Custom Start Icon/Battery/Speaker and EV 1X Icons

Decided to consolidate all the information in one thread on how to change your start menu icon/speaker/battery and Black EV and 1X icons.

Speaker and Battery Icon
1. First install the sdkcerts.cab found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2791165&postcount=1
2. Install Taskbar%20Icons%20v2.cab from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=243
3. Install darklord battery metre v2_fixed.cab from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=324
4. To have your battery meter give you actual % such as 33% instead of in increments of 10 install nuePowerDriverCDMADiamond-100-v1.0-cab.cab

Code

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=511610&postcount=89(

I Installed the above files in the order I put them in and everything works good on my end)](Thanks itouch24) updated 11/13/08
5. To fix the battery % either use a registry editor and change the settings as posted below or install the file from here (no need to do both) http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=512028&postcount=18 (updated 11/11/08 )
6. To fix the HTC Volume Control download the link from here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=512254&postcount=39(Thanks opuscroakus) Open TC and go into /windows rename the HTCVolumeControl.dll to HTCVolumeControl.dll.bak use TC to place the new .dll file into /windows and soft reset. After this you can delete the .bak one. (updated 11/11/08 )
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**If you just want the battery meter then download the phcanOverbmp.zip open TC and rename your current one in /windows to phcanOverbmp.dll.bak, change your registry to make it working correctly (see below for settings) once you have done this, drop the new phcanOverbmp.dll you downloaded into /Windows and and softreset. After this you can delete the old .bak one**

Make sure your registry says the following:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BatteryIconLevels"=dword:65 (Hex) or 101 (Dec)
"BatteryIconIdStart"=dword:3e9 (Hex) or 1001 (Dec)
"BaseDll"="phcanOverbmp.dll"
"BaseId"=dword:0 updated 11/12/08


For Black EV and 1X Icons
1. For the Black EV and 1X Icons download http://www.filefactory.com/file/ca2339/n/tapres_192_dll use TC to change your old tapres.192.dll to tapres.192.dll.bak then using TC place the downloaded copy into /windows, next soft reset and you can go back in and delete the .bak one




For the Custom Start Menu Icon (If you don't want the HTC Start Icon that comes with Taskbar%20Icons%20v2.cab )
1. Install Icone Demarrer.cab found herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=426264
2. The icon I have is found herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2753669&postcount=203 (read post #2 in this link for other custom start icons)
3. You will have to rename whatever one you download from shellres.192.dll.0409.mui to shellres.192.dll , after this open TC and go into /windows rename the current shellres.192.dll to shellres.192.dll .bak or .old then place the one you downloaded and renamed into the /windows and soft reset. Once you have done this then you can go back in and delete the .bak one.


For the Bluetooth Icon
1. For cutsom bluetooth icons please see my post here with instructions and attached files http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=514040&postcount=91 also big thanks to Brock1909 for sharing his files located here http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=6327fcb5f3326df9d2db6fb9a8902bda updated 11/12/08




***Updates***
Added fix for wrong battery percentage updated 11/11/08
Added fix for Voume Control updated 11/11/08
Added Registry settings (just check to make sure yours match what is posted) updated 11/12/08
Added Bluetooth Custom Icons updated 11/12/08
Added battery meter actual % updated 11/13/08


Thanks to Chef Ben, Brock1909 and HTCLeener for all there work and Darklord69 at XDA for the icons

For those interested in making your own icons please visit this post created by FInixNOver at XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=437307 the post contains detailed information on the process and what files contain the different icons. Several good sites out there have Icons already pre-made such as http://www.iconspedia.com/

original thread found here by me :> http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=44293

[broSki]

hey dashy, u didnt post whether its for vga or qvga or both devices

[mxrcx]

i got a 404 on number 3 under speaker and battery icon

[nouse4aname]

it keeps saying open TC. what is TC?

[kbshowtyme]

With my luck its vga right dash?

