How to make your WM device look like an iPhone

January 18, 2007 by Josh · 7 Comments
Filed under: How To, Phone PDA, Tech 

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Here’s to hoping I don’t get a letter from the Apple Legal Team.

These directions should allow you to have a today screen similar to the iPhone. I found Wisbar Advance to be helpful in displaying all kinds of information. The process is easy and only the tweaking at the end takes a little trial and error.

It will work on Windows Mobile 5 and 2003

1. Download and install Wisbar Advance (7 day free trial) 9.99 retail

2. Download Wisbar Advance Desktop (7 day free trial) 9.99 retail

3. Download OSX.Rar from the Lakeridge forums. Its at the bottom of the linked post.

4. Unzip OSX.rar to your desktop.

5. Plug in your i730 and choose Explore

6. Navigate to the Main Directory and Open the folder called ‘Themes\Desktop’
The contents of this folder should contain various other folders portrait and landscape common images etc.

7. Copy the Entire OSX folder into the Themes\desktop location

8. If you don’t currently have WIsbar Advance and Wisbar Desktop running soft reset your PPC.

9. On Your PPC Choose Start-> Settings-> Personal Settings-> Theme Manager. Choose Desktop Theme and click on osx in the list.

10. The next part involves your computer. Get the Black Panther Theme.

11. Copy the Wisbar Theme to your installation directory of Wisbar Advance, in the Theme Folder.

12. Go to the Wisbar Advance Settings and choose Black Panther as your theme.

You may need to change to an allblack today theme but I am not sure if it was necessary for me. If you need it I will look for the file.

Now you need to customize the shortcuts and links in Wisbar Advance Desktop. For help with this Use the included Manual, or ask questions here.

If you have any questions please leave them in the comments.



Comments

7 Responses to “How to make your WM device look like an iPhone”
  1. wendy says:

    cool!!! i like it!

  2. RET says:

    Hey, thanks for the info. I can’t get the clock to do am/pm, I only get 24 hour…

    I can only change the little clock, not the big one…

  3. Josh says:

    @ RET I stopped using this theme/skin so I can’t get in to check it out. I think there is a toggle burried in the settings for the clock. Look for Advanced Wisbar Desktop for help.

  4. Nantapon says:

    Thanks for a wonderful theme. Buy anw, it doesn’t effect to ’start bar’ on the top of display.
    If there’re any suggestion,please post here for me.Thanks

  5. Angela says:

    Hi, I still don’t know how to make the black panther theme to work on the menu bar (on top).Where and how do I get the slide lock ?Please Help!! I have been doing this for days and I’m stuck!

  6. Josh says:

    Angela,

    If your trying to get the start menu to be affected I think you need to apply a today theme. I un installed this a while ago so I can’t really help you other than that guess.

    As far as the slide unlock I haven’t messed with it. Try Googling Ozan’s Suite.

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