Yay! :D (hacked phone needed, for a summary in how to do it, scroll to the bottom of the post :P)
After a lot (a lot!) of trial and error, I finally figured out a way to get a Games folder with the proper icon on the 5800′s menu. It was a battle of googling, extracting then compressing files, messing with .svgs that do not open in computers and more.
It all started with Flahorn’s latest theme. Flahorn, being the awesome guy he is, created an icon set that follows the Ovi icons styling for use on S60v3 themes, and it included the Games icon. I installed it to see how it would look on my 5800, and editing the skin_id (I visited this before, wow that post is outdated!) for a folder that I created to a s60v3′s games folder id, the icon appeared.
But I didn’t want to use a theme to see the pretty icon, and if OPDA’s menueditor could change the icon, there should be a way! Using SisXplorer from Symbian Toys, I got to the .mif file inside the theme, and the packed .svgs. Of course the svgs are compressed (or maybe that’s just how SVG tiny works), so trying to view them in my computer didn’t work. I unpacked and sent all the 1000+ svgs to my phone, and it could open them!
I found the Games icon .svg there (try transfering it to your phone if you want to view it), but I can’t link appshelldata.xml to a .svg, only to .mifs. Found a Forum Nokia page explaining how to pack a .svg to a .mif.
But that wasn’t the end of it, to properly point the menu app to the right icon, you have to know the icon_id to fill in the appshelldata.xml. I tried lots of values, but no one worked. Finally, after a couple different searches, I learned that the first svg always has the icon_id set to 16384 (random value much?) in a Forum Nokia thread.
With that, I had my icon packed in a .mif, and all the values I needed. So my appshelldata.xml looked like this:
<appshell:folder positioned=”1″ title_name=”Games” long_name=”Games” short_name=”Games” applicationgroup_name=”games” icon_file=”C:\System\Games.mif” icon_id=”16384″ mask_id=”16385″ icon_skin_major_id=”101F86E3″ icon_skin_minor_id=”1977″/>
I threw the .mif in C:/System, and set the skin_ids to the games folder value so that they’ll change with themes. Uploaded the appshelldata, and it worked!
So, in conclusion, get this .mif, transfer it to somewhere safe on your phone, and edit your appshelldata.xml (found in C:\Private\101F4CD2\Content\). Copy and paste the block quote above to .xml, right after a “</appshell:folder>”, just changing the path to the .mif, reboot (or kill the Menu app) and presto! There’s your folder!
Yay another 400~ post about folders~
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hi, this looks really cool! im havin trouble gettin it to work can you please upload your appshelldata.xml?
cheers james
hi, i like the look of the organiser folder, can you please upload that one too?
cheers james
I won’t upload my appshelldata.xml because editing your current is safer, as mine has references to lots of apps you might not have on your phone, and I deleted a couple icons from it.
But to add the organizer folder, you just need to edit the appshelldata, because oddly enough, the organizer icon is already built into the phone, but left unused. Just add
<appshell:folder positioned="1" applicationgroup_name="organiser" short_name="&qtn_apps_organiser_grid;" long_name="&qtn_apps_organiser_list;" title_name="&qtn_apps_organiser_title;" icon_file="Z:\resource\apps\Menu.mif" icon_id="16402" mask_id="16403" icon_skin_major_id="101F86E3" icon_skin_minor_id="13FE">
to your appshelldata.
hi, how do u edit your file on the phone or pc?
cheers james
I can’t find a folder named Private in the phone memory, I searched hidden files and folders, but i still can’t see it. Can you help?
you’re better off copying the file to a pc to edit it, and to access those files, you need a hacked phone with all files access for file explorers. to see how to do this, there are plenty of guides here: http://diabo.110mb.com/symbian/indexhack.htm
i tried, but nothing happens. if i send u my appshellblahblah, can you add that line to the file, so i can put it there?
hey buddy, thanks for the hack, works and looks great! just one thing though: on your quote, the quotation marks are kinda messed up, so when one would copy and paste into the xml file, it wont work.. so i just typed it all out in the file.. anyway, thanx again, thats exactly what i was looking for!
wich ? bottom ? top i’ve find 3
thanks a lot, worked on nokia 5530
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