[BiohaZard]

TC is total commander

[nouse4aname]

thanks bio ill download that now

[BiohaZard]

no prob, bud. just hit that thanks button

[NINE'SICKS]

***THIS IS FOR BOTH QVGA/VGA

thanks dash, i had no problem changing the 'START' button on my MOGUL. all i did was use resco explorer and copy past the 'shellres.XXX'(pre-made icons) in the 'WINDOWS' folder...

im working on making my own start image and if it comes out good ill start taking requests for qvga, and if i can find a vga tester that would be great... :blob6:

[nouse4aname]

for some reason the batterry icon says 20% when the phones fully charged. i followed the instructions and use the nuepowerdrivers thing as well but still starts at 20% when fully charged any ideas?

[BiohaZard]

“ Originally Posted by NINE'SICKS ”

***THIS IS FOR BOTH QVGA/VGA

thanks dash, i had no problem changing the 'START' button on my MOGUL. all i did was use resco explorer and copy past the 'shellres.XXX'(pre-made icons) in the 'WINDOWS' folder...

im working on making my own start image and if it comes out good ill start taking requests for qvga, and if i can find a vga tester that would be great... :blob6:

I'll test VGA for ya, sicks, i don't have a problem doing that...

“ Originally Posted by nouse4aname ”

for some reason the batterry icon says 20% when the phones fully charged. i followed the instructions and use the nuepowerdrivers thing as well but still starts at 20% when fully charged any ideas?

i had the same problem, until i did step number 5. it worked fine after that...over

-bio, out!

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by NINE'SICKS ”

***THIS IS FOR BOTH QVGA/VGA

thanks dash, i had no problem changing the 'START' button on my MOGUL. all i did was use resco explorer and copy past the 'shellres.XXX'(pre-made icons) in the 'WINDOWS' folder...

im working on making my own start image and if it comes out good ill start taking requests for qvga, and if i can find a vga tester that would be great... :blob6:

ill test for you buddy :> i would love to do that :>

[kaos]

fyi speaker icon doesnt stay on pro...Its in the htcAudiocontrol.dll... i had to strip and reasign then resign dll to get it....

[sinman02]

Help!!! Somehow my icons got screwed up after i installed step number 3... Now i get only the left half of the signal meter and nothing to the right of it before the task manager icon. Is there a way to return to the default icons? I tried to uninstall all the cabs but no luck...

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Nevermind... I figured it out.

[TweetyBear]

aww damn! this is tight! lmao where have i been!

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by TweetyBear ”

aww damn! this is tight! lmao where have i been!

i was thinking the same thing lmfao

[omarnova]

im having trouble gettin the green battery meter which is all i really want, along with the % can some 1 help me?

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ok i got the battery icon to change only thing is that the percent sign % doesnt look right , its like the battery then a few lines ontop of it insead of it say a number and a percent sign

[vblbros]

“ Originally Posted by omarnova ”

im having trouble gettin the green battery meter which is all i really want, along with the % can some 1 help me?

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ok i got the battery icon to change only thing is that the percent sign % doesnt look right , its like the battery then a few lines ontop of it insead of it say a number and a percent sign

probably because the ones in the cab are for vga and you have a qvga screen, just maybe though, because that it the same problem i faced so i uninstalled

[ur_next15]

the replace icon perfectly works on the htc touch.

hey dash im juss wonderin if you tested out the change start text, did you actually get it to work? coz if you visit the thread you can actually do it. and like it was complicated coz you had to use Mssigner or something. im juss wondering if you actually pulled it off?

[kaos]

“ Originally Posted by ur_next15 ”

the replace icon perfectly works on the htc touch.

hey dash im juss wonderin if you tested out the change start text, did you actually get it to work? coz if you visit the thread you can actually do it. and like it was complicated coz you had to use Mssigner or something. im juss wondering if you actually pulled it off?

works fine ive done it...ill post a screener soon...

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see check it out

[omarnova]

Can somebody please show me the lite! i need helpp changing all these icons on my sprint htc touch

[BiG JeW]

what do you mean lite? Changing the icons to what? Changing them to the way the pic in the original post looks. This process requires many steps as listed above.

[omarnova]

“ Originally Posted by BiG JeW ”

what do you mean lite? Changing the icons to what? Changing them to the way the pic in the original post looks. This process requires many steps as listed above.

im sorry by lite i mean can some1 guide me thru this, ive been having trouble changing my icons and at 1st i thought it cannot be done on the sprint htc touch but i see some1 on the thread did it with ease.

