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#151
Originally Posted by les_garten View Post
How do you hup that menu with out a reboot?
Oh, I just do "killall systemui".

Schturman, maybe switchOnBT may help you (Google it).
 

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#152
these are a few personalisation mods ive been messing around with:

SHUTDOWN SPLASHSCREEN

http://www.mediafire.com/?dmj24mgmwty

put the png image you want to use in:
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon
and rename it 'startup_nokia_logo'
then reboot phone

make a backup of the original file from that location first
and keep it safe incase you ever want the original back




not sure why it still shows the old image when booting up, but this works for shutdown, hopefully someone can help with that

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CHANGE STATUS AREA BATTERY ICON COLOUR



http://www.mediafire.com/?mivnrinzhnn
just unzip the download from above and put the 8 png files into:
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon
and reboot phone.
there already renamed this time
but make a safe backup of the originals for yourself
before overwriting any of these files




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CHANGE OFFLINE/ONLINE NOTIFICATION SOUNDS

when phone first loads and connects, or when switching to online mode, the phone plays a quiet beep sound,
i changed that to 'welcome - to the real world' (morpheous from the matrix)

and a new offline sound, plays when going offline, 'command functions are offline' (from star trek i think!)

download and unzip from the link below:
http://www.mediafire.com/?v3tnjdnddmk
and put the 2 files into:
/usr/share/sounds
and reboot phone

make backups of your original files before overwriting with these


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and a couple of startup animations i made:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ntzjkwbjztj

http://www.mediafire.com/?wz05ztnz2ty

just put the avi you want to use into:
/usr/share/hildon-welcome/media
and rename it 'Hands-v32-h264'
no need to mod the config file if you keep the original name

make a back up of your original file first
 

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#153
Originally Posted by leetut View Post
these are a few personalisation mods ive been messing around with:

SHUTDOWN SPLASHSCREEN

http://www.mediafire.com/?dmj24mgmwty

put the png image you want to use in:
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon
and rename it 'startup_nokia_logo'
then reboot phone

make a backup of the original file from that location first
and keep it safe incase you ever want the original back




not sure why it still shows the old image when booting up, but this works for shutdown, hopefully someone can help with that
Thanks for sharing. I have this problem too - booting up with old image.
 

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#154
Thanks for sharing the battery-icons.
I made a set of my own, nothing fancy, just plain red-green.



it can be downloaded here:

http://www.borreltje.nl/n900/new_battery_icons.zip

follow the instructions above by leetut to get them working.

Thanks again leetut!
 

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#155
Originally Posted by casper27 View Post
Not really a Mod but you might find it helpfull. I changed the start up and shutdown splash screens for one that has my contact details on. I know it is very unlikely to be returned but there must be some honest people out there. This gives them the oportunity at least.
Where can I change the start-up image, I did replace the startup_nokia_logo.png, but that only shows when shutting down, at boot I still have the nokia logo.
Is there a way to change that one as well????
 
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#156
Originally Posted by f2thak View Post
WARNING: CHANGING THIS FILE OTHER THAN WHAT I ADVISE MAY BRICK YOUR DEVICE, I AM IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE IF U BRICK UR DEVICE!!



How to enable Reboot button?
plus more..

in power button settings!




When you press the Power button, a menu is shown containing options to e.g. Switch off or lock the device. And what if you just want to reboot it? Sure, you can use the "Switch off" function and then just press the Power button again to turn the N900 back on. But it can be made simpler and quicker as you can add a separate "Reboot" button to the menu, which will automatically reboot the device without you having to do anything.

All you need to do is to edit one config file and "uncomment" its part responsible for showing the button, disabled by default.

In order to do this, you will to:

* Download and install rootsh from the Extras repository, which will give you root access in the X-Terminal
* Download and install Midnight Commander, the well known file manager which also contains a convenient text editor.



Now the actual modification:

Launch X-Terminal
* type sudo gainroot to enable root access
* type mc to launch Midnight Commander
* in the Midnight Commander, using the keyboard arrows, browse to the /ect/systemui/ folder and select the systemui.xml file
* make a copy of that file, just in case that you do something wrong, so that you can simply restore its original version anytime
* tap the 4 Edit button (at the bottom) to open the text editor
* at the bottom of the file you will notice that part of it (consisting of three ... entries) is disabled within the "comment" marks (starting ).
* move the "comment" marks mentioned above "<!--" (e.g. by deleting and re-typing them in other place) so that the two remaining entries ("Soft poweroff" and "Top in XTerm") are still within them but the "Reboot" entry gets outside of them
* tap 10 Quit button at the bottom of the editor and confirm in the requester that you want to save the file (if you don't see the 10 Quit button you may need to change the X-Terminal font size to 10)
* exit Midnight Commander, close X-Terminal and reboot the device
* after the N900 reboots, you should see the new "Reboot" option in the Menu.


When using the X-Terminal with root access enabled, be EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS! Root access enables you to modify (and thus also DAMAGE) all system files, which can even result in BRICKING the device. If you don't know what you are doing, better don't do it.

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#157
Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
why are you trying to get credit from other peoples work?
not trying to get credit mate, ive gotten help from a lot of members, just returning the favour
 

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#158
Originally Posted by Schturman View Post
Thanks for sharing. I have this problem too - booting up with old image.
i know the phone is mostly open source, but maybe theres another splashscreen, hidden in the locked part of the firmware, we would probs need a hack to get access to it, hope im wrong but thats what im thinking at the minute bro
 
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#159
Here i made my own custom.

 

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#160
Originally Posted by CarstenDutch View Post
Here i made my own custom.

want!.............
not sure if theyll look quite like they do there though

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