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Okay people's, here it is! The guide you've all been waiting for.

SE have a nice little developer feature that allows you to create shortcuts within the FS to files outside the FS. So for example when the phone looks for icon1_unselected.png, it looks in tps/preset/system/menu then sees a shortcut pointing to usb/other/menu, and shows the file at that location instead.

Using this principle, we can create shortcuts to menu sets within the phone's user accessible memory, and therefore we can change menu sets without using far or xs++ (once we have installed the shortcuts - that part needs far or xs++). All that is required is a phone restart to read the new icon set.

Here is a pack including instructions and the menu shortcuts you will need.

Download the pack, and follow these instructions:

1. Using FAR or XS++, copy the shortcuts to tpa/preset/system/menu
2. create a folder in usb/other called 'menu'. Create a folder in usb/other/menu for each of your custom menus. Menu icons must be named in the format icon1_selected.png, icon1_unselected.png etc.
3. The menu set that will be displayed, will be the one at this path: usb/other/menu/live, so before disconnecting far, name one of your custom menu folders to "live"
4. Exit FAR, then start your phone.
5. In future to to change menus, simply rename one of the menu sets in the menu folder to "live", then restart the phone. To add new menus simply copy them using the usb cable or bluetooth to "phone memory/other/menu"

You only need to do this step if you want to create your own shortcuts for different named menu icons or to make the shortcuts point to another location for example card/others/menu/live (if you want to use your mem card instead of phone memory).
Included is the menu shortcut creation program. To use it, run a command prompt and type se_shortcut /path/file (where path is the path you want the shortcut to point to, and file is the name of the file you want the shortcut to point to.) You will end up with a file called file.@ (or whatever the name of the file you are pointing to example icon1_unselected.png.@)

http://rapidshare.com/files/56045875/change_menu_pack.rar.html



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[ This Message was edited by: max_wedge on 2007-09-16 06:01 ]

[ This Message was edited by: max_wedge on 2007-09-16 15:10 ]
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Posted: 2007-09-16 07:00:02
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Cool
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Posted: 2007-09-16 07:01:47
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i copied all the shortcuts to tpa/preset/system/menu.
Part 2 i'm confused. When you say create a folder called "Menu" inside usb/other, i can't find the folder called usb/other. Is it already a sub category that's existing or do i have to create a usb/other folder?

I'm using xs++. Help would be appreciated.


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Posted: 2007-09-16 11:44:56
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It's the folder called "Other" on your memory card, I assume.
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Posted: 2007-09-16 11:55:59
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@max: what about camdrivers or displaydrivers? Can swap them using this method?
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Posted: 2007-09-16 13:48:00
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Yes I think
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Posted: 2007-09-16 13:51:12
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To quote qwerty12 from se-nse:


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Posted: 2007-09-16 13:54:28
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no not the memory card, but in the phone memory.

In far manager, after connecting to FS, you will see the usb folder. The usb folder represents the phones internal user memory. ie: themes, pictures,other etc folders. When you copy files via usb cable (normally) to the phones memory it's being copied to the usb folder.

So using FAR you create a "menu" folder in usb/other. Which basically just means create a menu folder in the phones other folder (but not the one on memory card)

You could also create the usb/other/menu folder by using the file manager and creating a menu folder in other in phone memory, but the menu won't work until you have copied menu icons and ml file to usb/other/menu/live, so you should do this step while still in Far Manager.

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[ This Message was edited by: max_wedge on 2007-09-16 13:47 ]
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Posted: 2007-09-16 14:43:41
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I tried to use FAR but it stoped at the below screen. why?


what is wrong?
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Posted: 2007-09-16 15:05:27
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don't know, make sure your contacts are clean, take battery out and then put it back, and try again.
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Posted: 2007-09-16 15:16:34
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