[BiG JeW]

just follow the instructions setp by step including overwiring files in the registery and windows folder.... i am not sure if it works on the diamond, but it worked like a charm on my PRO by following the instructions above.

[kaos]

“ Originally Posted by omarnova ”

im sorry by lite i mean can some1 guide me thru this, ive been having trouble changing my icons and at 1st i thought it cannot be done on the sprint htc touch but i see some1 on the thread did it with ease.

if you reffering to my screen shot.they were of the touch pro...not touch

[omarnova]

oh ok, thanks !!

[NINE'SICKS]

i was able to change my START icon on mogul, but nothing else.. as far as taking requests on icons im having problems so as of now im still working on it..:peep:

[meansixx]

yeah, i got mine done except for the network icon, the one above the signal bars and my start name. cant figure that one yet. other than that it looks nice. im diggin this.

[njkid32]

On my Touch I got most of the mods to work correctly but the battery. I had it displaying the new icon with the percentage and the numbers above. But, when I looked at my batter by clicking on the icon it always showed it was empty. So it was red warning me to plug it in. So I just uninstalled all the battery mods and kept the volume and network icons. I think it looks pretty cool but I would like to get the rest of the icons to work properly. I guess I cant complain being these mods were intended for the TP and Diamond. Thanks for everyone's hard work on this. I am very happy with this!:PDT_Armataz_01_12:

[kaos]

only way to get the sat working is to cook it into a rom.

[meansixx]

“ Originally Posted by kaos ”

only way to get the sat working is to cook it into a rom.

i know this is off the topic, but r u gonna have all this in ur rom? if so, awesome!!!

[njkid32]

In case anyone cares I was able to get the batter guage working correctly. All I did once I followed the above directions I just installed Greenbatteryfix.cab instead of nuePowerDriverCDMADiamond-100-v1.0-cab and FInixNOverBatteryIconsOnly.cab. Works perfectly now now my Touch. Again thanks to everyone who made these mods.

[meansixx]

HELL YEAH!!! i just got it done! this is sweet!!!

[njkid32]

I see in meansixx screenshot he has a different signal icon. Or is this only on the TP? If not could someone direct me to the mod. Thanks.

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Damn to late to edit post.

Nevermind I went to the original thread on ppcgeeks and saw the mods there. Now all my icons work and its complete. Thanks again guys.

[njkid32]

For anyone with a touch if you want to change your signal icon and message icons. Just add these 2 dll files to your windows folder. With the outres.96.dll you will have to edit the original file in the windows folder to outres.96.dll.bak. Then you can paste the new file in the windows folder and soft reset. As for the CDMA_RSSI_PPC.dll file should just overwrite the original (mine did).

The file that was made for the TP was named outres.192.dll but that didnt work on the Touch. So I just changed the name to outres.96.dll. Just a FYI. I got these original file from PPCGeeks so I want to thank them for making them to begin with.

I just hope that last few posts help anyone with a Touch make these mods work. I love them its a nice touch to my touch:Elffy_20:

[njkid32]

Edit for Screenshot...

[penorwood]

I got all the icons to work perfectly ... with one exception. The text above the battery icon is not working and is corrupted.

I attached a screenshot to show what it looks like ...

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by penorwood ”

I got all the icons to work perfectly ... with one exception. The text above the battery icon is not working and is corrupted.

I attached a screenshot to show what it looks like ...

did you install the nue tool that mentioned in the first post?

[penorwood]

“ Originally Posted by D/\SH ”

did you install the nue tool that mentioned in the first post?

I thought I did but will install again ... and will report back

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When I installed the nue tool it caused problems with my touch and didn't allow me to reset and it showed my battery as always charging and at 0% ...

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“ Originally Posted by njkid32 ”

In case anyone cares I was able to get the batter guage working correctly. All I did once I followed the above directions I just installed Greenbatteryfix.cab instead of nuePowerDriverCDMADiamond-100-v1.0-cab and FInixNOverBatteryIconsOnly.cab. Works perfectly now now my Touch. Again thanks to everyone who made these mods.

