button HTC Home plugin+all icons+coloured clocks in 1 package

I have this running on my Hermes and Trinity without problems.

This package is the latest and fixed version of the HTC Home plugin, and should have fixed the calendar problem, the file contains:-

Schen's 6 tab HTC Home plugin
HTC Audio manager (blue or black version)
Schap's new colour icons
Transparent bezel fix
HTC Home spotlight plugin
Colours for the digital clock available in:-
Aqua, yellow, electric blue, red, the 'Matrix' green, purple and original in case you wish to go back.

F.Y.I.
The transparent bezel removes the centre black strip that is usually seen on the today screen with HTC Home, and makes it transparent so that if you use another theme as I have, you do not see that annoying black strip. The spotlight plugin makes the 6 icons "glow" on the today screen when one selected.

Thanks to Schen and to Schap at xda-developers.




This version DOES fix the random switch to vibrate problem, found this post by Schen, the easiest option to cure the problem in my view is to hard reset.
Please read:-

"Those of you that still experience random switching to vibrate after installing my version, you will have to do complete uninstall of the plugin including removing the "Notfications Queue" that might be left after uninstalling previous version of the plugin.

All previous version from JUVS(original version), Freelance2k7, and nUm(initial 6tab) create a bunch of notifications queue(one user here even reported 340 duplicates queue after several days of use without realizing it).

Notifications queue is not something you can SEE when your device is used normally. You will have to use some of the system tools(SKTools and Memmaid or possibly other tools) to check for the queue and tell you whether there is any queue created by this plugin. Do a complete cleanup. I posted somewhere in this thread earlier how to indentified notifications queue that this plugin created. Those eventhough are not duplicates have to be clean up also. The tweak I did was just denying the profile tab from creating new notifications but it still check for notifications possibly left out from previous install and switch to vibrate accordingly. Worse it wont delete the outdated queue. So if you already have the queue build up manual removal is MANDATORY. I personally do a hard reset and install everything from fresh when realizing my queue got messed up and installing into windows also screw my windows directory when opened with file explorer. This is what we got as a beta tester for HTC." Thanks to Schen.

29-7-07 Latest post in this thread from schen:-
I try various of things yesterday to get mine switch to vibrate automaticaly and the only time I saw the switch is when I am in in the middle of an appointment and that appoinment is being EDIT(manual edit or syncing with pc). Ofcourse if you have Full Day event, and it get change that day you will be switch. For now that will be my conclusion: "Swiching will occure during an active appointment, if that appoinment is being change/edit sync. Other than that I could not get mine to switch to vibrate..No plan to iron this out as I think it is pretty minimal already...moreover I already heard that there is a better version available on the kaiser already...so just wait for that one instead. If this bother you just disable the Profile Tab...it is not completed anyway.......

Weather system hack thanks to N2A
I've just put the latest version of my hack to the weather system up here - I've attached the patched (and signed) DLL here. Requires SdkCerts.cab installed first though, as I had to resign the hexedited file. Would go well as another option for your pretty version of the home plugin
Attached Filesschen_6button_N2A_WeatherPatched_HTCHome.zip (101.5 KB, 10 views)

Installation instructions:-

Remove any old versions of the HTC Home plugin first, if you wish you can hard reset first this will clear the Windows folder of any previous icons (not absolutely needed, but does give you a nice clean rom) as the newer icons are stored elsewhere.

Download and extract the folder to your desktop and put the files you want to use onto your memory card.

First in this order, install the HTC Audio manager (normal or black), then install Schen's 6 tab HTC Home plugin, then soft reset and make sure it shows on your today screen.

Before installing Schap's new colour icons, the Transparent bezel fix, HTC Home plugin spotlight or the Coloured clock digits, YOU MUST disable the HTC Home plugin from your today screen (untick box in start>settings>personal>today>items>HTC home).


Now you need to extract the zip files that you wish to use that were placed on your storage card to the folder "HTCHome" using file explorer (I used Resco Explorer 2007), but remember you can only install one clock colour at a time. Soft reset to make sure, then retick the box to display your new today screen!

If you want to have the HTC Audio Manager as your default player you need to reg edit the following:-
Go to HKLM/Software/HTC/Music Plug-in and change music player value from 1 to 2
Then go to programmes and start the HTC audio player and stop it, then go to the music plugin in the HTC home screen and tap on 'launch music player' it should then work, just leave it running in the background.


Download available HERE

Please leave your comments or feedback.

Dark blue theme as used in screenshot below.

[jomo25]

So there are multiple versions of the cab file out there.

There's the original with the b/w icons posted by JUVS.

There's a sep file with the color icons that needs to be unRAR'd, not UnZIP'd.

There's the one with the color icons baked in by mUn based on JUVS and supposedly has the calendar fix, and puts files in the HTCHome dir.

But of all the above ones DO NOT FIX THE DUPLICATE NOTIFICATION issue. Only the Schen one does this, I'm quite certain (I've been following the XDA-Dev thread religiously). The older cabs have a bug where it will generate duplicate notifications on your PPCs queue. I had 420 of them before I found out and deleted them. (And if you do delete them, use something like Memmaid to make sure you don't delete critical notifications that need to be retained!)

So, you really should install that one. Its the one on the link in the first post above. And if you already have it installed, you should remove and re-install the new one.

[boz]

Yep you've got it, that is why I posted the Schen 6 button HTC Home plugin. But I still have my doubts as to whether it fixes the phone going to vibrate issue when using the calendar settings.

[gemblaster]

THANKS SOOO MUCH for putting this together and giving it a trial run Boz! Exactly what I was hinting at, toward the end of the last post!

What do you say about keeping this thread clean, and only for fixing if needed (eg. someone test out the calander), and basic how to's in how to opperate and custom this GREAT application?

Once proven stable, could your HARD work at putting this together so nicely, be put into the general downloads area?

I am downloading & installing NOW

Gemblaster

Thanks again BOZ, GREAT WORK!!!! You can delete my post as well to keep thread clean!

[DvTonder]

I notice that the icons in the spotlight fix does not match the schaps icons. is there a spotlight fix that has the correct icons?

[boz]

In my main post the icons shown in the screenshot are Schaps with the spotlight fix. I used all the items that are in the supplied package. Install the spotlight fix first then install the icons.

[boz]

@ gemblaster

I will leave the thread as is, I can clean it up if needs must.

[gemblaster]

Oh,.. no more color icons in the Ring tones Tab with new icon color file, not a big deal though, but it was nice.

One thing that I have noticed on ALL variations of this app, including this one, that does not seem to work, is the PDA icon with the little light bulb in the Launcher Tab options. What the heck is it supposed to be for? Does it work for anyone else, or has anyone even tried it?

Gemblaster

THUMBS up for painless installation TO!

[boz]

The little light bulb is for screen brightness, tap it and the screen goes brighter or dimmer. Works fine for me.

[gemblaster]

Could someone upload the original HTC HOME files, if you have extracted them? I think this would be a GREAT way to revert back and forth between spotlight icons & normal color or grey, color clocks and starting over with the original Black grey, or any combo WITHOUT having to do a HARD RESET everytime to clear the changes.

True MOBILE versatility

Someone correct me if I am wrong on this, or if there are the seperate original color zip files somewhere I could use instead.

Thanks
Gemblaster