Tag Archive for 'menu'

OPDA’s MenuEditor

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on May 3, 2008
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..or finally a reason to hack the permissions on my N95!

After all that trouble in making past posts about ordering your folders in place, and why wouldn’t S60 allow you to create folders with icons, bugb at OPDA.net.cn finally make an app to do it. Even if it needs a little hacking prior to using it…

First you need to hack the permissions in order to gain access to all files on your phone, then download a allfiles capable file browser (such as X-Plore or ActiveFile, my favorite) then copy a certificate and key to a certain folder, and finally selfsign the MenuEditor sis with OPDA’s Mobile Signer. I won’t explain about those things here, but feel free to google around for guides.

But once you have all set, you can alter any folder’s icon and name, and choose from a list of all icons on device. and you can also make special folders that change their name when you change the phone’s language, much like the default ones.

Here’s all the different folder icons from the default N95 ones:

And if you know me, you know that I love having an organized and “iconized” menu. I already changed the more apps folder to the blue square, and the games folder to the dice one. And I’m going to make a GPS folder right now!

All the folder names, icons and better explanation of how they work are at OPDA.net.cn and this app was found via pretty much any underground symbian site. I’d offer a download link, but as it depends on how you hacked your phone, I’ll just link to symbian freak, as they have 3 versions of the file.

Does FP2 get rid of the title icons?

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fernando
on March 1, 2008
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I noticed something while looking through M-r FP2 review (only in russian for now). FP2 is removing the icons that go besides the name of the app in the title bar. For example this:

There’s no arrows icon besides the Log name.

This looks like a bad decision in my opinion, since apps that do have that will look unconsistent with the rest of the phone, like Quickoffice

They also seem to be using the icon space for smaller descriptive icons of the current action, like in messages, discerning Text from audio messages

And in IM to show the status.

In my opinion this change is for worse, and there is no technical excuse, since icons are vector graphics.

My only hope is that they took out the icons to remake simple forms of them, like the messages one, but I’m not counting on it.

Edit: Just noticed FP1 already has the IM status indicator little icon!

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That doesn’t mean much, but as I never noticed it, I can post about it :P

Themes Launcher for N95

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on February 22, 2008
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Following in my pursuit of the perfect menu, I came across this (actually it was because of SF :P), a Themes app replacement icon. As V20 of the N95 firmware and the following Nseries removed the themes icon and makes you go 3 menu levels deep in the settings to find it. This brings the icon back.

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Sure, the icon looks kinda funky (:P), but it’s the best solution until now (my previous solution was just put a themes shortcut on the multimedia menu, as I don’t use that menu for nothing)

Download it here.

N95 menu in V20

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fernando
on November 29, 2007
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Here’s the menu in my N95 after upgrading to V20

Good looking huh? :P

S60 manages folders pretty badly in my opinion, when you create a new one, you can’t change it’s icon, and when you have a folder inside a folder (like the office folder in V20s firmware), you can’t move it to the main menu, which is bad in my opinion, since I like all my main folders in the main menu, but also like each one to have a special icon…

But then I remembered a little hack I used in the days of my Nokia 6600, to put folders inside folders , I only had to modify the process a little bit, here’s how:

First pretend the “folder” folder is you office folder, and you want to move it to the main menu, but there’s no “Move to folder” option on the left softkey , you have to start by setting up like the screenshot, the folder you want to move at the last place, and any app you can easily install and remove in the place before, in my case I chose the MovingBall app.

Now go, and uninstall MovingBall thru the app. manager, quickly press menu, go to the apps folder and press options above the MovingBall app:

Now wait, the MovingBall app is being uninstalled, when it finishes uninstalling, its icon will disappear from the menu , leaving the folder hi-lighted, and the “Move to folder” option still available in the options!

And voila! Just move the folder!

And again, we shouldn’t have to use this method for moving folders , S60 should have this option right from the start, even better, they should allow changing folder icons, if BlackBerry OS can do it…

Update: Motorola can do it.