Does the font above the battery icon look ok to you? When I did this mod on my phone the font looks corrupted and is impossible to read ...

[njkid32]

I cant read the text over my battery either. This guide is mainly towards vga so it just wont display the same way on our qvga devices. I just live with not readying the text and looking at the actual green part of the battery. Installing the nue tools did nothing but screw up all the work I had already done installing and changing the other icons. This is why I posted not to install nue tools in dette's thread on ppcgeeks. I hope this gives you some help and answers some of your questions:)

Edit: nue tools screwed me up so bad that my phone would not soft reboot. I had to pull the battery to be able to boot properly.

[penorwood]

“ Originally Posted by njkid32 ”

I cant read the text over my battery either. This guide is mainly towards vga so it just wont display the same way on our qvga devices. I just live with not readying the text and looking at the actual green part of the battery. Installing the nue tools did nothing but screw up all the work I had already done installing and changing the other icons. This is why I posted not to install nue tools in dette's thread on ppcgeeks. I hope this gives you some help and answers some of your questions:)

Edit: nue tools screwed me up so bad that my phone would not soft reboot. I had to pull the battery to be able to boot properly.

OK, will just have to live with it then ... I noticed on PPCGeeks you mentioned getting them message icons changed too, I installed the file that was mentioned but don't see a change.

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by penorwood ”

OK, will just have to live with it then ... I noticed on PPCGeeks you mentioned getting them message icons changed too, I installed the file that was mentioned but don't see a change.

send yourself an email and you will see.

[penorwood]

“ Originally Posted by D/\SH ”

send yourself an email and you will see.

lol ... I have ... maybe I installed the wrong file or it didn't actually overwrite ... will try again

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by penorwood ”

lol ... I have ... maybe I installed the wrong file or it didn't actually overwrite ... will try again

yeah thats what i would try and let us know how it goes the second time around :>

[njkid32]

“ Originally Posted by penorwood ”

lol ... I have ... maybe I installed the wrong file or it didn't actually overwrite ... will try again

This could be right. I found that when I went into the windows folder (using TC) and tried to change the original file name to .bak. It didnt actually take. So to fix this I just pasted the new file (it doesnt actually paste) then after it refreshes try and change the original file name to .bak. The change will usually take then. Then go ahead and paste again and that should be it. I hope this helps.

[penorwood]

I just tried pasting again and noticed that the file I was replacing had the same size and date/time ... maybe I am pasting the wrong one? Can someone attach the correct CDMA file?

Thanks

[D/\SH]

“ Originally Posted by penorwood ”

I just tried pasting again and noticed that the file I was replacing had the same size and date/time ... maybe I am pasting the wrong one? Can someone attach the correct CDMA file?

Thanks

all the correct files are in the first post bro.....

[njkid32]

“ Originally Posted by penorwood ”

I just tried pasting again and noticed that the file I was replacing had the same size and date/time ... maybe I am pasting the wrong one? Can someone attach the correct CDMA file?

Thanks

Ok first thing is the CDMA file is for the signal icon. The outres.192.dll file is for the message icon. But, in order for this to work on a qvga device is to change it to outres.96.dll. Now, the CDMA file will overwrite no problem. Its the outres.96.dll is the one you have to go in and change the original to outres.96.dll.bak. Then you can paste the new one in there and then you'll have your new message icon.

Here is a link to the original file. Just change the name to outres.96.dll and go from there.

[penorwood]

your right ... was thinking of the wrong file (long day at work!).

I just made the change on the tapres.96.dll file and now it works brilliantly.

Thanks ... wish someone could write all this into a cab so I don't have to redo all this everytime I flash lol!

[Shenanigans]

ok I followed all the steps and even retraced my steps just to make sure but I still dont see the updated signal, sync, and wall plug icons. Is there something I missed? BTW the light font doesn't help to read these steps easily

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nevermind changed my skin for Wckediden and can see everything now lol. all good now thanks. I swear I look and I look and as soon as I hit the post quick reply I figure it out lol.